Curriculum Vitae (selected)
Ken Schles
Born: Brooklyn, New York. 1960.
Solo Exhibits
2013 Center For Photography, University of California Berkeley, CA
2011 Noorderlict Gallery, Groningen, NL
2011 1st International Bursa Photo Festival, Bursa, Turkey
2009 Noorderlict Gallery, Groningen, NL
2005 Lucas Schoormans Gallery, NYC
2002 C/O Gallery, Berlin
2002 Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln
2002 New School for Social Research, NYC
1996 Jan Kesner Gallery, LA
1992 Christine Burgin Gallery, NYC
1989 The Photography Center, NYC
1987 Greathouse Gallery, NYC
1985 Greathouse Gallery, NYC
Selected Group Exhibits
2013 Tokyo Photo Institute, 10x10 American Photobooks, Tokyo
2012 Museo d"Arte Contemporanea (MACRO) Testaccio Museum, FOTOGRAFIA Festival Internazionale di Roma, IX Edition, FotoGrafia di Roma PhotoBook, Rome, Italy
2012 Istanbul Photo Museum, Three Photographers: from Bursa to Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 Paris Photo, Paris
2010 Photo-Book Works, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
2009 Les Rencontres d'Arles Photographie, Contemporary Book Award Finalist, Arles, France
2007 Cityscapes: From Metropolism To Micropolism Foto-Expositie USVA Galerie (NL)
2005 Traces and Omens, Noorderlicht, Groningen (NL)
2005 Promised Land, Noorderlicht, Groningen (NL)
2005 Marks of Honour: A Striking Library, FOAM, and Galerie Van Zoetendaal Amsterdam
1999 Wonderland, Noorderlicht, Groningen (NL)
1999 Under/Exposed, (site specific) Stockholm
1994 Downtown, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rottedam
1993 Disorderly Conduct, PPOW, NYC
1992 More Than One Photography, MoMA
1989 Fifteen Photographers for the Next 150 Years, Tempo, Hamburg
1988 100 Years: A Tradition of Social and Political Art on the Lower East Side, PPOW
Bibliography
Monographs by Ken Schles
2013/14 Night Walk, Steidl
2013/14 Invisible City: Photographs by Ken Schles, Steidl (reprint)
2011 Oculus, Stichting Fotografie Noorderlicht
2008 A New History Of Photography: The World Outside And The Pictures In Our Heads, White Press
2001 The Geometry of Innocence, Hatje Cantz
1988 Invisible City: Photographs By Ken Schles, Twelvetrees Press
Books and Catalogs Containing Work by Ken Schles
2013 10x10 American Photobooks, ICP/PhotoBook FB Group
2012 Ken Schles: Invisible City, A Digital Resource (eBook), The Photobook Club (UK)
2012 By The Light of the Jukebox: The Americans List, Jason Eskenazi Red Hook Editions
2007 802 Photo Books from the M.+M. Auer Collection (Auer#676)
2005 Traces and Omens, Stichting Aurora Borealis
2004 Promised Land, Stichting Aurora Borealis
2004 FOAM Issue #5 Near
2002 Here is New York: a democracy of photographs, Scalo
2001 Sense of Space, Stichting Aurora Borealis
1999 Wonderland, Published by Stichting Aurora Borealis, edited by Wim Melis and Machiel Botman
Writing (also see monographs above)
International Correspondent for FOAM Museum Blog, Amsterdam (ongoing) essays include: "Images and Emergence", "Representation and its Double," "The Scale of Reality," "In Splendid Isolation," "The Look of Love," "A Call From The Wilderness," "Staving Off Infinite Regress By Way Interpreting Agee." 2012-2013
10x10 American Photobooks catalog essay for exhibition at the Tokyo Institute of Photography 2013
Antifoto-Manifesto, Böhm Kobyashi, Düsseldorf 2013
Le Journal de la Photographie, Paris, 2013
Interview and portfolio, Photoworld, Beijing 2013
Interview with Christian Patterson for Aperture's Photobook Review issue 2, April 2012
Interview with Ken Schles On Shadow March 2012
Essay "Infinite Stupidity" guest blogging for A.D. Coleman's Photocritic International site January 2012
"We Make Lists Because We Don't Want To Die." This 2010 essay was in response to Umberto Eco's 11/09 Interview in Der Spigel, "We Like Lists Because We Don't Want To Die."
"Image As Container," excerpt from A New History of Photography by Ken Schles. Excerpt translated by Andrian Kreye for publication in Germany's largest daily paper. Süddeutsche Zeitung September 26, 2008
Cornell Capa obituary, article by Ken Schles. Süddeutsche Zeitung May 26, 2008
Public Collections
Museum d"Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Museum of Modern Art, NYC, USA
The Cleveland Museum Of Art, Cleveland, USA
Library at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, USA
Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at The New York Public Library
LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, USA
The Brooklyn Museum, NYC, USA
Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Corcoran Museum of Art, Wash. D.C., USA
SFMoMA Architecture and Design Permanent Collection, SF, USA
The Manfred Heiting Collection, Los Angeles, USA
Education
Cooper Union BFA, 1982. Also studied with Lisette Model at the New School for Social Research
Talks and Guest Lectures
Berkeley Graduate School Center for Photography, Istanbul Photo Museum guest speaker, International Center of Photography Library Committee guest presenter, Light Work/SPE Joint Regional Conference, The New York Photobook Club, Bursa Photo Festival (Master Lecture Series), Harvard, International Center of Photography (Photographer Lecture Series 2009, 1990), Noorderlicht Foundation (NL), Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York University, The New School for Social Research, Parsons School of Design final critic and class appearances, School of Visual Arts (introductory lecture to Master candidates 2012), various appearances ICP. Given studio talks to visiting students from Rhode Island School of Design and the Rochester Institute of Technology. Developed a private workshop program with Jeff Ladd. Gave portfolio critiques and participated on panel discussions at the Bursa International Photo Festival (No.s 1 & 2) and on an ad hoc basis.
Teaching
International Center of Photography, New York (adjunct)
Awards
Les Rencontres d'Arles Photographie, Contemporary Book Award Finalist (short-list), Arles, France 2009 for A New History of Photography
5b4: Best of Year Photobook List (A New History of Photography)
ADC Silver Award
Addy's Best of Show
AIGA (Invisible City)
American Photography
Auer #676
Black Book AR 100
Communication Arts
Critique's The Big Crit
Digital Photobook Review Best digital books (Ken Schles' Invisible City: A Digital Resource)
IPA (Photographer of the Year for Culture, 2003)
New York Times Notable Book of the Year (1988 for Invisible City)
PDN
Photo Book Club "B@!t" of 2011 and 2012
Photo-Eye: Best of Year Photography Book (A New History of Photography and Oculus)
Print
Print Run: Best of Year Photography Book List (#2 2008 for A New History of Photography)
Show South
Society of Magazine Designers
Gold Award, Viewbook, Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
Gold Award, "In Our Community" diversity booklet, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
Ken Schles is a New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellow
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