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Public Projects | Installations
2023 blind me! LIGHT, collaborative public intervention with Katharina Gruzei, in-person performative
action utilizing live online publicly assessable DOT traffic cams, New York and Vienna
2022 body politic in 5 acts, a public project developed for Right Time Right Place, artist-curated
exhibition examining different approaches to working in the public sphere, curated by
Katharina Gruzei, Monira Foundation, Jersey City, NJ
2021 the free library and other histories, site-specific public project, 3rd edition of 2,000 available to
the public through the Maine College of Art and Design and a selection of Maine public
libraries; aligning with the statewide Freedom & Captivity Initiative, a Humanities
Initiative for an Abolitionist Future; in conjunction with the exhibition Monitor: Data,
Surveillance and the New Panoptic curated by Julie Poitras Santos, Institute of
Contemporary Art at MECAD, ME
2018 the free library and other histories, site-specific public project, commissioned by Franklin Furnace
and the Pratt Institute Library, installations at Pratt Institute Brooklyn Campus and the Jefferson
Market Branch New York Public Library, NY. Additional distribution of tabloid through the Lower
Manhattan Network of New York Public Libraries
2015 the underground potato, Essex Street Market, commissioned by Artists Alliance, single day
deployment for the New Museum’s Ideas City; a collaborative project with Laurie Arbeiter, NY
2014 the underground potato, media vending cart, installed in the Essex Street Market in conjunction
with The Real Estate Show: Was Then 1980; What Next 2014?, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, NY
2013 DuBois_the FBI files, public project for Du Bois in Our Time, University Museum of Contemporary
Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2009 who gets to speak?, speakers corner for public events, Revolution Books, New York
2008 mobile home, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
2007 petition to congress for redress of grievances, site specific tabloid, delivered to Congress and the
general public, April 25, 2007, Wash DC; 20 pages offset, edition of 5,000
2006 penitentiary, tabloid project for Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA; free distribution
through vending machine on site; 28 pages offset, edition of 40,000
2005 disarming images, a 3-channel 60 minute DVD project. Ann Messner was the creative director of
the project, produced by Artists Against the War. A select list of single screenings and installation
of the project: Katzen Art Center, American University Museum, Washington DC; Casa del Cultura,
Rome, Italy; Hillwood Museum, Long Island University, NY; HallWalls, Buffalo, NY; Fulvey Hall,
Maryland Institute of Art, MD; School of Visual Arts Amphitheater, New York, NY; Wollman Hall,
Eugene Lang College, New School University, New York, NY; Track 16, Bergamot Station, Santa
Monica, CA; Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT; Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Purnell
Center for The Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; Kipp Gallery, Indiana University
of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA; Central Missouri State University, MO
1998 amniotic sea, Foley Square, New York; on site for six months
1997 amniotic sea, Biennial of Public Art, Neuberger Museum, New York; on site for six months
1990 nomad, City Hall, New York, sponsored by Exit Art, supported by the New York State Council
on the Arts; on site for six months
1987 meteor, installation at Times Square, sponsored by the Public Art Fund, New York;
on site for one year
1986 whirlpool, installed in outdoor windows, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York
high dive, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
1985 island, in front of New Museum of Contemporary Art, Lower Broadway, New York; on site for
six months
1983 incubator, ‘On the Williamsburg Bridge’, public group exhibition, Williamsburg Bridge, New
York; onsite for six months
1982 speaker’s corner, ‘Skulptur: Koln | Ehrenfeld’, public group exhibition, Cologne, Germany
1979 hitchhiking, stealing, and others, a series of public performances, Cologne, Germany,
documentation b&w photographs and super 8 film
1978 untitled, public performance with amplified typewriter and installation, Franklin Furnace, New York
1977-9 mass transit, series of temporary performance and sculptures for the New York City subway
system, documented in book Mass Transit 1980, b&w photographs and super 8 film
1975 small fires, New York, documentation 16mm b&w film
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On-line Only Projects
2023 open book: Ann Messner, Monira Foundation
https://monirafoundation.org/open-book-ann-messner
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Solo Exhibitions | Galleries
2023 underground & uncommissioned: Ann Messner und Katharina Gruzei, curated by Eginhartz
Kanter, Oxymoron Galerie, Vienna, Austria (two person exhibition)
2004 oracle, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
2003 oracle, Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
2001 heart of the matter, Rothschild Gallery, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
1997 subway stories and other shorts, Ann Messner: photographs and film 1976-1980, curated by Nina
Felshin, Dorsky Gallery, New York
1997 flood, Stark Gallery, New York
1997 flood, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
1995 heart and ear, Walcot Chapel, Bath International Arts Festival, UK
1997 on the subject of fire and the internal, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York
1994 on the subject of fire and the internal, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, VT
1993 Ann Messner, Fawbush Gallery, New York
1991 Ann Messner, Fawbush Gallery, New York
Ann Messner and Andrew Spence, Worcester Art Museum, MA
Ann Messner, Fuchares Gallery, Madrid, Spain
1990 Ann Messner, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Ann Messner, Fawbush Gallery, New York
1987 Ann Messner, Greathouse Gallery, New York
1986 Ann Messner, Greathouse Gallery, New York
1978 Ann Messner: Street Projects, Franklin Furnace, New York
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Selected Public Presentations
2022 Public Talk, Diamant Offenbach / Museum of Urban Culture, Frankfurt, Germany
Right Time / Right Place Panel Discussion, moderated by Melanie Kress, Austrian Cultural Forum, NY
2015 Socially Engaged Art and the University, Creative Time Summit 2015: The Curriculum, with
Gregory Sholette, Daniel Tucker, Ann Messner, and Marléne Ramìrez-Cancio; Boys and Girls
High School, Brooklyn, New York
2013 The Real Estate Show and Other Histories, The Creative Time Summit 2013: Art, Place, and
Dislocation in the 21st-Century City; Section 6: Resistors, moderated by Ivet Ćurlin of What,
How and For Whom, with Jimmy McMillan, Chen Shaoxiong, Levan Asabashvili of Urban Reactor
2010 ‘Redact This’, presentation and discussion, Left Forum, New York
2005-6 disarming images, participant in public discussions following screening of disarming images: Eugene
Lang College, New School University; School of Visual Arts in New York; Casa delle Cultura, Rome,
Italy; Yale University School of Design; Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Purnell Center for The Arts,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; American University, Wash, DC; Queens College,
Queens, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities, curated by Erina Duganne
and Abigail Satinsky, Tufts University Art Galleries, Tufts University, MA. Exhibition traveling to
The University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM (2022) and DePaul Art Museum,
Chicago, IL (2023)
2022 Right Time Right Place, artist-curated exhibition of non-commissioned public works, examining
different approaches to working in the public sphere. curated by Katharina Gruzei, Monira
Foundation, Jersey City, NJ
2021 Monitor: Data, Surveillance and the New Panoptic, curated by Julie Poitras Santos
Institute of Contemporary Art at MECAD, Portland, ME
2018 Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat, curated by Sara Driver, Carlo McCormick and Mary-Ann
Monforton, Howl Arts, New York, NY
2017 Single Channel Catalyst, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
2016 Selections from the Collection, UMASS Amherst, Deerfield Academy, Amherst, MA
The Fishtank Project, curated by Matt Freedman and Laurence Hegarty. Humanities Gallery,
Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
2015 The Artist as Provocateur: Pioneering Performance at Pratt Institute, collaborative project with
Martha Wilson, Jennifer Miller, Theodora Skipitares; curated by Greta Hartenstein, Schafler
Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
40 years – 40 artists, University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMASS, Amherst, MA
2014 The Real Estate Show: Was Then: 1980; What Next 2014?, multiple venues: Cuchifritos Gallery,
Essex Street Market, The Lodge Gallery and James Fuentes Gallery, New York
The Last Brucennial, curated by The Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York
Women Choose Women Again, selected by Joan Snyder, New Jersey Arts Center, Summit, NJ
2013 DuBois_the FBI files, public project for Du Bois in Our Time, University Museum of
Contemporary Art, UMASS, Amherst, MA
2013 Petites Résistances, curated by Emmanuel Mir, Hans Peter Zimmer Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany
2012 Times Square Show Revisited, curated by Shawna Cooper and Karli Wurzelbacher, Hunter College
Art Gallery, New York, NY
I Am Crime: Art on the Edge of the Law, curated by Justin Hoover, SOMArts Cultural Center, San
Fransisco, CA
Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses, Greg Sholette: a collaborative project for the Panorama of the
City of New York, Queens Museum, NY
2011 A Show about Colab (and Related Activities), curated by Max Schuman, Printed Matter, NY
WEST END ?, Museum on the Seam Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum Jerusalem, Israel
Act / OUT, curated by Lene ter Haar, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Global Fight Club: Aspects of Terror in Contemporary Art, curated by Matthias Reichelt and
Bernhard Draz, Meinblau, Berlin
Art, Access & Decay: New York 1975-1985, curated by Lisa Kahane and Peter Frank, Subliminal
Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Cool, Collected and In Context, Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC
2008 Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography, curated by Nina Felshin,
Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Lifting—Theft in Art, Atopia Projects, curated by Fraser Stables and Gavin Morrison, traveling
project: Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Georgia Sherman Gallery,Toronto and Peacock
Visual Arts, Aberdeen, UK
2007 Meanwhile In Baghdad, curated by Hamza Walker, Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
2005 The Disasters of War, commissioned offset tabloid project ‘the disasters of war’, curated by Nina
Felshin, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Contemporary Women Artists: New York, curated by Judy Colliischan, University Art Gallery,
Indiana State University, IN
2004 legal, illegal, curated by Hans Winkler, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, traveled to
Kunstverien Neuhausen, Neuhausen, Germany
Somatic Scales, curated by Patricia Phillips, Boston Center for the Arts, MA
2003 Cry Baby, curated by Jerry Kearns, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2003 between the lines, curated by Joyce Kozloff, Wooster Art Space, New York
2001 Domestic Traces: Nene Humphrey, Ann Messner, Deborah Orapollo, curated by Margaret
Mathews Berenson, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Ann Messner / Merrill Wagner, Lenore Grey Gallery, Providence, RI
2000 Water, The Living Room, Newport, RI
1999 Avoiding Objects, curated by Alice Smits, Apex Art, New York
The Fields, Art/OMI, Ghent, NY
1997 is there STILL LIFE?, Kent Gallery, New York
Biennial for Public Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY, Purchase
Ornament and Landscape, curated by Thomas Huhn, Apex Art, New York
1997 Second Nature, curated by Jenny Todd, Todd Gallery, London, UK
1996 Embedded Metaphor, curated by Nina Felshin, ICI (Independent Curators Inc) traveling exhibition
Light Into Darkness, Kent Gallery, New York
Difference, Kent Gallery, New York
1995 Stewart Helm, Alice Maher, Ann Messner, Ingrid Stahl, curated by Jenny Todd, Todd Gallery,
London, UK
Wax, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
Pervasiveness of Memory, curated by Terrie Sultan, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Sculpture Space, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
ART/OMI, curated by Dan Cameron, Ghent, NY
1994 Nightlight Readings, installation, The Drawing Center, New York
Selections From the LeWitt Collection, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
1993 Oro d’Autore, Centro Affari e Promozioni, Arezzo, Italy
Rowles Studio, curated by Bill Maynes, Hudson, NY
Group Exhibition, Fawbush Gallery, New York
1992 Miss-ing, 34 Raume, Berlin, Germany
1991 Selections From the LeWitt Collection, Wadsworth Anthenaeum, Hartford, CT
Material Impulse: Sculpture Since 1980, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI
1990 Half-Truths, Parish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY
Ann Messner / Mireia Sentis, Fawbush Gallery, New York
Selections, curated by Patricia Philips, Parsons School of Design, New York
Round About / About Round, Anders Tornberg, Sweden
Illegal America, Part 2, Exit Art, New York
1989 Group Exhibition, Fawbush Gallery, New York
Group Exhibition, Marta Cervera Gallery, New York
Ann Messner / Bogomir Ecker, Marta Cervera Gallery, New York
Project DMZ, curated by Kyung Park and Shirin Neshat, Storefront for Art and
Architecture, New York
1988 Influences, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York
Biennale de Sculpture, Monte Carlo, Spain
Elements, Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
1988 Critics and Artists, chosen by Dan Cameron, John Gibson Gallery, New York
Group Exhibition, Fawbush Gallery, New York
Sculpture 88, White Columns, New York
New York Art, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Major Acquisitions and Small Appliances, curated by Dan Cameron, Solo Gallery, New York
Ghost City, Burchfield Art Center, SUNY, Buffalo, NY
Berlin / New York, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
Current Thinking, Kenkeleba House, New York
1986 Sculpture Invitational, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
Stadtansichten, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
1985 Outdoor Sculpture, Greathouse Gallery, New York
Artist’s Weapons, Ted Greenwald, New York
1984 Neo York, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Via Satellite, Amerika Haus, Cologne, Germany
Five Women Sculptors, M13 Gallery, New York
1984 1984: Women in New York, Galerie Engstrom, Stockholm
Timeline, Group Material, PSl, Long Island City, New York
1982 Illegal America, curated by Jeanette Imgberman, Franklin Furnace, New York
1980 Moglichkeiten fur das Ruhrgebiet, collaborative project with Haus Rucker Co, Peter Fend,
Joseph Beuys, Peter Monning and Haus Rucker; Kunster Haus, Duisburg, Germany
The Real Estate Show, (organizing committee) Collaborative Projects (COLAB), New York
Manifestos, Collaborative Projects (COLAB), New York
1979 A Monument, collaborative installation with Charles Moulton and Peter Monnig, New York
New York Creative Youth, Collaborative Projects (COLAB), New York
1978 Artist’s Books, Australian Tour, Franklin Furnace, New York, organized by Martha
Wilson, Australia
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Artist Books and Tabloid Projects
2018 The Free Library and Other Histories, offset tabloid project, commissioned by Franklin Furnace
Inc and The Pratt Libraries, Live at the Library; 1st edition of 2,000, distributed for free at strategic
locations on Pratt Brooklyn campus; 2nd edition of 2000, courtesy The Pratt Libraries, distributed
through the Lower Manhattan Network of New York Public Libraries NYPL, NY; 3rd edition of 2,000 available
to the public through the Maine College of Art and Design and a selection of Maine public libraries
2017 a love story, artist book, edition of 500, color offset, printed at die Keure, Brugge, Belgium
2013 DuBois – the FBI files, offset tabloid project, University Museum of Contemporary Art, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; edition of 10,000, distributed for free at strategic locations
on and off campus
2005-7 The Disasters of War, offset tabloid project commissioned for exhibition ‘The Disasters of War’,
Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, edition of 1,000 distributed for free;
printing commissioned for exhibition ‘Meanwhile in Baghdad’, Renaissance Society,
University of Chicago, Chicago, edition of 1,000 distributed for free;
printing commissioned for WEST END?, Museum on the Seam Socio-Political
Contemporary Art Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, published in an undisclosed number,
distributed for free
2006 penitentiary, artist project, offset tabloid commissioned by Eastern State Penitentiary,
Philadelphia, PA; edition of 40,000 distributed for free through vending machine onsite
2004 Unconventional Heroes, artist project, offset tabloid commissioned by Artists Network of Refuse
and Resist; edition of 5000 distributed for free
2003 oracle, artist book, artist-in-residence, Amherst College, Amherst, MA; edition of 1000
1991 bearing witness, artist book, published through Exit Art, supported by NYSCA, NY; edition of 1000
1986 Ghost City, artist book, published by the Birchfield Art Center, Buffalo, NY; edition of 1000
1980 Mass Transit, artist book, published by Daily Edition, Cologne, Germany; edition of 1000
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Awards and Fellowships
2004 Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship
2001 Senior Fellow, Council on the Humanities, Princeton University
2000 Bunting Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
1998 Anonymous Was A Woman Award
1996 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
1995 Henry Moore Foundation, UK, International Fellowship
1989 New York Foundation for the Arts, Sculpture
1988 New York State Council on the Arts, Sponsored Project
1987 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual fellowship in Sculpture
1987 New York Foundation for the Arts, Sculpture
1986 New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist in Residence, Burchfield Art Center, SUNY,
Buffalo, NY
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Education and Academic Appointments
Senior Fellow, Council on the Humanities, Princeton University, 2001
Bunting Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University, 2000-1
Post Graduate Fellow, Bath College of Higher Education, England, Henry Moore Foundation 1995-6
West Surrey College of Art and Design, England, Independent Study Program 1974-5
Pratt Institute, BFA 1969-73
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Teaching
1993-22 Pratt Institute, Professor MFA Department of Fine Arts; Coordinator Graduate
Integrated Practices, with tenure
2002 Amherst College, artist-in-residence
2001 Princeton University, Senior Fellow, Council of the Humanities, artist-in-residence
2000-1 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University; Bunting Fellowship in the
Visual Arts, artist-in-residence
1998-9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Visual Arts
Program, visiting artist
1997 Colorado College, Distinguished Visiting Berg Professor, artist-in-residence
1996 Maryland Institute, College of Art, visiting artist
1995-6 Bath College of Higher Education, England; Henry Moore Foundation International Fellowship,
artist-in-residence
1994 Bennington College, artist-in-residence
Hunter College, Department of Art, Lecturer; Introduction to Visual Experience, co-taught with
painter, Susan Crile
1993 Princeton University, Visual Arts Program, visiting artist
1992-3 Philadelphia College of Art, University of the Arts, visiting artist
1989-90 Harlem School for the Arts Summer Arts Program
1987 Burchfield Art Center SUNY, Buffalo, NY; project sponsored by the Public Art Fund and the
New York Foundation for the Arts, artist-in-residence
Pompeii Youth Center City Without Walls, City-as-School, NYC Board of Education
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Selected Visiting Artist | Public Talks
2015 School of Visual Arts, MFA low residency program, visiting artist, presentation
2000 Rhode Island School of Art and Design, visiting artist
2000 Massachusetts Art and Design, visiting artist
1995 Cranbrook Academy of Art, visiting artist
Rhode Island School of Art and Design, visiting artist
Vermont Studio Center, visiting artist
1992 New York Studio Program (Parsons School of Design), visiting artist
Municipal Art Society, NY, public talk
1991 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, public talk
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, public talk; educational program on site-specific
public sculpture
Trinity College, Hartford, CT, visiting artist
1990 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, visiting artist
1988 Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, public talk