David Graham (photographer)

David Graham (born 1952, Abington, Pennsylvania) is an American artist photographer and professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He currently lives and works in De Pere, Wisconsin. Embracing popular forms of American photography (the snapshot, family portrait, and vacation photo), David Graham explores contemporary culture through the idiosyncratic nature of the American landscape. His work is in many collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; the International Center of Photography, New York City; and the Brooklyn Museum, New York. He is represented by the Laurence Miller Gallery in New York City, Etherton Gallery in Tucson, Arizona, and the PDNB Gallery in Dallas, Texas.

Selected solo exhibitions

 * 2019  Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
 * 2015  Wessel + O'Connor, Lambertville, New Jersey
 * 2015  Where We Live, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
 * 2014  Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * 2014  35 Pictures / 35 Years, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * 2008	Almost Paradise, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * 2008	Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 * 2007  PDNB Gallery, Dallas, Texas
 * 2004	Declaring Independence, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
 * 2004	James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
 * 2003	Alone Together, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * 2003  Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C.
 * 2002	Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania
 * 2002  Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, New York
 * 2002  Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
 * 2002  Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania
 * 2001	Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
 * 2000	Burden Gallery, New York, New York 2000
 * 1999	Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * 1999	Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * 1998	Menschel Gallery, Syracuse University, New York 1998
 * 1994	Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * 1991	Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * 1991	Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
 * 1989	Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
 * 1987	Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
 * 1987  International Center of Photography, New York, New York
 * 1986	Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
 * 1986  Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts
 * 1985	Armstrong Gallery, New York, New York
 * 1985  Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Selected group exhibitions

 * 2022. Wisconsin Artists Biennial, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin
 * 2022  newARTSpace I, newARTSpace, De Pere, Wisconsin
 * 2021. Through the Lens, James A. Michener Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
 * 2020. Signs of the Times, PDNB Gallery, Dallas, Texas
 * 2020. Photographs of the Week, #85, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
 * 2019  Betwixt & Between, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
 * 2018  Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
 * 2017  The Duck & the Document: True Stories of Postmodern Procedures, SCI-Arc & Princeton University, New Jersey
 * 2017  Circles, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
 * 2016  Kentucky Captured, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
 * 2016  Small Things Considered, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
 * 2016  Tete a Tete, James A. Michener Museum of Art, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
 * 2016  Paris Photo Revisited, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
 * 2014  Small Things Considered, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
 * 2013  William Eggleston and his Circle, PDNB Gallery, Dallas, Texas
 * 2012  Man Made Color, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NU
 * 2011  Flora & Fauna, Salt Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * 2009	Snapshots on the Way to the Real World, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * 2007	Pink at Perkins: The Contradictory Character of a Complex Color, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, New Jersey
 * 2006	Second Woodmere Triennial of Contemporary Photography, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * 2005	Heartfelt, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
 * 2003	Home, Ricco/Maresca, New York, New York
 * 2003  Maine ASAP, Northeast Harbor, Maine
 * 2002	Elvis, Howard Greenburg Gallery, New York, New York
 * 2002  Re/viewing Photography, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * 2002  Bucks County Portraits, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
 * 2001	Pretty, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, New York
 * 2001  Family, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
 * 2001  Murals, Deutsche Bank, New York, New York
 * 2000	Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
 * 2000  Bienniel 2000, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
 * 1999	Wonderland, Noorderlicht Fotofest, Netherlands
 * 1998	Four American Photographers, Athens, Greece
 * 1997	BANG! The Gun as Image, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
 * 1997  Las Vegas, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
 * 1996	Howard Finster's Paradise Garden, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
 * 1993	Home, Noorderlicht Fotofest, Netherlands
 * 1992	Our Town, Burden Gallery, New York, New York
 * 1991	Pivot, Mostyn Art Gallery, Gwynedd, North Wales
 * 1991  Nuclear Matters, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California
 * 1990	Landscapes, Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York
 * 1989	Fire Sites, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
 * 1988	Photographic Truth, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut
 * 1988  Alteradiants, Austin College, Sherman, Texas

Grants

 * Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 2001, 1999, 1997 & 1987
 * English Speaking Union, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Executed in Great Britain 1990 & 1987
 * ASMP/Nikon Emerging Photographer Award, New York, 1986
 * National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C, 1984

Monographs

 * ''In Plain Sight, David Graham with W.M. Hunt, EyeShot Publisher, 2022
 * Almost Paradise, David Graham, Pond Press, 2008
 * Declaring Independence, David Graham, Pond Press, 2004
 * The Christmas List, David Graham, Quirk Books, 2003
 * Alone Together, David Graham, Pond Press, 2002
 * Taking Liberties, David Graham, Pond Press, 2001
 * Land of the Free, David Graham with Andrei Codrescu, Aperture, 1999
 * Ay, Cuba!, w/Andrei Codrescu, St. Martins Press, 1999
 * David Graham, Past & Present Tense, Lightwork, 1998
 * Road Scholar, w/Andrei Codrescu, Hyperion, 1993
 * Only in America, David Graham, Knopf, 1991
 * American Beauty, David Graham, Aperture 1987