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penelope umbrico

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­­­Penelope Umbrico’s installations, video, and digital media works utilize photo-sharing and consumer-to-consumer websites as an expansive archive to explore the production and consumption of images. Her work navigates between producer and consumer, local and global, the individual and the collective, with attention to the technologies that are produced by (and produce) these forces. Umbrico’s work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; MassMoCA, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Art Museum Gosta, Finland; Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Daegu Photography Biennale, Korea; Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; Rencontres d’Arles, France; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia; among many others, and is represented in museum collections around the world. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship; Sharpe-Walentas Studio Grant; Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship; New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship; Anonymous Was a Woman Award. Her monographs have been published by Aperture NYC and RVB Books Paris.

Collage of various sized tvs.
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879 TVs from Craigslist 3/6/2013, 2013

digital image, 10000 x 7200px

$16000

ETH 10.17

TVs from Craigslist, 2009 – ongoingTVs from Craigslist is an ongoing project that comprises images of the screens of TVs for sale I’ve found on Craigslist. I download the images, crop all but the screen, and enlarge to the scale of the TV. Although these images are purely utilitarian, taken only to sell a TV, […]
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Sun Burn (Screensaver), video, 2008

video

edition of 5

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Neverending Sunset (Second Life), 2014

video

edition of 5

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Screen Sun (Yellow), 2020

video, 3840 x 2160px

edition of 5

Collage of various sized tvs.
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penelope umbrico

879 TVs from Craigslist 3/6/2013, 2013

digital image, 10000 x 7200px

$16000

ETH 10.17

Collage of various sized tvs.
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penelope umbrico

1320 TVs from Craigslist 7/20/2020, 2020

digital image, 16914 x 10461px

$16000

ETH 10.17

Rows of glitching tv screens stacked on top of each other.
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Monument, 2017

installation

Tv screens and tv frames stacked on top of each other.
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Out of Order: Bad Display, 2008

installation

4x5 rows of glitching tv screens without their frames.
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Broken Sets (eBay), 2008

installation

Rows of tv screens containing images of other tv screens with no signal.
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Signals Still, 2011

installation

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