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Currently live and work in Austin, Texas

Teresa Hubbard, (Swiss / Irish / American) born 1965 in Dublin, Ireland
1990-92 M.F.A., Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
1987 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1988 Yale University School of Art, MFA Sculpture Program, New Haven, Connecticut
1985-88 B.F.A., University of Texas at Austin
2014-present William and Bettye Nowlin Endowed Professor in Photography, Department of Art & Art History, University of Texas at Austin
2000-2013 Professor, Department of Art & Art History, University of Texas at Austin
2004-2012 Graduate Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York 

Alexander Birchler, (Swiss) born 1962 in Baden, Switzerland
1990-92 M.F.A., Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
1985 University of Art and Design, Helsinki
1983-87 Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
1993-94 Lecturer, University of Zürich
2004-2012 Core Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016
• Single Wide, Columbus Museum of Art, Opening of the New Margaret M. Walter Wing, Columbus, Ohio
• Missing Truffaut, Public Sculpture at the Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, The Contemporary Austin, in collaboration with the Waller Creek Conservancy, Austin, Texas
2015
• Sound Speed Marker, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Texas
2014
• Sound Speed Marker, Irishi Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
• Sound Speed Marker, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas
• Eight, Eighteen, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
2013
• Eight, Eighteen, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas
• Hubbard/Birchler - Eight, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
2012
• Hubbard / Birchler, curated by Tricia Y. Apik, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri 
2011
• Hubbard / Birchler, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
• Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler. Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin 
2010
• Grand Paris Texas at The Paramount Theater, film screening in association with Lora Reynolds Gallery, Arthouse at the Jones Center, and Austin Film Society
2009 
• No Room to Answer, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
• No Room to Answer - Projections, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
• Grand Paris Texas, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin 
2008 
• No Room to Answer, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas 
• Hello Darkness, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
2006 
• House with Pool, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
• House with Pool, Miami Art Museum, Miami 
2005 
• Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Museum Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
• Little Pictures at Mrs. Owens House, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• Troop, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich
• Editing the Dark, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• Single Wide, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld, Germany
• New Spaces, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
• Single Wide, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel 
2004 
• Single Wide, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York
• House with Pool, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
• House with Pool, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, Switzerland
2003 
• Eight, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 
• Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
• County Line Road, Gallery Barbara Thumm, Berlin 
2002 
• ArtPace Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas
• Wild Walls, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
• Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 
2001 
• Museum Haus Lange and Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
• Huis Marseille. Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
• Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zürich 
2000 
• Arsenal, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
• Werk Raum 1, National Gallery in the Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin (with Sophie Calle and Remy Markowitsch) 
1999 
• Motion Pictures, Gallery Barbara Thumm, Berlin
• National Gallery, Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Prague
• Gregor's Room, Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zürich 
1998 
• Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
• Stripping, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 
1997 
• Slow Place, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland 
• Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zürich

Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
• Women of Venice, 57th annual Venice Biennale, Swiss Pavilion, Venice, Italy (forthcoming)
• Cinema mon amour, Film in the Arts, A joint project of the Aargauer Kunsthaus and the Solothurn Film Festival, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland (forthcoming)
2016
• Kino der Kunst, Neues Museum, State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg, Germany
• The Adventure of our Collection, Re-Opening of the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
• Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
• Open Spaces | Secret Places. Works from the Sammlung Verbund, BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
• No Place Like Home, Works from the Goez Collection, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
• New Collection Presentation, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
2015
​• No Place Like Home, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
• The Goetz Collection: 12 Month / 12 Films. Explorations in Space, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
• Nocturnal Images, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
• Happy Birthday, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• Go-Betweens: The World Seen through Children, Okinawa Prefectural Museum / The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
• FRAMING DESIRE: Photography and Video, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
• The Art of Collaboration, Hare & Hound Press at the Linda Pace Foundation, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
2014
• Bad Thoughts: Collection of Martijn and Jeannette Sanders, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Go-Betweens: The World Seen through Children, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nahoya; Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa; The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
• Zugaben - Sammlung Freunde der Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
2013
• Cut! Video Art from the Collection, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
• Kino der Kunst, Pinakothek der Moderne / Schaustelle, Munich, Germany
• Selections from the Permanent Collection, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
• Reality is not a Common Place: Photographs and Videos from the Julius Baer Art Collection, Museo Cantonale d'Arte Lugano, Switzerland
2012
• Forever Young, Kunstalle Nuremberg, Germany
• open spaces - secret places, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
• Open End, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
• The Undercurrent of Boredom, Lothringer Halle 13, Munich, Germany
• Viewpoint: a Closer Look at Showing, Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• A Window on the World. From Dürer to Mondrian, Museo d'Arte di Lugano, Switzerland
• Eröffnung des Städel Erweiterungsbaus mit dem Sammlungbereich Gegenwartskunst, Stadel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Resonance and Silence, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
• Performing for the Camera, Arizona State University Art Museum, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Tempe, Arizona
2011
• The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, CaixaForum, Barcelona
• The Heinz and Marianne Ebers Foundation Collection, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
• Videonale 13, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
2010
• The Night Pleases Us, 51st Edition October International Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
• Grand Paris Texas, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
• Berger + Berger, A Prefabricated Movie Theater, Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Venice Biennial, 12th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice
• Unsichtbare Schatten/Invisible Shadows, Museum Marta Herford
• Projections, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
• Everyday Ideologies, Kunstmusem Magdeburg, Germany
2009
• Conflicting Tales, Burger Collection, Berlin
• Anabasis: Rituals of Homecoming, Villa Grohman, Festival of Dialogue of Four Cultures, Lodz, Poland
• Götenborg International Biennial, Götenborg, Sweden
• Parades & Processions. Here comes everybody, Parasol Unit, Foundation for Contemporary Art, London
• Filmes e vídeos da Coleção Goetz, Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Three leap seconds later, 1998 ... 2008. Ankäufe aus der Bundeskunstsammlung, Kunsthaus Grenchen, Switzerland
• Dialog der Generationen, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
2008
• Interior / Exterior: Living Space in the Arts, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
• Held Together with Water: Art from the Sammlung Verbund, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey
• Expenditures: Busan Biennial, Busan, South Korea
• Made Up, Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom
• The Morning After, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
• Atelier 2008, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
• Index: Fotographie. DZ BANK Sammlung im Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
2007
• Big Picture, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
• 12th Biennial of Moving Images, Center for Contemporary Images, Geneva
• Unidentified Emotions, Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong.
• Seduction - A Theory-Fiction between the Real and the Possible, Borderline - Moving Images, Beijing Centre for Creativity, Beijing
• Novella (not yet another story), Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Germany
• The Narrativity of the Image, Le Mois de la photo 2007, VOX Centre de l'image contemporaine, Montreal
• Dialogues and Attitudes, Works from the DZ Bank Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
• Kunst aus der Sammlung Verbund, MAK, Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst, Vienna
• L'oeil écran ou la nouvelle image / The Screen Eye or The New Image, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
• Une Question de Génération, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
• Raised by Wolves, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
• Imagination Becomes Reality: Werke aus der Sammlung Goetz, Museum für Neue Kunst, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany     
2006
• Gefrorene Augenblicke: Von Vallotton bis Hubbard /Birchler, Kunsthaus Zürich
• Touch my Shadows. New Media Works from the Goetz Collection, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
• Auflösung III - Entgrenzung, NGBK Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin
• Upsetting the Balance - Irritation des Gleichgewichts, Paul Klee Museum, Bern, Switzerland
• La Vie, La Ville, La Bienniale du Havre, Le Havre, France
• No Peak No View, Viper International Festival for Video and Media Art, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
• Kunst Lebt!, Landesmuseen Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart, Germany
• Melancholy, Nationalgalerie Berlin
2005
• Contenance, Württemburgischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany 
• Vertiges, Les Abbatoirs Museum, Toulouse, France
• Johnny, ArtUnlimited, Basel. Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zürich
• Esprit es-tu lá?, Fondation Claude Verdan, Musée de la Main, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Geschichtenerzähler, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
• The World is a Stage, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
• Vanishing Point, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
• Roaming Memories, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
• Me Myself I, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Swiss Experimental Film, Image Forum, Tokyo
2004
• 3': Condensed Information, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Take 5 jaar Huis Marseille, Huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
• Video dreams: between the cinematic and theatrical, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
• The Cobweb, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• Einleuchten- Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
• StadtRäume. Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, Switzerland
• Reordering Reality: Collecting Contemporary Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
• Eight, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
• Sammlung Plum, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
• So Wie Die Dinge Liegen, Hartware Medien Kunst verein, Dortmund, Germany 
2003
• Fast Forward: Works from the Goetz Collection, ZKM/Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Eight, Hordaland Art Center, Bergen, Norway
• 10th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre for Contemporary Images, Geneva
• Child in Time, Gemeente Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands  
• Brightness – Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik, Croatia
• Looking in – Looking out, Positions in Contemporary Photography, Oeffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel
• Adolescence, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
• Suiza en ARCO, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
• Neuerwerbungen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
• Single Wide, ArtUnlimited, Basel. Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zürich and Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
• Yet Untitled: Works from the Bernd F. Künne Collection, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany; Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, Germany; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany 
2002
• The Starting Line, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
• On Stage, Kunstverein Hannover, Germant; Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
• Wallflowers, Grosse Fotografien, Kunsthaus Zürich
• Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the Architectural Uncanny, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• Eight, ArtUnlimited, Basel. Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zürich
• Im Sucher, Zeitgenoessiche Fotografie in Solothurner Sammlungen, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland
• 22 to Watch: New Art in Austin, Austin Museum of Art
• Say Hello to Peace and Tranquility, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam; Nikolaj Contemporary Art Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark 
2001
• New Work, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
• I Like Theater & Theater Likes Me, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, Germany 
• Dialogues & Stories, Museum Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg, Germany
• Das Versprechen der Fotografie, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
• Prospek! Zu einer Sammlung für Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthaus Aarau, Switzerland
• Photography from the KPN, Huis Marseille. Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
• Missing Link, Kunst Haus Dresden / Ujazdowski Castle, Center for Contemporary Arts, Warsaw, Poland
• Crossover Theater & Art, Offenes Kulturhaus Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
• 9th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre for Contemporary Images, Geneva
• 6 Artists - 6 positions, Museum Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
2000
• Scène de la Vie Conjugale, Villa Arson, Nice, France
• Anti-Memory, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
• U.T. Faculty, Blanton Art Museum, Austin
• Every Time, La Biennale de Montréal, Quebec
• No Vacancies, Angelika Richter / Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
• Solitude im Museum, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany; Musèe d`Art Moderne de St. Etienne, France
• Mnemosyne, Encontros de Fotografia 2000». Coimbra & Lisbon, Portugal 
• Imago, Center for Photography, University of Salamanca, Spain
• Staged, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
• Nachbilder, Neue Fotografien in der Sammlung, Kunsthaus Zürich
1999
• dAPERTutto, 48th Venice Biennial, Venice
• Tomorrow For Ever, Museum Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg, Germany; Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
• Signs of Life, Melbourne International Biennial, Australia 
• Solitude in Budapest, Kunsthalle Budapest
• Skulpturen Biennale, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Munster
• DACH, Gallery Krinzinger, Vienna
• Dislocation, hARTware Projekte, Dortmund, Germany
• 40 Jahre Schweizer Kunst, Kunsthaus Aarau, Switzerland
• Missing Link, Kunstmuseum Bern Galerie Christine König, Vienna
• Le Sommeil, Musèe cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Eidgenössischer Preis für Freie Kunst, Kunsthalle Zürich
• NB, Centre d'Art Neuchâtel, Switzerland
1998
• Ausstellungsraum Mezzanin, Vienna
• L'Art du Monde 98, Passage de Retz, Paris
• Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus Zürich; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
• Photography as Concept, Triennale der Fotografie, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
• Nonchalance revisited, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
• Anticipation, Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Geneva
• Im Kontext, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Positionen der 90er Jahre aus der Sammlung Künne, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany
1997
• Alice hinter den Spiegeln, Kunstverein Baselland, Sissach, Switzerland
• Extended Objects, Art Gallery, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax
• Eidgenössischer Preis für Freie Kunst, Musèe cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
• P.O. Box, Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland; Portikus Frankfurt, Germany; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium 
• Nonchalance, Centre Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
• Check in!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland
1996
• Young Art, Kunsthalle Bern, Germany; Museé d'art et d'histoire, Geneva
• Cabines de Bain, Projekt Attitudes, Fribourg, Switzerland
1995
• Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
• East, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
1994
• Körper, Fragment, Wirklichkeit. Schweizer Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland 
• Small Histories, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
1993
• Speicher, Versuche zur Darstellbarkeit von Geschichte/n, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria
• Exchange 2, Shedhalle, Zürich

Selected Awards and Residencies
2016
• Residency Fellowship Berlin Studio, Aargauer Kuratorium Arts Council, Switzerland
• Residency Fellowship Umbria, Italy
• Civitella Ranieri Foundation, New York, New York
2013
• Catalogue Production Award, Aargauer Kuratorium Arts Council, Switzerland
2012
• Film Production Award, Aargauer Kuratorium Arts Council, Switzerland
2010-2011
• Alturas Foundation, Artists in Residence Fellows, United States
2006
• Landis + Gyr Foundation, Zug, Studio Residency Grant in London, Great Britain
2003
• Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt Commission Award, Basel, Switzerland
1999
• National Prize for Fine Arts, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Switzerland
1998
• Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Residency Fellowship at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien,
Berlin, Germany
• Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, Artist Stipend, Switzerland
1997
• National Prize for Fine Arts, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Switzerland
• Residency Fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
1996
• Manor Art Prize, Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland
1995
• Alexander Clavel Foundation Prize, Riehen, Switzerland
• Yukon Arts Centre Residency Grant, Whitehorse, Canada
• Basler Kunstverein Travel Prize, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
1994
• Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, Artist Stipend, Basel, Switzerland
1990-92
• Fellowship, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
1988
• Fellowship, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada

Selected Public Collections
• Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
• American Friends of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
• Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
• Walter A. Bechtler Stiftung, Switzerland
• Blantom Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA
• Centre for Photography, University of Salamanca, Spain
• Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
• Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C, USA
• Huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• International Centre for Photography, New York, USA
• Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
• Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
• Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
• Kunstmuseum Luzern, Depositum Kanton Luzern, Switzerland
• Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
• Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, USA
• Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
• Museum Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
• Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
• Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, USA
• Staedel Museum Frankfurt, Germany
• Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
• Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
• Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Bern, Switzerland
• Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria
• Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas, USA
• Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan