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New York City, 1964

Education

1988-90 M.F.A., Photography, Yale University School of Art
1983-85 B.A., Art History and Studio Art, Oberlin College
1981-83 A.A., General Studies, Bard College at Simon's Rock



Solo Exhibitions


2010 Bountiful, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2009 Seeing and Knowing: Photographs by Tanya Marcuse, Liebowitz Gallery, Bard College at Simon's Rock, Great Barrington, MA

2008 Undergarments and Armor, Shelly Steffee, NY

2007
Fruitless, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Undergarments and Armor, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angelos, CA

2006 Undergarments and Armor, Belfast Exposed Photography, Belfast, Norther Ireland

2005 Undergarments and Armor, Hemphill Fine Art, Washington, D.C.

2004 Tanya Marcuse--Photographs 1993-2003, Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

2002
Tanya Marcuse and Shigeyoshi Ohi, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
Material, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY

1999 Tanya Marcuse, Torso, Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

1998 Tanya Marcuse, Torso- Emulsion Transfers on Glass and Mylar, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY

1997 Museum Series, Photographs by Tanya Marcuse, Stewart Airport, Newburgh, NY

1995 Tanya Marcuse- New Works, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY

1994 Tanya Marcuse--Photographs, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY

1993
Tanya Marcuse: Platinum/Palladium Prints 1992-93, A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, IL
Mary Berridge and Tanya Marcuse, Midtown Y Photography Gallery, New York, NY
Ann Daly/Tanya Marcuse, Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2009
Dress Codes
, The Third Triennal of Photography and Video, ICP, New York, NY
Heads, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Isolation, Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC
Speak for the Trees, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA
Ecotones and Transition Zones, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY

2008-2009 Gothic: Dark Glamour, The Museum at FIT, New York, NY

2008 (RE) Imaging Photography, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland Institute of Art
REAL Photography Award Exhibition, Las Palmas II Art Exhibition Centre, Rotterdam

2007 Amour d' Armor: Fear, Fantasy, and Fashion in the New Age, Williams Center Gallery Lafayette College, Easton PA

2006
Love and War, The Museum at FIT, NYC, NY
Photo NY, Nazraeli Press/MY Prospects
Photo San Francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery
Live Feed, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

2005 Re-Fresh, Hemphill Fine Art, Washington, D.C.

2004
Select II, The Washington Project for the Arts/The Corcoran,Washington, D.C.
Small Works, The Ralls Collection, Washington D.C.

2003 Both Sides of the Street, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.

2002 Group Show, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY

2001
August Confessions: Ask Me Now, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Faculty Art Exhibition, Simon's Rock of Bard College, Great Barrington, MA

2000
Intimate Objects, The Ralls Collection, Washington DC
Marion Belanger, Emmet Gowin, Sally Mann, Tanya Marcuse, Jeanette Williams... Princeton University Department of Photography, Princeton, NJ

1999
Female, curated by Vince Aletti, Wessel & O'Connor Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, The Ralls Collection, Washington DC
Petits Formats -Small Works of Art From the 20th Century, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY

1998
Anonymous, The Work Space, New York, NY
Photo Op, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

1997
Group Show, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA
Beneath the Surface, Kendall Art and Design, Hudson, NY

1996 Scratch Off, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY

1995 Human/Nature, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

1993
Figure Out, Trial Balloon Gallery, New York, NY
Tanya Marcuse, Linda Matalon, Yumiko Ohmori, Sarah Rapson,Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY

1992 National Showcase Exhibition, Alternative Museum, New York, NY

1992 Exhibition of Photography, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

Bibliography
2010
Schwartzman, Tamsen, Imprints of the Body: An Interview with Tanya Marcuse, Fashion Projects: On Fashion and Memory, Issue No 3, February 2010
Heads, Julie Saul Gallery, The New Yorker, January 11, 2010

2009
Smith, Roberta, Beyond a Simple Fashion Statement, The New York Times, October 9, 2009
Dress Codes, Exhibition Catalogue, ICP/Steidl, 2009
Cover feature, Photograph Magazine, September/October, 2009

2008 REAL Photography Award Exhibition Catalogue
2007
Ida Sinkevic and Robert S. Mattison, Amour d' Armor: Fear Fashion and Fantasy in the Age, Exhibition Catalogue
Rich, Elizabeth, Love and War, FiberArts Magazine, Jan/Feb 2007
Drake, Colin, Undergarments and Armor, Source Magazine, Winter, 2007
Fruitless, Feature in Sacred and Mundane Section, Orion Magazine, Winter, 2007

2006
Smith, Roberta, Love and War, The New York Times. September 15
Cover feature, Undergarments and Armor, The Artful Mind, March, 2006
Portfolio feature, Undergarments and Armor, Chronogram, March, 2006
Cohen, Rachel, Photography Quarterly #92. Review of Undergarments and Armor

2005
Wolff, Denise, Photo-eye. Review of Undergarments and Armor, p.26. Winter, 2005
Undergarments and Armor portfolio Triennial of the Photographic Arts Photography Quarterly #92 Artnews, October, 2005

2003 Yale MFA Program, Edgar Allen Beem, PDN, p. 67, May, 2003

2002 Aletti, Vince. The Village Voice. April, 2002

2000 Sandra Mathews and Laura Wexler, Pregnant Pictures: Work by Women in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Routledge Press
1999
New York Magazine. Cue Feature. September 13, 1999
Luciana, James, Black and White Photographers: An International Collection. Rockport Publishers, MA

1998
Johnson, Ken, Anonymous, The New York Times. Art Guide. August 14, 1998
Vince Aletti. Anonymous, The Village Voice. February, 1998
King, Sarah S., Art in America. July, 1998
New York Magazine. Cue Feature. February 3-7, 1998 Johnson, Ken, New York Times. Art Guide. February 6, 1998
Aletti, Vince, Voice Choices, The Village Voice. February, 1998
Griffin, Tim, Essay for Exhibition "Torso," Yoshii Gallery, 1998

1996 Ingrid Shaffner, Artforum. January, 1996

1995
Gibson, Eric, Artnews. December, 1995
Humphrey, David, New York Fax, Art Issues. Nov-Dec. 1995
Aletti, Vince, Voice Choices, The Village Voice. October 18-24, 1995

1994
Hagen, Charles, New York Times. Art in Review. January
Hirsch, Faye, Tanya Marcuse --Photographs, Essay for exhibition catalogue,Yoshii Gallery

1993 Foerstner, Abigail , Chicago Tribune. March 12, 1993




Bountiful 2009 [view images]


Fruitless 2005-07 [view images]


Undergarments and Armor 2002-04 [view images]