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MARY ELLEN BARTLEY
2024
Mary Ellen Bartley: Morandi’s Books, Museo Morandi, Bologna, Italy (solo)
Chromatic Fiction, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (solo)
Seen Together: Acquisitions in Photography,
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Look at the Book, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY
2023
Artist’s Choose Parrish, Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY
Morandi’s Books, The Drawing Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY (solo)
2022
Morandi’s Books, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Mary Ellen Bartley: new photographs, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY (solo)
The Image Gardeners, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Image and the Photographic Allusion, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI
2021
Scene in a Library, Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY (solo)
Photographs, Mary Ellen Bartley, Adam Bartos, Laurie Lambrecht, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
Still Life/ Life Still, Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, VT
Summer Reading, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2020
Volumes, Galerie Pugliese Levi, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Reading in Color, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA (solo)
Return to Summer Reading, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY (solo)
2020 Vision, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY
Interpretation, Studio 11, East Hampton, NY
7 Things Again and Again, Yancey Richardson, online exhibition viewing room (solo)
The Armory Show 2020, New York, NY
Vision 2020, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
View Find 9, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2019
Reading in Color, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY (solo)
Qualities of Light, Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, AZ
What is an Edition Anyway?, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Parrish Perspectives, Recent Acquisitions in Context, Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY
Contemporary Currents: The Warhol Effect, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona , FL
Recess, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2018
Interventions, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Spirit of Place, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
Picture: Books, Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, NC
2017
La Mère, La Mer, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Mary Ellen Bartley: Reading Grey Gardens, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY (solo)
Library Copies, Studio 5, The Queens Museum, New York (solo installation)
Deception, Filter Space, Chicago, Illinois
Art of the Book, Seager/ Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Spring Installation, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
View Find 6, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2016
Ordinary Pictures, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Lux: The Radiant Sea, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Mary Ellen Bartley: Looking Between the Covers, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (solo)
Mary Ellen Bartley: Still Books, Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Austria (solo)
The Tactile Eye, Project Space, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY (solo)
The Lives of Books, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, Florida
Water/ Bodies, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY
A Field Guide to Nowhere, Brock University, Ontario, Canada
Discoveries of the Meeting Place, Fotofest International Biennial 2016, Houston, TX
2015
Mary Ellen Bartley: Reading Robert Wilson, The Watermill Center, Watermill, NY (solo)
Winter Salon, The Drawing Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Off Print Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Cielo Perro Lobo, National Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Burning with Desire, Curious Duke Gallery, London, UK
Fotobookfestival Kassel, Book Dummy Awards 2015, Shortlisted Books Exhibition, Kassel, Germany
the exhibition travels to: Fotoleggendo, Rome, IED, Madrid, PhotoIreland, Dublin, Kaunas Photo, Kaunas, Fotobok Festival, Oslo, Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Book Fair, Goteborg and Fotoistanbul, Istanbul.
2014
Mary Ellen Bartley: Leaning Above the Page, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY (solo)
Mary Ellen Bartley: Paperbacks, Yancey Richardson, New York, NY (solo)
The Thing Itself, Yancey Richardson, New York, NY
Well Read: Visual Explorations of the Book, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA
John Alexander, Antonio Asis, Jennifer Bartlett, Mary Ellen Bartley, Chuck Holtzman, Mel Kendrik, Dan Rizzie, and Alan Shields, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
Book Ends, Cara Barer and Mary Ellen Bartley, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Paris Photo 2014, Yancey Richardson Gallery, Paris, France
White Columns Benefit Exhibition 2014, New York, NY
How One Thing Leads to Another, Critical Mass 2013, curated by Jessica Johnston, Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco,CA, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas.
