EDUCATION
2000- 2004 Masters of Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
1992- 1996 Bachelors of Photography, University of Akron, Akron, OH
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
2007
Stalking Suburbia, Westport Arts Center, CT
The New American Portrait, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
Cornucopia: Documenting the Land of Plenty, Monserrat College of
Art, Beverly, MA
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
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
2007
Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
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
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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
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