Kevin Bubriski: Documentary Photographer

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 Bibliothque 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 and two children.


KEVIN E. BUBRISKI
129 Buckhill Road, PO Box 559
Shaftsbury, VT 05262
(802) 442-4516
bubriski@sover.net
http://www.kevinbubriski.com/

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Photography Grants and Fellowships


Hasselblad Masters Award, 2004
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

Photographic Collections


Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
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
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Muse de l'Elyse, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

One-Person Exhibitions


Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA September 9th - October 15, 2005
"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 2002
National Arts Club, New York, N.Y. June 6th - July 16th 1995
Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, MA Jan. 20 - March 5 1995
"In Tibet," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, January - March 1990

Group Exhibitions


"In the Realm of Gods and Kings: Arts of India," The Asia Society, New York, NY Sep.14, 2004 - Jan. 2, 2005
"Twentieth Century Photography: Recent Acquisitions, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Jan. - July 2004
"Masters' Exhibition," Hasselblad Center, Stockholm Sweden, October -December 2003
"Witness and Response:~ September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress. Library of Congress, Roosevelt Building, Washington, DC Sept, 7 - October 26 , 2002
"new york after New York: Photographs from a Wounded City," Muse de l'Elyse,Lausanne, Switzerland June 13 - Sept 16, 2002
"Recent Acquisitions," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Jan.-April 1995
"New Acquisitions," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco , CA 1993

Photographic Publications


Photography in New York, "Visual Literacy" by A. D. Coleman (January/February 2003)
DoubleTake, Special Edition World Trade Center portfolio, December 2001
New York Times, "Kevin Bubriski" by Charles Hagan July 7, 1995
Los Angeles Times Magazine, "Himalayan Passage," November 7, 1993
American Photo, "Time Travel: Kevin Bubriski's Nepal," November 1993

Books


Portrait of Nepal, ninety two duotones and text by Arthur Ollman, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA Fall 1993 (winner of the Golden Light 1999 Documentary Book Award and 1994 Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Award)
Power Places of Kathmandu, one hundred and eight color plates, text by Keith Dowman, Inner Traditions International, Rochester, VT and Thames&Hudson, London 1995
Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero, seventy five duotones with afterword text by Richard B. Woodward (powerHouse Books 2002)

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