Biography
Born in Landshut, Germany, 1966
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Education
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1992
- Hochschule Darmstadt – University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany
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1988
- Lette-Verein Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Academic Posts
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2002–2006
- MFA Adjunct Faculty, Photography Department, The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
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2000–2003
- BFA Adjunct Faculty, Photography Department, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
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Solo Exhibitions
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2018
- Work, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
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2016
- Silent Speed, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
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2014
- Zero Base, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
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2013
- Now and a Half, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
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2012
- Condition, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
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2011
- Line of Sight, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
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2010
- Nature of the Pencil, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
- L’Approximatif, John Tevis Gallery, Paris, France
- New Pictures 2: Marco Breuer, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
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2009
- Part __ of __ Parts, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
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2008
- Principles of Extraction, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
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2007
- 1892–2007, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
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2006
- The Problem with Photography (z.Zt.), Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Mannheim, Germany
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2005
- Notes, Queries, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
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2004
- (Outward Manifestations of) Something Else, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
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2003
- And/Or, Clifford–Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
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2003
- Excerpts, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
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2002
- Errata, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
- Observations in Color, Roth Horowitz, New York, NY
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2001
- Scale/6, The Balcony, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
- Circa 1999, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
- FAQs, Clifford–Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
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2000
- Tremors, Ephemera, Roth Horowitz, New York, NY
- Pattern and Practice, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
- For Now, Esso Gallery, New York, NY
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1999
- Subject to Change, Hänel Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
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1998
- Das Nacheinander der Dinge, Galerie Hänel, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
- Next To Nothing, Gina Fiore Salon of Fine Arts, New York, NY
- Tomorrow Never Comes, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY
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1997
- E/Z, Halsey Gallery, School of the Arts, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
- Aufzeichnungen, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany
- Von Einem Tag Zum Andern, Kunsthaus Fischinger, Stuttgart, Germany
- E/Z, Galerie Hänel, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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1995
- Notizen aus dem abgelaufenen Beobachtungszeitraum, Galerie Hänel, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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1994
- Sprachsturz, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe/Forum Fotografie, Hamburg, Germany
- Il Mondo Animale, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2016
- Concrete and Generative Photography / Part 2. The Contemporaries, Photo Edition Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Cyanotypes: Photography’s Blue Period, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
- A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
- Prime Time, Volker Diehl Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- Look Inside: New Photography Acquisitions, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX
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2015
- I am a Lie and I am Gold, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
- Light Image and Data Image: Traces of Concrete Photography, Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Linear Abstraction, SCAD Galleries, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
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2014
- Modern Alchemy: Experiments in Photography, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
- A Collective Invention: Photographs at Play, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
- What is a Photograph?, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
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2013
- Color! American Photography Transformed, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
- Flow, Just Flow: Variations on a Theme, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA
- The Black Mirror, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
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2012
- A Short History of Photography: 100 Pictures from the Collection of the International Center of Photography, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
- Penetration, Michael Foley Gallery, New York, NY
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2011
- Science of Sight: Alternative Photography, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
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2010
- The Pencil of Nature, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
- Burning Desire, Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York, NY
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2009
- Processed: Considering Recent Photographic Practices, Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY
- Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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2008
- Contemporary Abstractions, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
- Matisse and Beyond, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- This Is Karate, Von Lintel Gallery, NY, NY
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2007
- Statement, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Mannheim, Germany
- METHOD: Contemporary Abstract Photography, Ellen Curlee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
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2006
- Intersections: Atlanta Collects Photography, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
- Artist’s Choice: Herzog & de Meuron, Perception Restrained, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Depth of Field: Expanding Perspectives in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Photography, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
- It’s Not a Photo, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
- Home Is Where The Art Is, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
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2005
- Lines and Traces, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim, Germany
- Picturing Modernity: Highlights of the Photography Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- What We’re Collecting Now, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
- The Photograph in Question, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
- Greater New York 2005, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
- FOCUS ON: New Photography, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
- Handmade, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
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2004
- Reinstallation of the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Editions Fawbush: A Selection, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
- New Prints 2004/Autumn, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
- Drawing a Pulse, Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan School of Art& Design, Ann Arbor, MI
- Relating to Photography, Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
- Cameraless Photographs 1950–2004, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
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2003
- Prima Facie, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
- Agitate—Negotiating the Photographic Process, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
- Visions and Revisions: Art on Paper since 1960, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- Abstraction in Photography, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
- In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a Private Collection, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
- Up Close and Personal: A Collection of Minimalist and Figurative Drawings, Karolyn Sherwood Gallery, Des Moines, IA
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2002
- Copy, Roth Horowitz, New York, NY
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2000
- Open Ends—Actual Size, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Photographs, Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- Photography About Photography, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
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1999
- … Imagine!, Galerie Haus Schneider, Ettlingen/Karlsruhe, Germany
- Barely There, Janet Borden Gallery, New York, NY
- Low Tech, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
- Marco Breuer and Ellen Carey, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
- Phenomena, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA
- Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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1998
- Aspects of Photography, Esso Gallery, New York, NY
- Photo- , Villa Minimo, Hannover, Germany
- Male, Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY
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1997
- Kit, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY
- Diverse Visions//photographic perspectives, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
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1996
- Art On Paper 1996, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
- By Any Means, Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN
- Der zerteilte Blick, DuMont Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
- The Nature of Light, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, NY
- Selections Summer ’96, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
- Incestuous, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY (curated by Carter Kustera and Tiong Ang)
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1995
- Fotofeis—Festival of Photography: Fairytaile in the Supermarket, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Collaborations, Kamin Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
- Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
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1994
- Photography in an Extended Field, White Columns, New York, NY
- Breuer/Chamber, changing installation in Chamber 2, New York, NY
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1993
- Deutsche Fototage—Festival of Photography: Borderlines and Ansichten von Alexandra S., Frankfurt/Main, Germany
- Essential Material: Selected Book Projects at Dieu Donné Papermill, HarperCollins, New York, NY (traveled to Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, 1994)
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Awards & Residencies
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2016
- Headlands Center for the Arts residency
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2015
- Larry Sultan Photography Award
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2006
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
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2005
- Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship, Japan–United States Friendship Commission/National Endowment for the Arts
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2004
- Islip Art Museum—Carriage House Residency
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2003
- MacDowell Colony Residency (also 2001, 2000)
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2003
- photo-eye Award—Best Photography Books of 2002 (for SMTWTFS)
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2000
- Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant
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Curatorial Projects
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2015
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I am a lie and I am Gold, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
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2013
- “|môr'talətē|,” published in Dear Dave, issue 13, Spring, pp.14-25
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2008
- The Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
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2007
- Train(s) of Thought, published in Art on Paper, July/August, pp.38-47
- Drawing, Thinking, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
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2001
- Marginalia (film screening), Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY
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1999
- Spatial Interest, The Work Space, New York, NY
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1998
- Der Zweifel in der Darstellung, Villa Minimo, Hannover, Germany (curated with Hlynur Hallsson)
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1997
- Face Value, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY
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1996
- Austerity Measures, 214 Lafayette, New York, NY (curated with Steven Brower)
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Collections
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- Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
- The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
- Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
- Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
- Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins University, Winter Park, FL
- Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
- de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
- Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
- Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
- George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
- Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
- International Center of Photography, New York, NY
- J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Legion of Honor – Achenbach Collection, San Francisco, CA
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- New School, New York, NY
- New York Public Library – Spencer Collection, New York, NY
- Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
- Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
- Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
- Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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Selected Bibliography
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2016
- “Close Encounters, a conversation between Gregory Batchen and Are Flagan.” Objektiv #13 May 2016
- Batchen, Gregory. “Emanations. The Art of the Cameraless Photograph.” Brewster Art Gallery and DelMonico Books 2016 [catalogue]
- Loos, Ted. “Cyanotype, Photography’s Blue Period, Is Making a Comeback.” The New York Times 5 February 2016
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2015
- Harren, Natilee. “Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography.” Artforum. September 2015
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Light Image and Data Image: Traces of Concrete Photography, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany [book], 2015
- Ollman, Leah. “’Light, Paper, Process’ an inventive subversion of photography,” Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2015
- Gefter, Philip. “This is a… Photograph?” Departures, May/June 2015
- Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. “Getty’s Experimental Photographs and Paris Photo,” KCRW Art Talk 30 April 2015 [podcast]
- Adamek, Pauline. “’Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography’ at the Getty – Los Angeles photo exhibition review,” Arts Beat LA, 30 April 2015
- Schoener, Allon. “Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography at The Getty,” Cultural Weekly, 30 April 2015
- Wallis, Brian. “’Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography,’” ArtForum, 2015
- Riefe, Jordan. “Lights! Camera! Bodily Fluids! Photographers bend the rules.” The Guardian 17 April 2015
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2014
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Marco Breuer: Col●or, Black Dog Publishing, London, UK [book]
- King, Sarah S. “Marco Breuer,” Art in America, December 2014
- Koestenbaum, Wayne. “Marco Breuer,” Artforum, December 2014
- Rocco, Vanessa. “What Is a Photograph?” caa.reviews 19 November 2014
- “How Marco Breuer Makes Photographic Art Without Taking Pictures,” Vulture, 28 October 2014
- Robertson, Rebecca. “A Developing Love Affair with Film,” ARTnews, February 2014
- Gefter, Philip. “The Next Big Picture,” The New York Times, 26 January
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2013
- Ollman, Leah. “Critic’s Choice: Camera-free photography with beauty and bite by Marco Breuer,” Los Angeles Times, 18 May
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2012
- “Marco Breuer.” New Yorker, 18 June
- Modern Art Notes Podcast, interview with Tyler Green, 31 May
- Yau, John. “A Man Without a Camera.” Hyperallergic, 27 May
- Belcourt, Louise, Tim Davis, Eva Diaz and Jeremy Sigler. Marco Breuer—Condition, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY [catalogue]
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2011
- Baker, Kenneth. “Marco Breuer: Line of Sight at the de Young Museum,” San Francisco Chronicle, 28 April
- Bowman, Cathy. “Line of Sight at the de Young Contrasts Old, New,” San Francisco Examiner, 27 April
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2010
- McAdams, Shane. “Marco Breuer—Nature of the Pencil,” Brooklyn Rail, December
- “Marco Breuer.” New Yorker, 8 November
- Kerr, Euan. “Photography without a Camera,” Morning Edition, Minnesota Public Radio, 24 February
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2009
- Hunter, Amie Scally. Processed: Considering Recent Photographic Practices, College, New York, NY, pp.9, 20-21, 32 [catalogue]
- “Marco Breuer.” New Yorker, 25 May
- Rexer, Lyle. The Edge of Vision—The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, Aperture, NY, New York, pp.179-180, 201-203, 270-272 [book]
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2008
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Conversations 7–Interview with Carter Foster, Pollock Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University [catalogue]
- Bryant, Eric. “The New Abstract Photo,” ARTNews, March
- Blank, Gil. “Early Recordings – Marco Breuer,” Whitewall, Winter
- Elkins, James. Six Stories from the End of Representation, Stanford University Press, pp.74-75, 77, 144 [book]
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2007
- Churner, Rachel. “Marco Breuer, Von Lintel Gallery,” Artforum, November
- “Marco Breuer.” New Yorker, 17 September
- “Marco Breuer—fig. 1–9,” Blind Spot, Fall/Winter [cover image]
- Durant, Mark Alice. Marco Breuer—Early Recordings, Aperture, New York, NY [book]
- DeShell, Jeffrey. “Notes, Queries on Marco Breuer’s Notes, Queries,” English Language Notes, Fall/Winter
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2006
- “Chelsea Art Museum – “It’s not a Photo...,” New Yorker, 28 August 28
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2005
- Aletti, Vince. “Marco Breuer, Marked Up,” New Yorker, December 26 & January 2
- Turner, Elisa. “Behind the Lens,” Miami Herald, 1 May
- Jäger, Gottfried, Rolf H.Krauss and Beate Reese. Concrete Photography, Kerber Verlag, Germany [book]
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2004
- Chambers, Christopher. “Marco Breuer – Von Lintel Gallery,” Flash Art, March/April
- Karapetian, Farrah. “Marco Breuer—(Outward Manifestations of) Something Else,” Brooklyn Rail, March
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2004
- Aletti, Vince. “Marco Breuer,” Village Voice, 25 February 25
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2003
- Bowen, Dore. “Agitate—Negotiating the Photographic Process,” Camerawork—A Journal of Photographic Arts, Spring/Summer
- Siersma, Betsy. In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a Private Collection, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA [catalogue]
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Marco Breuer—Excerpts, Davidson College, Davidson, NC [catalogue]
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2002
- Goodman, Jonathan. “Marco Breuer at Roth Horowitz,” Art in America, December
- Tillman, Lynne. This Is Not It, D.A.P [book]
- Jäger, Gottfried, (ed.). The Art of Abstract Photography, Arnoldsche Art Publishers [catalogue]
- Princenthal, Nancy. “Artist’s Book Beat,” Art On Paper, July/August
- Coleman, A. D. “SMTWTFS,” Photography In New York, May/June
- Mobley, Chuck. “Marco Breuer—Tremors, Ephemera,” Camerawork—A Journal of Photographic Arts, Spring/Summer
- Aletti, Vince. “Marco Breuer,” Village Voice, 23 April
- Baker, Kenneth. “Marco Breuer: Errata,” San Francisco Chronicle, 13 April
- Johnson, Ken. “Marco Breuer, Observations in Color,” New York Times, 12 April
- “Marco Breuer,” New Yorker, 8 April
- Schwendener, Martha. “Marco Breuer, Observations in Color,” Time Out NY, 28 March
- Churner, Rachel. “Marco Breuer, Errata at Traywick Gallery,” sfstation.com, April
- Howard, Richard, Roth Horowitz, Adam Klein, Lynne Tillman, and others, Marco Breuer—SMTWTFS, Roth Horowitz, LLC, NY [book]
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2001
- Brody, Jacqueline. “Marco Breuer—Counting in Circles,” Art On Paper, September/October [cover image]
- Arning, Bill. Marco Breuer: Circa 1999, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA [catalogue]
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2000
- Baker, Kenneth. “Photographs Whose Subject Is Their Making—Marco Breuer: Pattern and Practice,” San Francisco Chronicle, 18 November
- Elkins, James and Roth Horowitz. Marco Breuer—Tremors, Ephemera, Roth Horowitz, LLC, New York, NY [catalogue]
- Bindman, Catherine. “Marco Breuer: For Now,” Art on Paper, July/August
- Aletti, Vince. “Space Case—Marco Breuer Investigates Photography’s Outer Limits,” Village Voice, March
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Marco Breuer—For Now, Esso Gallery, New York, NY [catalogue]
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1999
- “Marco Breuer,” European Photography, Number 64/65
- Perrée, Rob. “Marco Breuer,” Kunstbeeld, February
- Hirsch, Faye. “Rethinking Genres in Contemporary Photography,” Art on Paper, January/February
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1998
- Morgan, Robert C. “Marco Breuer,” Review, 15 May
- Arning, Bill. “Marco Breuer—Tomorrow Never Comes,” Time Out NY, 12-19 February,
- Aletti, Vince. “Marco Breuer,” Village Voice, 3 February
- Nahas, Dominique. “Marco Breuer—Tomorrow Never Comes,” Review, 1 February
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1997
- Danicke, Sandra. “Das Abbild der Spucke—Marco Breuers ungewöhnliche Photogramme,” Frankfurter Rundschau, 13 March
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Diverse Visions//photographic perspectives, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA [catalogue]
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1996
- Harrison, Helen A. “Photoworks—Omni Gallery,” New York Times, 21 July
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Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC [catalogue]
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Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY [catalogue]
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1994
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Marco Breuer—Sprachsturz, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany [catalogue]
- “Marco Breuer—Not That I Know,” Camera Austria, Volume 47/48
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1993
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Borderlines, Deutsche Fototage, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, pp. 32-33 and [catalogue]