Stephen Shore's work has been widely published and exhibited for the past thirty years. His career began at the early age of fourteen, when he made the precocious move of presenting his photographs to Edward Steichen, then curator of photography at MOMA. Recognizing Shore's talent, Steichen bought three of his works. At the age of 24 Shore became the first living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He has also had one-man shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the George Eastman House, Rochester, and the Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His series of exhibitions at Light Gallery in New York in the early 1970's sparked new interest in color photography and in the use of the view camera for documentary work.

Most recently, Stephen Shore has photographed a fashion story with world renowned stylist Venetia Scott for Another Magazine (Spring 06). Campaigns include Bottega Veneta S/S 06, Orange 2004/5 & Titleist 2004. A regular contributor to W Magazine he's also picked up an SPD Gold Medal for a photo story in Details Magazine about a minor league baseball team.

Books of his photographs include Uncommon Places; The Gardens at Giverny; Stephen Shore: Luzzara; The Velvet Years, Andy Warhol’s Factory, 1965-1967; Stephen Shore: Photographs, 1973-1993; and American Surfaces, 1972. In 1998, Johns Hopkins University Press published The Nature of Photographs, a book he wrote about how photographs function visually. Since 1982 he has been the chairman of the photography program at Bard College where he is the Susan Weber Soros Professor in the Arts. He is represented by 303 Gallery in New York City.

Teaching position

Bard College: Susan Weber Soros Professor in the Arts; Director, Photography Program (1982- ); Chairman, Arts Division (1996-2000)

Grants & Fellowships

MacDowell Colony (1993)
American Academy in Rome (1980)
National Endowment for the Arts (1974, 1979)
Guggenheim Foundation (1975)

Early Chronology

1953 – Begins to develop and print family negatives; 1956 – Receives first 35mm camera; 1958 – Given copy of Walker Evans’ American Photographs; 1962 – Edward Steichen purchases 3 photographs for MoMA; 1965 – 16mm film, “Elevator”, is shown at Filmmakers’ Cinemateque, NYC; 1965-1967 – Warhol’s Factory. Takes photographs, assists on films, works on lighting for Velvet Underground performances; 1968 – First major publication: Andy Warhol, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; 1971 – First major exhibition: Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is the first show by a living photographer at the Met.; 1971 – Publishes Amarillo: Tall in Texas, a set of ten postcards; 1971 – Curates “All the Meat You Can Eat” at the 98 Greene Street Loft. An exhibition of vernacular photography: postcards, police pictures, pornography, advertising photography, press photos, etc.; 1972 – First show at LIGHT Gallery, NYC. LIGHT begins gallery representation.

One-Man Shows include

2005
Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
“The Biographical Landscape”; Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Presentation House, Vancouver, BC
PHotoEspaña, Madrid
Galerie Sprüth Magers, Cologne
PS 1, New York

2004
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2003
Spruth Magers Lee Gallery, London
303 Gallery, New York City

2002
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2001
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany

2000
Schirmer/Mosel, Munich, Germany
303 Gallery, NYC
"The Velvet Years", Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia

1999
Galeria D’Arte Contemporeneo di Comune di Venezia, Mestre, Italy; Musei Comunali, Rimini, Italy
Palazzo Civico, Rubiera, Italy, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
"American Surfaces", SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt, Germany

1998
" Stephen Shore: Photographs, 1973-1993": CRAF, Villa Cini, Spilinbergo, Italy

1997
Photographic Resource Center, Boston
Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam

1996
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

1995
PaceWildensteinMacGill, NYC
"Stephen Shore: Photographs, 1973-1993": Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany; Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; Württ. Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland

1992
Getty Museum [two-person]

1990
Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Josas, France [two-person]

1985
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson

1984
Art Institute of Chicago

1983, 1989
Pace/MacGill Gallery, NYC

1982
Arco Center for the Visual Arts, L.A.

1981
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Ringling Museum, Sarasota

1980
Werkstatt fur Photographie, Berlin
LIGHT Gallery, L.A.

1978
Galerie Gundlach, Hamburg

1977
Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf

1976
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Renwick Gallery, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington

1975, 1977
Galerie Schurmann & Kicken, Aachen, Germany

1972, 1973, 1975, 1977,1978, 1980
LIGHT Gallery, NYC

1971
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

Group Shows include

2005
“The American Dream”, Kunsthalle Manheim, Germany
“Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2005”, Photographers’ Gallery, London
“Linea di Confine”, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

2004
“Social Creatures”, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
“Inside Out”, Whitney Museum, NYC
“Arti & Architectura 1900-2000”, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa

2003
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
“The History of Photography”, The Albertina, Vienna
“Cruel and Tender”, Tate Modern, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne

2002
“Overnight to Many Cities”, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
“American Standard”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NYC
"Gravity Over Time”, 1000 Eventi, Milan

2001
"Settings and Players: Theatrical Ambiguity in American Photography, 1960-2000", White Cube2, London
"Overnight to Many Cities”, 303 Gallery, NYC

2000
"How You Look at It", Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, Germany
"Identificazione di un Paesaggio", Vega Parco Scientifico Technilogico, Marghera, Italy
"Places as Landscape", Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
"Collectors’ Choice", Exit Art, New York

