BORN: 1944, New York City
PRIZES AND GRANTS
2004 Citigroup Photography Prize, in association with The Photographer’s Gallery
1990-91 Prix de Rome, Italy
1987-88 Shifting Foundation Fellowship
1985 Artist-in-Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Grand Prize Winner, Higashikawa Festival of photography, Japan
1982 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1980 National Endowment for the Arts, Photographers Fellowship
1978 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
“Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Photo Espana
2005
“Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America,” Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
2004
“American Prospects and Before,” Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
2002
“American Standard: (Para) Normality and Everyday Life,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, organized by Gregory Crewdson
“Treading on Kings: Protesting the G8 In Genoa,” White Box, New York NY
“Citigroup Photography Prize 2004,” The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
2001
“Walking the High Line,” Pace/MacGill Gallery Chelsea, NY
“Stranger Passing,” The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
“Photographs,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
Hart Island, Stadthaus Ulm, Germany
The Parts Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Moreau Galleries, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
1997
"On This Site," PaceWildensteinMacGill, Los Angeles, CA
"Contemporary Portraits," PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY
"On This Site," The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1992
"Campagna Romana: The Roman Countryside," Museum of fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1991
Campagna Romana: The Roman Countryside," Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY
1989
"Contemporary Photographs," Pace/MacGill gallery, New York, NY
1987
"American Prospects: The Photographs of Joel Sternfeld," Museum of fine Arts, Houston, TX; Detroit Institute of Art, MI
1985
Afterimage Gallery, Dallas, TX
"Joel Sternfeld," Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Higashikawa International Festival, Japan
1984
Visual Studies Workshop
Daniel Wolf, Inc., New York, NY
Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
1982
Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
California Museum of photography, University of Riverside, CA
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1981
Daniel Wolf, Inc., New York, NY
The Photography Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1976
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
"Easy Rider: Road Trips Through America," Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2006
“Director’s Choice,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006-2005
“nutzlich, sub und museal / das fotografierte Tier (Useful, Cute, and Collected. The Photographed Animal.),” Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
2005
“Real Pictures.Photographs from the Collection of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft,” Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
2005-2004
“American Pictures,” The Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, NY
2004
“Pool Party,” Yossi Miller Gallery, New York, NY
“Everything’s Gone Green Photography and the Garden,” The Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradfort, UK
“Big Photos,” Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL
“In America,” Sutton Lane, London, UK
“Inside Out: Portrait Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Seventies Color Photography,” Kenneth Boesky Photographs, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
“Citigroup Photography Prize 2004,” The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK. Also traveling to Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
“The Art of Powdermaker Hall,” CUNY, Queens, NY
2003
“Passengers,”Lisboa Photo, Lisbon, Portugal
2002
“Naked (sic) in the Landscape,” Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY
1993
"About Big Cities," New Society for Fine Art, Berlin
1992
"More than One Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1991
"Pleasure and Terrors," Museum of Modern Art, new York, NY
1989
"On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography," The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1989
"The Art of Photography, 1839-1989," the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The Royal Academy of Art, London, England; The Australian National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia
"American Stories: Photographs by Leon Borensztein, Sage, Sohier, and Joel Sternfeld," The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1987
"Twelve Photographers Look at Us," Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
1985
"The Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum, New York, NY
"Color Photographs," Bowdoin College Museum of Art, ME
"Two's company," Light Gallery, New York
"American Images, 1945-1980," Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
"Swimmers," Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY
1984
"Paris Art Center, Paris, France
"Three Americans," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Color in the Street," California Museum of Photography, University of Riverside, CA
"Contemporary Photography," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
"Huit Photographers Americans," Art 45 Institute, Montreal, Canada
"High Light: The Mountain in Photography," International Center of Photography, New York, NY
1982
"New England Perambulations," Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1981
"Larry Fink and Joel Sternfeld, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1980
"Color as Form," George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Creative Artists Public Service Photography Exhibition, New York, NY
1978
"New Color Vision," Photolkina, Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
"One of a Kind," Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA
1977
"The Second Generation of Color"
"Photographers," Festival d'Arles, Arles, France
1976
"Photographs of the American Landscape," The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2005
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Diaz, Eva. “Joel Sternfeld: Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America.” Timeout, Sept 29 - October 5, 2005. p.92.
Finkel, Jori. “A Career in Pictures,” Art & Auction, February 2005, pp. 86-88
Gefter, Philip. “Portraits of American Paradises, Mostly Lost,” New York Times, September 18th, 2005, p.32.
Gurganus. Allan. “Nags Head, North Carolina, June 1st, 1956, 73 Degrees,” Aperture, Fall 2005, pp. 16-23.
Lisalo, Meri. “Minun Amerikkani,” Image, January 2005, pp. 94-99 (Text in Finnish)
Michael, Amy. “’You Talkin’to me?: Violence in Contemporary Art.”(Ph.D Dissertation)
Powers, Bill. “Sternfeld’s Sweet Spot,” Black Book, Fall Fashion Preview 2005, p.42.
Schwendener, Martha. “Joel Sternfeld / Luhring Augustine,” Artforum, December 2005, pp. 277-278.
2004
Aletti, Vince. “Flashback,” Art & Auction, February 2004, pp.67-78.
Aletti, Vince. “Photobook,”Photograph. March/April 2004, p. 52.
Amy, Michael. “Joel Sternfeld at Luhring Augustine,” Art in America, May, 2004, No.5, p. 157.
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Chapman, Peter. “Citigroup Prize,” The Independent, January 24th, 2004.
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Crewdson, Gregory. “Aesthetics of Alienation,“ Tate Etc., Issue 1, Volume 1, Summer 2004, pp.42-47.
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Hackworth, Nick. “Images of wonder from a US road trip,” Evening Standard, January 29, 2004.
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Pittman, Joanna. “Rearview Mirror: The Shortlist for the 2004 Citigroup Prize Shows a Surprisingly Retrospective Bent, “ The London Times, February 3, 2004.
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“Short List,” The Village Voice, February 4-10, 2004, pp.52-53.
Shuckburgh, Hannah. “Agenda,” ArtReview, March 2004, p.26.
The American Dream Issue, BoldType, May 2004, No. 7
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Ward, Ossian. “And the Winner is...” Art and Auction, October 2004, pp.118-123.
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2003
“American Virtuoso,” ArtReview, February 2003, pp. 30-32.
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2002
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“Joel Sternfeld/the John Hinde Butlin’s Photographs, London.” The Guardian, The Guide, Saturday,
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2001
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1994
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1991
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Dallas Art Museum, TX
European American Bank, New York, NY
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Forbes Collection, New York, NY
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hallmark Collections, Kansas City, MO
Houston Museum of Modern Art, TX
Los Angeles County Museum, CA
Maison Europeane de la Photographie, Paris
Museum of Modern Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Seattle Art Museum, WA
Private Collections
