Julie Saul Gallery

EDUCATION

1981 MFA in Photography, San Francisco Art Institute

1977 BFA, Brown University. Independent concentration in Art and American Studies which included photography classes at Rhode Island School of Design

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Langhans Galerie, Prague

2007
M+B, Los Angeles
Noorderlicht Photo Gallery, Groningen, Holland
FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France

2006
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA

2005
Milliken, Stockholm
Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2003 Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2002
Rhodes & Mann Gallery, London
Zinc Gallery, Stockholm

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001
Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA

2000
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Rhodes & Mann, London
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston

1999
Zinc Gallery, Stockholm
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
University Art Museum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1998
Rupertinum Museum, Salzburg, Austria
Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1997
Galerie H.S. Steinek, Vienna
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1996
Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO

1995
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Jamison Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
Photographers' Gallery, London

1994
Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

1993
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY
Da'Vera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1981 OS Gallery, Seattle, WA

1980 The Ambush, San Francisco, site-specific installation

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007

A New York Picture Post, Gotham in the Twentieth Century, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence KS
Mystery: Photographs & Video, curated by George Spencer, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
Wall House #2, (one of eight commissioned projects), Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, Holland, catalogue.
Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
OOG-EYE, Foam, Amsterdam

2006
The Machine, The Body, and The City, Modern Photographs from the Charles Cowles Collection, Miami, Art Museum Miami, FL, catalogue
In Sight, Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, IL
Home is Where the Art Is, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Sans Regard, Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
Fifteen and 1/2, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Horrors of War, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

2005
Sans Regard, Recontre de la Photographie, Arles, France
In Focus, Contemporary Photography from the Allen G. Thomas Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
New to View, Recent Acquisitions of Photography, Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA
Group Exhibition, Hamiltons, London
New Art, New York: Reflections On The Human Condition, Trierenberg Holding AG, Traun, Austria
Double Exposure, Galeria 2000, Nurnberg, Germany and Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Landscape as Metaphor, Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany, catalogue
Solitude and Focus, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, catalogue
The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fawbush Editions, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Home Again, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Embodiment, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

2004
Il Nudo, Ideale e Realta, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy, catalogue
Hidden Histories, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England, catalogue

2003
Double Exposure, Edition Schellmann, New York. Travels to G Fine Art, Washington, DC, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Galerie Graff, Montreal
Photographs: Re-examining the Male and Female Nude, Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Scenery, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Blurred, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Visions and Revisions, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Fleshtones: 100 Years of the Nude, Robert Mann Gallery, New York
The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Art Museum, Bowdoin, Maine, Travels to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City and the Austin Museum of Art, Austin Texas (2004)
Boys of Summer, ClampArt, New York
By The Sea, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

2002
Urban Visions, The St. James Group Ltd Photography Prize 2002, Flowers East Gallery, London. Catalogue.
Blurred Image, Winston Wachter Mayer Fine Art, New York, NY
Escaping the Vault: The Contemporary Museum's Collection Breaks Out, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Breaks Out, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Fiat Lux, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
A Matter of Degree: Abstraction in Twentieth-Century Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Everyman, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
The Other Face, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany

2001
The Human Figure in Photography, 1843-2000: Selections from the Grunwald Center Collection, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Secret Victorians, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
Size Matters, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY
Portraits: Real and Imaginary, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Rocks and Trees, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA
Digital Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, catalogue

2000
Surviving the Photograph, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ
The Liminal Body, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia, catalogue
Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Focused Reality, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
In Black and White, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Fusion, Rhodes & Mann, London, catalogue
Rapture, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
Breathless! Photography and Time, Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Catalogue published by Aperture
Photographs from the '90s, Anita Friedman Gallery, New York, NY

1999
Photography: An Expanded View, Recent Acquisitions, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Photography: An Expanded View, Recent Acquisitions, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Ex-Change, La Criee, Rennes, France
Humidity, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Female, curated by Vince Aletti, Wesel + O'Connor Gallery, New York, NY
Calendar 2000, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, catalogue
The American Century, Part III: 1968-1999, James Danziger Gallery, New York, catalogue
The Full Monty, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Reading, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
American Pictorialism: From Steiglitz to Today, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Full Exposure: Contemporary Photography, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
An American Century of Photography, Hallmark Collection, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Travels to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, book published
The Emerging Image: Selected Contemporary Photographers, The Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough, New York, NY
Distortion, Anna Kustera, New York, NY
Winter, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
View From Within, Hales Gallery, London
Secret Victorians, Armand Hammer Museum, CA. Catalogue
Assumed Identity, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
The Body and the Lens: Photography1839 to the Present, Newcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1998
The Body Photographed, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Male, curated by Vince Aletti, Wessel + OÕConnor Gallery, New York
The Masque, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England. Travels to Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, England
Secret Victorians. Firstsite, Colchester, England. Travels to Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Middlesborough Art Gallery, Middlesborough, England; Catalogue
Versus 2000, Museion (Museo dÕArte Modern), Bolzano, Italy
Winter, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Preludes, Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1997
Water, PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY
Selected Artists from the Julie Saul Gallery, Montgomery Glasoe, Minneapolis, MN
Brooklyn, NY, USA, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
Oceans and Galaxies: Traditional Pathways to the Infinite, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
Fracturing the Gaze, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX
The Portrait As Object/The Figure As Ground, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Disappeared, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

1996
Contemporary Photographs From the Museum Collection, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Illustrious History 1871 - Present, San Francisco Art Institute, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, catalogue
Photographs of Hands From the Collection of Henry Buhl, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY catalogue
A Centennial Exposed 1896-1996, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
Prospect '96, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, catalogue
Time Wise, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Out Takes: Obscure Works By Gallery Artists, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1995
100 Years, 100 Pictures, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, catalogue
I Wish, I Wish, Photographers' Gallery, London
Fact, Fiction and Truth: Contemporary Portraits, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Desire, The Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki, Finland. Travels to Louisana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, catalogue
Spirit & Loss, Fotofeis, Glasgow, Scotland, catalogue
Large Bodies, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY
The Photographic Condition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Book Show, A New Direction, The Warren Street Gallery, Hudson, New York, NY
Faggots: A Communique from North America, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, University of Buenos Aires
White, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1994
Don't Leave Me This Way; Art in the Age of AIDS, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Desire (benefit exhibition for DIFFA), Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Present Future (with Tina Barney, Philip Lorca di Corcia, Nick Walpington), Jane Jackson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Herve Charles and Bill Jacobson, L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
American Photography: A History In Pictures, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
The Psycho-Pathology of Everyday Life, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Absence, Activism and the Body Politic, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
The Kiss, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Truth Be Told: It's All About Love, Lennon Weinberg, New York, NY
Natural Selection, Carl D'Aquino, New York, NY
Life, Love, Death: Ten Years of Photography About AIDS, FNAC, Paris. Three year traveling exhibit throughout Europe. Catalogue

1993
Guest Room, Achim Kubinsky Gallery, New York, NY
Jim Hodges and Bill Jacobson, Paul Morris Fine Art, New York, NY
Summer Selections, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Snap, Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York, NY
Forever, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY
Oliver Herring, Bill Jacobson, Scott Lifschutz, Kristin Oppenheim, Maura Sheehan, Simon Watson's Living Room, New York, NY

1992
Sex and Death, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY

1991
Photography Invitational, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York NY
Military, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Max Fish, New York, NY

1987 Thought Objects, Cash Newhouse Gallery, New York. Book

1985 Sleep, Mascot Studio, New York, NY

1984
Photographic Salon, Defacto Gallery, New York, NY
The Pool Show, Mascot Studio, New York, NY
A More Store, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY

1983 Terminal New York Show, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY

1981
The Revealing Image, 544 Natoma Gallery, San Francisco. Catalogue
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute. Catalogue

AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

2004 Artist's residency, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

2002 Artist's residency at MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

2000 Artist's residency at MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1999 Artist in Residence, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1997 Artist's residency at Yaddo, Saratoga, NY

1996 Artist's residency at MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1995 Photographer's Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Foundation

1994 Photographer's Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts

1993 Artist's residency at Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

1989 Artist's residency at The Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

Monographs
Jacobson, Bill, Photographs (essay by Eugenia Parry), Stuttgart, Hatje Cantz Publishers. 2005
Jacobson, Bill, 1989-1997, (story by Klaus Kertess) Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, 1998

Reviews and Anthologies
Aletti, Vince, "Cowles Mine", V Magazine, Winter 2006/2007
McQuaid, Cate, Arts & Reviews, Bill Jacobson, The Boston Globe, February 2, 2006
Rexer, Lyle. "The Arbus Effect", Art on Paper, January/February. 2004
McQuaid, Cate. "Communing With The Ghosts of Technology Past and Present", Boston Sunday Globe, November 2. 2003
Aletti, Vince. "Bill Jacobson", Village Voice, October 29.
Widdicombe, Ben. "Private Eye", Art & Auction, November. 2002
Hubbard, Sue. "Loss and Gain", Art Review (UK), October. 2002
"Bill Jacobson at Rhodes + Mann", Pluk (UK), October. 2002
Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. 2001
Face, Zinc Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. 2001
Jones, Jonathan. "Bill Jacobson: Thought Series Photographs, 1993-1999" Contemporary Visual Arts (UK), October. 2000
American Photographs, 1900/2000, Assouline, New York. 2000
Ewing, William. Love and Desire, San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 1999
McQuaid, Cate. "Bill Jacobson", Art News, October. 1999
Pollack, Barbara, "Summer Reading", Art News, October. 1999
Princenthal, Nancy, Art in America, February. 1999
Saltz, Jerry. "Finders & Keepers", Village Voice, June 1. 1999
Curren, Jenny. "Museum exhibits Jacobson", Michigan Daily, February 22. 1999
Jacobson, Bill, 1989-1997, (story by Klaus Kertess) Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers. 1998
Aletti, Vince. "The Season's Best Photo Books", Village Voice, December 15. 1998
An American Century of Photography, From Dry-Plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York. 1998
Bright, Deborah. The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire, London/New York: Routeledge. 1998
Sabau, Luminita. The Promise of Photography: The DG Bank Collection. Munich: Prestel. 1998
Cary Parkes, James. "Fade to Gay", Gay Times (London), October. 1998
Chase, Clifford. "Ghosts in the Machine", POZ, October. 1998
"Bill Jacobson", American Photographer, February. 1997
Brent Ingram, Gordon, Anne-Marie Bouthillette and Yolanda Retter, eds., Queers in Space, Washington: Bay Press. 1997
New Art, Harry Abrams, New York. 1997
Duffy, Robert. "Through A Mist, Beautifully", St. Louis Post Dispatch, June. 1996
Groff, David and Richard Berman, eds., Whitman's Men: Walt Whitman's Calmus Poems Celebrated by Contemporary Photographers, New York: Universe Publishing. 1996
Arning, Bill. "Songs of Sentient Beings", Time Out, March 12-20. 1996
Aletti, Vince. "Not Fade Away", Village Voice, March 5. 1996
Hagen, Charles. "Bill Jacobson", New York Times, March 8. 1996
Aletti, Vince. "Fade Out", Village Voice, January. 1996
Weiermair, Peter. 100 Years, 100 Pictures, Zurich: Edition Stemmle. 1995
Fitzpatrick, Laurie. "Bill Jacobson: Interim Worlds", Art & Understanding, November 1995
Cooper, Emmanuel. Fully Exposed, The Male Nude in Photography, London/New York: Routledge. 1995
Watney, Simon. "Bill Jacobson at Photographer's Gallery", Artforum, April. 1995
Aukeman, Anastasia. "Bill Jacobson, Coming Together and Letting Go", On The Edge, ARTnews, October. 1995
Hagen, Charles. "Large Bodies", Pace MacGill Gallery, New York Times, July 28. 1995
Baker, Kenneth. Blurred Photo Images Expose Shadowy Pain", San Francisco Chronicle, May 27. 1995
Bonetti, David. "Gallery Watch", San Francisco Examiner, May 25. 1995
Creative Camera, "Bill Jacobson", December/January. 1995
Visionaire, "Desire", Fall. 1994
Bickerton, Jane. "Present Future", Art Papers, July/August. 1994
Matis, Gretchen. "Artists' Passionate Opinions Sear Through Color Photos", The Atlanta Journal Constitution, April 1. 1994
Aletti, Vince. "Choices", Village Voice, June. 1994
Wolin, Joe. "Virtual Reality: Portraits of America", Luna Cornea (Mexico City),Vol. 3 1993
Hirsh, David. "Bill Jacobson at Grey Gallery", New York Native, November 1. 1993
Aletti, Vince. "Choices", Village Voice, August 10. 1993
Aletti, Vince. "Choices", Village Voice, May 5. 1993
Hagen, Charles. "Snap!" Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York Times, July 16. 1993
Aletti, Vince. "Choices", Village Voice, July 30. 1991

COLLECTIONS

Bank of America, London
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
DG Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Fond National d'Art Contemporain, France
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hallmark Cards, Inc. Kansas City, MO
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Miami Art Museum
Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
New York Public Library, New York, NY
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, NJ
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Spencer Art Museum, Lawrence, KS
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY