BOBBY ABRAHAMSON
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BOBBY ABRAHAMSON email: bobbyfoto@earthlink.net SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2012:
North Portland Polaroids at Blue Sky, Ampersand Vintage and Proper Eats, Portland, Oregon 2011: 45th Parallel at Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, Oregon One Summer Across America at Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont 2008: Rabbit at Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, Oregon 2007: Street Muggings at Camerawork Gallery, Portland, Oregon 2006: Recent Composites at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland,
Oregon 2005: Shifting Perspectives at the Museum
of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia One Summer Across America at Photography Center of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia 2004: Rabbit at Kopala Gallery, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia 2000: From My Car Window at The Upstairs Gallery, Atlanta, Ga. (exhibited
in 2001 at New Media Institute, UGA in Athens, Ga.) 1998:
Silent Prayers at The West Hill Concept Union, Decatur, Georgia 1996: Dreams, Despair and the Coca-Cola Olympic Circus at New.Vision.Space, Atlanta, Georgia 1994: Homeless in Atlanta at The Roxy, Atlanta, Georgia SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIONS 2013-14: Pacific
Northwest Photography Drawers at Blue Sky, Portland, Oregon 2013:
LightLeak 101 at Camerawork Gallery, Portland, Oregon 2012-13:
Pacific Northwest Photography Drawers at Blue Sky, Portland, Oregon 2012: Strangers in a Strange Land at the Streff Gallery at Marylhurst University, Portland, Oregon 2011-12: Through the Looking Glass at Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Pacific Northwest Photography Drawers at Blue Sky, Portland, Oregon 2011: Art Faculty Biennial at Archer Gallery of Clark College, Vancouver,
Washington 2010: Out of the Drawers: ArtBar Gallery
and Portland Mayor’s office in City Hall, Portland, Oregon The Shape of Time at The Oregon Jewish Museum, Portland, Oregon LightLeak at Lightbox, Astoria, Oregon 2009:
MOCA GA Collects: The Photographic Image at Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta Art Faculty Biennial at Archer Gallery of Clark College, Vancouver, Washington 2008: LightLeak Group Show at Albina Press, Portland, Oregon 2007: Pacific Northwest Photography Drawers at Blue Sky, Portland, Oregon Northwest Film Center screening of New York at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland,
Oregon Inside Out at Buckley Center, University
of Portland, Portland, Oregon 2006: LightLeak at
Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, Oregon Neither
Here Nor There: Perspectives on Homelessness at ATHICA, Athens, Georgia 2005: As they see it at Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia 2004: Untitled as Yet: Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Serbia and Montenegro So Atlanta: Artists Respond to the Contemporary City at The Contemporary, Atlanta,
Georgia 2003: Kolonija Kalenic at Open Space Museum,
Serbia and Montenegro (video projection) Product: Comments
on Consumer Culture at ATHICA, Athens, Georgia 2002: Telling
It Like It Is, at Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, Georgia Crossover at Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro 2000: 6 Characters in Search of an Author, Synchronicity Performance Group, Atlanta
(set designer) One People Connect at Hastings Seed Factory,
Atlanta, Georgia 1999: Five Photographers / Five
Perspectives. ArtWalk at Lenox Square, Atlanta, Georgia Nexus
Biennial, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia (video installation piece) Cuba, New York and Conyers at Atlanta Photography Group Gallery, Atlanta, GeorgiaHope, Atlanta, Georgia (documentary video about people affected by HIV,
featuring more than 100 still images by Abrahamson) 1998:
Marisol, Synchronicity Performance Group, Atlanta, Georgia (still and film projections) Cosmopolitan Concrete Chaos ...experience the art of Fairlie Poplar, Atlanta,
Georgia Atlanta Film and Video
Festival (screening of video Dreams & Despair), Atlanta, Georgia 1997: I am the Matador, I am the Bull at The Backdrop Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia BOOKS & CATALOGUES 2013:
