Bio
b. 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
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
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
Group Exhibitions
2019
UNLIMITED: Recent Gifts from the William Goodman and Victoria Belco Photography Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Painting with Light, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Collecting Photography: From Dagguereotype to Digital, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
2017
New Territory: Landscape Photography Today, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Dark Room, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Abstract Photography from the Permanent Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Arlington, NY
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)
Grants & Awards
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)
photo-eye Award—Best Photography Books of 2002 (for SMTWTFS)
2000
Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant
Permanent 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
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
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
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Bibliography
2016
Photo of the Day. “Re-examining the Photo Memento.” Photo District News, 28 December 2016
Yau, John. “After the Storm, and Before.” Hyperallergic, 22 October 2016
Aletti, Vince. “Marco Breuer.” The New Yorker, October 2016
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Mendelsohn, Meredith. “8 Can’t-Miss Fall Art Shows in New York.” Introspective 12 September
2016
“Close Encounters, a conversation between Gregory Batchen and Are Flagan.” Objektiv, 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
Photography At MoMA: 1960 To Now, Quentin Bajac, Lucy Gallun, Roxanna Marcoci, Sarah Hermanson, 2015 [book]
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
Phillips, Christopher. “Experiments in Analog Photography.” The New Yorker, 12 May 2015
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2014
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2013
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2012
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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
2010
McAdams, Shane. “Marco Breuer—Nature of the Pencil” Brooklyn Rail, December
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Kerr, Euan. “Photography without a Camera” Morning Edition, Minnesota Public Radio, 24 February
2009
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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]
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2007
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2006
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2005
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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
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2003
Bowen, Dore. “Agitate—Negotiating the Photographic Process” Camerawork—A Journal of Photographic Arts, Spring/Summer
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2002
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2001
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2000
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1999
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1998
Morgan, Robert C. “Marco Breuer” Review, 15 May
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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]
1995
Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, 1995, pp. 9, 12 [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]
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)