Dara Birnbaum

USA, 1946

Lives and works in New York city. 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 the history of media art. Her work has been widely exhibited, at venues including: Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (2023), the Fondazione Prada Osservatorio, Milan (2023); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023; also 2008), MoMA PS1, New York (2019); National Portrait Gallery, London (2018); Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio (2018), among many others.

Major retrospectives and surveys of her work have been presented at Belvedere Palace, Vienna (2024); Prada Aoyama, Tokyo (2023); Fondazione Prada, Milan (2023); Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York (2022); Miller Institute of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh (2022); Museu de Arte Contemporånea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2010) and S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium (2009). Her work was exhibited in Documenta 7, 8, and 9.

Represented by Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.