North Portland Polaroids, Portland, Oregon (limited edition monograph, self-published) 2012: North Portland Polaroids, Portland, Oregon (limited edition monograph, published
by Ampersand Vintage) 2010: Pacific Northwest Postcards,
Portland, Oregon (limited edition, handmade artist’s book) 2009: North Cascades Walkabout, Portland, Oregon (limited edition, handmade artist’s book) 2008: Rabbit, Portland, Oregon (self-published monograph) 2005: One Summer Across America (monograph, with text by Robert Frank and
Thomas Southall), Serbia and Montenegro 2004: Untitled
as Yet: Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists (exhibition catalogue), Serbia and Montenegro 2003: Kolonija Kalenic (exhibition catalogue), Serbia and Montenegro 2002: Crossover (exhibition catalogue), Serbia and Montenegro 2000: From my car window(exhibition catalogue, with essay by Donald Keyes),
Atlanta, Georgia One People Connect (exhibition
catalogue), Atlanta, Georgia COLLECTIONS (photographic prints by Abrahamson are in the following collections:) Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Oregon Jewish Museum, Portland, Oregon RACC
Portable Works & Visual Chronicle Collections of Portland, Portland, Oregon Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Harry Ransom Center, Austin, Texas Paul R. Jones Collection, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Fort Scott Community College, Fort Scott, Kansas Bunnen Collection, Atlanta, Georgia Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, Georgia Abrahamson’s book One Summer Across America is in the following research library collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York International Center of Photography, New York Museum
of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Amon Carter Museum, Fort
Worth, Texas (Abrahamson’s book North Cascades Walkabout is also in this collection) Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia University
of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado Pacific Northwest
College of Art, Portland, Oregon Johnson State College,
Johnson, Vermont ARTICLES AND REVIEWS 2012:
Bobby Abrahamson, Julia Dolan and Myles Haselhorst on Art Focus, KBOO radio interview, July 10 A Local Photographer’s Unique Project, More Good Day Oregon, KPTV Fox 12,
July 3 St Johns photographer releases book, holds opening,
The Oregonian, Casey Parks, June 26 2011: On the
Streets of St. Johns, The Oregonian, Casey Parks, December 30 The
45th Parallel, Oregon Public Broadcasting’s “Think Out Loud,” November 17 Q&A: Bobby Abrahamson, Willamette Week, TJ Norris, November 16 2010: A Fresh Repository of Memories: Oregon Jewish Museum, The Oregonian,
Bob Hicks, Jan. 1 2009: Open Meadows Photos on Display, The Skanner, July 2, 2009 2008: "Rabbit" is Quest, The Oregonian, Brian Libby, March 7 2007: Shows of Note, The Oregonian, D.K. Row, June 15. 2005: Artists Capture City's Richness, The Atlanta Daily World, May 5-11 Heart of America seen with candid eye, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jerry Cullum, April 14 When Worlds Collide, Creative Loafing, Felicia Feaster,April 7-13 From the Artists Studio, The Wave, Susan Hartenstein, April 8 Sharing His Passion: Bobby Abrahamson's camera helps him blend teaching & art, Atlanta Jewish Times, Suzi Brozman, April 1 Atlanta Photographer Teaches the Homeless, The Sunday Paper, Stephanie Ramage, Feb.13-19 2004: Outsider Art, Creative Loafing, Andisheh Nouraee, December 16-22 Changes Afoot, Creative Loafing, Felicia Feaster, December 9-15 Americans are teaching us again, 24 Hours,Teona Gaparidze, June 8 American Messages in Kopala gallery, Morning Newspaper, Mai Zezadze, June 8 International Festival of Arts in Tbilisi: A diary of GIFT, The Messenger, Nino Gvalia, June 15 2003: Product Placement: Product as art; art as product, Creative Loafing, Felicia Feaster, May 14-20 2002: Chasing America, Spot, Fall 2001/Winter 2002: 2000: Blow Up: Frames from an obsessive photographer, Atlanta Press, Christina Kline, Feb. 11-17 Drive-by shooting, Creative Loafing, Felicia Feaster, February 5 View from a Car Window, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Steve Dollar, January 16 Drive By Shooting, Atlanta Jewish Times, Richard Lufrano, January 14 1998: After the Circus: Bobby Abrahamson in Latin America, Creative Loafing, Cathy Byrd, June 27 Silent Moments of Magic, Poets, Artists & Madmen, Rebecca Poyner Burns, June 5-11 Silence Speaks Volumes, Atlanta Jewish Times, Susan Bernstein, June 5 1996: Sucking up that Olympic feel, Phoenix, Shanna Shahid, October 23 Revisit Olympics in one artist's extravaganza, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution., J. Cullum, Oct.18 Circus Circus, Creative Loafing, Cathy Byrd, October 12 Taking note of agony, ecstasy, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bo Emerson, April 22 PHOTOGRAPHY & MEDIA INSTRUCTOR 2008-present: Clark College, Portland, Oregon 2007-present: Mount Hood Community College, Portland, Oregon Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon 2006-present: Pacific Northwest College or Art, Portland, Oregon Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, Oregon Saturday Academy, Portland, Oregon Media, Arts & Technology Institute, partnering with local middle schools in Portland,
Oregon 2007-08: University of Portland, Portland,
Oregon 2007: Renaissance Arts Academy - Marshall
High School, Portland, Oregon 2006-07: Arbor School
of Arts & Sciences (mentor for student’s yearlong senior project), Portland, Oregon 2006: Caldera, Sisters & Portland, Oregon 2005-06: P:EAR, Portland, Oregon Our Voices - The Pangaea Project, Portland, Oregon Northwest Academy, Portland,
Oregon Kellogg Middle School, Portland, Oregon 2005: The Bridge, Atlanta, Georgia 2004-05: Our Voices - Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Atlanta, Georgia 2004: The Alfred and Adele Davis Academy, Atlanta, Georgia Studio Sepia, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia Education Alliance at School of the Future, New York International Center of Photography, New York 2003: Rockaway Artist Alliance, Rockaway, New York 2002: The Showcase School of Photography, Atlanta, Georgia Georgia Journalism Academy - Georgia Scholastic Press Association, Athens, Georgia 2000-01: University of Georgia, Grady College of Journalism & Mass
Communication, Athens, Georgia 2000: Journalism Fall Workshop: Georgia Scholastic Press Association - Athens, Georgia 1997-99: Camp Wannaklot: Hemophilia of Georgia, Camp Breathe Easy: American Lung Association - Rutledge, Georgia 1995: Camp Isabella Freedman - Falls Village, Connecticut PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER 1988-present: Freelance photographer, clients include TIME, FORTUNE, US News & World Report, The New York Times, The Atlanta Journal Constitution and the advertising firm Wieden & Kennedy 2005: Personal assistant to photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank - New York 1988-93: Staff photographer at The Dothan Eagle - Dothan, Alabama; Douglas County Sentinel - Douglasville, Georgia; The Athens Observer - Athens, Georgia; and The Red and Black - Athens, Georgia EDUCATION & INTERNSHIPS 2003-05: Master of Arts, Media Studies, New School University - New York 2004: Literacy Through Photography workshop, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, (workshop held at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta) 2002: Graduate course in media literacy education at Appalachian State University - Boone, North Carolina 1994-95: International Center of Photography one-year certificate program in photojournalism; interned for photojournalists Eugene Richards & James Nachtwey at Magnum agency - New York 1984-88: Bachelor of Arts, History, University of Georgia - Athens, Georgia GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES 2013:
Visiting Lecturer at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 2011: Visiting Lecturer at Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant, collaborating artist with writer Lisa Wells 2008-09: Caldera Visiting Artist 2007: Caldera Artist Residency Retreat 2006: Puffin Foundation grant for Our Voices - Pangaea Project 2004: Lubo Fund grant for Our Voices - Metro Atlanta Task Force project US Department of State cultural affairs grant for teaching and exhibiting in the Republic of Georgia 1999: Communicators Award for Hope documentary about HIV/AIDS 1994: Gordon Parks Photography Competition, Third Place 1993: Gordon Parks Photography Competition, Honorable Mention References available upon request |
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LINKS TO BOBBY'S WEBSITES AND OTHER SITES FEATURING BOBBY AND HIS WORK: To contact Bobby please email him at bobbyfoto@earthlink.net |
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