Penelope Umbrico Explained

Penelope Umbrico
Birth Date:31 January 1957
Alma Mater:Ontario College of Art,
School of Visual Arts
Movement:Appropriation art

Penelope Umbrico (born January 31, 1957) is an American artist best known for her work that appropriates images found using search engines and picture sharing websites.

Education and career

Umbrico was born in Philadelphia in 1957.[1] She graduated from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Canada in 1980. She obtained her M.F.A. in 1989 at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Exhibitions

In 2010 her exhibition, As Is, at LMAK Projects featured a series of work called Broken Sets (EBay) (2009–2010), which consisted of images of broken LCD television screens that were acquired from pictures posted by eBay sellers trying to sell damaged television sets for parts.[2]

Her project Suns from Flickr started in 2006 when she found 541,795 pictures of sunsets searching the word "sunset" on the photo-sharing web site Flickr while looking for the most photographed subject (which the sunset turned out to be). She took just the suns from these pictures and made Kodak snapshot prints of them.

For each installation, the title reflects the number of hits she gets searching "sunset" on Flickr at the time – for example, the first installation was "541,795 Suns From Flickr" in 2006; subsequent installations were: "2303057 Suns From Flickr (Partial) 9/25/07" (2007); "3,221,717 Suns From Flickr (Partial) 3/31/08" (2008); "5,911,253 Suns From Flickr (Partial) 8/03/09" (2009) – the title itself becoming a comment on the ever-increasing use of web-based photo communities and a reflection of the collective content there.

Her work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, on the cover and inside spreads accompanying "Ghosts in the Machine".[3] In March 2012, Art in America featured Umbrico's work on the cover[4] and inside along with a short essay by the artist.

She has served as a member of faculty at Bard College's Summer MFA (Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts) (Chair of MFA Photography from 2004 to 2010), and she is a core faculty member at the School of Visual Arts MFA Photography Video and Related Media in NYC.[5]

