27 Facts About Martha Rosler

Martha Rosler was born on 1943 and is an American artist.

Martha Rosler is a conceptual artist who works in photography and photo text, video, installation, sculpture, site-specific and performance, as well as writing about art and culture.

Martha Rosler graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, as well as Brooklyn College and the University of California, San Diego.

Martha Rosler has lived in New York City since 1981.

Martha Rosler taught photography and media, as well as photo and video history and critical studies, at Rutgers University, in new Brunswick, New Jersey, where she was a professor for thirty years, attaining the rank of Professor II.

Martha Rosler taught at the Stadelschule in Frankfurt, Germany, as well as serving as visiting professor at the University of California's San Diego and Irvine campuses, and elsewhere.

Martha Rosler's work has been included in major group exhibitions such as Whitney Biennial, Documenta 7 and 12, Havana Biennale, Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, Taipei Biennial and Skulptur Projekte.

Martha Rosler serves in an advisory capacity to the departments of education at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, and at the Center for Urban Pedagogy.

Martha Rosler is a board member of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New York and an Advisory Board board member of the Center for Urban Pedagogy.

Martha Rosler has served on the board of directors of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, New York, and she is a former member of the boards of directors of the Association for Independent Video and Film and the Media Alliance, and a former trustee of the Van Alen Center, all in New York City.

Martha Rosler is known for her writing as well as her art work in various media.

Martha Rosler has published over 16 books of her artwork and her critical essays on art, photography, and cultural matters, some of which have appeared as well in translation.

Martha Rosler's essays have been widely published, anthologized, and translated.

Martha Rosler has suggested that this darkly humorous work is meant to challenge social expectations of women in regard to food production and, more broadly, the role of language in determining these expectations.

Martha Rosler employs performance-based narratives and symbolic images of mass media to disrupt viewers' expectations.

Martha Rosler revisited this series in 2004 and 2008 by producing new images based on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, under the title House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home, New Series.

Martha Rosler described the "rah rah" attitude of American media and politics that reminded her of the political manipulations of the past.

Martha Rosler's writing and photographic series on roads, the system of air transport, and urban undergrounds join her other works addressing urban planning and architecture, from housing to homelessness and the built environment, and places of passage and transportation.

Martha Rosler has recently been the subject of an extensive retrospective exhibition at the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, in Turin.

Martha Rosler's work has been seen in the Venice Biennale of 2003; the Liverpool Biennial, the Taipei Biennial, and the Singapore Biennale, and the Thessaloniki Biennale ; as well as many major international survey shows, including the "Documenta" exhibitions in Kassel, Germany, of 1982 and 2007, Skulptur Projekte Munster in 2007, and several Whitney Biennials.

Subsequently, in 2016, Martha Rosler organized an exhibition in New York that included much of the Dia and Seattle material but focused on New York City.

Martha Rosler has produced two tours of historical sites, one in Hamburg and one in Liverpool, in conjunction with curated art projects.

Martha Rosler's solo show Meta-Monumental Garage Sale was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in November 2012, revisiting a series of exhibitions she had held in 1973 in San Diego and 1977 in San Francisco that centered on the American garage sale.

Martha Rosler is a professor and frequently collaborates with her students, bringing forward a new generation of political art, with different backgrounds on the subject.

Martha Rosler's son is the graphic novelist Josh Neufeld; they have collaborated on a number of projects.

Martha Rosler's essays have been published widely in catalogues, magazines, such as Artforum, Afterimage, Quaderns, and Grey Room, and edited collections, including Women Artists at the Millennium among many others.

Martha Rosler has published sixteen books of photography, art, and writing.