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Doug DuBois’ photographs are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NY, SFMOMA in San Francisco, J. Paul Getty Museum and LACAMA in Los Angeles, The Museum of Fine Art in Houston, the Library of Congress in Washington DC and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The National Endowment for the Arts, SITE Santa Fe, Light Works and The John Gutmann Foundation. Doug DuBois has exhibited at The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; The Aperture Foundation, The Museum of Modern Art and Higher Pictures in New York; SITE, Santa Fe; New Langton Arts in San Francisco; PARCO Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Museo D’arte Contemporanea in Rome, Italy and The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Crawford Art Gallery and the Gallery of Photography in Ireland.

He has published two monographs with the Aperture Foundation, My last day at Seventeen (2015), All the Days and Nights (2009); exhibition catalogues including Where We Live: Photographs from the Berman Collection (2007) with the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort (1991) with the Museum of Modern Art; as well as features in Double Take, The Picture Project, The Friends of Photography, and in magazines including The New York Times, Time, Details, GQ, The Telegraph and Financial Times of London, Monopol in Berlin and Outlook Magazine in Beijing.

Doug DuBois received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is an associate professor at Syracuse University and on the faculty at the Hartford Art School’s International Limited Residency MFA program in photography.

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EDUCATION:
1988 M.F.A., Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.

1983 B.A., Film and Photography, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.

TEACHING
Present Associate Professor, Syracuse University
1997-98 Visiting Associate Professor, Massachusetts College of Art
1989-1997 Associate Professor, New Mexico State University

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2016 Aperture Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2014 University Gallery, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2012 Encontros Da Imagem, Braga, Portugal
         Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Ireland
2009 Higher Pictures, New York, NY
2007 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
2004 Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
         Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA
2001 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1998 Columbus Museum of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH
1997 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1996 New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
1995 Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, TX
1992 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
1990 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
         BCC Fine Arts Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1989 Midtown Y Photography Gallery, New York, NY
1988 SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
1986 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2014 Portrait: Fotografia Inernazionale Roma, Museo D’arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Rome Italy
         Second Sight: The David Kronn Photography Collection, Irish Museum of Art, Dublin, Ireland

2013 On Photography: Culture, History and the Narrative. Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University,          New Brunswick, NJ
         Making Pictures of People: Recent Perspectives on Photographic Portraiture, Projection and          On-line Gallery, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO in collaboration with          Flakphoto.com
         Uncertain State, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
         Continuum: Doug DuBois and Aaron Blum, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
         Lost Boys: Territories of Youth, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
         Dark Blue: Water as Protagonist, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI

2012 The Photographer’s Gallery, London ‘The World in London’ Victoria Park, London and Park          House, Oxford Street.
         The Other New York, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY

2011 East of Eden, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
         All my Lovin, Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland

2010 All my Lovin’ Fotofestiwal 2010, Lodz, Poland
         Bittersweet, Doswell Gallery, Limerick, Ireland
         Familiar Bodies, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA
         100 Portraits/100 Photographers, projection, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC

2009 AIPAD Photography Show, Park Ave Armory, New York, NY
         Enfance Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Paris la Villette, Paris France and at          Festival Voies Off in Arles, photographic projection with live music.

2008 Photo Forum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
         Jorge Louis Borges, The Golem: Visual Visitations, Pont of Contact Gallery, Syracuse, NY

2007 Photography Now, Wright State University Galleries, Dayton OH

2006 Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman          Collection.
         Saltonstall Fellowship, Johnson Museum, Ithaca NY

2005 Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL,. Portraits
         LightWork Gallery, Syracuse, NY, LightWork Grant Recipients

2004 Tobacco Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY, Art and Commerce: New Photography
         Village Roadshow Pictures, Santa Monica, CA, The Berman Collection: Recent Acquisitions.

2003 Museum of Art, Provo, UT, Contemporary Spaces: Unerlying Cultures. With Philip Lorca          diCorcia, Louise Lawler, Doug Hall and George Rousse.

2002 Loss Prevention(screenings), “Hot Summer/Cool Media,” Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD;          “New York Independent Film and Video Festival,” New York, NY

2001 Loss Prevention (screenings), “Drama Queens,” Guggenheim Museum;
         New “San Francisco Independent Film Festival, ” San Francisco, CA.;
         “Art in Motion (AIM) Festival,” Los Angeles, CA;          
         “Flickerfest,” Australian International Short Film Festival, Sydney,Australia.;
         Cinematheque,San Francisco, CA;
         “Mill Valley Film Festival,” Mill Valley, CA;
         “San Francisco Film Arts Festival,” San Francisco, CA;
          “The Territory Broadcast,” Houston, TX;
         The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL;
         SF IndieFest, Lumiere Theater, San Francisco, CA. Audience award.

2000 Loss Prevention, 17 minutes DV. Co-produced, directed and edited with Jeanne Finely and John          Muse, premiere screening. New York Video Festival, New York, NY
         Light Work Gallery, Syracuse, NY
         Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Everson Biennial,

1999 Alan R. Hite Art Institute, Louisville, KY

1997 Blue Star Gallery, San Antonio, TX

1996 ArtSource, San Francisco, CA

1995 SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

1994 Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottowa, Canada. Alliances: Family.

1993 Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA. Flesh and Blood: Photographers’ Images of Their          own Families.
         L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA. The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort.

1992 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD. The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort.
         Museum of Contemporary Art, Dayton, OH, Parents.

1991 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort.
         Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, The American Scene: Contemporary American          Photographs.

1990 PARCO Gallery, Tokyo Japan, Twenty Promising Photographers.

1989 Yale University, New Haven, CT., The Human Presence.
         Torino Fotografia Biennale Internazionale ’89, Torin Italy, California Color.
         San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Recent Acquisitions: Pictures of          People.

1988 Photo Resource Center, Boston, MA; Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA., Cross Currents / Cross          Country.
         Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY., Recent Acquisitions.

1987 Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA., Selections.
         

MONOGRAPHS, ANTHOLOGIES, EXHIBITION CATALOGS:

My Last Day At Seventeen, Aperture, NY. Monograph, 2015

Second Sight: The David Kronn Photography Collection, Irish Museum of Art, Dublin, Ireland, exhibition catalog

What Future, Encontros Da Imagem, Braga Portugal, 2012 Festival Catalog

Fotofrafie mit Leidenschaft: Vom Abbilden zum kunstlerischen Ausdruck, [Photography with Passion: From Documentary to artistic experession], Dr, Martina Mettner, Fotofeinkost Verlag, Germany, 2012, pp 107-109. Photography Textbook.

All the Days and Nights, Aperture, New York, 2009. Monograph with essay by Donald Antrim

Tell mum everything is ok, #3 2010, Editions FPCF, Paris, France

Blue Sky 07/08, exhibition catalog. Blue Sky Gallery, Portland Oregon.
Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection, Judith Kellor and Anne Lacoste, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angles, 2007

The Spirit Of Family, by Al and Tipper Gore with Gail Buckland and Katy Homans, New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2002

Mining Avella, DoubleTake, (Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University) Winter, 1997

Flesh and Blood: Photographers’ Images of their own Families, essays by Andy Grundberg and Anne Beattie, Picture Project, New York. 1992

Parents, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, 1992

The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1991

Twenty Promising Photographers, Vol. 2, PARCO Gallery, Japan.

Close to Home: Seven Documentary Photographers, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, 1990.

The Human Presence, Yale University, CT. 1989

REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS

Irish teens, captured on their last days at seventeen, i-D, October 20 2015

My Last Day at Seventeen: Photographs by Doug DuBois, Financial Times of London, Weekend Magazine, October 16. 2015

Coming of Age in an Irish Town, Slate.com, October 6, 2015

Documenting the uncertainty of coming-of-age in Ireland, Dazed Digital, October 5. 2015

Doug DuBois, Photographer, interview, Kinfolk Volume 17, Summer 2015

Doug DuBois, Clifford Woods,, 1987, This Long Century

Coming Of Age with Doug DuBois, Lomography Magazine, July 18, 2015

The sweet fragility of growing up, The Week, March

The End of Youth: Doug DuBois’ “My Last Day at Seventeen,” Exposure 48:1 Spring 2015

“Family,” Landscape Stories, #18 2014

Masters of Intimate Portraiture, John Mahoney, American Photo, Nov/Dec 2013

What a Sorry State We’re In, London Times Sunday Magazine, August 4, 2013
Arson and the apocalypse: the best of PhotoIreland festival 2013 – in pictures, Karen Anderson, The Guardian, UK July 18, 2013

Exhibition Review: Uncertain State: Photography and Crisis and the Ireland, Anna Patton, Documentary Photography Review. July 9, 2013

The Uncertain State We’re In, Irish Times, July 5, 2013
Joint Exhibit Reveals a Shared Vision, CNN World, June, 07, 2013

The Lingering Light of Childhood: Doug DuBois’ Ireland, Adam McCauley, TIME Lightbox, March 14, 2013

Snapshots from the Rough Edges, Irish Times, October, 30, 2012

Interview: Doug DuBois, Fototazo, Part 1 Jan 26, 2012; Part 2 Feb 18, 2013

Imeall, Programme 13, TG 4 Ireland, Broadcast December 13, 2012

What Future, Encontros Da Imagem, Braga Portugal, 2012 Festival Catalog

Fotofrafie mit Leidenschaft: Vom Abbilden zum kunstlerischen Ausdruck, [Photography with Passion: From Documentary to artistic experession], Dr, Martina Mettner, Fotofeinkost Verlag, Germany, 2012, pp 107-109. Photography Textbook.

Outlook Magazine, Memory Box, pp 40-47 February 2011, Beijing, China.

Interview , Landscape Stories, , April 2011

Photo District News, Photo Annual 2010, Photo Books, pg 96., May 2010

Fotodok, All the Days and Nights: De Familifoto’s van Doug DuBois, p 8, April, 2010, Utrecht, Netherlands

Galleries –Uptown: Doug DuBois Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, November 30, 2009, p 14, review of exhibition, All the Days and Nights at Higher Pictures.

Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights, William Myers, The Wall Street Journal. November, 21, 2009, review of exhibition at Higher Pictures.

Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights @ Higher Pictures, DLK Collection, November 3,

Photographer Doug DuBois’ Best Shot, Andrew Gilchrist, Guardian, UK , June 17, 2009

Pub Dates, Bookforum, Summer 2009, p4. Review of All the Days and Nights
PhotoBooks, Vince Aletti, Photograph, May/June 2009, p 46, review of All the Days and Nights.

All the Days and Nights, O’Zine, Beijing China, October/November 2009 pp 80-91
Works 2: All the Days and Nights, Monthly Photography, Seoul, South Korea. pp 88-97

Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights, by Amy Stein, Ahorn Magazine, Issue #3

All the Days and Nights by Doug DuBois, 5B4 Photography and Books, April 17,2009 http://5b4.blogspot.com

A portrait of the artist as family man (Review: All the Days and Nights by Doug DuBois), Conscientious, May 7

Books, 1000 Words Photography #6, fall, 2009, www.1000wordsmag.com/

Alec Soth’s Top 10 photobooks of 2009, Little Brown Mushroom Blog, December 21, 2009. LBM publishes photography books and on-line reviews.

Best Books of 2009. Photoeye Magazine

Purpose 8, Autumn 2008, http://www.purpose.fr/purpose8.html

Doug DuBois: Familienbilder,Photonews: Zeitung Fur Fotografie, May 2008

“Arrival,” Stone Canoe: A journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York, 2008

Alec Soth in Conversation with Doug DuBois, Conscientious, October 22, 2007

On the Modern Trail, LA Times, October 25, 2007

Photography Now: 100 Portfolios, DVD, Wright State University Art Galleries, 2007

Contact Sheet 112, Light Work, 2001

Boston Transit Tokyo, DoubleTake, Summer.2001 pp. 44 – 49

Seeing, FotoPhile #36, “November, pp. 27-29

Mining Avella, DoubleTake, (Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University) Winter, 1997

Tuna Country, New Earth Reader, MIT Press, 2000

Avella, El Paso Museum of Art, 1997

Don’t Crop that Image ,Santa Fe Photographic, Spring/Summer 1995 p. 10.

Man Trouble, Artforum, ” photograph, April, 1994

How is a Museum curator’s job like a good juggling act?, Smithsonian January 1993

Das zartliche Erbe, GEO, (Germany), September, 1993

Home Life, America Illustrated, U.S.I.A, June.1993

All in the Family, Artweek, January 21, 1993

Of Human Bonding Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, November 1.1992

Domestic Comfort, Washington Post, August 20, 1992

Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Artnews, February, 1992

Edge, Public Television, aired in October, 1991

Hearthside Joys and Mysteries US News and World Report, October 14 1991

Domesticity on Display, Chicago Tribune, September 29.

Home Truth, HG, September, 1991

Photo Egoism, Spy, (Japan), April 1991

Choices ,Village Voice, , review, June 13, New York, NY.1990.

SELECTED EDITORIAL PUBLICATIONS:

The Eight Artists to Watch Right Now, Details Magazine, August 2015, pp 86-95.
Family Ties, Book Forum, June/July/August 2015, p 17, 35.
The Undefeated Champions of Defeat City, GQ Magazine, May 2014
Rustbelt Revival, Details Magazine, April 2012, pp 106-117
Assignment Detroit: Real Moms of Grosse Pointe, Time, Sept. 27, 2010, pp 49-51.
Dossier: Eltern, Maxi, (Berlin) March, 2009 pp 152-157
Zombie Marriages, Details Magazine, August, 2008
Tool Time, Details Magazine, April 2008
Du bist nichtallein, Monopol: Magazin fur Kunst und Leben (Berlin), July 2007
Stella, The Sunday Telegraph, (London), The Youngest Draw in the West, December 16, 2007
Eight People in 800 Square Feet, New York Times Key Magazine, Spring 2007
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Details Magazine, April 2007
The Innovators, New York Times Magazine April 20, 2007
Have Yourself A Merry Winter Festival, Details Magazine, December 2006
Voices, New York Times Magazine Feb. 26, 2006
Drawn to Trouble, New York Times Magazine Sept. 4, 2005
Second Chances: Riker’s Island Greenhouse Program, Audubon, May, 2005
Soul Real Simple, February, 2004
One Up, One Down, New York Times Magazine, June 8, 2004
Men Behaving Badly, New York Times Magazine, Oct. 13, 2002
Testimony: When Global Becomes Local, New York Times Magazine, Sept 29, 2002
What Were They Thinking, New York Times Magazine, Sept 22, 2002
What Were They Thinking, New York Times MagazineDec. 9, 2001
Fall Fiction/Fashion. BlackBook Magazine, September, 2001
Parallels, New York Times Magazine, July 8, 2001
Do the Hustle, Details Magazine, June, 2001
Melissa Pearl Friedling, Syracuse, NY New York Times Magazine, June 13, 1999
Grandma Takes a Fall, This American Life, National Public Radio, co-produced with Jeanne Finely. Aired, 1999
Holy Rollers, Sunday Telegraph Magazine, (London) July 27, 1997
Y’all Have a Ball, Sunday Telegraph Magazine, (London) June 15, 1997
La Pantera The Independent Magazine, (London) May 5, 1997
Battle of the Teen Queens. Telegraph Magazine, (London), 1997
Rastamaster, Telegraph Magazine, (London), March 4, 1995
The View From Blackwell’s Hill, Telegraph Magazine, (London), February 18, 1995
A Walk on the Wild Side, Telegraph Magazine, (London), ” photographs. January 14, 1994

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC
Center for Photography at Woodstock
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Los Angles County Museum of Art
Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Museum of Art, Provo, Utah
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Wright State University, Dayton, OH

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Constance Saltonstall Fellowship
Eliot Porter Fellowship, New Mexico Council on Photography
Fine Arts Grant. SITE, Santa Fe
John Gutmann Photography Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
Light Work Grant in Photography
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship
MacDowell Colony Fellowship
Sirius Arts Centre, County Cork, Ireland
Texas Commission on the Arts.
Yaddo Fellowship

LECTURES:
Akron Art Museum, Akron Ohio
Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Aperture Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Berlin Photo Workshops, Berlin, Germany
California College of Art, San Francisco, CA
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Camera Club of New York, New York, NY
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
C/O Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Columbia University, New York, NY
College Art Association Annual Convention, Los Angeles, CA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA
Fordham University, New York, NY
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Photo Alliance, San Francisco, CA
Photo Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh PA
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco, CA.
Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Portland OR
Yale University, New Haven, CT
University of California, San Francisco, CA.
University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA