Penelope Umbrico took the audience on an exploration of images published on online marketplaces and image-based social media platforms while elaborating on her approach and methodology. She focused on appropriating and recontextualising collections of networked images to give them new meaning.
Screen Walk with Penelope Umbrico
Screen Walks is a new series of live-streamed artist/researcher-led explorations of online spaces and artistic strategies designed to illuminate a thriving—often overlooked—digital cultural scene. A new online collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery, UK, and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
Penelope Umbrico’s installations, video and digital media works utilise 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 exhibited at MoMA PS1, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; MassMoCA, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Art Museum Gosta, Finland; Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Daegu Photography Biennale, Korea; Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; Rencontres d’Arles, France; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; among many others, and is represented in museum collections around the world. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Grant, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award. Her monographs have been published by Aperture NYC and RVB Books Paris.
