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Paul D'Amato is a American photographer represented by Stephen Daiter Gallery in Chicago. He was born in 1956 in Boston, MA and he live in Chicago, IL. He is specialized in portrait photography and documentary photography and he is a professor at Columbia College Chicago.

Early life and education
Degrees B.A., Art Reed College 1980 M.F.A., Yale University School of Art 1985

Grants, Awards & Commissions
Individual Artist Fellowship “Here/Still/Now”, October, 2018 “Here/Still/Now”, May 2018 Portraits from “Here/Still/Now”, April 2018 Month long Residency and Honorarium to work on self directed projects Finalist, Washington, D.C. Grant to support the mounting of We Shall exhibition and publish the catalogue Prize Winner and Special Commendation, Washington, D.C. Portraits of clients in San Francisco, L.A., Princeton, London, Leeds & Amsterdam Individual Artist Fellowship Grant to aid in the publication of Barrio Finalist, Project Launch Competition Individual Artist Fellowship Commission to create an installation in the renovated McLellan House Commission to photograph Men’s Social Clubs for traveling exhibition and book Residency at the Bellagio Study & Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy Individual Artist Fellowship Individual Artist Fellowship Individual Artist Fellowship Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. Individual Artist Fellowship Grant to photograph and travel by freight train across the U.S.
 * Illinois Arts Council Grant, 2019
 * Book Prize: Traditional Prize Winner, Lucie Foundation, Los Angeles
 * Best Photography Books of the Year, PDN Photo Annual, New York, NY
 * Finalist, Portrait Competition, Lensculture, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * Lightwork Residency Award, Syracuse New York, July 2016
 * The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 2016
 * The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Grant, 2013
 * The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 2013
 * Morningstar Portrait Commission, 2008,
 * Illinois Arts Council Grant, 2005,
 * John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Subvention Grant, 2004,
 * Santa Fe Prize for Photography, 2004,
 * Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, 2002,
 * Portland Museum of Art “Open House” Commission, 2002,
 * National Millennium Survey Commission, 1999 – 2000,
 * The Rockefeller Foundation, 1998,
 * New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1995,
 * John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1994,
 * Maine Arts Commission Fellowship, 1993,
 * Blanche E. Colman Award, 1991,
 * Illinois Arts Council Grant, 1989,
 * Reed College Travel Grant, 1978,

Public Collections

 * Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
 * Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
 * Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, North Carolina
 * DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois
 * Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago, Illinois
 * Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
 * High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
 * LaSalle Bank Collection, Chicago, Illinois
 * Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois
 * John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, New York
 * Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
 * Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
 * Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
 * Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
 * Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
 * Northlight Gallery at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
 * Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
 * Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
 * Readers Digest, Pleasantville, New York
 * Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
 * Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee

Selected Exhibitions
July 14 to September 8, 2018, four-person show Les Rencontres d’Arles. Arles, France July 2 – 7, 2018 Photo London, May 17 – 20, 2018, Somerset House, London May through August, 2018, Chicago, IL September to November 2017, solo retrospective exhibition March 2016 to January 2017, Travelling Exhibition to: January – April, 2016, Selected images from the museums collection October/November, 2015 one person show March 2013 to Spring 2014, Prize Winner, Special Commendation September, 2013 – Travelling Survey of new work to various locations TBD September, 2011, one person exhibition September – October, 2010, one person exhibition June 27 – October 17, 2009, traveling exhibition July 8, 2009, presentation of international photography by Yann Linsart, U.S. representative. July 31 – September 4, 2009” four person exhibition February 13 – May 3, 2009, traveling exhibition 2005 – 2008, suite of photographs representing Chicago April 20 – June, 2008 group exhibition February, 2008, two person show Summer 2007 – One of five photographers representing the United States May 2007, one person show July 2005 – Portrait show July 2004, group show of gallery artists September, & October, 2001, Solo Exhibition August to October 2001 Fall 2000 – Fall 2001, traveling exhibition to various destinations in the U.S. January – March 1999, photographs from the collection November 1997 – January 1998 June – August 1996 April – July 1996, one person show September 1995 November 1994 June and July 1994, North Gallery January – March 1994, one person show December 1993 – One person show October 1993 – One person show November – December 1992, one person show January – February 1992, one person show December – January 1991 October 1990 through January 1991, Three Person Show
 * U.S. Blues, Kehrer Galerie, Berlin Germany
 * LensCulture Portrait Competition Finalists:
 * Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Art Institute of Chicago
 * Don’t Forget to Move Your Feet, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago IL
 * The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
 * Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO – Oct. 6, 2017 to Jan. 7, 2018
 * Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX – June 2, 2017 to September 10, 2017
 * Tacoma Art Museum, WA – February 4, 2017 to May 14, 2017
 * MoCP at 40, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
 * We Shall, DeMenil Gallery, Groton, MA
 * The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
 * About Face: Contemporary Portraiture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
 * Survey of contemporary photographic portraiture, August, 2013 to January, 2014
 * We Shall, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois
 * We Shall, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
 * We Shall, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
 * Black Is Black Ain’t, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
 * Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographie, Arles, France
 * Documents: City Life, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
 * Black Is Black Ain’t, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan
 * Barack Obama Senate Offices, Washington DC
 * Black Is Black Ain’t, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
 * Anne Harris & Paul D’Amato, Amherst College Gallery of Art, Amherst, Massachusetts
 * Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture, Lincoln, Massachusetts, Feb, – April 2008
 * PIP – China Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao China
 * Paul D’Amato: Barrio, Stephen Daiter Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois
 * Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
 * Pool Party, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, New York
 * Dwell: Life in the City, New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana, March & April, 2002, Two Person Show
 * In the Company of Men, Photographs of Men’s Social Clubs, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois, Sept. & Oct. 2002, one person show
 * Out of Place, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, New York
 * Two Photographers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine
 * National Millennium Survey, Curated by James Enyeart
 * Future – Present: Contemporary Photographs of Children, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, January – March 1999,
 * Occupying the Street, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
 * Eleven Artists, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts
 * 9 Artists, 9 Visions, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
 * Perspectives: Paul D’Amato, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
 * The Magic of Play, Grand Central Station, New York, New York
 * The Magic of Play, The Directors Guild, Los Angeles, California
 * Paul D’Amato, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
 * Paul D’Amato, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
 * Paul D’Amato, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
 * Paul D’Amato, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona
 * Paul D’Amato, The Emily Davis Gallery at The University of Akron
 * Paul D’Amato: Pilsen, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts
 * Almost Home, The Graham Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
 * New Photography 6, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York