SOLO EXHIBITIONS (includes major two-artist exhibitions)
2016 Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2010 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2004 Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pa.
2003 Paul Robeson Gallery, Penn. State University
2000 O.K. Harris Gallery, New York City
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1995 Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
1994 University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
1993 O. K. Harris Gallery, New York City
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1991 O. K. Harris Gallery, New York City
Juniata College, Huntington, PA
1989 O. K. Harris Gallery, New York City
1988 New York University
Mid-Town Y Photography Gallery, New York City
New York City Arts Club
1987 2nd Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
1985 Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, Oregon
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1984 University of California at San Francisco
Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, University Park, PA
1983 Portico Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lewis M. Parker Center, Burlington County College, New Jersey
1982 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Lancaster Museum, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Cal-State Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
1980 Brindle Gallery, Camden, Maine
1979 Focus Gallery, San Francisco, California
Chambers Gallery, The Pennsylvania State University
1978 Zoller Gallery, The Pennsylvania State University, American Snapshots
Exhibition
1975 Photo Gallery, New York, New York
1974 Bakersfield Junior College, California
1972 Humbolt State College, Arcata, California
1970 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1969-70 The San Francisco Art Institute Touring Exhibition (brochure)
1969 Crown Zellerbach Building, San Francisco, California
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 “Retrospective”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
a.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “Hybrid: A Collage Show”
2014 Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “Somewhere Between Here and There”
2013 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, Richard Shaw and Ken Graves
2010 SFMOMA, 75 year anniversary
2009 SFMOMA, Recent Acquisitions, Hot Springs
2009 SFMOMA, Picturing Modernity
2008 SFMOMA, Recent Acquisitions Exhibition
2007 The Light Factory: Charlotte, North Carolina, “Weathered Surrealists”
2007 Watermark Gallery: Houston, Texas, “Beyond the Lens”
2003-4 SFMOMA, “Pirkle Jones and the Changing California Landscape”
2002 Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, “Politically Incorrect”
Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, Dreams and Imaginings
1997 Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, “Pennsylvania Photographers”
Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY, “Photo Collage”
1997 SFMOMA, “Picturing Modernity”
1996 Barrett House Galleries, Dutchess County Art Association; Juror: Miles Barth, Director of the International Center of Photography in New York
1996 San Francisco Art Institute, “Fifty Years of Photography”
Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “Transamerica”
1995 Allentown Art Museum, PA, “Pennsylvania Photographers,” Juror: Terence Pitts, Director, Center for Creative Photography, University of AZ.
Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., two photographs from “Boxing” included in Recent Acquisitions Exhibition.
1993 Penn State University, PA, “Photo National” Juror: Charles Stainback
Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, Curator: Mike Spano
Artists’ Residents of Chicago Gallery, 6 photographs exhibited from “Boxing”
Allentown Art Museum, “Pennsylvania Photographers” Curator: Mary Foresta
1992 Museum of Modern Art, NY, Recent Acquisitions Exhibition
Springfield Art Museum, MO, “Ways and Means”
1990 Allentown Museum of Art, PA, “Pennsylvania Photographers” Juror: Maria Hambourg of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
1989 Yale University Art School, “The Human Presence”
Museum of Modern Art, New NY, Recent Acquisitions Exhibition
Mid-Town Y, NY, “Ballroom.”
Ithaca College, NY, “Photographs of Flight and Magic: International Ballroom Dance Competitions”
Salon De Artistes, NY, “Photographers Explore Human Sexuality”
1988 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts National Juried Exhibition, Juror: Ray Metzker
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA, Pennsylvania Artists Triennial Exhibition
Tower Gallery, NY, Pennsylvania Artists Triennial Exhibition,
Hotel Exhibition, Montreal, “La Classique: Ballroom Dance Competition”
Allentown Museum of Art, PA, “Pennsylvania Photographers”
1987 Allentown Museum of Art, PA, “Pennsylvania Photographers”
1986 Delaware Museum of Art, National Juried Competition
Light Gallery, NY, “99 Years of Fine Art Sports Photography”
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Juried Photography Exhibition, Juror: Susan Kismaric, Curator, Museum of Modern Art, NY.
