ROBERT ADAMS. Born 1937 in Orange, New Jersey, USA. Lives and works in Astoria, Oregon, USA. Education / teaching

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1 ROBERT ADAMS Born 1937 in Orange, New Jersey, USA. Lives and works in Astoria, Oregon, USA. Education / teaching Assistant professor of Enligh at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA Doctor in English at the University of Southern California, USA Grants and awards 2009 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, Göteborg, Sweden 2006 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, The Photographers Gallery 1995 Spectrum International Prize for Photography 1994 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award 1987 Charles Pratt Memorial Award 1982 Peer Award from The Friends of Photography 1980 Guggenheim Fellowship 1979 Colorado Governor's Award in the Arts 1978 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1975 Award of Merit, American Association of State and Local History 1973 Guggenheim Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Selected solo exhibitions 2018 Fondation A Stichting, Brussels, Belgium, "Robert Adams. A Right to Stand" 2014 Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany, "Robert Adams. Buildings in Colorado " Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, "Robert Adams - The Place We Live" Portland Art Museum, USA, The Question of Hope, Robert Adams in Western Oregon Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Denver Art Museum, USA; Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, USA; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Josef Albers Museum, Quadrat Bottrop, Germany; Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, Robert Adams: The Place We Live 2013 Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, "The Question of Hope - Robert Adams in Western Oregon" 2011 Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, NV, "The Unworthiness of Our Response: Photographs by Robert Adams" 2010 Fotografins Hus, Stockholm, Sweden, Robert Adams 2009 Hasselblad exhibition (traveling), Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany, Seascapes 2007 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Trees Fondation Cartier pour l art contemporain, Paris, On the Edge 2006 Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Pine Valley Center for Creative Photography, Tucscon, AZ, Turning Back The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Landscapes of Harmony & Dissonance

2 The Photographer s Gallery, London, Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2006 traveling to Berlin and Frankfurt 2005 Fraenkel Gallery, SF, Circa 1970 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, Turning Back Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, Turning Back 2004 Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, The Paradise Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton University, Robert Adams: From the Missouri West Joseph Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany, Robert Adams: The New West 2003 Tate Modern, London, Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth Century Photograph Roth Horowitz, NY, Commerical, Residential 2002 Yale University Art Gallery, What We Bought, The New World 2001 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway Robert Adams: Places People Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover MA, Reinventing the West Reed College, Portland, OR, Robert Adams: Sunlight, Solitude, Democracy Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, True West 2000 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, California 1998 The Art Museum, Princeton University, NJ, To the Mouth of the Columbia 1997 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, What We Bought: The New World Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium 1996 Columbia College, Chicago, IL, "Listening to the River" Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY Musee d'arte Moderne de St. Etienne, St. Etienne, France, "Our Lives and Our Children" 1995 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "West from the Columbia" Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria, "Listening to the River" Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany, "What We Bought: The New World" Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany, "Listening to the River" 1994 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany, "Listening to the River" 1993 Denver Art Museum, "At the End of the Colombia River" Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium 1992 Centre d'art Contemporain, Belguim 1991 Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan 1990 Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1989 Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA 1987 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1986 Denver Art Museum, CO (traveling) California Museum of Photography, Riverside 1985 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "Summer Nights" Northlight Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1984 Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, "Our Lives and Our Children..." 1983 Milwaukee Art Museum, WI 1981 Castelli Graphics, New York, NY Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA 1980 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA Atlanta Gallery of Photography, GA 1979 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Prairie" 1977 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB 1976 Castelli Graphics, New York, NY St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO

3 Selected group exhibitions 2018 The Beauty of Lines. Masterpieces from the Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla collection, Musée de l Elysée Lausanne, Switzerland 2017 Autophoto, Fondation Cartier pour l art contemporain, Paris, France 2015 HyperAmerica. Landscape - Image - Reality, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria Land Meets Water: European and American Photography from 1860 to the Present, Artipelag, Gustavsberg, Sweden Myth and Memory in Recent American Landscape Photography, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Take One: Contemporary Photographs, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2014 Museum Photographic Arts, San Diego, Aperture Remix Museum Ludwig, Köln, Unbeugsam und ungebändigt, Dokumentarische Fotografie um 1979 Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France, Mémoires Vives Museum of Photographic Arts MoPA, San Diego, Apeture Gallery, New York; Prix Pictet, Zürich Prix Pictet: Power Museum of Fine Arts Boston, An Enduring Vision. Photographs from the Lane Collection The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, At the Window: The Photographer's View 2013 Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, USA, Looking at the New West Contemporary Landscape Photography Museum of Photographic Arts MoPA, San Diego, 30x: Three Decades Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Shared Vision 2012 Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, true stories Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Photography Calling! 2011 The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, In Focus, The Sky Nederlands Fotomuseum / Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam, New Topographics 2010 SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape FoMu FotoMuseum Antwerp, American Documents LACMA, Los Angeles New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape 2009 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Into the Sunset Photography s Image of the American West 2008 National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Oceans, Rivers, and Skies: Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, and Alfred Stieglitz, October 12, 2008 March 15, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, What does the jellyfish want? 2006 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Peter Freeman, NY Nothing and Everything: Drawing, Painting, Photography and Sculpture, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Where Rivers Join the Sea: Photographs by Robert Adams and Marcos Zimmerman, December 1, February 19, 2007 Victoria & Albert Museum, London Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Tiefenschärfe Ectopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York City, September 8 November 26, 2006 Gimpel Fils, London, 60th Anniversary Show 2005 Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Some Trees Osborne Samuel/Scolar Fine Art, London, Nine Abstract Artists 2004 P.S. 1, NY, Open Spaces Citigroup Photography Prize, The Photographer s Gallery Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, Glorious Harvest: Photographs from the Michael E. Hoffman

4 Tribute Collection, June 12 October 3, 2004 Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Verne Dawson, Robert Adams 2003 Tate Modern, London, England, Cruel and Tender: The Real in the 20th Century Photograph Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, Cruel and Tender: The Real in the 20th Century Photograph Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Jede Fotografie ein Bild Siemens Fotosammlung 2002 Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Adams, Brohm, Berges, Fuchs, Nieweg Landschaft 2001 White Cube, London, England Settings and Players Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Das Museum unserer Wünsche Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Amerikanische Fotografie um Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany, How You Look At It 1999 Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Century Art and Culture, Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Measure of Nature Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, Sea Change Belem Cultural Center, Lisbon, Portugal, Waterproof 1997 Kassel, Germany, "Documenta X" Denver Art Museum, "The View from Denver" Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France 1996 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "Crossing the Frontier" Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Perpetual Mirage" 1995 Various locations, sponsored by the United Nations, "Silent Witness" 1994 Offshore Gallery, NY, "Seasights" Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, "Hidden Faces" 1993 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan, "Critical Landscapes" National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (catalog) University Corporation of Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO Lowinsky Gallery, New York Esders Gallery, Paris (catalog) Princeton University (catalog) 1992 Amerika Haus Berlin, Germany, "Robert Adams, Wim Wenders: Photographs of the American West" Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany, "Mehr als ein Bild" Portland Art Museum, OR, "A History of Oregon Photography" Lowinsky Gallery, New York, NY 1991 Museum of Modern Art, NY, "Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort" Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "The Kiss of Apollo" (catalog) Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Timothy O'Sullivan and Robert Adams" Denver Art Museum, "Visions/Revisions" Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA 1990 International Center of Photography, NY, "The Indomitable Spirit" (catalog) Musee National d'art Moderne, Paris, France, "Passages de l'image" (traveling, catalog) James/Schubert Gallery, Houston, TX "Notes for Friends" 1989 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, "On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography" (traveling, catalog) Museum of Modern Art, NY, "Photography Until Now" (catalog) Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, "Photography Now" (catalog) Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France, "Une Autre Objectivite" (catalog) Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, "Decade by Decade" (catalog) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, "The Art of Photography: " Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, "The New American Landscape" Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, "Picturing California" (catalog)

