Biography

Born in Landshut, Germany, 1966

• Education

  • 1992

    • Hochschule Darmstadt – University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany

  • 1988

    • Lette-Verein Berlin, Berlin, Germany

• Academic Posts

  • 2002–2006

    • MFA Adjunct Faculty, Photography Department, The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

  • 2000–2003

    • BFA Adjunct Faculty, Photography Department, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

• Solo Exhibitions

  • 2018

    • Work, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

  • 2016

    • Silent Speed, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2014

    • Zero Base, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2013

    • Now and a Half, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

  • 2012

    • Condition, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2011

    • Line of Sight, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

  • 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

  • 2009

    • Part __ of __ Parts, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2008

    • Principles of Extraction, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

  • 2007

    • 1892–2007, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2006

    • The Problem with Photography (z.Zt.), Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Mannheim, Germany

  • 2005

    • Notes, Queries, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2004

    • (Outward Manifestations of) Something Else, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2003

    • And/Or, Clifford–Smith Gallery, Boston, MA

  • 2003

    • Excerpts, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC

  • 2002

    • Errata, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
    • Observations in Color, Roth Horowitz, New York, NY

  • 2001

    • Scale/6, The Balcony, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
    • Circa 1999, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
    • FAQs, Clifford–Smith Gallery, Boston, MA

  • 2000

    • Tremors, Ephemera, Roth Horowitz, New York, NY
    • Pattern and Practice, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
    • For Now, Esso Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1999

    • Subject to Change, Hänel Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

  • 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

  • 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

  • 1995

    • Notizen aus dem abgelaufenen Beobachtungszeitraum, Galerie Hänel, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

  • 1994

    • Sprachsturz, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe/Forum Fotografie, Hamburg, Germany
    • Il Mondo Animale, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

• Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 2011

    • Science of Sight: Alternative Photography, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    • Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

  • 2010

    • The Pencil of Nature, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
    • Burning Desire, Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York, NY

  • 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

  • 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

  • 2007

    • Statement, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Mannheim, Germany
    • METHOD: Contemporary Abstract Photography, Ellen Curlee Gallery, St. Louis, MO

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 2002

    • Copy, Roth Horowitz, New York, NY

  • 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

  • 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

  • 1998

    • Aspects of Photography, Esso Gallery, New York, NY
    • Photo- , Villa Minimo, Hannover, Germany
    • Male, Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1997

    • Kit, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY
    • Diverse Visions//photographic perspectives, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

  • 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)

  • 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

  • 1994

    • Photography in an Extended Field, White Columns, New York, NY
    • Breuer/Chamber, changing installation in Chamber 2, New York, NY

  • 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)

• Awards & Residencies

  • 2016

    • Headlands Center for the Arts residency

  • 2015

    • Larry Sultan Photography Award

  • 2006

    • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

  • 2005

    • Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship, Japan–United States Friendship Commission/National Endowment for the Arts

  • 2004

    • Islip Art Museum—Carriage House Residency

  • 2003

    • MacDowell Colony Residency (also 2001, 2000)

  • 2003

    • photo-eye Award—Best Photography Books of 2002 (for SMTWTFS)

  • 2000

    • Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant

• Curatorial Projects

  • 2015

    • I am a lie and I am Gold, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2013

    • “|môr'talətē|,” published in Dear Dave, issue 13, Spring, pp.14-25

  • 2008

    • The Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2007

    • Train(s) of Thought, published in Art on Paper, July/August, pp.38-47
    • Drawing, Thinking, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2001

    • Marginalia (film screening), Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY

  • 1999

    • Spatial Interest, The Work Space, New York, NY

  • 1998

    • Der Zweifel in der Darstellung, Villa Minimo, Hannover, Germany (curated with Hlynur Hallsson)

  • 1997

    • Face Value, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1996

    • Austerity Measures, 214 Lafayette, New York, NY (curated with Steven Brower)

• Collections

  • • 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

• Selected Bibliography

  • 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

  • 2015

    • Harren, Natilee. “Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography.” Artforum. September 2015
    • 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

  • 2014

    • 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

  • 2013

    • Ollman, Leah. “Critic’s Choice: Camera-free photography with beauty and bite by Marco Breuer,” Los Angeles Times, 18 May

  • 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]

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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]

  • 2008

    • 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]

  • 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

  • 2006

    • “Chelsea Art Museum – “It’s not a Photo...,” New Yorker, 28 August 28

  • 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]

  • 2004

    • Chambers, Christopher. “Marco Breuer – Von Lintel Gallery,” Flash Art, March/April
    • Karapetian, Farrah. “Marco Breuer—(Outward Manifestations of) Something Else,” Brooklyn Rail, March

  • 2004

    • Aletti, Vince. “Marco Breuer,” Village Voice, 25 February 25

  • 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]
    • Marco Breuer—Excerpts, Davidson College, Davidson, NC [catalogue]

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • 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
    • Marco Breuer—For Now, Esso Gallery, New York, NY [catalogue]

  • 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

  • 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

  • 1997

    • Danicke, Sandra. “Das Abbild der Spucke—Marco Breuers ungewöhnliche Photogramme,” Frankfurter Rundschau, 13 March
    • Diverse Visions//photographic perspectives, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA [catalogue]

  • 1996

    • Harrison, Helen A. “Photoworks—Omni Gallery,” New York Times, 21 July
    • Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC [catalogue]
    • Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY [catalogue]

  • 1994

    • Marco Breuer—Sprachsturz, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany [catalogue]
    • “Marco Breuer—Not That I Know,” Camera Austria, Volume 47/48

  • 1993

    • Borderlines, Deutsche Fototage, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, pp. 32-33 and [catalogue]