Timeline

1975–1977
University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, and Art
1978–1983
Schule für Gestaltung, Basel Switzerland
1993
Eidgenössischer Kunststipendium - Freie Kunst (Switzerland)
2002–2003
Guggenheim Fellow
2004
The American Center Foundation Grant
Sitemapping Stupendium / Bundesamt für Kultur Schweiz
2006
Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Residence
2007
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Member of Gran Fury and co-founder of Bureau

Exhibitions

2012
The Old, The New, The Different, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Ulrike Müller, Herstory Inventory: 100 feministische Zeichnungen von 100 KünstlerInnen, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
2011
And All You Suck In Is Oil, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2010
New Acquisitions, IKON Ltd, Santa Monica, CA
10 Jahre, Kunst-Technologie-Gesellschaft, Basel, Switzerland
i’m into you now, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, Washington, DC (solo)
2009
UN-SCR-1325 curated by Jan Van Woensel at the Chelsea Art Museum
The Pain Game, Nosbaum & Reding Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
2008
CANDY.CRY.STINKER.HUG. (some drawings concerning absorption, reflection, inversion, and progression), Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY (solo)
2007
Silicone Valley, P.S.1 MOMA, Queens, New York, Curated by Nick Stillman
Gegen den Strich, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Eliminated, Provincetown, MA Curated by John Waters
2006
The Eigth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in the Arts since 1960, Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany
2005
Kritische Gesellschaften, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
2004
When I think about you I touch myself: An Exhibition on the Sociability of Artworks, The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Brent Sikkema, New York, NY (solo)
Young Americans Part 2, Neue Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (solo)
BAD BLOOD Stage One, Plug-In, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
2003
Fast Forward, White Columns, New York, NY
Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA
Marlene Olive - June 21, 1975, Istanbul Biennial
2002
Violence the True Way, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Switzerland
Poltergeist, Girls at Home, American Fine Arts, New York, NY (solo)
2001
Stand Fast Dick & Jane, The Project, Dublin, Ireland
Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, Pro Arte Contemporary Art Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Young Americans, Sandroni.Rei, Venice, CA (solo)
2000
Death Race 2000, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
1999
Billboard, MASS MoCA, No. Adams, MA (Gran Fury contribution)
1998
Where is Your Rupture?, The Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Art on Paper 1998, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
1996
Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party and Feminists in Art History,UCLA Armand Hammer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Real Fake, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College State University of New York, NY
Mixing Messages, The Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
1995
In a Different Light, University Art Museum, Berkley, CA
Word for Word, The Art Gallery, Beaver College, Glenside, PA
1994
Cocido y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1993
Intransit, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Metro Pictures, New York, NY (solo)
1992
Mund Verkehr: In die Hose gegangen, Marlene McCarty, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (ex. cat.) (solo)
How It Is, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Between the Sheets, P.P.O.W., New York
1991
Metro Pictures, New York (solo)
John Lindell / Marlene McCarty, Simon Watson Gallery, New York
1990
Shut Up, You Shut Up, Wessel O'Connor Gallery, New York
Eros/Thanatos - Desire and Death, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York

Public Collections

MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA