biography
ruth liberman
Born in Frankfurt, Germany.
Reading University, UK, BA Hons. in Fine Arts at; Slade School of Fine Arts, University College London, UK, MFA; Whitney Independent Study Program, New York; NYU, Steinhardt School, New York, PhD in Visual Culture. Teaches at Parsons School of Design, New York. Lives and works in New York City.
Solo Exhibitions include Kunst Galerie Fürth, Germany; Koffler Gallery, Toronto; Momenta Art, Brooklyn; Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas. Group Exhibitions include Jewish Museum Berlin; University Art Museum, SUNY, Albany; Cooper Union, NY; Photographic Resource Center, Boston; Harbourfront Centre, Toronto; Art in General, NY; Swiss Institute, NY; Drawing Center, NY; National Museum of the History of Medicine of the Ukraine in Kiev, Holocaust Memorial Museum of Budapest, and National Technical Museum Prague; Medical University of Vienna.
Collections: Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas; Jewish Museum, Berlin; Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas; Jewish Museum, Frankfurt, The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry; National Museum of the History of Medicine of the Ukraine, Kiev.
Essay contributions to anthologies published by Syracuse University Press; Text und Kritik; Macmillan Palgrave; Humanity Books.
- selected publications as author
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“Transcripts,” pp. 31-48
- Komor, Sophia and Susanne Rohr (eds.): The Holocaust, Art, and Taboo: Transatlantic Exchanges on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Representation. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010
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Book chapter: “Matters of Interpretation,” pp 93-106
- Absence/presence: critical essays on the artistic memory of the Holocaust, ed. Stephen Feinstein — Google Books Resul
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Book Chapter: »Diejenigen, die selbst beim Lachen keinen Spaß haben«