About Brad Temkin
Brad Temkin (American, b. 1956) is a photographer whose work examines the contemporary landscape and human impact on the environment through projects on architecture, ecology and natural resources. He has exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions at institutions including The Field Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, Museo Sivori, Southeast Museum of Photography, New Mexico Museum of Art, George Eastman Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others. His photographs are held in several permanent collections of institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Amon Carter Museum, George Eastman Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others. Temkin’s photographs have been featured in Aperture, TIME, Black & White Magazine, and European Photography. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 and two Illinois Arts Council Fellowships in 2007 and 2024. He is the author of three monographs: Private Places (Center for American Places, 2005), Rooftop (Radius Books, 2015), and The State of Water (Radius Books, 2019). Temkin taught photography at Columbia College Chicago between 1984 and 2020 and continues to mentor emerging artists
Photo Credit: Marc Hauser
2019
The State Of Water (monograph) – Radius Books
2018
The Photographer in the Garden – Aperture, NYC
2017
Eyes of the World: Photographs of the Grateful Dead 1965-1995 – Rock Out Books, San Francisco
2016
“Paradise Found” – The New Republic – NYC
“Reconnecting to Nature” – Newsweek Japan – Tokyo
Changing Circumstances: Looking At the Future of the Planet – Fotofest/Schilt Publishing
2015
ROOFTOP (monograph) – Radius Books
2012
“The Rise Of Living Architecture” – Green Roofs For Healthy Cities – Toronto, ON
“New Life for An American City: Pittsburgh” – Architectural Record Magazine – October 2012
2011
“Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment” – University of NM Press
“L’offensiva del TETTO” – AMICA Magazine #3 – Milan
“Contemporary US Photographers” – ARTVAS/Photo – Seoul, Korea – Autumn 2011
“Fixing America by Fixing America” – TIME Magazine Vol. 178, No 13
2010
China Photo – Issue No. 5/2010 – May 2010
2008
European Photography – Issue No. 83 – Summer 2008
PhotoNews – Issue No. 5/08
2007
Photographer’s Network – Profifoto Magazin – Issue NR.6/07, June 2007
2006
Photography Now: One Hundred Portfolios – Wright State University Art Galleries (DVD)
Chicago: A Geography of the City – Center For American Places/CCC
2005
Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens (monograph) – Center For American Places / Columbia College Chicago
2002
Spotlight – Black & White Magazine – Issue #22, November/December
2000
Strength From Unity: Expressions On Cancer – Catalogue – Belfast/Washington/Dublin
1994
Ireland: A Troubled Mirror – Aperture, Inc. – Issue No. 134
1980
Inner Landscape – Exhibition Catalogue – ARC Gallery
- Aer Lingus
- Akron Art Museum
- Amon Carter Museum of American Art
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Bank Of America (LaSalle Bank collection)
- Block Museum Of Art
- Brennan Steel
- Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University
- Center for Creative Photography
- Continental Bank
- Corcoran Gallery Of Art
- Grateful Dead Archive, University Of California Santa Cruz
- Ilford Photo
- Krannert Art Museum, University Of Illinois
- Milwaukee Art Museum
- Ministry Of Culture - Madrid, Spain
- Museo de Arte Moderna – Rio de Janeiro
- Museum Of Contemporary Photography
- Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston
- Portland Art Museum
- Ruttenberg Art Foundation
- Wright Art Museum, Beloit College
Teaching
1984-Present Columbia College Chicago – Chicago, IL
1981-1982 Oakton Community College – Des Plaines, IL
1979-1981 University Of Illinois at Chicago – Chicago, IL
Lecturer and Visiting Artist
2020
Los Angeles Center for Photography – Los Angeles, CA
2017
The Gage Gallery – Chicago, IL
Wright Art Museum – Beloit, WI
University of Indiana – Bloomington, IN
2015
Southeastern Museum of Photography – Daytona Beach, FL
2014
Sivori Museum of Art – Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013
Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography – Moscow, Russia
2012
Michigan State University – East Lansing, MI
2010
Block Art Museum “Barbara Crane & Brad Temkin: Choices In Contemporary Photography”
2009
Middle Tennessee State U – Murphreesboro, TN
Blue Sky Gallery – Portland, OR
2008
Chicago Cultural Center – Chicago, IL
2005
ICP School “Lightstalkers” – New York, NY
2002
Zone System & Ansel Adams – Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL
1995
University Of Illinois at Chicago – Chicago, IL
1991
University Of Illinois at Chicago – Chicago, IL
1990
Ohio University – Athens, OH
1987
University Of Illinois at Chicago – Chicago, IL
1983
Columbia College Chicago – Chicago, IL
1979
Barat College – Lake Forest, IL