Mitch Epstein  (American, 1952) 

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Mitch Epstein Biography
1952   Born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
1970 - 1971   Union College, NY
1971 - 1972   Rhode Island School of Design, RI
1972 - 1974   The Cooper Union, NY
1977   Lecturer for photography, Harvard University
1978   National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Grant
1980   New York State Council for the Arts
1994   Pinewood Foundation
1996 - 1997   Camera Works, Inc.
1997   American Institute of Graphic Artists, 50 Best Books of the Year
1997   Professor for photography, Bard College, School of the Arts
1999   Professor for photography, Bard College, School of the Arts
2001   Professor for photography, Bard College, School of the Arts
2003   John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2004   Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award, Family Business
2004   Guest lecturer, School of Visual Arts, Graduate Photography Program
2008   Fellowship at the American Academy, Berlin
2009   Gold Medal Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, American Power
2009   Open Society Institute Documentary Photograpy Grant
2010   Winner of Prix Pictet
  Lives and works in New York
Selected Exhibitions
2012   Infinite Balance, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA
2012   Out of Focus, Saatchi Gallery, London, GB
2012   The New York Times Magazine Photographs, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011 - 2012   Appropriated Landscapes, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
2011 - 2012   The Unseen Eye, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, USA
2011   The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada, USA
2011   Infinite Balance: Artists and the Environment, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA
2011   Growth. Prix Pictet, Arteversum, Dusseldorf, Germany (travelling exhibition)
2011   New Documentary Forms, Tate Modern, London, Great Britain
2011   Hyper Real - Kunst und Amerika um 1970, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
2011   Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, USA
2011   Mitch Epstein. American Power, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France / Museé de l´Elysèe, Lausanne, Switzerland (solo)
2011   Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, The UK
2010 - 2011   Mitch Epstein - State of the Union, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (solo)
2010   Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970 - 1980, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Ohio, USA
2010   Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, Tate Modern, London, Great Britain (traveling exhibition)
2010   American Documents, FotoMuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
2008   Arbeitswelten, Art Foyer DZ Bank, Frankfurt (Main), Germany
2008   Vietnam, Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Conte, Rome, Itlay (solo)
2007   Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2007   Sikkema, Jenkins & Co., New York, NY (solo)
2007   Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2007   High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Intersections: Atlanta Collects Photography
2006 - 2007   Ecotopia: The Second Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York,.
2006 - 2007   J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection
2006   SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
2006   Cities in Transition, Public Art Project with Chuck Close and Dayanita Singh, Commissioned by United Technologies Corporation, Boston (Downtown Crossing subway station), Hartford (Bushnell Park), New York (Madison Square Park)
2006   Museum of Modern Art, New York. The photograph "Hadrian's Villa, Rome, Italy 1982" iCI, Shoot the Family, Traveling exhibition curated by Ralph Rugoff. Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
2006   Shooting the Family, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2005   Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
2005   Garry Winogrand and the American Street Photographers, Fotografie Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005   Brent Sikkema, New York, NY (solo)
2004   Photo Espana, Madrid, Spain
2004   Yancey Richardson, New York
2004   BrancoliniGrimaldi, Florence, Italy
2004   Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2004   The Open Book, Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden
2004   Kennedy Boesky Photographs, NYC, “’70s Color Photography”
2003   Power House, Memphis, TN (solo)
2002   NY after NY, Musee de L’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
2002   Visions from America, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2002   Musee de L’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland, “NY after NY”
2001   Noorderlicht, Groningen, The Netherlands, “Sense of Space”
2001   303 Gallery, “Overnight to Many Cities”
2001   Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
2001   Brent Sikkema, New York, NY (solo)
2001   Walkabout, New York Historical Society, New York, NY
2000   New York Now, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
1999   Eggleston and the Color Tradition, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1999   Brent Sikkema, New York, NY (solo)
1998   Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC (solo)
1998   Photography after Modernism: Extensions into Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1998   Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
1997   India: A Celebration of Independence, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1996   Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
1996   Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
1995   Tenri Gallery, New York, NY
1994   Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1994   Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (solo)
1992   This Sporting Life, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (traveling exhib.)
1992   Romance of the Taj Mahal, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (traveling exhib.)
1992   Tenri Gallery, New York, NY
1991   Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA (solo)
1990   The Indomitable Spirit, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
1989   Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (solo)
1987   Color Photographs: Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1987   Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1982   Light Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1981   Light Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1979   Light Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Selected Public Collections
  FAIF Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
  Gilman Paper Collection, New York, NY
  LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, Chicago, IL
  Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
  Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
  Equitable Life Assurance Society, NY
  Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  Chase Manhattan Art Program, New York, NY
  Citibank, New York, NY
  Morgan Guaranty, New York, NY
  Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico
  Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
  Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
  Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
  Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
  Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
  St. Louis Museum of Art, St Louis, MO
  The Walther Collection, Ulm, Germany
  Deutsche Börse Group, Frankfurt, Germany
  Vassar College Art Museum, Poughkeepsie, NY
  Art Institute of Chicago, IL
  Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
  Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
  Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
  New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
  Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
  Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  Tate Modern, London, GB
  Saatchi Gallery, London, GB
  International Center of Photography, New York, NY
  J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
  The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Literature
2011   Berlin, Steidl, Göttingen, 2011
2010   Exposed: Voyeurism, Surviellance and the Camera, Tate Publishing, 2010
2010   Starbust: Color Photography in America 1970-1980, Hatje Cantz, 2010
2010   Mitch Epstein - State of the Union (catalogue), Hatje Cantz, 2010
2009   Mitch Epstein, American Power, Steidl, Göttingen, 2009
2006   Mitch Epstein: WORK, Steidl, 2006
2006   Where we live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2006
2005   Recreation: American Photographs 1973-1988, Steidl, 2005
2003   Family Business, Steidl, Germany, fall 2003
2002   Visions from America, Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940-2001, Prestel 2002
2001   The City, powerHouse Books, NY, spring 2001
1996   Vietnam: A Book of Changes, W.W. Norton/DoubleTake, NY, fall 1996
1995   Fire Water Wind, Tenrikyo Doyusha, Japan 1995
1987   In Pursuit of India, Aperture, NY, 1987