Julie Saul Gallery

EDUCATION

2000- 2004 Masters of Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
1992- 1996 Bachelors of Photography, University of Akron, Akron, OH

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 Brian Ulrich: Copia—Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001–11, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

2009
Thrift and Dark Stores, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Retail and Dar Stores, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2008
Copia, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Thrift, Quality Pictures, Portland, OR

2007
Copia, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Copia, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
notifbutwhen, Mississippi State University, MS
Melodramas of Consumption, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
Thrift, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

2006
Copia, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Copia, ArtUnit, Haarlem, Netherlands

2005 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work: Shoppers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

2004 Copia, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

1999 Produce, Protect, Project, Millworks Gallery, Akron, OH

1996 Harmony, Dissonance, Harmony, Millworks Gallery, Akron, OH

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 Religare Arts Initiative Gallery, New Delhi, India

2010
Open Season, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
John Gossage and Brian Ulrich, The Solo Project, Basel, Switzerland
Ruptures and Continuity: Photography Made after 1960, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Road to Nowhere, Fotofest Biennial, Houston, TX
Instruments of Empire, Brian Ulrich and Amy Stein, Caption Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Versus, Hous Projects, New York, NY

2009
Glitz & Grime: Photographs of Times Square, Yancey Richardcon Gallery, New York, NY Worlds Away, New Suburban Landscapes, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT
Dystopia, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008
Lost in the Supermarket, Armand Bartos Gallery, New York, NY
Worlds Away, New Suburban Landscapes, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Worlds Away, New Suburban Landscapes, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Signage: Lost in the Supermarket, Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York, NY
Dystopia, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Made in Chicago, Photographs from the LaSalle Bank Collection, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Revisiting America, Bond Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Signs, Mt. Tremper Arts Festival, Mt. Tremper, NY
About Art: Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich, City Gallery, Chicago, IL
Variable Capital, Bluecoats Art Centre, Liverpool, UK
Branded and On Display, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Branded and On Display, Tufts University Art Gallery, MEdford, MA
Cornucopia: Documenting the Land of Plenty, Monserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Ad | Agency, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA

2007
Stalking Suburbia, Westport Arts Center, CT
The New American Portrait, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
Presumed Innocence: Photographs of Children, DeCordova Museum and Sculptural Park, Lincoln, MA

Jon Gitelson, Matt Siber, Brian Ulrich, Gallerie f5.6, Munich, Summer 2007
Branded and On Display, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ

People Buildings and Cars, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT
The Field, Jamaica Center for Arts, Jamaica, NY

On Death and Dying, Galberg Gallery, College of DuPage, IL

2006
MP3, Kelli Connell, Justin Newhall, and Brian Ulrich, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Point of Purchase, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
tinyvices, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
The Armory Show, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
Marcia Wood Gallery, Palm Beach 3 Contemporary Art Fair, West Palm Beach, FL
Aus Amerika, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany
Photocentric, curated by Joan Rothfuss, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, IL

2005
On the Scene: Jessica Rowe, Jason Salavon, and Brian Ulrich, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Domestic Disturbance, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
The New Chicagoans (Select Media Festival), Iron Studios, Chicago, IL
Photography 2005: Double Exposure, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
Servings, City Gallery, Chicago, IL
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie/Festival d'Arles, Arles, France
Contemporary American Photography/Internationalen Fototage Mannheim-Ludwigshafen, Cologne, Germany
Urban Renewal¸ Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Skinless Capital: Neoliberalism & Resistance, Opensource Art Gallery, Urbana-Champaign Other America, Exit Art, New York, NY
Manufactured Self, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

2004
Frozen in Light, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Unframed First Look, Juried by Adam Fuss, Jack Pierson, & Cindy Sherman, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
17th Annual Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Juried by Monique Meloche & Dominic Molon, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Fellowship 2004, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Juried by Tom Hinson, Pittsburgh, PA
FACT/FICTION, Juried by Dawoud Bey, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
ArtChicago, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003
2003 Center Awards, Juried by Karen Sinsheimer & Tim Wride, Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA
Union League Civic and Arts Foundation, Juried by James Rondeau, Chicago, IL
ArtChicago, "Chicago Area Billboard Project," Chicago, IL

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2010
Wendy Watriss, “Contemporary US Photography,” European Photography, No. 87, June 2010.
Roger Lowenstein, “Deleveraging,” New York Times Magazine, July 18, 2010.
Contemporary US Photography, Vol. 1, Schilt Publishing/Fotofest, 2010.
Jean Dykstra, “Dispatches from the Brink,” Art in America, June/July 2010.
Vrij Nederland, “Requiem voor de mall,” pg. 36-41, January 2010.
Glen Helfand, “Brian Ulrich,” Color Magazine, pg. 70-77, January 2010

2009
Time Magazine, "Recycling the Suburbs", Bryan Walsh, March 23, 2009
Rexer, Lyle, "About the Cover", Photograph, May/June 2009
“Closed for Business”, Chicago Tribune Magazine “Everything must go”, Mother Jones Magazine
Glen Helfand, “Brian Ulrich,” Color Magazine, pg. 70-77, January 2010.

2008
Kansas City Star, "Copia" at Nerman Museum of Art, October 2008
Lowenstein, Roger, New York Times Magazine, "No More Free Bubble", July 27, 2008
Vice Magazine, "Thrift", August 2008
Kaplan, Jeffrey, Orion, "The Gospel of Consumption", May/June 2008
Lumpen Magazine, "Leah Evans", Issue 109, 2008
Colberg, Joerg, YVI Magazine, "Brian Ulrich- Copia", No. 2, June 2008
Madrick, Jeffrey, Le Monde Magazine, "La Fin De L'Illusion", pg 66-70, July 2008
D La Republicca, "Brian Ulrich: Thrift", No. 601, June 2008
Proximity Magazine, "Artist Portfolio", No. 1, 2008
The American, "American Seen", pg 96, March/April 2008
Presumed Innocent, "Photographic Perspectives of Children", DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 2008
Stoll, Steven, Harper's Magazine, "Fear of Fallowing", pg. 88, March 2008

2007

Woodward, Richard, "Critics Pick", ARTnews, November 2007
Photo District News, "30 Emerging Photographers of 2007, March 2007
Grosz, David, "The Allure of Plenty", The New York Sun, February 8, 2007
Schwendener, Martha, Review, The New York Times, Feb. 2, 2007

The New Yorker, Review, Feb. 5, 2007

McKibben, Bill, "Happiness," Mother Jones Magazine, March/April 2007

Harper's Bazaar, "Cleveland, Ohio, 2003," pg 27, Jan. 2007

2006

Helfand, Glen, "Brian Ulrich", Artforum, October 2006

Artner, Alan, "Still Materialism, even when the material is second hand" Chicago Tribune, Dec. 22, 2006

Lopez, Ruth, "The View from here", Time Out Chicago, August 17-23, 2006

Adbusters Magazine #68, The Media Foundation

Photography Quarterly, 'Photography Now', 2006

MP3, "Copia", Aperture/Museum of Contemporary Photography

Seeing & Writing 2, textbook, Donald McQuade, Christine McQuade

Photography Quarterly, "Photography Now", juried by Dana Faconti Design Anarchy, Adbusters Media Foundation

"Consuming Passion", Chicago Tribune Magazine, Feb. 5 , 2006

Adbusters Magazine, #67 Sept/Oct 2006, #66 July/Aug 2006

2005
Leica World Mouvement Magazine (France), No. 35, pp. 104-105
Fotopozytyw Magazine (Poland), July 2005
Adbusters Magazine, #60 Jul/Aug 2005
"The Game of Life;" #58 Mar/Apr 2005, "'What Happened Before the Big Bang?;"
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue

2004
Adbusters Magazine, #56 Nov/Dec 2004, "We're Back;" #55 Sept/Oct 2004,
"No Future;" #54 July/Aug 2004, "I, Terrorist;" #52 Mar/Apr 2004,
"Right/Left, US/UN, God/Allah"
Exklusiv Magazine (Poland), "Galeria: Brian Ulrich" No. 23, Nov 2004, pp. 52-57
Photo District News EDU, Vol. 3, Issue 2, Fall 2004, frontispiece, pp. 6, 10
Sites, 6x6 Series, Columbia College, No. 3, Apr 2004

GRANTS, RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2010 Artist-in-Residence, Light Work.

2009
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Photography
Honorable Mention, Project Competition, Center Santa Fe

2007
Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
Wright Auction House Commission, Chicago, IL
Photo District News 30 Emering Photographers, nominated by Martin Parr

2006
Shortlist, Saatchi Gallery and the Guardian UK, 'Your Gallery'
Nominee, John Gutmann Fellowship, San Francisco, CA Finalist, Critical Mass 2005

2005
Finalist, Leica Oskar Barnack Award
City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Community Arts Assistance Grant

2004
Finalist, First Book Award, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
Jurors Award, Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston, IL
Honorable Mention, FACT/FICTION, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
Honorable Mention, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA

COLLECTIONS

Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
DeCordova Museum and Sculptural Park, Lincoln, MA
Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS
LaSalle Bank, Chicago, IL
Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC