Mary Beth Edelson

Born 1933 in East Chicago, IN
Lives and works in New York, NY

  • Installation view, Mary Beth Edelson, “Shape Shifter,” David Lewis, New York, 2019
  • Installation view, Mary Beth Edelson, “Shape Shifter,” David Lewis, New York, 2019
  • Installation view, Mary Beth Edelson, “Shape Shifter,” David Lewis, New York, 2019
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Light/Dark Sophia” (front), 1974-1975, Painted plywood, 96 x 48 inches, 243.8 x 121.9 cm, MBE810
  • Mary Beth Edelson, Untitled, 1974-1975, Painted plywood, 96 x 48 inches, 243.8 x 121.9 cm, MBE801
  • Mary Beth Edelson, Untitled, 1974-1975, Painted plywood, 96 x 48 inches, 243.8 x 121.9 cm, MBE812
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Grapçeva Neolithic Cave: See for Yourself,” 1977, Silver gelatin print, Image Dimensions: 19 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches, 50.2 x 50.2 cm, Framed Dimensions: 21 x 21 inches, 53.3 x 53.3 cm, MBE151
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Public Ritual,” (n.d.), Silver gelatin print, Framed Dimensions: 21 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches, 54 x 54 cm, MBE846
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “The Nature of Balancing,” 1979, Two silver gelatin prints, Image Dimensions (Each): 19 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches 49.5 x 49.5 cm, Framed Dimensions (Each): 21 3/4 x 21 3/4 inches, 55.2 x 55.2 cm, MBE417
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Cliff Hanger,” 1978, Three silver gelatin prints, Framed Dimensions (Each): 21 3/4 x 21 3/4 inches, 55.2 x 55.2 cm, MBE018
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Shaking The Grass,” 1977, Three silver gelatin prints, Framed Dimensions (Each): 20 7/8 x 20 7/8 inches, 53 x 53 cm, MBE591
  • Installation view Mary Beth Edelson: Nobody Messes With Her, curated by Merle Radke, Kunsthalle Münster, Münster, Germany, 2018-2019
  • Installation view Mary Beth Edelson: Nobody Messes With Her, curated by Merle Radke, Kunsthalle Münster, Münster, Germany, 2018-2019
  • Installation view Mary Beth Edelson: Nobody Messes With Her, curated by Merle Radke, Kunsthalle Münster, Münster, Germany, 2018-2019
  • Installation view Mary Beth Edelson: Nobody Messes With Her, curated by Merle Radke, Kunsthalle Münster, Münster, Germany, 2018-2019
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “In Exile,” 1989, Acrylic, fabric, and collage on canvas, 129 x 228 x 3/4 inches, 327.7 x 579.1 x 1.9 cm, MBE153
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “To the Rescue (Woman Rising series)”, 1973, Oil and ink on silver gelatin print, Image Dimensions: 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, Framed Dimensions: 17 x 15 x 1 3/4 inches, 43.2 x 38.1 x 4.4 cm, MBE454
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Ana Mendieta,” 1990, Oil and mixed media on canvas, 96 x 72 inches, 243.8 x 182.9 cm, MBE176
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Purveyor of Hope,” 1989, Oil on canvas with wood frame and lightbulbs, 96 x 72 inches, 243.8 x 182.9 cm, MBE003
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Woman Rising/Earth,” 1971-1973, Oil and china marker on nine silver gelatin prints, Image Dimensions (Each): 5 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches, 14.9 x 14.9 cm, Framed Dimensions: 28 x 28 x 1 1/4 inches 71.1 x 71.1 x 3.2 cm, MBE077
  • Installation view, Mary Beth Edelson, Solo presentation, Frieze London, Sex Work: Feminist Art and Politics, 2017
  • Installation view, Mary Beth Edelson, Solo presentation, Frieze London, Sex Work: Feminist Art and Politics, 2017
  • Installation view, Mary Beth Edelson, Solo presentation, Frieze London, Sex Work: Feminist Art and Politics, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Venus Rising,” 1975-1977, Ink and collage on paper, Framed Dimensions:, 31 1/2 x 25 x 1 3/4 inches, 80 x 63.5 cm, MBE314
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Quilt - Corn Goddess,” 1975-1977, Ink and collage on paper, Framed Dimensions: 25 x 37 x 1 3/4 inches, 63.5 x 94 x 4.4 cm, MBE315
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Women Rising,” 1975-1977, Ink and collage on paper, Framed Dimensions: 24 3/4 x 36 3/4 x 1 3/4 inches, 62.9 x 93.3 x 4.4 cm, MBE407
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Hot Date (Movie Star series)”, 1993, Ink and collage on board, 12 x 10 inches, 30.5 x 25.4 cm, MBE326
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Cool Cat,” 1998, Ink and collage on board, 12 x 10 inches, 30.5 x 25.4 cm, MBE328
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Sigourney Weaver Aliens #2,” 1995, Ink and collage on board, 12 x 10 inches, 30.5 x 25.4 cm, MBE332
