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Staley-Wise Gallery

New York

Susan Meiselas

(American, born 1948)

traditional indian dance mask from the town of monimbo, adopted by the rebels during the fight against somoza to conceal identity, monimbo, nicaragua by susan meiselas

Susan Meiselas

Traditional Indian dance mask from the town of Monimbo, adopted by the rebels during the fight against Somoza to conceal identity, Monimbo, Nicaragua, 1978

Price on Request

Biography

Timeline

1970
Bachelor of Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
1971
Master of Arts (Visual Education,) Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1979
Robert Capa Gold Medal, Overseas Press Club
1980
Member of Magnum Photos
1982
Photojournalist of the Year Award from the American Society of Media Photographers
Leica Award for Excellence
1984
Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts
1985
Engelhard Award, Institute of Contemporary Art
1986
Honorary Doctor in Fine Arts, Parsons School of Art, New York, NY
1987
Lyndhurst Foundation

Exhibitions

2008
Intimate Strangers, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON Canada (solo)
International Center for Photography, New York, NY (solo)
2007
Cohen Amador Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2006
Open Eye, Liverpool, UK (solo)
Gwangju Biennial, South Korea
Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
Post.doc?, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece
Beautiful Suffering, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
2005
After the Fact, First Festival of Photography, Berlin, Germany
Mirror, Mirror, Centre Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal

Public Collections

Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Library of Congress, Washington DC
Hasselblad Center, Sweden
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Al
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Literature

2003
Encounters with the Dani, ICP/Steidl Verlag, USA/Germany
2001
Pandora’s Box, Magnum Editions/Trebruk, Denmark
1997
Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, Random House, USA
1990
Chile From Within, W.W. Norton, USA
1983
El Salvador: The Work of 30 Photographers, Pantheon, USA
1981
Nicaragua, June 1978 - July 1979, Pantheon, USA
1976 - 2003
Carnival Strippers, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, USA; Steidl, Germany
1975
Learn to See (a collaboration with the Polaroid Corporation), Polaroid Foundation, USA
English (US)

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