The Armory Show 2014, Pier 94, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Paris Photo 2013, Yancey Richardson Gallery, Paris, France
Gallery Artists: Aycock, Antonakos, Bartley, Heatley, Nivola, Ross, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
The Optical, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland , OR, curator: Allan Chasanoff
Blue Books, photographs by Mary Ellen Bartley, Graficas Gallery, Nantucket, MA (solo)
A Whiter Shade of Pale, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Geografica, Fototropia Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Color and Light, Critical Mass 2012, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, curator: W. M. Hunt
New Work, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
Joyce Elaine Grant Exhibition 2013, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX juror: Sarah Kennel
Spaces,The International Photography Awards + MOPLA, The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful My Desire, Wallspace Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA curator: Anne Jastrab
2012
Mary Ellen Bartley, Photographs, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY (solo)
Mary Ellen Bartley, Standing Open, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY (solo)
Out of Print, Bakersfield Art Museum, Bakersfield, CA
Anthology, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach. FL
Equivalents, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA, curator: W.M. Hunt
Exposure 2012, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, curator: Alison Nordstrom
Group Therapy, Harper’s Books, East Hampton, NY
Lust, Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Summer Solstice, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Contents, Critical Mass 2011, PCNW, Seattle, WA, Newspace, Portland, OR, and Rayko Gallery,San Francisco, CA, curator: Darius Himes
Portfolio, Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011
Mary Ellen Bartley, Books, Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Artists Choose Artists, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, chosen by Ross Bleckner
Houston Center for Photography, Annual Juried Show, Houston, TX, juror: Ariel Shanberg
Memento, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Portfolio 2, Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010
Reader's Delight, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
Excentrica, Longhouse, East Hampton, NY
2009
It's Still Life,Rayko Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Photo-Op, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA 2009
Invitational, Islip Museum, Islip, NY
Mood Swings, Solar Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Education:
BFA, Purchase College, SUNY
Grants, Residencies and Honors
7L, project residency, Karl Lagerfeld’s Library, Paris, 2023
Artist in Residence, The Church, Sag Harbor, NY, Spring 2022
New York Foundation for the Arts, Project Grant, 2021
Museo Morandi, Visiting Artist, Bologna, Italy 2020 & 2022
Penumbra Foundation, Publication Collaboration, Penumbra Library Project, 2019, New York, NY
The Pollock Krasner House and Study Center, Visiting Artist, Winter 2018, Springs, NY
Queens Museum, Reanimation Library, Visiting Artist, January-April 2017, Queens, NY
Visual Studies Workshop, Project Room Artist in Residence, April 2016, Rochester, NY
Watermill Center, Artist in Residence, February 2015, Watermill, NY
Fotobook Festival Kassel, 2015 Book Dummy Award, Reading Robert Wilson shortlisted.
Photolucida Critical Mass 2013 Top 50 Photographers
Photolucida Critical Mass 2012 Top 50 Photographers
Photolucida Critical Mass 2011 Top 50 Photographers
A First Place Lucie International Photo Award for Artists and Models series, 2012
Collections:
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
J. Paul Getty Museum, library special collections, Los Angeles, CA
Guild Hall Art Museum, East Hampton, NY
McEvoy Family Collection, San Francisco, CA
MOMA, library special collections, NY, NY
New York Public Library, NY, NY
Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY
The Morgan Library and Museum, photography collection, NY, NY
The Watermill Collection, Watermill, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Selected Publications:
Mary Ellen Bartley: Morandi’s Books, Museo Morandi exhibition catalogue, Danilo Montanari Editore, 2024 (forthcoming)
Reading Morandi, L’Artiere, Bologna , Italy, 2024 (forthcoming)
Scene in a Library, artist book, text Kim Biel, Penumbra Foundation, 2021
La mère La mer, exhibition catalog, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2019
Ordinary Pictures, exhibition catalog, Walker Art Center, 2016
Fotograf, #29 contemplation, "Mary Ellen Bartley, Between the Spiritual and the Abstract" by Pavel Banka, volume 16, 2017, Prague, CZ
The Tactile Eye, by Mary Ellen Bartley, twelve page insert in Afterimage, The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Volume 44 Nos 1&2, Summer 2016
Reading Robert Wilson, hand-bound artist book, 2015
Mary Ellen Bartley: Leaning Above the Page, Interview with Ross Bleckner, Guild Hall Museum exhibition catalog, 2014
20 Now: Contemporary Photographers, Nagasaki Shaw and Summer Hung, 2012
Press:
The East Hampton Star, “ Mary Ellen Bartley: From Bologna with Amore,” Jennifer Landes, 3/1/23
Photograph Magazine, “ The Photograph Five, Mary Ellen Bartley,” 1/3/23
Musee Magazine, “Exhibition Review, Morandi’s Books,” Nina Rivera, 11/28/22
Musee Magazine, “Still Life: The Still World of Mary Ellen Bartley” Summer Myatt, 11/2/20
Photograph Magazine, “Focus On: Mary Ellen Bartley,” Jeanne Dykstra, 6/17/20
The Brooklyn Rail, “Artist Stories from the Pandemic,” Joyce Beckenstein, 9/1/20
The East Hampton Star, “Mary Ellen Bartley’s Stacks of Color at The Drawing Room,” Jennifer Landes, 7/2/20
Santa Fe New Mexican,”Double Take, Mary Ellen Bartley and Dylan Hausthor,” Michael Abatemarco, 2/7/20
The East Hampton Star, "The Spirit of Grey Gardens Captured in East Hampton" Jennifer Landes, 9/21/17
Huffington Post, "Books of Grey Gardens," Erica-Lynn Huberty, 8/11/17
The Sag Harbor Express, "Mary Ellen Bartley Leans Above the Page at Guild Hall", Annette Hinkle, 10/28/14
The East Hampton Star, "Bartley's Books in NYC", Jennifer Landes, 10/2/14
The East Hampton Star, “ A Thousand Words are Worth a Picture”, Jennifer Landes, 7/26/12
The New York Times, “Artists Choose Artists”, Martha Schwedener, 9/23/11
The Huffington Post “Artists Choose Artists at the Parrish Art Museum”, Liz Markus, 8/31/11
The New York Times, Art in Review, “Readers Delight”, Roberta Smith, 7/23/10