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Untitled (Happy Birthday America),” (n.d.), Ink, watercolor, and graphite on paper, 12 x 10 inches, 30.5 x 25.4 cm, MBE336
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “You 5,000 Years Are Up (Death of the Patriarchy series),” (n.d.), Ink and graphite on paper, 12 x 10 inches, 30.5 x 25.4 cm, MBE338
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Untitled (Bobbitt series),” 1993, Watercolor and silk screen on paper, 6 3/4 x 6 inches, 17.1 x 15.2 cm, MBE344
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Kali Bobbitt: The Poise,” 1993, Watercolor on paper, 7 3/4 x 6 inches, 19.7 x 15.2 cm, MBE342
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Concentric Circles: It's Up to You (Mythology series),” 1970, Mixed media on paper, 36 x 36 inches, 91.4 x 91.4 cm, MBE378
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Climbing To The Moon,” 1970, Mixed media on board, 30 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches, 76.8 x 76.8 cm, MBE898
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Watch The Serpent,” 1970, Mixed media on board, 30 1/3 x 30 1/2 inches, 77 x 77.5 cm, MBE899
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “First Light,” 1970, Mixed media on board, 24 x 24 inches, 61 x 61 cm, MBE909
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Best in Show (WACK: Art of the Feminist Revolution),” 2008, Ink and collage on book cover on paper, 11 x 27 1/2 inches, 55.9 x 43.2 cm, MBE393
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Spirit Maze, Mind Maze, Body Maze, Earthwork,” c. 1975, Pencil, ink, and china marker on paper, Framed Dimensions: 26 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches, 67.3 x 54.6 cm, MBE757
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Her Spirit To Cover Us All, Body Of The Great Mother To Cover The Earth,” 1977, Gouache, pen, and colored pencil on board, 10 x 12 inches, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, MBE725
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Body Of the Great Mother To Cover A Continent Her Spirit To Cover World,” 1978, Mixed media on board, Image Dimensions: 30 1/4 x 38 inches, 76.8 x 96.5 cm, Framed Dimensions: 35 1/4 x 41 inches, 89.5 x 104.1 cm, MBE848
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Great Goddess: The List Series,” 1971, Mixed media on board, 29 3/4 x 28 1/4 inches, 75.6 x 71.8 cm, MBE912
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Seeing Double (Woman Rising series)”, 1973, Oil, ink, china marker, and collage on silver gelatin print, 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, MBE098
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Dematerializing in Fire Ring”, 1975, Silver gelatin print gouged with sharp point, 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, MBE100
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Double Shells (Woman Rising series)”, 1973, Oil, ink, and china marker on silver gelatin print, Image Dimensions: 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, Framed Dimensions:17 x 15 x 1 3/4 inches, 43.2 x 38.1 x 4.4 cm, MBE451
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Many Breasted Great Mother (Lucy Lippard) (Woman Rising Series)”, 1973/2016, Oil, ink, china marker, and collage on silver gelatin print, Image Dimensions: 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, Framed Dimensions: 17 x 15 x 1 3/4 inches, 43.2 x 38.1 x 4.4 cm, MBE452
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Patriarchal Piss: Swing In The Wind”, 1973, Oil, ink, and china marker on silver gelatin print, Paper Dimensions: 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, Framed Dimensions: 17 x 15 x 1 3/4 inches, 43.2 x 38.1 x 4.4 cm, MBE453
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Write By The Tail/Bite The Tail/I Bite/Belly Snakes (Woman Rising series)”, 1973, Oil, ink, china marker, and collage on silver gelatin print, Image Dimensions: 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, Framed Dimensions: 17 x 15 x 1 3/4 inches, 43.2 x 38.1 x 4.4 cm, MBE460
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Hounds of Hell (Woman Rising series)”, 1973, Oil, ink, and china marker on silver gelatin print, Image Dimensions: 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, Framed Dimensions: 17 x 15 3/4 inches, 43.2 x 40 cm, MBE462
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Monday's Prayer: Dinner Party (Woman Rising series)”, 1973, Oil, ink, china marker, and collage on silver gelatin print, Image Dimensions: 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, Framed Dimensions: 17 x 15 x 1 3/4 inches, 43.2 x 38.1 x 4.4 cm, MBE466
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Burning Bright (Woman Rising Series)”, 1973, Oil, ink, china marker, and collage on silver gelatin print, Image Dimensions: 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, Framed Dimensions: 17 x 14 x 1 3/4 inches, 43.2 x 35.6 x 4.4 cm, MBE469
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Sheela's Secret Weapon (Woman Rising series)”, 1973, Oil, ink, china marker, and collage on silver gelatin print, Image Dimensions: 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, Framed Dimensions: 17 x 15 x 1 3/4 inches, 43.2 x 38.1 x 4.4 cm, MBE474
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Dematerializing (Woman Rising series)”, 1973, Oil and ink on silver gelatin print, Image Dimensions: 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, Framed Dimensions: 17 x 15 x 1 3/4 inches, 43.2 x 38.1 x 4.4 cm, MBE487
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Winter Saga: Viking with Time on Her Hands (Woman Rising series)”, 1973, Oil, ink, china marker, paper collage, and glitter on silver gelatin print, 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, MBE491
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Hero's Journey”, 1975, Oil, ink, and collage on silver gelatin print, Image Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, 19.1 x 19.1 cm, Framed Dimensions: 17 3/4 x 14 3/4 x 1 3/4 inches, 45.1 x 37.5 x 4.4 cm, MBE014
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Giving Birth to Myself”, 1975, Ink and china marker on silver gelatin print, Image Dimensions: 6 x 6 inches, 15.2 x 15.2 cm, Framed Dimensions: 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 3/4 inches, 31.8 x 31.8 x 1.9 cm, MBE019
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “O’Kevelson”, 1973, China marker on silver gelatin print, 30 x 16 inches, 76.2 x 40.6 cm, MBE527
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Untitled”, 1973-Present, Ink, marker and paper mounted on canvas, Dimensions variable, MBE434
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Staging The Revolution”, 1972, Ink and collage on canvas, 15 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches, 39.4 x 44.5 cm, MBE061
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Bloomers Series”, 1972, Ink and collage on canvas, 13 x 16 inches, 33 x 40.6 cm, MBE065
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Staging The Revolution Series: The Bride of Frankenstein as Mercury with her Girls”, 1976, Ink and collage on canvas, 16 x 16 1/2 inches, 24.1 x 15.2 cm, MBE071
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Staging The Revolution Series: Ready Still”, 1972, Ink and collage on canvas, 13 x 15 inches, 33 x 38.1 cm, MBE072
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Grace Jones Series: Pink Body”, 1980, Ink and collage on canvas, 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, 26.7 x 19.1 cm, MBE050
  • Mary Beth Edelson, “Faith of Our Mothers Series - Purple Rose”, 1975, Ink and collage on canvas, 7 1/2 x 7 inches, 19.1 x 17.8 cm, MBE039
  • Installation view, Mary Beth Edelson, "The Devil Giving Birth to the Patriarchy," David Lewis, New York, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson, "Red Kali (from the Woman Rising series)," 1973, Oil, china marker, ink on silver gelatin print 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm
  • Installation View, Mary Beth Edelson, "The Devil Giving Birth to the Patriarchy," David Lewis, New York, 2017
  • Installation View, "Woman: The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s," group exhibition curated by Garbriele Schor, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, 2016
  • Mary Beth Edelson, "Some Living Woman Artists/ Last Supper," 1972, Cut-and-pasted gelatin silver prints with crayon and transfer type on printed paper with typewriting 43 x 28.25 inches, 109.22 x 71.76 cm
  • Installation View, "Greater New York, MoMA PS1," New York, 2015
  • Mary Beth Edelson, "Woman Rising/Sky," 1973, China marker on photograph
  • Installation view, "Mary Beth Edelson: Six Stoy Gathering Boxes (1972-2014)", Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, 2014-15
  • Mary Beth Edelson, "Venus with Viking Tendencies," 2011, Collage on canvas, 30 x 48 inches, 76.2 x 121.92 cm
  • Installation view, "WACK!: Art of the Feminist Revolution," group exhibition curated by Connie Butler, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2007
  • Installation view, Mary Beth Edelson retrospective, "A Well Lived Life," Malmö Kunstmuseum, Malmö Sweden, 2006
  • Installation view, Mary Beth Edelson survey, "Re-Scripting the Story," University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, 2002
  • Installation view, Mary Beth Edelson, "Combat Zone: Campaign HQ Against Domestic Violence," sponsored by Creative Time, New York, 1994
  • Installation View, "Vanishing Presence," group exhibition curated by Adam Weinburg, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1989
  • Installation view, "A Survey of the Photographs of Mary Beth Edelson," Wright State University, Ohio, 1983
  • Installation view, Mary Beth Edelson, "Proposals for: Memorials to 9,000,000 Women Burned as Witches in the Christian Era," A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 1977
  • Mary Beth Edelson, "Pluto; Sticking My Tongue Out at the Patriarchy," 1975, Series of three photographs with china marker and fire ring, 20 x 20 inches, 50.8 x 50.8 cm, MBE526
  • Mary Beth Edelson, "Goddess Tribe with Fire Ring," 1974-5, Paint on custom cut plywood board
  • Mary Beth Edelson, "Goddess Head/Soft from Femfolio," 1973, Silver gelatin fiber print, oil paint and ink, 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm

Solo Exhibitions

  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Shape Shifter
    David Lewis, New York
    March 03—April 21, 2019
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Nobody Messes with Her
    curated by Merle Radke
    Kunsthalle Münster, Münster, Germany
    December 15, 2018—March 10, 2019
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    The Devil Giving Birth to the Patriarchy
    David Lewis, New York
    February 02—March 26, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson, Feminist Humor as Political Device
    Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University, NJ
    March 28—May 07, 2015
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson: Six Story Gathering Boxes (1972 - 2014)
    curated by Amy Smith-Stewart
    The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
    October 19, 2014—April 05, 2015
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    There's Never Only One Game In Town
    The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX
    2011
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Making Eye Contact
    University of Illinois, IL
    2010
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    A Life Well Lived
    Malmö Museum, Malmö, Sweden
    2006
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Utopiana
    a collaboration with the historic utopian village of New Harmony, Indiana and South Indiana University
    2006
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Making Eye Contact
    community wide performance
    Lofoten International Art Festival, Lofoten, Norway
    2006
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Humans, Fucking Humans
    curated by Tor Inge Kveum and Gören Christenson
    Lofoten International Art Festival, Loften, Norway
    January 01, 2004
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Home-Made Root Beer
    Malmö Museum, Malmö, Sweden
    2000
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Trickster: A Proposition for a Retrospective
    Agency Gallery, London
    1997
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Female Perversion
    2-person show with Yvette Brackman, curated by Heike Munder
    Halle für Kunst, Berlin, Germany
    1997
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Some Living American Woman Artists
    Nicolai Wallner Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
    January 01, 1996
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Combat Zone: Campaign HQ Against Domestic Violence
    Creative Time, New York
    1994
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    In Your Face: Politics of the Body and Personal Knowledge
    2-person show with Kiki Smith
    A/C Projects, New York
    1992
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Salvage Utopia
    A/C Project Room, NY
    1991
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Shape-Shifter: the Art of Mary Beth Edelson
    University of Tennessee
    1989
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Shape-Shifter: the Art of Mary Beth Edelson
    Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island, NY
    1989
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Shape-Shifter: the Art of Mary Beth Edelson
    Fort Wayne Art Museu, Fort Wayne, IN
    1989
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Shape-Shifter: the Art of Mary Beth Edelson
    Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
    1989
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Shape-Shifter: the Art of Mary Beth Edelson
    Emison Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
    1989
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Dream On...
