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Biography |
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Arno Rafael Minkkinen was born in Helsinki, Finland in June of 1945 and emigrated to the United States in 1951. He was educated at Wagner College (BA in English, 1967). He studied photography at the New School For Social Research under George Tice, at the School of Visual Arts under Ralph Hattersley and at the Rhode Island School of Design (where he received a MFA in photography in 1974) under Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan. Minkkinen has worked as a copywriter at various advertising agencies and as a lecturer and instructor of photography at MIT, the Institute of Industrial Design in Helsinki, and the Philadelphia College of Art. |
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Minkkinen is the recipient of numerous awards including, two Polaroid Studio Grants in 1984 and 1987, a New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Grant in 1991 and Rittari, First Class Lion of Knighthood bestowed by the Finnish Republic on the Sesquecentennial of Finnish Photography in 1992. Minkkinen currently resides in Andover, Massachusetts and is a Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell |
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Exhibitions |
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2005 |
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Lincoln, Massachusetts: De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park |
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2005 |
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New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery |
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2005 |
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Boston: Robert Klein Gallery |
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2003 |
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Chicago: Art Chicago |
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2003 |
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New York: AIPAD show. New York Hilton |
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2002 |
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New York: Aperture at 50, various citywide venues |
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2001 |
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Caen, France: Retrospective. Église Saint Georges, Musée de Normandie (solo) |
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2000 |
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Tokyo, Japan: “The Body as an Expression of the Subconscious.” (solo) |
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2000 |
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Retrospective. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (solo) |
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2000 |
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Seattle, Washington: “An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital”. Seattle Art Museum |
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1999 |
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Paris: Self-portraits, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie |
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1998 |
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Paris: ”Ten Minutes Past Midnight”. Mois de la Photo (solo) |
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1998 |
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Helsinki: “Ten Minutes Past Midnight”. Retrospective. Gallen Kallela Museum (solo) |
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1998 |
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New York: “High Noon”, Barry Friedman Ltd. (solo) |
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1997 |
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Paris: “Photographie au present,” Bibliothéque Nationale |
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1997 |
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Montréal: “The Body in the Lens”, Musée des Beaux-Arts |
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1996 |
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Washington, D.C.: “Bathers”, Washington Center for Photography |
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1995 |
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Caen, France: “Waterline”. Retrospective. L’Artothèque de Caen; also at Musée de Normandie (solo) |
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1989 |
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Arles: Fondation Vincent Van Gogh |
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1988 |
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1988 Paris: “Splendor & Misery of the Body,” Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris |
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1988 |
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Paris: “15 Years in Front of My Camera”, Galerie Viviane Esders (solo) |
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1988 |
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Finland: Oulu Art Museum (solo) |
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1987 |
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Madrid, Circulo de Bellas Artes |
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1984 |
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“Images/Imaginés”, Musée Rimbaud |
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1984 |
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anta Barbara, California: “Photography as Phantasy”, Santa Barbara Museum of Art |
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1984 |
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Paris: Galerie Viviane Esders (solo) |
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1984 |
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Reims, France: Maison de la Culture (solo) |
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1984 |
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Helsinki: “Ten Years Inside the Photograph”. Photographic Museum of Finland (solo) |
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1972 |
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Tucson, Arizona: Apeiron Traveling Exhibition. Spectrum Gallery (solo) |
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Literature |
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2005 |
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SAGA: The Journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Thirty-Five Years of Photographs. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005. |
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1999 |
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Body Land, (Motta, Milan, 1997; Nathan, Paris, 1988), Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. |
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1998 |
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Ten Minutes Past Midnight, Musta Taide, Helsinki, Finland |
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1994 |
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The Waterline Portfolio, Aperture Foundation |
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1994 |
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Waterline, Marval, Paris; Otava, Helsinki; Aperture, New York |
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1994 |
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Grand Prix du Livre, 25th Rencontres d”Arles Photography Festival |
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1993 |
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Elegant Intimacy, Retretti Art Center, Punkaharju, Finland. With J.H. Lartique and Sally Mann. Also Harry Callahan, Emmet Gowin, Claude Batho, Yves Tremorin |
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1981 |
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New American Nudes: Recent Trends & Attitudes, Morgan & Morgan, Dobbs Ferry, NY/M.I.T. Creative Photography Gallery |
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1978 |
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Frostbite, Morgan & Morgan, Dobbs Ferry, New York |
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