Permanent Collections Major Museums

  • The Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY
  • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
  • Nat'l Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
  • Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  • Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
  • Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
  • Musuem of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
  • Malmö Museum, Sweden.
  • Fine Arts Museum in Santa Fe

Academic Degrees

  • B.A., DePauw University, IN
  • M.A., New York University
  • Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, DePauw University, IN

Selected Listing of Books

  • 2008Feminist Studies: the 1970's issue VOL 34, #3 (cover)
  • 2007Louise Bourgeois, Frances Morris, Tate Publications, London. pp. 87,134
  • 2007WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, MOCA, LA, MIT Press
  • 2007Gender Battles, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea (CGGC), Xunta De Galicia
  • 2007Value:Art:Politics, Jonathan Harris, Anne M. Wagner, essay, Liverpool University Press, p. 268.
  • 2007Creative Time: The Book, Pasternak, Creative Time, Princeton Architectural Press, NJ. p. 139.
  • 2007It's Time for Action (There's No Option) About Feminism, Heike Munder, Migros Museum fur gegenwartskunst Zurich & JRP/Ringier, p. 185
  • 2007New York, of Course, Ralph Hermanns, Wetterling Gallery Press, Stockholm, Sweden. pp. 38-41
  • 2006Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art, Jayne Wark, McGill-Queen's Univ.Press, 2006.
  • 2006Dreaming-into-Art :Seven Artists Who Create from Dreams, Patricia Adriadne. Phd., Galde Press. Chap. on Edelson pp. 73-99, 3 photos.
  • 2005Intermedia: Enacting The Liminal, Hans Breder/Klaus-Peter Busse, Dortmunder/Schriften Zur Kunst, pp. 165-172
  • 2005Women's Culture in a New Era: A Feminist Revolution, Gayle Kimball
  • 2005Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, edited by Susanne Rupp and Tobias Doring, The Lady's Supper, Ina Schabert
  • 2004The End of Art, Donald Kuspit, Cambridge University Press
  • 2003Disappearing Witness: Changes in 20th Century American Photography, Gretchen Garner, Johns Hopkins University Press
  • 2003Alternative Art New York 1965-1985, JulieAult, ed, Drawing Center,U of Mn. Press conversations) DAP distribution NYC, www.artbook.com
  • 2002The Art of Mary Beth Edelson, (200 pg. color illustrations, 5 essays & conversations) DAP distribution NYC, www.artbook.com
  • 2001Art and Feminism, Reckitt/Phelan, Phaidon, London
  • 2001Feminism-Art-_Theory: An Anthoglory 1968-2000. Hillary Robinson, Blackwell Press, UK
  • 2000Picturing the Modern Amazon, The New Museum, Frueh, Fierstein and Judith Stein, Rizzoli
  • 1999Where is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performativity, and Exile, J. Blocker, Duke Univ.
  • 1997Suffragettes to She-Devils (2 photos & text) Phaidon Press Ltd. London
  • 1997Art and Propaganda in the Twentieth Century, Toby Clark, Calmann & King, Lond.
  • 1997The Vocation of the Artist, (photo & text),Deborah Haynes, Cambridge Univ. Press
  • 1995The Pink Glass Swan: Feminist Essays on Art, Lucy R. Lippard, New Press, N.Y
  • 1995Time Capsule, edited by Robin Kahn, published by Creative Time, SOS Int'l.
  • 1994Lone Visions, Crowded Frames, (3 photos+text)Max Kozloff, U of New Mexico.
  • 1994The Power of Feminist Art, Norma Broade & Mary D. Gerrard, Harry Abrams
  • 1994Visions of America: Landscape as Metaphor. Denver &Col. Art Mus.,Abrams
  • 1993The Modern Artist as Shaman, Mark Levy, pp 24-41, Bramble, CN.
  • 1993Firsthand: Photographs by Mary Beth Edelson 1973-1993 and Shooter Series, essay by Jan Avgikos, "No Reverse Gear," 40 pp, 89 photos, self-pub, NYC.
  • 1992Mutiny and the Mainstream: Talk that Changed Art, 1975-1990, Midmarch Press
  • 1992-95Understanding Art, Lois Fichner-Rathus, Prentice Hall, N.J. (first-fourth ed.)
  • 1991The Dancing Goddess, Heide Gottner-Abendroth, translated by Maureen T.Krause, Beason Press, cover image. 5 photos, extensive text on MBE.
  • 1990*Shape Shifter: Seven Mediums, Mary Beth Edelson, interview with Mel Watkins,
  • 1989Vanishing Presence, Walker Art Center, Adam Wienberg: chap on MBE, 14 photos, Rizzoli.
  • 1989Making Their Mark: Move into the Mainstream, Randy Rosen, Abbeville Press.
  • 1984A Concise History of American Painting and Sculpture, Matthew Baigell, photo and text, Harper & Row.
  • 1983The Amazing Decade, Moira Roth & Mary Jane Jacobs, (2 photos &chap.)Astro Artz, L.A.
  • 1983The Art of Performance: A Critical Anthology, G. Battcock & R. Nickas, E.P. Dutton
  • 1983Overlays: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory, Lucy R. Lippard, 20 photo & text Pantheon Books.
  • 1982The Politics of Women's Spirituality: Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power Within the Feminist Movement, Charlene Spretnak, chap. by MBE, Anchor, Doubleday.
  • 1980Seven Cycles: Public Rituals, Mary Beth Edelson, introduction by Lucy R.Lippard, 64 pages, 140 photos, self-published, NYC.

TV Appearances, Film, Videos and Radio

  • 2010Women/Art/Revolution, Film by Lynn Hershman, release 2010
  • 2009The Heretics, Feminist Art Movement of the 1970s, film by Joan Bradman release date 2009
  • 2008P.S.1 Art Radio, Keeping the Flame, Connie Butler interviews MaryBeth Edelson
  • 2008MaryBeth Edelson, Performing What's Performance?, A.I.R. Live, New York City
  • 2008TV NY Voices, PBS, Wack!, Christine Turner, Producer, repeated in April and May
  • 2008Bloomberg News, Howard Silver, Muse: Art and Culture, repeated in April
  • 2007Brooklyn Museum, MaryBeth Edelson lecture, Wide Ranging
  • 2006Whose Performaning? Mary Beth Edelson (in the works)
  • 2000Conversations Between Artists including: Nancy Spero, Carolee Schneeman and Miriam Schapiro with Edelson
  • 1999Just Looking: Mary Beth Shops for a New Mate.
  • 1997Biting and Picking, video produced for Berlin exhibition sponsored by halle fur kunst, titled "Female Perversion"
  • 1994Combat Zone: Campaign Hq. Against Domestic Violence-the video,10 min.
  • 1993Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of Colorado, Boulder, 40 min.
  • 199322 Others Project, Interview with MBE by Char & Mike Gardiner, 15 min./60 min.
  • 1989For Arts Sake #6: Mary Beth Edelson, interview by Pauline Kayes, produced by Peggy Shaw for public television, Parkland College, IL.
  • 1988Art installations, Mary Beth Edelson, produced by R. D. Garrett, Dr. Jami Smead, college access channel 6, Fort Wayne, IN.
  • 1985The Art of Mary Beth Edelson, narrated by Donald Kuspit, produced by Gerry McCarthy, Roanoke Public TV. 15 min.

Who's Who Listings

Who's Who of American Art, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who of Professional & Business Women, International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England, Foremost Women of Twentieth Century, I.B.C., International Who's Who of Women

