Selected Recent Press

  • 2021  Artist Shimon Attie uses urban, contemporary inspirations to tell refugee stories, Mike Cerre, PBS Newshour “Canvas” (Arts and Culture) series, broadcast on Dec 22

  • 2021  Welcome to the Neighborhood: Shimon Attie’s “Night Watch” takes to The Bay, Luke Williams, cover story of SF/Arts, Arts and Culture hard copy insert for Northern California Edition of Sunday New York Times, August 24

  • 2021  ‘Night Watch’ Transforms San Francisco Bay into Art Installation, Tony Bravo, San  Francisco Chronicle, Sept 20

  • 2021 Review: Afloat on the Bay, Night WatchPresented Refugees as They Are, Genevieve Quick, 48 Hills, Sept 22

  • 2021 Bay Area art spaces back on feet for fall, focusing on the traditionally   underrepresented, Datebook, Tony Bravo, Art and Exhibits Fall Preview, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept 8

  • 2021  Year in Review: Visual Art in 2021 explored big issues and didn’t shy from controversy, Tony Bravo, Arts and Exhibits, San Francisco Chronicle, December 22

  • 2020  From Berlin to the West  Bank – why we build walls, Arts Section, CNN, Jen Sudul Edwards, January 3

  • 2020  From Keith Haring to Dread Scott, A Brief History of Public Art in New York City, Claire Selvin, ARTnews,  July 2

  • 2018  Out on the Water: Images of Asylum, Shimon Attie’s art installation coincides with the United Nations General Assembly, Sopan Deb, Feature article on page 2 of Arts and Design, The New York Times, hard copy, Sept 25
  • 2018  Cruising New York’s Waterways This Week: Portraits of Former Refugees, Shimon Attie’s Night Watch, Sopan Deb, Feature article on front page of Arts and Design, The New York Times, on-line, Sept 24
  • 2018  Refugee Stories Told from a Barge, Timed for UN General Assembly, Zachary Small, second leading news feature, Hyperallergic, Sept 20
  • 2018  Who are the people seeking political asylum in the US? A Floating art project in New York tells refugees’ stories during the UN General Assembly, Gabriella Angeleti, Feature article, The Art Newspaper, Sept 19
  • 2018  Giant Video Portraits of Refugees Are Circling Manhattan for the UN General Assembly This Week, Caroline Goldstein, Feature article, artnet News, Sept 25
  • 2018  Portraits of Refugees Sail the New York Harbor / BK Stories, Filippo Piscopo, BRIC TV,  Nov 13
  • 2018  Stars gegen Trump- Wächst Amerikas Widerstand? (“Stars against Trump – Is America’s Resistance Movement Becoming Stronger?”), Z.D.F. German State Television, Nov 6 (timed to coincide with the day of the American midterm Elections)
  • 2018  KulturZeit (“Culture Time”), German State Television ZDF, Nov 6 (timed to coincide with the day of the American midterm Elections)

 


Monographs

  • 2016   Facts on the Ground, Shimon Attie, Intro by Mieke Bal, essay by Gannit Ankori/Samir Srouji, Nazraeli Press, CA
  • 2008  The Attraction of Onlookers: Aberfan – An Anatomy of a Welsh Village, Shimon Attie, Foreword by John Humphrys, essays by Chris Townsend and Melanie Doel, Parthian Books, UK
  • 2004   The History of Another: Projections in Rome, Shimon Attie, essays by Alexander Stille and Natasha Egan, Twin Palms Press, Santa Fe, NM (The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL), exhibition monograph
  • 1998   Sites Unseen: Shimon Attie – European Projects, essay by James Young, intro by Jill Medvedow, Edition Braus, Heidelberg/ Verve Editions, VT (Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston), exhibition monograph
  • 1993   The Writing on the Wall: Projections in Berlin’s Jewish Quarter; Shimon Attie – Photographs and Installations, essays by Michael A. Bernstein, Erwin Leiser and Shimon Attie, Edition Braus, Heidelberg, Germany. (Editions in English and German.
  • 1992    Shimon Attie: Finstere Medine, Galerie im Scheunenviertel, Berlin, Germany, exhibition catalogue

