Tanya Marcuse [email protected] www.tanyamarcuse.com (845) 518- 5744
American b. 1964
Representation Julie Saul Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, NYC www.saulgallery.com
Education 1988-90 Yale University School of Art: M.F.A., Photography 1983-85 Oberlin College: B.A., Art History and Studio Art 1981-83 Bard College at Simon’s Rock: A.A., General Studies
Books and Publications 2018 Fallen/Woven, forthcoming with Radius Press 2017 Ten Decompositions, Tanya Marcuse, 0_100 Editions, Milan, Italy Entries On Eden (with text by Eve Romm), Culpeck & Clark Press 2016 Woven Nº 4 and Woven Nº 9, Roman Nvmerals Books 2011 Wax Bodies, 6 x 6 Series, Nazraeli Press 2007 Fruitless, One Picture Book Series #42, Nazraeli Press 2005 Undergarments and Armor, Nazraeli Press
Honors and Awards 2014 NEH Summer Fellowship -- Dante Institute: “Dante’s Divine Comedy: Poetry, Philosophy and the City of Florence” 2007-2008 Finalist, International Photography Prize, The Real Photography Award 2006 Center for Photography at Woodstock Photographer’s Fellowship 2005 JGS Book Project Award 2003 John Anson Kittredge Grant (Harvard University) 2002-2003 Guggenheim Fellowship -- Photography 1998 Center for Photography at Woodstock Photographer’s Fellowship 1997 Dutchess County Arts Council Photography Fellowship 1990 George Sakier Memorial Prize for Excellence in Photography: Yale University School of Art 1986-1987 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship: for year-long project photographing the Bari Indians of Venezuela 1984 The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Award for Young Artists
Publi c C oll ecti ons Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA George Eastman House, Rochester, NY National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, NY Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Davison Arts Center, Wesleyan University, CT Joy of Giving Something, NYC Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY McIninch Art Gallery, Southern New Hampshire State University, Manchester, NH Calvin College –Center Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
Exhibitions: Selected Solo Shows 2017 Phantom Bodies, Esther Massry Gallery, College of St. Rose, Albany, NY 2016 Fruitless/Fallen/Woven: Recent Acquisitions, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Vassar College, NY Woven: In Process: The Fisher Center for Performing Arts, Weis Atrium, LUMA Lobby, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 2015 Phantom Bodies, Davison Arts Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 2014 Fallen, Julie Saul Gallery, NYC 2010 Bountiful, Julie Saul Gallery, NYC 2009 Seeing and Knowing, Liebowitz Gallery, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA 2007 Fruitless, Julie Saul Gallery, NYC Undergarments and Armor, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Undergarments and Armor, Belfast Exposed Photography, Belfast, Northern Ireland 2005 Undergarments and Armor, Hemphill Fine Art, Washington, D.C. 2004 Works: 1993-2003, Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY 2002 Material, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, NYC Material, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY 1999 Torso, Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY 1998 Torso --Emulsion Transfers on Glass and Mylar, Yoshii Gallery, NYC 1996 Museum Series, Stewart International Airport, Newburgh, NY 1995 Bridal Suite, Yoshii Gallery, NYC 1994 Photographs, Yoshii Gallery, NYC
Exhib i t i o ns: Selected Gro u p Shows 2016 A Still Dialogue: Letinsky + Marcuse, curated by Vanessa Rocco, McIninch Art Gallery, SNSU, Manchester, NH 2015 In the Garden, curated by Jamie Allen, (Eugene Atget, Stephen Shore, Sharon Core…) George Eastman House, Rochester, NY 2014-15 An Anatomical Waxwork Cabinet Meets Art, curated by Eva Meyer-Hermann, (Louise Bourgeois, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Robert Gober, Bruce Nauman, Pipilotti Rist, Paul Thek…) Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany 2014 Tanya Marcuse and Christopher Russell, IAP, MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA Flora (Janet Fish, Robert Kushner, Richard Jacobs…) Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, VT 2013 A Discourse on Plants, (Vic Muniz, Rona Pondick, April Gornick…) RH Gallery, NY 2011 Heroines, Curated by Guillermo Solana, (Rineke Dijkstra, Marina Abramovic, Frida Kahlo, Caravaggio, Gentileschi, Rembrandt…), Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum of Art, Madrid, Spain Pictures Are Words Not Known, curated by Sean Justice (Bill Jacobson, Elinor Carucci,) LiShui Museum, China 2009-2010 Dress Codes: Third Triennial of Photography and Video, (Mickalene Thomas, Cindy Sherman, Stan Douglas, …), ICP, NY 2009 Heads (Helen van Meene, Valerie Belin, Morton Bartlett, Arne Svenson, David Levinthal, Rineke Dijkstra… ) Julie Saul Gallery, NY 2008-2009 Gothic: Dark Glamour, Curated by Valerie Steele, (Alexander McQueen, Eiko Ishioka…) The Museum at FIT, NY 2008 (RE) Imaging Photography, (Sze Tsung Leong, Richard Rinaldi, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, Barry Underwood…) Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveand, OH REAL Award Exhibition, (Hans-Christian Schink, Chris Jordan, Roger Ballen…) Las Palmas II Centre, Rotterdam 2007 Amour d' Armour: Fear, Fantasy, and Fashion in the New Age, curated Ida Sinkevic and Robert S. Mattison, (Joseph Beuys, Ralph Borland, …) Williams Center Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 2006 Love and War: The Weaponized Woman, (Issey Miyake, Valentino…) Curated by Valerie Steele, The Museum at FIT, NY 2003 Both Sides of the Street, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C. Exhib i t i o ns: Selected Gro u p Shows (continued) 1999 Female, curated by Vince Aletti, (Claude Cahun, Lucas Samaras, Laurie Simmons, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Luigi Ontani…) Wessel & O'Connor Gallery, NY Petits Formats --Small Works of Art From the 20th Century, (Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo, Brice Marden…) Yoshii Gallery, NY 1995 Human/Nature, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY 1993 Figure Out, (Nicole Eisenmen, Nicola Tyson…) Trial Balloon Gallery, NY
Selected Bibliography 2016 Michael Kurcfeld, “Tanya Marcuse: Life and Death in the Allegorical Garden,” Photographer Spotlight, LA Review of Books Documentum, Volume I, The Instagram Series, guest edited by Stephen Shore, Fall Line Press 2015 Geoffrey Batchen, essay for A Still Dialogue: Letinsky + Marcuse, exhibition catalog, curated by Vanessa Rocco, McIninch Art Gallery, SNSU, Manchester, NH 2014 Jillian Steinhouer, “The Surprising Beauty of Dead Leaves and Rotting Fruit,” Hyperallergic, January 29, 2014 William Meyers, “Subtlety of Color and Decay Displayed,” The Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2014 Vince Aletti, Review of Fallen, Julie Saul Gallery, The New Yorker, January 22, 2014 Jean Dykstra, Review of Fallen, Julie Saul Gallery, Photograph Magazine, January 16, 2014 Loring Knoblauch, Review of Fallen, Julie Saul Gallery, Collector Daily, January 14, 2014 Tim Davis, “Tanya Marcuse’s Swich Licour,” essay for Fallen exhibition catalogue, Julie Saul Gallery 2013 Allison Morgan, “Decomposition Composed,” The New Yorker, Photo Booth Blog, July 26, 2013 2011 Artist Project, “Bountiful,” Cabinet, Issue 39 2010 Tamsen Schwartzman, “Imprints of the Body: An Interview with Tanya Marcuse,” Fashion Projects: On Fashion and Memory, Issue Nº 3, February, 2010 2010 Review of Heads, Julie Saul Gallery, The New Yorker, January 11, 2010 2009 Roberta Smith, review of Dress Codes ICP Triennial: “Beyond a Simple Fashion Statement,” The New York Times, Oct. 9 Dress Codes, Exhibition Catalogue. ICP/Steidl Cover feature, Photograph, “Corset with Silk Ribbon,” featured in Dress Codes at ICP, September/October 2009 Friesen Andria (editor), Speak for the Trees, Marquand Books, Fruitless series published 2008 REAL Photography Award Exhibition Catalogue, Fruitless Series 2007 Ida Sinkevic and Robert S. Mattison, “Amour d’ Armor: Fear, Fashion and Fantasy in the New Age,” Exhibition Catalogue Elizabeth Rich, review of Love and War, FiberArts, Jan/Feb Colin Drake, review of Undergarments and Armor, Source, Winter Fruitless, Feature in Sacred and Mundane Section, Orion, Winter 2006 Roberta Smith, review of Love and War, The New York Times, Sept. 15 Cover feature on Undergarments and Armor, The Artful Mind, Profile, March 2005 Rachel Cohen, book review of Undergarments and Armor, Photography Quarterly, #92 2005 Denise Wolff, book review of Undergarments and Armor, PhotoEye, Winter Undergarments and Armor, portfolio published, Triennial of the Photographic Arts 2002 Vince Aletti, review of Material, The Village Voice, April 2000 Sandra Mathews and Laura Wexler, Pregnant Pictures: Work by Women in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Routledge), Torso series published. 