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Ida Appelbaum was born in Bronx, New York
Ida Applebroog has an instantly recognizable artistic style. Themes that are present in her artwork include gender and sexual identity, power struggles, and the role of the mass media in desensitizing the public to everyday violence. Other themes include illness, aging, sexual assault, and uncertainty. Her art is odd and often disturbing, and reveals intense anxiety. Ida uses many mediums; drawing, painting, sculpture, photogenics, and modeling clay. -
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NY State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences
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Married Gideon Horowitz
Ida decides not to take Gideon's last name because she didn't want her identity to conform to the male's inner life -
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Attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Ida explores her own body
Living in San Diego and taking care of four children, Ida was briefly hospitalized for depression. Once she was released and sent home Ida explored her own body and skecthed nude pictures of herself and her vagina, creating over 150+ sketches. -
First Solo Exhibition
Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, ‘Soft Forms: Ida Horowitz’, San Marcos CA -
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Solo Exhibitions
Ida Applebroog has had 89 solo exhibitions since 1971 in various countries and locations. She has had as much as five exhibitions in one year. -
Professor at the University of California in San Diego
After teaching, she returned to New York. -
Ida Appelbaum changes name to Ida Applebroog
When Ida was diagnosed with depression, it had a direct correlation to her developing a speech impediment. She was no longer able to say "Appelbaum," so she changed her name to "Applebroog" Ida began to find her voice, partly in the feminist movement, joining the influential art and publishing collective Heresies and slowly reinvented herself, changing her name to Applebroog, a fairy-tale-like coinage based on her maiden name, Applebaum. -
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Early Works, Galileo Works
Drawings and paintings structured similar to a comic strip. -
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Self-Published books
Ida created a series of self-published books that she sent out through mail -
Joins Heresies/A Feminist Journal on Art and Politics.
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Award: Artist’s Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
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Group Exhibitions
Ida Applebroog has been in over 50 group exhibitions with many artists at a time. She has been a part of at least 10 group exhibitions a year n various countries and locations. -
"Applebroog: Silent Stagings"
First exhibition at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NY, where she continued to show for over 20 years. -
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Postmodernity Stage
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Joins Women’s Action Coalition (WAC)
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Award: Lifetime Achievement Award, College Art Association
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Honorary Doctorate, Parsons School of Design
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MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
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"Photogenics"
"Photogenics" is a technique that Ida named herself. It is the combination of using old and new artwork, mized with digital photos, and sometimes children's modeling clay. *The actual year that Ida began using this technique is unknown -
Award: Lifetime Achievement Award, Women's Caucus for Art
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Solo Exhibition: "Monalisa"
Hauser & Wirth, New York NY -
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Monalisa Exhibition at Hauser & Wirth
Bathroom images, previously unseen by the public. Many of her drawings were brought together in a display, with the focal point being in the center of the constructed room. -
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Ida Applebroog Exhibition
Hauser & Wirth. A symposium on Applebroog’s work, including discussions led by various art historians and professors. Works included were political images, where she challenges her audience to realize how little is needed to create a person. -
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"The Ethics of Desire" Exhibition
Hauser & Wirth. This exhibition was a reference to Plato's philosophical and ethical exploration of our desires and how they shape our lives. Works included represented sex and gender roles, and narratives of relationships.
