Ellie Ga
b. 1976, New York Lives and works in Stockholm, SE
EDUCATION
| 2004 | MFA, Hunter College, New York |
| 1998 | BFA, Marymount Manhattan College, New York |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 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 |
SELECTED SOLO PERFORMANCES & SCREENINGS
| 2024 | Gyres 1-3 (2019-2020) & Strophe, A Turning (2017) screenings, Festival En temps réel, Le Lavoir Numérique, Gentilly, France |
| 2023 | 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 |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 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 |
COLLECTIVE | 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 |
SELECTED WRITINGS | INTERVIEWS | CONTRIBUTIONS IN PRINT
| 2023 | Animal, Machine, Unfixed Image: Ellie Ga in conversation with Alexandre Estrela, MoMA Magazine, November 3 |
| 2020 | The streets of Lisbon are paved in calçada.,’ The Hoosac Institute |
| 2019 | The Artists’ Artists, Artforum, December, p. 80 |
| 2018 | North Was Here, Ugly Duckling Presse |
| Square Octagon Circle, Siglio Press | |
| “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, Onomatopee 162 | |
| 2017 | Dialogue (with Marcelline Delbecq), Shelter Press |
| 2015 | Joe Donahue, 'Ellie Ga at EMPAC,' WAMC Northeast Public Radio, May 5 |
| Les Soirées Nomades, with Béatrice Gross, Fondation Cartier, Paris, April 27 | |
| 2013 | A Hole to See the Ocean Through, Invalid Format: Anthology of Triple Canopy, Volume 3 |
| 2012 | Mirrors, Doors, code 2.0 Magazine, Fall |
| 2011 | Reading the Deck of Tara, Wrong-Rong Magazine, Issue #1 |
| A Hole to See the Ocean Through, Triple Canopy #11: Default Environments | |
| 2010 | Semaine 2a, Flash Art, March |
| Three Arctic Booklets, edition 50, Ugly Duckling Presse | |
| Ellie Ga: 500 Words, as told to Lauren O'Neill-Butler, artforum.com, March 20 | |
| 2009 | 'Day Photos: Month #2', I know nothing of the weather... catalogue, PNCA |
| 2008 | Tara Lexique, Le Journal du Tara et Damocles, No.4: Printemps Classification of a Spit Stain, edition 500, Ugly Duckling Presse 'Art on the Ice Floes', interview on Radio France, May |
| Reports from a Taranaut, Dispatch, NY | |
| In the Arctic with Tara Expeditions, Alliance Française | |
| 2006 | The Explorers Club Magazine, photographs for Fall issue |
| 2004 | N + 1, photographs, issue number 1 |
| 2000 | Classification of a Spit Stain, edition 25, Women’s Studio Workshop |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
| 2022 | Cyril Neyrat, 'Interview - Quarries,' Marseille International Film Festival, July |
| Amelie Saul, 'Ellie Ga: Quarries,' The Brooklyn Rail, July 13 | |
| John Vincler, 'What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now: Ellie Ga,' The New York Times, July 6 | |
| Johanna Fateman, 'Ellie Ga,' The New Yorker, June | |
| 2020 | Christian Whitworth, 'Catastrophe in a Bottle: Ellie Ga’s Medial Detritus of Drift,' MAST, Vol. 1, No. 2, November |
| Caroline Champetier, ‘Retour sur le FIDMarseille 2020,’ AFC, July 29 | |
| Eva Díaz, 'Viewfinder: In films about gender, advertising, and immigration, the visible hand of women’s labor,' Aperture Magazine, #239, Summer | |
| William S. Smith, 'Climate Change Has Already Transformed Everything About Contemporary Art,' Art in America, May 4 | |
| 2019 | Sophie Kovel, 'What Drifts Ashore: Ellie Ga Interviewed by Sophie Kovel,' BOMB, November 29 |
| Tom McDonough, ‘Ellie Ga, Gyres,’ OSMOS, Issue 19, p. 10 - 15 | |
