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Alec Soth Biography
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1992 |
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Bachelor of Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
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1999 |
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McKnight Photography Fellowship
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2001 |
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Minnesota State Arts Board
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2001 |
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MCAD / Jerome Fellowship
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2001 |
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Jerome Travel and Study Grant
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2003 |
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Santa Fe Prize for Photography
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2004 |
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McKnight Photography Fellowship
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2006 |
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Golden Light Book Award
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2006 |
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Deutsche Börse Prize (shortlisted artist)
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2008 |
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Member of Magnum Photos
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2008 |
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Bush Artist Fellowship
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2011 |
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International Center of Photography’s 27th Annual Infinity Award
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2011
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Alec Soth, Paddle8, Online Exhibition (solo)
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2011
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From Here To There, Alec Soth’s America, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (solo)
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2011
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Broken Manual, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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2011
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Streams of Consciousness: The Histories, Mythologies, and Ecologies of Water, Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas
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2011
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American Photography: From Berenice Abbott to Alec Soth, Kunsthandel Jörg Maaß, Berlin, Germany.
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2011
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Krakow Photography Biennial, Krakow, Poland.
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2011
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Post Cards from America Project, Magnum Photos, New York, NY
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2010
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Myth, Manners and Memory: The American South, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, UK
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2010
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Strange & Familiar: Three Views of Brighton, Brighton Museum of Art, Brighton, UK
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2010
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Embarrassment of Riches, Picturing Global Wealth, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
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2010
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Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
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2010
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Portraits/100 Years: August Sander, Robert Mapplethorpe and Alec Soth, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
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2010
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On the Road: A Legacy of Walker Evans, Robert Lehman Art Center at Brooks School, North Andover, MA
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2010
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From Here To There, Alec Soth’s America, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
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2010
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American Portraits, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy (solo)
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2010
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Mississippi Niagara, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy (solo)
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2010
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The Mechanical Bride, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, CA
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2010
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America Now, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
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2010
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People, Places & Things, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
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2010
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Individual to Icon, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
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2009
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The Minnesota Eye, College of Visual Arts and Design, Saint Paul, MN
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2009
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NIAGARA, Williams College Musuem of Art, Williamstown, MA (solo)
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2009
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Sleeping by the Mississippi, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA (solo)
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2009
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Dog Days, Bogotá, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA (solo)
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2009
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Back Line of Woods, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (solo)
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2009
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Dog Days, Bogotá, NIAGARA, IM Art, Seoul, Korea (solo)
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2009
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Last Days Of W, Stephen Wirtz Gallery San Francisco, CA (solo)
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2009
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Last Days of W, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2008
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Last Days Of W, Haunch of Venison, Zurich, Switzerland
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2008
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Alec Soth: The Space Between Us, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Swizterland (solo)
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2008
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Dog Days, Bogotá, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
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2008
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Alec Soth: The Space Between Us, BBK, Bilbao, Spain (solo)
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2008
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Sleeping by the Mississippi, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
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2008
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The Space Between Us: Photographs by Alec Soth, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (solo)
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2008
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Niagara, Ffoto Gallery, Wales, UK (solo)
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2008
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Heart Land, Van Abbemuseum, The Netherlands
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2008
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30th Anniversary Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
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2008
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UTOPIA, Museu Collecao Berardo, Lisbon, Spain
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2008
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Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
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2008
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Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
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2008
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
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2007
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Host Gallery, London, UK
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2007
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Power House, Memphis, TN
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2007
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Picturing Eden, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
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2007
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Summer Exhibition, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
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2007
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Summer Show, Gagosian Gallery New York, NY
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2007
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A New American Portrait, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
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2007
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June Bride, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
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2007
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Magnum Cinema Commission, Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France
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2007
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Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
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2007
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On Death and Dying: Photographs from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, January, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
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2007
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Documents: Memory of the Future, Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain - traveling
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2007
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Landscape: Fact and Fiction, Benton Museum, Storrs, CT
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2007
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Dog Days, Bogotá, Weinstein Gallery,Minneapolis, MN
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2007
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Tunnels and Birds, Power House, Memphis, TN
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2007
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Fashion Magazine, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
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2007
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NIAGARA, Host Gallery, London, England
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2006
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Sleeping by the Mississippi, California Museum of Photography, UC-Riverside, CA
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2006
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NIAGARA, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
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2006
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NIAGARA, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany
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2006
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NIAGARA, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
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2006
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Sleeping by the Mississippi, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (solo)
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2006
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Sleeping by the Mississippi, Olson Gallery, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN (solo)
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2006
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THE OFFICE: In and Out of the Box, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
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2006
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Group Dynamic: Portfolios, Series and Sets, Des Moines Art Center Downtown, Des Moines, Iowa
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2006
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Pingyao International Photography 2006, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
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2006
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Downriver, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN
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2006
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Prague Contemporary Arts Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
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2006
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ClickDoubleClick, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
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2006
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Between the Lakes, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
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2006
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less is more, more or less, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
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2006
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ClickDoubleClick, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
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2006
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Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2006, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
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2006
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Middle Ground: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Miriam & Ira D.
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2006
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Wallach Art Gallery - Columbia University, New York
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2006
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The Ramer Collection and Other Photographs, The Richard Nelson Gallery, UC-Davis, Davis, CA
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2006
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Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
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2006
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Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2006
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Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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2005
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
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2005
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Nine Portraits, Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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2005
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Epilogue, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
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2005
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Contemporary Photographs from the Allen J. Thomas Jr. Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
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2005
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Selections from the 26th Bienal de São Paulo Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
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2005
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American Landscapes, Timezone 8 Editions, Beijing, China
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2005
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Beyond the Portrait, T.H. Inside, Milan, Italy
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2005
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McKnight Fellowship exhibition, University of Minnesota Regis Center for Art, Minneapolis, MN
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2005
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Regarding the Rural, MassMoCA, Boston, MA
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2005
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Roger Ballen, Vera Lütter, and Alec Soth, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
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2005
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Minets A Polis, Cohan and Leslie Gallery, New York, NY
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2005
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Portraits, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
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2005
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Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea, Essex UK(solo)
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2004
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Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, Open Eye, Liverpool, UK (solo)
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2004
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Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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2004
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Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
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2004
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Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, Stephen Wirtz Gallery San Francisco, CA (solo)
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2004
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Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, Yossi Milo Gallery New York, NY (solo)
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2004
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Group Show, Daiter Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois
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2004
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26th Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil
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2004
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Summer Group Exhibition, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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2004
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Best Midwestern: Photographs from the Heartland, Jen Bekman, New York, NY
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2004
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Wild Flowers Ariel Meyerowitz, New York, NY
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2004
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Cakewalk, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida
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2004
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PhotoLondon gallery booth, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
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2004
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Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, ArtChicago Artist Booth, Chicago, IL
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2004
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Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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2004
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Group photography exhibition, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
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2004
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Open Eye, Liverpool, UK
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2004
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Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany
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2004
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Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
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2004
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Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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2004
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Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
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2003
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Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
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2003
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Weitman Gallery of Photography, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
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2003
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Picturing Bill - Portraits of William Eggleston, John Stinson Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
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2003
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Summer Life, Alice Austen Museum, Staten Island, NY
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2003
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Dog Days, Gallery T, Minneapolis, MN
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2003
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Group Exhibition, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
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2003
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Sleeping by the Mississippi. Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, IL (solo)
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2003
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Sleeping by the Mississippi, Weitman Gallery of Photography, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (solo)
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2002
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Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, exhibited as part of the 2001-2002
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2002
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Jerome Fellowship exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery Minneapolis, MN
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2002
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Campus as Place, Photographing Carleton, Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN
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2001
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Portraits (From Here to There), Central Lakes College Gallery St. Cloud, MN (solo)
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2000
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Portraits (From Here to There), as part of the McKnight Fellows Exhibition, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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1998
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Two-person exhibition of portraits with Joel Sternfeld, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN
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1995
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Photographs from the At the Bar series, Icebox Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
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1993
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Two-person exhibition of photographs from the series, The Middle Night, Minneapolis Photographer’s Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
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Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
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Robbins Kaplan Miller Ciresi, Minneapolis, MN
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Regis Corporate Art Collection, Minneapolis, MN
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Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH
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LaSalle Bank, New York, NY
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General Mills Corporate Art Collection, Golden Valley, MN
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Dorsey Whitney, Minneapolis, MN
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, NY
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Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
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Israel Museum of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, Israel
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LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
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Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
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Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
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Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
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North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
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Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
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| Literature |
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2008
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The Last Days of W, Little Brown Mushroom, USA
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2007
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Dog Days, Bogotá, Steidl, Germany
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2007
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Fashion Magazine, Magnum, Paris
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2006
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Niagara, Steidl, Germany
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2005
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The Making of Parts, photo essay Granta, issue 89
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2004
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Sleeping by the Mississippi, Steidl, Germany
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2002
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Vantage Points: Campus as Place (with Beth Dow and Chris Faust),Carleton College Press, Northfield, USA
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1997
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Linked to the Future: Minneapolis and St. Paul, (6 b/w plates), Towery Publishing, USA
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