1999
"Views from the Edge of the World", Marlborough Chelsea, NYC
"Andy Warhol: Photography", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
"The American Century, 1950-2000", Whitney Museum, New York
"The Promise of Photography", P.S.1, New York
"Photographic Innovators, 1840s-1990s", Victoria & Albert Museum, London
"Andy Warhol: A Factory", Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna, Austria; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

1998
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
"Andy Warhol: A Factory", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

1997
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
"Capturing Time", J. Paul Getty Museum, LA

1996
"Breuer's Whitney", Whitney Museum, NYC

1995
" American Studies", Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich

1992
"Flora Photographica", South Bank Art Centre, London

1991
" The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort", Museum of Modern Art, NYC [traveling]

1989
" On the Art of Fixing a Shadow", National Gallery, Washington, DC; Art Institute of Chicago

1987
" Nuovo Paesaggio Americano", Palazzo Fortuny, Venice

1985
" Images of Excellence. Photographs from the George Eastman House Collection" [traveling]
"American Images, 1945 -1980", Barbican Gallery, London

1982
"Counterparts", Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC [traveling]
"International Photography, 1920 - 1980", Austrailian National Gallery, Canberra

1980
"Acquisitions 1973 - 1980", George Eastman House, Rochester
"Mirrors and Windows", Museum of Modern Art, NYC [traveling]

1979
"American Images", Corcoran Gallery, Washington; International Center of Photography, NYC; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Minneapolis Institute of Arts
"American Photography in the 70's", Art Institute of Chicago

1977
" Court House", MoMA & Art Institute of Chicago

1976
" 100 Master Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art" [traveling]

1975
" New Topographics", George Eastman House, Rochester [traveling]

1973
" Landscape/Cityscape", Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

Exhibitions Curated

1989
"On Photography", Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie NY

1972
"All the Meat You Can Eat," 98 Greene Street Loft (Holly Solomon), NYC

Books
American Surfaces, Stephen Shore, intro. By Robert Nickas, Phaidon Press, 2005
Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, with photographs by Stephen Shore, Arion Press, 2004
Uncommon Places: The Complete Works, Stephen Shore, intro. By Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, interview with Lynne Tillman, Aperture, 2004
Essex County, Stephen Shore, Nazraeli Press, 2003
Uncommon Places: 50 Unpublished Photographs, 1973-1978, Stephen Shore, Conrads/Mennour, 2002
American Surfaces, Stephen Shore, Schirmer/Mosel, 1999
The Nature of Photographs, Stephen Shore, Johns Hopkins, 1998
The Velvet Years: Warhol's Factory, 1965-1967, Stephen Shore, Thunder's Mouth, 1995
Stephen Shore: Photographs 1973-1993, intro. by James Enyeart, Schirmer/Mosel, 1995
Stephen Shore: Luzzara, Stephen Shore, Arcadia Edizioni,1993
The Gardens at Giverny, Stephen Shore, Aperture, 1983
Uncommon Places, Stephen Shore, Aperture, 1982
Andy Warhol, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1968

Publications (with 6 or more plates) include

“Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2005”, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 2005
“The Soul of the New Exurb”, New York Times Magazine, March 27, 2005
“The Ghost Forrest”, House & Garden, February 2005
Social Creatures, P. Drück & I. Schube, eds., Hatje Cantz, 2004
“Jigsaw Puzzle”, Blind Spot, #26, 2004
“High and Mighty”, W, March 2004
“Alone with Baseball: Stephen Shore’s Minor League”, Peter Schjeldahl, Aperture, Fall 2003 (No. 172)
Cruel and Tender, Dexter & Weski, Tate Modern, 2003
“Artist Project: Stephen Shore”, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Tate Magazine, May/June 2003
“Suburban Cowboy”, Stephen Shore, Details, May 2003
“Portfolio: Stephen Shore”, Walead Beshty, Artforum, May 2003
Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene: Visions of Passage, James Enyeart, Arena Editions, 2002
Manger/Eat, Coromandel Press, 2001
"Farm Hands", Stephen Shore, Details, Nov. 2000
"Amarillo – ‘Tall in Texas’, A Project by Stephen Shore, 1971", Mark Haworth-Booth, Art on Paper, Sept.–Oct. 2000
Dormir/Sleep, Coromandel Press, 2000
Indentificazione di un Paesaggio, Sandro Mescola, Silvana Editoriale, 2000
"Stephen Shore", interview with Peter Halley, Index, April/May 2000
How You Look at It, Thomas Weski and Heinz Liesbrock, Thames and Hudson, 2000
Andy Warhol: Photography, Christoph Heinrich, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1999
Andy Warhol, A Factory, Germano Celant, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 1998
Edward Hopper und die Fotographie, G.-W. Költzsch & H. Liesbrock, DuMont, 1992
American Independents, Sally Eauclaire, Abbeville Press, 1987
Nuovo Paesaggio Americano, Paolo Constantini, ed., Edizioni Electa, 1987
"The Capitol in Albany," intro. by William Kennedy, Aperture, 1986
"Architecture in Continuity", Sherban Cantacuzino, ed., Aperture, 1985
New Color/New Work, Sally Eauclaire, Abbeville Press, 1984
Annie on Camera, Anne Hoy, Abbeville Press, 1982
The New Color Photography, Sally Eauclaire, Abbeville Press, 1981
American Images, Renato Danese, ed., McGraw/Hill, 1979
"The Framing of Stephen Shore", Tony Hiss, American Photographer, Feb. 1979
Court House, Richard Pare, ed., Horizon Press, 1978
Photography Year/1977, Time-Life Books, 1977
"Stephen Shore", Camera, Jan. 1976

