Ellen Harvey

Ellen Harvey
Born1967 (age 56–57)
Farnborough, Kent, United Kingdom
NationalityAmerican-British
EducationHarvard College
Yale Law School
Known forConceptual art, Painting, Installation art, Site-specific art, Public art, Institutional critique, Social practice
AwardsJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Wivina Demeester, Lily Auchincloss Foundation
WebsiteEllen Harvey
Ellen Harvey, New York Beautification Project (details), Forty 5" x 7" paintings in oil over graffiti, (2001).

Ellen Harvey (born 1967) is an American-British conceptual artist known for her painting-based practice and site-specific works in installation, video, engraved mirrors, mosaic and glass.[1][2][3] She frequently pairs traditional representational vocabularies and genres (landscape, portraiture) with seemingly antithetical postmodern strategies, such as institutional critique, appropriation, mapping and pastiche.[1][4][5][6] Her work examines such themes as art as a mirror, interactions between built environment and landscape, ruins and the Picturesque aesthetic, and cultural and economic relationships between museums, artists and publics.[7][8][9][2] Curator Henriette Huldisch writes of her work, "haunted as it is by the notion of art's ultimate futility, her paradoxical stake is in persistently testing art's possibility to do something in the world after all."[1]

Harvey has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris,[10] Corcoran Museum of Art,[11] Groeninge Museum[12] and Barnes Foundation,[13] and been featured in the Whitney, Prague and Kwangju Biennials,[14][15] and shows at MoMA PS1,[16] Turner Contemporary,[17] the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art[18] and SMAK.[19] In 2016, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[20] She has been awarded public commissions in New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, and her 2016 Belgian project, Repeat, won the Wivina Demeester Prize for Commissioned Public Art.[19][21][22] Her work has been the subject of several books, including The Unloved: Ellen Harvey (2014), Ellen Harvey: Museum of Failure (2015), New York Beautification Project (2005/2021), and Ellen Harvey: The Disappointed Tourist (2021).[23][19][24][25] She lives with her husband and son in Brooklyn, New York.[21]

  1. ^ a b c Huldisch, Henriette. "Tempting Failure," Ellen Harvey: The Museum of Failure, New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  2. ^ a b Miller, Nicole. "Ellen Harvey: Nostalgia," The Brooklyn Rail, 19 December 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  3. ^ Kunitz, Daniel. "Painter Ellen Harvey's Latest Public Work Is a Love Letter to the Everglades," Cultured, 11 August 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  4. ^ Landi, Ann. "The Real Thing," ARTnews, June 2002.
  5. ^ Wei, Lilly. "Ellen Harvey at Luxe," Art in America, December 2007.
  6. ^ Volk, Gregory. "Spring in Dystopia," Art in America, May 2008.
  7. ^ Landi, Ann. "Breaking Laws & Mirrors," ARTnews, May 2006.
  8. ^ Hall, Emily. "Ellen Harvey/Dodge Gallery," Artforum International, May 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  9. ^ Hunter, Becky Huff. "Ellen Harvey: Barnes Foundation & Locks Gallery," Frieze, March 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  10. ^ Johnson, Ken. "So Here's the Concept: Copy a Whole Collection," The New York Times, 28 February 2003. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  11. ^ Pendle, George. "Ellen Harvey," Frieze, 11 October 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  12. ^ Haq, Nav. "Crushed by Too Much Love," The Unloved: Ellen Harvey (Tessa Rosebrock, et al.), Veurne, Belgium: Hannibal, 2014, p. 23–35.
  13. ^ Cohen, David. "Ellen Harvey at the Barnes Foundation," artcritical, 13 December 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  14. ^ Levin, Kim. "Whitney Biennial," ARTnews, May 2008.
  15. ^ Hoffman, Frank. "Report from Kwangju: Monoculture and Its Discontents," Art in America, November 2000.
  16. ^ Herkenhoff, Paulo. "Ellen Harvey," Strangers/Etrangers, New York: PS1, 2001.
  17. ^ Cooke, Rachel. "Volcanoes and damp squibs," The Guardian, 10 April 2011, p. 32.
  18. ^ Klein, Richard. "Extended Forecast," Weather Report, Ridgefield, CT: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019.
  19. ^ a b c Huldisch, Henriette. Ellen Harvey: The Museum of Failure, New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  20. ^ Greenberger, Alex. "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Announces 2016 Fellowships," ARTnews, 6 April 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  21. ^ a b Sculpture Magazine. "Mirror Networks: A Conversation with Ellen Harvey," Sculpture, 24 May 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  22. ^ Declercq, Aline. "Bossuit Church Wins Wivina Demeester Prize," Focus/WTV, 29 November 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  23. ^ Rosebrock, Tessa et al. The Unloved: Ellen Harvey, Veurne, Belgium: Cannibal, 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  24. ^ Harvey, Ellen. New York Beautification Project, New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2021. Retrieved February 25, 2022.
  25. ^ Harvey, Ellen. Ellen Harvey: The Disappointed Tourist, Köln Snoeck/Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 2021. Retrieved March 11, 2019.