Martha Rosler
| Martha Rosler | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 29, 1943 Brooklyn, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Brooklyn College, University of California, San Diego |
| Known for | Video art, Installation art, Performance art, writing |
Martha Rosler (born July 29, 1943) is an American artist. She works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. Rosler’s work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war, as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to systems of transport.
Born in Brooklyn, Rosler spent formative years in California, from 1968 to 1980, first in north San Diego county and then in San Francisco. She has also lived and taught in Canada. She graduated from Brooklyn College (1965) and the University of California, San Diego (1974).
Her work and writing have been widely influential. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and has taught photography and media, as well as photo and video history and critical studies, at Rutgers University, where she was a professor for thirty years, and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany.
She serves in an advisory capacity to the departments of education at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (all New York City). She is an Advisory Board board member of the Center for Urban Pedagogy and a Board Member of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New York. She is a former board member of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, New York, as well as a former member of the boards of directors of the Association for Independent Video and Film and the Media Alliance. She is a regular lecturer at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York.
Among her most widely known works are the pioneering videotapes Semiotics of the Kitchen (1974/75), Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained (1977), Losing: A Conversation with the Parents (1977), and, with Paper Tiger Television, Martha Rosler Reads Vogue (1982) and Born to Be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby S/M (1988).
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