Miranda Lichtenstein (born December 11, 1969) is an American artist focusing on photography and video.[1] [2]
Lichtenstein was born in New York City and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.In 1990, Lichtenstein graduated with a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. In 1993 she earned her MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.
For nearly two decades, Lichtenstein has worked in varied sub-genres within photography’s historical archetypes: marginalized contemporary landscapes, refracted still life, performance-based portraiture and process-oriented abstraction. Her book Recorder (2021), is a three-part series of images which departed from a singular work: Welcome Water (2015), where Lichtenstein collaborated with the artist J. Stoner Blackwell on a sprawling sculptural floor piece. This collaboration marked a shift in Lichtenstein's work, which involves a layering and compression of analog and digital processes.
Group exhibitions
2017 Where does the Future Get Made, Lishui Biennial Photography Festival, Lishui2015 Artist’s Choice: An expanded field of Photography, Organized by Liz Deschenes, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA2015 Works from the Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD2014 The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, Organized by Mary-Kay Lombino, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL2012 Lucie Fontaine: Estate, Organized by Nicola Trezzi, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY2011 Channel to the New Image, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY2011 Involuntary, organized by Neville Wakefield, fordPROJECT, New York, NY2010 Mouvement d'Art Public, Montreal, Canada2010 Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, organized by Jennifer Blessing, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY2007 Currents: Recent Acquisitions, organized by Anne Ellegood, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.2006 Strange Powers, Organized by Laura Hoptman and Peter Eleey, Creative Time, New York 2002 Guide to Trust No. 2, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco2001 Detourism, organized by Hamza Walker, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago 2001 Nightscapes, Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm, Germany 2001 The Altoids Collection, Organized by Anne Ellegood, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York 2001 Extraordinary: Place in American Photography, organized by Sara Krajewski, Madison Arts Center, Madison, WI1999 Playing Off Time, organized by Richard Klein, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT1998 Spectacular Optical, organized by Lia Gangitano, Thread Waxing Space, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Solo exhibitions
2016 Sound and Noise, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ2015 more Me than mine, Elizabeth Dee, New York, NY2014 Polaroids, The Gallery at Hermes, New York, NY2012 Dance Serpentine (Doubled and Refracted), Austin Museum of Art-Arthouse, Austin, TX2011 The Suburban, Oak Park, IL2010 Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York2009 Gallery Min Min, Tokyo2007 Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo2007 Artforum, Berlin 2006 Miranda Lichtenstein, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2006 The Searchers, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo2004 Danbury Road, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo2003 Landmark, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York2003 Thin Air, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo2001 Sanctuary for a Wild Child, Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, New York 2001 Lovers Lane, Leslie Tonkonow, New York
Miranda Lichtenstein’s work is held in the collections of The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin, Henry Art Museum, Seattle WA, and Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY.
Rome Prize Fellowship (2020) Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbertide, Italy (2009).The Giverny Residency Program and Fellowship, Claude Monet Foundation, Giverny, France (2002).