Continuing the Spring 2024 Photography Lecture Series, the MassArt Graduate Programs and the department of Photography are pleased to welcome Penelope Umbrico. Please join us in the MassArt Tower Auditorium at 2pm on Tuesday, April 9.

Penelope Umbrico’s installations, video, and digital media works utilize search engines and web platforms 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. Engaging common software applications, and the physical apparatuses of image authoring and display technology, her work takes aim at our mediated experience of the world through the screen and electronic signal. 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; Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Benaki Museum, Athens; Daegu Photography Biennale, Korea; Guangzhou Image Triennial, 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; and New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowships. Her monographs have been published by Aperture NYC and RVB Books Paris.

All Photography lectures are free and open to the public. 

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu

Image: Penelope Umbrico, 541,795 Suns from Sunsets from Flickr (Partial) 1/23/06, 2006. Detail of 2000 machine c-prints, each 4 x 6 in