| GREGORY HALPERN | |
| 1977 | Born in Buffalo, USA |
| Lives and works in Rochester, USA | |
| 1999 | BA in History and Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA |
| 2004 | MFA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) | |
| 2024 | Gregory Halpern: April, George Eastman Museum Rochester, New York, USA |
| 2023 | Gregory Halpern: 19 winters / 7 springs, George Eastman Museum Rochester, New York, USA |
| Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs, Transformer Station Cleveland, Ohio, USA | |
| 2020 | Omaha Sketchbook, Loock Galerie, Berlin |
| Let the Sun Beheaded Be, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | |
| Let the Sun Beheaded Be, Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris, France | |
| Buffalo, Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH (working title) | |
| 2019 | Omaha Sketchbook, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, Great Britian |
| 2018 | Confederate Moons, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2017 | ZZYZX, Webber Gallery Space, London, Great Britian |
| ZZYZX, MiCamera Gallery, Milan, Italy | |
| 2016 | California, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2015 | East of the Sun, West of the Moon, collaboration with Ahndraya Parlato, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, USA |
| 2012 | A, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| A, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA | |
| A, ClampArt, January 5 – February 11, New York, USA | |
| 2011 | Day-Blink, Primary Gallery, Curated by Tim Barber/Tiny Vices, New York, USA |
| University of Rochester Art and Music Library Gallery, Rochester, USA | |
| 2010 | Omaha Sketchbook, Polyester Gallery, Omaha, USA |
| 2009 | Thin on the Ground, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, USA |
| 2007 | I’m Afraid I Love You, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA (July–August, 2007) |
| City on the Edge, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, USA | |
| 2006 | Buffalo, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA |
| 2005 | Buffalo, The San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, USA |
| Harvard Works Because We Do, Glen Urquhart School, Beverly, USA | |
| 2004 | MFA Thesis Exhibition, California College of the Arts, Oakland, USA |
| 2003 | Harvard Works Because We Do, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, USA |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) | |
| 2024 | Immersion, International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, USA |
| 2023 | Impressions. Fotografiska x Autograph Collection Hotels, Fotografiska New York Gramercy Park, New York, USA |
| Anniversary Exhibition: 20 Years Of Galerie Wouter Van Leeuwen, Galerie Wouter Van Leeuwen Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2022 | America in Crisis, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK |
| 2021 | But Still, It Turns, International Center of Photography, New York, USA |
| 2020 | ONLINE: There's no place like home, London, Magnum London |
| 2018 | At Home in the American West, Aperture Foundation, New York, USA |
| Unseen, Foam Magazine Photo Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Summer in the City, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2017 | Speech, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA |
| Fotodoks Festival for Contemporary Documentary Photography, Lothringer13 Halle, Munich | |
| American Surfaces and the Photobook, Museum of Modern Art (Cullman Building), New York, USA | |
| 2016 | Indivisible, Fotomuseum Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2015 | The Photographer’s Playspace, Aperture Foundation, New York, USA |
| 2014 | Big Pictures, Cincinnati Art Museum |
| Performance: Contemporary Photography from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, USA | |
| Hindsight, V1 Gallery/The Depot, Copenhaven, Denmark | |
| BredaPhoto International Photo Festival, Breda, The Netherlands | |
| Unseen, Foam Magazine Photo Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| PGH Photo Fair, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA | |
| Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands | |
| About Portraits, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| 2013 | Six Rooms, The Mine Factory & Spaces Corners, Pittsburgh, USA |
| Unseen, Foam Magazine Photo Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Summer in the City, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Collection, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, USA | |
| White Boys: Some Perspectives, curated by Hank Willis Thomas, Haverford College, Haverford, USA | |
| 2012 | PhotoForum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA |
| The 2012 VICE Photo Show, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, USA | |
| Transitions: Rochester, Fotodok, Utrecht, The Netherlands | |
| Into the Woods, ClampArt, New York, USA | |
