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Ellen Carey
(
American
,
born
1952
)
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1954
Born: New York, NY
1970
Studied at the Art Students' League, New York, NY
1975
B.F.A. Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1978
M.F.A. State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
1984
New Works Grant, Massachusetts Council on the Arts, Boston, MA
New York State Federation for Artists Grant (FFA), New York, NY
Grant, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Washington, D.C.
1990
Bent Award for Creativity, The University of Hartford, CT
1991
Coffin Grant, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
1998
Grant Award, Connecticut Commission for the Arts, Hartford, CT
Lives in New York, NY and Hartford, CT
Exhibitions
2009
"Exposed," CREON Gallery, New York, NY (group)
2005
"MATRIX 153: Photography Degree Zero," Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (group)
1999
Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK (solo)
Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA (solo)
"Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography 1947-1997," The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA (group)
"PHENOMENON," The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA (group)
"The Agency of Meaning: A Survey of Contemporary Works in Collection," Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
1998
Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Art That Happens to be Photography," Nina Freudenheirn Gallery, Buffalo, NY (group)
"(About Face/Masks)," The Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, CT (solo)
1997
"Ellen Carey: Family Portrait/Birthday Portrait," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (solo)
Todd Mauritz Gallery, Columbus, OH (solo)
"Eye of the Beholder," The Avon Collection, International Center for Photography, New York, NY (group)
The Big Picture Show, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (group)
1996
"Photography Degree Zero," Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY (solo)
1995
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY (solo)
"Moholy Nagy and Present Company," The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL (solo)
"Abstract Photographs," The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (group)
1994
Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Gallery 954, Chicago, IL (solo)
"Issues and Identities: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Photography," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (group)
"Beyond the Camera, Large-Scale Manipulated Photographs," ARTSPACE, New Haven, CT (group)
"The Camera I, Photographic-Self Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Imas Collection," The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveling to: AkronArt Museum, Akron, OH (group)
1993
"Fictions of the Self," Weatherspoon 94 Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, traveling to: Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; Palazzo de Exhibitions, Rome, Italy; Museum of Modern Art, Nice, France (group)
1992
Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC (solo)
"The Abortion Project," Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, NY, traveling to: New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (group)
Abstraction in the 90's, The Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group)
1991
"Mixing the Medium; Beyond Silver Photography," Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (group)
"Summer Group Exhibition," Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY (group)
"Summer Group Exhibition," John Good Gallery, New York, NY (group)
1990
Schneider-Bluhm-Loeb Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1989
John Good Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Nature and Culture: Conflict and Reconciliation in Recent Photography," The Friends of Photography at Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA (group)
1988
"Appropriation and Syntax: Uses of Photography in Contemporary Art," The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (group)
"Chaos," John Good Gallery, New York, NY (group)
"Layers of Meaning," Tower Gallery, New York, NY (group)
"(Re)Productions," White Columns, New York, NY (group)
1987
Simon Cerigo, New York, NY (solo)
"Photo-Mannerisms," Laurence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (group)
"Photo Synthesis," Frank Bernarducci Gallery, New York, NY (group)
1986
Art City, New York, NY (solo)
Real Art Ways (RAW), Hartford, CT (solo)
Zone, Springfield, MA (solo)
"Context as Content," The Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY (group)
"Modem Art at Harvard," The Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (group)
"Sadness," Simon Cerigo Gallery, New York, NY (group)
"Weird Beauty," The Palladium, New York, NY (group)
1985
Concord Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO (solo)
"Summer Selections," Castelli Uptown, New York, NY (group)
1984
Texas Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Patterns" ,Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX (group)
1983
Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA (solo)
"Three Dimensional Photographs," Castelli Graphics, New York, NY (group)
1982
University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, NM (solo)
"Nineteen from New York," Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY (group)
"Photograph Transformed," Stefanotti Gallery, New York, NY (group)
"Photo," Metro Pictures, New York, NY (group)
"Points of Departure," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY (group)
1981
Concord Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1980
"Contemporary Photography," The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (group)
"HallWalls/Five Years," The New Museum, New York, NY (group)
1979
"Inside," Galerie Optica, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (group)
"Syracuse Show," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (group)
1978
Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY (solo)
1977
"In Western New York," Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY (group)
"Where N'When," HallWalls, Buffalo, NY (group)
"Polaroid Show," Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA (group)
1976
"Images of Women," Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (group)
"Recent Portraiture," Renaissance Society of University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (group)
1974
"First Light," Humbolt State University, Eureka, CA (group)
"Subject Women," Spencer Museum of Art, University of Lawrence, Lawrence, KS (group)
Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Avon Collection, New York, NY
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Banana Republic, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Coca Cola Corporation, Atlanta, GA
Dallas-Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas
deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
The Dow Jones, New York, NY
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Chicgao, ILL (formerly First Bank of Chicago)
International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Houston, TX
Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, MA
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, Providence, RI
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Sol Lewitt Collection, CT
University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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