Collier Schorr

1963 born in New York
lives and works in Brooklyn


Solo exhibitions (selection)

2012
Collier Schorr, German Faces, Ars Cameralis, Katowice, Poland

2011
Collier Schorr. German Faces, CoCA Kronika, Bytom Upper Silensia Poland

2010
Ars Cameralis, CoCA Kronika, Bytom Upper Silensia Poland
Collier Schorr. German Faces, Museu Coleccao Berardo, Lisbon
German Faces, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London

2009
Collier Schorr, Hier hielt die Welt den Atem an, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin

2008
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Villa Romana, Florance, Italy

2007
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
MaskeradeStar Power: Museum as Body Electric; Jens F. Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
There I Was, 303 Gallery, New York

2006
Other Woman, Modern Art, London, UK

2005
Jens F., Roth, New York

2004
Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
303 Gallery, New York
Modern Art, London

2002
Consorcio Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

2001
303 Gallery, New York

2000
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK

1999
303 Gallery, New York
Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria
Neue Soldaten, Partobject Gallery, North Carolina

1998
Archipego: New Rooms, Stockholm Kultur 98, Stockholm, Sweden

1997
303 Gallery, New York
Galerie Drantmann, Brussels

1995
303 Gallery, New York

1994
303 Gallery, New York

1993
303 Gallery, New York

1991
303 Gallery, New York

1990
Standard Graphik, Cologne, Germany
303 Gallery, New York

1988
Cable Gallery, New York


Group exhibitions (selection)

2012
The last first decade, Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Acoitao, Portugal
Transformed Land, Centre Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris
More American Photographs, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco

2011
Beatuty Show: Men, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
More American Photograph, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul
FLOWER POWER Blumen in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, FO.KU.S (Foto Kunst Stadtforum) Innsbruck
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Moma, New York
History in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow
The last first decade, Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Acoitao, Portugal
Transformed Land, Centre Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris

2010
You and Now, Balice Hertling, Paris
Not in Fashion – Mode und Fotografie der 90er Jahre, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Moma, New York
Hard Targets, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA

2009
Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1), Burger Collection, Berlin
The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, Cheim and Read, New York
Mixed signals, ICI travelling show, Cranbrook Art Museum, Blumfeld Hills, Michigan; Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

2008
Freeway Balconies, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (curated by Collier Schorr)
History Will Repeat Itself: Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary Art, Phoenix Hall, Dortmund, travelling to KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin

2007
Fit to Print, Gagosian, New York
Star Power: Museum as Body Electric, MCA Denver, Colorado
Family Pictures, New Acquisitions, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Rebel Rebel: Remembering Karlheinz Weinberger, Anna Kustera, New York
Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall GermaNew York, Sam Fox Art Centre at Washington University, St. Louis
Memorial to the Iraq War, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

2006
Artist’s Choice: Herzog & de Meuron, Perception Restrained, MoMA, New York
Die Jugend Von Heute (Youth of Today), Schim Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt
People, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina Napoli, Napoli
Human Game, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Pitti, Stazione Leopolda, Florence

2005
Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol, the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Sport, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, New York
The Forest: Politics, Poetics and Practice, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina
Will Boys Be Boys? Questioning Masculinity in Contemporary Art, The Salina Kansas, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
The Lost Paradise, Stiftung Opelvillen, Frankfurt

2004
The Muse, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Open House – Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Beyond Compare: Women Photographers on Beauty, Toronto, Canada
Opportunity and Regret, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

2003
Hovering, Peres Projects, Los Angeles
Terror Chic, Spruth Magers, Munich, Germany
Strangers, Triennial of the International Center of Photography, New York
Attack! Art and War in Times of the Media, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

2002
Screen Memories, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Japan
Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Some Options in Realism, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge

2001
American Tableaux, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Chick Clicks, ICA Boston, Boston, MA, also at Fotomuseum in Winterhur, Switzerland
Uniform. Order and Disorder, P.S. 1, New York
Settings and Players: Theatrical Ambiguity in American Photography, White Cube, London

2000
Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Presumed Innocent, capcMusée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
Innuendo, Dee Glasgoe, New York
Prepared, Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Lightness, The Visual Arts Gallery, New York
29th International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Rotterdam

1999
Foul Play, Thread Waxing Space, New York

1998
Yesterday Begins Tomorrow: Ideals, Dreams, and the Contemporary Awakening, Francesco Bonami, Center for Curatorial Studies, Fall Exhibition,
Arkipelag, Kultur 98, Stockholm, Sweden
From the Corner of the Eye, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Bathroom, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York

1996
Inbetweener, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo
Persona, Renaissance Society, Chicago
Persona, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Collier Schorr and Larry Clark, Galleri Index, Stockholm, Sweden
Collier Schorr, Martin Honert, and Tom Gidley, Entwistle Gallery, London
a/drift: Scenes from a Penetrable Culture, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Huson, New York