| A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks: Selections from the Indie Photo Book | |
| Library, September 14 – October 18, Gallery Carte Blanche, San Francisco, USA; Contemporary Arts Center | |
| PhotoNOLA, New Orleans, USA | |
| 2011 | The Greater Area, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, USA |
| Transitions: Rochester, George Eastman House, Rochester, USA | |
| Transitions: Rochester, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, USA | |
| 2010 | Six Photographers, Young & Rubicam, New York, USA |
| There’s a Way in Which: An Exhibition in Honor of Larry Sultan, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
| New Work New York: Curated by Tim Barber/Tiny Vices, Levi’s Workshop, New York, USA | |
| Biennial Septembre de la Photographie (Le Garage Artists' Books), Lyon, France | |
| One Hour Photo, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C., USA | |
| 2008 | Let Us Now Praise San Francisco, Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, USA |
| Working Title, MomentaArt, Brooklyn, USA | |
| 2007 | Collectively, Yuerba Beuna Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA |
| CCA Centennial, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, USA | |
| Never Been to Tehran, Parkingallery, Tehran, Iran, and locations in Turkey, New Zealand, Denmark, Germany and the USA (www.neverbeentotehran.com) | |
| 2005 | Showcase: San Francisco Emerging Artists, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, USA |
| 2004 | Land of the Free, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
| Subject to Oneself, Playspace Gallery, California College of the Arts New Faculty Show, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts | |
| 2003 | Twenty-Five Under Twenty-Five: Up and Coming American Photographers, Tisch School of the Arts Gallery, New York University |
| Selections, California College of the Arts, North/South Gallery, Oakland, USA | |
| More Than Code: The Best of American Graduate Student Photography, (Juried Show), Buffalo; Albuquerque; Tucson; Bloomington Hills, USA | |
| Landing, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
| BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS | |
| 2020 | Soleil cou Coupé, Aperture |
| 2019 | Omaha Sketchbook, MACK Books |
| 2018 | Confederate Moons, TBW Books |
| 2016 | ZZYZX, MACK Books |
| 2014 | East of the Sun, West of the Moon, Études Books, collaboration with Ahndraya Parlato |
| 2014 | The Photographer’s Playbook, Aperture Foundation, co-editor with Jason Fulford (now in 5th printing) |
| 2011 | A, J&L Books |
| 2009 | Omaha Sketchbook, J&L Books (limited edition artists book) |
| 2003 | Harvard Works Because We Do, Foreword by Studs Terkel, W.W. Norton / Quantuck Lane |
| AWARDS AND GRANTS (SELECTION) | |
| 2018 | Immersion Commission, SFMoMA/Hermès Foundation/Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation |
| 2018 | Finalist, Infinity Award, ICP |
| Finalist, Prix Elysée, sponsored by the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland | |
| 2016 | PhotoBook of the Year, Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards |
| 2014 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship |
| 2014 | Residency, Light Work, Syracuse, USA |
| 2013 | Nominee, Henri Cartier-Bresson International Award, Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation and the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès |
| Gitner Family Prize, Rochester Institute of Technology | |
| 2012 | International Photobook Award, selected by Todd Hido, 5th Annual Fotobook Festival, Le Bal, Paris |
| Photo-Eye Top Ten Book of the Year for A | |
| 2011 | Nominee, Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund |
| 2010 | Photo-Eye Top Ten Book of the Year for Omaha Sketchbook |
| 2006–08 | Artist-in-Residence, Risley College for the Creative and Performing Arts, Cornell University |
| 2005 | Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Foundation, New York, NY |
| John Gutmann Photography Fellowship, The San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA | |
| Finalist, Artadia San Francisco | |
| Full Fellowship Residency, Bemis Center, Omaha, Nebraska (9/2005–12/2005) | |
| 2004 | Nominee, Infinity Award, International Center for Photography |
| 2003 | Full Fellowship Residency, Vermont Studio Center (June–July) |
| 2002 | Graduate Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts (2002–2004) |
| Grant, Center for Student Democracy, Cambridge, USA | |
| Grant, Progressive Student Labor Movement, Cambridge, USA | |
| 2001 | Grant, LEF Foundation, Cambridge, USA |
| Mark DeWolfe Howe Grant, Cambridge, USA | |
| Grant, Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, Cambridge, USA | |
| DoubleTake Magazine Summer Institute Full Scholarship, Amherst, USA | |
| 1999 | Grant, Ella Lyman Cabot Trust, Dedham, USA |
| 1998 | Harvard College Research Grant, Cambridge, USA |