Reviews, Articles, and Publications

  • 2009The Warhol: the END, p.8 Warhol Museum, Pittsburg
  • 2009Art in America, Jan. p.74 reference by Carrie Moyer
  • 2008Art News, Art Talk: Playboy Cover-up, May, p.45.
  • 2008Time Out. photo, February
  • 2008Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, P.S.1./MoMA Newspaper Special Edition & Art Radio, David Weinstein, Connie Butler interviews Mary Beth Edelson, March
  • 2008Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, TimeOut New York Magazine, 3/08-5/08
  • 2008The Venus of Long Island City, New York Magazine, Jerry Saltz, 3/27/08
  • 2008New York Times, WACK! by Holland Cotter.
  • 2007MOCA is WACK! Art & the Feminist Revolution,photos, Lili Lakich, April 2007
  • 2007Free Radicals, The Feminist Revolution Was Liberating for Artists, Too, The Washington Post, Barbara Pollack, 9/22/07
  • 2007It's Time for Action(There's No Option). About Feminism, Migros Museum, reviews in Zurich.
  • 2007Girls Gone Wild, Paige Wery, Artillery Vol. 1 #5, May
  • 2006Frausein-ohne Wenn und Aber, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath, 05/06
  • 2006Feminisme, et Art, Action!, La Liberte, Florence Michel, 9/2/06
  • 2006Il Femminismo Si Mette in Mostra, Il Caffe della Domenica, Patriza Guenzi, 9/17/06
  • 2006I'm Still a Girl and I Love It!, Ensuite, Monika Schafer, 10/06
  • 2006A Life Well Lived retrospective exhibition at the Malmo Konstmuseum, Sweden. 19 reviews in Sweden and Denmark, national and regional publications.
  • 2006Maybe Not the First Postmodernists, but Who's Counting, New York Times, 1/8/06
  • 2006How American Women Artist Invented Postmodernism: 1970 - 1975 travels to 4 other sites, Rutgers University
  • 2005Eye Contact: A Collaborative Social Project, with Kablevag Kunst and Filmskole, Kablevag, No.
  • 2004Humans, Fucking Humans. Lofoten International Art Festival, LIAF 04, Norway
  • 2004Indisk Mat, Collaboration with refugee community, Lofoten, Kablevag, No
  • 2003Art and Politics: Feminism at 40, Art in America, Lovelace,(photo/text) p. 67, May
  • 2003Book Report www.Artnet.com/magazine/index/robinson8-14-02 Walter Robinson
  • 2003Bringing Home the Evolution, Organica, book review (3 photos)
  • 2002No Guts No Glory, New York Times, Oct. 13, Arts and Leisure (photo) p.35
  • 2002Texte Zur Kunst, 6 page article, 7 photos, by susanne Leeb, June, # 46.
  • 2002-2Numerous reviews of MBE traveling exhibition not yet entered on this list
  • 2000Politiken, Review of Malmo Exhibition, Kristine Kern
  • 1999Art in America, Michael Duncan, P111, April
  • 1999Politiken, Islands Brygge er Stredet,Copenhagen, Denmark,(photo)May 14
  • 1998Contemporary Visual Arts, Mary Beth Edelson, Trickster The Agency, Issue 19.
  • 1998Time Out, London, Mary Beth Edelson, The Agency, Sara Kent, July.
  • 1998Flash Art, review, Mary Beth Edelson, The Agency, John Slyce, Nov.-Dec.
  • 1998Springin, Austria, Female Perversions (exhibition in Berlin), March-May, p.62,
  • 1998New York Magazine, ART, p. 70, Jan.5,1998
  • 1997New York Times, Holland Cotter, Nov. 21, Weeekend
  • 1995Artforum, photo and review by Kirby Gookin on Combat Zone, March
  • 1995Art in America Review of " The Power of Feminist Art". Jan.
  • 1993New York Avantgarde, Saison, October, cover and 3 photos. Germany
  • 1993Wake-Up Call, Arlene Raven, Village Voice, p 89, March 9.
  • 1993Art in America, Eleanor Heartney, review with photo, October.
  • 1992Dirty Laundry, Village Voice, photo and review by Elizabeth Hess, p 91, May 12.
  • 1989*Open Letter to Thomas McEvilley, theoretical article by MBE, New Art Examiner, pp 34-38, photos, April.
  • 1988The Shaman as a Gifted Artist, Mark Levy on Yves Klein, Joseph Beuys, Mary Beth Edelson & Karen Finley, High Performance, pp 54-61, photos, Autumn.

Selected Exhibitions

  • 2009**The End, Andy Warhol Museum, curated by Eric Shiner, Pitts, Pa.,
  • 2009Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX, curated by Liutauras Psibilskis.
  • 2009Works on Paper from the 1970, Alexander Gray Gallery, NYC
  • 2007-08**Gender Battle, CGAC, curated by Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
  • 2007-09**WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. MOCA, LA, travels to Women's Museum, D.C., Vancouver Museum, Canada, PS1, MOMA, Connie Butler, curator, NYC.
  • 2006**It Is Time for Action (There Is No Option), Heike Munder, curator, Migros Museum, Zurich, Ch.
  • 2006*Utopiana, An on-going collaboration with the historic utopian village of New Harmony, In. and Mary Beth Edelson with Southern Indiana University
  • 2006*A Life Well Lived, A Survey of Mary Beth Edelson's Work, Malmo Museum, Sweden
  • 2006*Idol: The Iconic Female in Contemporary Art, Katonah Mus., NY
  • 2006*How American Women Artist Invented Postmodernism: 1970 - 1975, Rutgers Univ. Gallery, N.J. (travels to five other sites).
  • 2005Different Wavelengths, Tina Kim Fine Art, Alissa Friedman, curator, NYC
  • 2005Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2005Whispers to Shouts: Indiana Women Who Create Art, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN
  • 2004*Humans, Fucking Humans. Lofoten International Art Festival, curated by Tor Inge Kveum and Goren Christenson, LIAF 04, Norway
  • 2003Mothers of Invention, Mumok Museum of Conteporary Art, Vienna
  • 2003Making Peace, Shedhalle, installation, Zurich, CH
  • 20032003 Fall Line, Chelsea Art Museum, Chelsea, NYC
  • 2002Goddess, Galleri LeLong, NYC
  • 2002**Personal and Political, GuildHall Museum , Hamptons, L.I.
  • 2001Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis. Tate Gallery, London.
  • 2000Borders, Royal Danish Academy, Louisiana Museum, Roskilde Museum of Cont. Art
  • 2000**Picturing the Modern Amazon, New Museum, NYC
  • 2000Borders, Collaborations: Reneé Green, Jimmie Durham, Douglas Gordon, Tony Oursler, Edelson. Malmö Art Academy & Royal Danish Acad, Copenhagen
  • 2000-2Re-scripting the Story, Traveling Exhibition to 8 sites: Gettysburg,;Franklin & Marshall, Phillips Museum of Art; Dickinson, Trout Gallery; Univ. of N. Texas, Fort Worth, TX; Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX.; Albany Museum, SUNY,NY; Stony Brook Museum ,SUNY.
  • 2000Home-made Root Beer, Malmö Museer, Malmö, Sweden
  • 1999**le Grand Praemiere Opening Show, Nicolia Wallner, Copenhagen
  • 1999Censorship, Richard Anderson, Chelsea, NYC
  • 1999War –Artists Bulletin Board, Postmasters, Chelsea, NYC
  • 1999-00**Contemporary Classicism, Neuberger Mus. of Art, N.Y. Travels to Tampa Mus
  • 1998Trickster: Proposition for a Retrospective, Agency Gallery, London, UK
  • 1998Tip of the Iceberg, Dorfman Projects, Chelsea, NYC
  • 1997Female Perversion, halle für kunst, Berlin, Germany
  • 1997**Vraiment Feminisme et Art, curated by Laura Cottingham, Magasin,Centre National D'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
  • 1997**Original Visions, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, with Agnes Martin, Pat Steir, Carrie Mae Weems, Magdalena Abakanowitz and Mary Beth Edelson
  • 1997Eye of the Beholder, Avon Collection, International Center of Photography,NYC
  • 1997Colaboration MBE with Paul Bloodgood, Art Resourses, Inc. NYC
  • 1997Melkonian, Bard College, Curatorial Studies, Travels to numerous venues.
  • 1996Nicolai Wallner Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 1996American Dreaming, curated by Hiedi Zuckerman at Linda Kirkland, NYC
  • 1996Personal Best, Chaisse Post Gallery at Atlanta Olympics
  • 1996**Love Gasoline, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
  • 1996Combat Zone 2 ,p.s.#122 Gallery, NYC
  • 1996**Divine Flesh, Artopia, curated by Susanne Ramljak, NYC
  • 1995**In-significance, The Agency, curated by Bea de Souza, London.
  • 1995-**Sniper's Nest: Art that has Lived With Lucy R, Lippard, curator Neery
  • 1995Selections from 1989-1995, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC.
  • 1995Tarot, curated by Amy Lipton, Lombard/Freid, NYC
  • 1994-5Combat Zone: Campaign Hq against Domestic Violence. sponsored by Creative Time. NYC
  • 1994Yes I Am, No I'm Not, Momenta , Eric Heist and Laura Parnes, curators, NYC.
  • 1993-00**Action/Performance and the Photograph, Turner/Krail Galleries, L.A.
  • 1993Coming to Power, David Zwirner Gallery, NYC.
  • 1993A/C at 303, Paul Bloodgood and Alissa Friedman, curators, 303 Gallery, NYC.
  • 1993Obala Theatre, Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia.
  • 1993**A Non-Survey of Photographic Works in Two Parts: Hopelessly Essentialist (Think Again) Early Body Works 1970-1977, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC.
  • 1993Context: Chiffon Pieces and Photographs, 1977-1993, A/C Project Room, NYC.
  • 1992Object Choice, Hallwalls, Ken Gonzales Day and Andrew Perchuk, curators.
  • 1992Shape Shifters, Amy Lipton, NYC.
  • 1992Between the Sheets, PPOW , NYC.
  • 1992Paper Show, Kiki Smith, curator, Joe Fawbush Gallery, NYC.
  • 1992Group, Galerie Rizzo, Paris, France.
  • 1992In Your Face: Politics of the Body and Personal Knowledge, A/C Project Room, NYC.
  • 1992The Fetish of Knowledge, A/C Project Room, NYC.
  • 1992Salon/ Back Room, Dooley Le Cappelaine Gallery, NYC.
  • 1992Censored in the USA: Seeing Red ,White and Blue, Visual Arts Center of Alaska.
  • 1990Universal Pictures: The Paintings, Dolan/Maxwell, NYC.
  • 1991Salvage Utopia, A/C Project Room, NYC.
  • 1991Shooter's Hill, A/C Project Room, NYC.
  • 1990-89**Vanishing Presence, Adam Weinberg, curator, Walker Art Center, MN. Book pub. Rizzoli, essays by Eugenia P. Jamos and Max Kozloff, traveled to Detroit Art Inst., High Museum, Atlanta, Johnson Museum, Cornell, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Anderson Gallery.
  • 1988-90**Shape-Shifter: the Art of Mary Beth Edelson, 15-year retrospective incl. unique wall painting installed at each site, 64 p. book, video interview with Donald Kuspit, traveled to Univ. of Tennessee, Hillwood Art Museum, L.I., Ft. Wayne Art Mus., IN, Kenyon College, OH, Emison Art Center, DePauw University, IN.
  • 1989Universal Pictures: the Drawings, Dolan/Maxwell, PA.
  • 1989**Dream On..., Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., major wall painting installation with catalog and lecture.
  • 1989**Photography and Performance, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, other artists: Ulay and Marina Abramovic, Cindy Sherman, Arnulf Rainer, catalog, lecture, wall painting installation.
  • 1989**Four Artists: Mary Beth Edelson, Martin Puryear, Italo Scanga, Robert Stackhouse, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, major wall painting.
  • 1989-90**Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Deborah Wye, curator, catalog & national tour, slide set by Sandex.
  • 1989**Resistance or Submission, Other artists: Komar and Melamid, Michael Tracy, Tony Oursler, Alex Gray, catalog, major wall painting at each of the sites: Mendel Gallery, Saskatoon, Musee du Quebec, London Regional Gallery, Phillips Gallery.
  • 1986**Fish in the Sky, Danforth Museum, Boston, Lasse Antonsen, curator
  • 1986Phases of the Loon, P.S.1, NYC. Edward Leffingwell, curator.
  • 1984Art Against Apartheid, NYC.
  • 1983A Path Without Shores, Cologne, Germany, Ulrike Rosenbach, curator.
  • 1983**New York Painting Today, Pittsburgh Glass, Donald Kuspit & Elaine King, curators.
  • 1983**New Work: A Future Vision, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon Univ., PA.
  • 1983Pollyanna Perverse, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC.
  • 1981-82A Survey of Photographic Works by Mary Beth Edelson, Wright State Univ., OH.; traveled to N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, Herron School of Art Gallery, IN. Univ.
  • 1981The Archaeology of Trickster Rabbit (in Re-cycled time), from the Immodest Trickster series, A.I.R. Gallery and Max Hutchinson Gallery, NYC.
  • 1981Unfinished Plans for Utopia, Elise Meyer, NYC.
  • 1980Mary Beth Edelson: Recent Work, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
  • 1980**Contemporary Performance, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, Mary Jane Jacob, curator.
  • 1979**International Feministiche Kunst, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam, Holland. (Toured four major European museums.).
  • 1979The Nature of Balancing, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC.
  • 1978**Story Gathering Boxes, Franklin Furnace, NYC.
  • 1977In Honor of Oyvind Fahlstrom: Exposition of His Friends, Galerie Bucholz, Munchen, Germany.
  • 1977Proposals for: Memorials to the 9,000,000 Women Burned as Witches in the Christian Era, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC.
  • 1977Your 5,000 Years Are Up!, Mandeville Gallery, UCSD, LaJolla, Arlene Raven, curator.
  • 1975**Giving Myself a Five Year Retrospecive, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC.
  • 1975**Woman Rising, Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  • 1973**22 Others, Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.

**Exhibitions with catalogs. *Exhibitions with some kind of publication.

Selected List of Public Lectures, Workshops, Panels and Teaching

  • 2007-09Wack: Art of the Feminist Revolution, various panels & presentations including PS #1, Vancouver Museum
  • 2006-07Utopiana, New Harmony Indiana, workshop in two cycles with production in the second cycle. Sponsored by New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art and USI.
  • 2006Art and Isms, NYC Style, IASPIS, Stockholm, Se.
  • 2006A Well Lived Life, several presentations by MBE retrospective at Malmo Konstmuseum, Se
  • 2005The Portrait Project, YADDO residency presentation
  • 2004LIAF (Lofoten International Art Festival), seminar presentation Practicing Theory :Making Eye Contact with the Other
  • 2004NamNam Resturant Project Workshop, Lofoten, No. at Film and Art School, Kablevag
  • 2003Performative presentation at Mothers of Invention, Mumok Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna
  • 2003Making Peace, Performative lecture, Shedhalle, Zurich, CH
  • 2001-04Danish Royal Academy, Copenhagen
  • 2000-2Not Just a Joke: Humor, Activism and Movie Star's in Edelson's Art,, Franklin & Marshall, Dickinson, No. Texas U, Blue Star, Tx, Albany Museum, Stony Brook Museum, NY.
  • 2000Who Does She Think She Is? Identity and Humor. Gettyberg workshop
  • 2000Royal Danish Academy Seminar, Borders: Branching Out
  • 1999The Goddess in Pop Culture, Nancy Spero, Jane Kromm & MBE. Neuberger Museum
  • 1997Committing Heresies, Lucy Lippard, Betsy Hess, Joyce Kozloff & MBE, A.I.R., NYC
  • 1997Useable Issues: A Conversation on Community, MBE and Paul Bloodgood, NYC
  • 1997Re-scripting the Story, Lecture, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston
  • 1997halle für kunst. Univ. Lüneburg e.V., lecture in East Berlin, Germany
  • 1996Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, lecture, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 1995Contemporary Projects, University of So. Florida, lecture and juror.
  • 1994Series of workshops on Domestic Violence held at the first Combat Zone, NYC
  • 1994Fearless in the Artworld, Clemson University, SC.
  • 1993University of Colorado, Boulder. seminar.
  • 1989How Does the Nature/Culture Split Effect our Environment?, discussant Mary Beth Edelson, Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC.
  • 1989Metaphysical Paradigms, lecture, National Museum of Women in the Arts, D.C.
  • 1989Walker Art Center MBE presented a performance and panel for symposium.
  • 1988Feminism: Its Cultural Implications, Judith Russi Kirschner, Carol Becker, Bruce Guenther, Ann Lee Morgan, James Yood, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago.
  • 1984Corcoran School of Art, Keynote graduation address.
  • 1983Political Attitudes, Kruger, Kuspit, Rosler, Gornik, Rifka and MBE, A,I.R., NYC
  • 1982Artist Seminar, Whitney Museum of Art, NYC.
  • 1981Personal Ecologies, lecture at Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County.
  • 1980Albright-Knox Art Gallery, lecture and workshop.
  • 1980The Artist and The Shaman: Evolution in Culture and Consciousness, Joan Halifax & Mary Beth Edelson, sponsored by the Mellon Program at Pratt, NYC
  • 1977-00Over 70 public lectures at various museums and universities

Grants Received 2000-2007

  • National Endowment for the Arts, 2006-07
  • The Arts Council of Southern Indiana, 2006
  • Art in Indiana, Regional Partners 2006,
  • IASPIS (International Artists Studio Program In Sweden), 6 months, 2006
  • Yaddo Residency 2005
  • National Endowment for the Arts 1999-2000
  • The Richard Florsheim Art Fund 1999-2000
  • The Thanks Be to Grandmother Winifred Foundation 1999-2000
  • Pollack-Krasner Foundation 2000-2001
  • Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts 2000-2001
  • IASPIS residency- Malmo, Sweden 2005-2006

Selected Listings of Catalogs

  • 2007WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. MOCA, LA, MIT Press
  • 2007Utopiana: A Performative Community Project by Mary Beth Edelson, New Harmony Contemporary Gallery, University of Southern Indiana
  • 2006A Well Lived Life, Malmo Konstmuseum retrospective exhibition, Se.
  • 2006Idol: The Iconic Female in Contemporary Art, Katonah Mus., NY
  • 2006How American Women Artist Invented Postmodernism: 1970 - 1975
  • 2005Eye Contact :A Collaborative Social Project, with Kablevag Kunst and Fimskole, Kablevag, No. Mary Beth Edelson,16 pgs.
  • 2004Humans, Fucking Humans. Lofoten International Art Festival, LIAF 04, Norway
  • 2002Personal and Political, GuildHall Museum, Hamptons, L.I.
  • 2001Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Gallery. London.
  • 2000Picturing the Modern Amazon, New Museum, NYC, Rizzoli
  • 1999Contemporary Classicism, Neuberger Museum of Art .N.Y.
  • 1997Leonardo Lives, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA.
  • 1997Vraiment Feminisme et Art, Magasin, Grenoble, France
  • 1997Original Visions, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston
  • 1996Love Gasoline, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
  • 1995In-significance, The Agency, London.
  • 1992Object Choice, Hallways, Buffalo, NY.
  • 1992Sprung in Die Zeit, Berlinische Galeria Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Ger.
  • 1992Censored in USA, Seeing Red White and Blue, Visual Arts Center of Alaska.
  • 1989Vanishing Presence, "Walker Art Center, MN.
  • 1989Photography and Performance, Boston Photo Resource Center, MA.
  • 1989Dream On..., Washington Project for the Arts, D.C.
  • 1988Edelson, Puryear, Scanga, Stackhouse, Corcoran Gallery of Art, D.C.
  • 1988Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art, NY.
  • 1986Other Gods: Containers of Belief, Everson Museum, NY.
  • 1986Resistance or Submission, Walter Philips Gallery, Alberta, Canada.

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