Publications

Awards, grants and residencies

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Unclassified exhibitions

Collections

Umbrico's work is held in the following public collections:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Penelope Umbrico - Guest Lecture Dartmouth Studio Art Department. studioart.dartmouth.edu. April 30, 2019.
  2. Milder. Patricia. Penelope Umbrico: As Is. The Brooklyn Rail. June 3, 2010. June 2010.
  3. News: Walker. Rob. Cyberspace When You're Dead. August 31, 2014. The New York Times. January 5, 2011.
  4. http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/magazine/ Art in America
  5. Web site: Penelope Umbrico - SVA . 2022-06-28 . School of Visual Arts SVA New York City . en.
  6. News: 2017–2018 Recipients of Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Announced. June 7, 2017. Art F City. 21 February 2018.
  7. Web site: Pilchuck Glass School : 2015 Artist in Residence, Penelope Umbrico. pilchuck.com. 21 February 2018.
  8. Web site: John Gutmann Photography Fellowship News. johngutmann.org. 21 February 2018.
  9. Web site: 2018 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF) Smithsonian Fellowships and Internships. www.smithsonianofi.com. 21 February 2018.
  10. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2011.
  11. Web site: Peter S. Reed 2011. petersreedfoundation.com. 21 February 2018.
  12. Web site: OCAD – Headline: Penelope Umbrico wins New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography. ocadu.ca. 21 February 2018.
  13. Web site: Past Award Winners. Supporting Women Artists Over 40.. 21 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20111103142744/http://www.anonymouswasawoman.org/past-award-winners.html. November 3, 2011. dead.
  14. Web site: Aaron Siskin Foundation. February 21, 2018.
  15. Web site: Artdoc Magazine - Unexpectedly, Festival Images Vevey 2020 is on! - Festival Images Vevey 2020. 2021-04-16. www.artdoc.photo.
  16. Web site: Everyone's Photos Any License (532 of 1,190,505 Full Moons on Flickr, 2015) George Eastman Museum. 2021-04-16. www.eastman.org. en.
  17. Web site: La série Views from the internet de Penelope Umbrico à la Nuit de la photo 2012. 21 February 2018. Nuit de la photo – La Chaux-de-Fonds. fr.
  18. Web site: Exhibits Collections – Exhibits – Penelope Umbrico: Screen Light – Peoria Riverfront Museum. 21 February 2018. www.peoriariverfrontmuseum.org.
  19. News: January 10, 2017. Penelope Umbrico featured at PHOTO LA 2017. Mark Moore Fine Art Blog. 21 February 2018.
  20. Web site: What to see at Paris Photo 2016 – British Journal of Photography. 21 February 2018. bjp-online.com.
  21. Web site: Museum. Milwaukee Art. Milwaukee Art Museum Exhibitions. 21 February 2018. mam.org.
  22. News: PENELOPE UMBRICO @ BIEL/BIENNE FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Photoforum. 21 February 2018.
  23. Web site: exhibit-e.com. Penelope Umbrico: Silvery Light – Exhibitions – Bruce Silverstein. 21 February 2018. brucesilverstein.com.
  24. Web site: MTA – Arts & Design Lightbox Project. 21 February 2018. web.mta.info.
  25. Web site: Article. 21 February 2018. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
  26. News: Penelope Umbrico: A Proposal and Two Trades, to start. Circulation Exchange: Moving Images in Contemporary Art. 21 February 2018.
  27. Web site: New York City Percent for Art – In celebration of National Teacher Appreciation. 21 February 2018. New York City Percent for Art.
  28. Web site: February 21, 2018. Penelope Umbrico: Mountains, Moving: of George C. Poundston 1926–2013.
  29. News: Lavalette. A Conversation with Penelope Umbrico. Lavalette. 21 February 2018.
  30. News: September 2, 2011. Paraty em Foco: Penélope Umbrico – Portal Photos. pt-BR. Portal Photos. 21 February 2018.
  31. Web site: Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. 21 February 2018. scotiabankcontactphoto.com.
  32. Web site: Penelope Umbrico: Leonards for..., Brooklyn Academy of Music, 01/2010. 21 February 2018. mutualart.com.
  33. News: February 16, 2004. PENELOPE UMBRICO @ BERNARD TOALE GALLERY. Big Red & Shiny. 21 February 2018.
  34. News: 92. January 31, 2018. International Center of Photography. 21 February 2018.
  35. Web site: Gathering Clouds: Photographs from the Nineteenth Century and Today George Eastman Museum. 2021-04-16. www.eastman.org. en.
  36. Web site: NEW FOR OLD Metro Arts Brisbane. January 21, 2021. 2021-04-16. en-AU.
  37. Web site: Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today University of Michigan Museum of Art. 2021-04-16. umma.umich.edu.
  38. Web site: For Ever More Images? Designing a cybermachine for the 21st century. 2021-04-16. www.onassis.org.
  39. Web site: Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography. 2021-04-16. www.metmuseum.org.
  40. Web site: Postmasters 35 years. 2021-04-16. www.postmastersart.com.
  41. Web site: From Ansel Adams to Infinity. 2021-04-16. Chrysler Museum of Art. en.
  42. Web site: 2018-10-10. 171 Clouds from the V&A Online Collection, 1630-1885 – a new commission by Penelope Umbrico • V&A Blog. 2021-04-16. V&A Blog.
  43. Web site: ICA Opens First Major U.S. Exhibition to Examine the Impact of the Internet on Visual Art icaboston.org. 21 February 2018. www.icaboston.org.
  44. Web site: New Territory: Landscape Photography Today. Denver Art Museum.
  45. Web site: Penelope Umbrico. 21 February 2018. Jimei x Arles International Photography Festival.
  46. Web site: ARTIST – Guangzhou Image Triennial 2017. 21 February 2018. guangzhouimagetriennial.org.
  47. Web site: Screens: Virtual Material deCordova. 21 February 2018. decordova.org.
  48. News: October 10, 2017. Galerie Andreas Schmidt "Perfect/Imperfect". PiB – Photography in Berlin. 21 February 2018.
  49. Web site: Eventos – Goethe-Institut Spanien. 21 February 2018. goethe.de. es.
  50. News: June 23, 2017. PhotoEspaña 2017: ¿Cómo meter 30 millones de fotos en una sala de exposiciones de Alcalá?. es-ES. Noticias de Alcalá de Henares e información multimedia 24 horas al día. 21 February 2018.
  51. Web site: 제10회 전주 국제사진제, is Location/Dislocation. 21 February 2018. m.post.naver.com. ko.
  52. Web site: Love the Screen You're With Unframed. 21 February 2018. unframed.lacma.org.
  53. Web site: Carnegie Magazine Winter 2016 Strength in Numbers – By Christine H. OToole. 21 February 2018. carnegiemuseums.org.
  54. Web site: Penelope Umbrico: An Inventory of Her Photography Collection at the Harry Ransom Center. 21 February 2018. norman.hrc.utexas.edu.
  55. Web site: Penelope Umbrico . When we share more than ever. 21 February 2018. mkg-hamburg.de . https://web.archive.org/web/20190101003145/https://www.mkg-hamburg.de/en/exhibitions/archive/2015/when-we-share-more-than-ever.html . 2019-01-01.
  56. News: think of number 6, bark like a dog. ArtThrob. 21 February 2018.
  57. Web site: February 21, 2018. BOOKS BEYOND ARTISTS: NEW INCUNABULA.
  58. Web site: Digital // Analog: Indifferenz – Archiv – Motorenhalle – Kunst erleben – riesa efau. 21 February 2018. riesa-efau.de. de.
  59. Web site: Flatlander-Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art – Projects – Mark Moore Fine Art. 21 February 2018. markmoorefineart.com.
  60. Web site: FOMO : sextantetplus.org. 21 February 2018. sextantetplus.org.
  61. News: admini. BRIC. August 5, 2014. BRIC Biennial: Volume I, Downtown Edition. BRIC. 21 February 2018.
  62. Web site: A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio MoMA. 21 February 2018. The Museum of Modern Art.
  63. Web site: February 21, 2018. California Landscape into Abstraction.
  64. Web site: OFFLINE ART: Hardcore at Aram Bartholl. 21 February 2018. arambartholl.com.
  65. Web site: Penelope Umbrico – Penelope Umbrico – Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal. 21 February 2018. moisdelaphoto.com. fr-FR.
  66. Web site: Arts Santa Mònica analitza el fenomen de la postfotografia amb l'exposició 'From here on. D'ara endavant' – Sala de premsa. Generalitat de Catalunya. 21 February 2018. premsa.gencat.cat. ca.
  67. Web site: Obra-colección. El artista como coleccionista. 21 February 2018. Foto Colectania.
  68. News: Aesthetica Magazine – Landmark: the Fields of Photography, London. Aesthetica. 21 February 2018.
  69. News: Aperture Remix. Aperture Foundation NY. 21 February 2018.
  70. Web site: Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age 319 Scholes. 21 February 2018. 319scholes.org.
  71. Web site: Special Exhibition I- Repositioned Personal – Daegu Photo Biennale. 21 February 2018. daeguphoto.com. ko.
  72. Web site: Born in 1987: The Animated Gif at The Photographers' Gallery London. 21 February 2018. artmap.com.
  73. Web site: Artist Videos Pace/MacGill Gallery. 21 February 2018. www.pacemacgill.com.
  74. Web site: UMBRICO, Penelope. 21 February 2018. Médiathèque des Rencontres d'Arles. August 3, 2011.
  75. Web site: Memery: Imitation, Memory, and Internet Culture. 28 February 2018. massmoca.org. July 9, 2016.
  76. Web site: SFMOMA CELEBRATES 75 YEARS OF LOOKING FORWARD WITH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION. 28 February 2018. SFMOMA.
  77. Web site: MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: Between Spaces. 28 February 2018. momaps1.org.
  78. News: The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography. Aperture Foundation NY. 28 February 2018.
  79. News: Fair. Vanity. New York Photo Festival Hits Brooklyn. The Hive. 28 February 2018.
  80. Web site: The Leisure Class Scanlines. 28 February 2018. scanlines.net.
  81. News: November 8, 2004. FEED @ MASSART. Big Red & Shiny. 28 February 2018.
  82. Web site: Object and Abstraction: Contemporary Photographs MoMA. 28 February 2018. The Museum of Modern Art.
  83. News: February 23, 2016. Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Avon Collection. International Center of Photography. 28 February 2018.
  84. Web site: ART IN THE ANCHORAGE. 28 February 2018. creativetime.org.
  85. Web site: More than One Photography: Works since 1980 from the Collection MoMA. 28 February 2018. The Museum of Modern Art.
  86. Web site: Art in General. 28 February 2018. artingeneral.org.
  87. Web site: Julie Saul Gallery // Umbrico 93.
  88. http://asdfmakes.com/project/for-a-brief-time-only-at-a-location-near-you/ For a Brief Time Only at a Location Near You
  89. Web site: Art Collection CollectionSpace. webapps.cspace.berkeley.edu. 6 March 2018.
  90. News: Penelope Umbrico. January 31, 2018. International Center of Photography. 21 February 2018.
  91. Web site: Penelope Umbrico Everyone's Moon 4 November 2015 14:22:59 The Met. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum. 21 February 2018.
  92. Web site: Museum of Contemporary Photography. mocp.org. 21 February 2018.
  93. Web site: Penelope Umbrico. SFMOMA. 21 February 2018.
  94. Web site: CMOA Collection. 2021-04-16. collection.cmoa.org. en.
  95. Web site: Everyone's Photos Any License (532 of 1,190,505 Full Moons on Flickr, 2015) George Eastman Museum. 2021-04-16. www.eastman.org. en.
  96. Web site: Umbrico. Penelope. Penelope Umbrico: An Inventory of Her Photography Collection at the Harry Ransom Center. 2021-04-16. norman.hrc.utexas.edu.
  97. Web site: TVs From Craigslist LACMA Collections. 2021-04-16. collections.lacma.org.
  98. Web site: All the Embarrassing Books. 2021-04-16. McNay Art Museum Online Collection. en.
  99. Web site: 30,240,577 Suns from Sunsets from Flickr (Partial) 03/04/16 Milwaukee Art Museum. 2021-04-16. collection.mam.org.
  100. Web site: 136 Mini Film Cameras in the Smithsonian Institution History of Photography Collection With Old Style Photoshop Filter, Penelope Umbrico; Photographer: Penelope Umbrico ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art. 2021-04-16. collections.artsmia.org.
  101. Web site: Foto Company Altona, Penelope Umbrico Signals Still Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. 2021-04-16. sammlungonline.mkg-hamburg.de.
  102. Web site: Museum of Contemporary Photography. 2021-04-16. www.mocp.org.
  103. Web site: Penelope Umbrico Mirror (from Home Décor Catalogs and Websites).
  104. Web site: Penelope Umbrico. Variants. 1989 MoMA. 2021-04-16. The Museum of Modern Art. en.
  105. Web site: PAMM is open for Miami Art Week. 2021-04-16. www.pamm.org.
  106. Web site: 18_IMG_6697-a, from the series Moving Mountains. 2021-04-16. www.portlandartmuseum.us.
  107. Web site: Details from Sunset Portraits (from 9,539,955 Flickr Sunset Pictures 8/8/11) RISD Museum. 2021-04-16. risdmuseum.org.
  108. Web site: All Artists: Digital & Media Art. 2021-04-16. Thoma Foundation.
  109. Web site: Victoria and Albert Museum. 171 Clouds from the V&A Online Collection, 1630 – 1885 Penelope Umbrico V&A Explore The Collections. 2021-04-16. Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections. en.
  110. Web site: The Legacy of Pioneering Victorian Photographer Anna Atkins Celebrated in Dual Exhibitions at The New York Public Library. 2021-04-16. The New York Public Library.