born in New York, lives and works in New York.
Bachelor of Science - The University of Colorado at Boulder, Minerals and Land Management, with a minor in Fine Arts, studied filmmaking with Stan Brakhage and sculpture with Betty Woodman
Master of Fine Arts - The Art Institute of Chicago, Film, Sculpture and Architectural History
Daringly Unbuilt
prototype 180, Houston, Texas and Rice University.
Yinchuan Biennale, curated by Bose Krishnamachari.
Alserkal Avenue, Dubai.
Yinchuan Biennale, curated by Bose Krishnamachari.
The Kennedys
American Academy, Berlin.
Public Utility 2.0
The Lambert Foundation, New York.
The Copy of Goethe´s Cottage
CCA-Weimar.
Concrete Deviation. Bill Bollinger, Mary Ellen Carroll
Galerie Stadtpark, Krems.
Public Utility 2.0
AIA New Orleans, Prospect. 3, Franklin Sirmans (Artistic Director).
RAIR: Mary Ellen Carroll. Made in Philadelphia (1980)
ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia.
O.O.W.I.A.H
Third Streaming Gallery, New York.
Open Outcry
Feast, Blaffer Museum, University of Houston (special commission).
N.18
Busan Biennale, Busan (special commission).
Open Outcry
R20, New York.
Federal, State, County and City
Third Streaming Gallery, New York.
Open Outcry,
Blaffer Museum, University of Houston (special commission).
Proposals, Encryptions and the Death of Typology (Architecturally Speaking)
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna.
GSAPP, prototype 180
Buell Gallery, Columbia University, New York.
prototype 180 – Houston
American Institute of Architects, Houston.
My death is pending...Because
Third Streaming Gallery, New York.
Semblable
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna.
Me Like Black
The Powerhouse, Memphis.
indestructible language
The Precipice Alliance, New York.
federal
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna.
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut NRW, Essen.
Frederieke Taylor, New York.
me vs. i
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna.
Frederieke Taylor, New York.
Printed Matter, New York.
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna.
Galerie Hubert Winter, Berlin.
TZ'Art & Co., New York.
University Art Museum SUNY at Binghamton, New York.
TZ'Art & Co., New York, New York.
The Palmer Museum, Penn State, Pennsylvania.
Sibell Wolle Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
Hospitalhof Stuttgart, Stuttgart.
When We First Arrived...
Curated by Ruth Noack, The Corner at Whitman Walker
Stranger Appoaching
organized by Erin Leland, Bridget Donahue Gallery.
Modes of Mapping
curated by Lisa Panzera, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, CUNY, New York.
Waste Music and Metal Eyes
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
RECONSTITUTION
LA><ART, Los Angeles.
Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter
Museum of Modern Art, New York (curated by Sean Anderson).
For an Image, Faster Than Light
Yinchuan Biennial, Yinchuan.
Tracing Waste
Princeton University, Princeton.
The Legal Medium
Yale Law School and Fred Glampetro Gallery, New Haven.
Prosepct 3.0
New Orleans Biennale, New Orleans (curated by Franklin Sirmans).
US Pavillion, La Biennale di Venezia, 14th Architecture Exhibition, Venice.
Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe.
The Economy of Waste
ICA, Philadelphia (curated by Billy Dufala).
Fútbol: The Beautiful Game
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (curated Franklin Sirmans).
Counter-Production (Part 2).
Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm.
The Politics and Pleasures of Food
Halle 14, Leipzig.
Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art,
Blaffer Art Museum, Houston.
Counter-Production
Generali Foundation, Vienna.
The Progress of Love
The Menil Collection, Houston.
Busan Biennale 2012
Garden of Leaning, Busan.
WhiteWalls: Writings
Golden, Chicago.
Model Theories - fordPROJECT
New York.
2010
Time Batteries
PS1, Greater New York, New York.
Time Batteries
David Zwirner Gallery, New York.
Envelopes
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York
No Zoning
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston.
100 ARTISTS SEE GOD
curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, on tour with ICI . Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York.
ITINERANT GASTRONOMY
Apex Art, New York.
