Photographs from Kohei Yoshiyuki’s series The Park will be included in the 55th Venice Biennale, which will take place from June 1 – November 24, 2013. This year’s Biennale, titled “The Encyclopedic Palace,” is curated by Massimiliano Gioni and will present over 150 artists from 37 countries in the Giardini, Arsenale and in various venues throughout Venice. For additional information, please visit the official Venice Biennale website: http://bit.ly/QLMpa
Photographs by Matthew Brandt and Mark Ruwedel are included in the group exhibition Land Marks, currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Curated by Douglas Eklund, the exhibition of works from the museum’s permanent collection is on view in the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing on the first floor. Other selected artists include Robert Smithson, Christo, Huma Bhabha and Vik Muniz, among others.
Loretta Lux is included in the group exhibition 30x: Three Decades at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. On view from February 2 – October 13, 2013, the exhibition presents highlights from the museum’s collection in celebration of their 30th anniversary. Other selected artists include Alexander Rodchenko, Thomas Struth, Lee Friedlander, Robert Adams and Marian Drew, among others. For further information, please visit the Museum of Photographic Arts’ website: http://www.mopa.org/30x
Doug Rickard and Joshua Chuang, Assistant Curator of Photographs at Yale University Art Gallery, discussed the development of photography in a lecture at the New School entitled, “New Frontiers and Familiar Territories.” The lecture was part of a two-day conference, The Photographic Universe II, which took place at The New School on April 10 - 11, 2013. To view the entire conversation, please visit the following link: http://bit.ly/14klnRh. For more information about the conference, please visit The Photographic Universe’s website: http://bit.ly/10KjEhO
A solo exhibition of Charles Fréger’s series Wilder Mann is on view at the FotoMuseum in Antwerp through June 9, 2013. The museum displays Fréger’s colorful photographs depicting diverse regional manifestations of the mythological Wild Man, a symbolic marker of certain religious holidays, cycles of the seasons and rites of passage. In full-length portraits, Fréger depicts the elaborate costumes which visually transform the masqueraders into a wooly bear, a long-horned goat, a demon or a man of straw. Fréger photographs these creatures in their native landscape and explores human fascination with folklore, ritual and tradition. For further information, please visit the FotoMuseum’s website: http://bit.ly/kaT5n
Three photographs from Asako Narahashi’s series half awake and half asleep in the water is included in the exhibition Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints, on view at the Japan Society in New York City from March 9 through June 9, 2013. The exhibition juxtaposes classical graphic Japanese prints from masters such as Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige with contemporary works inspired by these artists and their works. For further information please see the Japan Society’s website: http://bit.ly/pfGNdj
Mike Brodie discussed his series A Period of Juvenile Prosperity on the NPR program “All Things Considered” on April 12, 2013. Hosts Audie Cornish and Melissa Block question Brodie about his photographs and the experience of train hopping. To listen to the entire interview, please visit NPR’s website: http://n.pr/153WxV7
Doug Rickard participated in a panel lecture entitled “Indoor Clouds, Google Street View and Dutch Masterworks” sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission on March 20, 2013. The panel was moderated by Megan Shieffler, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Director, and included contemporary Dutch artist Berndnaut Smide and curator of the European Art Department at the de Young Museum, Melissa Buron. Topics of the panel included themes of documentation, site, ephemerality vs. permanence and “truth” in image making. The entire panel discussion is posted at the following link: http://bit.ly/11W6MVj
Robert Bergman was included in the group exhibition, FACE it, on view from March 10 - April 14, 2013 at the Rockland Center for the Art’s Emerson Gallery. The exhibition of portraits, curated by Lynn Stein, featured contemporary photographers whose work transcends the label of editorial photography. Other participating artists included Valerie Belin, Amy Elkins, Jill Greenberg and Steve Pyke. For more information, please visit the Rockland Center for the Arts’ website: http://bit.ly/WvaMQ8
Yossi Milo Gallery participated in The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America, from March 6 – 10, 2013. The gallery featured a curated selection of photography-based artworks by Matthew Brandt, Sze Tsung Leong, Chris McCaw and Alison Rossiter. This year’s Art Show marks the 25th year of the event and the 50th Anniversary of the ADAA. For additional information, please visit The Art Show website: http://bit.ly/67NIId
Yossi Milo Gallery participated in The Armory Show at Pier 94 from March 7 – 10, 2013. The gallery’s presentation in booth 714 featured the work of Matthew Brandt, Alison Rossiter, Mark Ruwedel, Pieter Hugo, Simen Johan, Doug Rickard, Julie Cockburn, J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere and Myoung Ho Lee. This year’s show marked the 100th year anniversary of the influential Armory show. For more information, please visit the Armory Show website: http://bit.ly/coTh7f
Chris McCaw and Pieter Hugo were included in the group exhibition Landmark: The Fields of Photography at the Somerset House Trust in London. The exhibition was on view from March 14 – April 28, 2013 and featured more than 70 international photographers whose work explores both the beauty and the harsh reality of the earth’s changing landscape. For further information, please see the Somerset House website: http://bit.ly/XdyREz
Michael Kimmelman reviewed Ezra Stoller: Beyond Architecture in The New York Times. The two page article, complete with 6 color and black-and-white images, was on the front page of The Arts Section in the Wednesday, February 6th edition. To read the article, please visit The New York Times website: http://nyti.ms/Y8uSKE
