Born in rural Pennsylvania, Martha Colburn is an artist filmmaker. She travels extensively exhibiting and lecturing on her work. She has a B.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art and MA equivalent from Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunst in the Netherlands.
Martha Colburn lives and works in Pennsylvania (US) and Amsterdam (NL).
2018 | The Garden, ‘The Garden’ and opera by composer Richard Ayres, Utrecht, NL |
2013 | Camera, Lights, Charge, Pop, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, US |
2013 | Cowboys and Icons, AWA Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL |
2011 | Dolls vs Dictators, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL |
2010 | Dolls vs Dictators, Museum of the Moving Images, New York, US |
2010 | Don’t Kill the Weatherman!, Stadtmuseum, Jena, DE |
2010 | Mash-Up: Splicing Life, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, US |
2010 | Puppet Regime, Ambach and Rice, Seattle, US |
2009 | MTV Times Square Jumbotron Screen, NY US |
2009 | Histories in Motion, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US |
2009 | Meet me in Wichita, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, US |
2008 | Stages of Alarm, Frans Hals Museum De Hallen, Haarlem, NL |
2008 | Bob von Orsouw/Project Space SuzieQ, Zurich, CH |
2008 | Art Basel Statements, Myth Labs, Galerie Diana Stigter, NL |
2007 | Don’t kill the Messenger, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL |
2006 | Stux Gallery, New York, US |
2005 | Young and Upcoming, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE |
2004 | W.I.N.D.O.W. Gallery, Walter Van Beirendonk, Antwerp, BE |
2003 | Young and Upcoming, Frankfurter Kunstverein, W.I.N.D.O.W., Walter Van Beirendonck, Antwerp, BE |
2002 | Inse(X)cts, De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL |
2022 | The Box, Parts Project, Den Haag, NL |
2017 | Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg |
2017 | The Wild West From Bufallo Bill to Bobbejaan, de Warande, Turnhout |
2016 | When Darkness Comes, Varbergs Konsthall, Varberg |
2016 | Borderless: In Time, Van Hall Museum, Amsterdam |
2016 | Cats do Sodre, Galerie GivLowe, Lisbon |
2015 | Move-On, Kunstahal KAdE, Amersfoort, NL |
2015 | Squeaky Wheel Film Exhibition, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York |
2014 | Manpower, Lisbon, PT |
2014 | Order and Chaos, Garage, Rotterdam, NL |
2013 | Collages van een haperende mens, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL |
2013 | Alaska Kimura Gallery, Anchorage, AK |
2013 | Camera, Lights, Charge Pop!, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, US |
2012 | AgitPOP, Guided By Invoices, New York, NY |
2012 | The Surreal Screen: Collage in Motion, Los Angles Contemporary Museum of Art, Los Angles, CA |
2011 | The Air We Breathe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA |
2011 | Independence Returns, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
2011 | DEUS, Venice Biennial, Venice, US |
2011 | A Paper Trail, De Warande, Turnhout, BE |
2011 | Revolution, Texas Firehouse, Long Island City, US |
2011 | New Museum’s Festival of New Ideas, New York, US |
2011 | The Pavement and the Beach, Paradise Row Gallery, London, GB |
2011 | Maxxi Museum of Art, Rome, IT |
2011 | Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New York, US |
2010 | Shred, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, US |
2010 | Danse Macabre, Trans Festival Belfast, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, UK |
2010 | B.Y.O.P. (Be Your Own Placebo), Williamstown, US |
2010 | Mash-Up: Splicing Life, The Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, US |
2010 | The Dissolve, Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, US |
2010 | Video Art: Replay Part II, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, US |
2009 | No Bees, No Blueberries, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, US |
2009 | Martha Colburn and Alyson Mitchell, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, CA |
2009 | Remain in light, W139, Amsterdam, NL |
2009 | Vampire Dreams/Stay in the Light, Vegas Gallery, London, GB |
2009 | White Noise, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US |
2009 | Double Dutch, HVCCA, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, US |
2009 | StressedSpace, KW14, ‘s Hertogenbosch, NL |
2009 | StressedSpace, KW14, ‘s Hertogenbosch, NL |