Peter Brown (American, born )

Timeline

1971
B.A., English, Stanford University.
1977
M.F.A., Photography, Stanford University
Peter Brown has photographed the open landscape and small towns of the Great Plains for the past twenty-five years. He is the author of Seasons of Light, On the Plains West of Last Chance, a collaboration with the novelist Kent Haruf, which won the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize. His work has been collected by The Menil Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, MoMA, New York, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. He’s the recipient of an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, the Imogen Cunningham Award, and grants from the Graham Foundation and the Cultural Arts Council of Houston. His work has appeared in Harpers, Life, PDN, The New Yorker, Aperture, American Photographer, Texas Monthly and other magazines. He has degrees in English and Art from Stanford University and teaches at the Glasscock School at Rice University where he recently won their inaugural teaching prize.

Exhibitions

2008
West of Last Chance, PDNB Gallery, Dallas.
2008
West of Last Chance, Harris Gallery, Houston.
2008
West of Last Chance, Stephen Clark Gallery, Austin.
2008
West of Last Chance, Carson Gallery, Denver.
2008
West of Last Chance, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto
2008
West of Last Chance, Highland Gallery, Marfa.
2006
High Plains, Harris Gallery, Houston.
2006
Llano Estacado, Island in the Sky, Houston Center for Photography, Houston.
2005
Llano Estacado, Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas.
2005
Texas Expanses, Travis Tower, Houston, Texas.
2005
Xtreme Houses, Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich, & Halle 14, Leipzig , Germany.
2003
On The Plains, Dual Show in the Art and Architecture Galleries, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
2003
Masterworks of American Photography, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth Texas
2002
Safe Haven: Picturing Domestic Space, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California
2002
In The Orchard, Harris Gallery, Houston, FotoFest Exhibition, Spring 2002.
2002
On The Plains, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California, Spring 2002
2002
Open Spaces, Texas Places, Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas, Spring 2002
2002
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas, Spring 2002.
2002
In The Orchard, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas
2002
Texas Weather, Stephen Clark Gallery, Austin, Texas
2000
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Crossing State Lines: Texas Art from the Museum of Fine Art’s Collection
English (US)

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