Ruth at 100

This section honors Ruth Orkin’s Centennial year. She was born September 3, 1921! There  continue to be solo exhibitions and books to celebrate her tremendous contributions to the worlds of photography and film.

NEW PUBLICATIONS

Ruth Orkin: Women. Hatje Cantz.

Ruth Orkin: Bike Trip, USA, 1939. Silvanaeditoriale.it (English version)

Ruth Orkin: Photofile. Thames and Hudson(English version)

Ruth Orkin: Photo PocheActes Sud(French version)

FILMS

Documentary – Mary Engel’s Ruth Orkin: Frames of Life. Password to access the film: Videos123

 

CURRENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

OSTRAVIA, CZECH REPUBLIC

RUTH ORKIN: WOMEN 
Gallery of Fine Arts Ostravia
March 6, 2024 – May 12, 2024 

 

BERLIN, GERMANY

RUTH ORKIN: WOMEN 

Frierium, F3, Berlin, Germany

December 5, 2023 – Feburary 18, 2024

 

RUTH ORKIN: BIKE TRIP, USA, 1939, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France

September 19, 2023 – January 14, 2024

Exhibition organized by Clément Chéroux, director, Fondation HCB

 

RUTH ORKIN: THE ILLUSION OF TIME

Traveling exhibition organized and curated by Anne Morin, Director, di Chroma Photography

CASCAIS, PORTUGAL

Centro Cultural de Cascais, 

April 27 – July 7, 2024

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY 

Mai ManoOctober 11, 2023 – January 14, 2024

 

TORINO, ITALY

Musei Reali Torino,  3/18/23 – 7/15/23

SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN 

Kutxa Kultur ArtgeuneaSan Sebastián, Spain, July 7, 2022 – November 6, 2022

BASSANO, ITALY Museo Civico di Bassano, December 18, 2021 – May 22, 2022

 

RUTH ORKIN: EXPRESSIONS OF LIFE, FOTOGRAFISKA, NYC, September 3 – December 5, 2021

RUTH ORKIN: A PHOTO SPIRIT, Frierium, F3, Berlin, Germany, September 4 – November 21, 2021

RUTH ORKIN: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION EXHIBITION, Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas, TX, June 2021

RUTH ORKIN AT 100: A CELEBRATORY EXHIBITION, Stephen Bulger Gallery,  Toronto, Canada, August 14 – September 18, 2021

Paul Smith Store, 88 Wooster Street, NYC – September 3, 2021

PRESS

Public Radio Interview: WNYC “All of It” with Alison Stewart

B&H Photo’s Explora Blog: A Photographic Legacy from Ruth Orkin to Her Daughter – June 6, 2020

Talk at The National Arts Club on the Engel/Orkin Archive – March 28, 2022

Reel of Ruth’s Retrospective at Museo Civic di Bassano

Television Interview – ABC NEWS – 10/4/21 

Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit, Retrospective book published on September 3, 2021 by Hatje Cantz.

The Guardian, The big picture: Ruth Orkin’s modern New York woman, 1949 – July 2021

Print Interview – DIGILAND – April, 2021

East Bay Photo Collective Presentation – April 9, 2021

PARTNERSHIPS & ONLINE EXHIBITIONS

Hundred Heroines, London England – online exhibit

Milan Image Art Fair – miaart.it

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA – Modern Women/Modern Vision: Photogaphy from Bank of America Collection – October 02, 2022  December 31, 2022
 
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY – Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum
April 16, 2022 – October 10, 2022
 
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY – A Female Gaze
January 18, 2022 – April 16, 2022
 

National Gallery of Art  – The New Woman Behind the Camera, October 31, 2021 – January 30, 2022

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY – The New Woman Behind the Camera 
July 2 – October 31, 2021
 

Museum of Modern Art – The Helen Kornblum Collection, 2022.

“Essere Umane” exhibition, Museo San Domenico, Forli, Italy 9/17/21- 1/30/22

Galerie-Z22 “The Female Side of the Moon” Berlin, Germany

Howard Greenberg Gallery – Spring 2022

Ephemera

Early Selected Articles