About Brad Temkin

Brad Temkin’s (American, 1956) work is held in numerous permanent collections, including those of The Art Institute of Chicago; Milwaukee Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Amon Carter Museum; Eastman Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others.

His images have appeared in such publications as Aperture, Black & White Magazine, TIME Magazine and European Photography. He has numerous grants and fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in 2007.

Temkin has published 3 books: Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens (Center for American Places) 2005; Rooftop (Radius Books) 2015; and The State Of Water (Radius Books) 2019. He has taught at Columbia College Chicago since 1984.

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
  • 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