1999 New York Magazine, Cue Feature --Torso series, “Female,” curated by Vince Aletti, Sept. 13 James Luciana, Black and White Photographers: An International Collection, Body photograph published. 1998 Sarah S. King, review of Torso at Yoshii Gallery, Art in America, July, 1998 New York Magazine. “Cue” Feature on Torso exhibition, February 3-7 Selected Bibliography (continued) 1998 Ken Johnson, review of Torso, The New York Times, Art Guide, February 6 Ken Johnson, review of Anonymous, The New York Times, Art Guide, August 14 Vince Aletti, review of Anonymous, The Village Voice, February 1997 Vince Aletti, review of Torso, “Voice Choices,” The Village Voice, February Tim Griffin Essay for Torso, Yoshii Gallery 1996 Ingrid Shaffner, review of Bridal Suite at Yoshii Gallery, Artforum, January 1995 Eric Gibson, review of Bridal Suite at Yoshii Gallery, Artnews, December David Humphrey, review of Bridal Suite, New York Fax. Art Issues. Nov-Dec. Vince Aletti, review of Bridal Suite, Voice Choices. The Village Voice, October 18-24 1994 Charles Hagen, The New York Times, “Art in Review,” January 21 1994 Faye Hirsch, “Tanya Marcuse --Photographs,” Essay for exhibition catalogue, Yoshii Gallery, New York City
Selected Public Talks 2017 Phantom Bodies, College of St. Rose 2016 Daniel Mendelsohn and Tanya Marcuse: Conversation: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 2015 Phantom Bodies, Wesleyan University Fallen, New Paltz, Fine & Performing Arts SUNY 2014-15 Lecture Series Fallen, Deep Air Interdisciplinary Arts Series, Olana, Hudson, NY 2014 Public conversation with Martina Caruso, IAP, MASS MoCA 2012 Concept and Object, Photographic Memory Conference, Yale Earthly Delights, Bard College at Simon’s Rock Body and Memory, Parsons School of Design, NYC 2010 Work: 1992-2009, Opening Speaker, The Photographer’s Lecture Series, ICP, NY Body and Memory, New York University Undergarments and Armor, Behind the Seams Lecture Series, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2009 Undergarments and Armor, Center for Photography at Woodstock Reason and Rapture: Bard College Language and Thinking Program 2007 Seeing and Knowing: Anatomy and Wax, Interdisciplinary Conference, Josephinum, Vienna, Austria Undergarments and Armor: The Art of Fashion Conference, FIT, NY 2006 Undergarments and Armor: Love and War
Aca d e m i c P o s i t i o ns 2015- Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Artist-in-Residence
2014-15 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Visiting Associate Professor of Photography Courses: Photography for Non-Majors (digital); Photography for Non-Majors (analogue); Color; Bookmaking for Visual Artists and Photographers
2012 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Visiting Associate Professor of First-Year Seminar Course: First-Year Seminar, Self and Society in the Liberal Arts: Critical thinking and writing course reading texts by Plato, Virgil, St. Augustine, Dante, Shakespeare and Galileo. Aca d e m i c P o s i t i o ns (continued) 2010 International Center of Photography, full-time program. Course: Object(s): A Contemporary Approach
2000-2012 Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA Associate Professor of Photography, 2/3 time Courses: All levels of photography; Landscape Photography; Portrait/Self-Portrait; Critical Issues in Contemporary Photography; Experiments in Photography; Documentary Photography
1991-1999 State University of New York: Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY Assistant Professor of Photography (tenured 1998) Courses: All levels of Photography, 20th Century Art History, and 2-Dimensional Design
1998-99(Acting) Chair of Division of Performing, Visual Arts and Communications: Supervised 12 tenured and 25 adjunct faculty, and a curriculum of over 100 courses. Responsibilities included hiring, scheduling and budget.
1993 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY Lecturer, part-time (sabbatical replacement) Course: History and Criticism of 20th-century American Documentary Photography
1990-91 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Lecturer, part-time Courses: English as a Second Language; Introduction to Literary Studies
1990 Thomas Masaryk English Teaching Fellowship, Czechoslovakia Course: Intensive English as a Second Language for adult professionals
1989 Yale University School of Music and Art Teaching Fellowship, Norfolk, CT