ROBERT ADAMS
Born: Orange, N.J., 1937
Education: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Ph.D.
University of Redlands, Redlands, Calif., B.A.
Currently lives and works in Astoria, Ore.
Selected One-Person Exhibitions:
2011
Robert Adams: Consolations: Prairie, Forest, Sea, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Landscape with Path, The High Line, New York
2010
Summer Nights, Walking, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Robert Adams: Gone? Colorado in the 1980s, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. Will travel to Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia; Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colo.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and National Media Museum, Bradford, England.
2009
Robert Adams: Hasselblad Award Winner 2009, Hasselblad Center, Göteborg Museum of Art, Götaplatsen, Sweden. Traveled to Preus Museum, Horten, Norway
2007
Robert Adams: On the Edge, Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
Robert Adams: Questions for an Overcast Day, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Robert Adams: Trees 1965–2005, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Robert Adams: Turning Back, A Photographical Journal of Re-exploration, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vt.
2006
Robert Adams: Two Landscapes, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Robert Adams: Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Pine Valley, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin
Turning Back, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Ariz.
2005
Robert Adams: circa 1970, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Robert Adams: Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration, Haus der Kunst, Munich. Traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2004
Robert Adams: The Paradise [14], The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin
Robert Adams: From the Missouri West, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Robert Adams: The New West, Joseph Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany
2003
Robert Adams: No Small Journeys, Across Shopping Center Parking Lots, Down City Streets, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Commercial/Residential, Roth Horowitz, New York (catalogue)
2002
What We Bought: The New World, Scenes from the Denver Metropolitan Area 1970-1974, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
2001
Sunlight, Solitude, Democracy, Home…, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College Art Museum, Portland, Ore.
Robert Adams: Places – People, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
Reinventing the West, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass.
True West, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Tex.
2000
California: Views of the Los Angeles Basin 1978-1983 and What We Bought: The New World, Scenes from the Denver Metropolitan Area 1970-1974, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. Traveled to the Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (catalogue)
1998
To the Mouth of the Columbia, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
1997
What We Bought: The New World, Scenes from the Denver Metropolitan Area, 1970-1974, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. Traveled to Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels
1996
Listening to the River, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois. Traveled to the Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
Our Lives and Our Children, Musée d'Arte Moderne de St. Etienne, St. Etienne, France. Traveled to the Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee
1995
West from the Columbia, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
What We Bought: The New World, Scenes from the Denver Metropolitan Area 1970-1974, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
1994
Listening to the River, Sprengel Museum, Hannover. Traveled to the Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; Staatlich Kunstsammlungen, Dresden; and the Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1993
At the End of the Colombia River, Denver Art Museum. Traveled to Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels
1992
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
1991
Photo Gallery International, Tokyo
1990
Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee
1989
Philadelphia Museum of Art
1987
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Ore.
1986
Denver Art Museum
California Museum of Photography, Riverside, Calif.
1985
Summer Nights, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Northlight Gallery, Tucson, Ariz.
1984
Our Lives and Our Children . . ., Moravian College, Bethlehem, Penn.
1983
Milwaukee Art Museum
1981
Castelli Graphics, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art
1980
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Atlanta Gallery of Photography, Atlanta
1979
Prairie, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr.
1976
Castelli Graphics, New York
St. John's College, Santa Fe, N.Mex.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colo.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2011
Of Weeds and Wildness: Nature in Black & White, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.
Joe Deal and Views of the Altered Landscape, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Contemporary Landscape Photography, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, N. Mex
Night Vision: Photography After Dark, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Great Photographs of the 20th Century: From the Street, Hasted Kraeutler, New York
Photography Calling! Photography and the Present, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Hannover, Germany
In Focus: The Sky, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nev.
2010
Edge of Town, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
2009
New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y. Traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Center for Creative Photography, Phoenix, Ariz.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Landesgalerie Oberösterreich, Linz, Austria; Photographische Sammlung Stiftung Kultur, Cologne; Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Bilbao, Spain.
Oceans, Rivers, and Skies: Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, and Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008
Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz and Frank Gohlke, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
2006
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2006, The Photographer's Gallery, London. Traveled to Berlin and Frankfurt
Nothing and Everything: Drawing, Painting, Photography and Sculpture, 1896–2006, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. Traveled to Peter Freeman, New York
Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Ectopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York
2005
Landscape as a Metaphor, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Mühlweg, Germany
2004
Wide Open Spaces, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, N.Y.
