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Born: 1969 Minneapolis, Minnesota Lives: Minneapolis, Minnesota


Solo Exhibitions SELECTED Stephen Wirtz Gallery: The Last Days of W, Jan 8, 2009 - Feb 21, 2009 Gagosian Gallery: The Last Days of W, Jan 20, 2009 - March 7, 2009 Haunch of Venison, London, 2008-9 Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur, Switzerland) 2008 Stephen Daiter Gallery (Chicago, IL) 2008 BBK (Bilbao, Spain) 2008 Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN) 2008 Jeu de Paume (Paris, France) 2008 Weinstein Gallery (Minneapolis, MN) 2007 Power House (Memphis, TN) 2007 Host Gallery (London, UK) 2007 California Museum of Photography, UC-Riverside (Riverside, CA) 2006 Weinstein Gallery (Minneapolis, MN) 2006 Wohnmaschine (Berlin, Germany) 2006 Gagosian Gallery (New York, NY) 2006 Des Moines Art Center (Des Moines, IA) 2006 Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN) 2005 Open Eye (Liverpool, UK) 2004 Wohnmaschine (Berlin, Germany) 2004 Weinstein Gallery (Minneapolis, MN) 2004 Stephen Wirtz Gallery (San Francisco, CA) 2004 Yossi Milo Gallery (New York, NY) 2004 Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL) 2003 Weitman Gallery of Photography (Washington University, St. Louis, MO) 2003 SELECTED PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, NY Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Carleton College, Northfield, MN Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa General Mills Corporate Art Collection, Golden Valley, MN Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA Progressive Corporate Art Collection, Cleveland, OH Regis Corporate Art Collection, Minneapolis, MN San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions SELECTED Van Abbemuseum: Heart Land, Oct 4, 2008 - Jan 25, 2009 National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC) 2008 Museu Collecao Berardo (Lisbon, Spain) 2008 Gagosian Gallery (New York, NY) 2007 Jen Bekman (New York, NY) 2007 Cin�math�que Francaise (Paris, France) 2007 Yossi Milo Gallery (New York, NY) 2007 Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, England) 2007 Koldo Mitxelena (San Sebastian, Spain) 2007 Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels, Belgium) 2006 Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Madison, WI) 2006 The Photographers' Gallery (London, UK) 2006 Haus der Kunst (Munich, Germany) 2006 Columbia University's Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery (New York, NY) 2006 George Eastman House (Rochester, NY) 2006 Timezone 8 Editions (Beijing, China) 2005 T.H. InSide (Milan, Italy) 2005 MassMoCA (North Adams, MA) 2005 Gagosian Gallery (New York, NY) 2005 Cohan and Leslie (New York, NY) 2005 Wirtz Gallery (San Francisco, CA) 2005 Jackson Fine Art (Atlanta, Georgia) 2005 North Carolina Art Museum (Raleigh, NC) 2005 Pace / MacGill (New York, NY) 2004 Pavilh�o Ciccillo Matarazzo (S�o Paulo, Brazil) 26th Bienal de S�o Paulo, 2004 ArtChicago 2004 Artist Booth (Chicago, IL) 2004 Whitney Musuem of American Art (New York, NY) Whitney Biennial, 2004 Alice Austen Museum (Staten Island, NY) 2003

Grants/Awards FELLOWSHIP & PRIZES PhotoVision Award 2008 Bush Artist Fellowship 2008 Golden Light Book Award 2006 Deutsche B�rse Photography Prize 2006 (finalist) CEPA Artist Residency 2005 McKnight Photography Fellowship, 2004 Santa Fe Prize for Photography, 2003 Minnesota State Arts Board, 2001 MCAD / Jerome Fellowship, 2001 Jerome Travel and Study Grant, 2001 McKnight Photography Fellowship, 1999

Publications Dog Days, Bogot�. Steidl: G�ttingen, 2007. Fashion Magazine. Photographs by Alec Soth. Magnum: Paris, 2007. XL Photograpy 3. Hatje Cantz, 2007. The Image To Come: How Cinema Inspires Photographers. Steidl: G�ttingen, 2007. Between the Lakes: Artists Respond to Madison. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art: Madison, 2006. Image Makers, Image Takers. Thames and Hudson: London, 2006. Vitamin Ph. Phaidon Press: London, 2006. NIAGARA. Photographs by Alec Soth. Essays by Richard Ford and Philip Brookman. Steidl: G�ttingen, 2006. Granta. The Making of Parts. Photoessay by Alec Soth. Issue 89. 2004. Sleeping by the Mississippi. Photographs by Alec Soth, essays by Patricia Hampl and Anne Wilkes Tucker. Steidl: G�ttingen, 2004. Vantage Points: Campus as Place. Photographs by Alec Soth, Beth Dow, Chris Faust. Carleton College Press: Northfield, 2002. Linked to the Future: Minneapolis and St. Paul. Six b/w plates by Alec Soth. Towery Publishing, Inc: Memphis, 1997.

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