The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Dara Birnbaum: Reaction

Institution
Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College
Grant Cycle
Fall 2021
Amount
$35,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition Support
Website
ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/695-dara-birnbaum-reaction ↗
Installation image from Dara Birnbaum: Reaction, June 25 – November 27, 2022. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Photo: Olympia Shannon, 2022.
Installation image from Dara Birnbaum: Reaction, June 25 – November 27, 2022. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Photo: Olympia Shannon, 2022.
Installation image from Dara Birnbaum: Reaction, June 25 – November 27, 2022. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Photo: Olympia Shannon, 2022.
Installation image from Dara Birnbaum: Reaction, June 25 – November 27, 2022. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Photo: Olympia Shannon, 2022.
Installation image from Dara Birnbaum: Reaction, June 25 – November 27, 2022. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Photo: Olympia Shannon, 2022.
Installation image from Dara Birnbaum: Reaction, June 25 – November 27, 2022. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Photo: Olympia Shannon, 2022.
Installation image from Dara Birnbaum: Reaction, June 25 – November 27, 2022. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Photo: Olympia Shannon, 2022.
Installation image from Dara Birnbaum: Reaction, June 25 – November 27, 2022. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Photo: Olympia Shannon, 2022.

Dara Birnbaum: Reaction, the first retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States, presents a wide and in-depth view of Birnbaum’s extraordinary practice, charting the indelible contributions she has made to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. The exhibition’s title, Reaction, echoes Birnbaum’s career-long position toward mass media: across form and method, she has persistently elaborated a vision of art as an empowering force to disrupt quiet acquiescence to authority. Including works from 1975 to 2011, Reaction focuses on major installations, many not seen in the US for years, as well as key single-channel videos and archival materials that expand on her singular approach to artmaking.

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