Armory Art Fair, Angles Gallery, New York.
PS122 Benefit and Exhibition, New York.
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna.
Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Out of Order
Travelling Museum Exhibition, curated by Susan Krane and Pamela Auchincloss.
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Georgia.
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pennsylvania, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.
Geppo
Galerie Max Kampl, Munich.
Photography in the Landscape
Art Omi, New York.
Do you have the time?
LiebmanMagnan, New York, New York.
Crossing the Border
Queens Museum, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Valerie Smith.
Photasm
Hunter College, New York.
Contemporary Photography
Santiago, Chile.
Out of Order
Travelling Museum Exhibition, curated by Susan Krane and Pamela Auchincloss.
Narrative
Duino, Italy.
Ne Travaillez Jamais
Munich.
Representations
Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, New York.
Point of View: Between Two Cities
Art in General, New York.
Summer Group Exhibition
Frederieke Taylor, New York.
Spatial Interests
The WorkSpace, New York.
Home
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna.
Photography
Nikolai Fine Art, New York.
Three Suitcases
Art & Idea, Mexico City, Mexiko.
Portraits
Trans-Hudson, New York.
Apex Art
curated by Nancy Princenthal, New York.
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York.
Architecture! Architecture! Architecture!
Hunter College, New York.
Educating Barbie
TransHudson Gallery, New York.
Memory
Tz 'Art & Co., New York.
Hospitalhof, Stuttgart.
I'm Still in Love with You
20th Century Club, Los Angeles, curated by Steven Hull.
Art/Omi
Omi, New York.
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York.
Transformations
Office In Tel Aviv Central Bus Terminal, Tel Aviv, Israel.
The New York Kunsthalle, New York.
Copiacabana
Museo de Arte Extremeño e Iberoamericano, Badajoz.
Thread Waxing Space
New York.
Ronald Feldman, Summer Group Exhibition, New York.
Momenta Art
Two Person Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York.
Art in General
HardWear, New York.
Smells Like Vinyl
Roger Merians, New York.
Silence
Academy of Sciences, New York.
Self-Portraiture
John Michael Kohler Center, curated by Maureen Sherlock.
SHAPE
organized by Sally Levine, Cabrini Green and the Peace Museum, Chicago.
Stuttgart Stadt Galerie and Stadtbücherei, Stuttgart.
Female Trouble
curated for City College Gallery, New York.
Caught Between Mind and Body
New York.
A Century of Silence , In Memoriam John Cage 1902-1992
catalogue, curated by Lynn Gamwell, University Art Museum SUNY at Binghamton, New York. The Drawing Center, Invitational New York, New York.
Whitney Museum of American Art, Dirt and Domesticity
catalogue essay von Frazier Ward, New York.
Seeing Red, White, and Blue
Visual Arts Center of Alaska. catalogue, curated by Jan Erickson, Anchorage.
Immagini Proiettate, Via Farini
curated by Laurie Palmer and Federica Thiene, Milano.
Coast to Coast
catalogue curated by Mary Jane Jacob, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago.
In the Beginning
curated by Bill Radawec, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art.
Art Urgency: Artists Perspective on the Epidemic
MoMing, Chicago.
Looking for Trouble
curated by Timothy Porges, X-S Gallery, Nevada.
Beneath the Skin
curated by John Pakosta, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
Conceptual Installations
curated by Deborah Donato, Illinois State Museum, Springfield.
The State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago.
Travelling Fellowship Exhibition Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago.
ARC Gallery, Chicago.
Serious Fun, Truthful Lies
curated by Lynn Brown, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago.
Say It!
kuratiert von Joyce Fernandez, Columbus Drive Gallery, Chicago.
STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE Honoree.
IASPIS Stockholm, Sweden.
Pollock/Krasner Foundation Award.
American Academy in Berlin, Fellowship.
Civitella Foundation, Italy.
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Residency.
Graham Foundation.
AIGA, Book of the Year Award.
American Institute of Architects, Honor Award, Artist of the Year.
Kohler Arts/Industry Program.
New York Community Trust, Pennies From Heaven Fund.
RIAA, Argentina.
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy.
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
Italian Government Grant, Community of Duino.
Pollock/Krasner Foundation Award.
Polaroid Corporation Materials Grant USIA Grant to Israel.
USIA Grant to Israel.
Hospitalhof Stipendium/Residency, Stuttgart.
Kade Collaborative Grant to Germany.
Arts International Travel Grant to India.
MacDowell Colony Fellow.
llinois Arts Council Grant.
Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Award,
Edward L. Ryerson Travelling Fellowship.
Boomberg News, 2017.
The Guardian, Destroying a rotation house in Houston: the end of a long-running art project, Wendy Vogel, 2017.
New City, 2014.
Afterall, 2013.
ArtForum, 2012, Critic´s Pick.
Domus, Open Outcry 2012.
ArtForum, Busan Biennale 2012, by David Joselit.
NYTimes, 2011, Holland Cotter.
Afterall, 2010, Claire Barliant.
ArtForum, 2010, Lauren O'Neal Butler.
NYTimes, 2010, Joyce Wadler.
ArtLies, 2009.
ArtForum, 2009.
NYTimes, 2007.
Architect´s Newspaper, 2007.
ID Magazine, 2007.
Barliant, Claire, ArtForum 2005.
Princenthal, Nancy, Bookforum, 2004.
Interiors Magazine.
Johnson, Ken, The New York Times, November, 2001.
Sonna, Birgit, Süddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 66, Ein Hoch auf das Kuckucksei
20.03.2000.
Lin, Tan, Artbyte, September, 1999.
Surface Magazine, October, 1999.
Princenthal, Nancy, On Paper, Summer, 1998.
Hofleitner, Johanna, Die Presse, September 19, 1997.
Aletti, Vince, The Village Voice, May 1996.
Princenthal, Nancy, On Paper, Winter, 1996.
Phillips, Patricia, Winter 1996.
Princenthal, Nancy, The Print Collector's Newsletter, January 1995.
New Yorker, January, 1995.
New York Magazine, January, 1995.
Robinson, Joyce Henri, New Art Examiner, March 1995
Kachur, Lewis, Artpapers, Spring 1995.
Volk, Gregory, Art News, Summer 1995.
Vine, Richard, Art In America, May 1995.
Willumson, Glenn, Catalog Essay,Double Plots
Palmer Museum, 1994.
Förch, Julia, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Zwischen Hoffen und Bangen
August 18, 1993.
Levin, Kim, Voice Choices, The Village Voice, pg. 71, July 14, 1992.
Jacob, Mary Jane, Coast to Coast, 1991.
McCracken, David, Returning the Grotesque
Chicago Tribune, pg. 60, December 1989.
Porges, Timothy, Chicago, Contemporanea, pgs. 8-9, May 1989.
Donato, Deborah, The Oblique Strategies of Intertextuality, 1989.
All OF THE MEN WHO THINK THAT THEY CAN BE ME,
OneStar Press, Paris.
ME vs I, with an essay by the noted Lacanian analyst Stuart
Schneiderman, Walter König, Köln (in progress).
KRUDER AND DORFMEISTER, in collaboration with Tan Lin, Faux Presse,
Cambridge, MA.
A Modist Prepozel/A Modest Proposal, with an essay by Frank Boyle,
published by SUNY Binghamton.
WITHOUT INTENT, a photo-documentation of New York,
Presse Endemique.
100 German Men, Presse Endemique.
Itinerant Gastronomy
for Gastronomica, a Journal of Food and Culture,
University of California at Berkeley, 2003.
Robert Blanchon, Obituary and essay, The New Art Examiner, 2000.
Robert Blanchon, LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA,
Catalog essay, 1998.
Worn Clothes or Real Clothes, Zing Magazine, Fall.
ITINERANT GASTRONOMY II
at Apex Art, 2002.
Spaceship Earth
Art in General, 1999.
ITINERANT GASTRONOMY I
1997.
