Uta Barth

biography

• biography
• bibliography
• images
• past exhibitions

Uta Barth
born in Berlin, Germany
lives in Los Angeles, California

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2008
  • Sies + Höke Gallery, Duesseldorf
  • Andréhn Schiptjenko, Stockholm
  • Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

• 2007
  • Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, San Francisco

• 2006
  • Alison Jacques Gallery, London
  • Uta Barth: 2005-2006, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis
  • Gallery Seomi & Tuus, Seoul

• 2005
  • Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf
  • Andréhn Schiptjenko, Stockholm
  • Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
  • ACME., Los Angeles
  • Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
  • Uta Barth: white blind (bright red), nowhere near, …and if time. 1999—2002, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe

• 2004
  • From: white blind (bright red). ACME., Los Angeles
  • Uta Barth; Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe

• 2003
  • white blind (bright red), Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm
  • white blind (bright red), Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf

• 2002
  • white blind (bright red), Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
  • white blind (bright red), ACME., Los Angeles

• 2001
  • Uta Barth 1991—94, Lawing Gallery, Houston

• 2000
  • Uta Barth – In Between Places, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; toured to Contemporary Art
  • nowhere near, Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe
  • nowhere near, JCCC Gallery of Art, Overland Park, Kansas

• 1999
  • nowhere near (part one), ACME., Los Angeles
  • nowhere near (part two), Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
  • nowhere near (part three), Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm
  • Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
  • Galerie Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo

• 1998
  • Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
  • London Projects, London
  • ACME., Los Angeles
  • Lawing Gallery, Houston
  • Uta Barth and Imi Knoebel, Studio la Città Verona

• 1997
  • The Wall Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  • … in passing, ACME., Santa Monica
  • Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm
  • Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
  • Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver

• 1996
  • Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
  • London Projects, London
  • S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  • Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

• 1995
  • Uta Barth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
  • ACME, Santa Monica

• 1994
  • Uta Barth and Vikky Alexander, domestic setting, Los Angeles
  • Wooster Gardens, New York

• 1993
  • Index in French, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside
  • S.P.A.S. Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York

• 1990
  • Howard Yezersky Gallery, Boston
  • Critical Distance, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
  • The Conceptual Impulse, Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa

• 1989
  • Untitled installation in Deliberate Investigations – Recent Works by Four Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
  • Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier

• 1985
  • Untitled installation in Emerging Artists, Frederick S. Wight Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
  • Galleria by the Water, Los Angeles
  • Uta Barth and Monique Safford, Galleria by the Water, Los Angeles

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2008
  • Keeping Time; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand

• 2007
  • Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • Mar Vista; domestic setting Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Is this all there is t o fire? A show about boredom; High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles
  • Viewfinder; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
  • City Limits: Shanghai-Los Angeles; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
  • Seeing Things; Dorsky Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Final Exhibition at 4 Clifford Street; Alison Jaques Gallery
  • Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists; 1980-2006, Los Angeles
  • Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City

• 2006
  • New Acquisitions Moderna Museet, Stockholm
  • Me, Myself and I, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • Whisper Not! Huis Marseille / H+F Collection. Amsterdam
  • Inner gogo; vamiali’s, Athens, Greece
  • Paisajes fotográficos, entre la topografía y la abstracción. at PHotoEspaña 2006, Madrid, Spain
  • City Limits, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
  • Shifting Terrain, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• 2005
  • Out There: Landscape in the New Millennium, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio
  • Das Verlorene Paradies, Opelvillen, Museum, Rüsselsheim
  • Double Exposure, Galerie Graff, Montreal
  • In Focus: Themes in Photography, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo
  • Double Exposure, Inman Gallery, Houston
  • Back From Nature, Institute of Contemporary Art at MCA, Portland
  • Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
  • Double Exposure, Godt-Cleary Projects. Las Vegas
  • Southern Exposure, The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
  • New View, Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Carlsen Center, Kansas City
  • Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

• 2004
  • From House to Home: Picturring Domesticity, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • In Focus: Themes in Photography, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo
  • The World Becomes a Private World, Mills Art Museum, Oakland
  • Double Exposure, Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis
  • Pairings, Dallas Center for Contemporary Art’s , Dallas
  • Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
  • Atmosphere, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  • Winter Time, ACME., Los Angeles
  • Double Exposure, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland
  • Godt Cleary Gallery. Las Vegas
  • Double Exposure, Trawick Contemporary, Berkeley
  • Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum Collection, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao
  • Photography and Place: Contemporary Work from the Museum’s Collection, RISD Museum, Providence, Road Island
  • Double Exposure, Galeria 2000 GbR, Nuremberg
  • Neue Editionen, Edition Schellmann, Munich
  • Double Exposure, Brigitte March Stuttgart, Stuttgart
  • Landscape, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
  • Double Exposure, Edition Schelman, New York

• 2003
  • Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  • Public Record, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • Imagine: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
  • ACME. @ Inman, Inman Gallery, Houston
  • New Selections from the Permanent Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
  • Edition Speciale, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris
  • Double Exposure, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
  • Beside, ACME., Los Angeles
  • Imperfect Innocence: The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, and Palm Beach, Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth

• 2002
  • History/Memory/Society: Displays from the Permanent Collection, Tate Modern, London
  • Visions of America: Photography from the Whitney Museum Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • We Love Painting: Contemporary Art from the Misumi Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
  • Double Exposure, Edition Schellmann, Munich
  • Double Exposure, Edition Schellmann, New York
  • Strolling Through an Ancient Shrine and Garden, ACME., Los Angeles
  • Majestic Sprawl: Some Los Angeles Photography, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena
  • Looking at America, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Global Address, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
  • Stepping Back, Moving Forward> Human Interaction in an Interactive Age, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh

• 2001
  • 00/01, James Harris Gallery, Seattle
  • From the Permanent Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
  • The Dreams That Stuff is Made Of, Selections Show, Frankfurt International Art Fair, curated by David Pagel, Frankfurt

• 2000
  • Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
  • Tate Modern: Ten Artists, Ten Images, Tate Modern, London
  • In-sites: Interior Spaces in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Champion, Connecticut
  • A Lasting Legacy, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
  • PHOTOGRAPHY NOW: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography. Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
  • Photography about Photography, Andrew Kreps, New York
  • Photography Now, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
  • Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco; toured to California State University, Long Beach; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara
  • Imperfectum, organized by Riksutstillinger: National Touring Exhibitions, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo; toured to Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger; Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim; Fylkesgalerie, Namsos; Bomullsfabrikken, Arendal; Billedgalerie, Haugesund; Bodo Kunstforening, Bodo; Aalesunds Kunstforening, Aalesund
  • Muscle: Power of the View, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
  • MANIFESTO!, Blue Gallery, London
  • ACME, Los Angeles
  • Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York

• 1999
  • Photography: An Expanded View, Recent Acquisitions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  • Apposite Opposites, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
  • double vision, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Umeå kommuns konstinköp under 90 – talent i urval, Umeå Bildsmuseum, Urmeå
  • Shift, ACME., Los Angeles
  • Rattling the Frame: The Photographic Space 1977—1999; San Francisco
  • Camerawork, San Francisco
  • Under/Exposed, Public Art Project, Stockholm
  • The 15th National Biennial Exhibition of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
  • Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
  • Threshold: Invoking the Domestic in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; toured to Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia
  • Domesticated, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts

• 1998
  • Directions: Photography from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • Claustrophobia, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; toured to Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough; Harris Museum, Preston; Mapping Art Gallery, Sheffield; Cartwright Hall, Bradford; Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff
  • Abstract Painting, Once Removed, Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston; toured to Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
  • Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
  • Uta Barth, Nancy Chunn, Anthony Caro, Institute of Contemporary Art at MCA, Portland
  • New to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
  • Mysterious Voyages: Exploring the Subject of Photography, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Photography’s Multiple Roles: Art, Documents, Market, Science, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
  • (Not Pictured) The Presence of Absence, The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina
  • New Editions, Brooke Alexander/Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
  • Picture Show, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • From the Heart: The Power of Photography (Sondra Gilman Collection), Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
  • Photography at Princeton, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
  • Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
  • LA Cool, Rocket Gallery, London
  • LA Cool, Bruning + Zwischke, Düsseldorf
  • Multiplicity, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
  • Women Who Shoot, Newspace, Los Angeles
  • Spread, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
  • Preview, London Projects, London
  • Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
  • Multiples, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
  • Situacionismo, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico

• 1997
  • Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990s, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • Spheres of Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • Object and Abstraction: Contemporary Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • Uta Barth, Jean Baudrillard, Luigi Gherri, Parco Gallery, Tokyo
  • Scene of the Crime, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles
  • Anthony Caro, Uta Barth & Nancy Chunn, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
  • Digital Ink: Uta Barth, Peter Halley, William Leavitt, James Welling, Center for Visual Communication, Coral Gables, Florida
  • Blueprint, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam
  • Painting into Photography/Photography into Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
  • Evidence: Photography and Site, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; toured to Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills; The Power Plant, Toronto; Miami Art Museum, Miami
  • Light Catchers, Bennington College Art Gallery, Bennington, Vermont Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the Twentieth Century, St. Louis
  • Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; toured to Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington
  • New Acquisitions: Works on Paper, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  • Coda: Photographs by Uta Barth, Günther Forg, Jack Pierson and Carolien Stikker, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
  • Developing a Collection: The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation and the Art of Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
  • Uta Barth, Rineke Dijkstra, Tracy Moffatt, Inez van Lamsweerde, Matthew
  • Marks Gallery, New York
  • Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
  • Twenty years… almost, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
  • Passing the Tradition: California Photography, Jose Druidis – Bida Art
  • Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Making Pictures, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
  • Portraits of Interiors, Gallery Blancpain Stepczynski, Geneva
  • LA International Biennial: Portraits of Interiors, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California
  • Grands Maîtres du XXième, Galerie Verdovi, Brussels
  • ACME., Santa Monica, California
  • pool, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

• 1996
  • Just Past: The Contemporary in the Permanent Collection, 1975—96, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • Painting: The Extended Field, Rooseum: Centre for Contemporary Art, Malmö; Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
  • Light · Time · Focus, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
  • Absence, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California
  • Clarity, NIU Art Gallery, Northern Illinois University, Chicago
  • Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975—Now, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
  • Portraits of Interiors, Studio la Città, Verona
  • silence, Lawing, Houston, Texas
  • ACME., Santa Monica
  • Extended Minimal, Max Protetch, New York
  • Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
  • Blind Spot: The First Four Years, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York
  • Nature Redux, Channing Peak Gallery, Santa Barbara Arts Commission, Santa Barbara, California; toured to Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, California
  • ...e la chiamano pittura, Studio la Città, Verona
  • Wrestling with the Sublime: Contemporary German Art in Southern California, Main Art Gallery, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, California
  • Chalk, Factory Place Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Swag & Puddle, The Work Space, New York

• 1995
  • Plan, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
  • Contemporary Photography from the Permanent Collection, Princeton
  • Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
  • Content and Discontent, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut; toured to University Gallery, Moscow, Idaho; Lowe Art Museum, Miami
  • New Photography 11, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Human / Nature, The New Museum, New York
  • ACME., Santa Monica
  • Contemporary Collections -Fall 95, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles
  • Between Breath and Air; Uta Barth, Karin Davie, Shirley Irons, Patrick Gallery, New York
  • Contemporary Collections – Spring 95, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles
  • From Here to There: Tactility and Distraction, California Medical Arts, Santa Monica
  • Sitting Pretty, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
  • Neotoma, Otis Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
  • ACME., Santa Monica
  • Presence: Recent Portraits, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
  • Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

• 1994
  • The Abstract Urge, The Friends of Photography’s Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco
  • Love in the Ruins, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
  • New Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
  • Flow, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, California
  • Diverse Perspectives, San Bernardino County Museum of Art, San Bernardino, California
  • ACME., Santa Monica
  • The World of Tomorrow, Tom Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles Issues of Image, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
  • Breda Fotografica ‘94, De Beyerd Center of Contemporary Art, Breda
  • Transtextualism, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica
  • New Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
  • Gallery 954, Chicago
  • Jayne Baum Gallery, New York
  • Diderot and the Last Luminaire, Waiting for the Enlightenment (A Revised Encyclopedia) or The Private Life of Objects, Southern Exposure at Project Artaud, San Francisco, California; toured to SITE, Los Angeles

• 1993
  • Index in French, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California
  • A Carafe, That Is a Blind Glass …, Weingart Gallery, Los Angeles
  • P.O.P. – A Trilogy, Susan Landau Gallery/1529 Wellesley, Los Angeles
  • Project Box, domestic setting, Los Angeles
  • From Without, The Portfolio, Los Angeles

• 1992
  • Voyeurism, Jayne Baum Gallery, New York
  • Abstraction in the ’90s, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles
  • FAR Bazzar, Foundation for Art Resources (FAR), Los Angeles
  • Jayne Baum Gallery, New York

• 1991
  • LA Times: Eleven Los Angeles Artists, Boise Art Museum, Idaho; toured to Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham

• 1990
  • The Conceptual Impulse, Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, California
  • Spirit of Our Time, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara

* 1989

• Deliberate Investigations: Recent Works by Four Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
• The Narrative Frame, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, California
• Uta Barth, Jeff Beall, Paul Boettcher, Eric Magnuson, Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica
• Inland Empire Artist Exhibition, San Bernardino County Museum of Art, Redlands, California
• Thick and Thin – Photographically Inspired Painting, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
• Unconventional Perspectives, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles
• University Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, California
• Logical Conclusions, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles

• 1987
  • LAICA Artist Exhibition, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), Beverly Hills
  • The Flower Show, Design Center – Theatre Art Gallery, Los Angeles

• 1986
  • Proof and Perjury, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), Los Angeles

• 1984
  • Werkstadt fur Photographie, Berlin
  • Photography, Large Scale New Work, Rex W. Wignal Museum Gallery, Alta Loma, California

• 1982
  • 56th Annual Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, E. B. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
  • Five Photographers, Joseph Dee Museum of Photography, San Francisco