MERRY ALPERN BIOGRAPHY
MERRY ALPERN
Birth: New York, 1955
Education: 1973-1977 Grinnell College, Iowa (Sociology)
Solo Exhibitions:
1999 "Shopping," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, Inc., New York, NY
1997 Mesaros Galleries, Morgantown, WV
1996 G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 "Dirty Windows," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1989 "A.J. and Jim Bob," Camera Club of New York
Group Exhibitions:
2008 Darkside Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed"; Fotomuseum Winterthur. WInthur, Switzerland
2007 "A New Reality: Black and White Photography in Contemporary Art from the Arthur and Ann Goldstein Collection"; Jane Voorhees
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Work from the Koerfer Collection, The Cultural Forum for Photography, Berlin, Germany
2006 20/30 Vision: An Anniversary Celebration; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Full House Views of the Whitney's Collection"; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"The Heartbeat of Fashion"; The House of Photography in the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
"New Art. New York: Reflections of the Human Condition"; Hangar 7, Salzburg, Austria
"The Office/ In and out of the Box" Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City
2005 "New Art. New York: Reflections of the Human Condition"; Trierenberg
AG Gallery, Traun, Austria
"After Hopper"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NY
"Women by Women in Photography: Part II; Cook Fine Art, New York
2003 "Furtive Gaze," The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2002 "Anxious Omniscience: Surveillance in Contemporary Cultural Practice," Princeton University Art Museum
"Vision from America", Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
"Sexuality and Voyeurism", Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
"CTRLSpace: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother," ZKM:
Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2001 "Border Stories," IX International Biennial of Photography
Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino, Italy
"Trade: Wares, Ways, and Values in World Trade Today," Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2000 "For Your Eyes Only," Byam Shaw School of Art, University of Essex, UK
"Private Investigations," Presentation House,Vancouver, Canada.
"Still Light," Beadleston Gallery, NYC
"Photograph + Monograph," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
"Air Conditioned: Interiors," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
"Immodest Gazes, " Fundacio la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
"Alfred Hitchcock," The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada; "Alfred Hitchcock," The Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
"As It Is," Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
"Border Stories," Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografi, Torino, Italy
1999 "More Than Meets the Eye," Triennial of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
"Trace," Flipside, New York, NY
1998 "Under/Exposed," Stockholm Underground (catalog)
"Evidence: Photography and Site," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
"L'escale du Directeur, " Musée de I'Elysée, Lausanne, France
"Rear Window," Galerie ARPS, Paris, France
"Prostitution," Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
1996 "Collection in Context," Thread Waxing Space, New York. Catalogue
"The Comic Depiction of Sex in American Art," Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany
"By Night," Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
"Never Walk Alone," The Photographer's Gallery, London, England
"Secrets," The Friends of Photography, San Francisco
"Humor in Sex," Andreas Binder Gallery, Munich, Germany
1995 "Recent Acquisitions," The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
"The Photographic Condition," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"Monitors: Re-viewing Cultural Expression," Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1994 "The Uncensored Celebration," Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
1992 "More Than One Photography: Works Since 1980 from the Collection," The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1991 "Recent Acquisitions," The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Collections:
Koerfer Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
FC Gundlach Collection, Hamburg, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
New Orleans Museum of Fine Art, New Orleans, LA.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Foundation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporaine, Paris
Wilson Centre for Photography, London, England
Monographs:
Alpern, Merry. Dirty Windows. (Berlin: Scalo, 1995)
Alpern, Merry. Shopping. (Berlin: Scalo, 1999)
Selected Publications:
Bernard, Sarah, Under Surveillance, New York Magazine, October 16, 2006
Doherty, Claire, Soft Cities, CVA Magazine, January, 2001
Merkin, Daphne, The Last Taboo, New York Times Magazine, December 3, 2000
Caniglia, Julie, Merry Alpern, (Review), Artforum, October, 1999
Hershey, Gerri, Return to Spender, Mirabella, September, 1999
Novakov, Anna. Carnal Pleasures. San Francisco: Clamor Editions, 1998
Del Re, Gianmarco, "Group Shows," Flash Art, January-February 1997, p.61
Bonetti, David, "Closed Doors, Open Windows, " See, Issue 2:3, 1996, p.22-27
Grundberg, Andy, "Secrets," See, Issue 2:3, pp.28-29
Hultkrans, Andrew, "Images of 1996, Q + A, " Art Forum, December 1996, p.8
Princenthal, Nancy, The Print Collector's Newsletter, May-June1996, p.69
Sirmans, M.Franklin, "Reviews," ARTnews, February 1996, p.138
Schwendener, Martha, "Spotlight," Flash Art, January-February 1996, p.99
Colless, Edward, "Book Review," World Art, #2/1996, pp78-79
Grundberg, Andy, "Holiday Books 1995," The New York Times Book Review, December 3, 1995, p.54
Shea, Lisa, "Now, Voyeur," Elle, October 1995, p. 80.
