BIOGRAPHY
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1976
• Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
1998
• Hamidrasha, Bait Berl College of Arts, Israel
2000
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2004
• Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY
• Lives and works in New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
• Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
• Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, France
• Mary's Cherries , FRAC Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier, France
• Infinite #2, In collaboration with Alona Harpaz, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel
2011
• SEVEN , In collaboration with Jon Kessler, A Performa commission for Performa 11 , Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY
• Cheese, Squeeze, and Tropical Breeze: Video Works 2003 - 2010, M-Museum Leuven, Belgium
• Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, Japan
• Fried Sweat , Tirana Art Center, Tirana, Albania
• Dough, Cheese, Squeeze and Tropical Breeze, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2010
• New Work: Mika Rottenberg, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
• Squeeze, Mary Boone Gallery in collaboration with Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2009
• Performance Stills, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
• Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, France
2008
• Drawings, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York NY
• Alona Harpaz and Mika Rottenberg (collaboration), Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York NY
2006
• Dough, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
• Dough, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2005
• Tropical Breeze, Le Case D’Arte, Milan, Italy
• Mary’s Cherries, Special Projects, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
• Marta Del’Angelo and Mika Rottenberg, Le Case d’Arte, Milan, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
• Campaign, Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, C24 Gallery, New York, NY
• Bending the Mirror, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
• A Doll's House, Isola Art Center, Milan, Curated by Fani Zguro
2011
• Daft , Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
• Show Me Your Hair, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
• Commercial Break, Curated by Neville Wakefield, Garafe Projects at the 54th Venice Biennale
• * Uber die Metapher des Wachstums (On the Metaphor of Growth) , Cooperation with three venues: Frankfurter Kunstverein, Kunstverein Hannover, and Kunsthaus Baselland
• Once Upon A Time , Guggenheim Berlin, Berlin, Germany
• Dark Waters , Station Project , c/o Platform Arts Gallery, Belfast, UK
2010
• Christmas Show, galerie laurent godin, Paris, France
• Home and Origin, Bukowskis, Stockholm, Curated by Rodrigo Mallea Lira
• Redressing , Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
• Sweat, Patricia Low Gallery, Gstaad, Switzerland, Curated by Marilyn Minter
• Workers Leaving the Workplace , Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
• First group show of Contemporary Tel Aviv Art in the UK, JaffaCakes TLV, London, UK
• I Want To See How You See: Works from the Julia Stoschek Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
• Grotesque & Arabesque - ny amerikansk videokunst, Kunstnernes Hus, Norway
• Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Curated
by Nancy Spector and David Van Der Leer
• Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
2009
• Eat Art, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
• October Show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
• A Tribute to Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
• Strange days and some flowers, Storey Gallery, Lancaster, UK
• Werk Nu, Z33 Gallery, Hasselt, Belgium
• 20 Years, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• Strange Days and Some Flowers, Storey Gallery, Lancaster, UK
• Installations II: Video from the Guggenheim Collections, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, Curated by Nat Trotman
• Intemperie, 2nd Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia, Argentina, Curated by Alfons Hug; travels to: Cultural Banco do Brasil of Rio de Janeiro
2008
• Andrehn-Schiptjenko (three-person exhibition with Pilar Albarracín and Mickalene Thomas), Stockholm, Sweden
• Number Two: Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Duesseldorf, Germany
• *2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• Whatever's Whatever, Hydra School Projects, Hydra, Greece, curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis
• Body Collective, Alogon Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, France (Two-person exhibition with Marilyn Minter)
2007
• Americans in New York, Galerie Michael Rein, Paris, France
• The Irresistible Force, Tate Modern, London, UK
• The Shapes of Space Part II, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
• Welcome to my World, Alexandre Pollazzon, London, UK, Curated by Amy Davila and Matthew Day Jackson
• Foam of the Daze, Smith-Stewart Gallery, New York, NY
• Herzliya Biennale, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
• Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia, Curated by N. Bourriaud
• Negatec, Telefonica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Curated by Luis Camnitzer
2006
• intermittent, Gallery for One, Dublin, Ireland, Curated by Paul O'Neill and Vaair Claffey
• Globalization: Indications, Side Effects, Warnings, Espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico
• *New York, Interrupted, pkm gallery, Beijing, China, Curated by Dan Cameron
• *Uncertain States of America, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK, Curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gunnar B. Kvaran