1995
Images of Masculinity, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Narcissistic Disturbance, Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
fag-o-sites, Gallery 400, Chicago
La Belle et la Bete, Musee d’Art de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Portraits, Janice Guy Gallery, New York

1994
In The Fields, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Bespoke, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Stonewall, White Columns, New York

1993
The Subject of Rape, Whitney Museum of Art, New York
Über Leben, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Fall from Fashion, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
Everyday Life, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles
10 year anniversary exhibition, Monika Spruth, Koln

1992
Boys & Girls Together/Recent Photography, Beaver College Art Gallery, Galerie Rizzo, Paris
The Edge of Childhood, Heckscher Museum, New York
Works on Paper, Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles
How It Is, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
One Leading to Another, 303 Gallery, New York
Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, Whitney Museum at the Equitable Center, New York
MOCArt Auction '92, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Benefit Auction, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

1991
Something Pithier and More Psychological, Simon Watson Gallery, New York
New Work by Gallery Artists, 303 Gallery, New York
Gulliver’s Travels, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne
From Desire… A Queer Diary, St. Lawrence College, New York
Someone, Somebody, Meyers Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles
The Subversive Stitch, Simon Watson Gallery, New York
When Objects Dream And Talk In Their Sleep, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Liz Larner, Karen Kilimnik, Collier Schorr, Anne Walsh, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa Monica
Childs Play, Steven Beyer, James Croak, Kate Moran, Collier Schorr, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia
All Grown Up, CUNY, The Graduate Center in collaboration with Catherine Clarke, New York

1990
Commitment, The Power Plant, Toronto
All But the Obvious, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
In the Beginning, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland

1989
After the Gold Rush, Milford Gallery, New York
Erotophobia, Simon Watson Gallery, New York New Langton Arts, San Francisco

1988
A Drawing Show, Cable Gallery, New York
Collier Schorr, Brenda Miller, Svetlana Kapanskaya, Cable Gallery, New York

1987
303 Gallery, New York
Galerie Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium



Bibliography

2009
Interview with Collier Schorr & Monika Condrea (by Ben Carlson), Dossier/Issue III, May 2009

2008
Elke Buhr. Freeway Balconies. Ich und der Krieg, ART Das Kunstmagazin, September 2008, p. 96
Daniel Völzke. Preview, Monopol/Nr. 7, August 2008, p. 115–116
Dominikus Müller. Ferien in Balkonien, artnet, July 21, 2008
Jörg Heiser. Produktive Verwechslung. Kuratierende Künstlerin: Collier Schorrs «Freeway Balconies», Süddeutsche Zeitung/Nr. 166, July 18, 2008, p. 15
Jens Hinrichsen. Splitter und Schatten, Tagesspiegel, July 14, 2008, p. 15
Eva Karcher. Ich bist du, Süddeutsche Zeitung/Nr. 161, July 12/13 2008, p. 5
Nicole Büsing and Heiko Klaas. Amerika für Voyeure, spiegel online, July 5, 2008
Interview Collier Schorr. "Ich wollte die Konfrontation mit dem Betrachter", db-artmag/Nr. 49, July 2008
Lives of Performers. Collier Schorr talks to Christopher Bedford, Deutsche Guggenheim Magazin/Issue 4, Summer 2008, p. 14–19
Colllier Schorr in Conversation with Thomas Demand, 032c Contemporary Culture 15th Issue Berlin Summer 2008, p. 116–135
Schorr Edits Mikhailov, frieze, April 2008, p. 136–143
Eva Diaz. Collier Schorr: 303 Gallery, Modern Painters, Dec. 2007/Jan. 2008, p. 91–92
Forever Paradise, Tokion/Vol. 2 No. 5, p. 82–87

2007
Rachel Churner. Collier Schorr: 303 Gallery, Artforum, December 2007, p. 352
Collier Schorr: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artforum, December 2007, p. 132
Nicholas Herman. Collier Schorr, Interview Magazine, October 2007, p. 100
Martha Schwendener. There I was, The New York Times, September 23, 2007
David Valesco. Collier Schorr: 303 Gallery, Artforum.com, September 2007
Oliver Koerner von Gustorf. Full Metall Village, Monopol, June 2007, p. 62–67
Tim Griffin. ArtForum, February 2007, p. 268–277
Dominic Eichler. Distant Relations, Frieze, March 2007, p. 140–147
Collier Schorr – Motive und Motivation beim Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Gmünder Tagespost, February 12, 2007
Ralf Christofort. Die schwierige Heimat, Monopol, March 2007, p. 127
Raimer Stange. Neighbors, Modern Painters, February 2007, p. 105
Portfolio by Collier Schorr: There I Was, Artforum, February 2007, p. 269–276
Tim Griffin. Tim Griffin on Collier Schorr, Artforum, February 2007, p. 277

2006
Curtin, Brian. Signs Taken as Signs, Contemporary, Issue 88, 2006, p. 52–53
Cathrine Grant. Collier Schorr, Flash Art, November – December 2006
Chris Hatherill. Neighbourhood Watch, Tank Magazine/Volume 4 Issue 7, p. 32–33
Helen Sumpter. Exhibition Review, Time Out Magazine London, October 4–11, p. 45
Alex Needham. The Eye of the Beholder, i-D Magazine/Issue 268, p. 152–159
Aaron Hicklin. Portrait of a Lady, Blackbook, May 2006, p. 144–145

2005
Leslie Camhi. How German is it, Voices Choices/Village Voice, New Yorker, November 28, 2005

2004
John Antonides (ed.). open (ex. cat.) Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
Pollack, Barbara. Review, ARTnews, May, p. 151–152
Halle, Howard. Local Color, Bklyn, Spring 2004, p. 28–30
Richard B. Woodward. Home Team Advantage, The New York Times, February 15, 2004, p. 17
Review, Exit Express/No. 1, February 2004, p. 30
Jan Avigikos. Review, Artforum/No. 7, March XLIII, p. 182
Ana Finel Honigman. Inspired, artnet.com
Vince Aletti. Falling in Love with Love, and Other Critical Dilemmas, The Village Voice, February 13, 2004
Jane Harris. Time Out NY/Issue No. 434, January 2004, p. 55
Craig Garrett. Collier Schorr: Personal Best, Flash Art, January–February/Vol. XXXVII No. 234, p. 80–83
Preview, Art & Auction, January 2004, p. 107
Preview, ArtReview: International Edition, V2N1, p. 28

2003
Focus Photography, Flash Art, Vol. XXXVI, No. 233, November-December, p. 89
Michael Kimmelman. The Gaze Turns Outward and Sees Estrangement, The New York Times, September 19, 2003
Barbara Pollack. Everyone Has an Ennial; Now It’s Photography’s Turn, The New York Times, September 7, 2003

2002
Helen Molesworth. The Clothes Make the Man, IMAGO 2002, Spanien, p. 49–54
Charley, NY, Issue 02
Like Time Has Never Hit, Phonetalk with Collier Schorr, interview with Jessica Gysel, KUTT, summer/No. 2, p. 8–20
Alison Green. Overnight to Many Cities, review, Art Monthly/No. 257, London, June 2002, p. 26–28 Massimiliano Gioni. The Whitney Biennial: All the Small Things, Flash Art, May–June 2002, p. 65, 71 Eleanor Heartney. Review, Art in America, April 2002, No. 4, p. 148
Joanna Pitman. Home Truths, roving eyes, The Times, London, U.K., April 10, 2002, p. 8
Sarah Kent. Review, Time Out London/No. 1658, May 29 – June 5, 2002
RCJ’s best London Show, The Times, London, April 13, 2002
Jessica Lack. Review, The Guardian, London, U.K., April 6, 2002
Arwa Haider. The World Through A Lens, The Guardian, London, June 2002
Sarah Jackson. Review, Ameateru Photographer, London, April 6, 2002
Helen Sumpter. Review, The Big Issue, London, March 2002, p. 25–31
Cheryl Freedman. Review, What’s On In London, London, May 1, 2002
It’s A Wide World, Sleazenation, London, May 2002
Holland Cotter. Spiritual America, From Ecstatic to Transcendent, The New York Times, March 8, 2002, p. 35

2000
Ken Johnson. Review, Innuendo, The New York Times, July 7, 2000
Review, Innuendo, The New Yorker, July 3, 2000
Christopher Bollen. Innuendo (review), Time Out New York/Issue 249, June 29, 2000
Documents, issue 19, cover u. p. 63
catalogue, 29th International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Holland, p. 220
Sarah Valdez. Review, Art in America/Vol. 88, No. 2, February 2000, p. 127
UNIFORM: Order and Disorder, edited by: Francesco Bonami, Maria Luisa Frisa, Stefano
Tonchi, Edizioni Charta, Milano 2000, p. 17
Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans 2000, (exh. cat.), p. 52
Presumed Innocent, curated by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Stéphanie Moisdon, capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux 2000, (exh. cat.), p. 86, 91
Ilka Becker. Einblendung: Körper, Atmosphärik, und künstlerische Fotografie, IMAGINEERING, Jahresring 47, p. 185
Catherine Grant. Performativity: Collier Schorr, Anna Gaskell, Sarah Jones, n.paradoxa, London 2000, Vol. 6, p. 88–92
photo shoot, style 3, Libération, Frankreich, June 2000

