Richard Misrach

(American, born 1949)

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Richard Misrach

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Richard Misrach

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Biography

Timeline

1949
Born in Los Angeles, USA
1971
Completed BA at University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1973
Nat'l Endowment for the Visual Artist's Fellowship
1977
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1979
J. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1984
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1988
Infinity Award for "Desert Cantos" International Center for Photography
1992
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1994
Distinguished Career in Photography Award Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies
1998
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, USA

Exhibitions

2014
Richard Misrach Exhibitions in 2014:
Richard Misrach, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA (solo exhibition)
Petrochemical America, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (solo exhibition)
Gorgeous, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
2013
Richard Misrach Exhibitions in 2013:
Richard Misrach, Pace MacGill Gallery, NY (solo exhibition)
Callahan & Misrach, Pace/MacGill Gallery, NY
2012
Richard Misrach Exhibitions in 2012:
Revisiting the South: Richard Misrach’s Cancer Alley, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA and travelling to Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (solo exhibition)
Petrochemical America: Project Room, Aperture Gallery,NY
LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, Charlotesville, VA
David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
2011
Richard Misrach Exhibitions in 2011:
Richard Misrach, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA(solo exhibition)
1991: The Oakland-Berkeley Fire Aftermath, Photographs by Richard Misrach, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA (solo exhibition)
1991: The Oakland-Berkeley Fire Aftermath, Photographs by Richard Misrach, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA(solo exhibition)
Better a Live Ass than a Dead Leion, Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Desires, Ludwig Museum, Vienna, Austria
Western American Art South of the Sweet Tea Line III, Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville
The Life and Death of Buildings, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Art Institute of Chicago, from the permanent collection, Chicago
HERE, Pier 24, San Francisco
Face of Our Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
America Now + Here, traveling exhibition, curated by Erich Fischl
From the Collection of Randi and Bob Fisher, Pier 24, San Francisco
ECO-ART, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
2008
Time is of the Essence : Contemporary Landscape Art, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, USA
2007
Photographic Formalities: From Ansel Adams to Weegee, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, USA
Grey Matters - Aftercop, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
2006
Chronologies, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Chronologies, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA
2005
On the Beach, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA
2004
Richard Misrach: On the Beach, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Richard Misrach: On the Beach, Pace/MacGill Chelsea, San Francisco, USA
2003
Richard Misrach: On the Beach, Grant Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Public Collections

Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas
ARCO Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, California
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
California Museum of Photography, Riverside Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson
Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
Consolidated Freightways, Inc., San Francisco
Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Decordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
deMenil Foundation, Houston
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles and Paris
Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Georgia Department of Power, Atlanta, Georgia
Gilman Paper Company, New York
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA, California
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Library of Congress, Washington DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida
Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Musee d’Art Moderne, Beaubourg, Paris
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Canada
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Seagram's, New York
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, California
Shadai Gallery, Tokyo College of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Shaklee Corporation, San Francisco, California
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Western Electric, Chicago, Illinois
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Literature

2011
1991, Blind Spot, edition of 1000 copies, plus 100 Deluxe Edition copies
2010
Destroy This Memory, Aperture