A solo exhibition of David Goldes’ series entitled, Electrified Drawings, were view at the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis, MN from February 9 – April 22, 2013. The exhibition displayed 27 photographs of Goldes’ powdered graphite drawings of boundaries, paths, loops and shapes that are visual representations of complete electrical circuits. Goldes photographs the drawing the moment the power is turned on. The resulting image captures the electrical current racing through the circuit, which illuminates particular areas of the drawing. Goldes’ electrical drawings were also on display. For more information, please visit the Bakken Museum’s website: http://bit.ly/WMYQXk
Yossi Milo Gallery now represents American photographer, Mike Brodie. The artist’s first exhibition with the gallery was held from March 7 – April 6, 2013 and presented A Period of Juvenile Prosperity, a series of color photographs that document a gritty youth subculture of train hoppers and squatters in the United States. Working under the moniker The Polaroid Kidd, Brodie shot the series while traveling the rails over a five-year period. An artist’s reception and book signing for the Twin Palms publication, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity, was held on Thursday, March 7 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. For more information please see the Yossi Milo website: http://bit.ly/WVeCLX
An exhibition of Tim Hetherington’s photographs were on view at the Julie Nester Gallery in Park City, UT. The exhibition featured photographs from Hetherington’s work in Afghanistan and Liberia and was presented in conjunction with the HBO documentary “Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington,” which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. For further information please see Julie Nester Gallery’s website: http://bit.ly/V72FJ0 and the HBO documentary website: http://bit.ly/Vsjv2f
Pieter Hugo gave a lecture about his work and artistic process at the Cleveland Museum of Art on Saturday, January 19, 2013. To watch a video of the lecture, posted by the Cleveland Museum, please visit the USTREAM website: http://bit.ly/W0AcTF
Charles Fréger’s series, Wilder Mann, will be on view at Hermès Gallery in New York. Part of the Hermès Foundation, the Hermès Gallery was created with the goal of establishing and nurturing relationships with contemporary artists. The spring/fall season of 2013 will present two French artists who explore the themes of transformation and man’s desire to be both a unique individual and part of a larger group. Fregèr’s exhibition will be on view in the spring of 2013 and will run in tandem with an exhibition of the same photographic series at Yossi Milo Gallery, opening Thursday, April 11 and on view through Saturday, May 18, 2013. For further information please see the Hermès Foundation website: http://bit.ly/SeWAaN
Tim Hetherington and Asako Narahashi are included in the group exhibition Dark Blue: The Water as Protagonist at the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University. The exhibition will be on view through May 19, 2013 and explores the depiction of water from varying photographic points of view. Other featured artists include Gregory Crewdson, Diane Arbus, Joel Sternfeld and Harry Callahan, among others. For more information please see the Haggerty Museum of Art’s website: http://bit.ly/TNb5kF
Loretta Lux and Andrew Bush were included in The Roving Eye: Aura and the Contemporary Portrait, on view at the Oakland University Art Gallery in Rochester, MI, from January 12 - March 31, 2013. Curated by Dick Goody, Associate Professor of Art at Oakland University, the exhibition explored the work of international contemporary artists who focus on the practice of portraiture. Other artists included Charlotte Dumas, Pierre Gonnord, Scott Schuman (The Sartorialist) and Debbie Grossman, among others. For more information please see the Oakland University Art Gallery’s website: http://bit.ly/ZIyEjI
On view from December 14, 2012 - March 3 2013, the most comprehensive exhibition of Pieter Hugo's photographs was on view at STIMULTANIA, a photography organization in Strasbourg, France. The exhibition had previously traveled to The Hague Museum of Photography in the Netherlands and the Musée de l'Elysée in Switzerland and will continue to tour through 2014. This Must be the Place: Selected Works 2003-2011, features over 90 photographs from the series Permanent Error, Nollywood, and The Hyena & Other Men, as well as a selection of previously unseen photographs. The exhibition is accompanied by a new catalog published by Prestel with essays by T.J. Demos and Aaron Schumann. More information is available on STIMULTANIA’s website: http://bit.ly/VhLMte
The new monograph Ezra Stoller, Photographer published by Yale University Press is available for purchase. The book is a long-awaited survey of Stoller’s artistic accomplishments in post-war architectural photography and includes essays by Nina Rappaport and Erica Stoller, with contributions by Andy Grundberg, Akiko Busch and John Morris Dixon. For more information, and to order a copy please visit the Yale University Press website: http://bit.ly/KY7Y6g or visit the gallery website http://bit.ly/dJi8U8
Sze Tsung Leong gave a public lecture at the Center for Alternative Photography on Tuesday, December 4, 2012. The artist discussed his series Horizons and signed copies of his monograph of the same name. To listen to a recording of the lecture, please visit the Center for Alternative Photography’s website, http://bit.ly/JxNz7C
Works from Jacob Aue Sobol’s series I, Tokyo was exhibited in Outside In at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore. The exhibition ran from October 10, 2012 - January 6, 2013 and included photographs by Sobol, Stuart Franklin and Mark Power, the three most recent inductees to Magnum photography. For further information please visit Marina Bay Sand’s website, sponsor of the ArtScience Museum: http://bit.ly/U3VNqa
Erica Stoller, director of Esto Photography, and Nina Rappaport, architectural critic, curator and historian, gave a talk at the Center for Architecture in New York on December 10, 2012. Stoller and Rappaport discussed their role in publishing Ezra Stoller, Photography, the new monograph recently released by Yale University Press. For more information, please visit the Center of Architecture’s website: http://bit.ly/RWw9Yu
