Aura Rosenberg American, b. 1949

Aura Rosenberg (b. 1949, New York City, lives and works between NYC and Berlin) is a painter, photographer, sculptor and video artist. In her diverse artistic practice, Rosenberg probes sexuality, gender roles, childhood, artistic identity and historial construction, whereby the question of authenticity plays a central role. Rosenberg is a professor of photography at the Pratt Institute (since 1996) and the School of Visual Arts (since 1995) in New York.

Rosenberg;s work has been exhibited at, among others, the Kiev Biennale; the Berlin Biennale; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Lehnbachhaus, Munich; Le Magasin / CentreD'art Contemporain, Grenoble; MoMA PS1, Long Island City; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Julia Stochek Collection, Düsseldorf; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Musee d'Arte Contemporain, Geneva; The Swiss Institute, New York and The Sculpture Center, Long Island City. In 2023, Rosenberg's mid-career survey What is Psychedelic, curated by Alaina Claire Feldman, was presented in two venues across New York City, the Mishkin Gallery and Pioneer Works. Recently her work has been featured in exhibitions The Irreplaceable Human - Conditions of Creativity in the Age of AI, Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark, Ecstasy at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, which travelled to the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland, Straying from the Line, Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin, Face It! In the Soliloquy With The Other at the Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Germany and Up to And Including Limits at the Muzeum Susch, Switzerland.

She has published three books of photographs; Head Shots (StopOver Press, 1996), Berlin Childhood (Steidl, DAAD, 2001), Who Am I? What Am I? Where Am I? (Hatje Cantz, 2006).