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Barbara Kasten 1970 M.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1960 Professor Emeritus Columbia College, Chicago, IL 1959 B.F.A., University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Selected Solo Exhibitions 2015 Set Motion, Bortolami, New York, NY

Stages, ICA Philadelphia (Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2013 Scenes from Places Beyond, Kadel Willborn Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany

Sara Barker and Barbara Kasten, Mary Mary at 10 Northington Street, London, UK (Two person show)

2012 Behind the Curtain, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Tektonika: Barbara Kasten & Magicgruppe Kulturobjekt, Kunstverein Nuremberg, Germany (Two person show) Constructs, Abrasions, Melons and Cucumber”, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY (Two person show)

2011 Experimental Work from 1970, Pacific Standard Time, Gallery Luisotti, Santa

Monica, CA Ineluctable, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL A Matter of Perception, Kadel Willborn Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany REMIX, Video Installation, Applied Art, Chicago, IL 2010 Barbara Kasten, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA Barbara Kasten, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France 2009 Through a Glass Darkly, Video Installation, SubCity, Chicago, IL 2007 Barbara Kasten, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 Barbara Kasten, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Barbara Kasten, Tampa Gallery of Photography, Tampa, FL Barbara Kasten, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA


2002 Art Museum, University of Memphis, TN 2001 Barbara Kasten, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA 2000 Small Works Gallery, Las Vegas, NV Selected Group Exhibitions 2014 Will to Architecture, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio, Museum of Modern Art, NY 1980′s Style: Image and Design in The Dorsky Museum Collection, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY

2013 Histories/Photographies, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL

Prague Biennale Photo 3: Photography, Reconstructed, Czech Republic The 5th Dimension, Ricou Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities Department of Light Recordings,

Section IV: Lens Drawings, curated by Jens Hoffman, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY Black Rabbit, White Hole, Samuel Freeman, Los Angeles, CA Think First, Shoot Later: Photography from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Decenter: An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory Show, Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY Beyond the Object, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy

2012 Lost Line, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Eclectic Coherence, curated by Dawoud Bey, Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln MA

Construct, Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK Towards a Warm Math, On Stellar Rays Gallery, New York, NY 2011 Channel to the New Image, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY


Untitled Document, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL From Polaroid to (IM)POSSIBLE, The WestLicht Collection, Vienna, Austria Distilled Moments, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA Constructions, Barbara Kasten and Alexandra Leykauf – Carl Freedman Gallery,

London, UK 2010 NADA Miami Beach Art Fair, Tony Wight Gallery A Matter of Time, Kadel Willborn Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany Immaterial, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas – book Let There Be Geo, A&D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL Terminus Ante Quem, Shane Huffman, Barbara Kasten, Anthony Pearson, Erin

Shirref, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL In a Paperweight, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL Group Show, Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL LISTE, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland, James Fuentes LLC, New York

Starburst: The History of Color Photography in the 1970’s, The Cincinnati Museum of Art, OH

Picturing the Studio, School of Art Institute Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL 2009 Contemporary Abstractions, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY Twilight, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY Constructivismes, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, Aperture Gallery,

New York, NY Polaroid: Exp. 09.10.09, Atlas Gallery, London, England 2008 Re-considering Color, Postmodern Classical II, The City College, CUNY, NY 2006 Alinari National Museum of Photography, Polaroid Collection, Florence, Italy 2005 Polaroid Collection Travelling Exhibition 2004 In the Center of Things: A Tribute to Harold Jones, Center for Creative

Photography, Tucson, AZ 2003 American Perspectives, Photographs from Polaroid Collection, Boston, MA Through the Looking Glass, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL Go On Being, Our Blue Star, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Japan Selected Bibliography


2013 Catalogue, “Cool Rush,” Aperture copublished with Milwaukee Art Museum Magdalena Kröner, “In Conversation: the Photographer Barbara Kasten All That Postmodern Stuff,” Frankfurter Allgemein Zeitung, Düsseldorf, June 6, 2013 “Barbara Kasten Geometric Abstraction on Photography,” Vision Magazine China, May 5, 2013

Mary-Kay Lombino, Book, “The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation,” Prestel Publishing, April 25, 2013 Joseph Akel, “Barbara Kasten,” Freize Magazine, Issue 154, April 2013

2012 “Creative Constructs,” A Magazine, Beruit, October 11, 2012

“Barbara Kasten: New City’s Artist’s Artists,” New City Chicago, September 1, Courtney Fiske, “Reality at the Core: Q+A with Barbara Kasten,” Art in America, July 27, 2012

“Short List: Barbara Kasten / Justin Beal” The New Yorker, July 2, 2012 “Barbara Kasten,” Exhibition review, ARTFORUM, March 2, 2012 Exhibition Review, Huffington Post Arts, February 8, 2012 2011 Anthony Pearson, Interview with Barbara Kasten, Frieze Magazine, November

8, 2011 Heidi Norton, “Barbara Kasten Talks with Heidi Norton,” Bad at Sports Interview, October 21, 2011

Regan Golden-McNerney, “Eye Exam: Concrete Light,” Exhibition review, New City Chicago, October 3, 2011 Claudine Ise, Exhibition review, ARTFORUM, online, September 30, 2011 Pedro Vélez, Exhibition review, artnet.com, September 29, 2011 Lori Waxman, Exhibition review, Chicago Tribune, November 22, 2011 Assouline Books, “De Beers Jewelry,” Construct X-B, November 1, 2011 Daniel Pies, “Barbara Kasten,” Exhibition review, Frieze Magazine, August 15, 2011 Barbara Hitchcock, Book, “From Polaroid to Impossible. Masterpieces of Instant Photography. The WestLicht Collection,” Hatje Cantz, July 1, 2011

Rebecca Robertson, “Building Pictures,” ARTnews, March 1, 2011 2010 Lyle Rexer, Book, “The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography,”

Aperture, January 5, 2010 Book, “Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980,” Hatje Cantz, January 4, 2010

2009 “Conversation with Barbara Kasten,” Audio Interview, University of

California at Riverside MCP Podcast, May 15, 2009


Museum Collections Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Gallery, Mito, Japan Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania Fine Arts Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts Helen Forsman Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia The Huntington, San Marino, California International Center of Photography, New York, New York International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico Museum of Modern Art, Lodz, Poland Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana Onassis Foundation USA, New York, New York San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California The Tampa Museum, Tampa, Florida Tate Modern, London, UK WestLicht Museum, Vienna, Austria

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