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Paul Graham

(British, born 1956)

Paul Graham

Little Chef in Rain, St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, May 1982

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Paul Graham

Ashtray on Table, Morley’s Café, Markham Moor, Nottinghamshire, February 1981

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Paul Graham

Café Waitress, John's Café, Sandy, Bedfordshire, May 1982

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Paul Graham

Bible, Drivers' Rest Room, Blyth Services, Blyth, March 1981

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Paul Graham

Interior, Tyne House Café, Catterick, North Yorkshire, September 1981

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Paul Graham

Interior, Blyth Services, Blyth, Nottinghamshire, June 1981

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Paul Graham

Mac's Café, Alconbury, Cambridgeshire, February 1981

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Paul Graham

Café Assistants, Compass Café, Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, November 1982

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Paul Graham

Woman at Bus Stop, Mill Hill, North London, November 1982

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Paul Graham

Company Representative, Leeming Services, North Yorkshire, September 1982

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Paul Graham

Drivers Discussing Redundancies, Morley’s Café, Markham Moor, Nottinghamshire, November 1981

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Paul Graham

Young Executives, Bank of England, November 1981

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Timeline

1956: Born in England
1985: GLAA Visual Arts Award, London
1986: GLC Publications Award, London
: Arts Council Publications Award
1987: Young Photographers Award, ICP, New York
: Channel 4/Arts Council Video Bursary
: Hayward Gallery Commission, London
1988: Eugene Smith Memorial Fellowship
1989: Fellow in Photography, Museum of Photography, Bradford
1992: Arts Council Publications Award, London
1994: Arts Council Publications Award, London
1995: Charles Pratt Memorial Fellowship
2009: Awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, London
: Awarded the Royal Photographic Society Award
2010: Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
2012: Awarded The Hasselblad International Award for Photography
: Lives and works in London and New York

Exhibitions

2015: Paul Graham Exhibitions in 2015
Paul Graham: The Whiteness of the Whale/, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco (solo)
Paul Graham: Does Yellow Run Forever?, Galería Elba Benitez, Madrid(solo)
2014: Paul Graham Exhibitions in 2014
Paul Graham: Does Yellow Run Forever?, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin (solo)
Paul Graham: Does Yellow Run Forever?, Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, New York (Catalogue)
2012: Beyond Caring and The Present, LE BAL, Paris, France
: Hasselbad Award Winner 2012, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Suède
: Paul Graham : A Shimmer of possibility, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Irlande
: Historias de la Vida Material, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear,
: Beyond Caring, Kunstverein Freiburg (solo)
: Whitechapel Gallery, London, Great Britain (solo)
: Films, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (solo)
2011: Paul Graham, Photographs 1981-2006, Whitechapel Gallery, London (solo)
: Paul Graham, Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander, Spain (solo)
2010: British Photography from the ’70 and ’80, Krakow Photomonth 2010 Festival, Krakow, Poland
: Grand National, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway
: Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
: Paul Graham: A Shimmer of Possibility, Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam (solo)
: Where in the World?, Pace MacGill Gallery, New York, NY
: Paul Graham, Photographs 1981-2006, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg(solo)
: MoMA, New York, USA (solo)
: Paul Graham, a shimmer of possibility, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (solo)
: Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (solo)
: a shimmer of possibility, Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo)
: Gemeente museum, Den Haag, Netherlands (solo)
: Paul Graham, Photographs 1981-2006, Salon 94 Freemans, New York (solo)
: Paul Graham, Photographs 1981-2006, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York (solo)
: Paul Graham, Photographs 1981-2006, Folkwang Museum, Essen
: Paul Graham, An Anthology, Anthony Reynolds Gallery (solo)
2009: The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, The Photographers’ Gallery, London touring to C/O, Berlin and Neue Börse, Frankfurt
: Street & Studio, Tate Modern, touring to Museum Folkwang, Essen
: Ideal Youth, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, curated by Russell Ferguson
: Council Collection, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, touring to UK venues and The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
: No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1967-1987; From the British Council and the Arts
: Folkwang Museum, Essen (solo)
: Paul Graham, a shimmer of possibility, Crown Gallery, Brussels (solo)
: Paul Graham, a shimmer of possibility, Les Filles du Calvaires, Paris (solo)
2008: Paul Graham, a shimmer of possibility, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin (solo)
: Paul Graham, a shimmer of possibility, La Fabrica, Madrid (solo)
2007: Paul Graham, A Shimmer of Possibility, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (solo)
: How We Are: Photographing Britain, Tate Britain, London
: Photo-London, London
: Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
: Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now, Tatel Liverpool (cat.)
: Different Realities?, Crown Gallery, Brussels
: Click Doubleclick, Bozar Center for Fine Arts, Brussels
: The Northern Ireland Collection, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
2006: Paul Graham, American Night, La Fabrica, Madrid (solo)
: Paul Graham, American Night, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (solo)
: Paul Graham, American Night, Les Filles du Calvaires, Paris (solo)
: Work, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland
: Emergencias, MUSAC, León
: Arbeit – Work, Labour, Galerie im Taxipalais, Innsbruck (cat.)
: Miradas y Conceptos, MEIAC, Badajoz
2005: Appearance, Whitehall Waterfront, Leeds (cat.)
: Bidibibodibiboo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
: American Night, Crown Gallery, Brussels
: Je t’envisage, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
: L’Eblouissement, Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, Paris (cat.)
: About Face – Photography and the death of the portrait, Hayward Gallery, London
: Painting, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
: American Night, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
: American Pictures, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
: American Night, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin (solo)
: Paul Graham, Fundación Telefonica, PHotoEspaña, Madrid (cat.) (solo)
2004: Paul Graham, American Night, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis (solo)
: Extra City, Centre for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
2003: American Night, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
: American Night, PS1 MOMA, New York
: American Night, Power House, Memphis
2002: Paintings, Crown Gallery, Brussels
2001: End of an Age, Galleria Marabini, Bologna
: Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
: Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York
2000: Paintings, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (cat., ill.)
: Galerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zurich
: End of an Age, Scalo, New York
: Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh
1998: Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki
: Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
1997: Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
1996: Empty Heaven, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense
: Hypermetropia, Tate Gallery, London
1995: Empty Heaven, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg
: Le Case d’Arte, Milan (cat., ill.)
: Galleria Casa d’Arte, Milano
1993: New Europe, Fotomuseum Winterthur
: Television Portraits, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
1992: Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris
1991: Aschenbach, Amsterdam
: National Museum of Film and Photography, Bradford
: Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne
1990: Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
1989: Galerie Claire Burus, Paris
: Centre Regional de la Photographie, Douchy
1988: PPOW Gallery, New York
: Museum Het Princessehof, Leeuwarden
: Cornerhouse Arts Centre, Manchester
1987: Jones Troyer Gallery, Washington DC
: Kodak Gallery, Tokyo
: Arles Rencontres, Arles, France
: Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
: FNAC, Les Halles, Paris
: travelling exhibition to Birmingham, Kendal, Cheltenham, Cardiff
: Photographers’ Gallery, London
1986: National Museum of Photography, Bradford
: Watershed Gallery, Bristol

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Literature

2011
Films, MACK, London

Sean O’Hagan, ‘Poetry in the Unforseen Moment’, The Observer New Review, 10 April

Diane Smyth, ‘Paul Graham’, The British Journal of Photography, April

Alastair Sooke, ‘Vision that lights up the gloom’, The Telegraph, 26 April

Francis Hodgson, ‘Paul Graham, Whitechapel Gallery, London’, F inancial Times, 2 May

Adrian Searle, ‘Paul Graham: Smoke and Mirrors’, The Guardian, 19 April

Mark Prince, ‘Paul Graham’, Art Monthly, June 2011

Delfim Sardo , Historias de la Vida Material, pub. Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear

Beyond Caring, Errata Editions

Helen Sumpter, ‘Paul Graham: Photographs 1981-2006’, Time Out London, 5-11 May

2010
Sue Steward, ‘Colour Code’, Evening Standard, 7 April

Una Storia della Fotografia del XX e del XXI Secolo, Zanichelli, Bologna

Sue Steward, ‘Small lives and large secrets’, Evening Standard, 20 February

Liz Jobey, ‘Snappy new year: photography books for 2009’, The Guardian, 2 January

‘Paul Graham at Folkwang Museum, Essen’, www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/2009

Drusilla Beufus, ‘A Cut Above’, Telegraph Magazine, 24 January

Karen Rosenberg, ‘Roadside Refections on Your Land, My Land’, The New York Times, 6 February

Liz Jobey, ‘Photographer Paul Graham: fragments of life’, The Guardian, 2 March

Claire Holland, ‘Visions Personal and Political’, Financial Times, 2 March

Leo Benedictus, ‘Paul Graham’s Best Shot’, The Guardian, 5 March

Nina Caplan, ‘Snap decisions’, Time Out, 5 March

Paul Graham Wins Deutsche Boerse Photography Prize’, www.artforum.com, 26 March

David Deitcher, ‘Paul Graham, Museum of Modern Art New York’, Artforum, May ‘Prizes’, Art Monthly, May

2009
Paul Graham, steidlMack, London

2008
Street and Studio, Tate Publishing

Oliver Laurent, ‘Paul Graham’s second crack at Deutsch Borse’, British Journal of Photography, 29 October

Matthew Higgs, Frieze, issue 112, January-February

2007 - 2008
Martin Herbert, ‘A Shimmer of Possibility’, Photoworks, Autumn/Winter, November/April

2007
A Shimmer of Possibility, steidl MACK, London http://5b4.blogspot.com, November 5th

David Campany, ‘Life is just so astonishing…’, Art World, issue 1, Oct/Nov

Pluk, Autumn, Issue #34

Helen Sumpter, ‘Paul Graham’, Time Out, 26 September – 2 October

‘Britain Through The Lens”, Royal Photographic Journal, June 2007

Haworth-Booth and Charlotte Cotton, ‘Photo-London 2007’, Kultureflash.net, issue 206, 31st May

Richard Dorment, ‘Great Britain: this is your life’, The Daily Telegraph, 22 May

2006
Andrew Hunt, 'Work', Frieze, September (ill.)

Jeffrey Hughes, ‘Paul Graham, American Night’, Contemporary Magazine, Issue 70

2005
Sarah James, 'The Truth about Photography', Art Monthly, Dec- Jan (ill.)

2004
Michel Guerrin, ‘Les paysages peoples d’indices politique de Paul Graham’, Le Monde, 10 July

Val Williams, ‘Paul Graham – American Night’, Portfolio, #38 (ill.)

Martin Seidel, ‘Cruel and Tender’, Kunstforum International, Bd. 169, Marz-April (ill.)

‘Enveloped by the landscape of the living’, Los Angeles Times

American Night, steidl MACK, London

Matthew Parris, ‘If I had £10,000, I would buy this picture of Margaret Thatcher’, The Spectator, 17 May

Rachel Campbell Johnston, Play – The Times, 7-13 June (ill.)

Eliza Williams, ‘Thatcher’, Contemporary, Issue 53 (ill.)

Paul Bonaventura, ‘Paul Graham: The Troubles’, Circa Art Magazine, online feature article (ill.)

‘Paul Graham – American Night’, pluk, Sept/Oct, Issue 14 (ill.)

Michael Binyon, ‘Deface of the Nation’, The Times, 18 April

New York Times Magazine, 12 October (cover)

Jessica Lack, ‘Paul Graham’, The Guardian Guide, 18 October (ill.)

Cory Dugan, ‘Through a veil of white, Graham exposes social divide’, GoMemphis: The Arts, 19 October

Martin Coomer, ‘Paul Graham’, Time Out, 5-12 November (ill.)

Steve Dollar, ‘Glaring Examples of America’, City Arts, 23 November (ill.)

2003
Vince Aletti, ‘Stalking the invisible man in the American Landscape’, The Village Voice,

Pablo Lafuente, ‘Illuminations’, ArtReview, October (ill.)

2001
Kunstforum International, August – October (ill.)

Richard Cork, 'Too many tours spoil the broth', The Times, 13 June

Paintings, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London; Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich; and Lawrence Rubin • Greenberg Van Doren • Fine Art, New York

Helen Sumpter, ‘Art Attacks’, The Big Issue, 11-17 September (ill.)

‘Something to Declare?’, The Independent on Sunday, 24 September

Jessica Lack, The Guardian Guide, 7-13 October (ill.)

Izi Glover, ‘Paul Graham’, Time Out, 18-25 October (ill.)

2000
Adrian Searle, 'Closely observed lavatories', The Guardian, 18 October

Helen Sumpter, ‘Paul Graham: Paintings’, Hot Tickets: Evening Standard, 6-12 October

1999
End of an Age, Scalo Books, Zurich

1996
Paul Graham, Phaidon Press, London

1995
Empty Heaven, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg / Scalo Books, Zurich

1993
God in Hell, Grey Editions, London (Artists books)

New Europe, Fotomuseum Winterthur / Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester

In Umbra Res, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television,

1990
Bradford / Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester

1987
Troubled Land, Grey Editions, London

1986
Beyond Caring, Grey Editions, London

1983
A1-The Great North Road, Grey Editions, London

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Paul Graham

(British, born 1956)

Paul Graham

Paul Graham

Paul Graham

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Paul Graham

Paul Graham

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Paul Graham

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Paul Graham

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

Paul Graham

(British, born 1956)

Paul Graham

Paul Graham

Paul Graham

Paul Graham

Paul Graham

Paul Graham

Paul Graham

Paul Graham

Paul Graham

Paul Graham

Paul Graham

Paul Graham

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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