1985 Allentown Museum of Art, PA, “Pennsylvania Photographers”
Erie Museum of Art, PA, “Pennsylvania Photographers”
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA, Second Regional Triennial Exhibition,
Haggar Gallery, University of Dallas, TX, “People, Places, Panoramas”
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Juried Photography Exhibition, Juror: Bea Nettles, Professor, University of Illinois
1983 Doshi Center for Creative Arts, Harrisburg, PA
Ohio University, “Alternatives”
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, “The Time Show”
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Juried Photography Exhibition, Juror: Carl Toth, Professor of Art, Cranbrook University
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Portico Gallery, PA, “Photography and the Human Figure”
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Juried Photography Exhibition, Juror: Duane Michals
1982 Barnes Gallery, CT, “A Photographic Exploration of Young People Today”
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., “Color as Form, a History of Color Photography”
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, “Color as Form, a History of Color Photography”
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Juried Photography Show, National Competition, Juror: Tod Papageorge
1981 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Juried Photography Exhibition, Juror: Kelly Wise
Friends of Photography Gallery, Carmel, CA, Ferguson Grant Recipients Exhibition
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Juried Photography Show, National Competition, Juror: Elaine Mayes
Lancaster Museum of Art, PA
1980 Vassar Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, “Homemade Masterpieces: American Snapshots Exhibition”
1976 Hanson Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “A Tribute to SFAI”
1975 Fort Worth Art Museum, “Exchange DFW/SFO”
SFMOMA, “Exchange DFW/SFO”
1974 M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, CA, “New Photography: San Francisco and the Bay Area”
1972 The Focus Gallery, San Francisco, “Critics Choice;” Selections by Tom Albright
1971 The Focus Gallery, San Francisco, “Critic's Choice;” Selections by Margery Mann
SFMOMA, “Three Photographers”
1970 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Metropolitan Middle Class, Juror: Minor White
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Allentown Art Museum
Houston Museum of Fine Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
New York City Public Library
The National Library in Paris, France
Palmer Museum of Art
New York University
The George Eastman House
Delaware Museum of Art
GRANTS
2009 Pa. Council for the Arts Fellowship. To begin a series of photographs about tattoo conventions
2000 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, to complete the Male series
Faculty Research Fellowship, Penn State University, to continue photographing
Male series
1999 Faculty Research Fellowship, Penn State University, to begin the male series
1995 The Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies Fellowship, Penn State Univ. to
continue a body of photography on the subject of baths in Eastern Europe, 1995
1993 Faculty Research Fellowship, Penn State University, to begin photographing baths in Eastern Europe, 1993
1989 The Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies Fellowship, Penn State University, to photograph orphanage in Orense, Spain, 1989
1986 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship to continue a series of photographic collages and to photograph ballroom dancing
1984 The Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies Fellowship, to photograph a school for circus performers
1982 Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship, to photograph public events in Pennsylvania
1980 Faculty Research Fellowship, Penn State University, to begin a series of hand-colored photographic collages, 1980
1979 Ford Foundation Fellowships Funds, Penn State University, to develop a body of photographs concerned with Miami Beach, Florida, 1979.
1975 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, research for the publication American Snapshots
1975 National Endowment for the Arts Exhibition Grant awarded to the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona. One-half of the funds were awarded to me to prepare the American Snapshots exhibition.
1973 Ferguson Grant, Friends of Photography, Carmel, California, to photograph pageantry and public events in California
1991-1992 Faculty Research Fellowship, Penn State University, to photograph high school proms
HONORS AND AWARDS
Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, 2009
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts National Juried Photography Exhibition:
1st prize 1983, juror: Carl Toth, Professor of Art, Cranbrook University
1st prize 1984, juror: Duane Michals, internationally known photographer
1st prize 1985, juror: Bea Nettles, Professor of Art, University of Illinois
2nd prize 1986, juror: Susan Kismaric, Associate Curator, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Alternatives: 1983, Ohio State University, National Juried Competition. Juror: Nathan Lyons
Delaware Museum of Art: Wilmington, Delaware, Purchase Award, 1986
Photography Review Magazine: First Award, Juror: Duane Michals
Artists, Residents of Chicago Gallery: Honorary Award, Juror: Denise Miller-Clark
EXHIBITION REVIEWS OF PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS
1991 Art Forum, New York, NY, May, 1991, by Jennifer Borum
1991 Chicago Tribune, “Photography, Taking It To The Edge,” by Abigail Forestner, Arc Exhibition, 3 photographs reproduced.
1981 The Sunday Peninsula Herald, Monterey, California, August 1981
1974 Los Angeles Times, July 28, 1974
1971 Modern Photography Magazine, October 1971
1969 San Francisco Chronicle, March 30, 1969
1979-1971 Art Week, San Francisco, California: October 1, 1979; February 28, 1976; March 1, 1975; January 22, 1972 (interview); June 26, 1971
AMERICAN SNAPSHOTS, REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
1978 New Art Examiner, Chicago, Illinois, July 1978
1977 San Francisco Examiner, December 5, 1977
1977 New West Magazine, Los Angeles, November 1977
1977 Chicago Tribune Magazine, October 16, 1977
BALLROOM, REVIEW AND ARTICLES:
1990 Small Press Review, Southport, CT, May-June, 1990.
Centre Daily Times, State College, PA, March 1990
Washington Post, Sunday Book Review, January 14, 1990.
1989 Sunday Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, December 17, 1989.
Attitudes and Arabesaves, Gett Dance Library, November 1989.
Midwest Book Review, Spring Issue, 1989.
1992 Remark, No. 8, Reviews, Fall Issue, 1992.
AUTHORED BOOKS
Ballroom, published by Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, MI, 1989
This book is comprised of 83 photographic reproductions taken by myself and Eva Lipman on the subject of ballroom dance competitions. A text by Sally Sommers, dance critic for the Village Voice, was written as a supplement to the photographs. This project was made possible with the help from an NEA Fellowship.
Photographs from Ballroom reproduced in other publications:
American Snapshots, published by Scrimshaw Press, Berkeley, California, 1977.
This project was made possible with assistance from an N.E.A. Fellowship. and represents a selection of snapshots borrowed from family albums. Introduction by Jean Sheppard, author and playwright.
Photographs from American Snapshots reproduced in other publications:
motion picture, 1979
Japan, Hakuhodo Advertising America Inc., 1983
album, 1987
1988-89, 1989-90
photographs, published 1988
anniversary issue, Jan. 1995.
PUBLICATIONS
2003 Public Culture, Society for Transnational Cultural Studies. Vol. 15 No. 39,
12 photographs reproduced, (periodical)
1996 Existentialism: Basic Writings, published by Hackett Publishing Co., one collage used on the cover of the book, 1996
Underworld, one photograph reproduced in a book published by Kelly Klein. The book includes selected photographs depicting people partially clothed.
Restraint and Surrender, catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA. 19 images reproduced, text by: Sarah McNear, Curator of Exhibitions, Allentown Art Museum. This catalogue was funded in part by the N.E.A, 1996
1993 Blue Sky #6, quarterly catalogue, twenty-six images reproduced, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 1993
1991 The Meaning of Life, Time Life Books, 1 image reproduced in a book, 1991
People Magazine, one image reproduced as an advertisement for The Meaning of Life book, 1/1/91.
Entertainment Magazine, one image reproduced as advertisement for The Meaning of Life book, 12/27/91.
