Gregory Halpern grew up in Buffalo, New York. He makes most of his photographs there. He
has a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University and an MFA from California College
of the Arts. He lives in Rochester, New York with his wife Ahndraya Parlato and their cat, Lucy.
He currently teaches Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and at the Harvard
University Graduate School of Design.
gregoryhalpern@gmail.com
MONOGRAPHS
2011 A, J&L Books
2009 Omaha Sketchbook, Artist's Book, J&L Books
2004 Harvard Works Because We Do, W.W. Norton / Quantuck Lane Press
BOOKS (Group)
2012 Photographs Not Taken: A Collection of Photographers' Essays, Daylight Books
2011 No Destiny, Transitions: Rochester, Visual Studes Workshop & Fotodok
2010 Smoke Bath, Seems Books
2010 SF Jazz, TBW Books, Edited by Paul Scheik
2008 Let Us Now Praise San Francisco (Hardcover Catalogue), Marx & Zavattero Gallery
2007 City on the Edge: Buffalo, New York, by Mark Goldman, Prometheus Books
2007 Artists of Invention: A Century of California College of the Arts
2004 Picturing Texts: Composition in a Visual Age, Lester Faigley, W.W. Norton & Co.
2003 25 Under 25, Powerhouse Books & The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
2003 Hope Dies Last, Interview by Studs Terkel, The New Press
MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS
2011 "Listen & Repeat," Audio Collaboration with Jason Fulford, Exposure Magazine
2011 Canteen: The State of Creation, Issue 7
2010 "The Freegan Establishment," The New York Times Magazine
2010 "A Postmodern World," Tell Mum Everything is OK, Editions FP&CF
2008 "Plitt Family Reunion," Smithsonian Magazine, August Issue
2008 "Calcio Fiorentino," Sports Illustrated, July 31
2008 "Landscapes, Violence Removed,” The Harvard Advocate, Fall Issue, Volume 144, No. 1
2007 "The Day of the Salamander," The New York Times Magazine, September 16
2007 Topic Magazine, The Music Issue (Issue 9)
2007 Camerawork, Spring/Summer Issue, Volume 34, No. 1
PRESS
2012 The New Yorker, Gregory Halpern, by Vince Aletti
2012 The Great Leap Sideways, Hope in the Dark, by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
2011 VICE Magazine, Gregory Halpern's Stories from the Rustbelt
2011 Photo-Eye Magazine, A, by Adam Bell
2011 Photo District News, Gregory Halpern Explores the Rustbelt, by Conor Risch
2011 Phladelphia Weekly, Photo Arts Center Tackles Urban Living With "The Greater Area"
2011 City Newspaper, Transitions Rochester
2010 Afterimage, Omaha Sketchbook, by Ron Jude
2004 The New York Times Book Review, Harvard's Working Poor, by Margo Jefferson
SOLO SHOWS
2012 A, Clamp Art, New York, NY
2011 Day-Blink, Primary Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Omaha Sketchbook, Polyester Gallery, Omaha, NE
2009 Thin on the Ground, A4 Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
2007 I’m Afraid I Love You, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2006 Buffalo Pictures, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2005 Buffalo Pictures, The San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2003 Harvard Works Because We Do, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
GROUP SHOWS
2011 Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, The Greater Area, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Young & Rubicam, New York, NY
2010 Biennial Septembre de la Photographie (Le Garage Artists' Books), Lyon, France
2010 One-Hour Photo, The American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2008 Marx & Zavattero, Let Us Now Praise San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2008 Dowd Gallery, Collexhibition, State University of New York at Cortland
2008 MomentaArt, Working Title, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Yuerba Beuna Center for the Arts, Collectively, San Francisco, CA
2007 Oakland Museum of Art, CCA Centennial, Oakland, CA
2007 Parkingallery, Tehran, Iran, Never Been to Tehran, travelled Turkey, New Zealand, Denmark & Germany
2007 Tsinghua University, Critical Art, Beijing, China, travelled to Hang Zhou Museum of Art
2005 The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
2004 Jack Hanley Gallery, Land of the Free, San Francisco, CA
2003 NYU, The Gray Gallery, 25 Under 25: Up and Coming American Photographers
2003 More Than Code: The Best of American Graduate Student Photography (Travelling)
2003 Southern Exposure Gallery, Landing, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS/GRANTS
2012 Finalist, International Photobook Festival Kassel, Le Bal, Paris
2012 Photo-Eye Top Ten Book of the Year for A
2010 Photo-Eye Top Ten Book of the Year for Omaha Sketchbook
'06-08 Artist-in-Residence, Risley College for the Creative and Performing Arts, Cornell University
2005 Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Foundation, New York, NY
2005 Grant, John Gutmann Fellowship, The San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2005 Residency, Bemis Center, Omaha, Nebraska
2004 Nominee, Infinity Award, International Center for Photography
2003 Residency, Vermont Studio Center
2002 Grant, Center for Student Democracy, Cambridge, MA
2002 Grant, Progressive Student Labor Movement, Cambridge, MA
2001 Grant, LEF Foundation, Cambridge, MA
2001 Mark DeWolfe Howe Grant, Cambridge, MA
2001 Grant, Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, Cambridge, MA
1999 Grant, Ella Lyman Cabot Trust, Dedham, MA
EDUCATION
2004 MFA in Photography, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1999 BA in History and Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
TEACHING
2011-12 Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Lecturer, Cambridge, MA
2010-12 Rochester Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor, Rochester, NY
2009 Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Visiting Instructor, Cambridge, MA
2009 School of the Museum of the Fine Arts, Visiting Instructor, Boston, MA
2007-09 Cornell University, Visiting Assistant Professor, Ithaca, NY
2009 Massachusetts College of Art, Graduate Student Advisor, Boston, MA (Spring)
2005 University of California at Berkeley, Instructor, (Summer), Berkeley, CA
2004-05 California College of the Arts, Instructor, Oakland, CA