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Martha Rosler

American, born 1943

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Martha Rosler is an American artist. She is a conceptual artist who works in photography and photo text, video, installation, sculpture, site-specific and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. Rosler's work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war, as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to places of passage and systems of transport.

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Works in Collection

50 works
A Budding Gourmet

A Budding Gourmet

Martha Rosler

1974

A Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night

A Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night

Martha Rosler

1983

Artifacts at the End of a Decade

Artifacts at the End of a Decade

Sandi Fellman

1981

Balloons from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home

Balloons from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the Wa...

Martha Rosler

c. 1967-72

Beauty Rest from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home

Beauty Rest from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the...

Martha Rosler

c. 1967-72

Booby Trap from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home

Booby Trap from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the ...

Martha Rosler

c. 1967-72

Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby S/M or $M

Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of ...

Martha Rosler

1988

Boys' Room from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home

Boys' Room from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the ...

Martha Rosler

c. 1967-72

Chile on the Road to NAFTA, Accompanied by the National Police Band

Chile on the Road to NAFTA, Accompanied by the National P...

Martha Rosler

1997

Cleaning the Drapes from the series Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful

Cleaning the Drapes from the series Bringing the War Home...

Martha Rosler

c. 1967-72

Cleaning the Drapes from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home

Cleaning the Drapes from the series House Beautiful: Brin...

Martha Rosler

c. 1967-72

Domination and the Everyday

Domination and the Everyday

Martha Rosler

1978

Empty Boys from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home, in Vietnam

Empty Boys from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the ...

Martha Rosler

c. 1967-72

Fascination with the (Game of the) Exploding (Historical) Hollow Leg

Fascination with the (Game of the) Exploding (Historical)...

Martha Rosler

1983

First Lady (Pat Nixon) from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home

First Lady (Pat Nixon) from the series House Beautiful: B...

Martha Rosler

c. 1967-72

From the PTA, the High School, and the City of Del Mar

From the PTA, the High School, and the City of Del Mar

Martha Rosler

1977

Global Taste: A Meal in Three Courses

Global Taste: A Meal in Three Courses

Martha Rosler

1985/2014

Honors (Striped Burial) from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home

Honors (Striped Burial) from the series House Beautiful: ...

Martha Rosler

c. 1967-72

House Beautiful: Giacometti from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home

House Beautiful: Giacometti from the series House Beautif...

Martha Rosler

c. 1967-72

How Do We Know What Home Looks Like? The Unité d'Habitation de Le Corbusier at Firminy

How Do We Know What Home Looks Like? The Unité d'Habitati...

Martha Rosler

1993

If It's Too Bad to Be True, It Could Be DISINFORMATION

If It's Too Bad to Be True, It Could Be DISINFORMATION

Martha Rosler

1985

In the Place of the Public: Airport Series

In the Place of the Public: Airport Series

Martha Rosler

1990

Know Your Servant Series, No. 1: North American Waitress, Coffee-Shop Variety

Know Your Servant Series, No. 1: North American Waitress,...

Martha Rosler

1977

Losing: A Conversation with the Parents

Losing: A Conversation with the Parents

Martha Rosler

1977

Exhibitions

3 exhibitions

Oct 03, 1983 – Jan 03, 1984

Video Art: A History

79 artists · 1 curator

Jan 31, 1988 – Apr 19, 1988

Committed to Print

125 artists · 1 curator

Apr 20, 1989 – May 30, 1989

The Arts for Television

75 artists · 4 curators