Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens
Turner Contemporary, Margate, U.K.April 16 – September 4, 2011 Daniel Buren, Russell Crotty, Teresita Fernández, Douglas Gordon, Ellen Harvey, Conrad Shawcross ARCADIA Inspired by art history and the expectations for art that it produces, Ellen Harvey frequently uses old-fashioned aesthetics and traditional genres of art production, such as the landscape, in surprising ways to highlight the […]
Ellen Harvey: Ruins are More Beautiful
Curated by Ika Sienkiewicz-NowackaLaboratorium, Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PolandSeptember 7 – October 10, 2009 An empty exhibition that celebrates the renovation of Laboratorium (the Ujazdowski Castle complex’s only remaining original building for which Harvey created a project in 2003 when it was still in disrepair). The windows and doors in the […]
Beyond the Picturesque
Curated by Steven Jacobs and Frank MaesS.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium Marcel Berlanger , Marc De Blieck, Damien De Lepeleire, Alexis Destoop, Robert Devriendt, Geert Goiris, Ellen Harvey, Sylvia Henrich, Axel Hütte, Jan Kempenaers, Jussi Kivi, Mark Klett, Oliver Lutz, Rindfleisch/Rapedius, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Joel Sternfeld, Monica Studer / Christoph van den Berg, Richard Sympson, John Timberlake, Mungo […]
Whitney Biennial
Curated by Henriette Huldisch & Shamim MominWhitney Museum of American Art, New YorkMarch 6 – June 1, 2008 Museum of Failure A hand-engraved rear-illuminated mirror (The Collection of Impossible Subjects) depicts a museum wall hung salon style with empty frames, with one frame opening onto a trompe l’oeil painting (Invisible Self-Portrait in My Studio) based […]
Generation 1.5
Curated by Tom Finkelpearl and Valerie SmithQueens Museum of Art, New YorkJune 10 – December 7, 2007 Ellen Harvey, Pablo Helguera, Emily Jacir, Lee Mingwei, Shirin Neshat, Seher Shah, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Nari Ward. If a person comes to America as an adult, he or she is referred to as a first-generation immigrant. Children of […]
Ellen Harvey: Mirror
Curated by Alex BakerPennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, PhiladelphiaOctober 15, 2005 – January 8, 2006 The ornate entry staircase of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts was re-created as a ruin drawn in light in the hexagonal room at the top of the stairs. Four rear-illuminated hand-engraved mirrored Plexiglas panels depicted each corner of the […]
BHP (Health & Safety)
curated by Aneta SzylakWYSPA Institute of Art, Gdansk, PolandSeptember 3 – October 3, 2004 Azorro Supergroup, Helene Caubel & Anne Lalaire, Maureen Connor, Oskar Dawicki, Fundacja 36,6, Adam Garnek, Ellen Harvey, Agnieszka Kalinowska, Grzegorz Klaman, Dominika Krechowicz, Kamil Kuskowski, Jacek Niegoda, Monika Pudlis, Oliver Ressler, Allan Sekula, Dominika Skutnik, Marek Sobczyk, Michal Szlaga, Twozywo, Andrzej […]
Shuffling the Deck
curated by Eugenie Tsai Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ March 29 – June 29, 2003 Sanford Biggers, Anne Chu, Ellen Harvey, Zhang Hongtu My Venus is Better than Your Venus A copy of Lucas Cranach’s Venus and Amor, painted in accordance with the Princeton University Art Museum’s guidelines for copyists, replaced the original work […]
Ellen Harvey: New Is Old
Curated by Ika Sienkiewicz-NowackaLaboratorium, Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PolandAugust 8 – October 8, 2003 Ellen Harvey, who tagged New York City with tiny, oval-shaped landscape paintings, continues her witty beautifications at Warsaw’s Ujadzowski Castle. As is the case with most of the city’s “historic” center, the castle is actually a postwar […]
Ellen Harvey: A Whitney for the Whitney at Philip Morris
Curated by Shamim MominThe Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New YorkJanuary 23 – April 3, 2003 A framed walk-in painting of all 394 images in American Visionaries, the Whitney Museum of American Art’s collection catalogue, installed at the Whitney Museum’s Philip Morris exhibition space. The seven artworks acquired by the museum immediately […]
Hier ist Dort 2
curated by Anna MeyerSecession, Vienna, AustriaFebruary 14 – April 14, 2002 Tim Gardner, Ellen Harvey, H. + H. Joos, Michael Krebber, Marko Lulic, Lisa Milroy, Katrin Plavcak, Andreas Siekmann, Melanie Smith, Esther Stocker, Amelie von Wulffen The group exhibition Hier ist Dort 2, uses the example of painting to discuss processes of visualization in between […]
The Western Mirror
Curated by Tom FinkelpearlMan + Space, Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea29 March – 7 June, 2000 Ellen Harvey, Julie Heffernan, Nikki S. Lee, Janieta Eyre, Amy Adler, Glenn Ligon, John Coplans, Rachelle Viader Knowles, Sandra Skolnik, Michael Davis, Susanna Coffey, Su-en Wong, Norman Yonemoto, Lyle Ashton Harris, Chuck Close “人 (Man)” is a pictograph that […]