Ellen Rothenberg CV
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 WORKS BY, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2023 For Those Without Choice, Weinberg/Newton Gallery in partnership with Planned Parenthood, Chicago, Illinois
2020 Anthem, Weinberg/Newton Gallery in partnership with the Illinois ACLU, Chicago, Illinois
2019 ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant, solo exhibition, James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, New York
2018 ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant, solo exhibition, Spertus Institute, Chicago, Illinois
2018 Material Turn, Milieux Institute of Arts, Culture and Technology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
2017 Annual, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, Illinois
2017 Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant Garde, Museum der Moderne, Salzberg, Austria
2016 Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant Garde, The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York City; The Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois
2016 CARPA, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon
2015 elsetime, solo exhibition, Sector 2337, Chicago, Illinois
2015 REMOTE WEST, Institute 4 Labor and Generosity Workers + Uniforms, Long Beach, California
2015 Traces in the Dark: Imaginary Archive, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2014 REMOTE CENTRAL, Future Force Geo Speculators, Audible Gallery, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, Illinois
2014 Imaginary Archive, Visual Culture Research Center, Kiev, Ukraine
2013 Time + Motion: Redefining Working Life, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, England
2013 Measures of Saving the World: Imaginary Archive, rotor Center for Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria
2012 Shaping Community: Poetics and Politics of the Eruv, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
2012 Chelen Amenca ( Dance With Us), Contemporary Art Gallery of the Brunkenthal National Museum, Astra National Museum Complex, Sibiu, Romania
2012 Dublin Biennial International Exhibition, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2012 Field Static, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, Illinois
2012 Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California
2011 Imaginary Archive, Tulca Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, Ireland
2008–11 Experimental Geography, curated by Nato Thompson and Independent Curators International NYC; Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Indiana; Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota; The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine; Museum of London, London, Ontario, Canada; James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, New York; Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
2010 Hide and Seek, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
2010 Constellations, solo exhibition, Schalter, Berlin, Germany
2010 Imaginary Archive, Wellington Collaboratorium: Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2010 Unraveling Tradition, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2009 Fast Forward, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois
2008 Public Address, PHAIZ, Chicago, Illinois
2008 Mapping the Self, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
2008 HereThereEverywhere, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Frame-Up, Artists and Their Kids, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Consuming War, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Stealth, solo exhibition, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Labor Trade Show, Mess Hall, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Sabbatical Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2005 East of Eden, LandKunstLeben, Steinhöfel, Germany
2004 After Images, Art and Social Memory, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
2004 Holocaust as Subject, The Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota
2001 The Anne Frank Project, solo exhibition, Gallery 312, Chicago, Illinois
2001 Con/textual, Art and Text in Chicago, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
2000 Beautiful Youth, solo exhibition, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2000 Searching the Criminal Body, University Art Museum, State University of NY, Albany, New York
1999 Gathering Information, Photography and the Media, The Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts
1999 Telling Histories, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1997 No Small Feat and Hurry, Hurry!, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1997 Portraits, from the collection, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
1996 Difference, Kent Gallery, New York City, New York
1995 After Auschwitz, Royal Festival Hall, London; Manchester City Art Gallery, Machester; City Gallery Sunderland; City Arts Center, Edinburgh, England
1994 Burnt Whole, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.
1994 Burnt Whole, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
1994 Conditions for Growth, solo exhibition, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
1994 Partial Index and A Probability..., solo exhibition, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
1994 The Label Show: Contemporary Art and the Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1994 Milena Dopitova in Context, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
1994 Partial Index and selections from A Probability..., solo exhibition, Kent Gallery, New York City, New York
1994 Impossible Evidence, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Pennsylvania
1993 Partial Index and A Probability…, solo exhibition, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, California
1993 A Probability…, solo exhibition, The Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1992 Three Choices, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1992 The Object is Bound, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
1991 Boston Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
1991 Center Margins, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1990 Installation and Place, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1989 Reproductions, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1989 Speak!, solo exhibition, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
1989 Allusion Dimension, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
1989 Explorations in Handmade Paper, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
1988 Boston Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
PUBLIC PROJECTS AND PERFORMANCES
2020 The Future Is Ours, 1,000 Scores, RIMINI PROTOKOLL/APPARAT, Berlin
2020 Let’s Switch it up!, Anthem, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2019 Re:Working Labor Exhibition, in collaboration with Daniel Eisenberg; Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice at SAIC
2018 Re:Working Labor Symposium, in collaboration with Daniel Eisenberg; International Research Centre, Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History at Humboldt University, Berlin; Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2017 Screening with Daniel Eisenberg, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany
2016 Future Past, Arts Bank, Le People Qui Manque, The Regime of Historicity, Chicago, Illinois
2014 Distance and Proximities, UNA GALERIA, The National University for the Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2013 Craft Advanced Research Project, Adaptive Craft Execution Office, Twentynine Palms, California
2012 Chelen Amenca ( Dance With Us), cultural exchange, Brunkenthal National Museum, Astra National Museum, Sibiu, Romania
2011–12 Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, Opening the Black Box: the Charge Is Torture, Sullivan Galleries, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2010 Chicago-Bucharest, A Conversation on Publics, Art, and Collaboration, with Delia Popa, National Museum for Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
2010 LOOP: D-Ride, 516 Arts and ABQ Ride, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2009 Reading Landscape(s), The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2008 Reading from the Factory floor, performance-reading, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Shadow Screens, permanent installation, Chicago Transit Authority and Chicago Department of Public Art
2007 Soapbox, performance “RE–DO representing bodies in performance,” the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2005 East, public installation, LandKunstLeben, Steinhöfel, Germany
2004 The Invisible Garden, Art in The Garden, public commission, Office of Cultural Affairs and Chicago Park District, Chicago, Illinois
2002 Something More than Night, collaborative installation, with Terri Kapsalis and John Corbett, Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago Park District and Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, Illinois
2002 Stealth Landscapes, performance-lecture, with Cindi Katz, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico; San Francisco State University, California
1997 Hurry, Hurry!, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1996 Industry Not Servitude!, permanent installation, National Historical Park, National Endowment for the Arts, Department of the Interior, National Park, Lowell, Massachusetts
1995 An American Garden, public installation, Sculpture Chicago, “Re-inventing the Garden City,” Chicago, Illinois
1993 HELLO TRAITOR!, performance, Festival Giannozzo, Berlin, Germany
1992 Industry Not Servitude, commission, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park, Lowell, Massachusetts
1988 Subway Rebus, performance, Artstops Program, Boston, Massachusetts
1988 Common Sense, performance, Cityplace, Boston, Massachusetts
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2019–23 Visiting Fellow, re:work IGK, Work and Lifecycle in Global History, Humboldt-University, Berlin
2017–19 Inaugural Faculty Research Fellow, Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2018 Individual Artist Project Grant, Illinois Arts Council
2016 Individual Artists Program (IAP) Grant, City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
2016 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2014 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2013 ArtsLink Project Award, CECArtsLink
2013 Crossroads Fund, Project Grant: Chicago Torture Justice Memorial, Crossroads Fund
2013 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2012 Project Grant: Chicago Torture Justice Memorial, Crossroads Fund
2012 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2011 Propeller Fund Grant, Chicago Torture Justice Memorial Project; Threewalls + Gallery 400, Warhol Foundation
