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BIOGRAPHY
Ellen Rothenberg's
performances, installations and public projects have been presented
throughout the US and Europe at venues including The Institute of Contemporary
Art and The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Kent Gallery in NYC,
and The Neues Museum Weserburg in Bremen during 2004. Other recent exhibitions
include "Beautiful Youth" at The Vedanta Gallery and "The
Anne Frank Project" at Gallery 312 in Chicago, "Telling Histories"
at The Boston University Art Gallery, and "Searching The Criminal
Body" at The University Art Museum SUNY Albany. She has received
numerous commissions for public projects including a permanent work
"Industry Not Servitude!" installed at The National Historical
Park in Lowell, Massachusetts and "An American Garden" as
part of Sculpture Chicago's "Re-inventing The Garden City."
Rothenberg's public project "Invisible Garden" was presented
in Chicago in 2004 and a new work "EAST" was presented at
LandKunstLeben, outside of Berlin, in the exhibition "East Of Eden"
in 2005. She is currently working on "Shadow Screens," a public
commission from the CTA and Chicago Department of Public Art. Her work
has been supported by grants and fellowships from The National Endowment
for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Bunting Institute at Radcliffe
College/Harvard University, and The Illinois Arts Council among others.
Publication projects include "Restless Mobility," Art Journal,
Spring 2001 and "Contextual" Whitewalls, Summer 2001. Currently,
Rothenberg teaches at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
2008
- "Experimental
Geography," Nato Thompson - curator, Independent Curators International
2007
- "Artists and their Kids," Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago
- "Consuming War," Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
- solo exhibition, Northeastern Illinois University
- sabbatical show, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2005
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"East of Eden," Land Kunst Leben, Steinhofel, Germany
2004
- "After Images, Art and Social Memory," Neues Museum Weserburg
Bremen, Germany
- "Holocaust as Subject," The Tweed Museum, University of
Minnesota, Duluth
2001
- "The Anne Frank Project," solo exhibition, Gallery 312,
Chicago - "Con/textual, Art and Text in Chicago"", The
Chicago Cultural Center
2000
- "Beautiful Youth," solo exhibition, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago
- "Searching the Criminal Body," University Art Museum, State
University of NY Albany
1999
- "Gathering Information, Photography and the Media" The Photographic
Resource Center, Boston
- "Telling Histories," Boston University Art Gallery, Boston
1997
- "No Small Feat" and "Hurry,hurry!," Rhona Hoffman
Gallery, Chicago
- "Portraits, from the collection," Rose Art Museum, Brandeis
University, Waltham MA.
1996
- "Difference," Kent Gallery, NYC
1995
- "After Auschwitz," Royal Festival Hall/ London, Manchester
City Art Gallery, City Gallery Sunderland, City Arts Center/ Edinburgh
1994
- "Burnt Whole," Washington Project for the Arts, Washington
D.C., Institute of Cont. Art, Boston
- "Conditions for Growth," solo exhibition, Aidekman Arts
Center/Tufts University, MA
- "Partial Index" and "A Probability...," solo exhibition,
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
- "The Label Show: Contemporary Art and the Museum," Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- "Partial Index" and selections from "A Probability...,"
solo exhibition, Kent Gallery, NYC
- "Impossible Evidence," Freedman Gallery, Albright College,
Reading, PA
1993
- "Partial Index" and "A Probability...," solo exhibition,
University Art Museum, UCSB, CA
- "A Probability…," solo exhibition, The Bunting Institute,
Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
1992
- "Three Choices," Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
- "THE OBJECT IS BOUND," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
CA
1991
- "BOSTON NOW," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA
- "CENTER MARGINS," Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
1990
- "Installation and Place," Boston Center for the Arts, Boston
MA
1989
- "REPRODUCTIONS," Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
- "SPEAK!," solo exhbition, Massachusetts College of Art,
Boston MA
- "ALLUSION DIMENSION," Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
Public Projects
And Performances
2006 - "Shadow
Screens," commission CTA/ Department of Public Art2005 - "East
of Eden," LandKunstLeben, Steinhofel, Germany
2004 - "The Invisible Garden," Art in The Garden, Chicago
Office Of Cultural Affairs, Chicago Park District
2002 - "Something More than Night," collaborative installation
with Terri Kapsalis and John Corbett, Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago
........- "Stealth Landscapes"
with Cindi Katz, Santa Fe Art Institute, San Francisco State University,
CA
1996 - "Indusrty Not Servitude!," National Historical
Park, Lowell MA, Public Art Commission,
Department of the Interior
1995 - "An American Garden," Sculpture Chicago, Re-inventing
the Garden City, Chicago
1993 - "HELLO TRAITOR!," Festival Giannozzo, Berlin
Grants and Fellowships
2002 - Illinois Arts Council, Visual Arts Fellowship
2000 - Illinois Arts Council, Visual Arts Fellowship
1997 - Illinois Arts Council, Visual Arts Fellowship
1993 - NEA New Forms/Artists Projects, Regional Fellowship
........- NEA Regional Fellowship in Sculpture
........- The Charles W. Engelhard Foundation
Grant
........- LEF Foundation Grant
........- Bunting Fellow, Mary Ingraham
Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
1991 - Project Grant, Tides Foundation
1989 - NEA New England Regional Fellowship
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