2023 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Martha Rosler

Saturday, March 18, 2023 @ 9:00am, Grand Ballroom I

"What does this have to do with photography?" The early years of the SPE Women's Caucus

Brooklyn-based artist Martha Rosler works in photography, video, and other media. Her work often addresses matters of the public sphere and landscapes of everyday life--actual and virtual--especially as they affect women. Rosler attained her BA from Brooklyn College and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. She has had solo exhibitions at various institutions, internationally and in the U.S., including the Seattle Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centro José Guerrero, Granada; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Dia Art Foundation, New York. A retrospective of her work traveled to 7 institutions in Europe and the United States between 1998 and 2000. The Jewish Museum, New York, mounted a survey show in 2018. Rosler has published 17 books of photography, art, and writing, in several languages. Honors and awards include 4 NEA awards; Honored Educator, Society for Photographic Education Mid-Atlantic region; Spectrum International Prize in Photography, Germany; Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Grant; U.S. Artists Nimoy Fellow (Photography); Guggenheim Museum Lifetime Achievement Award; College Art Association Distinguished Feminist Award; Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award; and four doctorates honoris causa.