1990 Sommer, Sally, "Capturing the Ritual of Ballroom Dance: Time Suspended,” Dance Magazine, New York: Vol. LXIV, No. 2, February, 1990, pp. 52-57.
1989 Graves, Ken and Eva Lipman, "Ballroom Backstage," Dance Pages, New York: Dance Pages, Vol. 6, No. 3, Winter Issue, 1989, pp. 21-25.
Fotofolio, eleven images reproduced as postcards between 1989 to present as a continuing contract.
The Penn Stater, article by Linda Smith-Webster, five images reproduced.
1988 On Seeing, periodical, Fall Issue, 5 photographs reproduced on the subject of sexuality; an article I wrote called "A Dance Lesson," (in part) is published in this issue, 1988
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, one image reproduced as a postcard (on press).
Photography Review Magazine, one image reproduced, 1988
Dance Pages, a periodical on the subject of dance, photographs and text, a collaborative effort
1987 Photography Review Magazine, 1 collage & 1 photo reproduced, Summer Issue 1987 Bruce Teleky Inc., 1 photograph reproduced as a poster, 1989
Turner, Peter, History of Photography. London: Hamlyn Publishing, 1987, 5 photographs published, pp. 76, 79, 82, 84, 85.
1983 Photographies, a French photograph periodical, 1983. Essay and publication concerning my photography by Jean Claude Lemagny, Curator, National Library, Paris
Fotofolio Inc., New York City, publication of photographs as post-cards
1982-83 Photo Metro, periodical, 12/82 - 1/83, 1 photograph
1982 Popular Photography Annual, 1982, 12 photographs
1980 Personal photographs reproduced as postcards Carioca Novelty Company, San Francisco, California, 1980, 3 photographs
1978 35 mm Photography, Winter Issue, 1978, 4 photographs
1975 Time Life Photography Year, 1975, Time Life Books, 1 photograph
1971 Creative Camera, January, 1971, 6 photographs
1970 Camera, April, 1970, 4 photographs
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AND PROFESSIONAL INVITATIONS
Visiting Artist
1995 Slide lecture in conjunction with, Restraint and Surrender exhibition, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
1992 Southwest Missouri State, Slide Presentation and Criticism of Student Photography at Springfield Museum of Art
1989 Invitation to teach a photographic workshop, Art Kane Workshops, Cape May, NJ
1985 Slide Lecture, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon
Workshop Instructor, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR, Summer 1985
Slide Lecture, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, 1985
1983 Drawing 120, lecture series, slide presentation of American Snapshots, a selection of photographs from family albums and the meaning of photographs in snapshot form, Spring 1983
Visiting artist, slide lecture in conjunction with exhibition, Burlington County College, New Jersey, 1983
1980 Invited to participate in a symposium and exhibition on the Family Snapshot and its contribution to the visual tradition of photography, Vassar College of Art Gallery, New York, Fall 1980
Contemporary artist series, Linden hall, Lititz, Pennsylvania, lecture and slide presentation on American Snapshots, 1980
Juror for Photography Exhibitions
1987 Greater Harrisburg Arts Festival (Photography Exhibition), 1987
1980 Pennsylvania Photographers, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Summer 1980
Student Exhibit, Middletown Branch Campus, Spring 1980
1979 Huntingdon County Arts Festival, Summer 1979
1977-1980 Curator for continuing photography exhibits (212A Arts Building), The Pennsylvania State University, 1977-1980
Television Appearances
1982 Weather World, interview and discussion of photographs resulting from photographs accomplished during Summer 1982, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship, Winter Term 1982-83
1978 WPSX, The Pennsylvania State University, Talkabout, an interview and visual presentation concerning American Snapshots, hosted by Nancy Miller, 1978
1970 KQED, National Education Television, San Francisco, California, interview and presentation of my photographs which were exhibited in the financial district of San Francisco, 1970
GALLERY AFFILIATION
Clampart, N.Y.C., Chelsea
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA