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Dara Birnbaum presents an artist talk, followed by a moderated conversation with the artist and Benjamin Buchloh, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture. Birnbaum’s pioneering video, media, and installation work has, over the past four decades, addressed the ideological and the aesthetic character of mass media imagery and has been considered fundamental to our understanding of the history of media art.
Born in New York in 1946, Dara Birnbaum received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, a B.F.A. in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Certificate in Video and Electronic Editing at the Video Study Center at the New School for Social Research, New York. Since her first solo exhibition in New York, at Artists Space in 1977, Birnbaum has had solo shows in numerous renowned international museums, such as: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York ; the Whitney Museum of Art, New York; the Jewish Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; IVAM, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (Centre del Carme), Valencia (1990). Major retrospectives of her work include the Kunsthalle Wien (1995) and Dara Birnbaum: The Dark Matter of Media Light which was organized by the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium and also the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2010). In conjunction with the retrospective, a major monograph on Ms. Birnbaum’s work, The Dark Matter of Media Light, was published by Prestel Publishing. Birnbaum's work is currently on view at ICA/Boston and MIT List Center for Visual Arts. >
This program is in collaboration with the ICA/Boston exhibition Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today and the Visual And Environmental Studies Department.
