Rosalind Solomon
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Rosalind Solomon is an American artist and photographer, born April 2, 1930 in Highland Park, Illinois
Highland Park, Illinois
Highland Park is a suburban municipality in Lake County, Illinois, United States, about north of downtown Chicago. As of 2009, the population is 33,492. Highland Park is one of several municipalities located on the North Shore of the Chicago Metropolitan Area.-Overview:Highland Park was founded...

. Solomon's work has been shown in various solo and group exhibitions. The artist has been the recipient of several awards including a Guggenheim Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died April 26, 1922...

 award in 1979, and a National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...

 Fellowship in 1989.

Solo exhibitions

  • 2010 Ritual, Bruce Silverstein Gallery
    Bruce Silverstein Gallery
    Bruce Silverstein Gallery was established in 2001. Bruce Silverstein Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in the Chelsea Art District in New York City. The Gallery's main exhibition space is located at 535 West 24th Street with another location at 529 West 20th Street...

    , New York The New Yorker, 2010.
  • 2008 Inside Out, Bruce Silverstein Gallery
    Bruce Silverstein Gallery
    Bruce Silverstein Gallery was established in 2001. Bruce Silverstein Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in the Chelsea Art District in New York City. The Gallery's main exhibition space is located at 535 West 24th Street with another location at 529 West 20th Street...

    , New York Art in America, 2008.
  • 2006 Foley Gallery, New York, New York, "American Pictures from Chapalingas 1976-2000,"
  • 2005 Musee Nicephore Niepce
    Nicéphore Niépce
    Nicéphore Niépce March 7, 1765 – July 5, 1833) was a French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography and a pioneer in the field.He is most noted for producing the world's first known photograph in 1825...

    , Chalon sur Saône, France, "Rosalind Solomon: American Photographs 1974-2001" The Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, Germany, "Close and Distant – Poland". Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany, "Eleven Portraits of Eggleston". Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, Germany, "Chapalingas, Photographs by Rosalind Solomon", catalogue texts by Susanne Lange, Ingrid Sischy and Gabriel Conrath-Scholl.
  • 1996 Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima, Peru, El Peru y Otros Lugares, "Peru and Other Places," catalogue text by Natalia Majluf and Jorge Villacorta.
  • 1995 Port Washington Public Library, Port Washington, New York
    Port Washington, New York
    Port Washington is a hamlet and census-designated place in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2010 Census, the community population was 15,846....

    , "Rosalind Solomon: Photographs". Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; "Rosalind Solomon: Photographs".
  • 1992 Instituto de Estudios americanos, Badalona and Bilbao
    Bilbao
    Bilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...

     Cultural Center, Bilbao, Spain, "Rosalind Solomon: Disconnections," catalogue text by Jeff Rosenheim.
  • 1991 PGI Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan, "Rosalind Solomon: Photographs".
  • 1990 Museum of Contemporary Photography
    Museum of Contemporary Photography
    The Museum of Contemporary Photography was founded in 1984 by Columbia College Chicago. It is well known for an active program and curating which discovers many emerging and mid-career artists...

    , Chicago, Illinois, "Rosalind Solomon: Rites and Ritual".
  • 1989 Winfisky Gallery, Salem, Massachusetts, "Rosalind Solomon".
  • 1988 Museum Voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam, Holland "Rosalind Solomon: Earthrites". Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, New York, "Rosalind Solomon: Portraits in the Time of AIDS," catalogue text by Thomas Sokolowski.
  • 1987 Catskill Center For Photography, Woodstock, New York, "In A New Light".
  • 1986 Espace, Union des Banques a Paris, Paris, France, "Rosalind Solomon Photographies," Ghislaines Richard-Vitton, catalogue text by Ben Lifson.
  • 1986 Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, "Rosalind Solomon: Earthrites," catalogue text by Arthur Ollman. Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, "Rosalind Solomon: Ritual, Photographs 1975-1985," Peter Galassi.
  • 1984 American Center, New Delhi, India, "Rosalind Solomon: India," catalogue text by Will Stapp,
  • 1982 Ikona Gallery, Venice, Italy, "Rosalind Solomon: Peru," ed. Živa Kraus, catalogue text by Ljerka Mifka.
  • 1982 George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, "Rosalind Solomon: India," Marianne Fulton, (Tour included Smithsonian American Art Museum). Film in the Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota "Rosalind Solomon: Peru".
  • 1980 Sander Gallery, Washington, D.C., "Selected Images". Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Rosalind Solomon: Washington," catalogue text by Jane Livingston.
  • 1978 Sander Gallery, Washington, D.C., "Rosalind Solomon". The Photographers’ Gallery, London, England, "Southern Portraits".
  • 1975 Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, "First Mondays in Scottsboro".

