Marco Breuer
| 1966 | Born, Landshut, Germany Currently lives and works in New York City |
| EDUCATION: | |
| Fachhochschule Darmstadt, Germany, Advanced Degree in Photography | |
| Lette-Verein Berlin, Germany, Degree in Photography | |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS: | |
| 2002 | Errata, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA Observations in Color, Roth Horowitz, NY, NY |
| 2001 | Scale/6, The Balcony, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada FAQs, Clifford-Smith Gallery, Boston, MA Circa 1999, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA |
| 2000 | Pattern and Practice, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA Tremors, Ephemera, Roth Horowitz, New York, NY For Now, Esso Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1999 | Subject to Change, Hänel Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa |
| 1998 | Das Nacheinander der Dinge, Galerie Hänel, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Next to Nothing, Gina Fiore Salon of Fine Arts, New York, NY Tomorrow Never Comes, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY |
| 1997 | E/Z, Halsey Gallery, School of the Arts, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC Aufzeichnungen, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany Von Einem Tag Zum Andern, Kunsthaus Fischinger, Stuttgart, Germany E/Z, Galerie Hänel, Frankfurt/Main, Germany |
| 1995 | Notizen Aus Dem Abgelaufenen Beobachtungszeitraum, Galerie Hänel, Frankfurt/Main, Germany |
| 1994 | Sprachsturz, Museum für Kunst and Gewerbe/Forum Fotografie, Hamburg, Germany II Mondo Animale, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: | |
| 2000 | Group Show Gallery Artists, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA OPEN ENDS – Actual Size, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Photographs, Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Photography About Photography, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Liz Deschenes) |
| 1999 | ...Imagine!, Galerie Haus Schneider. Ettlingen-Karlsruhe, Germany Barely There, Janet Borden Gallery, New York, NY Low Tech, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC Marco Breuer and Ellen Carey, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA Phenomena: The Poetics of Science, The Friends of Photography at The Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| 1998 | Art That Happens to be Photography, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Paper+, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY Aspects of Photography, Esso Gallery, New York, NY Male, Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Vince Aletti) Photo-, Villa Minimo, Hannover, Germany (curated by Hlynur Hallsson) |
| 1997 | Diverse Visions//photographic perspectives, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA KIT, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1996 | Art on Paper 1996, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC By Any Means, Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN Der Zerteilte Blick, DuMont Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany The Nature of Light, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, NY Austerity Measures, 214 LAFAYETTE, New York, NY Selections Summer ’96, The Drawing Center, New York, NY Photoworks, Omni Gallery, Long Island, NY Incestuous, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY |
| 1995 | Fotofeis – Festival of Photography: Fairytale in the Supermarket, Edinburgh, Scotland Collaborations, Kamin Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY Photography in an Extended Field, White Columns, New York, NY |
| 1994 | Autoparticulates, Metropolitan Transit Authority/Arts for Transit, New York, NY (installation with Steven Brower) Breuer/Chamber, changing installation in Chamber 2, New York, NY |
| 1993 | Deutsche Fototage- Festival of Photography: Borderlines and Ansichten von Alexandra S., Frankfurt/Main, Germany (Borderlines traveled to Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany) Essential Material: Selected Book Projects at Dieu Donné Papermill, Harper Collins, New York, NY, (traveled to Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, 1994) |
| SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS: | |
| 2002 | Book: “Marco Breuer – SMTWTFS,” texts by Lynne Tillman, Richard Howard and others, Roth Horowitz, NY, NY, hardcover |
| 2001 | Jaqueline Brody, “Marco Breuer: Counting in Circles,” Art on Paper, September/October, pp.42-49, ill. Cecilia Anderson, “Cameraless Photography,” Katalog-Journal of Photography and Video, Summer, pp.14-19, ill. Francine Koslow Miller, “Marco Breuer,” Tema Celeste, May/June, p.90,ill. Exhibition pamphlet: “Marco Breuer: Circa 1999,” essay by Bill Arning, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA |
| 2000 | Kenneth Baker, “Photographs Whose Subject Is Their Making-Marco Breuer: Pattern and Practice,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 18, p. B1, ill. Catalogue: “Marco Breuer – Tremors, Ephemera,” essay by James Elkins, Roth Horowitz, New York, NY, hardcover, 32 pages, ill. Catherine Bindman, “Marco Breuer: For Now,” Art on Paper, July/August, pp. 58 –59., ill. Vince Aletti, “Space Case – Marco Breuer Investigates Photography’s Outer Limits,” The Village Voice, March 7, p. 67, ill. Tabloid catalogue: Marco Breuer: For Now, Esso Gallery, New York, NY, 16 pages, ill. |
