Paul Graham (photographer)
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Paul Graham is an English fine-art photographer whose work has been exhibited, published and collected internationally. In 2009, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
. He is also a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow (1983), and a Guggenheim Fellow (2010).
(2001), the inaugural exhibition at Switzerland's national Fotomuseum Winterthur
, and most recently a solo exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art
. He was one of the 24 photographers included in the Tate Gallery's landmark "Cruel and Tender" survey exhibition of 20th century photography (2003), and a European mid career survey exhibition at Museum Folkwang
, Essen, and touring from 2009-2011 to the Deichtorhallen
, Germany and Whitechapel Gallery
, London.
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize is a prize that annually rewards a photographer who has made the most significant contribution to the photographic medium in Europe, during the past year....
. He is also a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow (1983), and a Guggenheim Fellow (2010).
Life and career
Paul Graham has been a prolific and well published artist, including two survey monographs, by SteidlMACK (2009) and Phaidon (1996), along with 10 other publications. One book, Empty Heaven, is devoted to Japan, another A Shimmer of Possibility, comprises 12 volumes examining the USA. His work has been exhibited extensively - notably participating in the Italian Pavilion of the 49th Venice BiennaleVenice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
(2001), the inaugural exhibition at Switzerland's national Fotomuseum Winterthur
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Fotomuseum Winterthur was founded in 1993 and is dedicated to photography as art form and document, and as a representation of reality. Fotomuseum Winterthur is on the one hand an art gallery for photography by contemporary photographers and artists...
, and most recently a solo exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
. He was one of the 24 photographers included in the Tate Gallery's landmark "Cruel and Tender" survey exhibition of 20th century photography (2003), and a European mid career survey exhibition at Museum Folkwang
Museum Folkwang
Museum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th and 20th century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, founded in 1901.The term...
, Essen, and touring from 2009-2011 to the Deichtorhallen
Deichtorhallen
Deichtorhallen, in Hamburg, is one of Europe's largest art centers for contemporary art and photography. The two historical buildings dating from 1911-13 are iconic in style, with their open steel-and-glass structures. It's architecture creates a backdrop for spectacular major international...
, Germany and Whitechapel Gallery
Whitechapel Gallery
The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, it was founded in 1901 as one of the first publicly-funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in London, and it has a long...
, London.
Exhibitions
- Paul Graham. Photographs 1981-2006, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK 2011
- Paul Graham. Fotografien 1981-2006, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany 2010
- Paul Graham. Fotografien 1981-2006, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany 2009
- a shimmer of possibility, MoMA, New York, 2009
- Paul Graham, La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain 2006
- Click Double Click, The Documentary Factor, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels.
- Paul Graham, Arles Rencontres, Arles, France 2006
- American Pictures, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
- American Night, PS1, New York 2003
- American Night, Power House, Memphis, TN 2003
- American Night, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 2003
- End of an Age, Galerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zurich 1998
- End of an Age, Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh 1998
- Hypermetropia, Tate Gallery, London 1996
- Empty Heaven, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg 1995
- New Europe, Fotomuseum Winterthur 1993
Public collections
- Arts Council of Great Britain, London
- British Council, London
- Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
- European Parliament, Brussels
- Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
- Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- National Museum of Photography, Bradford
- The Saint Louis Art Museum, MO
- Tate Gallery, London
- Victoria & Albert Museum, London
- Winnipeg Art Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba
- The Whitney Museum of Art, New York