biography of John PFAHL (1939-2020)
Personal data
Birth : 02/17/1939 - New York NY New York, United States
Sex : M
Representatives
Galerie Johannes Faber – Brahmsplatz 7 – Vienna, Austria
Janet Borden Gallery – 560 Broadway – New York NY, United States
Education
1961 : School of Art and Design – Syracuse University (BFA) – 102 Schaffer Art – Syracuse NY, United States
1968 : School of Communications – Syracuse University (MA) – Syracuse NY, United States
Professional data
Grants
1990
1990 : National Endowment of the Arts, Photographers’s Fellowship – Washington DC, United States
1979
1979 : New York State Creative Artists Program Service (CAPS), Photography Grant – New York NY, United States
1977
1977 : National Endowment of the Arts, Photographers’s Fellowship – Washington DC, United States
1975
1975 : New York State Creative Artists Program Service (CAPS), Photography Grant – New York NY, United States
Other professions
1968 – 1972 : Professor
School of Photographic Arts and Sciences – Rochester Institute of Technology – Rochester NY, United States
1983 – 1984 : Professor
UNM University of New Mexico – Albuquerque NM, United States
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
Solo exhibitions
1997
Niagara Sublime
Cleveland Museum of Art – Cleveland OH, United States
1997
Niagara Sublime
Janet Borden Gallery – New York NY, United States
1997
1995
Nina Freudenheim Gallery – Buffalo NY, United States
1995
Galerie Agathe Gaillard – Paris, France
04/19/1995 – 05/27/1995
1992
Waterfalls
Janet Borden Gallery – New York NY, United States
04/02/1992 – 05/09/1992
1990
Ironic Pictorialism
The Photographers’s Gallery – Palo Alto CA, United States
09/14/1990 – 10/31/1990
Smoke
Janet Borden Gallery – New York NY, United States
03/13/1990 – 04/14/1990
A Distanced Land: the Photographs of John Pfahl
Albright Knox Art Gallery – Buffalo NY, United States
1990
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Art shows / fairs
2001
Art Toronto 2001 – TIAF Toronto International Art Fair
MTCC Metro Toronto Convention Centre – Toronto ON, Canada
10/11/2001 – 10/15/2001
Represented by : Tatar Alexander Gallery – 183 Bathurst Street – Toronto ON, Canada
AIPAD Photography Show
New York NY, United States
02/16/2001 – 02/18/2001
Represented by : Etherton Gallery – 135 South 6th Avenue – Tucson AZ, United States
2000
Photo San Francisco, n° 1
Fort Mason – San Francisco CA, United States
07/27/2000 – 07/30/2000
Represented by : The Photographer’s Gallery of Palo Alto – 536 Ramona Street – Palo Alto CA, United States
Group exhibitions
1997
Sublime Terrain: American Color Landscape Photography
Robert Hull Fleming Museum – University of Vermont – Burlington VT, United States
1997
1996
Perpetual Mirage: The Desert West in Photographic Books and Prints
Whitney Museum of American Art – New York NY, United States
1996
1992
Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography
National Museum of American Art – Washington DC, United States
1992
Changing Visions of the American Landscape: from Ansel Adams to Robert Adams
James A. Michener Art Museum – Doylestown PA, United States
1992
1990
The New American Pastoral: Landscape Photography in the Age of Questioning
George Eastman House – International Museum of Photography and Film – Rochester NY, United States
1990
The (un)making of nature
Whitney Museum of American Art – New York NY, United States
1990
1989
Symbol and Surrogate: the Picture Within
University of Hawaii Art Gallery – Honolulu HI, United States
1989
Decade by Decade: Twentieth Century American Photography from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography
Center for Creative Photography – Tucson AZ, United States
1989
The Unconventional Landscape
John Michael Kohler Arts Center – Sheboygan WI, United States
1989
On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography
National Gallery of Art – Washington DC, United States
1989
1988
photography and Art: Interaction since 1945
Queens Museum of Art – Queens, New York NY, United States
1988
1987
Photography and Art: Interactions since 1946
LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Los Angeles CA, United States
1987
Visual Paradox: Truth and Fiction in the Photographic Vision
John Michael Kohler Arts Center – Sheboygan WI, United States
1987
Von Landschafsbild zur Spurensicherung
Museum Ludwig – Cologne, Germany
1987
1986
Acceptable Entertainment
Bruno Facchetti Gallery – New York NY, United States
1986
Views and Visions: recent American Landscape Photography
ICP International Center of Photography – New York NY, United States
1986
A Facet of Modernism
SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – San Francisco CA, United States
1986
1985
American Images, 1945-1980
Barbican Gallery – London, United Kingdom
1985
New Color/New Work: Photographic Essays
MCA Museum of Contemporary Art – Chicago IL, United States
1985
Images of Excellence
George Eastman House – International Museum of Photography and Film – Rochester NY, United States
1985
Illuminating Color: Four Approaches in Contemporary Painting and Photography
Pratt Manhattan Soho – New York NY, United States
1985
Extending the Perimeters of Twentieth Century Photograph
SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – San Francisco CA, United States
1985
Photographs from the Museum’s Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York NY, United States
1985
1984
Color in the Summer
BMA Brooklyn Museum of Art – Brooklyn, New York NY, United States
1984
Rochester, an American Center of Photography: 1827-1984
George Eastman House – International Museum of Photography and Film – Rochester NY, United States
1984
1983
the Television Show: Video Photographs
Robert Freidus Gallery – New York NY, United States
1983
Photographes et paysages, XIX-XXème siècles
MNAM Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou – Paris, France
1983
Photography in America: 1910-1983
Tampa Museum of Art – Tampa FL, United States
1983
1982
Fugitive Color
Slusser Gallery – University of Michigan – Ann Arbor MI, United States
1982
Color as a Form: A History of Color Photography
Corcoran Gallery of Art – Washington DC, United States
1982
Dyed Images: Recent Work in Dye Transfer
The Friends of Photography – Carmel CA, United States
1982
1981
Three Photographers: barboza, Callis, Pfahl
AMOA Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria – Austin TX, United States
1981
American Photographers and the National Parks
The New York Public Library – New York NY, United States
1981
Contemporary Color Photography
Chrysler Museum of Art – Norfolk VA, United States
1981
The new Color: A Decade of Color Photography
Everson Museum of Art – Syracuse NY, United States
1981
1980
Zeitgenossiche Amerikanische Farbphotographie
Galerie Rudolf Kicken – Cologne, Germany
1980
Pfahl, Josephson, Divola, Heinecken
Young-Hoffman Gallery – Chicago IL, United States
1980
Reasoned Space
Center for Creative Photography – Tucson AZ, United States
1980
Photography: Recent Directions
DeCordova Museum – Lincoln MA, United States
1980
1979
Object, Illusion, Reality
California State University at Fullerton – Fullerton CA, United States
1979
Fabricated to be Photographed
SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – San Francisco CA, United States
1979
John divola, James Henkel, Bart Parker, John Pfahl
Visual Studies Workshop Galleries – Rochester NY, United States
1979
American Photography in the 70’s
The Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago IL, United States
1979
Attitudes: Photography in the 70s
Santa Barbara Museum of Art – Santa Barbara CA, United States
1979
1978
Group Show: Color Photographs
The Friends of Photography – Carmel CA, United States
1978
1977
Upstate Color: Michael Bishop, Phil Block, John Pfahl
Everson Museum of Art – Syracuse NY, United States
1977
1976
Photographie : Rochester
Centre Culturel Americain – Paris, France
1976
1972
Photo/Synthetis
Herbert F. Johnson Museum Of Art – Cornell University – Ithaca NY, United States
1972
1971
60’s Continuum
George Eastman House – International Museum of Photography and Film – Rochester NY, United States
1971
Bibliography (Selected)
On the artist
Books
1990
A Distanced Land: Photographs of John Pfahl
Albuquerque NM, United States
1990
1988
Arcadia revisited: Niagara River and Falls from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario
Albuquerque NM, United States
1988
1987
Picture Windows
Boston MA, United States
1987
Portfolio
1982
Altered Landscapes: the Photographs of John Pfahl
New York NY, United States
1982
1981
Altered Landscapes: the Photographs of John Pfahl
Carmel CA, United States
1981