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Kevin E. Bubriski: documentary photographer
129 Buck Hill Road, PO Box 559, Shaftsbury, VT 05262
(802) 442-4516
bubriski@sover.net

Kevin Bubriski has exhibited worldwide; his work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography, all in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Asian Cultural Council, Bubriski worked for nine years in Nepal, and has photographed his journeys to India, Tibet, and Bangladesh. Author of Portrait of Nepal (Chronicle), which won the Golden Light Documentary Award in 1993, and Power Places of Kathmandu: Hindu and Buddhist Holy Sites in the Sacred Valley of Nepal (Inner Traditions), Bubriski lives in Vermont with his wife.

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photography grants and fellowships
Hasselblad Masters Award, 2004
Visiting Fellow, CTAH, Williams College, 2001
Artist Residency, Anderson Ranch, Colorado, 2001
Vermont Arts Council, Opportunity Grant, 1999
Guggenheim Fellowship, Photography, 1994-95
Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, 1994-95
Fulbright Fellowship, Nepal, Research Grant in Photography, 1989-90
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Photography, 1988
Nepal Photography Project, Film Study Center, Harvard University, 1985-88

photographic collections
Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln , Massachusetts
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
International Center of Photography, New York, New York
International Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts
LaSalle Bank Collection, Chicago, Illinois
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, Washington
Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
New York Historical Society, New York, New York
Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island
David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Collection, Chicago, IL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Vermont State House Art Collection, Montpelier, Vermont
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

one person exhibitions
“Sacred Sites: Syria, Jordan, and Egypt”, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont August 2010
"Himalayan Shamanism", The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, January-March 2010
“Japan”, Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont January 2010
“Portrait of Nepal”, Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy December 13, 2008- February 25, 2009
“Nepal in Black and White”, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY March – October 2008
“Nepal”, International Biennial of Mountain Photography, Aosto, Italy August 17- September 30, 2008
“Molly Stark School Portraits”, Bennington Museum , Bennington, Vermont    December 2007
“Nepal: Thirty Years 1975-2005”, Union College, Schenectady, New York September – November 2007
“Bridging People/Bridging Cultures”, Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, Turners Falls, MA 2006
“Ninth Month – Ninth Ward”, (two person show), Gallery 2306, Birmingham, Alabama 2006
“Rocks and Ruins”, Gallery Kayafas, Boston , MA September 9th - October 15, 2005
"Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero", Gallery at the VAULT, Springfield, Vermont September 2005
"Tibet", Indigo Gallery, Kathmandu Nepal February- March 2005
"Independence of Thought - Freedom of Speech", Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT February - Nov. 2004
"The Tibetans and the Uighurs", Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington, VT Jan- Feb.2003
"Vintage Works", Flat Street Gallery, Brattleboro, Vermont January 2003
“Looking at Ground Zero”, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA Sept. 2002- Feb. 2003
"History Responds", New York Historical Society, New York, NY   July – September 2002
"Nepal and Tibet Photographs", Russian Cultural Center, Kathmandu, Nepal December 202
"Reflections of Asia", Kismet Gallery, New York, New York October 2002
"Kashgar", Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT July 2002
“Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero”, Arts Atrium Gallery, Union College,
Schenectady, NY Feb-March 2002
“Elders of North Bennington”,Vermont Arts Exchange, VT   Oct.1999 – May 2003
Hampshire College, Amherst MA   November 2001
"Butoh of Kudo Taketeru" , President's Gallery, Bennington College, Sept-Oct 2001
Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC June-July 2000
Telluride Mountain Film Festival, Telluride, CO May 2000
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont Aug.- Sept 1999
"Butoh" , Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Wesleyan Unversity Spring 1999
"Tibet Photographs," ArtAsia Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec.1997-Jan.1998
"Butoh at the Crossroads," Flynn Theatre Gallery Space, Burlington, Vermont, Fall 1997
"Eastern Horizons,",Left Bank Gallery, Bennington, Vermont Aug-Sept. 1997
"Butoh - The Color Portfolio," Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Aug.-Sept. 1997
Agnes Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama   May-July 1996
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Canada October - December 1995
National Arts Club, New York, N.Y.   June 6th - July 16th 1995
"Family and Self Image," Elm Street Arts, March 9th - April 3rd 1995
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA    Jan. 18 - March 5 1995
Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, MA Jan. 20 - March 5 1995
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA July 1994 - January 1995
Photo-eye Books & Prints, Santa Fe, New Mexico May-July 1994
Shannon White Gallery, Los Angeles, CA   January-March 1994
Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City, OK December 1993
Robert Hull Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont , Burlington Nov.-Dec. 1993
Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA October 1993
"Introductions," Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California, July 1991
"In Tibet," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York;
The University Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts;
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts; and
Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania, 1991
"Portrait of Nepal," Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL,Fall 1991
"Kathmandu Valley," American Cultural Center, Kathmandu, Nepal, October 1990
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, January - March 1990
Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, May - July 1989
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, April 1989
Port Washington Public Library, Long Island, New York, December 1988
Emmanual Midtown Y, New York, New York, October 1988
"Portraits from Nepal's Himalaya," American Cultural Center, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1987
"Nepal 1985," Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts; 1986 and
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, 1986
"Albuquerque," Santa Fe Center for Photography, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1984
"Portrait of Nepal," The Interchurch Center, New York, New York, 1982, and Nick Potter , Santa Fe, NM 1981