Goldberg, Vicky, "The Annotated Calendar", New York Times, Sept.10, 1995, p.69
Pfister, Michael, "Happy Hour," Das Magazin, September 8, 1995, pp. 16-21.
Fiedler, Teja, "Wall Street, The Other Side, "Stern", Sept. 7, 1995, pp. 188-190
Venn, Beth, "Edward Hopper & American Imagination," Whitney Museum of
American Art, 1995, pp. 18, 20.
Squires, Carol, "Breakthrough Artists, " American Photo, July /Aug. 1995,
pp.48-49, 56 - 57
Seiko, Uyeda, "Quest For Lost Image 16," Seven Seas, April 1995, pp.171-175
Davis, Ruth G. "Another Triumph for the Art Market," New York Magazine, March 20, 1995, p.23
Hagen, Charles, "Sifting Through the Grab Bag for Pearls," The New York Times,
March 10, 1995, p. C25
Squiers, Carol, "Rear Window," American Photo, January/February 1995, p.52.
Woodward, Richard B. "An NEA Closet Case: Photographer Merry Alpern Peeps at a Wall Street Sex Club," The Village Voice, December 13, 1994, cover story.
Finkelstein, Katherine Eban, N.E.A.'s Bad Boy is Glum: First Piss Christ, Now MTV, The New York Observer, Dec. 12, 1994, p.32
Cembalest, Robin, "Serrano Strikes Out Again" Art News, October 1994, p.51
Grundberg, Andy, "Photographers under Fire...Again," Newsletter of The Friends of Photography, September / October 1994, p.3
Bargreen, Melinda, "Once Again, NEA is clouded by an image of controversy," The Seattle Times, Sept. 25, 1994, p.M1
National Press Photographers Association, The Best of Photojournalism / 14,
Philadelphia: Running Press, 1989, pp. 168-172
Horwitz, Simi, "Life on the Street," American Photographer, July 1989 pp.78-80
Coleman, A.D. , "Letter from New York #3," Photo Metro, May 1989 p.21
Coleman, A.D. , "Intimate Look At Desperate Lives," The New York Observer,
May 8, 1989, p.14
Aletti, Vince, "Desperate Living," The Village Voice, May 2, 1989, p.21.
Awards:
1995 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Competition
1990 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1988 Leica Medal of Excellence
University of Missouri, Pictures of the Year (Magazine Picture Story)
Birth: New York, 1955
Education: 1973-1977 Grinnell College, Iowa (Sociology)
Solo Exhibitions:
1999 "Shopping," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, Inc., New York, NY
1997 Mesaros Galleries, Morgantown, WV
1996 G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 "Dirty Windows," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1989 "A.J. and Jim Bob," Camera Club of New York
Group Exhibitions:
2008 Darkside Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed"; Fotomuseum Winterthur. WInthur, Switzerland
2007 "A New Reality: Black and White Photography in Contemporary Art from the Arthur and Ann Goldstein Collection"; Jane Voorhees
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Work from the Koerfer Collection, The Cultural Forum for Photography, Berlin, Germany
2006 20/30 Vision: An Anniversary Celebration; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Full House Views of the Whitney's Collection"; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"The Heartbeat of Fashion"; The House of Photography in the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
"New Art. New York: Reflections of the Human Condition"; Hangar 7, Salzburg, Austria
"The Office/ In and out of the Box" Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City
2005 "New Art. New York: Reflections of the Human Condition"; Trierenberg
AG Gallery, Traun, Austria
"After Hopper"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NY
"Women by Women in Photography: Part II; Cook Fine Art, New York
2003 "Furtive Gaze," The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2002 "Anxious Omniscience: Surveillance in Contemporary Cultural Practice," Princeton University Art Museum
"Vision from America", Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
"Sexuality and Voyeurism", Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
"CTRLSpace: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother," ZKM:
Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2001 "Border Stories," IX International Biennial of Photography
Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino, Italy
"Trade: Wares, Ways, and Values in World Trade Today," Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2000 "For Your Eyes Only," Byam Shaw School of Art, University of Essex, UK
"Private Investigations," Presentation House,Vancouver, Canada.
