Martha Rosler, An Eye On Women

Martha Rosler is an artist who utilizes photo, text, video, and performance as her art mediums.

Usually with an eye on women’s experiences, Ms. Rosler’s expressions of art focus on everyday life and the public arena.

“Semiotics of the Kitchen”, “Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained”, “Losing: A Conversation With The Parents” and “Born To Be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby S/M” are widely known creations of Martha Rosler. Her photo-text installation “The Bowery In Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems” is considered influential in conceptual and postmodern photography.

Her series of photomontages, “Body Beautiful, Beauty Knows No Pain” addresses the photographic depictions of women and domesticity. “Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful” reflects the imagery of the Vietnam War and the War in Iraq as mirroring each other, history repeating itself. 

Ms Rosler received the 2005 Spectrum International Prize in Photography, the 2006 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, which is Austria’s highest fine arts award and in 2007 she presented with an Anonymous Was A Woman Award.


To know more about Martha Rosler: 3 Works click on image:
Martha Rosler: 3 Works: 1. The Restoration of High Culture in Chile; 2. The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems; 3. in, around, and afterthoughts (on documentary photography)