1999
Holland Cotter. Review, The New York Times, October 15, 1999, p. E37
Katy Siegel. Artforum, November 1999, p. 141–142
Foul Play, The New Yorker, November 22, 1999, p. 40
Artist Project, Documents, issue 16, Fall 1999, p. 17–37
Review, Time Out New York, September 1999, 9–16, p. 113
Bill Arning. Review, Time Out New York, September 23, 1999, p. 62
Aletti. Voice Choices: Shortlist, Village Voice, September 28, 1999
Jerry Saltz. Fall in the Trenches, artnet.com
Purple, No. 3, summer, p. 156–166
Luc Sante. It’s Alive, Metropolis, April 1999, p. 75–114
Photo shoot, Dutch, issue 23
Photo shoot, I-D, issue 192, November 1999, p. 132–147
Photo shoot, I-D, issue 191, October 1999, p. 203

1998
Collier Schorr, Purple Fashion, 4, Winter 1998
Lawrence Nassau. Review, NY Arts Magazine, May 1998, p. 15
Jerry Saltz. Review, Time Out New York, April 1998/9–16, p. 51
Chris Townsend. Vile Bodies: Photography and the Crisis of Looking, published by Prestel
Stuart Shave. Fusion, i-D Magazine, p. 154
Alexandra Bradley. The Eyes Have It, Dutch Magazine, p. 16
Jhim Lamoree. Hogere homokunde, het Parool, June 25, 1998
Holger Kistenmacher. Review, Kunstforum, October–December 1998
Collier Schorr, From the Corner of the Eye, Stedelijk Museum, p. 110–115
The Visitation of Revision, From the Corner of the Eye, Stedelijk Museum, p. 22–29

1997
Karen E Lillis. Collier Schorr: 303 Gallery, Art Papers, May–June 1997
Jan Avgikos. Collier Schorr at 303 Gallery, Artforum, May 1997, p. 110
Roberta Smith. Art in Review, The New York Times, February 28, 1997
Howard Halle. Review, Time Out New York, February 25, 1997
Jeffrey Slonim. Basic Instincts, Elle Decor, December/January 1997, p. 106
a/drift, exhibition catalogue, curated by Joshua Dector, Center for Curatorial

Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson

1996
Andreas Gedin. The Castle, Andreas Gedin on Collier Schorr, Index Magazine, p. 48
Adrian Dannett. La Belle et La Bete, Flash Art, March–April 1996, p. 50
Hannah J. Feldman. The Lolita Complex, World Art, 2/1996, p. 55

1995
Erik Belbode. translation, De Morgen, Brussels, Belgium, October 13, 1995
Tom Folland. In the Field, Art Issues, January/February 1995, p. 44
David Bonetti. All is fair at the Phoenix, San Francisco Examiner, January 28, 1995

1994
Bruce Hainley. Artforum, March 1994, p. 91
The New Yorker, December 26, 1994
Holland Cotter. Art in Review The New York Times, December 16, 1994
Susan Kandel. Land Ahoy, Los Angeles Times, November 17, 1994, p. F13

1993
Then Objects Dream And Talk In Their Sleep, catalog, Jack Tilton Gallery, NY

1992
The Edge of Childhood, catalog, essay by Barbara Coller, The Heckscher Museum, Huntingdon, NY

1991
Amy Sparks. In the Beginning, Dialogue, January–February 1991
John Donahue. Dress You Up, Outweek, April 3, 1991, p. 65
Jerry Saltz. A Dressing Down, Collier Schorr’s The Well #1 (White), 1948–1991, Arts Magazine, April 1991, p. 13–14
Justin Spring. Review, Artforum, summer 1991, p. 113
Douglas & Takahiro Ueda Crimp, AIDS, Bijutso Techno, Vol. 43, No. 638, June 1991

1990
David Hirsh. The Native, April 8, 1990
Joshua Decter. Review, Arts, Summer, p. 95–96
Richard Armstrong. Mind Over Matter: Concept and Object, M Magazine

1988
Cookie Mueller. Details Magazine
Eleanor Heartney. Review, Art in America, December
Laura Cottingham. Flash Art

1987
Gary Indiana. The Village Voice
Daniela Salvioni. Flash Art


Texts and publications by the artist (Selection)


Forest and Fields, Volume 2, Blumen, SteidlMack (in production)

2008
Freeway Balconies, Ausst. Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
There I Was, SteidlMack

2006
Forest and Fields, Volume 1, Neighbors/Nachbarn, SteidlMack
Human Game, Winners and Losers, Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Charta, Italy, p. 234–235

2005
Jens F, SteidlMack (Edition of 1.000), SteidlMack

2004
Beyond Compare: Women Photographers on Beauty, Unilever Canada, Inc
Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, NY, and Steidl, Göttingen
art:21, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York
Attack, (exh. cat.), Kunsthalle Wien,
Conquistadores, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spanien