Ellie Ga
b. 1976, New York Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugual
EDUCATION
| 2004 | MFA, Hunter College, New York |
| 1998 | BFA, Marymount Manhattan College, New York |
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
| 2025 | Pedreiras/Quarries, Ellie Ga & Karin Monteiro, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 2024 | Cagarros Assembly: The Raft, Carlos Machado Museum, Santo André Center, Ponta Delgada, Portugal |
| Quarries, Bureau hosted by Labor, Condo, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| 2023 | Quarries, Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME |
| 2022 | Quarries, Bureau, New York, NY |
| 2021 | Gyres, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 2020 | Gyres, And Other Driftings, The Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Québec, Canada |
| 2017 | Strophe, A Turning, Bureau, New York, NY |
| 2015 | The Fortunetellers, Frac Franche Comté, Besancon, France |
| Square, Octagon, Circle, Le Grand Café Centre d'Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France | |
| 2014 | Pharos, M-Museum, Leuven, Belgium |
| It Was Restored Again, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY | |
| Art Basel, Statements Section, Basel, Switzerland | |
| Four Thousand Blocks, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| 2013 | Square, Octagon, Circle, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO |
| 2012 | Bureau at Liste17, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2011 | At the Beginning North Was Here, Millikin Gallery, Stockholm |
| This Was Later On, Bureau, New York | |
| 2010 | At the Beginning North Was Here, Agnès b.’s Librairie Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2009 | 10:10 (Ten Till Two), Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon |
| 2008 | The Fortunetellers (chapters 1-3), Galerie du Jour, Paris, France |
| 2007 | The Catalogue of the Lost, Montanaberlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| 2005 | Revolve, The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey |
| 2004 | Jalan Scott Condiminiums, Times Square Gallery, New York |
| 2000 | Classification of a Spit Stain, Women’s Studio Workshop, New York |
SOLO PERFORMANCES & SCREENINGS
| 2026 | The Fortunetellers for Cooling Waters — A Video Walk, Areal Böhler, Meerbusch, Germany |
| Quarries, Instituto Alto in partnership with Winter Editions, São Paulo, Brazil | |
| 2025 | A body reflecting the strangeness of touch, Hélène & Édouard Leclerc Fund, Landerneau, France |
| 2024 | Gyres 1-3, Cinema Spoutnik, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Gyres 1-3 and Strophe, A Turning, Festival En temps réel, Le Lavoir Numérique, Gentilly, France | |
| Quarries, The International Festival of Films on Art, Montréal, Quebec | |
| 2023 | Festival FAA—Les Ateliers de Moison, France |
| Age d’Or Festival, Cinematek, Brussels, Belgium | |
| Ancient History, Liv Bugge and Ellie Ga, High Line at 14th Street, New York, NY | |
| 2022 | Quarries, 15th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival, Cinema Village, New York, NY |
| Quarries, The New York Film Festival, Currents Program 2: Fault Lines, New York, NY | |
| Walk&Talk: Cagarros Assembly, Azores Art Festival, Anda&Fala, São Miguel Island, Portugal | |
| Quarries, FIDMarseille, Marseille International Film Festival, Marseille, France | |
| Quarries, invitation from Katinka Bock: Some and any, fleeting, Cahn Kunstraum, Art Basel Parcours Night, Steinentorstrasse 19, Basel, Switzerland | |
| Quarries, Fata Morgana Festival, curated by Béatrice Gross, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France | |
| 2020 | The Catalogue of the Lost (and other Revelations), Fondation Giacometti, Paris, France |
| Gyres 1-3, Le Plateau, Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, France | |
| 2019 | Eureka, a lighthouse play, Flaherty NYC: Surface Knowledge, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY |
| Gyres 1-3, Camden International Film Festival, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME | |
| The Fortunetellers, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| Reading the Deck of Tara, The National Gallery, Skopje, North Macedonia | |
| The Eoliths, The Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France | |
| 2018 | The Eoliths, Bureau, New York, NY |
| The Eoliths, Mount Tremper Arts, Phoenicia, New York, NY | |
| The Fortunetellers, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY | |
| Strophe, A Turning, The Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden | |
| Strophe, A Turning, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Strophe, A Turning, Cinémathèque, Robert-Lynen, Paris, France | |
| 2016 | The Fortunetellers, La Criée, Rennes, France |
| The Fortunetellers, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne/Scènes d’Europe, France | |
| 2015 | Measuring The Circle, Cherry & Lucic, Portland, OR |
| Eureka, a lighthouse play & The Fortunetellers, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York | |
| Eureka, a lighthouse play, EMPAC, Troy, NY | |
| The Fortunetellers, EMPAC, Troy, NY | |
| Reading the Deck of Tara + The Fortunetellers, Frac Franche Comté, Besancon, France | |
| Eureka, a lighthouse play, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| 2014 | Eureka, a lighthouse play, The Kitchen, NY |
| Eureka, a lighthouse play, Playground Festival, Leuven, Belgium | |
| 2013 | The Fortunetellers, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California |
| The Fortunetellers, New Museum, New York | |
| The Fortunetellers, Le Consortium, Dijon, France | |
| 2012 | Square, Octagon, Circle, Fondation Cartier Pour L'art Contemporain, Paris, France |
| The Fortunetellers, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO | |
| Reading the Deck of Tara, Kentucky Museum of Arts & Craft, Louisville | |
| The Catalogue of the Lost (and other revelations), Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum & Goethe, Institute, Alexandria, Egypt | |
| Bureau at Liste17, Basel, Switzerland | |
| 2011 | The Fortunetellers, Playground Festival, Leuven, Belgium |
| The Catalogue of the Lost (and other revelations), Fondation D'Entreprise Ricard, Paris | |
| The Fortunetellers: Arctic Circles, Oslo National Library, Norway | |
| The Fortunetellers, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France | |
| Reading the Deck of Tara, Musée Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France | |
| The Catalogue of the Lost, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine | |
| The Fortunetellers, Signal & Noise Festival, Vancouver, Canada | |
| The Fortunetellers, The Kitchen, New York | |
| The Fortunetellers, The Powerplant, Toronto | |
| The Fortunetellers, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris | |
| 2010 | The Fortunetellers: Part One & Arctic Circles: Ten till Two (10:10), The Berlin Institute for Cultural |
| Inquiry, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2009 | The Fortunetellers, Bruce High Quality Foundation University, New York, PS1 Contemporary Art, New York, NY |
| Museo d’Arte Contemporaneo, Palermo, Italy | |
| Ecole Supérieure des Artes, Bruxelles, Belgium | |
| Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon | |
| The Catalogue of the Lost, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, New York | |
| 2008 | The Fortunetellers, Projekt 0047, Oslo, Norway |
| The Catalogue of the Lost, Kunstakadiem, Oslo, Norway | |
| 2007 | Dispatches from a Taranaut, sound project, Dispatch, New York |
| The Catalogue of the Lost, 16 Beaver, New York, NY | |
| 2006 | The Catalogue of the Lost, Gigantic Art Space, New York |
| The Explorers Club, New York | |
| Exploring the Explorers Club, Swiss Institute/The Armory | |
| The Micro-Explorers Club, The Rubin Museum: Artists on Art, New York |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2026 | Waste: An exhibition about the global pathways of waste, Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany |
| 2025 | Fifteen-Year Anniversary Exhibition, Bureau, New York, NY |
| 2024 | Tara, l’art et la science pour révéler l’Océan, curated by José-Manuel Gonçalvès, Le CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Paris, France |
| 2022 | Looking Back / The 13th White Columns Annual, selected by Olivia Sao, White Columns, New York, NY |
| Alexandria: Past Futures, Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium | |
| IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX | |
| Fata Morgana, curated by Béatrice Gross, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France | |
| 2021 | VIDEONALE.18, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany |
| 2020 | Drive-In, curated by the Henry Art Gallery, On the Boards Parking Lot, Seattle, WA |
| in the ever changing world in which we live…, curated by Maureen Mahony, The Storefront, Bellport, NY | |
| Four Flags Lisboa, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal | |
| Until tomorrow: Ten Years of Bureau, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| 2019 | Voyage aux antipodes, FRAC Franche-Comté, Jussey, France |
| Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| Anonymous is the answer, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje, North Macedonia | |
| Psychogeography, Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY | |
| 2018 | We The People: New Art from the Collection, Alright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
| Un pas de côté vers les confins du monde, Récits d’exploration, Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, France | |
| Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY | |
| Oceans: A Worldview at the Rhythm of the Waves, curated by Stefanie Hessler, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France | |
| 2017 | Threads Left Dangling, Veiled in Ink, curated by Béatrice Gross, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria |
| 2015 | L'Epais Réel, La Criée Centre for Contemporary Arts, Rennes, France |
| Les Traversées, Villa Du Parc Centre d'Art Contemporian, Annemasse, France | |
| Storylines, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY | |
| 2014 | You cannot step twice into the same river, Pump House Gallery, London, UK |
| Someone Like Me, Murray Guy, New York, NY | |
| 2013 | TARA'S 10 YEARS: Views of 20 Artists, Galerie Du Jour, Paris, France |
| ARKTIS, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark | |
| Museum as Hub: Walking Drifting Dragging, New Museum, New York, NY | |
| 2012 | Storytelling as Craft: Chapter One, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts, Louisville, KY |
| (im)possibilities, Visual Art Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin | |
| Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, cur. Borre Saethre & James Hoff, Tidens Krav, Oslo, Norway | |
| 2011 | Wireless, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA |
| Matryoshka, cur. galeria perdida, Recess, New York | |
| Naked Nature, Chateau Vert-Mont, Reuil-Malmason, France | |
| You Have Left your Lotus Pods on the Bus, Blackston Gallery and Anthology Film Archives, NY | |
| Dunkle Wolke, Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn NY | |
| Momentum-The Nordic Biennial, IMAGINE BEING HERE NOW, Moss, Norway | |
| 2010 | The Narrative Arc: Methods in Storytelling, UNT Denton Gallery, Texas |
| We don’t record flowers, said the geographer, Bétonsalon, Paris France | |
| Habitat, cur. Beatrice Gross, 21st/21st Gallery, New York | |
| 2008 | Mois des Photos, Galerie du Jour, Paris, France |
| Storyteller, cur. Elisabeth Byre, Projekt 0047, Oslo | |
| Subject Index, cur. Gabrielle Giattino, Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden | |
| Konstpause, Galerie Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Norway | |
| 2007 | Festival des Urbaines, Espace Basta, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Special Reconaissance, Gigantic Art Space, New York | |
| 2006 | VIPER New Media Festival, Museen fur Gegenwartkunst, Basel, Switzerland |
| 3+3, The Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey | |
| Re-make/Re-Model, with David Adamo, D’Amelio Terras (on-line exhibition) | |
| 2005 | Selections from the Special Collections, Wellesley College |
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
| 2012 | Swans, Amputees, curated by Marcelline Delbecq/Ellie Ga, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France |
| 2010 | Ugly Duckling Presse–17 years, Artbook@ MoMA PS1, New York, NY |
| 2007 | Reports, with David Adamo/Cathleen Chaffee, The Explorers Club, New York, NY |
| 2006 | Fine Print : Alternative Media, MoMA PS1, New York, NY |
| The States, poems by Craig Foltz, photo/concept Ellie Ga, Ugly Duckling Presse | |
| 2004 | Year, co-organizer/curator of artists’ space, Brooklyn, New York, |
| 2000 | Ellie Ga, Boris By the Sea, with Matvei Yankelevich, edition 50, Ugly Duckling Presse |
| 1998 | Ugly Duckling Presse, founding member |
PUBLICATIONS
| 2018 | North Was Here. New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018. |
| Square Octagon Circle. Egremont: Siglio Press, 2018. | |
| 2017 | Delbecq, Marcelline and Ellie Ga. Dialogue. Paris: Shelter Press, 2017. |
| 2010 | Three Arctic Booklets. Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, June 2010. |
| 2009 | Day Photos: Month #2, I know nothing of the weather... Portland: PNCA, 2009. |
| 2008 | Classification of a Spit Stain. Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008. |
| Reports from a Taranaut. New York: Dispatch, 2008. | |
| 2000 | Classification of a Spit Stain. Rosendale: Women’s Studio Workshop, 2000. |
WRITINGS | INTERVIEWS | CONTRIBUTIONS IN PRINT
| 2023 | "Animal, Machine, Unfixed Image: Ellie Ga in conversation with Alexandre Estrela." MoMA Magazine, November 3, 2023. |
| 2020 | "The streets of Lisbon are paved in calçada." The Hoosac Institute, 2020. |
| 2019 | "The Artists’ Artists." Artforum, December, 2019. |
| 2018 | “Bird Flight, Stone Flight, A Thousand Described Routes.” In Navigation. A Publication for a Place Without a Historical Center, Created Continuously Anew In Meetings And Events That Occur In Empowered Spaces, Simultaneously. Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2018. |
| 2015 | Donahue, Joe. "Ellie Ga at EMPAC." WAMC Northeast Public Radio, May 5, 2015. |
| Les Soirées Nomades with Béatrice Gross, Fondation Cartier, Paris, April 27, 2015. | |
| 2014 | "A Hole to See the Ocean Through."In Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, Volume 3. New York: Triple Canopy, January 2014. |
| 2012 | "Mirrors, Doors." code 2.0 Magazine, Fall 2012. |
| 2011 | "Reading the Deck of Tara." Wrong-Rong Magazine, Issue #1, 2011. |
| "A Hole to See the Ocean Through." Triple Canopy #11: Default Environments, March 3, 2011. | |
| 2010 | "Semaine 2a." Flash Art, March 2010. |
| "Ellie Ga: 500 Words, as told to Lauren O'Neill-Butler." artforum.com, March 20, 2010. | |
| 2008 | "Tara Lexique." Le Journal du Tara et Damocles, No.4: Printemps, 2008. |
| "Art on the Ice Floes." Interview on Radio France, May 2008. | |
| Reports from a Taranaut. New York: Dispatch, 2008. | |
| "In the Arctic with Tara Expeditions." Alliance Française, 2008. | |
| 2006 | The Explorers Club Magazine, photographs for Fall issue, 2006. |
| 2004 | N + 1, photographs for issue number 1, 2004. |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| 2022 | Saul, Amelie. “Ellie Ga: Quarries.” The Brooklyn Rail, July 13, 2022. |
| Vincler, John. “What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now: Ellie Ga.” The New York Times, July 6, 2022. | |
| Neyrat, Cyril. “Interview - Quarries.” Marseille International Film Festival, July 2022. | |
| Fateman, Johanna. “Ellie Ga.” The New Yorker, June 2022. | |
| 2020 | Whitworth, Christian. “Catastrophe in a Bottle: Ellie Ga’s Medial Detritus of Drift.” MAST, November 2020. |
| Díaz, Eva. “Viewfinder: In films about gender, advertising, and immigration, the visible hand of women’s labor.” Aperture Magazine, Summer 2020. | |
| Champetier, Caroline. “Retour sur le FIDMarseille 2020.” AFC, July 29, 2020. | |
| Smith, William S. “Climate Change Has Already Transformed Everything About Contemporary Art.” Art in America, May 4, 2020. | |
| 2019 | Kovel, Sophie. “What Drifts Ashore: Ellie Ga Interviewed by Sophie Kovel.” BOMB, November 29, 2019. |
| Aldridge, Taylor Renee. “‘We Ourselves Are Our Prize’: Lasting Works in the Whitney Biennial Evoke Toni Morrison and Ancestry Through the Ages.” ARTnews, September 19, 2019. | |
| Kong, Carlos. “Whitney Biennial 2019 Whitney Museum of American Art / New York.” Flash Art, September 16, 2019. | |
| Keene, John. “Whitney Biennial.” Art in America, September 2019. | |
| Cotter, Holland. "The Whitney Biennial: Young Art Cross-Stitched With Politics." The New York Times, May 16, 2019. | |
| McDonough, Tom. “Ellie Ga, Gyres.” OSMOS, 2019. | |
| Whitney Biennial 2019. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2019. | |
| 2018 | Beaman, Katherine. “North Was Here by Ellie Ga: To Draw Maps.” commonplace review, December 30, 2018. |
| Feldman, Max L. “Ellie Ga's Empire of Texts.” Hyperallergic, November 18, 2018. | |
| Maziar, Paul. “Hide-and-Seek Amid the Ruins.” Los Angeles Review of Books, November 17, 2018. | |
| Catedral, Emmy. “Ellie Ga’s Square Octagon Circle.” BOMB, April 5, 2018. | |
| Ga, Ellie. “In Praise of Drift: In conversation with Ellie Ga, artist of the intrepid.” by Anna Della Subin. TANK, 2018. | |
| Indicators: Artists on Climate Change. New York: Storm King Art Center, 2018. | |
| Threads Left Dangling, Veiled in Ink. Vienna: Galerie Emanuel Layr, 2018. | |
| 2017 | Larmon, Annie Godfrey. “Ellie Ga.” Artforum, November 2017. |
| “Threads Left Dangling, Veiled in Ink at Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna.” cura.magazine, October 24, 2017. | |
| Feldman, Max L. “Critic’s Pick: Threads Left Dangling, Veiled in Ink.” Artforum.com, October 23, 2017. | |
| Kramer, Kaitlyn A. “Ellie Ga: Strophe, A Turning.” The Brooklyn Rail, October 5, 2017. | |
| Heinrich, Will. “Ellie Ga.” The New Yorker, October 2017. | |
| 2016 | Wozny, Lacey. “Ellie Ga: Square, Octagon, Circle.” In Problems and Provocations. Kansas City: Grand Arts, 2016. |
| 2015 | Kabat, Jennifer. “In Focus: Ellie Ga.” Frieze, October 2015. |
| Joly, Patrice. “Guest: Ellie Ga.” 02 Magazine, Winter 2015. | |
| 2014 | Chamberlain, Colby. “Ellie Ga.” Artforum, September 2014. |
| Pechman, Ali. “Critic's Picks: Ellie Ga, Four Thousand Blocks.” Artforum.com, April 25, 2014. | |
| Hunt, Will. “Submerged Ruins: An Interview With Visual Artist Ellie Ga.” The American Reader, April 5, 2014. | |
| 2013 | Dirié, Clément. “L'Evocation par l'image, Entre Souvenirs et Imaginaire.” Le Quotidian de L'art, February 8, 2013. |
| Miller, Michael H. “Art of Darkness: Ellie Ga's North Pole Tell-All.” GalleristNY.com, February 5, 2013. | |
| 2012 | Wetzler, Rachel. “The Art of Fieldwork.” Rhizome.org, February 2012. |
| 2011 | Guy-Denarcy, Léo. “Bruits Blancs.” Art 21, Winter 2011. |
| Krummel, Clemens. “The Drift: Ellie Ga’s Layered Performances.” Perform a Lecture! Catalogue, 2011. | |
| O’Neill-Butler, Lauren. “This Was Later On.” Artforum, March 2011. | |
| 2010 | Luse, Mimi. “Nous ne notons pas les fleurs…” ArtinAmerica.com, November 2010. |
| Delbecq, Marceline. “At the Beginning North Was Here.” Galerie du Jour, Hong Kong, September 2010. | |
| Lau, Doretta “Critic's Picks: Ellie Ga, At The Beginning North Was Here.” Artforum.com, 2010. | |
| 2009 | Dooley, Denise. “Classification of a Spit Stain.” Galatea Resurrects, December 2009. |
| Stokes, Bryan. “Gagarbology.” Coldfront Mag, April 2009. | |
| Motley, John. “I Know Nothing of the Weather…” Portland Mercury, March 2009. |
GRANTS & AWARDS
| 2022 | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 2014 | Swedish Research Council Three Year Grant for Artistic Research and Development |
| 2011 | Mejan Resident, Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2008 | Artist in Residence, Polar Expedition, TARA |
| 2007 | The Fund for Contemporary Art: Emergency Projects Grant |
| 2006 | National Endowment of the Arts Publication Grant |
| The Pearlman Photography Grant | |
| The Jerome Foundation Publication Grant | |
| 2002 | The Albert Murray Trust Foundation Grant |
| 2000 | Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Grant |
| 1999 | Friends of the Hermitage Study Grant, St. Petersberg, Russia |
RESIDENCIES
| 2018 | Mount Tremper Arts, Phoenicia, New York |
| 2013 | Artist Residency, EMPAC, Rensselaer University, New York |
| Artist Residency, Cites des Arts, Paris, France | |
| 2012 | Artist Residency, Kentucky Museum of Arts & Craft, US |
| Course in Marine Archaeology and Maritime Heritage, Alexandria Univ., Egypt | |
| 2011-12 | Mejan Residency, Royal Art Academy, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2007-8 | Tara, scientific research vessel, Arctic Ocean |
| 2005-6 | The Explorers Club, New York |
| 2003 | Summer Institute of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria |
| 2005 | The Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey |
| 2000 | Women’s Studio Workshop, New York |
COLLECTIONS Buffalo AKG Art Museum Fondation Galeries Lafayette The Fluentum Collection Frac Franche-Comté Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Hessel Museum of Art Moderna Museet The New York Public Library Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Whitney Museum of American Art