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Marco Breuer Biography
Marco Breuer, born in 1966 in Landshut, Germany, received his academic training at the Fachhochschule Darmstadt (1988-92) and the Lette-Verein Berlin (1986-88) in Germany.
He has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe and his work is in numerous collections, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the New York Public Library; the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany.
Marco Breuer is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2006), a Japan-US Friendship Commission/NEA Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship (2005), a Carriage House Residency at the Islip Art Museum (2004), a Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant (2000) and three MacDowell Colony residencies (2003, 2001, 2000). His publication SMTWTFS received wide critical acclaim and a photo-eye Award for Best Photography Book of 2002. In 2007 Aperture published a monograph of Breuer's work titled Early Recordings.
Breuer lives in Upstate New York.
Marco Breuer Selected Reviews and Publications
2010
Euan Kerr, "Photography without a Camera," Morning Edition, Minnesota Public Radio, February 24
2009
Catalogue: "Processed: Considering Recent Photographic Practices," essay by Amie Scally, Hunter College, NY, NY, softcover, pp.9, 20-21, 32, ill. (ISBN 978-1885998-84-8)
"Marco Breuer," The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, May 25, p.12
Book: Lyle Rexer "The Edge of Vision – The Rise of Abstraction in Photography," Aperture, NY, NY,
hardcover, pp.179-180, 201-203, 270-272, ill. (ISBN 978-1597111003)
2008
Catalogue: "Conversations 7 – Marco Breuer, Carter Foster," Pollock Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, softcover, 24 pages, ill.
Eric Bryant, "The New Abstract Photo," ARTNews, March, Volume 107/Number 3, pp.106-113, ill.
Gil Blank, "Early Recordings – Marco Breuer," Whitewall, Winter, issue 8, p.60, ill.
Book: James Elkins "Six Stories from the End of Representation," Stanford University Press, paperback, pp.74-75, 77, 144, ill. (ISBN 978-0804741484)
2007
Rachel Churner, "Marco Breuer, Von Lintel Gallery," Artforum, November, pp.370, ill.
"Marco Breuer," The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, September 17, p.17
"Marco Breuer – fig. 1-9," Blind Spot, Fall/Winter, issue 36, cover and pp.2-3, 6-15, ill. (conversation w/Lyle Rexer)
Mark Alice Durant, "Marco Breuer – Surface Gesture," Dear Dave, Spring, pp.46-55, ill.
Book: "Marco Breuer – Early Recordings," essay by Mark Alice Durant, published by Aperture, NY, NY, hardcover, distributed by D.A.P. (ISBN 978-1597110334)
Jeffrey DeShell, "Notes, Queries on Marco Breuer's Notes, Queries," English Language Notes, Photography and Literature, Fall/Winter 2006, pp.135-142, ill.
2006
"Chelsea Art Museum – "It's not a Photo...," The New Yorker, Art – Museums, August 28, p.10
2005
Vince Aletti, "Marco Breuer, Marked Up," The New Yorker, Critic's Notebook, December 26 & January 2, p.34, ill.
Elisa Turner, "Behind the Lens," The Miami Herald, May 1, p.3M
Book: Gottfried Jäger, Rolf H.Krauss, Beate Reese (ed.) "Concrete Photography," Kerber Verlag, hardcover, pp.206-207, ill. (ISBN 978-3936646740)
2004
Christopher Chambers, "Marco Breuer – Von Lintel Gallery," Flash Art, March/April, p.62, ill.
Farrah Karapetian, "Marco Breuer – (Outward Manifestations of) Something Else," The Brooklyn Rail,
March, p.14, ill.
Vince Aletti, "Marco Breuer," The Village Voice, Voice Choices – Short List, February 25, p.46
2003
Dore Bowen, "Agitate – Negotiating the Photographic Process," Camerawork – A Journal of Photographic Arts, Spring/Summer, pp. 6, 12, 16, 22-23, ill. (incl. CD-ROM w/interview)
Exhibition pamphlet: "In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a Private Collection," essay by Betsy Siersma, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Tabloid catalogue: "Marco Breuer – Excerpts," Davidson College, Davidson, NC, 12 pages, ill.
2002
Jonathan Goodman, "Marco Breuer at Roth Horowitz," Art in America, December, pp.112-113, ill.
Book: Lynne Tillman "This Is Not It," D.A.P., hardcover, pp. 225-235, ill. (ISBN 978-1891024467)
2002 Book: "Unframed – Artists Respond to Aids," powerHouse Books, hardcover, p.98 and p.100, ill.
Book: Gottfried Jäger (ed.) "The Art of Abstract Photography," Arnoldsche Art Publishers, hardcover, p.220 and pp.236-237, ill. (ISBN 978-3897900158)
Nancy Princenthal, "Artist's Book Beat," Art On Paper, July/August, pp.84-85, ill.