700 CLUBS, ONGOING EXHIBITIONS, TALKS, FILM SCREENINGS
1992—1999.
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland.
Art Omi, New York.
Goldman Sachs, New York.
Hospitalhof, Stuttgart Germany.
Habann & Associates, Stuttgart, Germany.
Holzer, etal, Vienna, Austria.
Lang and Co., Frankfurt, Germany.
Los Angeles County Museum.
Merchant Fund Commission, Sweden.
MUMOK, Vienna.
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
New York Public Library, New York.
Neuberger and Berman, New York.
Prudential Securities.
Paragon Press, London.
Polaroid Corporation.
Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago.
Streicher, etal, Stuttgart, Germany.
Whitney Museum of Art, New York.
Harvard GSD-Lecture, A Stone is Nobody´s.
Rescheduled for 2021 – Milken Institute Global Conference
The New City, 2020 Visions, New York.
Royal Institute of Art, Lecture invite from Jonas Dahlberg.
Brown University Arts, Providence, Rhode Island.
OCTOBER, conversation with David Joselit
Radical x Change, Detroit, Michigan
One Meter Above Ground, Kunstmuseum Bern, The Difficulty With A Tree, République Géniale.
IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden.
Columbia University, GSAPP, New York, New York.
Rice University School of Architecture, Houston, Texas.
New Cities, Future Ruins, SMU, Dallas, Texas.
ACAW-Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York.
Robert Wilson´s Watermill Center, TOO, STOP THE WAR, a performed lecture.
Grazer Kunstverein, The work of Robert Blanchon and AIDS, Graz, Austria with Christoph Szelany and Krist.
Shefflied Hallam University, This is Not a Buffet. (The political in the work of art.), organized by Sharon Kivland.
Transmission, DAI, Arnhem, Netherlands, organized by Ruth Noack.
Alserkal Avenue, Where is Dubai? A discussion with OMA and AMO on the city of Dubai.
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Mapping the city as county, St. Louis: Zoning and the undoing of policy of systemic racism.
Alserkal Avenue, Is Public Private? Public Space and the Unsuspecting Materials of Policy, Frequency, and the Square, Dubai, UAE.
DIA Center for the Arts, Lecture: Artist on Artist Talk, Mary Ellen Carroll on Fred Sandback.
Super WiFi and Unused Television Spectrum, Lambent Foundation, New York.
YALE Law School, Symposium, The Legal Medium and Lecture.
The Fixers, Columbia University Alumni Forum, GSAPP, New York, New York.
The New School for Social Research, New York, New York.
Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea.
Pool, Seoul, Korea.
Reconfiguring Site, New Approaches to Public Art, SVA, New York, New York.
Montana State University, School of Architecture, Visiting Lecturer.
Ft. Worth Museum of Modern Art, Ft. Worth, Texas.
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Rice University, School of Architecture, Seminar on Brownfields, Visiting Lecturer.
Rice University, School of Architecture, Graduate Seminar on Zoning, Visiting Lecturer.
Rice University, School of Architecture, Graduate Sturio, Visiting Professor with Charles Renfro.
MFA Boston, MA, Visiting Artist/Lecturer.
NY Digital Salon, moderated by Larry Kardish, head of MOMA's film department.
CAA, Panel on Artists and Modern Architecture.
Lecture, Visiting Artist, University of Colorado at Boulder.
International Conference between Artists and Poets, Lecture, Duino, Italy.
Visiting Artist, Studio Visits, Art Academy, Vienna, Austria.
Artist talk and interview, Ne Travaillez Jamais, Munich, Germany.
Visiting Professor, University of California at Irvine.
Visiting Artist, Art Academy, Vienna, Austria.
Lecture, USIA, Tel Aviv, Israel.
University Art Museum SUNY at Binghamton, New York.
Penn State, Pennsylvania, Lecture and slide presentation.
Lecture, USIA, New Dehli, India.
Nature in the Mind, Conference and Lecture, Stuttgart, Germany.
Lecture and Panel, The Illinois State Museum.
Lecturer in the Museum Education Department, The Art Institute of Chicago.