| ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS |
| 2023/24 | Silvia Kolbowski, MAMCO, Geneva. Curated by Julien Fronsacq. |
| 2022 | Who will save us?!, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland. Curated by Melanie Ohnemus. |
| 2020 | A Few Howls Again: Silvia Kolbowski, Gallery 44, Toronto. Curated by M. Asimakis, J. Quinton, A. Sutcliff. |
| 2016 | an inadequate history of conceptual art, Galerie Colbert, Paris. Curated by Johanne Lamoureux. |
| 2011 | A Few Howls Again? Broadcast on Vision Siete Internacional, Buenos Aires. Cur .F. Brouchoud. |
| 2009 | After Hiroshima Mon Amour, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia. |
| 2009 | Silvia Kolbowski, Galerie Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia U. Montreal. Cur. by M.Thiereult. |
| 2008 | After Hiroshima Mon Amour, La><art, Los Angeles. Curated by Christopher Bedford. |
| 2007 | Silvia Kolbowski: an inadequate history of conceptual art, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw. |
| 2004 | inadequate...Like...Power, Secession, Vienna |
| 2003 | Unposed,Y8, Hamburg, curated by Benita-Immanuel Grosser. |
| 2002 | Like Looking Away, American Fine Arts, New York. |
| 2001 | Seven x 7, Seven, New York. |
| 2000 | an inadequate history of conceptual art, Western Front, Vancouver. |
| 1999 | an inadequate history of conceptual art, American Fine Arts, New York. |
| 1997 | Closed Circuit, Postmasters Gallery, New York. |
| 1995 | These goods are available at....Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris, Desiring Practices, London |
| 1992 | Once more, with feeling, and "Already," Postmasters Gallery, New York |
| 1992 | Once more, with feeling, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris |
| 1990 | Project, Harry Winston, Inc., New York (with Postmasters Gallery, New York) |
| 1989 | Enlarged from the Catalogue: USA, Postmasters Gallery, New York |
| 1988 | Silvia Kolbowski, Postmasters Gallery, New York |
| 1988 | Silvia Kolbowski, Interim Art, London |
| 1986 | Silvia Kolbowski, Nature Morte Gallery, New York 1985 Nature Morte Gallery, New York |
| 1982 | Silvia Kolbowski, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo |
| 1980 | what was the right answer, Artists' Space, New York |
SELECTED SCREENING VENUES/ZOOM EVENTS Images Festival; Kunstverein Nurnberg; KW, Berlin; Gallery 44, Toronto; ICA, London; Courtauld Institute, London; Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Cooper Union, New York;San Francisco Art Institute, SF; Centro Hospitalar Psiquiatrico, Lisbon; Muthesius Hochschule, Kiel; Bard College, NY; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Parsons/New School, NY; Princeton University; Brandeis University Massachussets; University of Pennsylvania; Carnegie Mellon Institute, 2nd Annual Babson Filmmaker lecture; Institute for Contemporary Art London; Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis; Yale Union, Portland; Emily Harvey Foundation, NY; Carnegie Mellon School of the Arts, Washington University in St. Louis; Harvard University; |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/PROJECT COLLABORATIONS |
| 2026 | Re-Collection, MAMCO, Geneva |
| 2025 | Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris. |
| | Curated by Sebastien Pluot. |
| | Not Everything, Ivory Tars, Glasgow. Curated by Dora Budar. https://ivorytars.co.uk/not-everything/ |
| 2023 | Who will save us?! Images Festival, Toronto |
| | Everyone an Island After All?, GAK, Bremen |
| | Third Skin, at OP ENHEIM, Warsaw. |
| 2022 | Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising, LACMA, Los Angeles |
| | Our Selves, Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum. Museum of Modern Art, NY. |
| | Upheaval/Fragments, Lausitz Festival, Gorlitz, Germany |
| 2021 | Reprise, Michele Graf & Selina Gruter, Margaret Honda, Silvia Kolbowski, Felix Gaudlitz Gallery, Vienna. |
| | Zeroes and Ones, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin |
| 2020 | Group Exhibition, Kyffhauserstrasse 31, Ginerva Gambino, Cologue. Curated by D. Brzek, S.Curaj. |
| 2019 | The Intolerable Straight Line, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes. Curated by Maud Jacquin and Sebastien Pluot. |
| 2019 | Terror, Urban Art Center, Gorzow, Poland. Curated by Leszek Golec. |
| 2019 | Una presentacion sobre la insuficiencia de las imagenes, La Cueva, Mexico City. Curated by Jared Quinton. |
| 2018 | The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery/American Fine Arts, Co., 1983-2004, Hessel Art Museum. Curated by Jeanine Tang, Ann Butler, Lia Gangitano. |
| 2017 | Tension and Conflict, MAAT, Lisbon. Curated by Pedro Gadanho. |
| 2017 | You may add or subtract from the work..., Mackey Garage, MAK Center, Los Angeles. Curated by Simon Leung + Sebastien Pluot. |
| 2017 | Frame by Frame, Calicoon Fine Arts, New York. |
| 2017 | That I am reading backwards and into for a purpose, to go on, The Kitchen, New York. Cur. Magdalyn Asimakis, Alexandra Sutcliffe, Jared Quinton. |
| 2017 | Narrative Art, MAMCO, Geneva. Curated by Paul Bernard, Lionel Bovier, Julien Fronsacq. |
| 2017 | In Vitro, Bodega Gallery, New York. Curated by Josephine Graf. |
| 2016 | In place of, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York. Curated by Leah Pires. |
| 2014 | A WAR E, Syros International Film Festival, Greece. Curated by Kostas Stasinopoulos. |
| 2014 | Take it or Leave it: Institution, Image, Ideology, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Curated by Johanna Burton and Anne Ellegood. |
| 2014 | Breaking News from the Ether: A letter always arrives at its destination," Centre de Culture Contemporaine, Montpellier. Curated by Sebastien Pluot. |
| 2013 | what was the right answer and A few howls again?, Sammlung-Hoffmann, Berlin. |
| 2013 | Art by telephone...recalled. Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, Cur. Sebastien Pluot and Fabien Vallos. |
| 2012 | A few howls again?, A-Space, Toronto. Curated by Pablo de Ocampo for the Images Festival. |
| 2012 | This will have been: Art, Love & Politcs in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. |
| 2012 | Art and Fashion/Clothing, Museum Moderner Kunst Siftung Ludwig, Vienna. Curated by Susanne Neuburger. |
| 2011 | The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1992, The Neuberger Museum; the Nasher Museum. Curated by Helaine Posner and Nancy Princenthal. |
| 2010 | A few howls again?, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan. Curated by Tirdad Zolghadr. |
| 2010 | Film Matters, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens. Curated by Barbara Piwowarska. |
| 2010 | Double Bind: Stop Trying to Understand Me!, Villa Arson, Nice. Curated by Sebastien Pluot and Dean Inkster. |
| 2010 | Dissociation, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart. Curated by Axel Wieder, Tobias Kaspar, Egija Inzule. |
| 2009 | A Few Frames: Photography and the Contact Sheet, Whitney Museum of Art, New York. |
| 2009 | The Third International Center of Photography Triennial of Photography and Video, ICP, New York. |
| 2009 | Our Time, Smallbox, Hospital Julio de Matos, Lisbon, and other venues. |
| 2006 | The Look of Law, University Art Gallery, University of Irvine. |
| 2006 | Points d'Impact, Piano Nobile, Geneva. |
| 2006 | Artist's Books, revisited, Art Metropole, Toronto and Printed Matter, New York. |
| 2004 | The Last Picture Show, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and other venues. |
| 2004 | Rapture, Barbican Art Gallery, London. Curated by Chris Townsend. |
| 2004 | Architourism, Arthur Ross Gallery, Columbia University. |
| 2001 | PHAG, Inc., New York. |
| 2001 | Aussendienst, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg. Curated by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen. [final stage unrealized]. |
| 2000 | The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art. Curated by Lawrence Rinder. |
| 2000 | Black Box, Oliver Art Center, Oakland. Curated by Lawrence Rinder. |
| 1996 | Something for Nothing, in Present and Futures, CCC, Barcelona. Cur. Ignasi de Sola Morales. |
| 1996 | 100 Pictures, American Fine Arts Gallery, New York. |
| 1996 | Making Pictures: Photographs by Women, 1975-present, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York. |
| 1996 | Design for a Viennese Memorial to the Jewish Victims of the National Socialists, Vienna, in collaboration with Eisenman Architects, [invited competition]. |
| 1995 | Like the Difference between Autumn/Winter '94/'95 and Spring/Summer '95 in Architectures of Display, Comme des Garcons, New York. Installation in collaboration with Eisenman Architects, sponsored by the Architectural League and Minetta Brook, New York. |
| 1994 | L'Homelette in House Rules, The Wexner Center, Columbus. |
| 1993 | Commodity Images, International Center of Photography Midtown, New York. |
| 1993 | DisContinuous Spaces, The Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, and School of Architecture Gallery, Princeton University, Princeton, in collaboration with Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects. |
| 1993 | Design for an art center, Tours, France (invited competition), consultant. |
| 1991 | Postmasters Gallery, New York |
| 1990 | Marginal Practices, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York |
| 1990 | New Directions, S. Bitter-Larkin Gallery, New York |
| 1990 | Charade of Mastery, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York. |
| 1990 | Word as Image, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee. |
| 1990 | . The Desire of the Museum, The Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art, New York. |
| 1990 | Jet Lag, Turon Travel, NY. |
| 1990 | Sculpture Show, THE Gallery, NY |
| 1990 | Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY |
| 1988 | Fabrications, Carpenter Center, Harvard Diversity, Boston |
| 1988 | Material Ethics, Milford Gallery, NY |
| 1988 | Signs of the Times, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris |
| 1988 | The Politics of Gender, Queensborough Community CollegeGallery, NY |
| 1988 | A Drawing Show, Cable Gallery, NY |
| 1988 | Female Reproduction, White Columns, NY |
| 1988 | The Selling of Ourselves, 10 on 8, NY |
| 1988 | Modes of Address: Language in Art Since1960, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown, NY |
| 1987 | Inclusion in The Castle, Group Material project, Documents 8, Kassel, Germany |
| 1987 | Romance, Knight Gallery, North Carolina |
| 1987 | This is Not a Photograph, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota |
| 1987 | Aspects of Voyeurism, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, NY |
| 1987 | Perverted by Language, Hilwood Art Gallery, Long Island University |
| 1987 | Art Against Aids, Nature Moree Gallery, NY |
| 1987 | Three Artists from New York, Binghamton University Art Center, Binghamton |
| 1986 | Picture This, Hallwalls, Buffalo |
| 1986 | The Fairy Tale: Politics, Desire and Everyday Life, Artists Space |
| 1986 | The Public Art Show, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta |
| 1985 | Transitional Objects, Galerie Philip Nelson, Lyons |
| 1985 | Thought Objects, Cash/Newhouse Gallery, New York |
| 1985 | Photo-Object, Postmasters Gallery New York |
| 1985 | Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy, Center Gallery, Bucknell University |
| 1985 | Engendering Gender, University of Massachusetts at Amherst |
| 1985 | Talking Back to the Media, Aorta Gallery, Amsterdam |
| 1985 | Seduction: Working Pictures, White Columns, New York |
| 1984 | Difference: On Representation and Sexuality, New Museum of Contemporary Art |
| 1984 | Re-placements, Hallwalls, Buffalo |
| 1983 | Fashion Fictions, White Columns, NY |
| 1983 | The Stolen Image and its Uses, Light Work Gallery, Syracuse |
| 1983 | Extended Photography, Wiener Secession, Vienna. |
| 1983 | Working Process, Organization for Independent Artists at the New York cultural Center, NY |
| 1980 | An/other History, PS One. In collaboration with Laurie Hawkinson. |
| 1980 | AEIOU and Sometimes Why, Organization of Independent Artists at the New York |
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS |
| 2018 | Terra Foundation for American Art, Giverny, France |
| 2017 | Senior Loeb Fellow, Harvard University |
| 2014 | Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation, Artswriters grant |
| 1996 | New York Foundation for the Arts |
| 1989 | National Endowment for the Arts |
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS |
| 2000-2020 | Advisory Board, October Journal |
| 1993-2000 | Co-editor, October journal |
| 2007-2010 | Advisory Board, Filip Journal |
| 2001-2006 | Editor, Scapes journal, Parsons School of Design |
| 1980-1983 | Fellow, Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies |
TEACHING/VISITING ARTIST 1984-2020 |
Virginia Commonwealth University; Graduate School of Architecture; Harvard; Haute Ecole dArt et de Design, CCC Program, Geneva; The Cooper Union;The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program; Parsons School of Design; Muthesius Hochschule, Kiel; The Berlage Institute, Amsterdam; GSAPP, Columbia University; California Institute of the Arts; Claremont College.
COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley
Frac Lorraine, Metz
Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
MAMCO, Geneva
Helen Kornblum Collection
Several private collections. |
