Martha Rosler is an American artist. She works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. Rosler’s work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war, as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to systems of transport.
Her work and writing have been widely influential. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and has taught art at Rutgers University, where she was a professor for thirty years, and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany.
She serves in an advisory capacity to the departments of education at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (all New York City). She is on the board of the Van Alen Institute, in New York City, and is a former board member of the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, New York. She is a regular lecturer at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York.
Rosler's son is the graphic novelist Josh Neufeld; they have collaborated on a number of projects.
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