Dara Birnbaum

Dara Birnbaum

(b. 1946, New York. Lives and works in New York.)

Dara Birnbaum received a Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and a B.F.A. in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited at the Kunsthalle, Vienna (2001); the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1995); the Tate Gallery, London (1985); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1984); and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1981). She has been the recipient of numerous distinguished awards, including a Harvard Special Jury Prize (1998); the TV Picture Prize, International Festival of Video and Electronic Arts in Locarno, Switzerland (1991); and the American Film Institute's Maya Deren Award for Independent Film and Video Artists (1987).

RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS

2009
Dara Birnbaum – Retrospective: The Dark Matter of Media Light, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
2008
Dara Birnbaum: Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
2007
Dara Birnbaum, Y-3 Miami, Presented by Y-3 & EAI, Art Basel Miami, Miami, Florida

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS

2009
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; Museum of Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
2008
Broadcast, MoCAD, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
2007
"Television Delivers People," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

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Dara Birnbaum Exhibitions

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