biography of Ellen CAREY (1952)
Personal data
Birth : 1952 - New York NY New York, United States
Sex : F
Nationality/Affiliation : France
Address
New York NY New York, United StatesEducation
1975 : Kansas City Art Institute (BFA) – 4415 Warwick Boulevard – Kansas City MO, United States
1978 : State University of New York (MFA) – 1300 Elmwood Avenue – Buffalo NY, United States
1970 : The Art Students League of New York – 215 West 57th Street – New York NY, United States
Professional data
Work and Life
Lives and works in New York NY, USA
Lives and works in Hartford CT, USA
Work
Categorie and medium
Photography : Polaroid 
Drawing-Watercolor : Mixed media/paper Subject
familyportrait
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
Solo exhibitions
2002
The Mourning Wall
The Museum of Contemporary Photography – Columbia College Chicago – Chicago IL, United States
03/22/2002 – 05/18/2002
2001
Real Art Ways – Hartford CT, United States
2001
1999
Traywick Gallery – Berkeley CA, United States
1999
1998
Ricco / Maresca Gallery – New York NY, United States
1998
1997
Family Portrait/Birthday Portrait
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art – Cleveland OH, United States
1997
Mauritz Gallery – Columbus OH, United States
1997
1996
Photography Degree Zero
Ricco / Maresca Gallery – New York NY, United States
1996
1978
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center – Buffalo NY, United States
1978
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Group exhibitions
1999
The Agency of Meaning: a Survey of Contemporary Works in Collection
Burchfield-Penney Art Center – Buffalo State College – Buffalo NY, United States
1999
Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography
Ansel Adams Center – San Francisco CA, United States
1999
Phenomenon
Ansel Adams Center – San Francisco CA, United States
1999
Photography’s multiple roles: art, document, market, science
Ansel Adams Center – San Francisco CA, United States
1999
1998
Artists who happen to be Photographers
Nina Freudenheim Gallery – Buffalo NY, United States
1998
1997
Eye of the Beholder; Photographs from the Avon Collection
International Center of Photography Midtown – New York NY, United States
1997
The Big Picture Show
Albright Knox Art Gallery – Buffalo NY, United States
1997
Diverse Visions, photographic perspectives
Pittsburgh Center For The Arts – Pittsburgh PA, United States
1997
1996
From Transition to Abstraction
Center for Photography at Woodstock – Woodstock NY, United States
1996
Collecting in the 90s
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art – Hartford CT, United States
1996
Delirium
Ricco / Maresca Gallery – New York NY, United States
1996
1995
Alternatives: Twenty Years of Hallways 1975-1995
Burchfield-Penney Art Center – Buffalo State College – Buffalo NY, United States
1995
Moholy-Nagy and Present Company
The Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago IL, United States
1995
Abstract Photographs
Baltimore Museum of Art – Baltimore MD, United States
1995
Content and Discontent in Today’s Photography
Bruce Museum – Greenwich CT, United States
1995
Trsuting in Magic, Nine Photographers
Kingsborough Community College City University – Brooklyn, New York NY, United States
1995
Not a Metaphor
Art Projects International – New York NY, United States
1995
1994
The Camera I: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sidney Irmas Collection
Akron Art Museum – Akron OH, United States
1994
4+4+4=95
Charter Oak – Hartford CT, United States
1994
The Abstract Urge
The Friends of Photography – San Francisco CA, United States
1994
The Instant Image
Park Avenue Atrium – New York NY, United States
1994
Issues and Identities: recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Photography
The Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago IL, United States
1994
Life Lessons
The Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago IL, United States
1994
Making Pictures
Caldwell College – Caldwell NJ, United States
1994
The Camera I: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sidney Irmas Collection
LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Los Angeles CA, United States
1994
1993 – Fictions of the Self
Weatherspoon Art Gallery – University of North Carolina – Greensboro NC, United States
1994
Beyond the Camera, Large-Scale Manipulated Photographs
ARTSPACE – New Haven CT, United States
1994
1993
The Art of Diamonds
Tatistcheff Gallery – New York NY, United States
1993
Moving Shadows
Tennisport Arts – Long Island NY, United States
1993
1992
selection 6, Photokina
Polaroid Gmbh – Cologne, Germany
1992
The Abortion Project
New Langton Arts – San Francisco CA, United States
1992
Colt 4
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art – Hartford CT, United States
1992
Dark Décor
SJMA San Jose Museum of Art – San Jose CA, United States
1992
representatives: Women Photographers from the Permanent Collection
Center for Creative Photography – Tucson AZ, United States
1992
Abstraction in the ’90s
Jan Kesner Gallery – Los Angeles CA, United States
1992
The Abortion Project
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center – Buffalo NY, United States
1992
1991
Departures Photography 1923-1990
Joslyn Art Museum – Omaha NE, United States
1991
Art that happens to be Photography
Texas Gallery – Houston TX, United States
1991
1989
Fotografie, Wissenschaft unf neue Technologien
Kunstmuseum – Düsseldorf, Germany
1989
The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s
Walker Art Center – Minneapolis MN, United States
1989
The Photography of Invention
National Museum of American Art – Washington DC, United States
1989
Nature and Culture: Conflict and Reconcialiation in Recent Photography
Ansel Adams Center – San Francisco CA, United States
1989
Artists Portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Mary Boone Gallery – New York NY, United States
1989
The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s
MCA Museum of Contemporary Art – Chicago IL, United States
1989
1988
Gallery Artists
John Good Gallery – New York NY, United States
1988
Twenty from New York
Nina Freudenheim Gallery – Buffalo NY, United States
1988
Complexity and contradictions
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery – Wesleyan University – Middletown CT, United States
1988
New Surrealism
Center for Photography at Woodstock – Woodstock NY, United States
1988
Woman and Self-Image
Miami University Art Museum – Oxford OH, United States
1988
Connecticut Photographers
Real Art Ways – Hartford CT, United States
1988
Photography on the Edge
Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art – Marquette University – Milwaukee WI, United States
1988
The Photo-Ostensive (Oropositions of the Phenomenal and the Mundane)
Jayne Baum Gallery – New York NY, United States
1988
Appropriation and Syntax: Uses of Photography in Contemporary Art
BMA Brooklyn Museum of Art – Brooklyn, New York NY, United States
1988
(Re) Productions
White Columns – New York NY, United States
1988
First Person Singular. Self-Portrait in Photography 1840-1988
High Museum of Art – Atlanta GA, United States
1988
Small Scale
Frank Bernarducci Gallery – New York NY, United States
1988
Chaos
John Good Gallery – New York NY, United States
1988
1987
Photo Synthesis
Frank Bernarducci Gallery – New York NY, United States
1987
Poetic Injury. The Surrealist Legacy in Postmodern Photography
Alternative Museum – New York NY, United States
1987
Portrayals
ICP International Center of Photography – New York NY, United States
1987
Spirals of Artificiality
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center – Buffalo NY, United States
1987
1986
International Month of Photography Fotofest
Houston TX, United States
1986
Context as Content
Center for Photography at Woodstock – Woodstock NY, United States
1986
Four Photographers
The Bushnell Memorial Hall – Hartford CT, United States
1986
Modern Art at Harvard
Arthur M. Sackler Museum – Cambridge MA, United States
1986
1983
Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, n° 17
São Paulo, Brazil
1983