• Remember Who You Are, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart
• *Everywhere, Busan Biennale, Contemporary Art Exhibit: "A Tale of Two Cities: Busan-Seoul/Seoul-Busan," Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, South Korea
• Mid-Life Crisis, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY, Curated by Tara Subkoff and Ivana Salander
• pa*per*ing, Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery in collaboration with Art in General, New York NY
• Survivor, Bortolami Dayan, New York, NY curated by David Rimanelli
• The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2005
• Day Labor, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
• KunstFilm Biennale, Koln (catalogue)
• Look at Me: The Perception of Video, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna, Italy
• *Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gunnar B. Kvaran; Travels to: Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Warsaw, Poland; Sérignan, Montepellier, France; Beijing, China; Reykjavik, Iceland
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
• New Work/ New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
• *Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
• Art Review 25 Emerging Artists, Phillips, de Pury & Company, New York, NY
• Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• Situational Prosthetics, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2004
• Economies, Artandgallery, Milan, Italy
• Always Already Passé, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passerby, New York, NY
• We are the World, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
2003
• Miami Heat, Placemaker Gallery, Miami, FL
• My Sources Say Yes, Guild & Greyshkul Gallery, New York, NY
2002
• Tensionism, Kenny Schachter’s 132 Perry Street, New York, NY
2001
• Projects 2001, Islip Museum, Central Islip, NY
2000
• Paladar, Cuban Biennial 2000, Havana, Cuba
• Short Films and Videos, Stanford University Gallery, Stanford, CA
• A.V.A.F.S, *67 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• A.V.A.F.S, *67 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• Short Cuts, Luggage Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
• Spring at the End of the Summer, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
COLLECTIONS
•La Maison Rouge, Paris
• Fonds national d'art contemporain
• Fonds regional d'art contemporain (FRAC) Languedoc-Roussillon
• Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf
• San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art
• Museum of Modern Art, NY
• The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, NY
• Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
AWARDS
2011
• Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Curated by Pipolottie Rist
• Planete Doc Film Festival Selection, Warsaw
2010
• The Flaherty International Film Seminar Fellow
• New Vision Programme Selection, CPH:DOX FIlm Festival, Copenhagen
2009
• 5x5 Castello 09 Prize Finalist, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello, Spain
2006
• The Cartier Award, in conjunction with the Frieze Art Fair
2004
• The Rema Hort Mann Foundation
2002
• The Dean Fellowship, Columbia University
2001
• Projects 2001 award, Islip Museum
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011
• Rosenberg, Karen, "Sweating Chakras," Art in America , November
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• Laster, Paul, "A+ Book Pick: Mika Rottenberg," A+A Blog by Artspace , September 7
• Levin, Kim, "Talking Trash," ARTNews, June
• Van Duyn, Edna, Ed. Mika Rottenberg [Contributions by Ann Demeester, Hsuan L. Hsu, Efrat Mishori and Linda Williams], Amsterdam and New York: De Appel Arts Centre and Gregory R. Miller & Co. in partnership with Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery and M-Museum Leuven
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2010
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Videography.com, August 31
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2009
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• Ayers, Robert, "Through the Eye of the Needle: Mika Rottenberg's Video Installations" EIKON Magazin #65
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2008
• Vishmidt, Marina, "Situation Wanted: Something About Labour," Afterall, No. 19, Autumn/Winter
• "Mika Rottenberg," Bil Bok International, No. 28
• MacAdam, Barbara, "Mika Rottenberg," ARTnews, December (cover)
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• Saltz, Jerry, "When Cool Turns Cold," New York Magazine, March 13
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2007
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2006
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• Borchert, Gesine, "Die Monopol Watchlist: Fünf Künstler, die uns aufgefallen sind," Monopol Magazin für Kunst und Leben, No. 6, December
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• "Baseball, Jazz, and the Anticipation of Happiness: 'pa*per*ing' in the Lobby Gallery of Deutsche Bank New York,” db artmag (www.deutsche-bank-kunst.com), Issue 1, October-November
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• Smith, Roberta, "Endgame Art? It's Borrow, Sample, and Multiply in an Exhibition at Bard College,” The New York Times, July 7
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2004
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2000
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ONLINE INTERVIEWS
• W Magazine: Behind the Scenes of the “Art Issue Project, November 2008
• Artnet TV Interview by Nicole Davis, May 2008
• Interview for Tate Modern exhibition The Irresistible Force, October 2007
• Interview for Coolhunting.com feature on Whitney Biennial artists, March 2008
