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Mitch Epstein
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American
, born 1952)
Mitch Epstein
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Mitch Epstein
Cocoa Beach I, Serie Recreation, 1983
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Biography
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Timeline
1952
Born in Holyoke, USA
1970 - 1971
Attended Union College, Schenectady, USA
1971 - 1972
Attended Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
1972 - 1974
Attended Cooper Union, New York, USA
1977
Lecturer for photography, Harvard University
1978
Received individual grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
1980
New York State Council for the Arts
1994
Pinewood Foundation
1996 - 1997
Camera Works, Inc.
1997 - 2001
Professor for photography, Bard College, School of the Arts
1997
American Institute of Graphic Artists, 50 Best Books of the Year
2003
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2004
Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award, Family Business
Guest lecturer, School of Visual Arts, Graduate Photography Program
2008
Fellowship at the American Academy, Berlin, Germany
2009
Gold Medal Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, American Power
Open Society Institute Documentary Photograpy Grant
2010
Winner of Prix Pictet
Lives and works in New York
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Exhibitions
2012
Infinite Balance, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA
Out of Focus, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
The New York Times Magazine Photographs, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Appropriated Landscapes, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
The Unseen Eye, George Eastman House, Rochester, USA
2011
The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA
Infinite Balance: Artists and the Environment, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA
Growth. Prix Pictet, Arteversum, Düsseldorf, Germany
New Documentary Forms, Tate Modern, London, England
Hyper Real - Kunst und Amerika um 1970, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, USA
Mitch Epstein. American Power, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France / Museé de l´Elysèe, Lausanne, Switzerland (solo)
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, England
Mitch Epstein - State of the Union, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (solo)
2010
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, Tate Modern, London, England
American Documents, FotoMuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970 - 1980, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA
2008
Arbeitswelten, Art Foyer DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Vietnam, Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Conte, Rome, Itlay (solo)
2007
Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Sikkema, Jenkins & Co., New York, USA (solo)
Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Intersections: Atlanta Collects Photography, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Ecotopia: The Second Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2006
SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
Cities in Transition, Public Art Project with Chuck Close and Dayanita Singh, Commissioned by United Technologies Corporation, Boston, Hartford, and New York, USA
Shooting the Family, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
2005
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, USA
Garry Winogrand and the American Street Photographers, Fotografie Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
2004
Photo España, Madrid, Spain
Yancey Richardson, New York, USA
BrancoliniGrimaldi, Florence, Italy
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA
The Open Book, Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden
2003
Power House, Memphis, USA (solo)
2002
NY after NY, Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Visions from America, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2001
Walkabout, New York Historical Society, New York, USA
Sense of Space, Noorderlicht, Groningen, The Netherlands
Overnight to Many Cities, 303 Gallery, New York, USA
Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, USA (solo)
Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
2000
New York Now, Museum of the City of New York, New York, USA
1999
Eggleston and the Color Tradition, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
1998
Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, USA (solo)
Photography after Modernism: Extensions into Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, USA
1997
India: A Celebration of Independence, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
1996
Brent Sikkema, New York, USA
Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, USA (solo)
1995
Tenri Gallery, New York, USA
1994
Julie Saul Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA (solo)
1992
This Sporting Life, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Romance of the Taj Mahal, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Tenri Gallery, New York, USA
1991
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, USA (solo)
1990
The Indomitable Spirit, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
1989
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA (solo)
1987
Color Photographs: Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Julie Saul Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1982
Light Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1981
Light Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1979
Light Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
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Public Collections
FAIF Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Tate Modern, London, GB
Saatchi Gallery, London, GB
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Vassar College Art Museum, Poughkeepsie, NY
The Walther Collection, Ulm, Germany
Gilman Paper Collection, New York, NY
LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Equitable Life Assurance Society, NY
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Chase Manhattan Art Program, New York, NY
Citibank, New York, NY
Morgan Guaranty, New York, NY
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
St. Louis Museum of Art, St Louis, MO
Deutsche Börse Group, Frankfurt, Germany
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
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Literature
2011
Berlin, Steidl, Göttingen, 2011
2010
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surviellance and the Camera, Tate Publishing, 2010
Starbust: Color Photography in America 1970-1980, Hatje Cantz, 2010
Mitch Epstein - State of the Union (catalogue), Hatje Cantz, 2010
2009
Mitch Epstein, American Power, Steidl, Göttingen, 2009
2006
Mitch Epstein: WORK, Steidl, 2006
Where we live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2006
2005
Recreation: American Photographs 1973-1988, Steidl, 2005
2003
Family Business, Steidl, Germany, fall 2003
2002
Visions from America, Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940-2001, Prestel 2002
2001
The City, powerHouse Books, NY, spring 2001
1996
Vietnam: A Book of Changes, W.W. Norton/DoubleTake, NY, fall 1996
1995
Fire Water Wind, Tenrikyo Doyusha, Japan 1995
1987
In Pursuit of India, Aperture, NY, 1987
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