PENELOPE UMBRICO offers a radical reinterpretation of everyday consumer and vernacular images. Umbrico works “within the virtual world of consumer marketing and social media, traveling through the relentless flow of seductive images, objects, and information that surrounds us, searching for decisive moments—but in these worlds, decisive moments are cultural absurdities.”

Penelope Umbrico’s installations, video, and digital media works utilize photo-sharing and consumer-to-consumer websites as an expansive archive to explore the production and consumption of images. Her work navigates between producer and consumer, local and global, the individual and the collective, with attention to the technologies that are produced by (and produce) these forces. Umbrico’s work has been included in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; MassMoCA, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Mois de la Photo a Montreal, Canada; Art Museum Gosta, Finland; Lodz Photo Festival, Poland; Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Daegu Photography Biennale, Korea; the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; Rencontres d’Arles, France; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia; Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY; International Center of Photography, NY, among many others. Her work is represented in museum collections including the Berkley Museum of Art, CA; Denver Art Museum, CO; Guggenheim Museum, NY; Hyundai Design Library, Seoul, Korea; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Milwaukee Art Museum, MI; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany; Perez Art Museum Miami, FL, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Umbrico is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship; Sharpe-Walentas Studio Grant; Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship; John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award; Deutsche Bank Fellow/New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship; Peter S. Reed Grant; Anonymous Was a Woman Award; and Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship. Her monographs include: Penelope Umbrico (photographs), Aperture (Spring 2011); Range, Aperture (Fall 2014); Out of Order: Used Office Desks and Used Office Plants, RVB Books Paris (Fall 2014), and Out of Order: Bad Display, RVB Books Paris and Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, CH (2016). Umbrico lives and works in NYC. For more information, go to: http://bit.ly/2Lm1TGt