Résumé
MARILYN BRIDGES
PO Box 269, Warwick, New York 10990
tel: 845.986.4376; fax: 845.987.7639
bridges@warwick.net
Education: MFA 1981, BFA 1979, Rochester Institute of Technology
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
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.
Public and Corporate Collections:
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
American Museum of Natural History, New York
Aperture Foundation, New York
Avon Collection, New York
Baruch College, New York
Bell & Murphy, Houston
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Bloomfield College, New Jersey
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida
Brown University, Providence, RI
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
CellMark, Göteborg, Sweden
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Cincinnati Art Museum
Citibank, New York
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
College of Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Columbia University, New York
Cooper Union, New York
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Danish Tourist Board, New York and Copenhagen
Davidson College, North Carolina
Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Hellenic Centre of Photography, Athens, Greece
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
Horace Mann School, New York
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
International Center of Photography, New York
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
JIPAM, Montpellier, France
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Middle Tennessee University, Murfreesboro
Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman
Museum of the American Indian, New York
Museum of the City of New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
National Museum of Anthropology, Lima, Peru
National Museum of Modern Art, Porto, Portugal
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
New School of Social Research, New York
New York Public Library
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City
Oriental Photo Distributing Company, Huntington Beach, CA
Parnassus Foundation, New Jersey
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Readers Digest, Pleasantville, NY
Rockland Community College, Suffern, NY
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, London
Salt River Project, Phoenix, AZ
Seagrams Collection, New York
Security Pacific Corporation, Los Angeles
Snell & Wilmer, Phoenix, AZ
Southeast Center for Photographic Arts, Daytona Beach, FL
Texaco, Houston
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Union Bank of Finland, Helsinki
Union College, Schenectady, NY
Union Hospital, New Jersey
University Art Museum, Binghamton University, NY
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
University of Baltimore
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Television:
CNN, "Eye on America," June, 1997
"The Morning Show," CBS, March 1997
Charles Kuralt's "Sunday Morning", CBS, January 1992
"The Today Show", NBC, November 1987
"National Geographic Explorer", Washington, D.C., October 1987
Selected Lectures:
National Arts Club, NYC, 2003
Palm Beach Photography Center, FL, 2003
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, March 2000
Columbus Museum of Art, OH, November 1999
The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 1998
Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 1996
Foto Massän, The Photographic Fair, Göteburg, Sweden, November 1995
Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC, September 1993
American Museum of Natural History, New York, June 1992
The Art School of Cuzco, Peru, September 1988
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, April 1988
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, March 1988
The Explorers Club, New York, March 1988
San Francisco Art Institute, April 1987
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, February 1984
Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, May 1983
International Center of Photography, New York, February 1983
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, February 1982
Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, February 1982
Solo Exhibitions:
2003
Throckmorton Gallery, NYC
National Center for American Art, Texas
House of Moscow, Russia
National Arts Club, NYC
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
Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Beacon Gallery, Bellport, NY
Centre Wallonie, Paris, France
University of Rhode Island, Photography gallery
2000
Apex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
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
Soho Triad Fine Arts, New York
William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, VA
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
1998
Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
Galerie Mistral, Montréal, Canada
Devena's Gallery, Tulsa, OK
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
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
Saint-Pry de Béthune, France
Fotogalerie Objektief, Enschede, The Netherlands
Burden Gallery, New York
Collège Louise Michel, Nord Pas-de-Calais, France
Grand Palais, Lille, France
Museo Ken Damy, Milano, Italy
Museum at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
1996
Galerie Lichtblick Downtown, Photokina, Köln, Germany
Fotogaleria, Teatro General San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
Lichtbild Galerie, Worpswede, Germany
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
Bergen Museum of Art & Science, Paramus, NJ
Foto Mässan, The Photographic Fair, Göteborg, Sweden
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
Ogilvy & Mather, New York
1994
Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, University, PA
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA
Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, AZ
Zwemmer Fine Photographs, London, England
Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, Cincinnati, OH
1993
Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
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
VIII Mes de la Fotografía, Iberoamerica, Casa Colón, Huelva, Spain
Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA
Open Center, New York
Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, NY
Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton, OK
1991
Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI
Tulsa Photographic Cooperative, Tulsa, OK
Mairie de Mérignac, Fondation Charles Cante, Mérignac, France
Millikin University, Decatur, IL
Musée Francaise de la Photographie, Bièvres, France
Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
Cheekwood Botanical Gardens & Fine Art Center, Nashville, TN
The Photography Center Gallery (The 92nd St. Y), New York
Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia
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
Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, OR
Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, MO
Gibbes Art Museum, Charleston, SC
Dallas Art Institute, TX
XXIème Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
Houston Foto Fest: Houston Museum of Natural Science, 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
North Museum, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
The Photographers' Gallery, London
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Port Washington Library, NY
1987
Canton Art Institute, OH
Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, FL
Daytona Beach Community College, FL
Brainerd Art Gallery, Potsdam, NY
Forum Fotogalerie, Tarragona, Spain
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Tampa Museum of Art, FL
McMillen Memorial Library, Wisconsin Rapids, WI
Bacardi Gallery, Miami, FL
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City
Overseas Press Club, New York
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Burden Gallery, New York
Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
1986
Light Impressions Spectrum Gallery, Rochester, NY
Albuquerque Public Library, NM
Wilderness Park Museum, El Paso, TX
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
Middle Tennessee University, Murfreesboro
Westover School, Middlebury, CT
Wilderness Park Museum, El Paso, TX
1985
Modulo Galerie, Lisbon and Porto, Portugal
Galerie Junod, Lausanne, Switzerland
Orlando Science Center, FL
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
Ken Damy Photogallery, Milan, Italy
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
Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI
Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
Putnam Museum, Davenport, IA
Galerie Frederic Bazille, Montpellier, France
1984
A.R.P.A., Bordeaux, France
Strecker Museum, Baylor University, Waco, TX
Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, SD
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD
Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
Hartwick College, Oneona, NY
Nikon Foto Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls, MT
Foto Biennale, Enschede, Holland
XVème Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
Missoula Museum of the Arts, MT
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Custer County Arts Center, Miles City, MT
Western Montana College, Dillon
Sioux City Art Center, IA
1983
Fnac Galleries: Paris, Mulhouse, Strasbourg, Clermont-Ferrand, Brussels
Ken Damy Photogallery, Brescia, Italy
Tucson Museum of Art, AZ
Canon Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
New York Academy of Sciences, New York
Meridian House International, Washington, DC
Fotogalerij 'T Pepertje, Diepenbeek, Belgium
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada
Centro Mexicano, New York
1982
The Photographers" Gallery, London
Galeriegesellschaft, Berlin, West Germany
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
Center for Inter-American Relations, New York
1981
Blue Sky Gallery, Center for Photographic Arts, Portland, OR
Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, NY
MFA Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
1980
The Photography Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
CEPA Photographic Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1979
MFA Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
1978
American Museum of Natural History, New York
Group Exhibitions:
2003
Burden Gallery, NYC
AXA Gallery, NYC
Scottsdale museum of Contemporary Art
Nevada Museum of Art
2001
Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, "Cities"
Gallery of Fine Art, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, "North America? Is This North America?"
Musee de la Beaux Arts de Dunkerque, Dunkerque, France, "160 ans de la photographie"
Gallery of Fine Art, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, "There not here"
L'Ospitale, Rubiera, Italy, "Luoghi Come Paesaggi"
2000
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD,
"Framing the Exhibition, Multiple Constructions"
Soho Triad Gallery, New York, "New Finds, Old Favorites"
Woodstock Center of Photography, Woodstock, NY, "Summer Exhibition"
Centre Regional de la Photographie, Nord-Pas de Calais, "Paysages Marques"
Art Institute of Boston, MA, "Giza: 19th & 20th Century Photographic Views"
Carleton College, Northfield, MN, "Picking Pictures: Selections from the
Carleton College Photography Collection"
Woodward Gallery, New York, "Trees"
1999
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, "Photography's multiple roles: art, document, market, science"
Sala d'exposition del Govern, Principat d'Andorra, "Homentage a Vincent Van Gogh"
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, "Ancient History"
Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, "The Art of Time"
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark, (two-person)
Alan Klotz/Photocollect, New York, "Down from Up"
1998
Galerie Mistral, Montréal, "New York-New York"
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "Years Ending in Nine"
Soho Triad Fine Arts, New York, "Blind Spot"
Rico Gallery, Los Angeles, "Art & Nature"
1997
Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA, "The Dainty Hand"
International Center of Photography Midtown, New York, "Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Avon Collection"
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, "Director's Choice Exhibition"
Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, "Machu Picchu/Sacred Light"
San Francisco Museum of Art, "Icons: Modern Design and the Haunting"
Quality of Everyday Objects"
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, "Las Vegas"
Devena's Gallery, Tulsa, OK ("Photo Americas")
1996
Hotel de Sully (Mois de la Photo), Paris, "Les trois grandes égyptiennes"
Musée de la photographie à Charleroi, Mont-sur-Marchienne, Belgium, "Les trois grandes égyptiennes"
Kent Gallery, New York, "Celebrating Love: Photographers Unite Against Domestic Violence"
1995
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock, Chippenham, England, "Centenary Photographic Exhibition 1895-1995"
James Danziger Gallery, New York, "The Condé Nast Traveler 100"
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, "New in the 90s"
Seagram's Gallery, New York, "Up/Down: Varied Viewpoints"
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, "Spaces for the Self: The Symbolic Imagery of Place"
Gallery of Living Artists, New York, "Aesthetic Mystic"
Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Selections from Permanent Collection"
Hotel van de Velde, Brussels, Belgium
1993
Musée des Beaux Arts, Reims, France, Mai de la Photo, "Oeil Américain/paysage européen"
Natuurmuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, "Minimal Relics"
Museo de Arte Contemporano Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, "Mexico Through Foreign Eyes"
Burden Gallery, New York (two-person)
Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Selections from the Permanent Collection"
1992
"This Sporting Life, 1878-1991", traveling exhibition, 1992-1993
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta
- Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston
- de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA
- Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
- 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"
One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA, "From the Air"
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, "En Avion"
"An Image of Class," Mercedes-Benz/Kodak traveling exhibition, 1992-1993
- Haus der Wertschaft, Stuttgart, Germany
- Mercedes-Benz des Champs-Elysees, Paris
- La Cathedrale d'Images, Les Baux-de-Provence, France
- Mercedes-Benz, Park Avenue Showroom, New York
1991
Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, New York (two-person)
Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York
The Ghia Gallery, San Francisco
Henry Street Settlement, New York
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago (two-person)
1990
Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, OR
"Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture", traveling exhibition, 1990-1993
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Chicago Historical Society
- Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
- Vancouver Museum
- National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
- Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
- Columbia University, New York
1989
University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman
Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
10th International Festival of Photography, Montpellier, France
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
1988
Fergus Jean Gallery, Columbus, OH
Otis Parson Gallery of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Harvard School of Design, Cambridge, MA
Aspen Art Museum, CO
Sangre de Christo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO
1987
Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
"Diamonds are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball," traveling exhibition 1987-1990
- New York State Museum, Albany
- 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
Triennale, Charleroi, Belgium
Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
Sioux City Art Center, IA
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, FL
1986
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan
University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Traveling exhibition, 1986-87
- Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters, New Brunswick, NJ
- Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
- San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, TX
- Glassboro State College, NJ
- Photographic Archives, University of Louisville, KY
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
International Cultural Centrum, Antwerp, Belgium
American Center, Brussels, Belgium
Sonoma Community College, Sonoma, CA
Finger Lakes Exhibition, Rochester, NY
1985
Musée des Beaux Arts, Tours, France
Burden Gallery, New York
Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York, OswegoMiddendorf Gallery, Washington, DC
São Paulo Bienal, Brazil
Blue Sky Gallery, Center for Photographic Arts, Portland, OR
Addison Gallery of American Arts, Andover, MA
International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
1984
Ledel Gallery, New York
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Caves Sainte-Croix, Metz, France
XVème Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nikon House Gallery, New York
1983
Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
Traveling exhibition, 1983-86
- 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, Durham Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, VT (two-person)
Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman
Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
Albuquerque United Artists, Albuquerque, NM
"Living with the Volcano" traveling exhibition, 1983-87
- Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
- Missoula Museum of the Arts, MT
- Springfield Museum, OR
- College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls
- Salt Lake City Public Library, UT
- University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
- Witman College, Walla Walla, WA
The Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA (two-person)
1982
Traveling exhibition, 1982-83
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
- University of Hawaii, Honolulu
American Museum of Natural History, New York
Pyramid Gallery, Rochester, NY
1981
The Photography Gallery, Philadelphia
80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York
Pyramid Gallery, Rochester, NY
The Photography Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Light Gallery, New York
Pierce Street Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
National Museum of Modern Art, Porto, Portugal
MFA Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
1980
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY 1979, 1978