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born St. Louis, Missouri, 1956

EDUCATION

1982 M.F.A., Photography, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1979 B.A., Pomona College

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 Vector Portraits, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

2010 Vector Portraits, 3 Punts Gallery, Barcelona

2009
Vector Portraits, M & B, Los Angeles, CA
Vector Portraits
, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Vector Portraits, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY

2002 Vector Portraits, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2001 Prop Portraits, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO

2000 Prop Portraits, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1998

Envelopes, Robert Klein, Boston, MA

Fifteen Year Survey, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

Envelopes, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

1996 Portraits-Business Cards, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1995 Envelopes, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1995-94 Envelopes, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1993 Bonnettstown, Champion International Corporation, Stamford, CT Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1992 Vector Portraits, Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1992-91 Vector Portraits, Department of Motor Vechicle Buildings, Los Angeles, CA

1991 Bonnettstown, Glen/Dash Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1990

Bonnettstown, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR

Bonnettstown, Chenango Council of the Arts, Norwich, CT

Bonnettstown, Roger Ramsey Gallery, Chicago, IL

1986

Bonnettstown, Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Bonnettstown, Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York, NY

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
25 Years/25 Artists
, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Car Fetish. I drive, therefore I am, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland

2010
In Color: New American Stories from LACMA’s Photography Collection, The Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Bedtime for Bonzo, curated by Matthew Porter, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2009 Worlds Away: New Surburban Landscapes, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT

2008
Worlds Away: New Surburban Landscapes
, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Worlds Away: New Surburban Landscapes, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

2002

Surrounding Interiors: Views Inside the Car, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA

Ich Bin Mein Auto: Die Maschinalen Ebenbilder der Menschen, Statlich Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden

Text/Textile: Words and Weaving in Contemporary Art, Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, West 52nd St., New York, NY

2001

Reconsidering the Renaissance, Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld, New York, NY

Avant-Premiere 6, Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, FR

Show Me the Money - The Dollar as Art, Trust for Museum Exhibitions

2000

Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography, The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

Rearview Mirror: Automobile Images and American Identities, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside

SoCal Car Culture, The Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA

Breathless! - Photography and Time, The Canon Photography Gallery at the V&A, London, UK

MoneyMaking: The Fine Art of Currency at the Millenium, Federal Reserve, Washington, D.C.

1999

Summer Reading, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY

Duration and Whenever, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

A Survey of Interior Imaging from X-ray to MRI, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1998

Interiors, Champion International Corporation, Stamford, CT

A Thin Line, Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY

1997 Figure and Landscape, Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN

1996

Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Photographics, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

Portraits, 1991-1996, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

Blind Spot Photography: The First Four Years, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, NY

1995

Verisimilitude and the Utility of Doubt, White Columns, NY

P.L.A.N.: Photography Los Angeles Now, LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

The Joy of Painting, HERE, NY

Recent Acquisitions, LA County Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Megan Fox Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1994

Champion International Corporation, Stamford, CT

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Serial/Images, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1994

Lousy Fear, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

1993

Commodity Image, International Center of Photography Midtown, New York, NY

Vector Portraits, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1991

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

MetLife Gallery, New York, NY

Off the Beaten Track, Security Pacific Bank, Cost Mesa, CA

Didactics--Aspects of Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

1990 Gardner Arts Center, University of Sussex, UK

1989 Recent Acquisitions, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1988 Art at Pomona College, Claremont, CA

1986

Rice University Media Center, Austin, TX

The Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY

1985

Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York, NY

Daniel Wolf Gallery, New York, NY

Photographs of Flowers from the Collection of Sam Wagstaff, Detroit Museum of Art, Detroit, MI

The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK

1984

Color Photographs - Recent Acquisitions, Museum Of Modern Art, New York, NY

Olympus Camera Gallery, London, UK


PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
Aletti, Vince, Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, May 11, 2009

"Andrew Bush, On The Road", French Vogue, April 2009

Genocchio, Benjamin, "From Malls to Homes to Cars, the Transitioning of Suburbia", The New York Times, April 19, 2009

Balhetchet, Sophie, “Andrew Bush: Vector Portraits,” HotShoe Magazine, June-July 2009

Moret, A., “Andrew Bush: ‘Vector Portraits’ at M + B,” Art Ltd., November 2009.

Blauvelt, Andrew, ed. Worlds Away, New Suburban Landscapes, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2008

Le Monde, portfolio, July/August 2008.

"Drive", Yale University Press, April 2008, Essay by Patt Morrison and an interview by Jeff L. Rosenheim, monograph

Kennedy, Marla Hamburg, Looking at Los Angeles, New York, Metropolis Books, 2005

Siegel, Katy and Mattick, Paul, Money, London: Thames and Hudson, 2004

"The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Collection: Photographs," www.metmuseum.org June 2003

Bush, Andrew, Nest, Final Nest: Bonnettstown Hall, Summer 2003

Rearview Mirror, Automobile Images and American Identities, (Editor, Kevin Jon Boyle) California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside/ CMP, 2000

Loke, Margaret, "Paying Homage to Books (Those With Covers)," The New York Times, August 1999

Saltz, Jerry, "Andrew Bush," Time Out, March 26, 1998

Voice Choices, March 10, 1998

Walcott, Ellison Austen, "Andrew Bush, A Fifteen Year Survey," March 15, 1998

Loke, Margarett, "Andrew Bush," The New York Times, March 27, 1998

Blind Spot, Issue 7, 1996

Schwendener, Martha, "Andrew Bush at Julie Saul," Art in America, December 1996
Schwendener, Martha. Art in America, December 1996

Schwendener, Martha, Art in America, December 1996

Hagen, Charles, "Andrew Bush," The New York Times, December 9, 1994

Grunstein, Raoul. "Ajovaylien Asukkaat", Image, November 1995

Hagen, Charles, The New York Times, December 9

"Recent Acquisitions - A Selection: 1993-1994", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Fall 1994

Hagen, Charles, "The Camera as a Weapon to Assault Modern Ills," The New York Times, June 11, 1993

Bush, Andrew, "Driving Through the Museum, Not to the Museum", Los Angeles Times, May 10, 1993

"Days of Getting, Spending and Photography, Too," The New York Times, May 30, 1993

Hagen, Charles, "People in Their Cars, Driving Along," The New York Times, March 27, 1992

"Man at his Best," Esquire, July 1992

Aletti, Vince, "Photo", The Village Voice, April 14, 1992

"Best Photos in the Metropolitan," Marie Claire (Japan), September 1992

"Personalien," Der Spiegel (Germany), December 1992

Aletti, Vince, "Summer Selection - Metropolitan Museum," The Village Voice, July 16, 1991. Ill.

Russell, John, "There's Something New Under the Sun at the Met," The New York Times, July 14, 1991

Lorenzelli, Tiziana, "Los Angeles: Vita Sulle Freeways," Domus Magazine, October 1991

Malcolm, Janet, "Books, Pink Roses," The New Yorker, June 26, 1989

Grundberg, Andy, "Critic's Choice," The New York Times, May 25, 1986

LaRouche, Robert, "The Looks, Life of an Irish Manor," St. Louis Post - Dispatch, June30, 1986

Grainick, Herbert, "Irish Home's Ambience Captured in Photos," St. Louis Globe - Democrat, July 12-13, 1986

O'Reilly, "Review," June 10, 1986

 

COLLECTIONS

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, FR

George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

International Center of Photography, New York, NY

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Wellesley College, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Yale University Art Gallery, Hartford, CT


Vector Portraits 1992-1993/2008 [view images]


Envelopes [view images]


Prop Portraits 1999-2000 [view images]


Snorter 1993-1998 [view images]


Bonnettstown 1982-1983 [view images]