Other Publications include

A World History of Art, 7th ed., Hugh Honour & John Fleming, Laurence King, 2005
“A Fluttering Knuckleball”, Stephen Shore & Tim Davis, Blind Spot, #26, 2004
Visions from America, Sylvia Wolf, Prestel, 2002
“A Conversation with Stephen Shore”, Susanne Lange, Bernd und Hilla Becher Festschrift, Schirmer/Mosel, 2002
Settings and Players: Theatrical Ambiguity in American Photography, 1960-2000, White Cube, 2001
An American Century of Photography, 2nd edition, Keith Davis, Hallmark, 1999
Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House, Taschen, 1999
The American Century, 1950-2000, Lisa Phillips, Whitney Museum, 1999
The Photography Book, Ian Jeffrey, Phaidon Press, 1997
Flesh & Blood, Essays by Ann Beattie and Andy Grundberg, The Picture Project, 1992
The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Peter Galassi, Museum of Modern Art, 1991
On the Art of Fixing a Shadow, Travis, Westerbeck, et al., Bullfinch Press, 1989
Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collection, Robert Sobieszek, Abbeville Press, 1986
A World History of Photography, Naomi Rosenblum, Abbeville Press, 1984
The Museum of Modern Art, intro. by Sam Hunter, Abrams, 1984
American Photography, A Critical History, Jonathan Green, Abrams, 1984
Great Photographers, revised edition, Time-Life Books, 1983
The History of Photography, fifth edition, Beaumont Newhall, Museum of Modern Art, 1982
Counterparts, Weston Naef, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982
Photography and Facination, Max Kozloff, Addison House, 1979
"Color Photography: The Walker Evans Legacy & the Commercial Tradition", Carol Squiers, Artforum, Nov.,1978
Mirrors and Windows - American Photography Since 1960, John Szarkowski, Museum of Modern Art, 1978
The City, Peter Bunnell, ed. of photographs, Oxford University Press, N.Y.C., 1971

Reviews and Articles include

“Focus On: Stephen Shore on Lisa Kereszi”, Art on Paper, May-June 2005
“Stephen Shore”, Steven Humblet, Sint-Lukasgalerij, Jan-Feb, 2005
“An Autobiography of Seeing”, Aaron Schuman, Modern Painters, Spring 2004
“Stephen Shore”, Joao Ribas, Flash Art, Oct. 2003
“The City without Qualities”, Walead Beshty, Influence Magazine, No. 1, 2003
“The Beauty of the Disregarded”, Suzie Mackenzie, The Guardian, May 17, 2003
“Zoe Leonard Rencontre Stephen Shore”, Beaux Arts Magazine, Nov., 2002
“Amarillo – ‘Tall in Texas’, A Project by Stephen Shore, 1971”, Mark Haworth-Booth, Art on Paper, Sept.–Oct. 2000
“Stephen Shore”, Kristin M. Jones, Frieze, #54
“Stephen Shore”, interview with Peter Halley, Index, April/May 2000
“Clouds of Seeing”, Peter Schjeldahl, Village Voice, Dec. 26, 1995
"The Framing of Stephen Shore", Tony Hiss, American Photographer, Feb. 1979
"Color Photography: The Walker Evans Legacy & the Commercial Tradition", Carol Squiers, Artforum, Nov.,1978
"The New Photography: Turning Traditional Standards Upside Down", Art News, Gene Thornton, April, 1978
"New Frontiers in Color", Douglas Davis & Mary Rourke, Newsweek, April 19,1976
"The Ten Toughest Photographs of 1975", Douglas Davis, Esquire, Feb.,1976
"Route 66 Revisited: The New Landscape Photography", Carter Ratcliff, Art in America, Jan.-Feb.,1976
"The Coming of Age of Color Photography", Max Kozloff, Artforum,  Jan.,1975

Collections include

MUSEUMS, U.S.:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.C.; Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C.; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y.C.; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Seattle Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Louisville Art Museum, KY; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

MUSEUMS, FOREIGN:

Albertina, Vienna, Austria; Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany; SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany; Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS:

The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; The Art Museum of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:

American Telephone & Telegraph Co., N.Y.C,; Atlantic Richfield Corporation, L.A.; Chase Manhattan Bank, N.Y.C.; DG Bank, Frankfurt, Germany; Deutche Börse, Fankfurt, Germany; Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA; Seagram Collection, N.Y.C.; Siemens, Munich, Germany; Sohio Corporation, Cleveland, OH.