5 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, "Night Light" (catalog) 1987 Museo Fortuny, Venice, Italy, "Nuovo Paesaggio Americano" (catalog) Art Institute of Chicago, IL, "American Photographs, " 1986 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, "Artists in Mid-Career" (catalog) Australian National Gallery, Canberra Ohio Wesleyan University, OH, "Looking at the American Land" International Center of Photography, New York, NY, "Views and Visions" 1985 Burden Gallery, New York, NY, "Western Spaces" Kunstverein Munchen, Munich, Germany, "Robert Adams/Albert Renger-Patzsch" 1984 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Three Americans" Museum of Contemporary art, Los Angeles, CA, "Automobile and Culture" (catalog) 1982 Oakland Museum, CA, "Slices of Time: California Landscapes" 1981 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "American Landscapes" Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY, Biennial 1977 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, "Contemporary American Photographic Works" 1976 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Photography for Collectors" 1975 Baltimore Museum of Art, MD, "14 American Photographers" (catalog) George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, "New Topographics" 1973 Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, "Contemporary Photographs" Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "New Acquisitions" Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Landscape/Cityscape" 1971 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Robert Adams/Emmet Gowin" 1970 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "New Acquisitions" 1964 Documenta 3, Kassel, Germany Biennale Venice Collections Addison Gallery of American Art, MA Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Art Institute of Chicago, IL Australian National Gallery, Canberra Baltimore Museum of Art, MD Boulder Public Library, CO Bowdoin College, ME Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY Cincinnati Art Museum, OH Colgate University, NY Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO Colorado State Museum, Denver Denver Art Museum, CO Fond Regional d'art Contemporain Champagne Ardennes (Reims), France Fond Regional d'art Contemporain Lorraine (Metz), France Fond Regional d'art Contemporain Rhone-Alps (Musee d'art Moderne, Saint Etienne), France Fond National d'art Moderne, Paris, France International Museum of Photography, Eastman House, Rochester, NY Israel Art Museum, Jerusalem, Israel J. Paul Getty Museum, CA

6 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA Madison Art Center, Madison, WI Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Milwaukee Art Museum, WI Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Nevada Museum of Art, Reno New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM Oakland Museum of Art, CA Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA Portland Art Museum, OR Princeton University, NJ Seattle Art Museum, WA Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Visual Studies Workshop, NY Washington Art Consortium, Seattle, WA Wheaton College, IL Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Williams College, MA Yale University Art Gallery, CT Selected bibliography 2017 Robert Adams: An Old Forest Road, Galerie Thomas Zander, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2014 Robert Adams: Buildings in Colorado, , Galerie Thomas Zander, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2013 The Place We Live: A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, , Neuauflage, Steidl, Göttingen, Germany 2011 Denver: Denver Art Museum, new edition in cooperation with Fraenkel Gallery The Place We Live: A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, , Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven 2010 What Can We Believe Where?: Photographs of the American West, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven 2009 denver: A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area, rev. Ed., Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Summer Nights, Aperture, New York and Yal University Art Gallery What We Bought: The New World, Scenes From the Denver Metropolitan Area, , (2nd edition), New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery 2008 The New West (3rd edition), Aperture, New York Time Passes, Steidl

7 2006 Manzanita, Nazraeli Press Interiors , Nazraeli Press Along Some Rivers, Aperture, New York 2005 Turning Back, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco A Portrait in Landscapes, Nazraeli Press Pine Valley, Nazraeli Press 2003 Commercial Residential: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range, , Roth Horowitz, PPP Editions, New York 2002 Alders, Nazraeli Press Boddhisattva, Nazraeli Press Reinventing the West, Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts Sunlight, Solitude, Democracy, Home...Photographs by Robert Adams, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery / Reed College., Portland, Oregan 2000 California, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco The New West (2nd edition), Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1999 Eden, Roth Horowitz, New York Notes for Friends, University Press of Colorado I Hear the Leaves and Love the Light, Nazraeli Press 1996 Essais sur le Beau en Photographie, Fanlac, France Beauty in Photography, Aperture, New York 1995 West from the Columbia, Aperture, New York Cottonwoods, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. What We Bought: The New World: Denver La Bellezza in Fotografia, Bollati Boringhieri, Italien 1994 Listening to the River: Seasons in the American West, Aperture, New York Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews, Aperture, New York 1989 To Make It Home: Photographs of the American West, Aperture, New York 1988 Perfect Times, Perfect Places, Aperture, New York 1986 Los Angeles Spring, Aperture, New York 1985 Summer Nights, Aperture, New York 1983 Our Lives and Our Children: Photographs Taken Near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, Aperture, New York The American Space (Introduction) Wesleyan University Press, CT 1981 Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values, Aperture, New York 1980 From the Missouri West, Aperture, New York 1978 Prairie, The Denver Art Museum, Colorado 1977 denver: A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area, Colorado Associated University Press, Boulder, Colorado 1974 The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range, Colorado Associated Univ. Press, Boulder, Colorado The Architecture and Art of Early Hispanic Colorado, Colorado Associated Univ. Press, Boulder, Colorado 1970 White Churches of the Plains: Examples from Colorado, Colorado Assoc. University Press, Boulder, Colorado