biography / bibliography
SHIMON ATTIE
Born in 1957, Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
1991
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Degree, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1982
M.A. Degree, Antioch University, San Francisco, CA
1980
B.A. Degree, University of California, Berkeley, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
The DeYoung Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Mediatheque Louis Aragon, Martigues, France
2006
Shimon Attie: New Work, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2005
The History of Another, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC
2004
The History of Another, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Re-Collecting, Installation commemorating the 100 year anniversary of the Jewish
Museum of New York (realized in collaboration with Norman Ballard), New York, NY
The History of Another, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2003
The Writing on the Wall, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
2002
White Nights, Sugar Dreams, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Sites Unseen, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
2001
White Nights, Sugar Dreams, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2000
White Nights, Sugar Dreams, The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, France
1999-2000
Sites Unseen: Shimon Attie - Photographs and Public Projects, Institute of
Contemporary Art (survey exhibition), Boston, MA
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, France
1997
Conseil General de Seine Saint-Denis, Service de la Culture, Bobigny, France
1996
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1995
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Le Triangle Art Center, Rennes, Brittany, France
1994
Museum for German History, Berlin, Germany
International Art Forum, Salsdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, Great Britain
Museum for FotoKunst, Odensee, Denmark
Blue Sky Gallery-Oregon Center for Photographic Art, Portland, OR
1993
Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, France
Fotografisk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
1992
San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Galerie im Scheunenviertel, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Visages qui s’effacent, Hotel des Arts Contemporary Art Museum, Toulon, France
2007
Photography: New Acquisitions 2003-2007, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Collector’s Council Acquisitions, The Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
The Power of Ten, Miami Art Museum, Miami FL.
2006
Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain, Williams College Museum of Art, MA
In Sight: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
Another View, Clifford Chance Projects, New York, NY
The City: Contemporary Views of the Built Environment, Lehman College of Art, Bronx, NY
Summer Photo Redux, Numark Gallery, Washington DC
2004
Common Ground, Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Corcoran Museum of Art,
Washington, DC
A Charge to Keep, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
After Images: Art as Social Memory, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Germany
Monument Recall, San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Inside and Out, Bermuda National Gallery
2003-04
Dix Neuf Contemporary Art Center, Montbeliard, France
The Luminous Image, VI: An Exhibition of Illuminated Photography, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, New York
2003
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2002
Annual Rome Prize Fellows Exhibition, The Art Gallery of the American Academy in Rome, Italy
New Directions in Contemporary Art/ Human Form Exhibition, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Cultural Crossing, Numark Gallery, Washington DC
Doors: Image and Metaphor in Contemporary Art, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Summer Sizzle, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
2001
Printemps de Septembre a Toulouse, Toulouse, France, organized by the Cartier Foundation
Media Metaphor: The Corcoran Biennial 2000, Washington, D.C
The Photographic Impulse: Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Collection, The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
2000-01
Open Ends: Counter-Monuments and Memory, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2000
Seeing Double, (MOMA 2000), Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Simultaneous, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Threshold: Invoking the Domestic in Contemporary Art,Contemporary Art
Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
Pace Wildenstein MacGill Gallery, New York, NY
A Ciel Ouvert: Espaces Publics,La Galerie du Petit Chateau, France
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
1999
Threshold, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Not on Any Map, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
ATTACK, The Holland Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1998
Mirages: from the Post-Photography to the Cyberspace, Fundacio LaCaixa, Barcelona, Spain
Political Pictures: Confrontation and Commemoration in Recent Art,Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
From Remembrance to Renewal, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
1997
Inaugural Exhibition, The (new) Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996
Recent Acquisitions, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Recent Acquisitions, 1992-96, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
1995
Human/Nature, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
The Art of Justice, Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, NY
De Appel Art Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1994-95
New Photography 10, four person show, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1994
La Ville - Vision Urbane, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Northern Center for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, The Henry Gallery, Seattle, WA
Exhibition traveled to the Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams Center in San Francisco and the Portland Art Museum.
The Art of Memory, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY.
Reality-Intention-Medium, Kunstfonds, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
1993
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Sie Nennen Es Liebe (They Call It Love), Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst (New Society for Visual Art), Berlin, Germany
1992
Photographes europeens forts de leur Histoire, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
Wexner Center for Visual Arts, Ohio State University
1987
Bay Area Emerging Artists, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
MUSEUM INSTALLATIONS, COMMISSIONS & PUBLIC PROJECTS
2008
Sightings: The Ecology of an Art Mueum, De Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Racing Clocks Run Slow: Archaeology of a Racetrack, Bridgehampton Race Track, Bridgehampton, NY
2006
The Attraction of Onlookers: Aberfan – An Anatomy of a Welsh Village, The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Wales, UK
2005
Light Under Night, commissioned by Norsk Hydro, premiering at the Oslo Symphony Hall
2004
Re-Collecting, Centennial Artwork, (realized in collaboration with Norman Ballard), New York, NY
2000
White Nights, Sugar Dreams, commissioned by the ArtConText program of the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1999-00
An Unusually Bad Lot, commissioned by The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston
1998
Between Dreams and History, commissioned by Creative Time, Inc, New York, NY
1995-6
Sites Unseen, a series of site-specific public installations across Europe – Amsterdam, Cologne, Krakow, and Copenhagen
Brick by Brick, produced by the Cologne Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
The Neighbor Next Door, commissioned by the Paradox Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Portraits of Exile, produced by BIZART, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Walk of Fame, Krakow, Poland, produced by the Goethe Institute, Krakow, Poland
1993
Trains II, Dresden Central Train Station, Dresden, Germany
1992-3
The Writing on the Wall, the Scheuenviertel quarter, Berlin, Germany
AWARDS
2008-9
Visual Artist Fellowship (12 month period), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY
2006-7
Visual Artist Fellowship (12 month period), Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass
2006
Visual Artist Fellowship (12 month period), The Pollock-Krasner Foundation New York, NY
Cultural lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual Arts, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, NY
2005
Visual Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), New York, NY
2003-4
The Ray and Abraham Gottlieb Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony,Peterborough, NH
2001-2
Prix de Rome, Fellowship in Visual Arts (12 month period), Rome, Italy
2000
ArtConText. RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Visual Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
1998
Visual Artist Fellowship (12 month period), The Pollock-Krasner Foundation New York, NY
1996
Visual Artist Fellowship (12 month period), Senat fur Kultur (Ministry of Culture), Berlin, Germany
1995
Artist Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, NY
1994
Visual Artist Fellowship (12 month period), Stiftung Kulturfonds (Cultural Fund Foundation), Berlin
Artist Grant, Art Matters, Inc., New York, NY
Artist Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, NY
1993
Visual Artist Fellowship (12 month period), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Washington, DC
Visual Artist Fellowship (12 month period), Kunstfonds, (German equivalent of National Endowment for the Arts), Bonn, Germany
1990
Kittridge Artist Grant-Award, The Kittridge Foundation, Cambridge, MA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
International Center for Photography (ICP), New York
De Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Fond Nationale d’Art Contemporain/F.N.A.C., Paris, France
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Museum of Modern Art-Berlinische Galley (Martin-Gropius-Bau), Berlin Germany
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego, CA
Museum of Modern Art - Berlinische Gallery (Martin-Gropius Bau), Berlin, Germany
Conseil General de Seine Saint-Denis, Bobigny, France
The Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
The Berlin Museum, Berlin
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Museum for Fotokunst, Odensee, Denmark
Le Triangle Art Center, Rennes (Brittany), France
Museum of the Diaspora, Tel Aviv, Israel
The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
Harvard University Business School, Cambridge, MA
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden at the University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, NE
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL,
The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Miami Art Museum, FL
TEACHING
2008
De Young Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Maryland Institute/College of Art (MICA), NY studio Program
2007
Massachusetts College of Art (MassArt), Boston, MA
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
2006
Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2006
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX,
2005
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2004
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Mediated Memories and Cultural Records Speaker series, New York University, NY
2003
School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, NY
2002
Brandeis University, Massachusetts
University of Rome, Fotografica Festival, Rome, Italy
2001
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC.
Maryland Institute/College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD
California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC), San Francisco, CA
Cornell University, Rome Branch, Rome, Italy
2000
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY ("Conversations with Contemporary Artists)
Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris, France
National Conference on Site Work, The Rockefeller Foundation
Brothers Fund, New York, NY
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
1999
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI ("Artist-as-Citizen Conference")
1998
The Cooper Union, NY, NY, USA (The Public Art Fund's "Tuesday Night Talks at the Cooper Union")
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
American Photography Institute, New York University, NY, NY
The International Center For Photography (ICP), NY, NY
The Jewish Museum, NY, NY,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1997
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
University of California at Santa Cruz, SC, CA
San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA,
1995
American Society for Aesthetics, St. Louis, MO,
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Museum of the Diaspora, Tel Aviv, Israel
1994
Museum for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA,
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA,
California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA,
1993
Fotografisk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
FILM & TELEVISION
2010
Art Through Time: A Global View, PBS
2006
An American in Aberfan, directed by Chris Morris, produced by Dai Williams and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
2000
An Unusually Bad Lot, produced by The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1998
Between Dreams and History: The Making of Shimon Attie’s Public Artworks, 40 minute documentary film on Shimon Attie’s project in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, produced and directed by Independent
Documentary Group Films.
1996
Shimon Attie: 45 minute length documentary film on Sites Unseen, directed by German state television
1994
Shimon Attie: Speaking with the Artist, film for Saxony television, Dresden, Germany