Draft:Justin Kimball

Justin Kimball (Born 1961) is an American photographer, educator, and artist. He currently teaches at Amherst College as the Conway Professor in New Media.

Career
Justin Kimball was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1961. He earned a BFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1985 while studying under professors Wendy Snyder MacNeil, Gary Metz, and William "Billy" Parker. After earning his BFA he worked as an assistant to photographer Duane Michals and then earned his MFA in photography from the Yale University School of Art in 1990 where he studied under photographers Richard Benson and Tod Papageorge. After finishing his MFA, he taught as an Assistant Professor of Photography at The Rhode Island School of Design and then as an Assistant Professor of Photography at Orange Coast College. Justin Kimball began teaching at Amherst College in 2001 and is currently the Conway Professor in New Media.

Monographs

 * Who By Fire, Essay by Eileen Myles, Radius Books, Fall 2022
 * Elegy, Essay by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Radius Books, 2017
 * Pieces of String, Essay by Douglas Kimball, Radius Books, 2012
 * Where We Find Ourselves, Introduction by Richard B. Woodward, Center for American Places, 2006

Books as Contributor

 * Object Lesson: The Legacy of Richard Benson Aperture, 2022
 * American Geography, Curator Sandra S. Phillips, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2021
 * The Photographer in the Garden, Eastman Museum/Aperture, 2018
 * Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2015
 * America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, Jan Howard, RISD Museum of Art, 2012
 * Photography and Play, by Erin C. Garcia, Getty Publications, J.P. Getty Museum, 2012
 * The Physical Print, A Brief Survey of the Photographic Process, Richard Benson, Yale, 2005
 * Spirit of Family, Al Gore and Tipper Gore, Holt Publishers, 2002

Group Exhibitions

 * 2024 Who By Fire, Personal Structures; Beyond Boundaries, European Cultural Council, Venice, Italy
 * 2021 Object Lesson, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image in collaboration with Aperture, Philadelphia, PA
 * 2020 American Geography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, curated by Sandra S. Phillips (canceled/postponed due to COVID-19)
 * 2019 All the Marvelous Surfaces: Photography Since Karl Blossfeldt, curated by Sarah Montross, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
 * 2018 From Starfield to MARS: Paul Manship and His Artist Legacy, Photographs by Barbara Bosworth, Justin Kimball, S. Billie Mandle, and Abelardo Morell
 * 2018 In the Garden, (Traveling) George Eastman House International Museum Photography, Dickson Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
 * 2018 (un) Expected Families, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
 * 2013 The Ubiquity of Photography, Dada Post Gallery, Berlin, Germany
 * 2012 Flesh and Bone: Photography and the Body, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon

Awards and Grants

 * 2003 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
 * 2005 John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund, Harvard University
 * 2012 Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer's Fellowship
 * 2014 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Photography Competition, Winner
 * 2015 Center Santa Fe, Project Development Grant

Collections

 * Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
 * Center for Creative Photography, Tucson AZ
 * Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
 * DeCorvoda Museum, Lincoln, MA
 * George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
 * Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY
 * J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
 * Library of Congress, Washington, DC
 * Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
 * Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
 * Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
 * Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
 * National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
 * Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MS
 * Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
 * San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
 * The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
 * The Fidelity Collection, Boston, MA
 * The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
 * The wareHouse, the Wieland Collection, Atlanta, GA