Mari MAHR

Born in Santiago de Chile.
Studied at the School of Journalism in Budapest
Worked as a press photographer in Hungary
Before moving to London and continuing her studies
at the Polytechnic of Central London where she
received her BA Degree in Photographic Arts in 1976.
Lives and works in London.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1977 The Photographers' Gallery, London
Canon Gallery, Amsterdam
1978 Riverside Studios, London
1979 Light Factory, Charlotte USA
Gallery ABF, Hamburg
Gallery Art Something, Amsterdam
1980 Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
Serpentine Gallery, London (Summer Show)
1982 Moira Kelly Fine Arts, London
Il Diaframma, Milan, Italy
First Biennial of Photography, Caserta, Italy
1986 The Photographers' Gallery, London
1987 The Photography Center of Athens, Greece
1988 Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Cupboard Space Gallery, Wellington, NZ
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth NZ
1989 The Photographers' Gallery, London
Plymouth Arts Center, England
Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, England
Untitled Gallery, Sheffield, England
Street Level Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1990 Fotofest, Houston, Texas, USA
Primavera Fotografica, Barcelona, Spain
Visor Gallery, Valencia, Spain
Gallery Agora, Turin, Italy
1991 The British Council Gallery, Milan, Rome, Italy
The Photographers' Gallery Print Room, London
Les Atelier Nadar, Marseille, France
1992 Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1994 Montage Gallery, Derby, Engla
Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, USA
National Museum of Photography, Film & TV, Bradford (Retrospective)
Magyar Fotógráfiai Muzeum, Kecskemét, Hungary (Retrospective)
1995 Photosynkyria, Thessaloniki, Greece (Retrospective)
The British Council of Athens, Greece (Retrospective)
Untitled Gallery, Sheffield, England (Retrospective)
Porto Carras, Greece
The Photography Center of Athens, Greece
La Villa Victoria, Mar del Plata, Argentina (Retrospective)
Centro Cultural Parque de España, Rosario, Argentina (Retrospective)
Teatro San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Retrospective)
1996 Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
Instituto Chileno-Britanico de Cultura, Santiago de Chile (Retrospective)
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (Retrospective)
Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, England
Centro Andaluz de la Fotografica, Almeria, Spain (Retrospective)
1997 Verso Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
1999 www.zonezero.com
Fotofo Gallery, Bratislava
2000 Bolt Gallery in Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
GROUP SHOWS AND EVENTS:
1978 Fantastic Photography in Europe, Amsterdam
International Group Junij, Yugoslavia
1979 European Color Photography, London
About 70 Photographers, Arts Council, London
1980 Photography as Art, Art as Photography, Kassel, Germany
The Thin Line, Locarno, Switzerland
Contemporary Colour Photography, Salford, England
1981 The Thin Line II. Mexico
1982 Private Views, Arts Council, London
1983 Strategies, British Council (travelling)
South Bank Show, London
New Work by Nine Photographers, British Council
Autographs, Cambridge Darkroom, GB
1984 Multiple Images, The Photographers' Gallery, London
European Color Photography, Musées de Vienne, France
Sky, Cambridge Darkroom, GB
1985 Four British Photographers, Fay Gold Gallery, USA
Landscape - Interior, Coracle Gallery, London
Revisions, Cambridge Darkroom, GB
1986 Festivals: Domestic Stories, Camerawork, London
Rencontres Internationales Photographiques, Arles, France
New Acquisitions in Photography, V&A Museum, London
Furniture-Sculpture, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
First Biennial of Photography, Ein Harod, Israel
1987 Multiple Originals, The Photographers' Gallery, London
1988 Media Show, Sheffield, England
Photography on the Edge, Haggarty Museum of Art, Wisconsin, USA
1988 'My Family - Myself' Untitled Gallery, Sheffield, England
First Biennial of Photography, Rotterdam, Holland
'Towards a Bigger Picture' V&A Museum, London
1989 In Celebration of Photography, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
Through the Looking Glass, Barbican Gallery, London
Anima Mundi: Still Life in Britain, Canadian Museum of Contemporary
Photography, Ottawa, Ontario
Women Focusing, London
European Women's Imagination, Palazzina Corsini, Rome
Photo-Sculpture, Watershed Gallery, Bristol, England
1990 National Garden Festival, Gateshead, England
1991 Contructed Photography, Padiglioni d'Arte Contemprania, Milan, Italy
Die Vierde Wand - Photography as Theatre, Amsterdam
De Composition - British Council Touring Show
Electronic Age - National Museum of Photography, Bradford, Great Britain
Treading a Fine Line, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
1992 Realta e Surrealta, Aosta, Italy
Mai de la Photo, Reims, France
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
Flora Photographica, Serpentine Gallery, London
2.Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen, Germany
1993 Los Angeles International - Paul Kopeikin Gallery, USA
Desert Island Pics, The Photographers' Gallery, London
Moving Into View, The South Bank Center, London
Summershow, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
Phiz 93, The John Kobal Foundation, London
1994 Who is Looking at the Family? Barbican Art Gallery, London
Signals - Portrait of My Mother, Institut Français d'Ecosse, Edingburgh, London
1995 Beyond Recognition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1996 Gender-Beyond Memory, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Image de la Mère, Le Forum des Halles, Mois de la Photo, Paris, France
1997 Enigmatic Object, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
1997 On The Bright Side of Life, Neue Gesellschaft fürBildendeKunst,Berlin,
Germany
Summer Show, FhE Galleries, Auckland, NZ
History - The Mag Collection, Ferns Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull, UK
1998 Photographers Made in Hungary, Hungarian National Museum of
Photography, Kecskemét
1999 The Flower Show, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
Into the Light, Royal Photographic Society, Bath,England
2000 One Man’s Eye, Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, USA
Alchemy, Pamuk Bank Gallery, Istambul
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
The British Council, London
The Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Eastern Arts, Norwich, England
FNAC Lyon, France
National Museum of Photography, Film & TV, Great Britain
Unilevel Collection, London
Readers' Digest Collection, London
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Texaco Corporate Collection
Contemporary Arts Society, London
Warwich University Collection, Coventry, Great Britain
Scottish Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Universidad de Salamanca Collection, Spain
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
The Mag Collection, Ferns Art Gallery, Great Britain
City Bank, New York USA
AWARDS:
1981 GLA (Greater London Arts Association)
1989 FOX TALBOT AWARD National Museum of Photography, Film & TV Great Britain
1995 Best Exhibition of the Festival Award, Photosynkyria, Thessaloniki, Greece
2000 Best Exhibition of the Month of Photography. Budapest, Hungary
PUBLICATIONS:
A FEW DAYS IN GENEVA 1988 Travelling Light, London
ISOLATED INCIDENTS 1989 The Photographers' Gallery, London
MARI MAHR - PHOTOGRAPHS, A COLLECTION 1994 The National Museum of Photography, Film & TV, Bradford, Great Britain
MARI MAHR - MI HIJA, MI AMOR... 1996 Ediciones Universidad Salamanca,
Campo de Agramante, 11
BETWEEN OURSELVES The Photographs of Mari Mahr 1998 Serpent’s Tail, London
Cataloque of Gallary BOLT. The outside series No.6 Mari Mahr & Peter Banyay Budapest
REFERENCES:
Camera, Switzerland August 1980
Creative Camera, London February 1980, April 1986, May 1986, August 1988,June1989
Contemporary Photographers, Macmillan London
New Trends, The Gallery of Photography, New York 1984
Undercut, London 1985
History of Photography, Hamlyn-Bison, London 1988
The Missing Text, Chance Books, London 1991
London Magazine, June 1988
European Photography 43, July 1990
Picabia 12, Tokyo 1990
Vias a Vis International, No 11, Paris 1992
Women's Art Magazine, London March/April 1992
Portfolio No20, Edinburgh 1994
Fotó, December 1994 Budapest
Photographia No33, Athens 1995
Contemporary Art Summer 1996, London
Blackflash Vol.14.2, Summer 1996, Canada
The Sun No.433, April 1997, Tokyo
The Photography Book, Phaidon Books, London 1997
www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/mahr/index.html
www.ecrits-vains.com/revue - dec 1999, jan 2000
http:www.lle.mdx.ac.uk/research/projects/dare - INIVA, London