Ellen Harvey, Artist

Ms. Harvey received a B.A. from Harvard in 1989 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1993. She is also a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program and took part in the PS1 Institute for Contemporary Art’s National Studio Program. Recent awards include a Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Grant, a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Her most recent solo exhibitions include The Museum of Failure at Luxe Gallery, New York (2007); Beautiful/Ugly at Magnus Müller in Berlin and Bad Mirror at Galerie Gebruder Lehmann in Dresden (2006); Mirror at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (2005); New is Old for the Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; and A Whitney for the Whitney at Philip Morris at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York (2003). She has shown in group exhibitions at venues that include the 2008 Whitney Biennial; the Gwangju Art Museum, Korea; the Museum for Photography in Braunschweig, Germany; the Wyspa Institute in Gdansk; the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Prague Biennale; the Sculpture Center in Long Island City; the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea in Santiago de Compostela; the Princeton University Art Museum; the Queens Museum of Art; Artists Space, New York; the Secession, Vienna; the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art; the PS1 Museum’s Clocktower Gallery; the Seattle Art Museum; Apex Art; and the Kwangju Biennale, among others. Her 2,000-square-foot mosaic, Look Up, Not Down, for the Queens Plaza subway station, commissioned by the MTA Arts for Transit, was installed in 2005. Her first book The New York Beautification Project, was published by Gregory Miller & Co. in 2005. Ellen Harvey: Mirror, a catalog of Mirror and other projects, was published by the Pennsylvania Academy in 2006. Ms. Harvey was appointed critic in painting/printmaking in 2007.