Résumé
MARILYN BRIDGES
PO Box 269, Warwick, New York 10990
tel: 845.986.4376; fax: 845.987.7639
Email: marilynbridges@gmail.com
Education: MFA 1981, BFA 1979, Rochester Institute of Technology
Personal work has been shown in over 300 exhibitions worldwide and is included in over 80 museums and private collections. She is also an aerial landscape photographer with clients in Europe, Japan, and the United States. Her photographs have appeared in major magazines, including Vanity Fair, Conde Nast Traveler, Life, Archaeology, Smithsonian and The New York Times.
Awards & Honors: Guggenheim Fellowship 1982, CAPS Grant 1983, NEA Grant 1984, Fulbright Grant 1988-9, Makedonas Kostas Award (Greece) 1989. Elected fellow of The Explorers Club 1988. Medal of Arles, Recontres Internationals de la Photographie, Arles, France 1991. WINGS TRUST Award 2003, INSTAP Fellowship 2009
Photographic Books and CD-ROM:
MARKINGS: Aerial Views of Sacred Landscapes, Aperture, Inc., New York, 1986.
THE SACRED & SECULAR: A Decade of Aerial Photography, International Center of Photography, New York, 1990.
PLANET PERU: An Aerial Journey Through A Timeless Land, Aperture, Inc., New York, 1991.
VUE D'OISEAU, La Mission Photographique Transmanche, Centre Regional de la Photographie, Douchy, France, 1996.
EGYPT: Antiquities from Above, Bulfinch Press, Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1996.
SACRED & SECULAR: The Aerial Photography of Marilyn Bridges, CD-ROM, The Voyager Company, New York, 1996.
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND, Aperture, New York, 1997.
VOL AU-DESSUS DE LA WALLONIE, Editions MET, Musee de la photographie a Charleroi, Belgium, 1999.
FLIGHTS THROUGH TIME, Lodima Press, USA 2007
Selected Public Institutional Collections:
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
Baruch College, New York, NY
Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL
Brown University, Providence, RI
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
College of Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Columbia University, New York, NY
Cooper Union, New York, NY
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY
Museum of the City of New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
National Museum of American Art, Washington DC
New School for Social Research, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Princeton University Art Museum, NJ
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Tufts University, Medford, MA
University Art Museum, Binghamton University, NY
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
University of Baltimore, MD
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
International Institutional Collections:
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
Centre Regional de la Photographie Nord Pas-de-Calais, France
Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France
Hellenic Centre of Photography, Athens, Greece
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
National Museum of Anthropology, Lima, Peru
National Museum of Modern Art, Porto, Portugal
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, London
Corporate Collections:
Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
Avon Collection, New York
Bank of America Collection, Chicago, IL
Bell & Murphy, Houston
CellMark, Göteborg, Sweden
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Citibank, New York, NY
Danish Tourist Board, New York and Copenhagen
Dow Jones, New York, NY
JIPAM, Montpellier, France
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, New York
Ogilvy & Mather, New York
Onassis Foundation, New York, NY
Oriental Photo Distributing Company, Huntington Beach, CA
Parnassus Foundation, NJ
Readers Digest, Pleasantville, NY
Seagrams Collection, New York, NY
Security Pacific Corporation, Los Angeles
Snell & Wilmer, Phoenix, AZ
Texaco, Houston, TX
Union Bank of Finland, Helsinki
Television Appearances:
CNN, "Eye on America"
CNN, News
"The Morning Show," CBS
Charles Kuralt's "Sunday Morning", CBS
"The Today Show", NBC
"National Geographic Explorer", Discovery Channel
Selected Workshops & Lectures:
Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA 2009
The Explorers Club, New York, NY 2008
Santa Guilia Museum, Brescia, Italy 2006
University of Kentucky Art Museum 2006
Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY 2005
Maine Photogrphy Workshops 2005
Palm Beach Photography Center, FL 2004
National Arts Club, NYC, 2003
Palm Beach Photography Center, FL, 2003
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, June 1992
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, April 1988
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, March 1988
The Explorers Club, New York, NY, March 1988
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, April 1987
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, February 1984
Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, May 1983
International Center of Photography, New York, New York, February 1983
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, February 1982
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2009
Penn Museum, Philedelphia, PA,
2008
Onassis Foundation Cultural Center, New York, NY,
2007
ArteF Fine Art Photography Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Throckmorton Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY 2007, 2003
2006
Santa Guilia Museum, Brescia, Italy
2005
Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
Palm Beach Photography Center, FL
2004
Robert Rauschenberg Gallery. Fort Myers, FL.
2003
National Center for American Art, Texas
House of Moscow, Russia
National Arts Club, New York, NY
Theatre Royal de Namur, Belgium
2002
Rose Lehrman Arts Center, PA
Musee National, Lithuania
Nizhmy novgorod, Russia
Bruxelles Museum, Prague
Saint Lambert Museum, Leige, Belgium
2001
Centre Wallonie, Paris, France
University of Rhode Island, Photography Gallery, RI
2000
Lycee de l'Escaut 1, Valenciennes, France
1999
Musee de la photographie a Charleroi, Belgium
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
1998
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
1997
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Collège Louise Michel, Nord Pas-de-Calais, France
Grand Palais, Lille, France
Museum at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
1996
Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
Centre Régional de la Photographie, Nord Pas-de-Calais, Douchy, France
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
1995
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
Bergen Museum of Art & Science, Paramus, NJ
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
1994
Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, University, PA
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA
Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, Cincinnati, OH
1993
Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
Louisiana Arts & Science Center, Baton Rouge, LA
Kingman Museum of Natural History, Battle Creek, MI
Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities, Arvada, CO
University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
1992
Kansas City Museum, Kansas City, MO
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
1991
Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI
Millikin University, Decatur, IL
Musée Francaise de la Photographie, Bièvres, France
Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, IL
School of Fine Arts, Lisbon, Portugal
1990
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Centro de Estudos de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal
Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, MO
Gibbes Art Museum, Charleston, SC
Dallas Art Institute, TX
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
1989
Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA
Museum of Revolution, Beijing, China
Municipalidad de Miraflores, Lima (exhibition traveled throughout Peru)
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD
Reading Public Museum, PA
1988
Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1987
Canton Art Institute, OH
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Tampa Museum of Art, FL
McMillen Memorial Library, Wisconsin Rapids, WI
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Overseas Press Club, NY
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
1986
Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL
Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, NY
Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, TX
University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, NY
Middle Tennessee University, Murfreesboro, TN
1985
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences, Morristown, NJ
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, KS
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI
Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
Putnam Museum, Davenport, IA
1984
Strecker Museum, Baylor University, Waco, TX
Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
Nikon Foto Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1983
Tucson Museum of Art, AZ
New York Academy of Sciences, NY
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada
1981
MFA Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
1979
MFA Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
1978
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2009
Throckmorton Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY
Yale Art Museum, New Haven, CT., First Doubt.
Centre Regional de la Photographie Nord Pas de Calais, France
2008
Hofstra University Museum, Hofstra, NY, Women Photographers
2007
Aperture Foundation Gallery, New York, NY 2007Aperture at 55
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA 2007 Contemporary Aerial Photography
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal 2006 Ingenuity
2005
National Academy of Science, Washington, DC
BildForum, Mannheim, Germany, Internationle Fototage Mannheim
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver 2004
2003
AXA Gallery, Equitable Building NYC The New World’s Old World
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ
Nevada Museum of Art, NV
Preus fotomuseum, Karljohansvern, Norway The Altered Landscape
Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College New York NY Revising Nature
2001
Gallery of Fine Art, Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI. N. America? Is This N. America?
& There not here
Musee de la Beaux Arts de Dunkerque, Dunkerque, France, 160 ans de la photographie
2000
Albin O. Kuhn Library, University of Maryland,Baltimore, MD. Framing the Exhibition, Multiple Constructions
Centre Regional de la Photographie, Nord-Pas de Calais, Paysages Marques
Art Institute of Boston, MA, Giza: 19th & 20th Century Photographic Views
1999
Museum of Contemp. Photography, Chicago, IL, Photography's multiple roles: art, document, market, science
Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, The Art of Time
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark, (two-person)
1998
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Years Ending in Nin
Rico Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Art & Nature
1997
Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA, The Dainty Hand
International Center of Photography, NY, Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Avon Collection
San Francisco Museum of Art, CA, Icons: Modern Design and the Haunting: Quality of Everyday Objects
1996
Musée de la photographie à Charleroi, Mont-sur-Marchienne, Belgium, Les trois grandes égyptiennes
1995
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock, Chippenham, England, Centenary Photographic Exhibition 1895-1995
Seagram's Gallery, New York, Up/Down: Varied Viewpoints
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, Spaces for the Self: The Symbolic Imagery of Place
Museum of Modern Art, NY, Selections from Permanent Collection, & 1993
1993
Musée des Beaux Arts, Reims, France, Mai de la Photo, Oeil Américain/paysage européen
Museo de Arte Contemporano Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, Through Foreign Eyes
1992-1993
traveling exhibition, This Sporting Life, 1878-1991
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
- Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX
- de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA
- Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Minimal Relics
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes
traveling exhibition - Mercedes-Benz/Kodak, An Image of Class
1990-1993
traveling exhibition - Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
- Chicago Historical Society, IL
- Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
- Vancouver Museum
- National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
- Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
- Columbia University, NY
1989
University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman, OK
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
1988
Harvard School of Design, Cambridge, MA
Aspen Art Museum, CO
1987
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
1987-1990- traveling exhibition, Diamonds are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball
- New York State Museum, Albany, NY
- Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
- Museum of Art and History, San Juan, PR
- Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
- Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
- Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
- Chicago Public Library and Cultural Center, IL
- Oakland Museum, CA
- New York Public Library, NY
Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ
1986
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Traveling exhibition, 1986-87
- Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters, New Brunswick, NJ
- Light Factory, Charlotte, N
- San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, TX
- Glassboro State College, N
- Photographic Archives, University of Louisville, KY
International Cultural Centrum, Antwerp, Belgium
American Center, Brussels, Belgium
1985
Musée des Beaux Arts, Tours, France
Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York, NY
Addison Gallery of American Arts, Andover, MA
George Eastman House, Rochester, N
Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
1984
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nikon House Gallery, New York
1983
Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
1983-86
Traveling exhibition
- The Photographers' Gallery, London
- Lotherton Hall, Leeds
- Fotogallery, Cardiff
- National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television, Bradford
- MacLaurin Art Gallery, Ayr
- Wakefield College of Art
- University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
DLI Museum (two-person), Durham Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, VT
Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, WA
Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
1983-87
traveling exhibition, Living with the Volcano
- Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
- Missoula Museum of the Arts, MT
- Springfield Museum, OR
- College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, ID
- Salt Lake City Public Library, UT
- University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
- Witman College, Walla Walla, WA
1982
American Museum of Natural History, New York
1982-83
Traveling exhibition
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
- University of Hawaii, Honolulu
1981
Light Gallery, New York
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
National Museum of Modern Art, Porto, Portugal
MFA Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY 1979, 1978, 1980