Based in New York City, Silvia Kolbowski is an artist the scope of whose address includes memory, sexuality, the unconscious, and the ethics of history. Her project After Hiroshima Mon Amour premiered in 2008 at LAXART in Los Angeles, was part of a solo exhibition at Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen at Concordia University in Montreal, and was installed at Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana (Slovenia). In 2007, she exhibited a revised version of An Inadequate History of Conceptual Art (1998/99) at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw. Her 2004 project Proximity to Power, American Style, a slide/audio work about the relational aspects of masculine power, was published in book form, under the same title, in 2008. Additionally, she has exhibited at Secession in Vienna and the Whitney Biennial 2000 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. From 1993 to 2000, Kolbowski was a coeditor of the journal October and remains on its advisory board.
Silvia Kolbowski's Website
Seminar Readings:
Christopher Bedford. "After and Before." Frieze (November 2008).
Rosalyn Deutsche. Hiroshima after Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War [part II] (.pdf)
Luiza Nader. The Work of Mourning: Silvia Kolbowski's After Hiroshima Mon Amour. Ljubljana: Moderna Galerija, 2009.
Silvia Kolbowski's Website
Seminar Readings:
Christopher Bedford. "After and Before." Frieze (November 2008).
Rosalyn Deutsche. Hiroshima after Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War [part II] (.pdf)
Luiza Nader. The Work of Mourning: Silvia Kolbowski's After Hiroshima Mon Amour. Ljubljana: Moderna Galerija, 2009.
