Maren Hassinger
See Life, 2011. Performance with Ava Hassinger at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Courtesy the artist
Situpons, 2011. Performance at The Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Photo Ava Hassinger
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Los Angeles, California, 1947
Resides: New York, New York
Education: University of California, Los Angeles (M.F.A., 1973); Bennington College (B.A., 1969)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
"Lives," Schmucker Gallery, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania.
2005
"The River," School 33, Baltimore.
2001
"My Hand, This Leaf," David Allen Gallery, Brooklyn.
1996
"Treachery and Consolation," Trans-Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey.
1991
Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York.
1989
"Field," Soho 20 Gallery, New York.
1986
"Blanket of Branches" and "Dancing Branches," Contemporary Arts Forum and Alice Keck Park, Santa Barbara, California.
1981
"Gallery Six: Maren Hassinger," Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
1980
"Beach," Just Above Midtown/Downtown Gallery, New York.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
"Now Dig This!" UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
"Dance/Draw," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
"Material Girls," The Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore.
2010
"Global Africa Project," Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Traveled.
2007
"Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970," Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta.
"At Freedom's Door: Challenging Slavery in Maryland," Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore.
2005
"Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970," Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
1998
"Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949–1979," The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Traveled.
1997
"Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House, Exhibition IV," The First Lady's Sculpture Garden, The White House, Washington, D.C.
1992
"Volume: 6 Contemporary Sculptors," Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York.
1990
"The Decade Show," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
1988
"Art as a Verb," Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Traveled.
1980
"Afro-American Abstraction," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Queens. Traveled.
1978
"New Talent Show," Zabriskie Gallery, New York.
1976
"Hassinger/Mahan," Arco Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles.
Selected Bibliography
2011
Jones, Kellie, ed. NOW DIG THIS: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960–1980. New York: DelMonico Books/Prestel.
2007
Cochran, Rebecca. "Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970," Artforum.com (October 17).
2006
Johnson, Ken. "For a Broad Landscape, an Equally Wide Survey," The New York Times (May 31).
2005
Goodman, Jonathan. "Maren Hassinger," Sculpture Magazine (April).
McNatt, Glen. "River Flows with Heavy Burdens of a Family's Past," Baltimore Sun (July 17).
1998
Dorsey, John. "Cutting Up With: Maren Hassinger, Chief of Sculpture at MICA," Baltimore Sun (December 20).
1997
Dobrzynski, Judith H. "Anonymous Gifts, So Women Artists Won't Be," The New York Times (October 12).
1996
Wei, Lilly. "Maren Hassinger at TransHudson," Art in America (June).
1991
Brenson, Michael. "Maren Hassinger," The New York Times (March 29). Hess, Elizabeth. "Say Good Night, Gracie," The Village Voice (May 21).
1990
Johnson, Ken. "Maren Hassinger at Soho 20," Art in America (May). Smith, Roberta. "Three Museums Collaborate to Sum Up a Decade," The New York Times (May 25).