Ellen Harvey
1967, Farnborough, England. Lives and works in New York
Sometimes the only way to show yourself is to show another.
I See Myself in You is a particularly inauthentic self-portrait: A set of seven double faked painted self-portraits based on Polaroids of adult friends attempting to recreate photographs of the artist taken as a child. Each photograph was recreated twice using different women.

Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: Müllerdechiara, Berlin; Whitney Museum
at Phillip Morris, New York; 2001: De Chiara, New York; Marella, Milan;
2000: De Chiara/Stewart, New York.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: Juegos de Escala, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Shuffling the Deck, Princeton University Art Museum; After Matisse/Picasso, P.S.1 Museum, New York; Moving Faces, Outline, Amsterdam; 2002: 637 Running Feet, Queens Museum of Art, New York; Freespace 4, Provincial Museum; Z-33, Hasselt, Belgium; Painting as Paradox, Artists Space, New York; Hier ist Dort 2, Secession, Vienna; 2001: Against the Wall, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; First Person Singular, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; Strangers/Étrangers, P.S.1 Museum, New York; In/SITE/Out, Apex Art, New York; Serial Number, Gale Gates et al., New York; 2000: Face-à-Face, Kunstpanorama, Lucerne; Kwangju Biennale.



I See Myself in You: Matty and Cecilia as Ellen, aged 10, with her canary, 2000.
OIl on plywood, 2 panels, 84 x 100 cm. each. Courtesy Müllerdechiara, Berlin.