Penelope Umbrico

Image of a person standing in an art studio looking at the camera. The person is wearing a black button up with a pink undershirt and glasses.
Credit: Brad Ogbonna

Fine artist

Artist Residency Programs MFA Photography, Video and Related Media BFA Photography and Video

Education

Diploma, Ontario College of Art; MFA, School of Visual Arts

 

One-person exhibitions include

Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Bruce Silverstein Gallery; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland; California Museum of Photography, Riverside; University of Toronto Art Centre; Julie Saul Gallery; International Center of Photography

 

Site-specific installations include

Grand Central Terminal; Toronto Pearson International Airport; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York City Department of Education; Brooklyn Academy of Music

 

Group exhibitions include

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; MoMA PS1; Serlachius Museum Gösta, Finland; Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO; Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Baton Rouge; Sextant et plus, Marseille, France; MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Montréal; Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona; Foto Colectània, Barcelona; Somerset House, London; FOMU, Antwerp; Denver Art Museum; Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY; Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston

 

Collections include

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Crocker Art Museum; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Honolulu Museum of Art; McNay Art Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art; New York Public Library; Norton Museum of Art; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Portland Art Museum, OR; Rhode Island School of Design Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

 

Monographs include

Penelope Umbrico, Photographs; Out of Order: Used Office Desks and Used Office Plants; Range; Out of Order, Bad Display; Solar Eclipses from the New York Public Library Picture Collection

 

Awards and honors include

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship; Anonymous Was A Woman; New York Film Academy Fellowship; Harvestworks; John Gutmann Photography Fellowship; Peter S. Reed Foundation; Aaron Siskind Foundation