Yossi Milo Gallery is pleased to have participated in Paris Photo 2012, with a presentation of work from artists Takuma Nakahira, Tim Hetherington, Chris McCaw, Charles Fréger, Sheree Hovsepian, Alison Rossiter, Myoung Ho Lee and Sze Tsung Leong. Paris Photo took place at the Grand Palais and featured 128 galleries from around the world. For additional information, please visit: http://bitly.com/RJdT2C
The series A New American Picture was featured in a seven-minute news segment, “The Photography of Doug Rickard,” produced by KQED Public Media for Northern California. Rickard was interviewed in detail about his artistic process and his work’s impact on contemporary, digital photography. The segment was re-broadcasted nationally on PBS news hour on October 29, 2012. The entire segment can be seen on the website: http://bitly.com/RRpoVM
Alejandro Chaskielberg, Andrew Bush and Pieter Hugo were included in the group exhibition, Face to Face, that was on view from October 11 – November 11, 2012, at the Museum of Modern Art, Baku, Azerbaijan. Face to Face explored the subject of portraiture in painting, photography and sculpture with 63 select artworks from the collection of Statoil. For further information please visit Statoil’s website: http://bit.ly/REHlot
Lise Sarfati’s new publication She, published by Twin Palms, was one of ten finalists for the PhotoBook of the Year award, organized by Aperture Foundation and Paris Photo. The hardcover book includes an introductory essay by Quentin Bajac, the Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. For more information about the award, visit Aperture’s website: http://bit.ly/UUgp8c. Copies of She may be purchased through the Twin Palms site: http://bit.ly/xxs9e3
Mark Ruwedel was included in Builders: Canadian Biennial on view at the National Gallery of Canada from November 2, 2012 – January 20, 2013. The Biennial presented more than 100 recent acquisitions by new and emerging artists from the National Gallery’s collection. For more information please visit the National Gallery of Canada’s website: http://bit.ly/Szm1V8
David Goldes is included in the group exhibition Midnight Party on view at the Walker Arts Center through February 23, 2014. The exhibition, curated by Joan Rothfuss, displays work by over 100 artists in a variety of mediums from the Walker Arts Center’s permanent collection. For further information please visit the Walker Art Center’s website: http://bit.ly/sC8U3J
Sze Tsung Leong was included in Otherworldly, a group exhibition at the Greenville Museum of Art in North Carolina. The exhibition of photographs selected from the Allen G. Thomas Jr. Photography Collection was on view from October 26, 2012 – January 27, 2013. Focused on the theme of otherworldly people, places and things, the exhibition included artists Sally Mann, Taj Forer, Anthony Goicolea, Francesca Romero and Jeff Whetstone, among others. For further information please visit the Greenville Museum of Art’s website: http://bit.ly/WAfx6S
Twin Palms Publishers will release Mike Brodie's A Period of Juvenile Prosperity in early 2013. This first edition, hardcover book will feature an introductory essay by the artist and 60 color plates from Brodie's photographic series of the same name. For further information or to purchase a copy in advance, please vist the Twin Palms website: http://bit.ly/OAhcFw
A solo exhibition of Simen Johan’s series Until the Kingdom Comes was on view at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University from November 17, 2012 – February 17, 2013. The exhibition, curated by Jo-Ann Conklin, Director of the David Winton Bell Gallery, included seventeen large-scale photographs from the series. For more information please visit Brown University’s website: http://bit.ly/PwUqP1
Photographs from Simen Johan’s series Until the Kingdom Comes were included in the group exhibition, Myths & Realities at the Visual Arts Gallery at the School of Visual Arts, from August 29 – September 29, 2012. The exhibition was co-curated by Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography at the New York Times Magazine, and Scott Thode, editor of VII Magazine, and included the work of sixteen alumni photographers. For further information please visit the School of Visual Art’s website: http://bit.ly/NbONpW
Yuki Onodera’s work was included in the group exhibition, Viewpoint/ A closer look at showing, on view at the Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography in Amsterdam from September 14 – December 9, 2012. The exhibition examined the concept of looking and being looked at, and included photographs and films by Rineke Dijkstra, Ryan McGinley, Valérie Belin and Antoni + Alison, among others. For further information please visit the museum’s website: http://bit.ly/UcR8Bp
Photographs from Myoung Ho Lee’s series Tree were included in Festival des Arts Visules de Vevey in France from September 8 – 30, 2012. The festival occurs every two years and the work is exhibited in multiple indoor and outdoor locations throughout the city of Vevey. This year’s theme was “A change of décor” and presented artists who alter the foreground and background of their photographs. Other participating artists included Christian Marclay, Cindy Sherman and Jean-Daniel Berclaz. For further information please visit the following link: http://bit.ly/RarXNV
Doug Rickard is included in the group exhibition Aperture Remix, which opened on October 17, 2012 at Aperture Gallery. The exhibition, which coincides with Aperture’s Sixtieth Anniversary, invited ten photographers to create an artistic response to an influential Aperture publication. Rickard created new photographic work in response to Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places. Aperture Remix will be on view until 2015. For more information please visit Aperture’s website: http://bit.ly/SfoxPI
Doug Rickard signed copies of A New American Picture, co-published by Aperture and Koenig Books, at the Aperture Gallery and Bookstore on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 6:30pm. Released this fall, the hardcover book contains 144 images from Rickard’s series of the same title and an introductory essay by David Campany. For more information please visit Aperture’s website: http://bit.ly/UyyKG7
Doug Rickard was included in the fourth Daegu Photo Biennale on view from September 20 – October 28, 2012. Operating since 2006, this year’s Biennale included photographs from over 200 international artists. For further information please see the following website: http://bit.ly/U7AWUO
Lise Sarfati and Quentin Bajac, chief curator of Photography at the MoMA, discussed Sarfati's most recent publication, She (Twin Palms), at the Library Jeu de Paume in France on Thursday, September 20 at 7pm. Bajac, who wrote the introductory essay for She, discussed the themes and inspiration behind the series with Sarfati. For further information please visit the website: http://bit.ly/RZQDNg
Doug Rickard's series A New American Picture was included in the exhibition Peripheral Views: States of America from July 13 – September 30, 2012. The exhibition brought together artists confronting the difficulty of picturing the United States at the present time and included works from Veronica Corzo-Duchardt, Martin Hyers & William Mebane and Liz Magic Laser, among others. For more information, please visit the Museum of Contemporary Photography's website: http://bit.ly/yZ8wtZ
Yossi Milo Gallery participated in Amsterdam's first international photography fair, Unseen, that took place on September 19 to September 23, 2012. Unseen is a joint venture of FOAM (Fotografiemuseum Amsterdamn); Platform A (office for cultural business development); and Vandejong (branding agency). The fair focused on presenting promising young photographers to a broader audience. Yossi Milo Gallery exhibited works by Matthew Brandt, Pieter Hugo, Alison Rossiter and Myoung Ho Lee. For more information concerning the Unseen Photo Fair please see the following link: http://bit.ly/LRJ09n
Twin Palms Publishers has released Lise Sarfati's She. The book features fifty-two color plates from Sarfati's series of the same name with an essay entitled the Anti-Family Album by Quentin Bajac, Chief Curator of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art. For more information on the first edition of She, please visit the Twin Palms website: http://bit.ly/Sxh3mD
Pieter Hugo gave a lecture at the Cleveland Museum of Art on Saturday, November 3. The lecture was followed by a short question and answer session. For further information please visit the Friends of Photography website, an affiliate of the Cleveland Museum and sponsor: http://bit.ly/OcW6ef
A New American Picture, co-published by Aperture Foundation and Koenig Books, is now available for purchase. This hardcover edition features 144 pages with 90 color images. A book signing took place on October 18, 2012 during the opening reception of Rickard’s first solo exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery. For further information please visit the Aperture Foundation's website: http://bit.ly/Nl9EbK
Tim Hetherington was included in the exhitibion, Courage and Strength: Portraits of Those Who Have Served on view at the Honolulu Museum of Art from September 6, 2012 until February 24, 2013. The exhibition featured artists Nina Berman, Ashley Gilbertson, Peter Hapak, Suzanne Opton and Tim Hetherington, who offer glimpses of the internal feelings and experiences of soldiers at war, rather than depicting moments of combat. For more information please visit the Honolulu Museum of Art's website: http://bit.ly/OeWM6E
Images from Alessandra Sanguinetti's On the Sixth Day were included in this year's ORANGE, a reoccurring art event which brings work from international artists to Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. The fair promotes the visual arts across Canada and explores issues related to art and agriculture in the visual arts. For further information about ORANGE please see the website: http://bit.ly/Rqxnrl
Loretta Lux was included in Portrayal/Betrayal, an exhibition of over 100 photographs from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art's permanent collection, which was on view from June 2 - September 16, 2012. The photographs were organized according to themes that explored facets of the complex relationship between photographer and subject. For further information please visit the following link: http://bit.ly/TuVPGf
Loretta Lux and Yuki Onodera were included in The Allure of the Collection, an exhibition celebrating the 35th anniversary of the National Museum of Art in Osaka, Japan. The exhibition was on view from April 21 - June 8, 2012 and displayed over 350 works by 150 artists from the museum's permanent collection. For further information, please visit the following link: http://bit.ly/PObEtD
Part of the permanent collection, Wendover A.F.B Nine Bomb Craters, by Mark Ruwedel is now on view at the Tate Modern Museum. For more information, please visit the Tate's website: http://bit.ly/Mg3uuM
Pieter Hugo was one of four photographers nominated for the prestigious 2012 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, which is awarded annually to the photographer who has made the most notable contribution to the photography field in Europe. The Prize exhibition, featuring work from Mr. Hugo's Permanent Error series, took place in summer 2012 at The Photographers' Gallery in London and then traveled to the Deutsche Börse Headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. The other nominees were Rinko Kawauchi, Christopher Williams and John Stezaker. For more information, please visit: http://www.photonet.org.uk/index.php?pid=594
Publishers, Candela, have released Chris McCaw's Sunburn. The book features forty-three images from McCaw's photographic series of the same name with essays by Katherine Ware, San Francisco arts writer, and Allie Haeusslein, Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. For further information or to purchase the book please visit the following website: http://bit.ly/SFiyB2
Pieter Hugo was included in FotoTriennale.dk that took place in Funen, Denmark during the month of October, 2012. Over thirty artists from Denmark and abroad were invited to present their work which investigates the theme of “The Good Life” or what constitutes a good and healthy life during a time of global economic uncertainty. Hugo presented work from his series, Permanent Error. For Further information please visit the following website: http://bit.ly/LUJFJn
Kohei Yoshiyuki's work from the series, The Park, was part of exhibition The Unexpected Guest, in this year’s Liverpool Biennial. The exhibition displayed works by over sixty international leading and emerging artists at various locations throughout the city. This year marked the fourteenth anniversary of the Liverpool Biennial and took place from September 15 to November 25, 2012. For further information please visit the following website: http://bit.ly/LKYetZ
Alejandro Chaskielberg's photograph, Her Own Water, was included in the exhibition UCCA Beyond Words: Photography from the New Yorker, that was on view at the Ullens Center of Contemporary Art in Beijing from April 15 through June 10, 2012. Curated by Elisabeth Biondi and Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, the exhibition displayed over one hundred images from sixty-five international photographers who have been published in The New Yorker between the years of 1890 to 2010. For more information, please visit the following link: http://bit.ly/LFgJ84
Mark Ruwedel's photographs from his series, Westward the Course of Empire, were on view at Apexart as part of the exhibition, The Permanent Way. This exhibition, curated by Brian Sholis, celebrated the 150 anniversary of the Pacific Railway Act and the development of the first transcontinental railroads. Historical and contemporary images depicted the expansion of railroads and the resulting dramatic alternations to the American landscape. The Permanent Way was on view from June 6 - July 28, 2012. For more information please see the following link: http://bit.ly/ngZAPH
Loretta Lux was included in the exhibition, Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography, at the Aperture Gallery in New York. The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, Florida (MOCA) and ran from March 2 - April 21, 2012. Ben Thompson, curator at MOCA, and Paul Karabinis, an assistant professor of photography at University of North Florida, co-curated the exhibition. For further information please visit the Aperture Foundation's website: http://bit.ly/MZWtgT
Doug Rickard was included in From Here On, a group exhibition at the Photo Museum Antwerp, curated by Clément Chéroux, Joan Fontcuberta, Erik Kessels, Martin Parr, Joachim Schmid, and Roland Buschmann. The exhibition featured international artists who create work from found internet images taken from sources such as Google Street View, Flicker and Facebook. Such work questions the parameters of copyright laws and authorship, while posing the question, "Is traditional photography dead?" The exhibition was on view from June 22 through September 30, 2012. For more information, please visit: http://bit.ly/fTnRuf
Loretta Lux's The drummer is included in Confounding: Contemporary Photography, an exhibition of photographs from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria that explores photography's ability to make the unreal seem real. The exhibition, which opened in October, 2012, includes fourteen photographs by Australian and international artists including Roger Ballen, Pat Brassington, Thomas Demand, Eliza Hutchings, Rosemary Laing, Patricia Piccinini, Peter Peryer, Wang Quingsong and Ronnie van Hout. For more information about the National Gallery of Victoria, please visit: http://bit.ly/8bMPD
A selection of Sanguinetti's work were on view at the International Center of Photography in New York as part of the exhibition, A Short History of Photography: From the ICP Collection Honoring Willis E. Hartshorn, Ehrenkranz Director, on view from May 18 – September 2, 2012. The exhibition showcased images from the ICP's expansive collection, ranging from the 1840s to the present and focused on alternative histories of photography. Sanguinetti's photograph, The Necklace, was one of the title images for the exhibition. For further information please see the following link: http://bit.ly/KIV8dO
Doug Rickard was included in, Making History, the main exhibition at RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/ RheinMain. The show presented a variety of international contemporary photography and video art and was a collaboration between nine collections and institutions: Art Collection Deutsche Börse, the Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, the DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the Marta Hoepffner-Gesellschaft für Fotografie e.V. in the Stadtmuseum Hofheim am Taunus, the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, the Städel Museum and the Opelvillen foundation, Rüsselsheim. The exhibition was on view from April 20 to July 8, 2012. For more information, please visit: http://www.ray2012.de/english/home
The Center for Photography at Woodstock's group exhibition, Surface Tension, featured photographs from two of Matthew Brandt's series, Lakes and Reservoirs and Portraits, as well as Alison Rossiter's works on expired vintage photo paper. The exhibition, curated by Ariel Shanberg and Akemi Hiatt, included works by eleven artists who use photography in unconventional ways. Surface Tension was on view from May 5 through June 24, 2012. For more information, please visit: http://bit.ly/Jk7qTu
In April of 2012, Simen Johan received the prestigious George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Grant. Nine grants were awarded for the 2012-2013 academic year, and this year’s honorees were selected from the fields of anthropology, archaeology and photography. For more information about the fellowship, please visit: http://brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/Howard_Foundation/
Doug Rickard discussed his most recent series, A New American Picture, at the Annenberg Space for Photography as part of the IRIS Nights Lecture Series, presented by MOPLA (Month of Photography Los Angeles) and the Annenberg Space for Photography. The presentation was on Wednesday, April 25th 2012, 6:30-8:00pm. For more information, please visit: http://www.mopla.org/programs/popup.php?eid=337
Tim Hetherington, whose estate is now represented exclusively by Yossi Milo Gallery, photographed the experience of war from the perspective of the individual, mostly in West Africa and the Middle East. His film Restrepo, which he co-directed with Sebastian Junger about a platoon of soldiers in Afghanistan, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2011 for Best Documentary Feature. Through his photographs, writing and films, Tim Hetherington gave us new ways to look at and think about human suffering. Tim was tragically killed on April 20, 2011, while covering the conflict in Libya.
Born in 1970 in Liverpool, Tim Hetherington studied literature at Oxford University, and Photojournalism at Cardiff University. Yossi Milo Gallery presented the first major exhibition of Tim Hetherington’s photographs in April 2012. For more information, please visit: http://www.yossimilo.com/news/tim-hetherington/
To celebrate the 100th Anniversary of The American-Scandinavian Foundation's Fellowship Program, the Foundation organized a group exhibition entitled Unnatural Formations: Three Contemporary Photographers. The exhibition featured the work of three recent grant recipients- Simen Johan, Stephen Hilyard, and Lydia Anne McCarthy, and was on view at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America in New York from April 3 through July 28, 2012. For more information on the exhibition, please visit: http://www.scandinaviahouse.org/events_exhibitions_upcoming.html
Doug Rickard was one of six artists included in the exhibition New Photography 2011 at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, an annual show that exhibits new and compelling contemporary photographers. The other artists included were: Zhang Dali, Moyra Davey, George Georgiou, Deana Lawson and Viviane Sassen. The exhibition opened on September 28, 2011, and ran through January 16, 2012. For more information, please visit: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/newphotography/
Pieter Hugo had a solo exhibition on view at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, which included 27 photographs from his series, Permanent Error. His work was also part of a larger group exhibition, Re-cycle: Strategies for Architecture, City and Planet, of projects and artworks by design firms and artists addressing issues of recycling and sustainability. The show was on view from December 1, 2011 - April 29, 2012. For more information, please visit: http://www.fondazionemaxxi.it/?p=14858&lang=en&page=9#pieter
Artist Loretta Lux was included in What's in a Face? Aspects of Portrait Photography on view at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia from September 24, 2011 – February 5, 2012. The exhibition of more than 45 photographs from the gallery's permanent collection included artists such as Man Ray, Nan Goldin and Ben Cauchi. For further information please visit the following link: http://bit.ly/rbi08r
Yuki Onodera had a solo exhibition at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce in Chalon sur Saône, which was her first retrospective in France. The show was on view from October 14, 2011, through January 22, 2012. For more information, please visit: http://bit.ly/SJNKjz
Jacob Aue Sobol's series Sabine was featured in the exhibition Face of Our Time at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which opened on July 2, 2011, and ran through October 16, 2011. He was one of four artists in the show, which focused on photographers observing and documenting political and societal transformations. The other artists included were Jim Goldberg, Zanele Muholi and Daniel Schwartz. The show traveled to the University of Michigan Museum of Art and was on view from November 12, 2011 – February 5, 2012. For more information, please visit: http://www.sfmoma.org/about/press/press_exhibitions/releases/876 and http://www.umma.umich.edu/view/exhibitions/2011-faceofourtime.php?image=2
Doug Rickard was included in the group exhibition HERE. at Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco, CA. The exhibition included over 700 works by established and emerging photographers who have taken images of San Francisco and the Bay Area's dynamic landscape. Mr. Rickard's photographs from his series A New American Picture were part of the show, which was on view through January 31, 2012. Other artists in the exhibition were: Robert Frank, Stephen Shore, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Paul Graham, Irving Penn, Hiroshi Sugimoto, among others. For more information, please visit: http://www.pier24.org/exhibition/current.html
Pieter Hugo has won the top prize at the 9th Rencontres de Bamako African Photography Biennal in Mali, which is Africa's most notable photography festival. For more information, please visit: http://rencontres-bamako.com/?lang=en
Philippe Gronon was part of the exhibition Library Science at Artspace in New Haven, CT, which was on view from November 12, 2011 - January 28, 2012. The exhibition included 22 emerging and established contemporary artists whose work is inspired by libraries and explores the relationships we have with the library in the new digital age. For more information, please visit: http://artspacenh.org/
Photographs from Sze Tsung Leong's History Images series were included in the exhibition, Highrise: Idea and Reality, at the Museum of Design Zurich. The exhibition focused on the increased construction of high-rise buildings throughout the past ten years in cities around the globe. The show was on view from August 31, 2011, through February 1, 2012. For more information, please visit: http://bit.ly/Otqtiv
Mark Ruwedel's work was exhibited at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, NV, from September 24, 2011 - January 15, 2012. The exhibition, The Altered Landscape, celebrated the museum's 80th anniversary and included work from the photography collection that examine our affects on the environment. For more information, please visit: http://www.nevadaart.org/exhibitions/detail?eid=197
Loretta Lux was included in the group exhibition, The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography, organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art. The show traveled to the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale from June 5, 2011 - September 25, 2011, and to The Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christie from October 22, 2011 - January 1, 2012. For more information on the exhibition, please visit: http://www.noma.org/pressroom/PressReleases/45Mar23.09.pdf
Work by David Goldes is currently on display at Walker Art Center's Midnight Party exhibition. The show, which opened March 19, 2011, will run through February 23, 2014, and features artists such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Mark Rothko and Matthew Barney. For more information, please visit: http://visualarts.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=5893&title=Current%20Exhibitions. An additional introduction video for the exhibition can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy4JfTu-LWo
Doug Rickard was included in a two-person exhibition entitled, Publicly Private: Enrico Natali and Doug Rickard, at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The artist's series, A New American Picture, was paired with Enrico Natali's photographs from the 1960s to contrast unique documentary styles of photography addressing issues of privacy. It ran from January 14, 2012, through April 22, 2012. For more information. Please visit: http://www.sbma.net/exhibitions/publiclyprivate.web
Photographs from Sze Tsung Leong's History Images series were included in a group exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum, The Life and Death of Buildings, which ran from July 23, 2011 - November 6, 2011. The show presented an international array of iconic photographs ranging from the 1840s to present day that focused on the relationship between architecture, photography and time. For more information, please visit: http://puam.princeton.edu/lifeanddeathofbuildings/
