Biography
Born 1944 in New York, NY
Lives in Brooklyn, New York, NY
Education and Teaching
1965 BA, Dartmouth College
Nobel Foundation Chair in Art and Cultural History, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Grants and Awards
2017
Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK
2013
Montgomery Fellowship, Dartmouth College
2004
Citigroup Photography Prize, in association with Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
1990 – 1991
Prix de Rome
1987 – 1988
Shifting Foundation Fellowship
1985
Grand Prize, Higashikawa International Photo Festival
1983
American Council for the Arts Emerging Artist Award
1982
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1980
National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowship
1978 – 1982
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 – 2024
Joel Sternfeld. American Prospects, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
2017 – 2018
Joel Sternfeld. Stranger Passing, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2017
Joel Sternfeld. Colour Photographs: 1977-1988, Huxley-Parlour Gallery (Swallow St), Mayfair, London, UK
2012
Joel Sternfeld. Retrospective, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Joel Sternfeld. Colour Photographies since 1970, Albertina Museum , Vienna, Austria
Joel Sternfeld. Campagna Romana, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Joel Sternfeld. First Pictures, Luhring Augustine, Chelsea, New York, USA
2011
Joel Sternfeld. Color Photographs Since 1970, Foam Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joel Sternfeld. Color Photographs Since 1970, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2009
Joel Sternfeld. On this Site, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2008
Joel Sternfeld, Luhring Augustine, Chelsea, New York, USA
The Geography of no Place: American Utopias, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Joel Sternfeld, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Formes de la ruine, Musée des beaux-arts, Lyon, France
2022
Domestic Bliss, Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
2021
American Photography, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
2020
InterStates of Mind: Rewriting the Map of the United States in the Age of the Automobile, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University , East Lansing, Michigan, USA
2019
Masters of Photography 2019, Huxley-Parlour Gallery (Swallow St), Mayfair, London, UK
Balthasar Burkhard, Tony Cragg, Alberto Garutti & Joel Sternfeld: On Landscape, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
In the Sunshine of Neglect, California Museum of Photography, UCR , Riverside, California, USA
In the Sunshine of Neglect, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California, USA
2018
Landscapes after Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
2017
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, The Jewish Museum New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
2016
The Poetics of Place: Contemporary Photographs from The Met Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, New York, USA
Masters of Photography 2016, Huxley-Parlour Gallery (Swallow St), Mayfair, London, UK
Landscapes and People, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Magical Surfaces: The Uncanny in Contemporary Photography, Parasol Unit, London, UK
The Open Road Photography and the American Road Trip, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
2015
Time/Frame, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
HyperAmerica: Landscape – Image – Reality, Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
40 Years / 40 Artists, University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
2014
Slow Learner, Timothy Taylor, London, UK
Outtakes, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Prix Pictet: Power, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, USA
Only the Good Ones: The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2013
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Of a Technical Nature, Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas, USA
2012
Freedom Of/For/To: Photography from the Permanent Collection, Haggerty
Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
In Ruin: Architectural Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Lost Places: Places of Photography, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2011
Contemporary Interventions in the Collection on View, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2010
Edge of Town, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Arbeit / Labour, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Picturing Modernity, SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
A Passion for Photography: Selections from the Carol A. Upham Donation, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
On the Road, MEP, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 4e, Paris, France
2009
Bollito Misto, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Monuments with a Horizon Line II , Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2008
“Progress“, Whitney Museum of American Art, Upper East Side, New York, USA
When Color Was New: Color Photographs From The 1970S, Julie Saul Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
2007
Weather Report: Art & Climate Change, BMoCA, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Selected Collections
ING Belgium Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, France
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, California, USA
California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, California, USA
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, USA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
Security Pacific Bank Collection, Los Angeles, California, USA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Hallmark Collections, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
European American Bank, New York, NY, USA
Forbes Collection, New York, NY, USA
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Akron Museum of Art, Akron, Ohio, USA
Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, USA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA
