Barbara Bloom

Born 1951 in Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in New York, NY

  • Barbara Bloom, "Travel Posters (No Journalists)," 1981, Archival digital print, 30 x 24 inches, 76.2 x 61 cm, Edition of 10
  • Installation View, "Barbara Bloom: Framing Wall," Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2015
  • Installation View, Barbara Bloom, "As it were … So to Speak: A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom," Jewish Museum, 2013
  • Barbara Bloom, "Thank You bbbbrrrruuuuuuucccccceeeee," 2010, Wax, silver charm bracelet, paper box, Overall: 54 x 28 x 25 inches, 137.2 x 71.1 x 63.5 cm, Edition of 5, with 2 AP
  • Barbara Bloom "Steinway Piano Carpet," 2010, Wool rug, 90 x 72 inches, 228.6 x 182.9 cm, Edition of 15, with 2 AP
  • Barbara Bloom, "Songs of the Waves," 2008, Archival digital print, 24 x 30 inches, 61 x 76.2 cm, Edition of 3, with 2 AP
  • Barbara Bloom, "Confessional," 2007, Six digital-prints, tack of five chairs, velvet curtains and fixtures, 31 x 25 inches, 78.7 x 63.5 cm
  • Barbara Bloom, "Balance #5 (Green Act)," 2001, Digital print in colored matte with broken glass embedded in Plexiglass, 41 1/8 x 31 1/8 x 2 inches, 104.5 x 79.1 x 5.1 cm, Edition of 3, with 2 AP
  • Barbara Bloom, "Safe," 1999, framed digital print hinged onto wall; wall safe mounted into wall, 19 x 23 inches, 48.3 x 58.4 cm
  • Barbara Bloom, "Corner: Italian Garden," 1998, Chromogenic print, two-colored matte, 22 x 28 inches, 55.9 x 71.1 cm, Edition of 2, with 2 AP
  • Installation view, "The French Diplomat’s Office," The Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2014
  • Barbara Bloom, "Globe," 1995/2017, Raised-relief paper globe, metal base, blackboard paint, enamel, chalk, 16 x 12 x 12 inches, 40.6 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm
  • Barbara Bloom, "Crittall Metal Windows," 1972, Silkscreen, 24 3/16 x 33 7/8 inches, 61.4 x 86 cm, Edition of 10

Solo Exhibitions

  • Barbara Bloom
    A Picture, A Thousand Words
    David Lewis, New York
    May 05—June 25, 2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    Two Artists Books by Barbara Bloom with Susan Tallman
    Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont
    April 04—May 21, 2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Weather
    Capitain Petzel, Berlin
    November 05, 2016—January 07, 2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    Framing Wall
    Museum of Modern Art, New York
    November 20—December 20, 2015
  • Barbara Bloom
    The French Diplomat's Office
    The Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
    May 09—June 28, 2014
  • Barbara Bloom
    As it Were ... So to speak: A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom
    The Jewish Museum, New York
    March 15—August 04, 2013
  • Barbara Bloom
    Half-Full, Half-Empty
    Dia Art Foundation, web project
    June 26, 2008
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Collections of Barbara Bloom
    International Center of Photography, New York
    January 18—May 04, 2008
  • Barbara Bloom
    Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
    2007
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Collections of Barbara Bloom
    ZKM Museum of Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
    2006
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Collections of Barbara Bloom
    Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
    2006
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Gaze, 1985-1992
    The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
    August 06—September 17, 2000
  • Barbara Bloom
    Pictures from the Floating World
    Leo Castlli Gallery, New York
    May 30—July 01, 1995
  • Barbara Bloom
    Never Odd or Even
    Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
    1992
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Tip of the Iceberg
    Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
    1991
  • Barbara Bloom
    Signate, Signa, Temere Me Tangis Et Angis
    Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
    1991
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Reign of Narcissism
    Serpentine Gallery, London
    August 01—September 09, 1990
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Reign of Narcissism
    Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
    March 31—May 27, 1990
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Reign of Narcissism
    Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
    1990
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Reign of Narcissism
    Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
    1989
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, The Netherlands
    1987
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Gaze
    Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    1985
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Diamond Lane
    Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    1980