    Washington Project for the Arts
    Washington D.C.
    1989
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Fish in the Sky
    curated by Lasse Antonsen
    Danforth Museum, Boston, MA
    1986
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Phases of the Loon
    curated by Edward Leffingwell
    MoMA P.S.1, New York
    1986
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    New Work: A Future Vision
    Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    1983
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Pollyanna Perverse
    A.I.R. Gallery, New York
    1983
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    A Survey of Photographic Works by Mary Beth Edelson
    Wright State University, Dayton, OH; traveled to N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL; Herron School of Art Gallery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
    1981
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    The Archaeology of Trickster Rabbit (in Re-cycled time), from the Immodest Trickster series
    A.I.R Gallery and Max Hutchinson Gallery
    1981
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Unfinished Plans for Utopia
    Elise Meyer
    1981
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson: Recent Work
    exhibition with performance
    Albright-Knox Art Gallery
    1980
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    The Nature of Balancing
    exhibition with performance
    A.I.R. Gallery
    1979
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Story Gathering Boxes
    Franklin Furnace
    1978
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Proposals for: Memorials to the 9,000,000 Women Burned as Witches in the Christian Era
    exhibition with performance
    A.I.R. Gallery
    1977
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Giving Myself a Five Year Retrospective
    A.I.R. Gallery
    1975

Group Exhibitions

  • SUM Artists
    Visual Diagrams and Systems-Based Explorations
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Matthew Deleget and Rossana Martinez
    Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
    February 15—June 14, 2020
  • Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Filipa Ramos
    Baltic, Gateshead, UK
    November 16, 2019—April 19, 2020
  • The Pleasure Principle
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Maccarone, Los Angeles, California
    September 21—November 23, 2019
  • Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s: Works from the Verbund Collection
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Centre De Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
    July 19—December 01, 2019
  • Men of Steel, Women of Wonder
    Mary Beth Edelson
    San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
    June 21—September 01, 2019
  • Animalesque / Art Across Species And Beings
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Filipa Ramos
    Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
    June 14—October 20, 2019
  • Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Jonathan Weinberg, Tyler Cann, and Drew Sawyer
    Grey Art Gallery and Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY

    organized by Columbus Museum of Art

    April 24—July 21, 2019
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
    March 13—May 11, 2019
  • Men of Steel, Women of Wonder
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Alejo Benedetti
    Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
    February 09—April 22, 2019
  • Territorios que Importan (Territories that Matter)
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Centro de Arte y Naturaleza
    Huesca, Spain
    October 18, 2018—January 20, 2019
  • Laid Bare in the Landscape
    Mary Beth Edelson
    The Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
    September 29, 2018—January 27, 2019
  • The Assassination of Leon Trotsky
    James Beckett, Hans Bellmer, Willie Cole, Thornton Dial, Mary Beth Edelson, Leon Golub, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Todd Gray, Jeffrey Joyal, Megan Marrin, Nancy Spero, Manuel Solano, Paul Thek, Portia Zvavahera, David Wojnarowicz
    David Lewis, New York
    September 16—November 04, 2018
  • Waking the Witch
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Legion Projects
    Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales
    September 15—November 07, 2018
  • Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
    August 23, 2018—March 31, 2019
  • Woman: Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Curated by Gabriele Schor
    ZKM Centre for Art and Media Technology,Karlsruhe, Germany
    November 18, 2017—April 01, 2018
  • To a Body
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Curated by Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff
    Shoot the Lobster, New York
    November 11—December 22, 2017
  • Woman: Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Curated by Gabriele Schor
    mumok - Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna, Austria
    May 06—September 03, 2017
  • Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s
    Mary Beth Edelson
    The Photographers' Gallery, London
    October 07, 2016—January 29, 2017
  • Gay Gotham: Art of Underground Culture in New York
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Curated by Stephen Vider
    Museum of the City of New York, New York
    2016
  • Cock, Paper, Scissors
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by David Evans Frantz
    ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, CA
    2016
  • Cock, Paper, Scissors
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Leslie Lohman Museum, NY
    2016
  • Pretty Raw: After And Around Helen Frankenthaler
    Mary Beth Edelson
    The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
    2015
  • Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Achim Hochdörfer and David Joselit with Manuela Ammer
    Museum Brandhorst, Münich, Germany; traveled to Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
    2015
  • Greater New York
    Mary Beth Edelson
    MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
    2015
  • MFTA Loves NYC: A Retrospective of Creative Reuse
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Materials For The Arts, Queens, NY
    2015
  • The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
    2015
  • Woman: The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Gabriele Schor
    Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Austria; traveled to Paleis voor Schone Kunsten/Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
    2014
  • L'Heure des Sorcières
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Le Quartier, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Quimper, Quimper, France
    2014
  • NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star
    Mary Beth Edelson
    New Museum, New York
    2013
  • Female Power: Matriarchy & Utopia
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands
    2013
  • Me. Myself. Naked. (Sie. Selbst. Nackt.)
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany
    January 01, 2013
  • Washington Art Matters: Art Life in the Capital 1940-1990
    Mary Beth Edelson
    American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
    2013
  • Doin' It In Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
    2011
  • Still Films
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Lance Blomgren
    Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery, Yukon, Canada
    2011
  • Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Museum of Modern Art, New York
    2010
  • The End
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Eric Shiner
    Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
    2009
  • WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Connie Butler
    Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; traveled to Women's Museum, Washington D.C.; Vancouver Museum, Canada; MoMA PS1, Museum of Modern Art, New York
    2007
  • Gender Battle, CGAC
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Juan Vicente Aliaga
    Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    2007
  • How American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism: 1970-1975
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
    2006
  • Mothers of Invention
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Carola Dertnig
    MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
    2003
  • Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Donna De Salvo
    Tate Gallery, London
    2001
  • Border Collaborations: Reneé Green, Jimmie Durham, Douglas Gordon, Tony Oursler, Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Malmö Art Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebœk, Denmark; and Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
    2000
  • Picturing the Modern Amazon
    Mary Beth Edelson
    New Museum, New York
    2000
  • Contemporary Classicism
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York; traveled to the Tampa Museum, Tampa, FL
    1999
  • Leonardo Lives
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
    1997
  • Vraiment Feminisme et Art
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Laura Cottingham
    Le Magasin - Centre National D'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
    1997
  • Original Visions
    Mary Beth Edelson
    with Agnes Martin, Pat Steir, Carrie Mae Weems, Magdalena Abakanowitz and Mary Beth Edelson
    McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, MA
    1997
  • Eye of the Beholder, Avon Collection
    Mary Beth Edelson
    International Center of Photography, New York
    1997
  • Love Gasoline
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
    1996
  • Sniper's Nest: Art that has Lived With Lucy R. Lippard
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Neery Melkonian, donated by Lippard to Fine Arts Musuem of Santa Fe, NM
    Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
    1995
  • Object Choice
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Ken Gonzales Day and Andrew Perchuk
    Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
    1992
  • The Fetish of Knowledge
    Mary Beth Edelson
    A/C Project Room, New York
    1992
  • Censored in the USA: Seeing Red, White and Blue
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Visual Arts Center of Alaska
    1992
  • Sprungin Die Zeit
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Berlinische Galeria, Berlin, Germany
    1992
  • Vanishing Presence
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Adam Weinberg
    Walker Art Center, MN; traveled to Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, MI; High Museum, Atlanta, GA; Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell Uniersity, Ithaca, NY; and Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
    1989
  • Committed to Print
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Deborah Wye
    MoMA, NY
    1989
  • Photography and Performance 1989
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
    1989
  • Four Artists: Mary Beth Edelson, Martin Puryear, Italo Stanga, Robert Stackhouse
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
    1989
  • Resistance or Submission
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Manon Blanchette
    Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada; traveled to London Regional Gallery, London; Walter Phillips Gallery, Canada; and the Mendel Art Gallery, Canada
    1986
  • Spare Parts
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Materials for the Arts, NY
    1983
  • New York Painting Today
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Donald Kuspit and Elaine King
    Pittsburgh Glass Works, Pittsburgh, PA
    1983
  • Contemporary Performance
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Mary Jane Jacob
    Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
    1980
  • Your 5,000 Years Are Up!
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Arlene Raven
    Mandeville Gallery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
    1977
  • Nothing But Nudes
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Whitney Museum (Downtown), NY
    1977
  • Contact: Women and Nature
    Mary Beth Edelson
    curated by Lucy lippard
    Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, CT
    1977
  • Contemporary Women: Consciousness and Content
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Brooklyn Museum School, Brooklyn, NY
    1977
  • Women's Art - American Art
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Philadelphia Museum at the Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA
    1974
  • Contemporary Reflections
    Mary Beth Edelson
    The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT
    1974
  • Passage Environment
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
    1973
  • Patterns
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
    1968

News

  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Can a Porn Website Liberate Women in Art?
    Hyperallergic
    by Natatlie Haddad
    November 16, 2019
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Around New York: On Some of the Season’s Best Shows, From Hilma af Klint to Mary Beth Edelson
    Artnews
    by Maika Pollack
    May 24, 2019
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    The Endangered Unruly: Dodie Bellamy on the art of Mary Beth Edelson
    Artforum
    by Dodie Bellamy
    May 2019
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now
    The New York Times
    by Roberta Smith
    April 10, 2019
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson
    The New Yorker
    by Andrea K. Scott
    April 08, 2019
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Considering Mary Beth Edelson's Some Living Women Artists
    Brooklyn Rail
    Kat Griefen
    March 07, 2019
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson: Nobody Messes With Her
    Spike
    by Alexander Scrimgeour
    January 2019
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    The feminist history of women artists taking nudes in nature
    Dazed
    by Lexi Manatakis
    September 29, 2018
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    WOMAN Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s
    Works from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna
    curated by Gabriele Schor
    Stavanger Art Museum, Norway
    June 15—October 14, 2018
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Feminist Icon Mary Beth Edelson's SoHo loft digitally preserved
    NY1
    May 16, 2018
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    How Women Are Using Digital Platforms to Find Parity in the Arts
    Margaret Carrigan
    April 2018
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    18 feminist artists Emma Watson loves and you will too
    Vogue
    March 2018
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Hummadruz
    Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn
    March 03—June 02, 2018
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    FRIEZE IS READY FOR THIS: IMPRESSIONS OF ‘SEX WORK: FEMINIST ART & RADICAL POLITICS’
    by Marta Klara Sadowska
    November 01, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Frieze Tate Fund acquisitions 2017
    Frieze
    October 11, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    50 Events You Must Not Miss at Frieze London
    BLOUIN ARTINFO
    October 08, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    New Section for 'Sex Work' at Frieze London
    BLOUIN ARTINFO
    October 07, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Day Two- Frieze London 2017
    Glass Magazine
    Allie Nawrat
    October 06, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Frieze News Round-up: Sales "Robust"; Tate Acquisitions: Stand Prizes
    BLOUIN ARTINFO
    Mark Beech
    October 05, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    The Tate Announces the Winners of Its Frieze London Buying Spree
    Artnet News
    By Caroline Elbaor
    October 04, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    The Women To Watch At Frieze 2017
    Vogue
    Olivia Marks
    October 04, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    ARTISTS FOR POLITICAL SANITY: An Anti-Trump Artist Collective
    BLOUIN ARTINFO
    Taylor Dafoe
    October 04, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Sex Work: a riot of body fluids, condom balloons and Day-Glo dick aliens
    The Guardian
    Skye Sherwin
    October 01, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Confronting the Norm
    Cultured Magazine
    Rachel Small
    October 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Venus Envy
    Frieze Week
    by Rachel Middleman and Alison Gingeras
    September 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Frieze frame: graphic sex and female sexuality under spotlight at art fair
    The Guardian
    By Mark Brown
    September 19, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Have At It: A Post-Trump New York Looks at How Images, Ideas, and Resources Circulate
    ArtNews
    Liz Hirsch
    May 17, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Artforum
    Alex Kitnick
    May 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Frieze
    by Debra Lennard
    March 17, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson at David Lewis
    Contemporary Art Daily
    March 11, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Art in America
    written by William S. Smith
    February 23, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Must See: Mary Beth Edelson "The Devil Giving Birth to the Patriarchy" Feb 5 - Mar 19, 2017
    Artforum
    February 11, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Constructing Paradise or the Devil Giving Birth to the Patriarchy?
    Art F City
    written by Michael Anthony Farley
    January 30, 2017
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    'Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s' at the Photographers' Gallery, London
    ARTnews
    December 16, 2016
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Weddings, ovens and Jesus in heels: the savage wit of the avant-garde feminists
    The Guardian
    October 07, 2016
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson: My Favorite and Most Disturbing
    The Brooklyn Rail
    by Ann McCoy
    December 09, 2015
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    A Tale of Two Cities: The Old Guard meets a new crop in “Greater New York.”
    The New Yorker
    By Andrea K. Scott
    November 02, 2015
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    At 'Greater New York,' Rising Art Stars Meet the Old School
    New York Times
    by Holland Cotter
    October 15, 2015
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    At Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Conversation Between Works and Over Decades
    New York Times
    By Susan Hodara
    December 19, 2014
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Ten Tough Women Artists Who Stand Up To The Bad Boys
    ARTnews
    by Robin Cembalest
    October 29, 2013
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Artforum
    Prudence Peiffer
    May 2013
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson: '22 Others'
    The New York Times, Art in Review
    by Karen Rosenberg
    April 04, 2013
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Artforum
    Kate Sutton
    March 30, 2013
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Artforum
    as told to Lauren O'Neill-Butler
    November 10, 2011
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    The Venus of Long Island City
    New York Magazine
    by Jerry Saltz
    March 27, 2008
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution
    by David Weinstein
    March 01, 2008
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Sense of a Woman: Contemporary Art's Founding Mothers Star in this Survey of Feminist Art
    TimeOut
    by Kate Lowenstein
    February 13, 2008
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    The Art of Feminism as It First Took Shape
    New York Times
    by Holland Cotter
    February 09, 2007
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson: A Well Lived Life
    HD 150 ÅR
    by Jonas Ellerström
    May 24, 2006
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    It Is Time for Action (There Is No Option)
    curated by Heike Munder
    Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
    2006
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Feminism at 40
    Carey Lovelace
    May 01, 2003
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Die Collage Als Spottidiom Die Monografie Der Künsterlin Mary Beth Edelson
    Texte Zur Kunst
    Susanne Leeb
    June 01, 2002
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    ART REVIEW; A Show With Touches Of Humor and Anger
    New York Times
    By Phyllis Braff
    March 24, 2002
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Artforum
    by Kirby Gookin
    March 1995
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    An Open Letter to Thomas McEvilley
    The New Art Examiner
    Mary Beth Edelson
    April 01, 1989
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Artforum
    by Jeanne Silverthorne
    January 1984
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Art in the Dark
    Artforum
    by Thomas McEvilley
    1983
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Artforum
    by Shelley Rice
    December 1980
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Artforum
    Judith Lopes Cardozo
    January 01, 1978
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson
    Artforum
    by Alan Moore
    December 1975
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson's Great Goddess
    DC Arts Magazine
    Jack Burnham
    November 01, 1975

Publications

  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Dis Papa, c'était quoi le patriarcat?
    Anne Larue
    Editions IXE
    2013
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
    Cornelia Butler and Lisa Gabrielle Mark
    MIT Press
    2007
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Women's Culture in a New Era: A Feminist Revolution?
    Gayle Kimball
    Scarecrow Press
    2005
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art
    Lucy R. Lippard
    New Press
    1995
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Firsthand: Photographs by Mary Beth Edelson 1973-1993 and Shooter Series
    Mary Beth Edelson
    1993
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    No Reverse Gear
    Jan Avgikos
    1993
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Shape-Shifter: Seven Mediums
    Mary Beth Edelson
    1990
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Excerpt from Vanishing Presence
    Adam D. Weinberg
    Walker Art Center and Rizzoli
    1989
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Mary Beth Edelson: An Introduction
    Donald Kuspit
    1983
  • Mary Beth Edelson
    Seven Cycles: Public Rituals
    Mary Beth Edelson
    1980