"Still Light," Beadleston Gallery, NYC
"Photograph + Monograph," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
"Air Conditioned: Interiors," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
"Immodest Gazes, " Fundacio la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
"Alfred Hitchcock," The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada; "Alfred Hitchcock," The Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
"As It Is," Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
"Border Stories," Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografi, Torino, Italy
1999 "More Than Meets the Eye," Triennial of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
"Trace," Flipside, New York, NY
1998 "Under/Exposed," Stockholm Underground (catalog)
"Evidence: Photography and Site," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
"L'escale du Directeur, " Musée de I'Elysée, Lausanne, France
"Rear Window," Galerie ARPS, Paris, France
"Prostitution," Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
1996 "Collection in Context," Thread Waxing Space, New York. Catalogue
"The Comic Depiction of Sex in American Art," Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany
"By Night," Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
"Never Walk Alone," The Photographer's Gallery, London, England
"Secrets," The Friends of Photography, San Francisco
"Humor in Sex," Andreas Binder Gallery, Munich, Germany
1995 "Recent Acquisitions," The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
"The Photographic Condition," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"Monitors: Re-viewing Cultural Expression," Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1994 "The Uncensored Celebration," Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
1992 "More Than One Photography: Works Since 1980 from the Collection," The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1991 "Recent Acquisitions," The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Collections:
Koerfer Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
FC Gundlach Collection, Hamburg, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
New Orleans Museum of Fine Art, New Orleans, LA.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Foundation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporaine, Paris
Wilson Centre for Photography, London, England
Monographs:
Alpern, Merry. Dirty Windows. (Berlin: Scalo, 1995)
Alpern, Merry. Shopping. (Berlin: Scalo, 1999)
Selected Publications:
Bernard, Sarah, Under Surveillance, New York Magazine, October 16, 2006
Doherty, Claire, Soft Cities, CVA Magazine, January, 2001
Merkin, Daphne, The Last Taboo, New York Times Magazine, December 3, 2000
Caniglia, Julie, Merry Alpern, (Review), Artforum, October, 1999
Hershey, Gerri, Return to Spender, Mirabella, September, 1999
Novakov, Anna. Carnal Pleasures. San Francisco: Clamor Editions, 1998
Del Re, Gianmarco, "Group Shows," Flash Art, January-February 1997, p.61
Bonetti, David, "Closed Doors, Open Windows, " See, Issue 2:3, 1996, p.22-27
Grundberg, Andy, "Secrets," See, Issue 2:3, pp.28-29
Hultkrans, Andrew, "Images of 1996, Q + A, " Art Forum, December 1996, p.8
Princenthal, Nancy, The Print Collector's Newsletter, May-June1996, p.69
Sirmans, M.Franklin, "Reviews," ARTnews, February 1996, p.138
Schwendener, Martha, "Spotlight," Flash Art, January-February 1996, p.99
Colless, Edward, "Book Review," World Art, #2/1996, pp78-79
Grundberg, Andy, "Holiday Books 1995," The New York Times Book Review, December 3, 1995, p.54
Shea, Lisa, "Now, Voyeur," Elle, October 1995, p. 80.
Goldberg, Vicky, "The Annotated Calendar", New York Times, Sept.10, 1995, p.69
Pfister, Michael, "Happy Hour," Das Magazin, September 8, 1995, pp. 16-21.
Fiedler, Teja, "Wall Street, The Other Side, "Stern", Sept. 7, 1995, pp. 188-190
Venn, Beth, "Edward Hopper & American Imagination," Whitney Museum of
American Art, 1995, pp. 18, 20.
Squires, Carol, "Breakthrough Artists, " American Photo, July /Aug. 1995,
pp.48-49, 56 - 57
Seiko, Uyeda, "Quest For Lost Image 16," Seven Seas, April 1995, pp.171-175
Davis, Ruth G. "Another Triumph for the Art Market," New York Magazine, March 20, 1995, p.23
Hagen, Charles, "Sifting Through the Grab Bag for Pearls," The New York Times,
March 10, 1995, p. C25
Squiers, Carol, "Rear Window," American Photo, January/February 1995, p.52.
Woodward, Richard B. "An NEA Closet Case: Photographer Merry Alpern Peeps at a Wall Street Sex Club," The Village Voice, December 13, 1994, cover story.
Finkelstein, Katherine Eban, N.E.A.'s Bad Boy is Glum: First Piss Christ, Now MTV, The New York Observer, Dec. 12, 1994, p.32
Cembalest, Robin, "Serrano Strikes Out Again" Art News, October 1994, p.51
Grundberg, Andy, "Photographers under Fire...Again," Newsletter of The Friends of Photography, September / October 1994, p.3
Bargreen, Melinda, "Once Again, NEA is clouded by an image of controversy," The Seattle Times, Sept. 25, 1994, p.M1
National Press Photographers Association, The Best of Photojournalism / 14,
Philadelphia: Running Press, 1989, pp. 168-172
Horwitz, Simi, "Life on the Street," American Photographer, July 1989 pp.78-80
Coleman, A.D. , "Letter from New York #3," Photo Metro, May 1989 p.21
Coleman, A.D. , "Intimate Look At Desperate Lives," The New York Observer,
May 8, 1989, p.14
Aletti, Vince, "Desperate Living," The Village Voice, May 2, 1989, p.21.
Awards:
1995 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Competition
1990 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1988 Leica Medal of Excellence
University of Missouri, Pictures of the Year (Magazine Picture Story)