Group exhibitions

  • 2010 "Discoveries," Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY.
  • 2009 "Lisette Model and Her Successors," Mt. Holyoke College Art Gallery, MA http://www.mtholyoke.edu/artmuseum/model.html
  • 2007 "Lisette Model and Her Successors," Aperture Foundation
    Aperture Foundation
    The Aperture Foundation was founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan, Dorothea Lange, Nancy Newhall, Beaumont Newhall, Ernest Louie, Melton Ferris, and Dody Warren. Their vision was to create a forum for fine art photography, a new concept at the time. The first issue of...

    , New York, New York
  • 2006 Paris Photo, Foley Gallery Booth. MUSA Museum auf Abruf, Wien, Austria, part of the "European Month of Photography/Monat der Fotografie." Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, "Americans," Curated by Peter Weiermair. Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, "Person, People, and Place." Sepia Gallery, New York, New York, "Sepia at Seven." Salle d’exposition du quai Antoine ler, Monaco, "La Trajectoire de regard: Une exposition de photographies du Xxe siecle." Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan, "American Photographers: Fine Prints." Rubin Museum of Art
    Rubin Museum of Art
    __notoc__The Rubin Museum of Art is a museum dedicated to the collection, display, and preservation of the art of the Himalayas and surrounding regions, especially that of Tibet...

    , New York, New York, "Holy Madness: Portraits of Tantric Siddhas".
  • 2005 Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, "Inaugural Installation of the Steichen Gallery."
  • 2004 Best of, Die Photographische Sammlung, Collection of the Foundation, Cologne, Germany.
  • 2003 Art Cologne. Sepia International Inc., New York, "Faces." The Gallery at Mumm Napa, Rutherford, California, and the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California. "Wanderers, Travelers and *Adventurers: Images of Exploration from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Photographic Arts." Bibliothèque nationale de France, "Portraits/Visages 1853 - 2003."
  • 2002 Umbrage Editions and the United Nations, Barcelona, Spain, "Pandemic: Facing AIDS." The Asia Society, New York, New York, "Banaras The Luminous City." Sepia International, Inc., New York, New York, "Dream Street."
  • 1999 Galerie Zabriskie, Paris, France, "Au revoir Paris." California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California, "Photography by Women from the Collection." Wessel + O’Connor, "Female," Vince Aletti. Sepia International, Inc., New York, New York, "Rosalind Solomon and Linda Connor: India." Robert Mann Gallery, New York, New York, "Thirteen."
  • 1997 Philadelphia Museum of Art
    Philadelphia Museum of Art
    The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States. It is located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The Museum was established in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year...

    , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, "India: A Celebration of Fifty Years of Independence."
  • 1996 ACA Galleries, New York, New York, "Spirit Witness, Hillman, Maron, Solomon." Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, New York, "Photography in Latin America: A Spiritual Journey," Barbara Milstein. Institute Francaise d’Ecosse, Edinburgh, Scotland, "Portrait of my Mother," Viviane Esders, New York Public Library, New York, New York, "Women in Photography" (organized by the Akron Museum, Ohio).
  • 1995 G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, California, "Kissing." Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico, "Twentieth Century Photographs From the Permanent Collection". Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, New York, "Animal Attractions," ed. Diana Edkins. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, "Recent Acquisitions for the Photography Collection".
  • 1994 Institut Francais d’Ecosse, Edinburgh, Scotland, "Portrait of my Mother," Viviane Esders. Directors’ Guild, Los Angeles, California, "The Magic of Play," Diana Edkins. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, "Do Not Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS," catalogue text by, Ted Gott, Independent Curators Inc., New York, New York, "From Media to Metaphor: Art about AIDS, 1992-1994," catalogue.
  • 1993 Museum of Modern Art, "Photographs from the Permanent Collection".
  • 1992 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, "Rosalind Solomon and Marc Riboud". Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan, "American Documents in the Fringe," catalogue.
  • 1990 International Center for Photography, New York, New York, "The Indomitable Spirit," catalogue text by Marvin Heifferman and Carol Kismaric. Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, "Photography: The Eighties," Joshua Smith.
  • 1989 Henie Onstad Museum, Oslo, Norway, "Selected Works from the Permanent Collection". Ikona Gallery, Venice, Italy, "Group Exhibition," catalogue text by Živa Kraus. George Eastman House
    George Eastman House
    The George Eastman House is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York, USA. World-renowned for its photograph and motion picture archives, the museum is also a leader in film preservation and...

