Mitch Epstein

Page 1 | Biography

Lives: New York City

Education
The Cooper Union, NY, 1972-74
Rhode Island School of Design, RI, 1971-72
Union College, NY, 1970-71

Solo Exhibitions
Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Summer 2007.
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, Spring 2007
Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany, Spring 2007
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, Fall 2005
Yancey Richardson, New York, Fall 2004
PhotoEspana, Madrid, Spain, Spring 2004
BrancoliniGrimaldi, Florence, Italy, Sping 2004
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Winter 2004
Power House, Memphis, Tennessee, Spring 2003
Onefront Gallery, New York, NY, Winter 2002
Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Fall 2001, Fall 1996
Brent Sikkema, New York, NY, Spring 2001, Fall 1999
Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC, Fall 1998
Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, MA, Spring 1998
Wooster Gardens, New York, NY, Fall 1996
Tenri Gallery, New York, NY, Fall 1995, Fall 1992
Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, Spring 1994, Winter 1987
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, Spring 1994
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, Spring 1991
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, Spring 1989
Burden Gallery (Aperture), New York, NY, Winter 1988
Galerie Watari, Tokyo, Japan, Summer 1986
H.F. Manes Gallery, New York, NY, Fall 1984
Light Gallery, New York, NY, 1982, 1981, 1979

Group Exhibitions
(Selected)
"Ecotopia: The Second Triennial of Photography and Video", International Center of Photography, New York, 2006-2007.
"Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection", The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2006-2007.
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art "Shooting the Family," 2006
Fotografie Museum Amsterdam, "Garry Winogrand and the American Street Photographers," Spring 2005.
The Open Book, Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden, Fall 2004
Kennedy/Boesky Photographs, NYC, "Seventies Color Photography," Jan 2004
Musee de L'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland, "NY after NY," Summer 2002
Noorderlicht, Groningen, The Netherlands, "Sense of Space," Fall 2001
303 Gallery, "Overnight to Many Cities," Spring 2001
New York Historical Society, "Walkabout," Spring 2001
Museum of the City of New York, "New York Now," Spring 2000
Mass College of Art, "Blind Spot #17," Spring 2001
J. Paul Getty Museum, CA, "Eggleston and the Color Tradition," Fall 1999
Brent Sikkema, February, 1999
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, "Photography after Modernism: Extensions into Contemporary Art," Spring 1998
Apex Art C.P., NYC, "The Sound of One Hand," Spring 1998
Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC, "In Country: Vietnam Revisited," Spring 1998
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, "India: A Celebration of Independence," 1997 (International traveling exhibition)
White Columns, NYC, "Blind Spot: Coming of Age," May 1997
Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC "Animal Attractions," 1995
Grand Central Station, NYC, "The Magic of Play," 1995
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, "This Sporting Life," (traveling exhibition) 1992-93
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Romance of the Taj Mahal," (traveling exhibition)
International Center of Photography, "The Indomitable Spirit," New York, NY 1990
Cultural Palace, Canton, China, "Contemporary American Photography," Summer 1988
Museum of Modern Art, NYC, "Color Photographs: Recent Acquisitions," 1987
International Center of Photography, New York, NY "High Light: The Mountain in Photography from 1840 to the Present," Winter 1983
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, "Color as Form/History of Color Photography," (traveling exhibition) 1982
International Center of Photography, New York, NY, "The New Color," (traveling exhibition) 1981
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England, "New American Colour Photography," 1981
Castelli Graphics, New York, NY "Love is Blind" 1981
C.A.P.S. Photography 1980, New York (Nikon House traveling exhibition) 1980
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, "Recent Acquistions Exhibition," Spring 1980
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, "Recent Acquisitions Exhibition," Spring 1980
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Contemporary Urban Color," 1980
Arles Photography Seminar, Arles, France, "Contemporary Frontiers in Color," 1979
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, "Attitudes; Photography in the 1970s," 1979
Light Gallery, New York, NY, "Summer Show," 1978
Creative Photography Gallery, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, "Color Photography," Summer 1977
Light Gallery, New York, NY, "New Artists," Summer 1979
Castelli Graphics, New York, NY, "Some Color Photographs," Summer 1977
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, "After the Fact," Spring 1977

Grants/Awards
(Selected)
The American Academy in Berlin: Berlin Prize in Arts and Letters, Guna S. Mundheim Fellow in the Visual Arts, Spring 2008
Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award, Family Business, 2004
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2002-2003
Camera Works, Inc., 1996-97
American Institute of Graphic Artists, 50 Best Books of the Year, 1997
Pinewood Foundation, 1994
New York State Council for the Arts, 1980
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Grant, 1978

Selected Collections

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, 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
Art Institute of 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
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
St. Louis Museum of Art, St Louis, MO
Vassar College Art Museum, Poughkeepsie, NY
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Gilman Paper Collection, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Joseph E. Seagram and Sons Collection, New York, NY
Equitable Life Assurance Society, NY
Chase Manhattan Art Program, New York, NY
Citibank, New York, NY
Morgan Guaranty, New York, NY
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY

Publications
Articles
Numero, "Outside, It's America,"Jonathan Wingfield, Issue 76, September 2006
The Telegraph, London, "American Beauty," Drusilla Beyfus, November 18, 2006
Contemporary Special Issue on Photography, Clare Grafik, Issue 67, November 2004
New York Times Arts and Leisure A Town, a Father and a Fire, November 9, 2003,
New York Times Magazine, June 8, 2003, "Closeout"
Issue, #6, Fall 2001
Photographic District News, "Mitch Epstein: The Art of Surveillance," Edgar Allen Beem, Fall 2001
Bomb, "Editor's Choice: Mitch Epstein's The City," Marvin Heiferman, Fall 2001
Blind Spot, issue #17, Spring 2001, #9: "Coming of Age," May 1997
Nest, "Through a Glass Darkly", Spring 1999
The New York Times Magazine, "Special Photography Issue: Times Square," May 1997
DoubleTake, "In Vietnam and Versailles," Fall 1995
Aperture #105, "India, The Ritual and the River," 1987
The New York Times Magazine, "Art and the life of India," John Russell, May 1985
George, "Stills in Saigon," Jim Lewis, October 1996
Modern Photography, "Color Now," Andy Grundberg, July 1981
Modern Photography, "Current American Photography Today," Andy Grundberg and Julia Scully, June 1980

Reviews
Art in America, "Mitch Epstein at Sikkema Jenkins" by David Coggins, June/July 2007
The New Yorker, "Goings On About Town,"Vince Aletti, April 9, 2007
The New York Times, "Mitch Epstein: American Power," Martha Schwendener, March 30, 2007
American Photo,"A Labor of Life," Miki Johnson, December 2006
The New Yorker, "Mitch Epstein's Recreation: American Photographs 1973-1988" October 10th, 2005
USA Today, "Cities in Transition," Charisse Jones, September 13th, 2006
Photo District News, "Mitch Epstein's Recreation: American Photographs 1973-1988," Joanna Lehan, September 2005
Photograph, "Mitch Epstein's Recreation: American Photographs 1973-1988," Vince Aletti, July/ August 2005
Draft, "Red States, Blue States," Spring 2005
The Guardian, "Recreation: American Photographs 1973-1988," Caroline Roux, March 2005
Art News, "Mitch Epstein at Yancey Richardson," Barbara Pollack, January 2005
Art in America Going Home Again, Nancy Princenthal, November 2004
New York Times Book Review Family Business, December 7th, 2003,
Art & Auction Home is Where the Lens Is, Jean Dykstra, January 2004
Village Voice Best Photo Books of 2003, Vince Aletti, January 2004
Forward Book Review, November 28, 2003, "Family Business"
The Village Voice, "Eyes Wide Open: The Best Photography Books of 2001," Vince Aletti, January 22, 2002
The New Yorker, "Mitch Epstein," April 19, 2001
The Village Voice, "Voice Choices, Mitch Epstein at Brent Sikkema: Recreation," Vince Aletti, May 1, 2001
The New York Times, "Photography Review," Vicki Goldberg, August 25, 2000
Art in America, "Mitch Epstein at Brent Sikkema," Calvin Reid, February 2000
Art on Paper, "Museum and Gallery Reviews: Mitch Epstein at Brent Sikkema," Jean Dykstra, January 2000
The New Yorker, "Mitch Epstein," October 11, 1999
The Village Voice, "Best of NYC: Photo, Vince Aletti," October 5, 1999
The New York Times, "Mitch Epstein at Brent Sikkema," Ken Johnson, September 24, 1999
Hungry Mind Review, "The Infinite Present," Robert Warde, Spring 1997
The New York Times Book Review, "Best Photography Books of 1996," Andy Grundberg, December 1996
The Village Voice, "Photo Round-up: Ten best books of the year," Vince Aletti, December 1996
Art in America, "Mitch Epstein at Julie Saul," Peter Von Ziegesar, July 1996
The New York Times, "Art in Review: Mitch Epstein," Julie Saul Gallery, Charles Hagen, April 1, 1994
The Village Voice, "Photo: Mitch Epstein," Vince Aletti, April 12, 1994
The New York Times, "Mitch Epstein, Tenri Cultural Institute," Charles Hagen, November 6, 1992
The New York Times, "Critic's Choices: Photography," Andy Grundberg, November 29, 1987
American Photographer, "In Pursuit of India by Mitch Epstein," Schonauer, July 1988
The Village Voice, "Mitch Epstein: In Pursuit of India," Vince Aletti, December 29, 1987
The Village Voice, "Photo Choices: Mitch Epstein," Vince Aletti, December 1987
USA Today, "Glimpses into India's Heart," Geoffrey C. Ward, December 4, 1987
Art in America, "Photography Raising a Hue: The New Color," Pepe Karmel, January 1982
Art in America, "Mitch Epstein at Light," Sally Eauclaire, October 1981
Afterimage, "Trips of the Shutter," Sally Eauclaire, Summer 1979
The Village Voice, "Americans Abroad," Ben Lifson, April 23, 1978
The Village Voice, "Dark Days at Summer Light," Ben Lifson, August 1, 1977