Tamar Halpern
Born 1979 in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Education
| 2005 | MFA, Columbia University, New York |
| 2003 | BFA, College of Santa Fe, New Mexico |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2012 | Solo show, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, 22 January - 10 March. |
| 2011 | D'Amelio Terras, New York, USA September 2011. |
| 2010 | Short Trip To Nowhere (Part II), D'amelio Terras, New York, 17 April – 19 June. Short Trip To Nowhere (Part I), Office Baroque, Antwerp, March 14-April 24 |
| 2008 | Photographs, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago |
| 2007 | White Room: Tamar Halpern, White Columns, New York |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2011 | NY: New Perspectives, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy, 22 September - 29 October. Nereden Nereye, Galeri Manâ, Istanbul, Turkey Catalogue de l'Exposition / Catalogue of the Exhibition, (curated by Bob Nickas), TRIPLE V, Paris, 13 May - 25 June. Group Show, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL, 14 April – 4 June. |
| 2010 | White Columns 5th Annual Looking Back exhibition, (curated by Bob Nickas), 11 December 2010 - 29 January 2011. Which Witch is Which?, (curated by Ajay Kurian), White Flags, St. Louis, USA, 6 November -18 December, 2010. Greater New York at PS1, New York, 23 May - 18 October Owl Stretching Time (curated by Gyonata Bonvicini), Galerie Nordenhake, berlin, March 19 - April 24 Knight's Move (curated by Fionn Meade), SculptureCenter, New York, May 2- July 26 Pervasive Influence (curated by Mia Nielsen), Contact Photography Festival/Drake Hotel, Toronto In a Paperweight, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago Metamorphoses: Error (curated by Ofri Cnaani), Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv |
| 2009 | Processed: Considering Recent Photographic Practices (curated by Amy Scally), Hunter College, New York From Yarn to Yucca, John Connelly Presents, New York Collection of…, White Columns, New York Palomar: Experimental Photography, Marvelli Gallery, New York Xerox Prints, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago Olio, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago Separate Entities, Museum 52, New York This-Has-Been, On Stellar Rays, New York Photography in the Abstract, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX |
| 2008 | Gallery Artists, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp The Gentle Art of Collapsing the Expanded Field, Atelier Cardenas Bellanger, Paris (curated by Chris Sharp) Maria Antelman, Tamar Halpern, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco Update, White Columns, New York A New High in Getting Low, John Connelly Presents, New York Jeremy Chance & Tamar Halpern & Davis Rhodes, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp |
| 2007 | A New High In Getting Low, Art Forum Berlin, traveled to John Connelly Presents, New York (curated by John Connelly) Distinctive Messengers, House of Campari, New York (catalogue) (curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala) Tamar Halpern, Florian Morlat, Michael Phelan, Eleven Rivington, New York |
| 2006 | Two Friends and So On, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York |
Selected Publications
| 2012 | Jozefien van Beek, 'Sturm und Drang', De Morgen, January 31 |
| 2010 | 'Greater New York', exhibition catalog, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center a MoMA Affiliate, Long Island City, NY. 'Goings on about Town: Knight's Move', The New Yorker, June 7. 'Knight's Move', exhibition catalog, SculptureCenter, New York. Linda Yablonsky, 'Miniskirts, Rubber Bodysuits, Orff Spice MoMA PS1 Extravaganza...', Bloomberg News, May 27. 'Goings on about Town: Tamar Halpern', The New Yorker, May 17. Looking Back, Frieze, January – February.Piper Marshall, Tamar Halpern, Artforum.com, Critics' Pick, April 17 Stripped Down, Tripped Down New York, artist publication |
| 2009 | Vince Aletti, 'Palomar: Experimental Photography', The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, Galleries Chelsea, June 22 2009. 'Goings on about Town: Processed: Considering Recent Photographic Practics', The New Yorker, December 7 2009. Amie Scally, 'Processed: Considering Recent Photographic Practices', exhibition catalog, Hunter College of the City University of New York. Martha Schwendener, 'Contemporary Art Photographers Mess With the Medium', The Village Voice, October 13 2009 Aimee Walleston, 'Photography Wow', New York Times Online Review, June 5. |
| 2008 | Michael Weinstein, 'Tamar Halpern/Tony Wight Gallery', NewCity Chicago, October 30 |
| 2007 | Holland Cotter, 'Tamar Halpern, Florian Morlat, Michael Phelan', The New York Times, October 19 Sara Kessler, 'LES Gallery Scene', Artkrush Magazine, October 17. Karen Rosenberg, 'LES is More', New York Magazine, September 3, p. 114. Joanne Lehan, 'Eye On the Scne', Photography, September, p. 16. |