Martha Rosler — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works187

Museum Acquisitions

32 Institutions

Whitney

MoMA

Previous Sales 10

Sotheby's

Wine (Muktada) (from the series Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful, New Series), 2004

Christie's

Christie's

O'Hare (Chicago), 1994

Bought In

Feb 2026

Phillips

Barefoot, Kassel (III), 1973

$9,675

Sep 2025

Phillips

Barefoot, Kassel (III)

Bought In

Oct 2024

Phillips

Small Wonder from the series Body Beautiful, or Beauty Knows No Pain, 1972

Phillips

Phillips

Phillips · Artsy

Cleaning the Drapes, from the series "Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful", 1969

Bidding closed

Photomontage printed as color photograph

Rago/Wright/LAMA/Toomey & Co. · Artsy

A Trilogy on Service Colonization, 1978

Bidding closed

Bound printed paper

For Sale 6

Galerie Nagel Draxler · Artsy

USA Deli, 2015

For sale

C-Print

Galerie Nagel Draxler · Artsy

Carmine's Original Pizza (closed) , 2015

For sale

C-Print

Galerie Lelong · Artsy

North American Waitress, Coffee Shop Variety, 1976

Price on request

Suite of seven digital prints

Galerie Lelong · Artsy

Frontier, 1969

Price on request

Photomontage

Galerie Lelong · Artsy

What's that bird, Daddy? , 1987

Price on request

Photomontage

Galerie Lelong · Artsy

Red and White Stripes (Baghdad Burning), 2004

Price on request

Photomontage

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Market27 auction results

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$9.5K – $48.3K

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$20.3K

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$17.1K

4 priced photographs lots

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Sep 2025 · $9.7K

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Photographs: $17.1K medianPosters/ephemera: $20.3K medianUnclassified lots: — median

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Galleries1

#43 Galerie Lelong

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Prizes & Awards1

Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award

Winner 2017

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Podcast Interviews1

podcasts No. 27: Martha Rosler The Modern Art Notes Podcast · Oct 23, 2014

Episode No. 27 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Martha Rosler. An exhibition of Rosler’s pictures of Cuba, taken in January, 1981, are on view now at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in Chelsea. Rosler and host Tyler…

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Biennial Selections1

Istanbul Biennial — Istanbul

2011 · Untitled · curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Jens Hoffmann

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Publications6

Monograph 2

E-Flux Journal : Martha Rosler

MIT Press · 2020

Martha Rosler Author

Hatje Cantz · 2018

Exhibition Catalog 2

Martha Rosler Author

MIT Press · 2018

Martha Rosler: passionate signals. Ausstellung, Sprengel-Musuem Hannover, 30. Januar - 16. Mai 2005

Hatje Cantz · 2005

Survey 2

Institutional Critique Author

MIT Press · 2011

Vitamin C+: Collage in Contemporary Art

Phaidon Press

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Current Exhibitions1

Albertina

CARE MATTERS. An Exhibition of the VERBUND COLLECTION

Renate Bertlmann, Elizabeth Catlett, Hannah Cooke, Sandra Eleta, VALIE EXPORT, Sophie Gogl, Marlene Haring, Lena Henke, Natalia Iguiñiz Boggio, Birgit Jürgenssen, Kirsten Justesen, Anna Kutera, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Christine Lederer, Karin Mack, Małgorzata Markiewicz, Kelly O’Brien, Frida Orupabo, Letícia Parente, Margot Pilz, Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Margaret Raspé, Laura Ribero, Martha Rosler, Hansel Sato, Anna Schölß, Mary Sibande, Lorna Simpson, Annegret Soltau, Rosemarie Trockel, Nicole Wermers, Akihito Yoshida

Albertinapl. 1, 1010 Wien, Austria

Mar 12, 2026 — Jun 28, 2026

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