    , Rochester, New York, "Professional Visions". Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, "The New Expeditionary Photographer," catalogue. University of Minnesota Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, "Recaption: Recontext". Center for Book Arts, New York, "Photo Journals" Peter Beard, Bill Burke, ed. 1989. Grazda, Rosalind Solomon," David Lee.
  • 1988 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, "Children of Our Times". George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, "The Cow in Photograph and Folktale." Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, "Viewpoints: An Exhibition from the Permanent Collection."
  • 1987 Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "American Dreams," catalogue text by Belinda Rathbone. Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, "Wanderlust, Work by 8 Contemporary Photographers," Hallmark Collection, Keith Davis, Kansas City, Missouri. Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York, New York, "Mothers and Daughters". Galerie Zabriskie, Paris, France, "Tenth Anniversary Photography Exhibition," catalogue.
  • 1985 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., "Recent Acquisitions" Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Photographs from the Collection". Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, "Opening Exhibition from the Permanent Collection". Addison Gallery of American Art
    Addison Gallery of American Art
    The Addison Gallery of American Art, as a department of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, is an academic museum dedicated to collecting American art...

    , Andover, Massachusetts, "Traveling". National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., "New Acquisitions".
  • 1983 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, "Work from the Collection of the Bibliothèque nationale". The Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, "Bob Mahon/Rosalind Solomon". Museum of Modern Art
    Museum of Modern Art
    The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...

    , New York, New York, "Selections from the Permanent Collection". Galeria Carles Poy, Barcelona, Spain, "Members Only". National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., "New Acquisitions". The Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, "From the Archives". Light Gallery, New York, New York, "New Women/New Work". Galerie Zabriskie, Paris, France, "Apres Cinq Ans,"
  • 1982 The Photographers’ Gallery, London, England, "Floods of Light: Flash Photography 1851- 1981," catalogue Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, "Twentieth Century Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art," catalogue text by John Szarkowski.
  • 1981 Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, "American Children," catalogue text by Susan Kismaric. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Photographers by Photographers".
  • 1980 Ikona Photo Gallery, Venice, Italy, "Arnold Kramer, Joan Salinger, Rosalind Solomon".
  • 1979 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Still Life Photographs". Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, "Works from the Permanent Collection".
  • 1978 Sander Gallery, Washington, D.C., "Eliot Porter, Ellen Auerbach and Rosalind Solomon". Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, "Mirrors and Windows," catalogue text by John Szarkowski.
  • 1977 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, "Works from the Collection of the Bibliothèque nationale". Galerie Zabriskie, Paris, France, "Diane Arbus, Lisette Model, Rosalind Solomon"
  • 1976 Museum of Modern Art
    Museum of Modern Art
    The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...

    , New York, "Photography for Collectors," John Szarkowski
    John Szarkowski
    John Szarkowski was a photographer, curator, historian, and critic. From 1962 to 1991 Szarkowski was the Director of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art.-Early life and career:...

    .

Publications

  • Rosalind Solomon. Polish Shadow. Göttingen: Steidl, 2006.
  • Americans: The Social Landscape from 1940 until 2006. Masterpieces of American Photography. Damiani/Kunsthalle Wien, 2006.
  • Vincent Gerard and Cedric Laty. Eggleston on Film. 85 minutes. 2005
  • Rosalind Solomon. Chapalingas. Göttingen: Steidl, 2003.
  • Rosalind Solomon. El Peru y Otros Lugares – Peru and Other Places. Lima: Museo de Arte de Lima, 1996.
  • Susan Kismaric. American Politicians: Photographs 1843-1993. Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY. 1994.
  • Susan Kismaric. American Children: Photographs from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY. 1980
  • Rosalind Solomon. Rosalind Solomon: Photographs, 1976-1987. Tucson, Arizona: Etherton Gallery, 1988.
  • Rosalind Solomon. Rosalind Solomon: Portraits in the Time of AIDS. New York: Grey Art Gallery & Studio Center, New York University, 1988.
  • Wanderlust. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1987.
  • Rosalind Solomon: Earthrites. Museum of Photographic Arts, 1986.
  • John Szarkowski. Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960. Catalog of Exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, 1978. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,948253,00.html

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