Kohei Yoshiyuki had a solo exhibition at the Presentation House Gallery in Vancouver, Canada. The show presented photographs from Mr. Yoshiyuki's series, The Park, and ran from September 10 through October 30, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://presentationhousegallery.org/exhibition/kohei-yoshiyuki-the-park/
Mark Ruwedel was included in the group exhibition Our Origins at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, IL. The artists in this exhibition use photography, video, drawing and sculpture to reflect on our natural history and origins. The show was on view from July 29 through October 16, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2011/07/post_1.php
Pieter Hugo was included in the ARS 11 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, Finland, which opened April 15, 2011 and ran through November 27, 2011. ARS 11 was a large-scale, international event and exhibition which investigated Africa through contemporary art. For more information, please visit: http://www.kiasma.fi/calendar/exhibitions/ars11
Andrew Bush was included in the exhibition Car Fetish. I drive, therefore I am. at the Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland. The show, which opened June 8, 2011, and ran through October 9, 2011, focused on artwork influenced by the automobile. Other artists included: Andy Warhol, Jean Tinguely, Robert Frank, Gerhard Richter and Chris Burden. For more information, please visit: http://www.tinguely.ch/en/ausstellungen_events/austellungen/2011/Fetisch-Auto.html
As the winner of the 2011 Sony World Photography Award, Alejandro Chaskielberg was featured in the exhibition Sony World Photography Awards Exhibitions at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, which ran from October 13 through November 5. In addition to the exhibition, the Chelsea Art Museum hosted events surrounding the upcoming Sony World Photography Awards, including an artist’s talk with Mr. Chaskielberg and the curator of the exhibition, Elisabeth Biondi, on Wednesday, October 26, from 6:15 - 7:30PM. For more information on the exhibition and related events, please visit: http://www.chelseaartmuseum.org/portfolios/sony-world-photography-awards-world-photography-ny-events/
A New American Picture, Doug Rickard's photographic series of Google Street Views, was included in the exhibition From Here On at Les Recontres d'Arles in Arles, France. Co-curated by Martin Parr, the show focused on artists and photographers who use the internet as part of their work and ran through September 18, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.rencontres-arles.com/A11/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=ARL_3_VForm&FRM=Frame:ARL_7&LANGSWI=1&LANG=English
An exhibition of Simen Johan's work, Simen Johan: Until the Kingdom Comes, featured photographs, sculptures and new works from his ongoing series. It was on view at 21c Museum in Louisville, KY from July 2 - October 4, 2010, and traveled to the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, TN, from February 20 - May 29, 2011. Mr. Johan had another solo exhibition entitled, Simen Johan: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, at the Pollock Gallery at Southern Methodist University's Meadow School of the Arts in Dallas, TX, from August 29 - October 8, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://mcs.smu.edu/calendar/event/pollock-gallery-simen-johan-until-kingdom-comes
A photograph from Kohei Yoshiyuki's series The Park was included in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition, Night Vision: Photography After Dark. The show focused on night photography and artists who explore this artistic genre and was on view from April 26 - September 18, 2011. For more information on the exhibition, please visit: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={4F9E1DE0-D720-40FF-ACF3-ACFA8C4673A7}
The Tate Modern and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's group exhibition, Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870, featured photographs from Mark Ruwedel's Crossing and Kohei Yoshiyuki's The Park series. The exhibition was curated by Sandra Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography at the SFMoMA, with Simon Baker, Curator of Photography, Tate, and Ann Coxon, Assistant Curator, Tate Modern. The show dealt with the boundary between private and public, as many of these photographs were taken without the subject's consent or awareness. Exposed was on view from May 21 - September 18, 2011 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For more information, please visit: http://visualarts.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=6019&title=Current%20Exhibitions
Mark Ruwedel's work was selected by Simon Baker, Curator of Photography at the Tate Modern in London, for inclusion in the Points of View section at Les Recontres d'Arles 2011, which opened July 4 and ran through September 18, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.rencontres-arles.com/A11/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=ARL_3_VForm&FRM=Frame:ARL_76&LANGSWI=1&LANG=English
Sze Tsung Leong's photographs from the History Images series were included in the exhibition, The More Things Change, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The show included works from the museum's evolving collection and recent acquisitions and was on view from November 20, 2010 - November 6, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.sfmoma.org/about/press/press_exhibitions/releases/857
Kohei Yoshiyuki's series The Park was featured in a solo exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia, from July 2 through August 13, 2011. The photographs traveled to the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) in Melbourne, Australia, where it was part of the group show, In Camera and In Public. The exhibition, curated by CCP's Director, Naomi Cass, investigated the relationship between the photographer and subject, the voyeur and the observed. It was on view from September 16 - October 23, 2011. The last venue for the photographs will be Adam Art Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand. For more information, please visit: http://www.ccp.org.au/exhibitions.php?f=20111023_Gallery_1
Pieter Hugo and Michael Cleary were awarded a Young Directors Award in the music video category at the 2011 Cannes Lions Festival in Cannes, France, for their black-and-white music video for Spoek Mathambo's Control. For more information, please visit: http://mg.co.za/article/2011-06-24-pieter-hugo-wins-young-director-award-at-cannes
Alejandro Chaskielberg was awarded the L'Iris D Or, the 2011 Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year. He joins previous winners such as David Zimmerman, Tommaso Ausili and Vanessa Winship as a member of the World Photographic Academy. For more information, please visit: http://www.worldphoto.org/news-and-events/wpo-news/sony-world-photography-awards-2011-winners-announced/
Josef Schulz's photographs were on view in Pearson International Airport's Terminal 1 in Toronto, Canada, from May 1, 2011 - August 29, 2011. The exhibition was presented in partnership with The Greater Toronto Airports Authority and the Goethe Institute.
Pieter Hugo was included in the exhibition Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The museum show focused on the thriving photographic culture that arose in post-apartheid South Africa. Figures and Fictions opened Monday, April 11 and ran through Sunday, July 17, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://media.vam.ac.uk/media/documents/press-releases/2010/v&a-figures&fictions.pdf
Alessandra Sanguinetti's book, On the Sixth Day, has been included in Martin Parr's Best Books of the Decade, a selection of 30 photo books from around the world. The books were exhibited as part of the PhotoIreland Festival and took place at the National Photographic Archive in Dublin, Ireland, between July 15 and August 14, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://2011.photoireland.org/program/martin-parrs/
Loretta Lux was included in a group show, From our Collections: Portraits, at the Glenbow Museum in Alberta, Canada, which was on view from April 2 - June 19, 2011. The show focused on artists from the museum's collection who explore the tradition of portraiture. For further information, please visit: http://dev.glenbow.org/exhibitions/past/2010-2011/foc/portraits.cfm
Photographs from Alessandra Sanguinetti's The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams and The Life that Came were selected from the 29th Bienal de São Paulo exhibition as part of a program to tour the work to 13 Brazilian cities. The photographs traveled to the Palacio das Artes in Belo Horizante, Brazil from January 18 - March 20, 2011, and were at their last venue, the Modern Art Museum Aloísio Magalhães in Recife, Brazil from June 29 - August 21, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.mamam.art.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=207:exposicao-em-cartaz-l-29o-bienal-de-sao-paulo-obras-selecionadas&catid=45:exposicoes
A selection of Pieter Hugo's Permanent Error photographs were on view in outdoor installations throughout the city of Toronto, Canada, from April 25 - June 4, 2011, as part of Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. For more information, please visit: http://2011.scotiabankcontactphoto.com/events/619
A solo exhibition of Ezra Stoller's photographs entitled, Capturing an Icon: Ezra Stoller and Modern Architecture, was on view through May 16, 2011, at Gallery See, SCAD Atlanta. The show traveled to Pinnacle Gallery in Savannah, also part of the SCAD Galleries, from June 30 - August 5, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.scad.edu/exhibitions/view/2011/ezra-stoller.cfm
Lise Sarfati recently had a solo exhibition at Magnum Gallery in Paris, Lise Sarfati: La Vie Nouvelle - The New Life, which opened on March 17, 2011 and ran through April 30, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.magnumgallery.fr/?rubrique=expositions&expo=36
Alessandra Sanguinetti was part of a group show at Edel Assanti in London. The exhibition, Between Two Worlds: A Window onto Contemporary Photography from Latin America, surveyed established and emerging Latin American photographers who juxtapose reality and fantasy. The show opened on March 24, 2011, and ran through April 30, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.edelassanti.com/exhibitiondetails.php?ID=96
Work by Loretta Lux and Sze Tsung Leong was featured at The Morgan Library and Museum in New York in an exhibition entitled Mannerism & Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs. The exhibition was on view from January 21 - May 1, 2011 and included artists such as Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ed Ruscha and Richard Serra. For more information please visit: http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=43
Photographs from Myoung Ho Lee's series Tree were included in an exhibition entitled In Focus: The Tree at The Getty Center in Los Angeles. The exhibition was on view from February 8 - July 3, 2011, and included artists such as Gustave Le Gray, Carleton Watkins, Eugène Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Eliot Porter and William Eggleston. For more information, please visit: http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/focus_trees/
Sze Tsung Leong was included in an exhibition entitled Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, 2000-2010 at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas, from February 25 - May 29, 2011. The exhibition traveled from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts where it was on view from September 17 - January 2, 2011 and featured 20 artists including Leong, Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, Tina Barney and Martin Parr. For more information, please visit: http://www.nermanmuseum.org/exhibitions/pastmuseum
Work by Loretta Lux was included in an exhibition, Angels and Urchins that displayed portraits of children at Kunsthalle Krems in Austria. The exhibition featured over 120 portraits from the 16th Century to present and was on view from March 6 - July 3, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.kunsthalle.at/kunsthalle-krems-en/exhibitions/von-engeln-bengeln?set_language=en
Kelli Connell was included in an exhibition entitled The Truth is Not in the Mirror at The Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The exhibition, which was on view from January 19 through May 22, 2011, explored photography as a means to construct a narrative and the photographer's role as a storyteller. For more information, please visit: http://www.marquette.edu/haggerty/exhibit_2011_01_photo_portraits.shtml
Photographs from Mark Ruwedel's series Westward were included in an exhibition entitled Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Mr. Ruwedel's work was represented in the "American West" section of the exhibition, alongside artists such as Timothy O'Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, Laura Gilpin, and Richard Misrach. The exhibition was on view from February 8 - June 19, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/conversations