Mark Steinmetz

Artist Biography
Bio:

EDUCATION  
1986 M.F.A. Yale University
1982 B.A. Wesleyan University
 
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 (Upcoming) Summertime, Charles A. Hartman Fine Art
2009 Greater Atlanta, Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, OR
2008 South, Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, OR
2006 Garden, Visual Arts Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta  
2005 Project Gallery, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
2002 South, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
1999 Nightfall, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
1997 Youth, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
1996 Bassetti Gallery, New Orleans
The Tennessee Overhill, L&N Depot, Etowah, Tennessee
1995 Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC
1993-4 New Photography Nine, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1993 Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, Illinois
1991 University of Akron School of Art, Akron, Ohio
1988 Little League Baseball, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Modern Wing Inaugural Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago
 The Tree, James Cohen Gallery, Shanghai, China
 Faces, Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, OR
2008 Girls on the Verge: Portraits of Adolescence, The Art Institute of Chicago
2007 Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, NY
2005 Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, NY
 No Eyes - Selections from the Collection Dancing Bear,
 Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
2005 When We Were Young, Foley Gallery, New York
2004 Picturing the Modern World, James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco
 Recent Acquisitions, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
 Common Ground, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
 Artists on the Road, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta
 Recent Acquisitions, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
2003 New to View, The Art Institute of Chicago
 Visiting Faculty Exhibition, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2002 Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
 New Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
 Permanent Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art  
2000  Visualizing the Blues, Dixon Gallery, Memphis
1999 Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, New York
 Century of Paris, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
  Female, Wessel & O’Connor Gallery, New York
  Humidity, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
  Some Southern Stories, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago    
1998 Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
 Contemporary Photography from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1997 New Narratives, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
 Coming of Age, White Columns, New York
 Multiple Identities, Nexus, Atlanta
 To See a World..., Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
(Traveled to Germany and Poland)
1996 The South by its Photographers, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
1995 delirium, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York
 Magic of Play, Grand Central Terminal, New York
1993 Permanent Collection Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1991 This Sporting Life, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
 Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Museum of Modern Art, New York  

BOOKS
2009 Greater Atlanta, Nazraeli Press
2008 South East, Intro. by Peter Galassi, Nazraeli Press
2006 South Central, Intro. by Richard Woodward, Nazraeli Press
2001 Tuscan Trees, with text by Janet Lembke, The Jargon Society
 
PUBLICATIONS

2007 MoMA: Highlights since 1980, New York, NY 
2006 Blind Spot, Issue #32, April
2002 Visions from America, Whitney Museum of American Art
2000 Modern/Contemporary: Art at MoMA since 1980, Museum of Modern Art, NY
     Visualizing the Blues,, Dixon Gallery, Memphis
     Blind Spot, Issue #15, May
1999 “Southern Women,” The Oxford American, Issue #26, March 
     “South,” 2wice, vol 3: no 1, Spring
1998 “Summer Camp,” DoubleTake, Issue #13, Summer
1997 “delirium,” Aperture, Issue #148, Fall
     “Coming of Age,” Blind Spot, Issue #9
     “Little League,” DoubleTake, Issue #8, Spring
1996 “A New Life: Stories and Photographs from the Suburban South,” DoubleTake
     “The Tennessee Overhill: A Cultural Landscape,” Tennessee Overhill Heritage Association, TN

COLLECTIONS

The Art Institute of Chicago
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art/Hall Family Foundation
New Orleans Museum of Art
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
PaineWebber, New York
Readers Digest, Pleasantville, New Jersey
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York