Brad Temkin (American, 1956 -)
Education
University Of Illinois at Chicago – Chicago, IL – M.F.A in Photography
Ohio University – Athens, OH – B.F.A. in Photography
Grants & Awards
2017
John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation – Photography
2008
Illinois Arts Council Special Assistance Grant – Photography
2007
Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship – Photography
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
2017
Indiana State University – Bloomington, IN
The Gage Gallery, Roosevelt University – Chicago, IL
2015
Southeast Museum of Phtography – Daytona Beach, FL
2014
Sivori Museum of Art – Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013
Lumiere Brothers Center of Photography – Moscow, Russia
2010
Block Art Museum “Barbara Crane & Brad Temkin: Choices In Contemporary Photography”
2009
Middle Tennessee State University – 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
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
State of Water: Our Most Valuable Resource
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX
2019
Sep 13, 2019 – Jan 12, 2020
State of Water: Our Most Valuable Resource
The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
The State Of Water
Dali, China
2017
Rooftop: Second Nature
The Gage Gallery, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
Rooftop: Second Nature
Wright Art Museum, Beloit College, Beloit, WI
2016
Rooftop
Fotofest, Changing Circumstances, Williams Tower, Houston, TX
Rooftop Gardens
PDNB Gallery, Dallas TX
2015
Rooftop Gardens and Landscapes of Ireland
Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Second Nature – A Survey
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
ROOFTOP
Sol Mednick Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Rooftop: Second Nature
International Solo Exhibition, Lianzhou Festival, Lianzhou, China
2014
Rooftop: Second Nature
Sivori Art Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rooftop: Second Nature
International Solo Exhibition, Lianzhou Festival, Lianzhou, China
2013
Rooftop
Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL
Rooftop: Second Nature
Photovisa V, Krasnodar, Russia
2012
Gardens: From Backyard To Rooftops
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
2011
Environmental Law & Policy Center, Chicago, IL
2010
Green Roofs & Rooftop Gardens
City Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009
Relics
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Relics
Baldwin Gallery, MTSU, Murphreesboro, TN
Relics
Dali International Photography Festival, Dali, Yunnan, China
2008
Sidney Yates Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2007
Blanca Berlin Galleria, Madrid, Spain
2004
Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Afterimage Gallery, Dallas, TX
2001
Bassetti Fine Arts Photograph, New Orleans, LA
1998
Creative Photographic Arts Center, Lewiston, ME
1995
Midtown Y Photography Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1992
Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990
Imagery Gallery, Lancaster, OH
Museum Of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
1987
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1981
Exposure Gallery, Libertyville, IL
A. Montgomery Ward Gallery, University Of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
1980
Milwaukee Center For Photography, Milwaukee, WI
The Northgate Gallery, Jackson, MS
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Industrial Photography
ShenYang, China
2018
In The Garden
Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL
In The Garden
Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, TN
2017
Nature/Culture
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Ft Worth, TX
Grow/Conserve
Syngenta Photography Award Exhibition, Somerset House, London, UK
2016
Wonders of the World
Fotographie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
2015
In The Garden
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
Seeing China
MSU Art Museum, East Lasing, MI
2013
An Unusual Garden
Houston Center For Photography, Houston, TX
Rural/Urban
Syngenta Photography Award Exhibition, Somerset House, London, UK
2012
Domestic
Xavier Miserachs Biennial of Photography Biennieal, Palafrugell, Spain
Anthology
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
Looking At The Land, 21st Century American Views
Museum of Art, RISD, Providence Rhode Island
Looking At The Land
FotoWeek DC Festival, The Warner, Washington, DC
2011
Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment
New Mexico Museum of Art – Santa Fe, NM
2010
Domestic
Espacio Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona, Spain
There Is No There, There
PHOTO BIENNIALE 2010, Teetix Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
2009
Place and Presence
Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
Chicago Gardens: Past and Present
Chicago Tourism Center, Chicago, IL
2008
Beyond The Backyard
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Found At FotoFest
John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX
2007
Couples: The Art Of Connection
Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Photographer’s Network
Art Gallery, Seigen, Germany
Degrees of Separation
Peer Gallery, New York, NY
Mysteries, Secrets, Illusions
M.K. Ciurlionis National Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2006
InSight
Museum Of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Intimate Spaces
The Methodist Hospital For Performing Arts Medicine, Houston, TX
Discoveries Of The Meeting Place at FotoFest
Erie City Iron Works, Houston, TX
2005
Birdhouses
Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
2004
Innocence Exposed: The Child In Modern Photography
Frist Center For Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
2001
Volbart, Langes Haar…: das Bildnis Jesu Christi
Fotographie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany
New Faces/NewPrints/New Space
Afterimage Gallery, Dallas, TX
White
Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Chicago In The Year 2000
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2000
Strength From Unity: Expressions On Cancer
Russell Senate Building, Washington, DC
1999
Strength From Unity: Expressions On Cancer
Waterfront Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland
David Carol & Brad Temkin
Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997
Three Visions
William Bachman Gallery, NIAA, Munster, IN
1996
Illinois Photographers
Museum Of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
1992
Gallery Artists
Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985
Christmas Show
San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982
Illinois Photographers 82
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
1980
Inner Landscape
ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019
“The State Of Water” – (monograph) Radius Books
2018
“The Photographer in the Garden”
Copublished by Aperture and the George Eastman Museum, New York City, NY
2017
“Eyes of the World: Photographs of the Grateful Dead 1965-1995”
Rock Out Books, San Francisco, CA
“L’offensiva del TETTO”
AMICA Magazine #3, Milan Italy
“Portfolio”
Amica Magazine
2016
“Paradise Found”
New Republic Magazine
“Picture Power”
Newsweek, Japan
“Changing Circumstances: Looking At the Future of the Planet”
Fotofest/Schilt Publishing
2015
“ROOFTOP”
Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM
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 New Mexico Press
“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
Profifoto Magazin, Photographer’s Network, Issue NR.6/07, June 2007
2006
Photography Now: One Hundred Portfolios
Wright State University Art Galleries (DVD)
“Chicago: A Geography of the City and It’s Region”
Center For American Places/CCC
2005
“Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens” (monograph)
Center For American Places/Columbia College Chicago
2002
Black & White Magazine, Spotlight, Issue #22, November/December
2000
Strength From Unity: Expressions On Cancer
Exhibition 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
Federal Reserve Bank, Houston
Grateful Dead Archive, University Of California Santa Cruz
Ilford Photo
Krannert Art Museum, University Of Illinois
Milwaukee Art Museum
Museo de Arte Moderna – Rio de Janeiro
Museum Of Contemporary Photography
Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston
Portland Art Museum
Ruttenberg Art Foundation
Southeast Museum of Photography
Wright Art Museum, Beloit College