RALPH GIBSON
Born in Los Angeles, California, 1939.
EDUCATION
Studied photography, U.S. Navy, 1956-1960.
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, 1960-1962.
Lives in New York City.
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2015
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. Political Abstraction.
Leica Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
RMA Institute, Bangkok Photo Festival, Bangkok, Thailand.
MONO Leitz Park, Wetzlar, Germany.
2014
Goeun Museum, Busan, Korea.
Wuyue Art Gallery, Beijing, China.
Leica Gallery, Hollywood, California.
Paci Contemporary, Brescia, Italy.
Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Canada.
2013
Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil.
China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China.
Gold Street Studios, Victoria, Australia.
2012
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
Gallery 916, Tokyo, Japan.
Point Light Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Les Murs, Toulouse, France.
2011
Palm Beach Photographic Centre Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Spectrum Gallery, Rochester, New York.
The Leica Gallery, Paris, France.
2010
Leica Gallery, Solms, Germany.
Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.
Gallery SEE+, Beijing, China.
2009
Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Arca Arte, Vercelli, Italy.
2008
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
The Fototeca in Havana, Havana, Cuba.
The Moscow Biennale of Photography, Moscow, Russia.
2007
The Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin, Germany.
Center for Creative Photograhy, Tucson, Arizona.
2006
Soka Art Gallery, Beijing, China.
92nd Street YMCA, NYC, NY.
Theatre de la Photographie, Nice, France.
2005
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy.
Sun Art Center, Seoul, Korea.
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky.
2004
The Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida.
The Ross Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.
2003
Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia.
2002
Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Galerie Lucie Weil Seligman, Paris, France.
2001
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
Bjorn Wetterling, Stockholm, Sweden.
2000
Kerava Art Museum, Kereva, Finland.
1998
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Tower Gallery, Yokohama, Japan.
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina.
1997
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC, NY.
1996
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
Leo Castelli Gallery, NYC, NY.
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany.
Leica Gallery, NYC, NY.
1995
French Cultural Services, NYC, NY.
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida.
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York.
Cantor Art Gallery, Holy Cross University, Worchester, Massachusetts.
1994
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio.
1993
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida.
Light Impressions, Rochester, New York.
1991
Castelli Graphics, NYC, NY.
I.C.A.C./Weston Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Vision Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Princessehof Museum, Leuwardern, The Netherlands.
Leica U.S.A., Northvale, New Jersey.
1990
Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland.
Drew University Art Gallery, Madison, New Jersey.
Visor-Centre Fotografic, Valencia, Spain.
1989
The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Galleria Spectrum, Saragosa. Spain.
Moderna Museet, Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
1988
The Photographer's Gallery, London, England.
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France.
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Municipal Exhibition Hall, Pamplona, Spain.
1986
Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France.
American Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium.
1985
Leo Castelli Gallery, NYC, NY.
1984
Weston Gallery, Carmel, California.
1983
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington.
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, Idaho.
1982
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
Castelli Graphics, NYC, NY.
Shadai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Olympus Gallery, London, England.
1981
Sprengel Museum, Hanover, West Germany.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, West Germany.
Spectro Arts Workshop, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England.
1980
Castelli Graphics, NYC, NY.
The Night Gallery, London, England.
Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, West Germany.
Galleria Arco D'Alibert, Rome, Italy.
The Photography Gallery, Wales.
Olympus Showroom, Hamburg, West Germany.
1979
Werkstatt Fur Photographie, Berlin, Germany.
Canon Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland.
ICA Museum of Art, Richmond, Virginia.
1978
Robert Self Gallery, London, England.
Castelli Graphics, NYC, NY.
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona.
Camera Obscura, Stockholm, Sweden.
Photographers Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
Museum of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia.
1977
Van Reekum Galerij Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.
Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England.
Side Gallery, Newcastle, England.
1976
Photographers Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
Castelli Graphics, NYC, NY.
University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
Focus Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Light Impressions, Rochester, New York.
1975
Hoesch Museum, Duren, West Germany.
Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris, France.
Madison Arts Center, Madison, Wisconsin.
Broxton Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Nadeau, Jean-François, L’Ambivalence de Ralph Gibson, LE DEVOIR, 22 November 2014.
Rubio, Lorraine, Artnet Asks: Photographer Ralph Gibson, ARTNET.COM, 5 August 2014.
Iwanczuk, Katrin, Ralph Gibson – Structures, shapes and lines, his elegant new Mono series, LFI/LEICA FOTOGRAPHIE INTERNATIONAL, February/March 2014, Cover, pp. 14-27.
Staff, Ralph Gibson – Mono, L’OEIL, 7 January 2014.
Staff, American photographer Ralph Gibson opens exhibition at Kahmann Gallery, ARTDAILY.ORG, 12 December 2013.
Schonauer, David, MAP Spotlight: Legendary Photog Ralph Gibson Puts Images in Motion… With His Own Music, MOTION ARTS PRO DAILY, 23 April 2013.
Burke, Justin, Abstracts without megabytes, THE AUSTRALIAN, 12 October 2012, p. 16.
Erker, Ezra Kyrill, Come to Bangkok and show me what you see, BANGKOK POST, 22 April 2012.
Rithdee, Kong, Beyond Fleeting Images, BANGKOK POST, 4 April 2012, p. 5.
Francisco, Jason, Review: At High Museum, photographer Ralph Gibson’s mysteries of visual severance,, ARTSATL.COM, 22 November 2011.
Branco Cruz, Felipe, Imagens do cotidiano, JORNAL DA TARDE, 12 May 2011.
Sjostrom, Jan, Surrealist photographer makes the ordinary “mystical”, PALM BEACH DAILY NEWS, 1 May 2011, pp. 1, A14.
Omar, Sarah, Das Älteste Thema der Kunstgeschichte, ART – DAS KUNSTMAGAZIN, 17 August 2009.
