Exhibitions, Publications, & Films

Exhibitions

Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

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Past Exhibitions

• Ladies of Sorrow: A Visual Exploration of Grief and Feminity, Green-Wood Cemetery, 2019

• Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory: Visions of the Afterlife in the Catholic Tradition, Green-Wood Cemetery, 2018 (Featuring works from artists and collectors Eva Aridjis,Victor Ancheta, Mark Dion, Deborah Dwyers, Joanna Ebenstein, Eye’s Gallery, Phyllis Galembo, Marc Hartzmann, Invisible Gallery, Robert Lerch, Evan Michelson,Alessandro Molinengo, Kaiser Raimos, Stephen Romano Galler, Shannon Taggart, and Rex Young.)

• Bridging Two Worlds: The Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead, Green-Wood Cemetery, 2018 (Curated by Joanna Ebenstein and Laetitia Barbier)

• Woven Strands: The Art of Human Hairwork, Mütter Museum, 2017-18 (Produced by Morbid Anatomy, curated by Evan Michelson and John Whitenight)

• The Power of Images: Life, Death and Rebirth, Green-Wood Cemetery, 2017 (Curated by Joanna Ebenstein and Laetitia Barbier)

• Taxidermy: Art, Science & Immortality, The Morbid Anatomy Museum, 2016 (Curated by J. D. Powe)

• House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan's Panoptikon, 1869-1922, The Morbid Anatomy Museum, 2015 (Curated by Ryan Matthew Cohn)

• Opus Hypnagogia: Sacred Spaces of the Visionary and Vernacular The Morbid Anatomy Museum, 2015 (Curated by Stephen Romano)

• Do the Spirits Return: From Dark Arts to Sleight of Hand in Early 20th Century Stage Magic, The Morbid Anatomy Museum, 2015 (Curated by Joanna Ebenstein and Shannon Taggart)

• Collector's Cabinet, The Morbid Anatomy Museum, 2015 (Curated by Joanna Ebenstein and Laetitia Barbier)

• The Art of Mourning, The Morbid Anatomy Museum, 2014 (Curated by Joanna Ebenstein and Evan Michelson)

• The Collectors Cabinet, Part of The Congress for Curious People, The Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn, 2010

• The Morbid Anatomy Cabinet: Gallery as Wunderkammer, Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans, 2009

• Anatomical Theatre: Depictions of The Body, Disease, and Death in Medical Museums of the Western World, Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences, Birmingham, 2007

Publications

• Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy, by Joanna Ebenstein with Marie Dauenheimer (Laurence King, 2020)

• Death: A Graveside Companion, Edited by Joanna Ebenstein (Thames and Hudson, October 2017)

• The Anatomical Venus, by Joanna Ebenstein (Thames and Hudson, April 2015)

• The Morbid Anatomy Anthology, co-edited by Joanna Ebenstein and Colin Dickey (Morbid Anatomy Press, 2014)

• Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy, by Dr. Pat Morris with Joanna Ebenstein and a foreword by Sir Peter Blake (Constable and Robinson, September 2013)

Film Production

• Walter Potter: The Man Who Married Kittens directed by Ronni Thomas

• The Midnight Archive directed by Ronni Thomas

• Morbid Anatomy Presents directed by Ronni Thomas