Group Exhibitions

  • An American City: Eleven Exercises
    Barbara Bloom
    FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art 2018
    Cleveland, OH
    July 14—September 30, 2018
  • Picture Industry
    Barbara Bloom
    Curated by Walead Beshty
    Hessel Museum of Art at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
    June 24—December 15, 2017
  • moving is in every direction. Environments - Installations - Narrative Spaces
    Barbara Bloom
    Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
    March 17—September 17, 2017
  • De Toi à la surface / Surfaces of you
    Barbara Bloom
    curated by François Aubart
    Frac de Ile-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris
    January 21—April 10, 2016
  • Individual Stories: Collecting as Portrait and Methology
    Barbara Bloom
    Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Austria
    June 26—October 11, 2015
  • Nirvana. Les étranges formes du plaisir
    Barbara Bloom
    MUDAC Musée de design et d'arts appliqués contemporains, Lausanne
    October 29, 2014—April 26, 2015
  • Global Positioning Systems
    Barbara Bloom
    Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL
    August 19, 2014—August 15, 2015
  • The St. Petersburg Paradox
    Giovanni Anselmo, Jean Arp, Ericka Beckman, Barbara Bloom, Alex Mackin Dolan, Marcel Duchamp, Cayetano Ferrer, Douglas Gordon, John Miller, Kaspar Müller, Sarah Ortmeyer, Tabor Robak, and Amalia Ulman
    The Swiss Institute
    May 28—August 17, 2014
  • La disparation des lucioles (The disappearance of the fireflies)
    Barbara Bloom
    Collection Lambert
    Sainte-Anne Prison, Avignon, France
    May 18—November 25, 2014
  • Physical & Virtual Bodies
    Barbara Bloom
    Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands
    February 15—April 21, 2013
  • Brute
    Barbara Bloom
    Carpenter Center for Visual Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    February 14—April 07, 2013
  • The Artists' Postcard Show
    Barbara Bloom
    Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom
    April 06—June 17, 2012
  • Art: The Language of Less
    Barbara Bloom
    Castellani Art Museum
    February 12—July 24, 2012
  • GLASSTRESS 2011
    Barbara Bloom
    Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy
    2011
  • Making Histories: Changing Views of the Collection
    Barbara Bloom
    temporary stedelijk 2, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
    2011
  • Books on Books
    Barbara Bloom
    Swiss Institute, NY
    2011
  • Atlas. How to Carry the World on One's Back?
    Barbara Bloom
    ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
    2011
  • The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991
    Barbara Bloom
    Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
    January 15—December 31, 2011
  • The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984
    Barbara Bloom
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    April 21—August 02, 2009
  • TRESSPASSING
    Houses X Artists [Part 1]
    Barbara Bloom
    MAK: The Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
    January 29—April 13, 2003
  • Just Past: The Contemporary In MOCA's Permanent Collection 1975-96
    Barbara Bloom
    Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
    September 29, 1996—January 19, 1997

News

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    Contemporary Art Daily
    June 22, 2017
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    The New Yorker
    June 2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    Barbara Bloom, "A Picture, A Thousand Words"
    Time Out NY
    May 18, 2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    Le scoperte di Independent e Adaa a New York
    Il Sole 24 Ore
    by Sara Dolfi Agostini
    March 05, 2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    Best Booths from Independent New York 2017
    Blouin Artinfo
    By Taylor Dafoe
    March 04, 2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    Independent fair delivers on diversity and quality with early sales
    The Art Newspaper
    by Dan Duray
    March 03, 2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    Is Independent the Best Art Fair in New York?
    Observer
    by Guelda Voien
    March 03, 2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    What to See at New York's Art Fairs This Week
    The New York Times
    by Jason Farago and Martha Schwendener
    March 02, 2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    10 Picks from Independent New York 2017
    Interview Magazine
    by Cedar Pasori
    March 02, 2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    Independent New York 2017: Kitchen Sinks Welcome
    Arcade Project
    Audra Lambert
    March 02, 2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Women Artists Taking Over Armory Week 2017
    W Magazine
    by Stephanie Eckardt
    March 01, 2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    Independent New York 2017: Kitchen Sinks Welcome
    Arcade Project
    by Audra Lambert
    March 2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    Preview Independent New York 2017
    ArtNews
    by Maximilíano Durón
    February 28, 2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Atmospheric Pressure in “Reading” Barbara Bloom
    Mitch Speed
    January 06, 2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    David Lewis Gallery Now Represents Barbara Bloom
    ArtNews
    by Alex Greenberger
    November 21, 2016
  • Barbara Bloom
    Barbara Bloom, Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
    Frieze
    by Barbara Casavecchia
    July 01, 2016
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    New exhibitions at MoMA worth visiting
    Washington Square News
    by Tony Schwab
    December 03, 2015
  • Barbara Bloom
    Vague "Nouvelle Vague"
    all that glitters is not gold.org
    June 22, 2014
  • Barbara Bloom
    Artsdesk Roundup: Barbara Bloom, Eva Rothschild, RHA
    Totally Dublin
    May 15, 2014
  • Barbara Bloom
    Propaganda für die Wirklichkeit / Propaganda for Reality
    curated by Dr. Stefanie Kreuzer
    Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
    February 02—May 04, 2014
  • Barbara Bloom
    Barbara Bloom: The Jewish Museum
    ARTFORUM
    by Lauren O'Neill-Butler
    October 01, 2013
  • Barbara Bloom
    'As It Were ... So to Speak: A Museum Collection in Dialogue With Barbara Bloom' at the Jewish Museum
    GalleristNY
    by Maika Pollack
    April 23, 2013
  • Barbara Bloom
    Barbara Bloom at The Jewish Museum
    Performa Magazine
    by Liz Moy
    April 01, 2013
  • Barbara Bloom
    As It Were ... So To Speak: A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom
    The New Yorker, Goings on About Town: Art
    March 30, 2013
  • Barbara Bloom
    She Makes Objects Speak, and They Won't Stop Arguing
    The New York Times
    by Karen Rosenberg
    March 21, 2013
  • Barbara Bloom
    Speak, Memory, Kvetch
    The New York Times
    Julie Lasky
    March 13, 2013
  • Barbara Bloom
    A Museum Broadens Its Identity
    The New York Times
    by Allan Kozinn
    February 12, 2013
  • Barbara Bloom
    Freud's Cigar Box Goes on View at the Jewish Museum
    GalleristNY
    by Michael H. Miller
    January 24, 2013
  • Barbara Bloom
    "Glasstress New York: New Art from the Venice Biennales" Presents The Spirit Of A Challenging New Medium
    Huffpost Arts & Culture
    February 28, 2012
  • Barbara Bloom
    Artist Project: Barbara Bloom
    Frieze
    by Susan Tallman
    April 01, 2011
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Presence of Presents
    DERZEIT / Fashion Week Berlin Daily
    by Rachel Blatt
    August 07, 2010
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    Barbara Bloom, "Present"
    Time Out New York
    by Claire Barliant
    June 24, 2010
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    New Yorker
    June 07, 2010
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    ARTINFO
    by Andrew Russeth
    June 03, 2010
  • Barbara Bloom
    Rush Week
    ARTFORUM
    by Linda Yablonsky
    May 11, 2010
  • Barbara Bloom
    EVR DJ Oskar Mann hosts NYC art party, Saturday evening, May 8
    EVR
    May 08, 2010
  • Barbara Bloom
    Galleries Being Galleries, but More So
    The New York Times
    by Roberta Smith
    May 06, 2010
  • Barbara Bloom
    Mise en Scene
    Art Review
    by Chris Sharp
    March 01, 2010
  • Barbara Bloom
    At the Met, Baby Boomers Leap Onstage
    The New York Times
    by Holland Cotter
    April 23, 2009
  • Barbara Bloom
    Photo Play: The Social Life of the Pictures Generation
    Art in America
    by Linda Yablonsky
    April 03, 2009
  • Barbara Bloom
    'The Collections of Barbara Bloom', Martin Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin
    Afterall
    by Antonia von Schoening
    January 22, 2009
  • Barbara Bloom
    Personal Effects, A chronologically scrambled exhibition of Barbara Bloom's work evokes an estate auction -- and an identity whose elusiveness only increases with exposure
    Art in America
    by Nancy Princenthal
    November 01, 2008
  • Barbara Bloom
    Installing an Identity
    The Wall Street Journal
    by J.S. Marcus
    October 31, 2008
  • Barbara Bloom
    Curator's Voice: Barbara Bloom on Barbara Bloom
    ARTINFO
    by Kris Wilton
    March 27, 2008
  • Barbara Bloom
    POSSESSED: Softly Treading Between Taste and Art
    The New York Times
    by David Colman
    March 16, 2008
  • Barbara Bloom
    International Center of Photography
    The New Yorker
    March 10, 2008
  • Barbara Bloom
    A Portrait of the Artist, in Bits and Pieces
    The New York Times
    by Ken Johnson
    February 08, 2008
  • Barbara Bloom
    Barbara Bloom at Tracy Williams
    Art in America
    by Edward Leffingwell
    December 2007
  • Barbara Bloom
    Barbara Bloom at Tracy Williams, LTD.
    ARTFORUM
    Johanna Burton
    September 2007
  • Barbara Bloom
    Barbara Bloom "Takes One to Know One"
    The New York Times
    by Roberta Smith
    June 15, 2007
  • Barbara Bloom
    Barbara Bloom "Takes One to Know One"
    TimeOut NY
    by Joshua Mack
    June 14, 2007
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Minute
    artnet
    by Abraham Orden
    June 07, 2007
  • Barbara Bloom
    Best in Show: Between Vermeer and the Lightning Rod
    The Village Voice
    by R.C. Baker
    April 23, 2007
  • Barbara Bloom
    ART/ARCHITECTURE; A Glimpse Through the Walls of Privacy
    The New York Times
    by Linda Yablonsky
    May 06, 2001
  • Barbara Bloom
    Barbara Bloom 'Broken'
    The New York Times, Art in Review
    by Ken Johnson
    April 18, 2001
  • Barbara Bloom
    Art Review: Barbara Bloom, The Gaze
    TimeOut NY
    by Peter Nagy
    August 31, 2000
  • Barbara Bloom
    ART REVIEW; Art Rediscovers a Home on the Upper East Side
    The New York Times
    by Roberta Smith
    April 30, 1999
  • Barbara Bloom
    Barbara Bloom - 'The French Diplomat's Office'
    The New York Times
    by Grace Glueck
    April 09, 1999
  • Barbara Bloom
    Barbara Bloom
    BOMB No. 54
    by Kiki Smith
    1996
  • Barbara Bloom
    Bloom's 'Floating World' of Fluid, Intrusive Detail
    The Los Angeles Times
    by Susan Kandel
    December 14, 1995
  • Barbara Bloom
    Footbirdge to a New Dimension
    Los Angeles Times CALENDAR
    by Kristine McKenna
    December 10, 1995
  • Barbara Bloom
    Private and public -- Barbara Bloom's latest installation of art
    Art in America
    by Susan Tallman
    September 1995
  • Barbara Bloom
    Barbara Bloom - 'Pictures from the Floating World'
    The New York Times
    by Holland Cotter
    June 30, 1995
  • Barbara Bloom
    Barbara Bloom - 'Pictures from the Floating World'
    The New York Times
    by Holland Cotter
    June 30, 1995
  • Barbara Bloom
    Barbara Bloom: A Collection
    Grand Street
    by Howard Halle
    1993
  • Barbara Bloom
    Barbara Bloom and Her Art of Entertainment
    David Riminelli
    October 1989
  • Barbara Bloom
    Esprit de L'Escalier: Prints by Barbara Bloom
    Art in Print
    by Susan Tallman
    May 16, 1988

Publications

  • Barbara Bloom
    A Picture, A Thousand Words
    Barbara Bloom
    David Lewis
    2017
  • Barbara Bloom
    As it were...So to speak: A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom
    The Jewish Museum, New York
    2013
  • Barbara Bloom
    John Baldessari/Barbara Bloom: Between Artists
    A.R.T. Press, New York
    2010
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Collections Of Barbara Bloom
    Steidl International Center of Photography, New York
    2008
  • Barbara Bloom
    Flash Cards
    The Renaissance Society, Chicago
    2003
  • Barbara Bloom
    Revised Evidence: Vladimir Nabokov's Collection of Inscriptions, Annotations, Corrections, and Butterfly Descriptions
    Barbara Bloom
    Glenn Horowitz, New York
    1999
  • Barbara Bloom
    Soundtrack to The French Diplomat's Office
    Barbara Bloom and Christian Marclay
    Peter Blum Edition, New York
    1999
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Collections of Barbara Bloom
    Donna De Salvo and Barbara Bloom
    Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
    1998
  • Barbara Bloom
    Pictures From The Floating World
    Susan Tallman
    A.G.D. LIBROS, Bilbao
    1998
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Passions of Natasha, Nokiko, Nicole, Nanette and Norma
    Barbara Bloom and Shelley Hirsch
    Cantz Verlag, Stuttgart
    1993
  • Barbara Bloom
    Never Odd or Even
    Verlad Silke Schreiber, Munich
    1991
  • Barbara Bloom
    The Reign of Narcissism
    Wurtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; The Serpentine Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich
    1990
  • Barbara Bloom
    Ghost Writer
    Künstlerprogramm des DAAD
    1988
  • Barbara Bloom
    Esprit De L'escalier
    Hallwalls, Buffalo
    1988