Citigroup Photography Prize 2004: Robert Adams, Peter Fraser, David Goldblatt, Joel Sternfeld, The Photographers' Gallery, London
2003
Unreal Estate Opportunities, pkm gallery, Seoul
Cruel + Tender: The Real in the 20th Century Photograph, Tate Modern, London (catalogue)
Contemporary Photography from the Harn Museum Collection, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
2002
Regarding Landscape, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto. Traveled to the Koffler Gallery, Toronto; Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; and The Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts, Montreal
Visions from America: Photographs from The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
2001
Amerikanische Fotografie ca. 1970: Robert Adams, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Joel Meyerowitz, Steven Shore, Joel Sternfeld, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich
Settings and Players, White Cube, London (catalogue)
Nature in Photography, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
2000
How You Look At It, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Open Ends: MoMA 2000, Seasons and Moments, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
1999
Pure Products of America: Photographs 1968-1978 by Robert Adams, Bill Owens and Henry Wessel, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1998
Photographs at Princeton University: Celebrating 25 Years of Collecting and Teaching the History of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
1997
Documenta X, Kassel catalogue)
The View from Denver, Denver Art Museum
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
1996
Crossing the Frontier, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Perpetual Mirage, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1995
Silent Witness, (sponsored by the United Nations), various locations (catalogue)
1994
Seasights, Offshore Gallery, New York
Hidden Faces, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
1993
Critical Landscapes, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Magicians of Light: Photographs from the Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (catalogue). Traveled to the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo., and the Lowinsky Gallery, New York
In Close Quarters: American Landscape Photography Since 1968, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
1992
Robert Adams, Wim Wenders: Photographs of the American West, Amerika Haus, Berlin
Mehr als ein Bild, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
A History of Oregon Photography, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Ore. Traveled to the Lowinsky Gallery, New York
1991
Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Kiss of Apollo, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (catalogue)
Timothy O'Sullivan and Robert Adams, Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles
Visions/Revisions, Denver Art Museum. Traveled to the Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Penn.
1990
The Indomitable Spirit, International Center of Photography, New York (catalogue)
Passages de l'Image, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris (catalogue)
Notes for Friends, James/Schubert Gallery, Houston
1989
On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
Photography Until Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Photography Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (catalogue)
Une Autre Objectivité, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris (catalogue)
Decade by Decade, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Ariz. (catalogue)
The Art of Photography: 1839-1989, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The New American Landscape, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Picturing California, Oakland Museum, Calif. (catalogue)
Night Light, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo. (catalogue)
1987
Nuovo Paesaggio Americano, Museo Fortuny, Venice (catalogue)
American Photographs, 1930-1986, The Art Institute of Chicago
1986
Artists in Mid-Career, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Looking at the American Land, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio
Views and Visions, International Center of Photography, New York
1985
Western Spaces, Burden Gallery, New York
Robert Adams/Albert Renger-Patzsch, Kunstverein Munchen, Munich
1984
Three Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Automobile and Culture, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
1982
Slices of Time: California Landscapes, Oakland Museum, Calif.
1981
American Landscapes, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
1977
Contemporary American Photographic Works, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1976
Photography for Collectors, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975
14 American Photographers, Baltimore Museum of Art (catalogue)
New Topographics, George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.
1973
Contemporary Photographs, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
New Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Landscape/Cityscape, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1971
Robert Adams/Emmet Gowin, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1970
New Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Television Programs & DVD Releases:
2007
Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 4, "Ecology"
Awards:
2009
Hasselblad Award
2006
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, London
1995
Spectrum International Prize for Photography, Hannover
1994
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award, Chicago
1987
Charles Pratt Memorial Award
1982
Peer Award from The Friends of Photography, San Francisco
1980
Guggenheim Fellowship, New York
1979
Colorado Governor's Award in the Arts, Denver
1978
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Washington, D.C.
1975
Award of Merit, American Association of State and Local History, Nashville, Tenn.
1973
Guggenheim Fellowship, New York
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Washington, D.C.