A. D. Coleman, "SMTWTFS," Photography In New York, Visual Literacy, May/June, p.52, ill.
Chuck Mobley, "Marco Breuer – Tremors, Ephemera," Camerawork – A Journal of Photographic Arts, Spring/Summer, p.43, ill.
Vince Aletti, "Marco Breuer," The Village Voice, Voice Choices – Short List, April 23, p.75
Kenneth Baker, "Marco Breuer: Errata," San Francisco Chronicle, April 13, p.D1, ill.
Ken Johnson, "Marco Breuer, Observations in Color," The New York Times, Galleries: Uptown, April 12, p.E39
"Marco Breuer," The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, April 8, p.22
Martha Schwendener, "Marco Breuer, Observations in Color," Time Out NY, March 28 – April 4, p.51, ill.
Lisa Hom, "Marco Breuer – Errata," SF Weekly, March 27 – April 2, p. 29
Rachel Churner, "Marco Breuer, Errata at Traywick Gallery," sfstation.com, The Arts, Feature, April, ill.
Book: "Marco Breuer – SMTWTFS," texts by Lynne Tillman, Richard Howard, Adam Klein and others, Roth Horowitz, NY, NY, hardcover, distributed by D.A.P. (ISBN 978-0967077486)
Jacqueline Brody, "Marco Breuer – Counting in Circles," Art On Paper, September/October, cover and pp.42-49, ill.
2001
Francine Koslow Miller, "Marco Breuer," Tema Celeste, May/June, p.90, ill.
Exhibition pamphlet: "Marco Breuer: Circa 1999," essay by Bill Arning, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
2000
Kenneth Baker, "Photographs Whose Subject Is Their Making – Marco Breuer: Pattern and Practice," San Francisco Chronicle, November 18, p.B1, ill.
Catalogue: "Marco Breuer – Tremors, Ephemera," essay by James Elkins, Roth Horowitz, NY, NY, hardcover, 32 pages, ill., distributed by D.A.P. (ISBN 978-0967077435)
Catherine Bindman, "Marco Breuer: For Now," Art on Paper, July/August, pp.58-59, ill.
Vince Aletti, "Space Case – Marco Breuer Investigates Photography's Outer Limits," The Village Voice, March 7, p.67, ill.
Tabloid catalogue: "Marco Breuer – For Now," Esso Gallery, NY, NY, 16 pages, ill.
1999
"Marco Breuer," European Photography, Number 64/65, pp.20-25, ill.
Steven Jenkins, "Phenomena," Camerawork – A Journal of Photographic Arts Spring/Summer, pp.33-35
Glen Helfand, "Marco Breuer, Ellen Carey," San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 10, p.95
Rob Perrée, "Marco Breuer," Kunstbeeld, February, pp.34-37, ill.
Faye Hirsch, "Rethinking Genres in Contemporary Photography," Art on Paper, January/February, pp.26-29, ill.
1998
Robert C. Morgan, "Marco Breuer," Review, May 15, pp.20-21
Bill Arning, "Marco Breuer – Tomorrow Never Comes," Time Out NY, February 12-19, p.49, ill.
Vince Aletti, "Marco Breuer," The Village Voice, Voice Choices – Short List, February 3, p.3
Dominique Nahas, "Marco Breuer – Tomorrow Never Comes," Review, February 1, p.11
1997
Andreas Langen, "Versteckspiel – Marco Breuer bei Fischinger," Stuttgarter Zeitung, March 24, p.11, ill.
Sandra Danicke, "Das Abbild der Spucke – Marco Breuers ungewöhnliche Photogramme,"
Frankfurter Rundschau, March 13, p.25, ill.
Catalogue: "Diverse Visions//photographic perspectives," Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, p.4, ill.
1996
Helen A.Harrison, "Photoworks – Omni Gallery," The New York Times, Long Island Edition, July 21, p.10, ill.
Catalogue: "Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, p.14, ill.
1995
Wilhelm Roth, "Schrecken gehört zum Märchen – Fotoinstallation von Marco Breuer in der Galerie Hänel," Frankfurter Rundschau, August 29, p.21, ill.
Anna Gripp, "Marco Breuer – Anonymous," Photonews – Zeitung für Photographie, February, pp.16-17, ill.
Catalogue: "Artist in the Marketplace," Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, pp.9&12, ill.
1994
Catalogue: "Marco Breuer – Sprachsturz," Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, 36 pages, ill.
Wilhelm Roth, "Lichtermeer und Schattenwelt – Arbeiten von Peter Roehr und Marco Breuer im Fotografie Forum Frankfurt," Frankfurter Rundschau, September 2, p.25, ill.
"Marco Breuer – Not That I Know," Camera Austria, Vol.47/48, p.101, ill.
1993
Catalogue: Borderlines, Deutsche Fototage, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, pp.32-33, ill.
