David Graham (photographer)

David Graham (photographer)
David Graham (born 1952, Abington, Pennsylvania) is an American artist photographer and professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He currently lives and works in De Pere, Wisconsin. Embracing popular forms of American photography (the snapshot, family portrait, and vacation photo), David Graham explores contemporary culture through the idiosyncratic nature of the American landscape. His work is in many collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; the International Center of Photography, New York City; and the Brooklyn Museum, New York. He is represented by the Laurence Miller Gallery in New York City, Etherton Gallery in Tucson, Arizona, and the PDNB Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
Selected solo exhibitions
2019 Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
2015 Wessel + O'Connor, Lambertville, New Jersey
2015 Where We Live, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
2014 Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2014 35 Pictures / 35 Years, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2008 Almost Paradise, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2008 Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2007 PDNB Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2004 Declaring Independence, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2004 James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
2003 Alone Together, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2003 Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2002 Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania
2002 Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, New York
2002 Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2002 Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania
2001 Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
2000 Burden Gallery, New York, New York 2000
1999 Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1999 Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1998 Menschel Gallery, Syracuse University, New York 1998
1994 Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1991 Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1991 Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
1989 Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
1987 Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
1987 International Center of Photography, New York, New York
1986 Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1986 Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts
1985 Armstrong Gallery, New York, New York
1985 Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Selected group exhibitions
2022. Wisconsin Artists Biennial, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin
2022 newARTSpace I, newARTSpace, De Pere, Wisconsin
2021. Through the Lens, James A. Michener Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
2020. Signs of the Times, PDNB Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2020. Photographs of the Week, #85, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
2019 Betwixt & Between, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
2018 Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
2017 The Duck & the Document: True Stories of Postmodern Procedures, SCI-Arc & Princeton University, New Jersey
2017 Circles, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
2016 Kentucky Captured, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
2016 Small Things Considered, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
2016 Tete a Tete, James A. Michener Museum of Art, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
2016 Paris Photo Revisited, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
2014 Small Things Considered, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
2013 William Eggleston and his Circle, PDNB Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2012 Man Made Color, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NU
2011 Flora & Fauna, Salt Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2009 Snapshots on the Way to the Real World, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2007 Pink at Perkins: The Contradictory Character of a Complex Color, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, New Jersey
2006 Second Woodmere Triennial of Contemporary Photography, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2005 Heartfelt, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
2003 Home, Ricco/Maresca, New York, New York
2003 Maine ASAP, Northeast Harbor, Maine
2002 Elvis, Howard Greenburg Gallery, New York, New York
2002 Re/viewing Photography, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2002 Bucks County Portraits, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
2001 Pretty, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, New York
2001 Family, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
2001 Murals, Deutsche Bank, New York, New York
2000 Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
2000 Bienniel 2000, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
1999 Wonderland, Noorderlicht Fotofest, Netherlands
1998 Four American Photographers, Athens, Greece
1997 BANG! The Gun as Image, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
1997 Las Vegas, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1996 Howard Finster's Paradise Garden, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1993 Home, Noorderlicht Fotofest, Netherlands
1992 Our Town, Burden Gallery, New York, New York
1991 Pivot, Mostyn Art Gallery, Gwynedd, North Wales
1991 Nuclear Matters, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California
1990 Landscapes, Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York
1989 Fire Sites, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
1988 Photographic Truth, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut
1988 Alteradiants, Austin College, Sherman, Texas
Grants
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 2001, 1999, 1997 & 1987
English Speaking Union, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Executed in Great Britain 1990 & 1987
ASMP/Nikon Emerging Photographer Award, New York, 1986
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C, 1984
Monographs
In Plain Sight, David Graham with W.M. Hunt, EyeShot Publisher, 2022Almost Paradise, David Graham, Pond Press, 2008Declaring Independence, David Graham, Pond Press, 2004The Christmas List, David Graham, Quirk Books, 2003Alone Together, David Graham, Pond Press, 2002Taking Liberties, David Graham, Pond Press, 2001Land of the Free, David Graham with Andrei Codrescu, Aperture, 1999Ay, Cuba!, w/Andrei Codrescu, St. Martins Press, 1999David Graham, Past & Present Tense, Lightwork, 1998Road Scholar, w/Andrei Codrescu, Hyperion, 1993Only in America, David Graham, Knopf, 1991American Beauty'', David Graham, Aperture 1987
External links
David Graham Photography
University of the Arts
http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/
http://pdnbgallery.com/SITE/
American photographers
1952 births
Living people
People from Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
University of the Arts (Philadelphia) faculty
People from Newtown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania