Jeffrey Silverthorne — Biographie — Slash Paris

Born in Hawaii in 1946, Jeffrey Silverthorne lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island. Recent solo exhibitions of his prestigious international career as a photographer include retrospectives at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg in 2016, the FoMu in Antwerp in 2015, the Nicéphore Niepce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône in 2014 and the VU’ Gallery at the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles in 2008. Jeffrey Silverthorne has participated in numerous group exhibitions, notably in France at the Suzanne Tarasieve Gallery in 2015 and in 2008 at the Bibliothèque nationale and the Maison d’art Bernard Anthonioz in Nogent-sur-Marne. His works are part, between others, of the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, of the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, TX, of the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland and of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. Jeffrey Silverthorne is a member artist of L’ahah since 2017.

SOLO-SHOW

2021

• Pleasures, Sadness, Sometimes, L’ahah #Griset #Moret, Paris, France

2019

• LOOKING, PNDB gallery, Dallas, Texas, United States

2016

• Ken Schles, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Miron Zownir, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
• Studio Work, Galerie Pascaline Mulliez, Paris

2015

• New Works and Darlings, Kehrer Berlin Galerie, Berlin
• The Precision of Silence, FoMu, Antwerp

2014

• Portraits : 1968-2012, Galerie VU’, Paris, France
• The Precision of Silence, Musée Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saône

2013

• Portraits and Figures, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen

2011

• Fotografie Noorderlicht, Groningen
• Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen
• Galerie VU’, Paris

2010

• Photon Gallery, Ljubljana

2008

• Galerie VU’, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles
• Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas

2007

• Fotografisk Gallery, Copenhagen

2005

• Ahorn-Grieneisen Gallery, Berlin

2004

• Book Beat Gallery, Oak Park, Michigan
• Loomis Chaffee Art Gallery, Windsor, Connecticut

2002

• C Pop Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
• Book Beat Gallery, Oak Park, Michigan

2000

• Book Beat Gallery, Oak Park, Michigan

1999

• Artists’ Alliance, Lafayette, Louisiana
• Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas

1998

• University of Toledo, Ohio
• Book Beat Gallery, Oak Park, Michigan

1997

• The Deep Gallery, Tokyo
• Galerie A, Stuttgart

1995

• Galerie 4, Cheb, Czech Republic
• Galerie A, Stuttgart

1994

• Galerie Stelling, Leiden
• Museum for Photography, Antwerp
• Book Beat Gallery, Oak Park, Michigan

1993

• Galerie A, Stuttgart, Germany
• Book Beat Gallery, Oak Park, Michigan

1992

• The Print Club, Philadelphia

1991

• Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe
• Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, Texas

1990

• Book Beat Gallery, Oak Park, Michigan

1987

• Columbia College, Chicago

1985

• Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas

1984

• Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York

1982

• Ufficio Dell ‘Arte, Paris
• Robert Samuel Gallery, New York

1977

• Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

1974

• Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

1973

• Witkin Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1972

• San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, Californie

1968

• Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

GROUP-SHOW

2016

• Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas
• Photon Gallery, Ljubljana PhotoFest

2015

• Paris Photo, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris
• Welcome Collection, London
• Galerie VU’, Paris

2014

• Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas
• Galerie VU’, Paris

2013

• Galerie VU’, Paris

2012

• Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas
• Galerie VU’, Paris

2011

• Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise, Nantes
• Daniel Blau, London

2010

• Fondation Frances, Senlis,
• Paris Photo, Leica Gallery, Paris
• Galleria Dora Bassi, Gorizia
• Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas, Texas
• Photon Gallery, Ljubljana PhotoFest
• Le Capital, Galerie VU’, Rencontres d’Arles

2009

• Le Capital, Galerie VU’, Rencontres d’Arles
• Galerie Kunstagenten, Berlin
• Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
• Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas, Texas

2008

• Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
• La Maison d’art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent-sur Marne

2007

• Paris Photo, Gallerie VU’, Paris
• Gallery Z, Providence, Rhode Island
• Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas, Texas

2006

• Rogue Artists Studios , Manchester
• Impression 2006, Grafisch Centrum HogeDrukgebied, Rotterdam

2005

• Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
• Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas, Texas

2004

• L A. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Californie

2002

• Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island
• Here is New York, New York
• Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas, Texas
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York

2001

• Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island

2000

• Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, Lausanne

1999

• Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
• Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
• Friends of Photography, San Francisco
• Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York

1998

• Photographic Center, Skopelos, Grèce

1997

• Flying over water, Curator Peter Greenaway, Foundacio Joan Miro, Barcelone
• Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt
• Galerie A, Stuttgart

1995

• Venice Biennale, Venise
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• American Center in France, Paris

1994

• Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1993

• The Drawing Center, New York

1991

• The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

1989

• Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Tartt Gallery, Washington, D.C.,
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Californie

1988

• Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago

1984

• Boston Museum School, Boston

1982

• Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, New York
• Galerie Texbraun, Paris

1979

• Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara

1977

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

1976

• International Center of Photography, New York
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

1974

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

1969

• Hallmark Gallery, New York
• Underground Gallery, New York

AWARDS

2007

• MacCall- Johnson Fellowship Finalist, Providence, Rhode Island

2001

• University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, guest critic

2000

• Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, guest critic

1999

• Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY, Artist’s Residency, deferred Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist’s Mini Grant

1997

• Moderator, The Grotesque in Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

1996

• Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana — Works On Paper, First Prize

1993

• South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana, USA 18th Biennial, Best of Show

1992

• Art Matters Inc, New York, NY, USA, Grant Recipient

1986

• National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C., USA Grant Recipient

1979

• Massachusetts Artists Foundation, Boston, MA, USA, Grant Recipient

ACQUISITIONS

• Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
• Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L A, CA, USA
• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
• Fondation Frances, Senlis, France
• Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA, USA
• International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, USA
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art, S B, CA, USA
• New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, USA
• Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
• Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, R.I., USA
• Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA, USA
• Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, USA
• Museum for Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
• State Gallery of the Czech Republic, Galerie 4, Cheb, Czech Republic
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, USA
• Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Isabelle Darrigrand, Paris/Biarritz, France
• Lars Schwander, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Christian Caujolle, Paris, France
• Marin Karmitz, Paris, France