Ellen Harvey

Born:
1967
Residence:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Nationality:
British
Trust:
APT New York
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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • If thousands of years from now aliens landed in the crumbling ruins of Washington, D.C., what would they make of it? Ellen Harvey has a wild

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  • This summer, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design will present Ellen Harvey: The Alien’s Guide to the Ruins of Washington, D.C.

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  • When Ellen Harvey was a small child living with her family in Frankfurt, her parents regularly took her to art museums all over Europe. In France,

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  • If thousands of years from now aliens landed in the crumbling ruins of Washington, D.C., what would they make of it? Ellen Harvey has a wild

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  • This summer, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design will present Ellen Harvey: The Alien’s Guide to the Ruins of Washington, D.C.

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  • What makes flesh sexual, beautiful, comical? Ellen Harvey explored the consequences of nudity in porn, art and mass-produced kitsch in her recent

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  • It felt dumb as soon as I said it last night: "I`ll have to come back to see the actual art." Of course no one expects to really take in the art at

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  • Against the dead-flat grey sea, framed by Manning’s seafood stall (established 1962), stands a cluster of deceptively shed-like structures

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  • In a place as saturated with diverse artistic traditions as New Mexico, the creative process is bound to involve a complex dialogue with the past.

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  • Around the time Goethe wrote his first bestseller, The Sorrows of Young Werther (and Thomas Paine Common Sense), a bizarre device became popular among tourists in the natural world:

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  • This summer, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design will present Ellen Harvey: The Alien’s Guide to the Ruins of Washington, D.C..

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  • Arnolfini is celebrating its 50th anniversary with one of its most thought-provoking, genuinely moving

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  • In the summer of 2009, I went to Margate to report on the seaside town's plans for regeneration: grandiose plans that involved the building of an art

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  • Ellen Harvey’s Nudist Museum doesn’t have any actual live nudes roaming the galleries. But it does feature the British-born, Brooklyn-based artist’s interpretation of every single work of art

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  • In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions in New York and Tokyo. Our selection includes painting, photography, installation, a festival celebrating Freud's 'Totem and Taboo' series of essays published in 1913 through performance, screenings and lectures and an exhibition focused on the Ruins of Washington D.C.

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  • The British artist Ellen Harvey is on hand for the opening of The Nudist Museum, her highly stylized renderings of the 54 nude portraits

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  • Locks Gallery presents Arcade/Arcadia, an installation by Ellen Harvey, on view June 1st through July 13th, 2012.

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BIOGRAPHY

Ellen Harvey (b. 1967 Kent, England) attended the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program in New York in 1999. She is also a graduate of Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut (1993), Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1989), and studied at Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany (1990). Selected solo exhibitions include Empty Collections, Meessen De Clerq Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2009). Beautiful Ruin, curated by Ika Sienkiewsz-Nowaska, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (2009), The Museum of Failure, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY (2007). Selected group exhibitions and art fairs include Alive, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY. (2009), Art Basel (Galerie Gebruder Lehmann), Basel, Switzerland (2008), Armory Art Fair (Galerie Gebruder Lehmann), New York, NY (2008), Whitney Biennial 2008 curated by Shamim Momin & Henriette Huldisch, Whitney Museum & Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY (2008). Recent awards and grants include the Pennies From Heaven Grant, The New York Community Trust, New York (2007), Artist's Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York (2004). Selected public collections include the 
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA, and the
 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

Ellen Harvey is represented by DODGEgallery in New York, Galerie Magnus Müller in Berlin, Germany, and Galerie Gebruder Lehmann in Dresden, Germany. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.


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