| 1999 | “Marco Breuer,” European Photography, Number 64/65, pp. 20 –25, ill. Steven Jenkins, “Phenomena,” Camerawork, Spring/Summer, pp. 33 –35. Glen Helfand, “Marco Breuer, Ellen Carey,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 10, p. 95. Rob Perré, “Marco Breuer,” Kunstbeeld, February, pp. 34 – 37, ill. Faye Hirsch, “Rethinking Genres in Contemporary Photography,” Art on Paper, January/February, pp. 26 –29, ill. |
| 1998 | Robert C. Morgan, “Marco Breuer,” Review, New York, NY, May 15, pp. 20 –21. John Born, “Marco Breuer - Next to Nothing,” Review, New York, NY, May 15, p. 29. |
| 1998 | Bill Arning, “Marco Breuer - Tomorrow Never Comes,” Time Out, New York, NY, February 12 –19, p. 49, ill. Vince Aletti, “Marco Breuer” The VillageVoice, Voice Choices – Shortlist, New York, February 3. |
| 1997 | Andreas Langen, “Versteckspiel – Marco Breuer bei Fischinger,” Stuttgarter Zeitung, Germany, No. 69, March 24, p. 11, ill. Sandra Danicke, “Das Abbild der Spucke: Marco Breuers ungewöhnliche Photogramme,” Frankfurter Rundschau, Germany, March 13, p. 25, ill. Catalogue: “Diverse Visions//photographic perspectives,” Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, p. 4, ill. |
| 1996 | Helen A. Harrison, “Photoworks – Omni Gallery,” The New York Times, NY, July 21, p. 10, ill. Catalogue: ”Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, p. 14, ill. |
| 1995 | Wilhelm Roth. “Schrecken gehört zum Märchen – Fotoinstallation von Marco Breuer in der Galerie Hänel,” Frankfurter Rundschau, Germany, August 29, p. 21, ill. Anna Gripp, Marco Breuer – Anonymous. Photonews – Zeitung für Photographie, Hamburg, Germany, February, pp. 16 –17, ill. Catalogue: “Artist in the Marketplace,” The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, pp. 9 & 12, ill. |
| 1994 | Catalogue: “Marco Breuer: Sprachsturz,” Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany, ill. Wilhelm Roth, “Lichtermeer und Schattenwelt: Arbeiten von Peter Roehr und Marco Breuer im Fotografie Forum Frankfurt,” Frankfurter Rundschau, Germany, September 2, p. 25, ill. “Marco Breuer, Not That I Know,” Camera Austria, Graz, Austria, Vol. 47/48, p. 101, ill. Anna Gripp, “II Mondo Animale – Ein Fotoprojekt von Marco Breuer,” Photonews – Zeitung für Photographie, Hamburg, Germany, No. 204, March, pp. 8 –9, ill. |
| 1993 | Catalogue: “Borderlines,” Deutsche Fototage, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, pp. 32 –33, ill. |
| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: | |
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Baltimore Musuem of Art, Baltimore, MD Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum, München, Germany Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY New York Public Library, New York, NY San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany |
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| RECENT AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES: | |
| 2001 | MacDowell Colony Residency |
| 2000 | Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant MacDowell Colony Residency |
| CURATORIAL PROJECTS: | |
| 2001 | Marginalia (film screening), Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY |
| 1999 | Spatial Interest, The Work Space, New York, NY |
| 1998 | Der Zweifel in der Darstellung, Villa Minimo, Hannover, Germany (curated with Hlynur Hallsson) |
| 1997 | Face Value, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1996 | Austerity Measures, 214 Lafayette, New York, NY (curated with Steven Brower) |
| TEACHING EXPERIENCE/VISITING ARTIST/LECTURER | |
| 2001 | Faculty Instructor, Photography Department, SVA – School of Visual Arts, NY, NY (since 2000) Lecturer, Conversations with Contemporary Artists, Musuem of Modern Art, NY, NY Panelist, MacDowell Salon, NY, NY Lecturer, “FAQs,” NYU/Tish School of the Arts, NY, NY Lecturer, “FAQs,” Clifford-Smith Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 2000 | Visiting Artist (Lecture: “Present Tense”), Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Instructor, “Pictures from a Dark Room,” ICP – International Center of Photography, NY, NY Lecturer, “Pattern and Practice,” Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA Lecturer, “Visual Evidence,” NYU – New York University, NY, NY Lecturer, “Pictures from a Dark Room,” ICP – International Center of Photography, NY, NY |
| 1999 | Lecturer, “Concept/Process,” Pace University, Pleasantville, NY Lecturer, “Pattern and Practice,” Esso Gallery, NY, NY (with Peter Cameron) Panelist, SPE – Society for Photographic Education Northeast Regional Conference, Imagemaker Panel, Rochester, NY Lecturer, “Cameraless Photography,” Kent Institute of Art and Design, Kent, Great Britain Panelist, CAA – College Art Association Conference: “Experimental Photography” Panel, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1998 | Visiting Artist (Lecture: “Photograms”), Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA |
| 1997 | Visiting Artist (Lectures: “Cameraless Photography” and “E/Z”), School of the Arts, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC Lecturer, “Kameralose Fotografie,” Fachhochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany |
| 1994 | Lecturer, “Sprachsturz,” Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany Lecturer, “Fotografie und Papier,” Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany |
| 1993 | Instructor, “Photography and Papermaking,” Dieu Donné Papermill, NY, NY (with E.E. Smith) |