MARIANNA ROTHEN

 

Born in Canada 1982

Lives and Works in New York

 

 

ROTHEN (b. 1982) uses her photographs, films and installations to explore and deconstruct conventional conceptions of female beauty and gender politics. Screenings and solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York, Polka Galerie in Paris, Biennale Images Vevey, Galerie Stephan Witschi in Zurich, The Little Black Gallery, London, Ingrid Deuss gallery in Antwerp and Kaune Contemporary in Cologne. Her work has been the subject of four monographs; Snow and Rose & other tales, Shadows in Paradise, Mail Order and Making It Real all published by b.frank books. Rothen's films include Like a Dream (2024), Mail Order (2019), The Woman with a Crown (2014) and Desert of June (2014). Her work has been featured in Apartamento Magazine, The New Yorker, Upstate Diary, New York Magazine, The Paris Review, Vogue, Photoworks, Elephant, Interview, AnOther and Huffington Post.