2009 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2008 Grainger Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2007 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2002 Illinois Arts Council, Visual Arts Fellowship
2000 Illinois Arts Council, Visual Arts Fellowship
1999 Illinois Arts Council, Project Completion Grant
1998 Community Arts Assistance Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
1998 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1997 Illinois Arts Council, Visual Arts Fellowship
1993 National Endowment for the Arts, New Forms, Artists Projects, Regional Fellowship
1993 National Endowment for the Arts, Regional Fellowship, Sculpture
1993 The Charles W. Engelhard Foundation Grant
1992 LEF Foundation Grant
1192 Bunting Fellow, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Massachusetts
1991 Project Grant, Tides Foundation
1989 National Endowment for the Arts, New England Regional Fellowship
1987 Interarts Fellowship, Massachusetts Artists Foundation
1986 Fusion Fission Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, and Real Art Ways
1986 New Works Grant, Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities and Mobius
1986 Artstops Grant, Cambridge Arts Council and Metropolitan Transit Authority
1986 Public Arts Residency, Connecticut Commission on the Arts and Real Art Ways
1985 Interarts Artists Residency, National Endowment for the Arts and The Boston Film and Video Foundation
1983 Artists Fellowship New Genre, Massachusetts Artists Foundation
EXHIBITION PUBLICATIONS
2019 ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant, interview by Katherine Carl
2019 RE:WORKING LABOR, essay by Daniel Eisenberg and Ellen Rothenberg
2018 SHADOWED!, writing by Simone Forti, Hannah B. Higgins, Shawn Michelle Smith, Caroline Picard, and Jeffrey Skoller, Green Lantern Press
2018 ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant, interview by Ionit Behar, essay Bettina Klein
2012 Shaping Community: Poetics and Politics of the Eruv, Yale University
2012 Field Static, essays by João Florêncio, Lin Hixson, Robert Jackson, Lily Robert-Foley, Peter O’Leary, Devin King and Caroline Picard, Holon Press
2010 LAND/ART, essays by Lucy Lippard, William L. Fox, Nancy Marie Mithlo and Malin Wilson, Radius Press
2009 Experimental Geography, essays by Nato Thompson and Trevor Paglen, Independent Curators International, NYC
2008 Public Address, independent publication, PHAIZ exhibition
2007 Stealth, essay by Shannon Stratton, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
2004 After Images, essays by James Young, Harald Welzer, Guido Boulbouille, Peter Friese, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
2004 24 Artists 24 Gardens, Chicago Office of Cultural Affairs and Chicago Park District
2001 Con/textual, essay by Buzz Spector, The Chicago Cultural Center and Whitewalls
2001 The Anne Frank Project, essay by Marguerite Feitlowitz, Gallery 312, Chicago
2000 Searching the Criminal Body, essay by Susan Erony, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany
1999 Telling Histories, essay by Mary Drach McInnes, Boston University Art Gallery, University of Washington Press
1995 After Auschwitz, essay by Monica Bohm-Duchen, Northern Center for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
1994 Burnt Whole, essay by Karen Holtzman, Washington Project for the Arts
1994 Impossible Evidence, essays by Andrea Liss and Jill Snyder, Freedman Gallery Albright College, Pennsylvania
1994 Ellen Rothenberg, essays by Whitney Chadwick, Lynne Cooke, Dan Eisenberg, Cindi Katz
1994 Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Massachusetts
1993 Reading The Anne Frank Project, essay by Elizabeth Brown, University Art Museum, UCSB, California
1993 A Probability Bordering on Certainty, essay by Whitney Chadwick, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Massachusetts
1989 Allusion Dimension, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
1989 SPEAK!, essays by Dan Eisenberg and Johanna Branson, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Eisenberg, Daniel, and Rothenberg, Ellen, eds. RE:WORKING LABOR, Chicago: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.
- Seth Rockman, DER ALTE UND DER NEUE MATERIALISMUS IN DER GESCHICHTE DER SKLAVEREI, DE GRUYTER, 2022.
- CORONA AND WORK AROUND THE GLOBE, re:work IGK Berlin, DE GRUYTER, 2020
- Elevated: Art and Architecture of the Chicago Transit Authority. City of Chicago: Chicago Transit Authority, 2018.
- Rothenberg, Ellen. “Future Force Geo Speculators.” Revista ARTA 33 (2018): 32. Dossier Eco Art.
- Rothenberg, Ellen. “Notes On:.” IMAGES: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, Vol. 11 (2018): 67–84.
- Rothenberg, Ellen, and Julie Sauvage. “Chelen Amenca (Danse Avec Nous).” Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire, no. 40, 2014, pp. 209–218.
- Zorach, Rebecca, ed. Art Against the Law. Illinois: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, January 2015.
- Tucker, Daniel, ed. Immersive Life. Illinois: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, September 2014.
- Mayer, Gabriel, ed. Architecture, Glass, Art ‘Franz Mayer of Munch,’ Munich: Hirmer Publishers, July 2013.
- Moyer, Twylene and Harper, Glenn, eds. Artists Reclaim the Commons: New Works / New Territories / New Publics. Hamilton: International Sculpture Center Press, 2013.
- Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, and Shandler, Jeffrey, eds. Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory. Indiana University Press, 2012.
- Picard, Caroline. “How to Stretch an Arm Through a Gap: An Interview with Ellen Rothenberg,” The Art21 Blog, January 17, 2011.
- Bathrick, David, Prager, Brad, and Richardson, Michael David. Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory. New York: Camden House, 2008.
- Hodgson, Dorothy L., and Brooks, Ethel, eds. Activisms. Special issue of WSQ [formerly Women’s Studies Quarterly] Vol. 35, Numbers 3&4, Feminist Press 2007, cover.