| Taylor Renee Aldridge, ‘We Ourselves Are Our Prize’: Lasting Works in the Whitney Biennial Evoke | |
| Toni Morrison and Ancestry Through the Ages,’ ARTnews, September 19 | |
| Carlos Kong, ‘Whitney Biennial 2019 Whitney Museum of American Art / New York,’ Flash Art, September 16 | |
| Whitney Biennial 2019, Exhibition Catalog, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
| John Keene, ‘Whitney Biennial,’ Art in America, September | |
| Holland Cotter, ‘The Whitney Biennial: Young Art Cross-Stitched With Politics,’ The New York Times, May 16 | |
| 2018 | Katherine Beaman, 'North Was Here by Ellie Ga: To Draw Maps,' commonplace review, December 30 |
| 'In conversation with Ellie Ga, artist of the intrepid,' by Anna Della Subin, TANK, Issue 77 | |
| Max L. Feldman, 'Ellie Ga's Empire of Texts,' Hyperallergic, November 18 | |
| Paul Maziar, 'Hide-and-Seek Amid the Ruins,' Los Angeles Review of Books, November 17 | |
| Threads Left Dangling, Veiled in Ink, Exhibition Catalog, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna | |
| Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, Exhibition Catalog, Storm King Art Center, New York | |
| Emmy Catedral, ‘Ellie Ga’s Square Octagon Circle,’ BOMB, April 5 | |
| 2017 | Annie Godfrey Larmon, ‘Ellie Ga,’ Artforum, November, p. 248 |
| ‘Threads Left Dangling, Veiled in Ink at Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna,’ cura.magazine, October 24 | |
| Max L. Feldman, ‘Critic’s Pick: Threads Left Dangling, Veiled in Ink,’ Artforum.com, October 23 | |
| Will Heinrich, 'Ellie Ga,' The New Yorker, October | |
| Kaitlyn A. Kramer, 'Ellie Ga: Strophe, A Turning,' The Brooklyn Rail, October 5 | |
| 2016 | Lacey Wozny, ‘Ellie Ga: Square, Octagon, Circle,’ Problems and Provocations pub. by Grand Arts, Kansas City |
| 2015 | ‘In Focus: Ellie Ga,’ by Jennifer Kabat, Frieze, Issue 174, October |
| Patrice Joly, ‘Guest: Ellie Ga,’ 02 Magazine, number 72, winter | |
| 2014 | Colby Chamberlain, 'Ellie Ga,' Artforum, p. 376-7, September |
| Ali Pechman, 'Critic's Picks: Ellie Ga, Four Thousand Blocks', Artforum.com, April 25 | |
| Will Hunt, 'Submerged Ruins: An Interview With Visual Artist Ellie Ga', The American Reader, April 5 | |
| 2013 | Lauren O’Neill-Butler, Square, Octagon, Circle, exhibition pamphlet, Grand Arts, September |
| Clément Dirié, 'L'Evocation par l'image, Entre Souvenirs et Imaginaire', Le Quotidian de L'art, Feb 8 | |
| Michael H. Miller, 'Art of Darkness: Ellie Ga's North Pole Tell-All', GalleristNY.com, Feb 5 | |
| 2012 | Rachel Wetzler, 'The Art of Fieldwork', Rhizome.org, February |
| 2011 | Clemens Krummel, 'The Drift: Ellie Ga’s Layered Performances', Perform a Lecture! Catalogue |
| Lauren O’Neill-Butler, 'This Was Later On', Artfoum, March | |
| Léo Guy-Denarcy, 'Bruits Blancs', Art 21, Winter | |
| 2010 | Doretta Lau, 'Critic's Picks: Ellie Ga, At The Beginning North Was Here', Artforum.com |
| Mimi Luse, 'Nous ne notons pas les fleurs...', Art in America.com, November | |
| Marceline Delbecq, 'At the Beginning North Was Here', Galerie du Jour, Hong Kong, September | |
| 2009 | Denise Dooley, 'Classification of a Spit Stain', Galatea Resurrects #13, December |
| Bryan Stokes, 'Gagarbology', Coldfront Mag, April | |
| John Motley, 'I Know Nothing of the Weather...', Portland Mercury, March |
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 Albright-Knox Art Gallery 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