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Alec Soth

(American, born 1969)

Alec Soth

Sleeping by the Mississippi, 2002

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Cry Baby. 2005

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Niagara. 2005. Falls #55.

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USA. Little Falls, Minnesota. 1999. Charles Lindbergh's boyhood bed. Sleeping by the Mississippi

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USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 2000. Adelyn, Ash Wednesday. Sleeping by the Mississippi.

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Chongqing, China, 2008

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Pamela & Allen. Minnesota, USA., 2007

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2021

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Julie, Austin, Texas, 2021

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Nick. Los Angeles, California, USA, 2017

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Buena Vista, Iowa, USA, 2002

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Luxora, Arkansas, USA, 2002

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Angela. Los Angeles. USA, 2011

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Tricia and Curtis. Canada, 2005

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Mother & daughter with shopping cart full of plants. Saint Paul, Minnesota. USA, 1999

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Anna. Kentfield, CA. USA, 2017

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Sugar's. Sleeping by the Mississippi. Iowa, Davenport. USA, 2002

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Mother and daughter. Sleeping by the Mississippi. Davenport, Iowa. USA, 2002

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Band practice. Joliet, Illinois. USA, 2019

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Nan Goldin's bed. Brooklyn, New York. USA, 2018

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New York, Queens. USA, 2019

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Carmen. Williams, Arizona. USA, 2020

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The Coachlight. Mitchell, South Dakota. USA, 2020

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Ames, Iowa. USA, 2021

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Charles Lindbergh's boyhood bed. Sleeping by the Mississippi. Little Falls, Minnesota. USA, 1999

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Sleeping by the Mississippi. Green Island, Iowa. USA, 2002

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Sleeping by the Mississippi. Minnesota. USA, 2002

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Bonnie, with a photograph of an angel. Sleeping by the Mississippi. Port Gibson, Mississippi. USA , 2000

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Immaculate Conception Church. Sleeping by the Mississippi. Kakaskia, Illinois. USA, 2002

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The Voyager. Canada, 2004

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Best Western. Canada, 2005

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Falls Manor. Canada, 2005

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Comfort Inn. Canada, 2005

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Sid Kaplan's darkroom. New York, New York. USA, 2021

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Bradley Lock and Key. Savannah, Georgia. USA, 2014

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The last snow globe repairman. Northfield, Minnesota. USA, 2012

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Biography

Timeline

1992: Bachelor of Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
1999: McKnight Photography Fellowship
2001: Minnesota State Arts Board
: MCAD / Jerome Fellowship
: Jerome Travel and Study Grant
2003: Santa Fe Prize for Photography
2004: McKnight Photography Fellowship
2006: Golden Light Book Award
: Deutsche Börse Prize (shortlisted artist)
2008: Member of Magnum Photos
: Bush Artist Fellowship
: PhotoVision Award
2011: International Center of Photography’s 27th Annual Infinity Award

Exhibitions

2018: Alec Soth Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Alec Soth: Photography, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, United States (solo exhibition)
Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom
EDIFICE, COMPLEX, VISIONARY, STRUCTURE, Sean Kelly, New York
HOME, Milk Gallery, New York, New York
In Focus: Expressions, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
O Triângulo do Atlântico, 11th Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Our Natural State, Arts Center of the Ozarks, Springdale, USA Players, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
This Land, Pier 24, San Fransisco, USA
True to Form: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2017: Alec Soth Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Alec Soth: From a Room, Fraenkel Lab, San Francisco, California (solo exhibition)
Gathered Leaves, FOMU, Foto Museum, Antwerp, Belgium (solo exhibition)
Gathered Leaves, Deichtorhallen Internationale Kunst und Fotografie, Hamburg, Germany (solo exhibition)
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas (solo exhibition)
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida (solo exhibition)
Framing Community: Magnum Photos, 1947-Present, Hunter College, New York
Magnum Manifesto, International Center of Photography, New York
Selected, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
The Grain of the Present, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, California
2016: Alec Soth Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Gathered Leaves, National Media Museum, Bradford, United Kingdom (solo exhibition)
Gathered Leaves, The Finnish Museum, Helsinki, Finland (solo exhibition)
Gathered Leaves, Foto Museum, Antwerp, Belgium (solo exhibition)
Hypnagogia, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo exhibition)
Hypnagogia, Scotiabank CONTACT Photo Festival, Toronto, Canada (solo exhibition)
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas (solo exhibition)
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan (solo exhibition)
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas (solo exhibition)
20 Years, Weinstein Gallery, New York (solo exhibition)
For Freedoms, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (solo exhibition)
Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography, The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
2015: Alec Soth Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Alec Soth: ‘Georgia Dispatch’, SCAD Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (solo exhibition)
Colorado: selections from the LBM Dispatch, Denver Museum, Denver, Colorado (solo exhibition)
Gathered Leaves: The photographs and books of Alec Soth, Media Space, Science Museum, London, United Kingdom (solo exhibition)
Songbook, Sean Kelly, New York (solo exhibition)
Songbook, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California (solo exhibition)
Songbook, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota (solo exhibition)
Songbook, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
Bakken Boom! Artists respond to the North Dakota Oil Rush, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota
Magnum – Contact Sheets, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014: Alec Soth Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Alec Soth: Until Now, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota (solo exhibition)
From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America, MMoCA, Madison, Wisconsin (solo exhibition)
Alec Soth & Friends. THE LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM PING-PONG READING ROOM, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany
American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, MOAFL, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
BredaPhoto International Photo Festival: Songs From the Heart, Breda, Netherlands Codex, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, California
DOK:14, documentary festival, Fredrikstad, Norway
Homeland [In]Security: Vanishing Dreams, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York
In Context: The Portrait in Contemporary Photography. Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York
IN/HUMANO, Marco Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico
Meer Macht (More Power), Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands
People’s Biennial, MOCAD, Detroit, Michigan
Sacred, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
SHAPESHIFITING: Contemporary Masculinities, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio
<7>The luxury of simplicity. Lifestyles away from the norm, Münchner Stadlmuseum, Munich, Germany
The Plot Thickens, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
: Post Cards from America Project, Magnum Photos, New York, NY
: Krakow Photography Biennial, Krakow, Poland.
: American Photography: From Berenice Abbott to Alec Soth, Kunsthandel Jörg Maaß, Berlin, Germany.
: Streams of Consciousness: The Histories, Mythologies, and Ecologies of Water, Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas
: Broken Manual, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: From Here To There, Alec Soth’s America, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (solo)
2011: Alec Soth, Paddle8, Online Exhibition (solo)
: Individual to Icon, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
: People, Places & Things, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
: America Now, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
: The Mechanical Bride, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, CA
: Mississippi Niagara, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy (solo)
: From Here To There, Alec Soth’s America, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
: American Portraits, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy (solo)
: Portraits/100 Years: August Sander, Robert Mapplethorpe and Alec Soth, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
: Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
: Embarrassment of Riches, Picturing Global Wealth, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
: Strange & Familiar: Three Views of Brighton, Brighton Museum of Art, Brighton, UK
2010: Myth, Manners and Memory: The American South, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, UK
: On the Road: A Legacy of Walker Evans, Robert Lehman Art Center at Brooks School, North Andover, MA
: Dog Days, Bogotá, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA (solo)
2009: The Minnesota Eye, College of Visual Arts and Design, Saint Paul, MN
: NIAGARA, Williams College Musuem of Art, Williamstown, MA (solo)
: Sleeping by the Mississippi, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA (solo)
: Back Line of Woods, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (solo)
: Dog Days, Bogotá, NIAGARA, IM Art, Seoul, Korea (solo)
: Last Days Of W, Stephen Wirtz Gallery San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Last Days of W, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: UTOPIA, Museu Collecao Berardo, Lisbon, Spain
: Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
: 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
: Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
: Heart Land, Van Abbemuseum, The Netherlands
: Alec Soth: The Space Between Us, BBK, Bilbao, Spain (solo)
: The Space Between Us: Photographs by Alec Soth, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (solo)
: Sleeping by the Mississippi, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
: Dog Days, Bogotá, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
: Alec Soth: The Space Between Us, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Swizterland (solo)
2008: Last Days Of W, Haunch of Venison, Zurich, Switzerland
: Niagara, Ffoto Gallery, Wales, UK (solo)
: NIAGARA, Host Gallery, London, England
: Fashion Magazine, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
: Tunnels and Birds, Power House, Memphis, TN
: Dog Days, Bogotá, Weinstein Gallery,Minneapolis, MN
: Landscape: Fact and Fiction, Benton Museum, Storrs, CT
: On Death and Dying: Photographs from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, January, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
: Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
: Documents: Memory of the Future, Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain - traveling
: June Bride, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
: A New American Portrait, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
: Summer Show, Gagosian Gallery New York, NY
: Summer Exhibition, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
: Picturing Eden, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
: Power House, Memphis, TN
2007: Host Gallery, London, UK
: Magnum Cinema Commission, Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France
: less is more, more or less, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
: ClickDoubleClick, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2006, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
: Middle Ground: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Miriam & Ira D.
: Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: The Ramer Collection and Other Photographs, The Richard Nelson Gallery, UC-Davis, Davis, CA
: Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
: Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
: Between the Lakes, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
: Wallach Art Gallery - Columbia University, New York
: ClickDoubleClick, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
: Sleeping by the Mississippi, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (solo)
: Downriver, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN
: Pingyao International Photography 2006, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
: Group Dynamic: Portfolios, Series and Sets, Des Moines Art Center Downtown, Des Moines, Iowa
: THE OFFICE: In and Out of the Box, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
: Sleeping by the Mississippi, Olson Gallery, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN (solo)
: Prague Contemporary Arts Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
: NIAGARA, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
: NIAGARA, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany
: NIAGARA, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2006: Sleeping by the Mississippi, California Museum of Photography, UC-Riverside, CA
: Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea, Essex UK(solo)
: Portraits, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
: Minets A Polis, Cohan and Leslie Gallery, New York, NY
: Roger Ballen, Vera Lütter, and Alec Soth, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
: Regarding the Rural, MassMoCA, Boston, MA
: McKnight Fellowship exhibition, University of Minnesota Regis Center for Art, Minneapolis, MN
: Beyond the Portrait, T.H. Inside, Milan, Italy
: American Landscapes, Timezone 8 Editions, Beijing, China
: Selections from the 26th Bienal de São Paulo Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
: Contemporary Photographs from the Allen J. Thomas Jr. Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
: Epilogue, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
: Nine Portraits, Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
: Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
: Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany
: Open Eye, Liverpool, UK
: Group photography exhibition, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
: Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
: Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, ArtChicago Artist Booth, Chicago, IL
: PhotoLondon gallery booth, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
: Cakewalk, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida
: 26th Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil
: Best Midwestern: Photographs from the Heartland, Jen Bekman, New York, NY
: Summer Group Exhibition, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Group Show, Daiter Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois
: Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, Yossi Milo Gallery New York, NY (solo)
: Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, Stephen Wirtz Gallery San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
: Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2004: Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, Open Eye, Liverpool, UK (solo)
: Wild Flowers Ariel Meyerowitz, New York, NY
: Sleeping by the Mississippi, Weitman Gallery of Photography, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (solo)
: Sleeping by the Mississippi. Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, IL (solo)
: Group Exhibition, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
: Dog Days, Gallery T, Minneapolis, MN
: Summer Life, Alice Austen Museum, Staten Island, NY
: Weitman Gallery of Photography, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2003: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
: Picturing Bill - Portraits of William Eggleston, John Stinson Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
2002: Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, exhibited as part of the 2001-2002
: Jerome Fellowship exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery Minneapolis, MN
: Campus as Place, Photographing Carleton, Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN
2001: Portraits (From Here to There), Central Lakes College Gallery St. Cloud, MN (solo)
2000: Portraits (From Here to There), as part of the McKnight Fellows Exhibition, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1998: Two-person exhibition of portraits with Joel Sternfeld, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN
1995: Photographs from the At the Bar series, Icebox Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1993: Two-person exhibition of photographs from the series, The Middle Night, Minneapolis Photographer’s Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Public Collections

: Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
: LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Israel Museum of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, Israel
: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
: Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, NY
: North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Dorsey Whitney, Minneapolis, MN
: General Mills Corporate Art Collection, Golden Valley, MN
: LaSalle Bank, New York, NY
: Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH
: Regis Corporate Art Collection, Minneapolis, MN
: Robbins Kaplan Miller Ciresi, Minneapolis, MN
: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA

Literature

2008: The Last Days of W, Little Brown Mushroom, USA
2007: Dog Days, Bogotá, Steidl, Germany
: Fashion Magazine, Magnum, Paris
2006: Niagara, Steidl, Germany
2005: The Making of Parts, photo essay Granta, issue 89
2004: Sleeping by the Mississippi, Steidl, Germany
2002: Vantage Points: Campus as Place (with Beth Dow and Chris Faust),Carleton College Press, Northfield, USA
1997: Linked to the Future: Minneapolis and St. Paul, (6 b/w plates), Towery Publishing, USA

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Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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