 


 

Selected Group Exhibition Catalogues

  • 2021   The 15th Busan International Video Art Festival Catalogue, Busan, South Korea
  • 2019   The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2018   Domestic Arenas: John Akomfrah, Shimon Attie, Jeremy Deller, Stan Douglas, Omer Fast, Kahlil Joseph, edited by Petr Nedoma, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2018   Art AIDS America Chicago, Alphawood Foundation/University of Washington Press
  • 2016   Seeing | Saying – Visual Verbal Exchanges, Davidson College Art Galleries, Davidson, North Carolina
  • 2015   Art, AIDS, America, Tacoma Art Museum/Univ of Washington Press
  • 2012   WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Photographs of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath, Anne Tucker, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/Yale University Press
  • 2011   Videonale 13: Festival for Contemporary Video Art, KunstMuseum Bonn, Kerber Publishers
  • 2008   Modern Contemporary: Art Since 1980 at MOMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 2008   Le Visage qui s’efface: de Giacometti A Baselitz, Hotel des Arts, Center Mediterraneen d’Art, Toulon, France
  • 2007   Collection Photographie, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  • 2007   Déchirures de l’Histoire, Dix-Neuf Contemporary Art Center,  Montebeliard,  France
  • 2006   Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain, Williams College Museum of Art, MA
  • 2004   Vita Brevis 1998-2003: History, Landscape and Art, Steidl Publishers/The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
  • 2004   Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, The  Corcoran Museum of Art/Merrell Publishers, London, UK
  • 2004   After Images: Kunst als soziales Gedaechtnis, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
  • 2004   Masterworks of the Jewish Museum, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
  • 2002   Short Stories, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • 2001   Theatres du Fantastique, Printemps de Septembre a Toulouse, The Cartier       Foundation, France
  • 2001   Fotografi som Offentlig Kunst (Photography as Public Art”), Forbundet Frie Fotografer, Oslo, Norway
  • 2000   Open Ends: Contemporary Art at the Modern since 1980, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 1999   Threshold, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
  • 1999   ATTACK, The Holland Festival, Amsterdam, NL
  • 1995   Reality-Intention-Media, Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
  • 1995   After Auschwitz: Artist Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art , Northern Center for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
  • 1994   La Ville – Vision Urbaine, Exhibition Catalogue, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  • 1994   Exhibition catalogue, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
  • 1994   After Art, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • 1994   The Art of Memory , The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
  • 1993   Katalog, Vol 5, No. 3, March, 1993, published by the Museum for Fotokunst, Odensee, Denmark

 


 

Selected Reference Books

  • 2021   Six Years: An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art, The Rubin Foundation, Hirmer
  • 2020   Eyes Open: Photography Ideas for Curious Kids, Susan Meiselas, Aperature, New York
  • 2020   Assuming Absence: Poetics of Unfinished Mourning in 21st Century Spanish Narrative, Anthony Nuckols, Max Aub and the Confrontations of Historical Memory Book Series, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, Madrid, Spain
  • 2020   Impulse, terminale, Nathan Editions, S.E.J.E.R., Publisher, Paris, France
  • 2019   Context and Narrative in Photography, Sri-Kartini Leet, Elisavet Kalpaxi, and Maria Short, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, UK
  • 2019   Photography Decoded, Hedy Van Erp and Susan Bright, Ilex/Octopus Publishing Group, London, UK
  • 2019   Rome Reconfigured: Contemporary Visions of the Eternal City, 1989-2014, Kaspar Thormod, Brill|Rodopi (Spatial Practices series)
  • 2018   The Word is Art: Contemporary Artists Investigate Language, Dr. Michael Petry, MOCA London, Thames & Hudson, London
  • 2018   “Aesthetics of Reappearance”, Miriam Paeslack, Spaces of Uncertainty: Berlin Revisited,  edited by Kenny Cupers and Markus Miessen, Birkhäuser publishers, Berlin
  • 2018   Museums and Public Art?, edited by Dr. Harriet Senie and Dr. Cher Krause Knight, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • 2018   “Di fronte alla Shoah – Arte tra Testimonianza e Empatia”, Salvatore Trapani, Corsiero Editore Publishers, Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • 2017   Photography and Germany, Dr. Andres Zervigon, Reaktion Books, London
  • 2017   The Politics of Form, ed. Sarah Copland and Greta Olson, Routledge
  • 2016   Haunting and Archives in the Time of Now, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Ann Shelton: Dark Matter, The Auckland Art Gallery/Toi o Tamaki,  Auckland, NZ
  • 2016   Working on the Image of the Cultural Revolution, Dr. Monika Wagner, OSTASIEN Verlag, Gossenberg, Germany
  • 2016   “Israeli-Palestinian Narratives and the Politics of Form:  Reading Side by Side,” European Journal of English Studies, published by Taylor & Francis, Susan Lanser and Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
  • 2015   Art for Rollins: The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Volume II, Goodman, Abigail Ross, Barbara Lawrence Alfond, and Ena Heller. Winter Park, Fla: Cornell Fine Arts Museum
  • 2015   Die doppelte Krise. Ostdeutsche Erinnerungszeichen nach 1989, Leonie Beiersdorf, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Germany
  • 2015   Oltre il Memoriale:  Le tracce, lo spazio, il ricordo, Michela Bassanelli, Mimesis Editions, Italy
  • 2014   Art Since 1980: Charting the Contemporary, Peter Kalb, L. King Publishers (p. 149)
  • 2014   A History of Modern Art,  H.H. Arnason, 7th ed. Laurence King Publishing, London, UK
  • 2014   Perspectives on Place: Theory and Practice, Jesse Alexander, Bloomsbury,  UK
  • 2014   The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume III, Cambridge, UK
  • 2013   Contemporary Installation Art, Shim Chung, Ancbook, Seoul, South Korea
  • 2012   “The Unexpected Encounter”, page 33-46, Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form: Sighting Memory, edited by Anne Demo and Bradford Vivian, Routledge, New York/London
  • 2012   Photography as Activism: Images for Social Change, Michelle Bogre, Focal Press
  • 2011   100 artistes du Street Art, edited by Paul Ardenne, Editions de La Martiniere, Paris, France
  • 2010   “Shimon Attie’s Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics, “ Peter Muir, Ashgate, UK
  • 2010   Interpreting Photography, Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw, PL
  • 2010   The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, 10-volume anthology, edited by James Young, Yale University Press
  • 2009   History as Art, Art as History: Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education, Desai, Hamlin, and Mattson Routledge, New York and London
  • 2008   “The Incomplete Spectacle: Aberfan in its Own Image,” Art and Death, Chris Townsend, Tauris Publishers, London, UK
  • 2006   After Photography, Fred Ritchin, W W Norton, NY, NY
  • 2007   “Great Art of the Western World,” Ori Soltes, The Teaching Company Lecture Series
  • 2007   Searching for Sebald: Photography After W.G. Sebald, ICI Press, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2007   Art after Politics: from Melancholy to Passion, Piotr Piotrowski, Krakow University Press
  • 2001   A History of Modern Art, H. Arnason, 5th ed. Laurence King Publishing, London, UK
  • 2002   Art Tommorrow, Edward Lucie-Smith, Vilo Publisher, Paris, France
  • 2002   Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing, Dora Apel,    Rutgers University Press
  • 2000   At Memory’s Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture, James E. Young, Yale University Press, chapter 3 (p. 64-89 and book cover)
  • 1999   Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection, Ellen Handy and Willis Hartshorn, Little, Brown, and Company, New York, NY
  • 1999   “Photographic Anamnesia: The Past in the Present,” Mette Sandbye, Symbolic Imprints: Essays on  Photography and Visual Culture, Aarhus University Press, Aarhus, DK
  • 1997   New Art, 3rd edition, Harry  Abrams, Inc., NY, NY
  • 1997   Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory, Marianne Hirsch, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

 


 

Selected Other Books 

  • 2017   City of Promises, Amy Klopfenstein, New York University Press, NY
  • 2017   L’Atelier, Jean-Claude Grumberg, Etonnants Classiques, Flammarion, Paris, France
  • 2016   Tales of Berlin in American Literature up to the 21st Century, Joshua Parker, Brill/Rodopi, Amsterdam, NL
  • 2016   PhotoViz, Gestalten Books, Berlin, Germany
  • 2016   History and Geography, Lelivrescolaire.fr publisher, Paris, France
  • 2015   The Creative City – A New European perspective, Hugh McElveen, Gower, UK
  • 2015   The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, Darra Goldstein, Oxford University Press, 2015
  • 2007   Burning Books, Matthew Firshburn, Palgrave Macmillan/St. Martins Press
  • 2008   Textes et Documents pour la Classe, National Ministry of Education, France
  • 2006   Launching the Imagination, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY
  • 2002   The Shattered Past, Michael Geyer, Princeton University Press, (book cover)
  • 2002   Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew, Susan Gubar, Indiana University Press
  • 2000   Remembering the Lower East Side, ed. by Hasia Diner, Jeffrey Shandler, and Beth Wenger, University of Indiana Press (book cover)
  • 2000   The “Goldhagen Effect”: History, Memory, Nazism – Facing the German Past , ed. by Geoff Eley, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI (book cover)
  • 1999  Locating Identity, or the Ways Architecture Captures Memory, Shelley Hornstein,  Akademie der  Kunst press, Berlin, Germany
  • 1999   Vectors of Memory, Nancy Wood, Berg University/NYU Press (book cover)
  • 1998   Anselm Kiefer and Art After Auschwitz , Lisa Saltzman, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • 1997   “Past Lives: Post-memories,” Marianne Hirsch, Exile and Creativity issue, Poetics Today, Duke University Press
  • 1997   The Gypsie in Me, Ted Simon, Random House Publishers, New York, NY (book cover)
  • 1997   Other People’s Troubles , Jason Sommer, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, (book cover)
  • 1997   German Dis/continuities, Duke University Press (book cover)
  • 1994   Foregone Conclusions: Against Apocalyptic History, Michael Andre Bernstein, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1994 (book cover)
  • 1994   Das Bittere Kraut, Marga Miners, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, Germany, 1994 (book cover)
  • 1992   Daniel Libeskind: Extension to the Berlin Museum with the Jewish Museum Department, edited  by Kristin Feireiss, Ernst & Son, Berlin

 


 

Documentary Films on or Featuring Shimon Attie’s Work

  • 2018   Stars gegen Trump- Wächst Amerikas Widerstand? (“Stars against Trump – Is America’s Resistance Movement Becoming Stronger?”), Z.D.F. German State Television
  • 2006   An American in Aberfan, directed by Chris Morris, produced by Dai Williams and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
  • 2000   An Unusually Bad Lot, produced by The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston on Shimon Attie’s public project commissioned by the ICA. Directed by Branka Bogdanov.
  • 1998/9   Between Dreams and History: The Making of Shimon Attie’s Public Artworks, 40 minute documentary film on Shimon Attie’s project in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, produced and directed by Independent Documentary Group  Films
  • 1996   The Art of Memory: Shimon Attie’s European Projects, 45 minute length documentary film on Sites Unseen project series, produced and directed by German state television (A.R.D.)

 


 

Recent Television Feature on Shimon Attie’s Work

 


 

Recent Television Feature on Shimon Attie’s Work

  • 2020   Final Account, Passion Pictures, London, UK

 


 

Selected Periodicals and Newspapers

  • 2021   Welcome to the Neighborhood: Shimon Attie’s “Night Watch” takes to The Bay, Luke Williams, cover story of SF/Arts, Arts and Culture hard copy insert for Northern California Edition of Sunday New York Times, August 24
  • 2021   ‘Night Watch’ Transforms San Francisco Bay into Art Installation, Tony Bravo,
  • San Francisco Chronicle, Sept 20
  • 2021   Review: Afloat on the Bay, Night WatchPresented Refugees as They Are, Genevieve Quick, 48 Hills, Sept 22
  • 2021   Bay Area art spaces back on feet for fall, focusing on the traditionally   underrepresented, Datebook, Tony Bravo, Art and Exhibits Fall Preview, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept 8
  • 2021   Year in Review: Visual Art in 2021 explored big issues and didn’t shy from controversy, Tony Bravo, Arts and Exhibits, San Francisco Chronicle, December 22
  • 2021   Bay Area Visual Art Exhibitions Not to Miss This Fall, Fall Arts Preview 2021, Sarah Hotchkiss, KQED (Bay Area PBS station), August 30
  • 2021   Night Watch: A New Kind of Film Festival is Coming to San Francisco Bay, Luke 
  • Williams,  7X7, August 25
  • 2021   Shimon Attie Resurrects “Hitler on Ice” With Afro-Brazilian Dance, Luke Williams,  Hyperallergic, Oct 21
  • 2020    From Berlin to the West  Bank – why we build walls, Arts Section, CNN, Jen Sudul
  • Edwards, January 3
  • 2020   From Keith Haring to Dread Scott, A Brief History of Public Art in New York City, Claire Selvin, ARTnews,  July 2
  • 2019   As Walls Go Up at Unprecedented Rates, Artists Use Them as Subversive Canvases, Annenberg Space for Photography exhibition……, Lorissa Rinehart, Hyperallergic, Nov. 22
  • 2019   The Truth is Not, Lars Elton, Dagsaviesen, page 22-23, Oslo, No, March 12
  • 2019   Reading Reparation, Benjamin Kersten, PROTOCOLS, Issue #5
  • 2019   Imagination and Trauma, Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
  • 2018  Out on the Water: Images of Asylum, Shimon Attie’s art installation coincides with the United Nations General Assembly, Sopan Deb, Feature article on page 2 of Arts and Design, The New York Times, hard copy, Sept 25
  • 2018  Cruising New York’s Waterways This Week: Portraits of Former Refugees, Shimon Attie’s Night Watch, Sopan Deb, Feature article on front page of Arts and Design, The New York Times, on-line, Sept 24
  • 2018  Refugee Stories Told from a Barge, Timed for UN General Assembly, Zachary Small, second leading news feature, Hyperallergic, Sept 20
  • 2018  Who are the people seeking political asylum in the US? A Floating art project in New York tells refugees’ stories during the UN General Assembly, Gabriella Angeleti, Feature article, The Art Newspaper, Sept 19
  • 2018  Giant Video Portraits of Refugees Are Circling Manhattan for the UN General Assembly This Week, Caroline Goldstein, Feature article, artnet News, Sept 25
  • 2018  L’image du Jour, Ronde de nuit, Brook Mason, Le Quotidian de l’Art, Sept 27
  • 2018  “The New Italy and the Jews from Massimo D\’Azeglio to Primo Levi”, Scott Lerner and Jon Druker, Annali d’Italianistica, Arizona State University, Tempe
  • 2018  Prague exhibition presents American, European Video Art”, Prague Daily Monitor, Jan 21
  • 2017   Projection artists bring light to social issues with attention-grabbing protests, PBS Newshour, Art Beat, Corinne Segal, Sept 17 
  • 2017   Exhibition at Saint Louis Art Museum features new work by Shimon Attie, Artdaily.org, April 6
  • 2017   “‘Lost’ on the Mississippi”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 9
  • 2017   Shimon Attie at the St. Louis Art Museum, Modern Art Notes Podcast, Tyler Green, May 4, (from 57’00” on in program)
  • 2017   Currents 113: Shimon Attie, Lost in Space (After Huck), Hannah Klemm, Saint Louis Art Magazine Magazine, Spring Issue
  • 2017   Mississippi River Culture and Social Conflict Come Together in Lost in Space (After Huck), April 3
  • 2017   Shimon Attie: Lost in Space, (After Huck), Riverfront Times, St. Louis, April 3
  • 2017   Auf Leben und Tod: Videoinstallation zeigt das Drama der Flucht als Roulettespiel, Juergen Kleindienst, Leipziger Volkszeitung, June 30
  • 2017   Shimon Attie – Stateless, ART Das Kunstmagazin, July 3
  • 2017   Roulette im Kunstkraftwerk, Sophie Spiller, Urbanite.net, July 3
  • 2017   Shimon Attie – Stateless, Portal Kunstgeschichte, July 3
  • 2016   Art of the AIDS Years: What Took Museums So Long?, Holland Cotter, New York Times, July 28
  • 2016   Shimon Attie Facts on the Ground, Jack Shainman Gallery, Yasaman Alipour, The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture, June 3
  • 2016   Artist Shimon Attie on Photography, Language, Beauty And Getting Tear Gassed, Alina Cohen, Forbes.com, May 6
  • 2016   Shimon Attie: Sign Lanuage, Place, issue #15, Musee Magazine, New York, NY
  • 2016   “Monuments of Persecution”,  Phillip Valys, South Beach Sun Sentinel,  Sept 11
  • 2016   Shimon Attie named 2016-17 Freund Teaching Fellow, The Source, Washington University in St. Louis
  • 2016   Survival Guides: Communities are mechanisms for outliving the end of the world, Rachel Giese, Real Life Magazine, Dec 1
  • 2015   Germany Has Lessons for the South, Letter from America, Anand Giridharadas, New York Times, July 7
  • 2015   “Growing Together: 2015 CODAAwards honor artists and designers”, Interior Design, Aug 26
  • 2015   “Art AIDS America: An Impressive Exhibition and an Important Curatorial Event”, Shana Nys Dambro, Huffington Post, July 13
  • 2015   A Sobering Look at how Aids changed Art in America, Margaret Rhodes, WIRED Magazine,  August 5
  • 2015   Art AIDS America, Advocate.com, August
  • 2015   See It Now: How Aids Changed Art Forever, David Schonauer, American Photography, August 11
  • 2015   Commissions-in-Brief, Sculpture Magazine, September
  • 2015   Safe and Sound, The Architect’s Newspaper, July, 2015
  • 2015   “SF to Celebrate Grand Opening of New Public Safety Building”, San Francisco Chronicle, April 14
  • 2015   “Police Department set to celebrate opening of new public safety building”, San Francisco Examiner, April 15
  • 2015   “City’s new bell says that all is well”, Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, April 22
  • 2013   Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits: Feminism in a Globalized Present, Krista Lynes, Global Cinema series, edited by Marcinia, Imre and O’Healy, Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2013   “The Subject of the Neuropsy-sciences Stripped Bare by her Bachelors”, Jan de Vos, Ghent Univesrity, Quaderns de Psicologia, Vol 15, No 1, p 95-106
  • 2012   “When Artists Take On Museums”, Tom Freudenheim, The Wall Street Journal,  March 13
  • 2011   “In These Portraits, a Challenge to Labels of “sitter’ and ‘Artist’”, Martha Schwendener, The New York Times, April 30
  • 2009   “Outside Time: The Art of Shimon Attie,” by John Hanhardt
  • 2009   Shimon Attie’s Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics,  Peter Muir, Ashgate Publishing, Surrey, UK
  • 2009   “Ruins of Representation: Shimon Attie’s The History of Another,” Artluk Magazine, Magdalena Wroblewska, Warsaw, PL
  • 2009   “Shit We’re Diggin’: The Slide Projections of Shimon Attie,” The Wooster Collective
  • 2008   Exhibition Preview: Shimon Attie, Cardiff, The Guardian, Jessica Lack, Dec 20, p 35 (and on guardian.co.uk)
  • 2008   BBC Online, Dec 5
  • 2008   The Arts Show, Wales On-Line (walesonline.co.uk), Dec 4.
  • 2008   Art Daily (www.artdaily.co.uk)
  • 2008   The Art Newspaper, Dec 8
  • 2008   “A Welsh Village Among Other Welsh Villages,” The Western Mail, Dec 5
  • 2008   Newyddion (Welsh language daily television news program), Dec 6
  • 2008   “Picturing a New Future for Aberfan,” South Wales Echo, Dec 9
  • 2008   Golwg (Welsh language weekly magazine), Dec 10
  • 2008   “Attie’s Portraits of Aberfan at The National Museum, Cardiff,” 24 Hour Museum, Ben Miller, Dec 12
  • 2007   “The Mourning Play (Trauerspiel) of Shimon Attie,” Peter Muir, Journal for Cultural Research, Vol 11, Nr 4, October
  • 2006   “An American in Aberfan”, BBC Website
  • 2006   “Shimon Attie at the Miami Art Museum,” Elisa Turner, p. 190, ARTnews, November issue
  • 2006   The Dialectics of Affection: Trace and Temporality in the Restaging of Historical Images, Amish Morrell, University of Toronto
  • 2006   “Life, ripe and robust: Exhibits sift and savor it”, Elisa Turner, Miami Herald, July 30
  • 2007   “Shimon Attie Changes History: Memory Pictures”, Jeffrey Cudlin, Washington City Paper, April 1
  • 2004   “Inside Art,” Carol Vogel, Fine Arts Section, The New York Times, Jan. 9
  • 2004   “At 100, Still Asking ‘Why Should It Be Easy?’”, Julie Salamon,  Fine Arts Section, The New York Times, Jan. 21
  • 2004   “Shimon Attie at Jack Shainman Gallery,” Nico Israel, Artforum, Dec. issue
  • 2004   “More than Modigliani,” Lindsay Pollock, ARTnews, March, 2004, p. 50
  • 2004   “Interview with Shimon Attie by Irit Batsry”, Artwurl on-line Magazine, March issue
  • 2004   “If Walls Could Talk: Haunting Ancient Rome with Images from its Past,”Steven Litt, Arts & Life Section, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Nov. 25
  • 2003   “Universal Studio,” Meredith Mendelsohn, Art talk, ARTnews, May, 2003
  • 2003   “Finding Comfort in the Safety of Names,” Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times, Aug 31
  • 2002   “Using Illumination to Truly See,” Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times, Dec. 28
  • 2002   “Time Exposures,” Jessica Dawson,  Feature Article, The Washington Post,  Washington, DC, Dec. 5
  • 2002   “Haunting Expeditions,”  Michael O’Sullivan, The Washington Post, Washington, DC, Dec. 6
  • 2002   “Shimon Attie at Jack Shainman Gallery,” Elizabeth Schambelan,  Art in America, June issue
  • 2001   “Den Saknade Juden:  Kiefer, Boltanski, Attie”,  Martin Fredriksson, ARTES,  Nr. 3, Stockholm,   Sweden, 2001
  • 2000   “Persistence of Memory,” Norman L. Kleeblatt, cover image/story and 8 page feature, Art in America, June issue
  • 2000   “Projecting the Past Onto the Present,” Leah Ollman, The Sunday Los Angeles Times, (1500 word feature, Calendar/Art and Architecture section), February 13 issue
  • 2000   “Des artistes américains sortens leurs griffes,” Harry  Bellet, Le Monde, Feb. 20-21, Paris, Fr
  • 2000   “Making a Memorial Place: The Artwork of Shimon Attie,” Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D., and “A Picture of Mourning,”Thomas H. Ogden, M.D., Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 10, No. 3
  • 2000   “Si les murs pouvaient parler,” Frédérique Fanchette, Liberation, Feb. 8th
  • 2000   “The Construction of Self and Other in the Public Art Project Between Dreams and History,” Joanne Hinkel, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • 1999   “Shimon Attie brings haunting images to the ICA,” Christine Temlin, The Boston Globe, Dec. 24
  • 1999   “Photographing Phantoms: Shimon Attie captures ghostly projections of memory in his latest work,” Kenneth Baker, The San Francisco Chronicle, June 19
  • 1999   “Shimon Attie at Jack Shainman Gallery and Rivington Street,” Nicole Krauss, Art in America, February issue
  • 1999   “Recasting the Stones,” Kate Cambor, The American Prospect, Cambridge, MA, Mar-Apr
  • 1999   Le Monde, Paris, France, Feb. 6 issue, page 13 (full page image reproduction)
  • 1999   “Ghostwriter,” Amy Traverso, Boston Magazine, September issue
  • 1998   “Writing in Light on the Tenement Walls”, Amei Wallach, The Sunday New York Times, (1500 word feature, Fall Preview edition of the Fine Arts section), September 13
  • 1998   “The Memory Wall: Shimon Attie Reveals the Collective Unconscious of the Lower East Side,” Cindy Carr, The Village Voice, (1300 word feature), Nov 10
  • 1998   “Metaphysical Graffiti: An Artist Awakens the Ghosts of the Lower East Side,” Karrie Jacobs, New York Magazine, October 26
  • 1998   “Spiritual Graffiti,” Anita Hamilton, Time Out New York,  October 22-29
  • 1998   “Art Talk: Neighborhood Watch,” Glen Helfand, ARTnews, November
  • 1998   “Your Life in Laser Lights,” Anita Hamilton, TIME digital , November 2
  • 1998   “Oh God, This is America! Shimon Attie excites New York with his Immigration   Installation in the Lower East Side” (translated from German), Stefan Elfenbein, Berliner    Zeitung, Dec. 5 issue
  • 1998   “Shimon Attie, Christian Boltanski, Joe Nicastri: From Remembrance to Renewal,” Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz, Art Papers, Sept-Oct. issue
  • 1998   “Tension and Loss,” Glen Helfand, the Advocate, October 27
  • 1997   “Shimon Attie’s The Writing on the Wall,” Anthony Grafton, The New York Review of Books,  August 14
  • 1995   ” An Artist’s Plans to Commemorate Europe’s Refugess, Past and Present,” The London Times, Jan. 25
  • 1995   “Pushing for German Awareness,” Ha’aretz, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 9
  • 1995   “He Brought the Ghosts back to Berlin’s Jewish Quarter,” The Jerusalem Post, March 1
  • 1994   “Mixed Images Show the Mutability of Time,” Charles Hegan, The New York Times, Dec. 9
  • 1994   “Haunted by History,” Susan Shapiro, The Sunday Book Review, The New York Times,  New York, NY, Sept. 25
  • 1994   “New Photography 10,” Sheryl Conkelton, The Museum of Modern Art Magazine, New York, NY, Fall issue
  • 1994   “Sunday on Review,” The London Independent, London, UK, May 8
  • 1994   ARTnews, Kenneth Baker, New York, NY, November issue,
  • 1994   Artforum, Miriam Rosen, New York, NY, April issue
  • 1994   Artissues, Rebecca Solnit, Los Angeles, CA, July issue
  • 1994   San Francisco Chronicle, April 28
  • 1994   Politiken, Copenhagen, DK, August 20
  • 1993   Liberation, Paris, France, September 28
  • 1993   Tages Zeitung, Berlin, Germany, Nov. 9
  • 1993   Saechsische Zeitung, Dresden, Germany, Nov. 9
  • 1993   Politiken, Sunday, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 7
  • 1993   Tages Zeitung (“Tatz”), Hamburg, Germany, March 10
  • 1992   “Slices of Time,” Tages Spiegel, Berlin, April 10

 


 

Multi-page Magazine Spreads

  • 2008   Time After Time, NY ARTS Magazine,  Sept-Oct 2008, page 23
  • 2004   “The Heroes of Telemark: Hydro Allgories, Shimon Attie”, KUNST Magazine, 8 page color spread,  Fall issue, Oslo, Norway
  • 2003   Art Journal, 10 page color spread, College Art Association, New York, NY,  Fall issue
  • 2003   Harper’s Magazine, New York, NY, March issue
  • 2000   Harper’s Magazine, New York, NY, February issue
  • 1999   Harper’s Magazine, New York, NY, March issue, page 23
  • 1995   Life Magazine, 4 page color spread, New York, NY, November issue
  • 1995   Life Magazine, 8 page color spread, New York, NY, October 30 issue
  • 1995   Atlantico Magazine, 5 page color spread, Madrid, Spain, May issue
  • 1995   Katalog, Museum for Fotokunst, Odensee, Denmark, Winter issue
  • 1994   Katalog, 8 page color spread, Museum for Fotokunst, Odensee, Denmark, Fall issue
  • 1994   IN (“German-American Cultural Review”), Bonn, Germany, Winter issue
  • 1994   Humboldt Magazine, Bonn, Germany, Fall issue
  • 1994   Deutschland Magazine, German Press Office, Bonn, Germany January issue
  • 1993   Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) Weekend Magazine, 6 page color spread with 8 page article, Oct. 29 issue
  • 1993   Living Magazine, Braunschweig, Germany
  • 1994   L’Image Objectif, Paris, France, July issue