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Artist Bio
JOCK STURGES

Born:
New York, New York 1947

Education:
BFA. Magna cum Laude. Perceptual Photography. Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont. 1974
MFA. Photography. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California. 1985

Work:
1979 - Current: Fine art photographer working in California, Washington (state), Ireland, The Netherlands ,and on the Atlantic coast of France. Workshop instructor. Lecturer on aesthetics and the First Amendment. Commercial free-lance photographer specializing in fashion and classical dance. Contributing editor to various photography magazines. Private photography instructor.
1977 - 1978: Instructor of advanced photography, Anyart Gallery, Providence RI.
1976 - 1977: Business manager and printer (working with the negatives of Paul Strand, Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, Gary Winogrand, etc. with Richard Benson at the Fisher Press, Newport, RI.
1973 - 1975: Instructor of photography, Brattleboro Community College, Brattleboro, VT.
1972 - 1974: Commercial portrait and marine photographer, Newport, RI.
1970 - 1974: Began photography program and taught all levels of undergraduate photography at Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT.
1968 - 1970: Instructor of photography, special services facility, Yokohama, Japan.
1966 - 1970: U.S. Navy. Russian interpreter and photographer.

Selected One Person Shows:

2002 New Britain museum of Art
2002 Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
2002 Camera Work Gallery, Berlin
2002 Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Momus Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2002 Walter Storm Gallery, Munchen, Germany
2001 Louis Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Van Cel Gallery, Miami, FL
2001 Photo Eye Gallery, New Mexico,
2001 Il Tempo Gallery, Tokyo
2001 Stepping Stone Gallery, Long Island, NY
2001 Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
2001 Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto
2001 Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, TX
2001 Scalo Gallery, NY
2001 Scalo Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2000 Robert Klein Gallery, Boston MA
2000 Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, CO
2000 A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA
2000 Dorothy DePauw Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2000 Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Il Tempo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1999 Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999 Mauritz Gallery, Columbus, OH
1999 Photo eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999 Gallerie Bodo Niemann, Berlin, Germany
1999 Butters Gallery, Ltd., Portland, OR
1999 Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, CO
1998 Galerie DePauw, Brussels, Belgium
1998 Galerie Farbre, Vienna, Austria
1998 Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
1998 Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Il Tempo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Butters Gallery, Ltd., Portland, OR
1998 Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
1998  Photo Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1998  Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998  Lallak & Tom, Chicago, IL
1998  Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998  J. Magdison Gallery, Aspen, CO
1998  Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1998 Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
1997 Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
1997  Photo Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997 Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997 Ogilvy and Mather, New York, NY
1997 A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA
1997 Butters Gallery Ltd., Portland, OR
1997 Scalo Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1996  Bodo Niemann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1996  Il Tempo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996  Photo Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1996  Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
1996  Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany
1996  Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996  Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, CO
1996  Butters Gallery, Ltd. Portland, OR
1995  Kunsthaus Fischinger, Stuttgart, Germany
1995  Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995  Robert Klein Gallery, Miami, FL
1995  Photo Eye Gallery, Samta Fe, NM
1995  Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995  Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
1994  Studio Parade Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1994  Steltman Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1994  Butters Gallery, Ltd., Portland, OR
1994 Vision North, San Francisco, CA
1994  The Prinz Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
1994  Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994  Bodo Niemann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1994  Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1994  Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994  A Gallery for Fine Photography, new Orleans, LA
1993  Il Tempo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1993  Butters Gallery, Ltd. Portland, OR
1993 Photo Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1993  Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1993  Klein-OK Harris Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1993 Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, CO
1993  Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993  Roger Ramsay Galllery, Chicago, IL
1992 Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1992  Steltman Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1992 Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992  G. Ray Haswkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992  Alpha Cubic Gallery, Toyko, Japan
1992  Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
1992  Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1992  Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1992  Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1992  Il Tempo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992  Butters Gallery, Ltd. Portland, OR
1992  Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1991  Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, CO
1991  Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
1991  Butters Gallery, Ltd. Portland, OR
1991  Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1990  Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990  Roger Ramsay Galllery, Chicago, IL
1990  Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1990  Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA

Publications

Monographs:

The Last Day of Summer. Aperture, New York, NY. 1992. Introduction by Jayne Ann Phillips. Now in its 7th American edition, 2nd German and 1st Japanese editions.
Radiant Identities. Aperture, New York, NY. 1994. Introduction by Elizabeth Beverly. Afterword by A.D. Coleman. Now in its 6th American edition.
Evolution of Grace. Gakken Books, Tokyo, Japan. 1994.
Jock Sturges. Scalo, Zurich, Switzerland in conjunction with the Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany. 1996. Now in its first English, German and French editions.

Included in:

“View Camera” Portfolio and interview with Jean-Paul Caponegro, 1998
“21st” Annual journal of photography and literature. Includes a gravure portfolio in a museum addition of 50 copies plus 25 A.P. gravure prints of “Hanneke…”
“ADDICT” Magazine, Brussels, Belgium, 1998
“Picture” magazine, New York, NY, 1998
“Specchio della Stampa” Sunday Supplement, Rome, Italy. October, 1996
“Nieu Revu” Amsterdam, The Netherlands. July, 1996
“Stern Magazine” Hamburg, Germany, June 6, 1996
“Redaktion Joy.” Munich, Germany, Spring, 1996
“Siksi” Art Review of the Nordic Center for the Arts, Helsinki, Finland
“Fotofiktion” (museum catalogue), Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
“Das Magazin” Zurich, Switzerland, February, 1996
“Underworld:” Kelly Klein, editor. Alferd Knopf, NY, 1995
“Image Magazine” Helsinki, Finland, June, 1995
“Camera and Darkroom Mazagine” (cover and portfolio) Los Angeles, CA, 1995
“PHOTO Technique International” #4 Munich, Germany, 1994
“Nippon Camera” November, 1994, Tokyo
“The Nude and the Contemporary Photography” (sic) Tokyo, Japan, 1994
“The Cultural Battlefield” (chapter) Avocus, Washington, DC 1994
“The Body” William Ewing, editor, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA 1994
“An Encyclopedia of Photographers” CD ROM, Tokyo, Japan
“Read Only Memories” CD ROM Magazine, San Francisco, CA, April, 1994
“Graphis Nudes” Graphis Press, Zurich, Switzerland, 1993
“The Art of Absolute Nude II” Brutus Magazine, Tokyo, Japan, June, 1993
“Aperture: 40th Anniversary Issue. New York, January, 1993
“Shukan Shincho” Tokyo, Japan. Fall, 1992
“Geijutsu Shincho” Tokyo, Japan, Summer, 1992
“Deja-vu” Photography Quarterly, Tokyo, Japan. Spring, 1992
“To” Literary journal, (cover and portfolio) (Phil., PA, 1992)
“Zoom” Italy. Spring, 1992
“Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort” “Shots” Shots Publications, Joseph, OR 1991
“Border Crossings” Arts Manitoba Publications, 1991
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Asahi Press, Tokyo, Japan, 1991
“The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine” cover and article, January, 1991
“The Body in Question” Aperture. Publication and Traveling Exhibit, 1991
“Camera International” cover and portfolio. Paris, France, Summer 1990
“Swimmers” Aperture, traveling exhibit, 1989
“Camera International” Paris, France, 1989
“Brothers and Sisters” Putnam Press, 1989
“Mothers and Daughters” Aperture, publishing and traveling exhibit, 1998
“ZYZZYVA” PORTFOLIO. San Francisco, CA, spring 1987
“A Day in the Life of California”, Collins Press, 1988
“ZYZZYVA”
COVER, San Francisco, CA, Spring, 1987
“The Naked Portfolio” (Society for Photographic Education, in cooperation with the University of Colorado)


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