- Hodgson, Dorothy L., and Brooks, Ethel, eds. WSQ: The Global and The Intimate. Vol. 34, Numbers 1–2, cover, New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, June 2006.
- Baer, Elizabeth, and Goldenberg, Myrna, eds. Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003.
- Miller, Toby. “Introducing… Cultural Citizenship.” Social Text, Vol. 69, 2001, back cover.
- Rothenberg, Ellen. "Restless Mobility." Art Journal 60, no. 1, 2001: 4–97.
- “Crafting History.” Whitewalls, #41, Winter 1999.
- Baigell, Matthew. Jewish American Artists and the Holocaust. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
REVIEWS
- Picard, Coco, “For the labor of art made transparent,” Chicago Reader, May 17, 2024.
- Powers, Katie,”’Anthem’ addresses the past and present of voter suppression,” The Reader, September 22, 2020.
- “VISUALIST TOP 5 WEEKEND PICKS,” Bad at Sports, September 11, 2020.
- Welsh, Gabrielle, “Endless Work of Labor in the Age of Global Production,” HYPERALLERGIC, November 19, 2019.
- Cardoza, Kerry, “Art Top 5: November 2019,” Newcity Art, October 29, 2019.
- Vogel, Wendy, “Critics’ Picks: Ellen Rothenberg,” ARTFORUM, March 2019.
- Yoder, Anne K, “Keeping the Past Present: Shadowed!,” BOMB Magazine, June 6, 2018.
- Dorenbaum, Frances, ‘To Challenge a Prevailing Narrative: A Review of Ellen Rothenberg’s “Shadowed!”,’ Newcity Art, April 30, 2018.
- Reichert, Eliot, “Art top 5,” Newcity Art, April 2018.
- Yilmaz, Pinar Üner, “Ellen Rothenberg//Spertus Institute,” THE SEEN, March 2018.
- Reeves, Chris, “Enigmatic Propositions on Past and Present…,” Newcity Art, February 2018.
- “Ellen Rothenberg: ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant,” The Visualist, February 2018.
- “Daniel Eisenberg and Ellen Rothenberg named inaugural Faculty Research Fellows,” Art and Education, October 25, 2017.
- Kelly, James Pepper, “The Personal is Political: Ellen Rothenberg at Sector 2337,” Artslant, May 2015.
- Reeves, Chris, “Ellen Rothenberg at Sector 2337,” New City, June 13, 2015.
- Snodgrass, Susan, “REMOTE CENTRAL: Future Force Geo Speculators,” Textile: the Journal of Cloth & Culture. Vol. 13 Issue 1, Spring 2015.
- Weinberg, Lauren, “Ellen Rothenberg,” TimeOut Chicago, July 26 August 1, 2007.
- SYS, “‘Tater des Alltags Ein Nach Bild: Ellen Rothenberg’s’ Beautiful Youth,” taz, July 30, 2004.
- Stockmann, Jochen, “Autos verkeilen scih zum Hakenkreuz,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 14, 2004.
- Artner, Alan, “Music underlines ‘Night’ show,” Chicago Tribune, June 2002.
- Brunetti, John, “Ellen Rothenberg,” dialogue, May/June 2001.
- Weintraub, Linda, “Ellen Rothenberg,” temaceleste, Spring 2001.
- Obejas, Achy, “Beyond Anne Frank,” Chicago Tribune, March 4, 2001.
- Hawkins, Margaret, “Repainting the Past,” Chicago Sun Times, March 2, 2001.
- Skoller, Jeffrey, “Extended Review,” New Art Examiner, June 2000.
- Mandelbaum, Audrey, “Staking a common ground,” New Art Examiner, Fall 1996.
- Palmer, Laurie, “Sculpture Chicago 95/96,” Frieze, September-October Issue. 1996
- Artner, Alan, “...Park Place,” Chicago Tribune, June 23, 1996.
- McWilliams, Martha, “Order out of chaos,” New Art Examiner, April 1995.
- Richard, Paul, “The Holocaust Obliquely,” The Washington Post, October 30, 1994.
- Unger, Miles, “Spotlight: ‘Doubtful Histories,’” Art New England, August/September 1994.
- Haus, Mary, “Ellen Rothenberg,” Art News, March 1994.
- Stapen, Nancy, “Dissecting the organization of evil,” The Boston Globe, March 1994.
- Levin, Kim, “Voice Choices,” The Village Voice, January 18, 1994.
- Darling, Michael, “The Best of 1993,” Santa Barbara News Press, December 31, 1993.
- Temin, Christine, ”A vital re-viewing of Anne Frank’s Life,” The Boston Globe, June 23, 1993.
- Bonetti, David, “Conceptual Art by the book,” San Francisco Examiner, April 24, 1992.
- Temin, Christine, “Boston Now 10 unites potent works,” The Boston Globe, May 29, 1991.
PROFESSIONAL
2003–24 Professor Adj., School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2001–14 Artist-Mentor, Vermont College of Fine Arts, MFA Program, Visual Arts
2001–03 Adjunct Associate Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2000 Faculty, Vermont College, MFA Program in the Visual Arts
1999–01 Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1996–98 Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture
1995–96 Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Performance
1991–93 Visiting Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art, MFA Program
1989–90 Visiting Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art, BFA Program
LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
2024 REWORKING LABOR Colloquium and Book Launch, James Gallery Institute for Art and Collaborative Inquiry, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
2023 REWORKING LABOR Panel Discussion and Book Launch, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2023 REWORKING LABOR Conference Presentation and Book Launch, re:work, International Research Center, Final Conference, Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History, Humboldt University, Berlin
2021 Visual noise and good trouble, the labor of citizenship, Mitchell Lecture Series, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
2020 Art and Social Progress: Creating a Better World, Weinberg/Newton Gallery + ACLU Illinois
2020 Re-Working Labor: Art, Work, and Working Art, College Art Association Conference
2019 James Gallery, CUNY Grad Center, NYC, conversation with curator, Katherine Carl
2018 Re:Working Labor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2018 School of Visual Arts, NYC, lecture + conversation with curator, Katherine Carl
2014 Distance and Proximities, American Academy Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2014 Disruptive Geographies, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
2013 3 Geographies, Maryland Institute College of Art, Interdisciplinary Sculpture + Fiber Departments, Baltimore, Maryland
2013 Propositions, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Performance Department, Chicago, Illinois
2013 3 Geographies, Yale School of Art, Department of Sculpture, Yale University
2013 The Politics and Poetics of the Eruv, Conney Conference on Jewish Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2012 3 Geographies, The Colloquium, UCSB Department of Art and College of Creative Studies, Santa Barbara
2012 Man on the Street: Dress, Politics + Publics, Cal State Los Angeles
2012 Life on the Land: reimagining public space, Salon Series, Threewalls, Chicago
2012 Material Matters: the politics of making, Textile Society of America’s 13th Biennial Symposium, Washington D.C.
2011 Sites/Traces/Manifestations of Jewish Pasts, Presents, and Futures, The Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago
2011 Writing in Space, Interdisciplinary Arts Conference, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, Vermont
2006 RE–DO IT representing bodies in performance, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2006 The Altered Page, College Art Association Conference, Boston
2001 The Impossible Subject: historical experience and its transformations into the art of cultural memory, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Consulate General of the Netherlands, Columbia College, Chicago
2000 Questioning Order/New Taxonomies, School of Art and Design, Alfred University
1999 The Ladies Room: Gendered Spaces and Social Identity, Vermont College
1995 Articulations of History: Issues in Holocaust Representation, Photographic Resource Center, Boston
1995 Voices lecture series, University of Illinois, Chicago
1995 Drawing on Shadows, Contemporary Artists on the Holocaust, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1994 Language, Image, Metaphor and the Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
1991 Rosemarie Trockel and German Feminism, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1990 Beyond the Object: Working with Living Artists, New England Museum Association, Mystic, Connecticut
1990 The Work of Sophie Calle, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
VISITING ARTIST
2018 School of Visual Arts, New York City, New York
2018 Department of Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
2014 Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
2013 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2013 Yale School of Art, Department of Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
2012 University of California, Santa Barbara, California
2012 California State University, Los Angeles, California
2005 LandKunstLeben, Steinhöfel, Germany
2002 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2002 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California
2000 California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, California
2000 SUNY at Alfred, Center for Electronic Media, Alfred, New York
1999 Vermont College, MFA Program in the Visual Arts, Montpelier, Vermont
1999 Andy Warhol Preserve, Visual Arts Program, Montauk, New York
1997 Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
1996 Hunter College, New York City, New York
1996 Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
1994 School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
1994 University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Massachusetts
1993 University of California, Santa Barbara, California
1993 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1992 Yale School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut
1991 Künstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin, Germany