Born in Germany, Renate Aller lives and works in New York. “The Space Between Memory and Expectation” and “side walk 6′ apart in NYC” are her most recent books, both published by Kehrer Verlag, Germany. “Mountain Interval” and the artist’s previous projects “Ocean and Desert”, “dicotyledon” (published by Radius Books of Santa Fe) and the long term project “Oceanscapes – One View – Ten Years” (co published by Kehrer Verlag and Radius Books) support the artist’s investigation into the relationship between Romanticism, memory and landscape – in the context of our current socio-political awareness.
Her works are in the collections of corporate institutions, private collectors and museums, including Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, N.M., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Yale University Art Gallery, CT, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, , Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland and New-York Historical Society Museum, New York, NY Where a solo exhibition with “side walk 6′ apart in NYC” was being held in March – August 7th 2022.
Selected Awards and Collections
2022 Thanks to Mihail S Lari and Scott Murray “PASCUA” was placed into the Getty Museum and Research Institute.
2021 “side walk 6′ apart in NYC April – May 2020”, New-York Historical Society Museum, NY, permanent collection and a solo exhibition in March – July 2022
2019 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland, “Mountain Interval” for their collection
2017 Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, acquisition for their collection, “Ocean | Desert”
2013 Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM, Ocean | Desert acquisition
2012 National Gallery of Art Washington, DC, permanent collection
2012 Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM acquisition
2011 New Britain Museum of American Art, CT, permanent collection
2011 New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, N.M., permanent collection
2010 Chazen Museum of Art, University Gallery of Wisconsin,Madison, WI, permanent collection
2009 George Eastman House Intl. Museum for Photography and Film, permanent collection
2008 Hamburger Kunsthalle, permanent collection
2008 Yale University Art Gallery, permanent collection
2008 BOB – Award (Best of the Borough), PS122, Brooklyn, NY
1999 The British Council, Documents and Identities
1998 The British Council, Kerteriz
1997 The British Council, Foreign Investment / Gold for every Body
1997 Hong Kong Arts Centre, Choreography of Emotions
1995 Second Prize, Ilford Photographic Competition, Images of London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022/2023 “The Space Between Memory and Expectation” Brattleboro Museum, VT
2022 “‘side walk 6’ apart in NYC” New-York Historical Society Museum and Library, NY NY
2021 “The Space Between Memory and Expectation” at Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT
2020 / 2021 “Landscape and Memory” at Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT, two person exhibition with Lynn Davis
2019 “The Space between Memory and Expectation”, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, (March 24 to July 28)
2019 “shared history”, MM Gallery, Southampton, NY
2019 “Mountain Interval – Compositions”, Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT
2019 “parallel realities from multiple locations open up conversations about the different (political) landscapes in which we live”, Special Project Space, The Photography Show / AIPAD, New York, NY
2018 “Mountain Interval”, Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston, Texas
2018 “Mountain Interval”, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2018 “Mountain Interval”, Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT
2018 “Mountain Interval”, PH-Neutro, Siena, Italy
2017 “Ocean | Desert”, New York Public Library, NY NY
2016 “Ocean | Desert”, Fotofest Biennale and artsBrookfield, Houston, Texas
2014 “Ocean | Desert”, Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston, Texas
2014 “Ocean | Desert”, PH-Neutro, Italy
2014 “Ocean | Desert”, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2012 Photography installation, “dicotyledon”, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2012 Photography installation, “dicotyledon“, Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC
2011 Photography, One view – Ten years, John Cleary Gallery, Houston,TX
2011 Photography, oceanscapes – one view – ten years, Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2010 Photography, oceanscapes – one view – ten years, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, N.M.
2008 Photography, Aplanat Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2006 Photography and Video Installation, Prato. Italy curated by Vittoria Ciolini – catalog
2006 Photography / Video, Fixed Coordinate, Adamson Gallery, Washington DC
2003 Multimedia Installation, You’ve red between the lines, Prato, Italy
2002 Photographic Installation, Tuscan Phototrienale, Villa Romana, Florence
2002 Photographic Installation, AFTERWARD, Goethe Institut, New York
2002 Photography Installation, In Remembrance of September 11th, German Consulate, New York
and Freilichtmuseum Kommern, Germany
2000/2002 Photography, Monaghan County Museum, Ireland
1998 Photographic Installation, Shoreditch, London
1998 Site-specific Photography Installation, Stage Fright, Kingsgate, London
1997 Video/Sound Project, The Basement, London
1997 BM Contemporary Art Centre, Performance / Installation, Foreign Investment, Istanbul
Fringe event in the Istanbul Bienale supported by The British Council
1997 BM Contemporary Art, Foreign Investment, Istanbul
1997 Photographic Installations, Monaghan County Museum, Ireland
1997 Photographic Installation, Westminster Synagogue, London
1997 Photographic Installations, Fringe Festival / Agfa Gallery, Hong Kong
1996 Performance/Installation, Foreign Investment / Breeding, Butlers Wharf, London
1994 Photographic Installations, I am You, National Library, Rio de Janeiro,
1994 Photographic Installations, Museu da Republica, Rio de Janeiro
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023-24 Photo Elysee, Dialogue of Humanity
2023 The Earth, curated by Stefan Hagen, Concord Art, Concord, MA
2023 MELTDOWN : A Visualization Of Climate Change, in collaboration with Project Pressure, Kuehlhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2022 MELTDOWN PART 2 in NZ: A Visualization Of Climate Change, in collaboration with Project Pressure, Nelson Provincial Museum Pupuri Taonga O Te Tai Ao, New Zealand
2022 MELTDOWN, MGML Museums of Ljubljana Galerija Jacopic with Project Pressure, Ljublana, Slovenia
2022 Patricia Conde Galeria, as part of Zona Maco, Mexico City, Mexico
2020 “Keeper of the Hearth” Houston Center For Photography, Houston, TX
2020 “Pausa” Patricia Conde Galeria , Mexico City, Mexico
2020 Fall Exhibition, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2020 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
2020 Winter Exhibition, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2019 “Mountain Interval”, Alt.+1000 festival de photographie @ Le Cachot, presented by Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland
2019 “APPROACHES OF ABSTRACTION // CONSTRUCTION OF A LANDSCAPE”, Patricia Conde Gallery, Mexico City
2019 “THE ASSEMBLY”, FOTOFEST at Silver Street Studios, Houston, TX
2019 “Winter Group Show”, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2018 Paris Photo, Paris, France
2018 “Scale”, CMA Museum, New York
2017 Augeo Art Space, Rimini, Italy
2017 “Fall Group Show”, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Hurricane Harvey Benefit, Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston, TX
2017 “New Works in Context”, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
2016 “Elemental Perspectives: Land, Sea + Sky”, Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC
2016 “From Liberty to Freedom”, PH-Neutro, Italy
2015 “40: The Anniversary Exhibition”, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
2014 / 2015 ” Hunting and Gathering”, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2014 Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2014 “Desert Serenade”, Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
2013/14 Contemporary Landscape Photography, Oceanside Museum of Art – OMA, Oceanside, CA
2013/2014 Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2013 “Again: Repetition, Obsession and Meditation”, Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, N.M.
2013 “Winter Show”, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2012 “The Deep Element: Photography at the Beach”, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2012 “ oceanscapes – 1999 to present”, Lannan Foundation (recent acquisitions), Santa Fe, NM
2012 “Waterscapes” , Photographs from the collection at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2011 “Artists choose Artists” with Ross Bleckner at the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
2011-2016 Sight specific digital installation, Great Ormond Street Children’s hospital, London, UK
2011 “The Art of Photography”, curated by Anne Lyden, Lyceum Theater Gallery, San Diego, CA
2011 “recent Acquisitions”,New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
2011 Photography, “Moving”, Vittoria Ciolini, Dryphoto Arte, Prato, Italy
2010/2011 Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Houston Center for Photography, curated by Alison Nordström, Houston, TX
2008 Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2008 BOB – Award (Best of the Boroughs), Multi-media Video / Performance, Mayim Rabim, PS122, New York, NY
2008 “Here is New York: Remembering 9/11”, New York Historical Society, New York, NY
2006 Projection, ‘macrolotto_zero’, curated by Vittoria Ciolini, Prato, Italy
2004 The Flag Project, curated by Kiki Smith, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
2004 Multimedia Installation, You’ve red between the lines, Eberswalde Filmfest, Germany
2003-04 Video Installation, collaboration with Beverly Peterson, Whose place is this anyway?, Hamburg, Germany
2003 Museum für Arbeit and Veddel Emigration Halls, Hamburg, Germany
2002 Digital / Sound Work, Connection, SIAD, UK
2002 Exit Art, Reactions, New York, NY
2002 Photography for Here is New York, MOMA, New York and Berlin, Germany
2000 Photography, European Women Photographers, Italy
1999 Photo Triennale, Tampere, Finland
1999 Photography, Bank Side Browser, Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London, UK
1998 Photographic Installation, Ataturk Cultural Centre, Istanbul, Turkey
1996/97 “Choreography of Emotions”, Large Scale Photo Installation, Hong Kong Arts Centre, part of Fringe Festival HK
1995-96 Photography Series, Images of London, Ilford Competition, Second Prize, Museum of London, London, UK
1995 Multi-media work, Making a Stand, ICA, London, UK
1995 Photography for Susan Sontag, The Way We Live Now, Brighton, UK