Exhibitions
2021
Curious Visions: Toward Abstract Photography, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Object Lesson: The Legacy of Richard Benson, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
2019
The Island Position, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
n e w f l e s h, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
2017
A Show Yet to be Titled, 83 Pitt Street, New York, NY
2016
Past Continuous, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
Selections from ‘The Island Position’, solo exhibition, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
Duplify, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
2015
The Pure Products of America Go Crazy, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Human Apparatus, Klemm’s, Berlin, Germany
If There Was, solo exhibition, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
The Pure Products of America Go Crazy, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Paris Photo LA, solo exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Remake/Remodel, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
Expecting Reality, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
A Collective Invention: Photographs at Play, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
2013
White, Dickinson Roundell Inc, New York, NY
Annie Lapin, John Lehr, Alon Levin, Philip Vanderhyden, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
Low Relief, solo exhibition, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
2012
NADA Art Fair with Kate Werble Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
2011
Temporary Home, Guest Spot, Baltimore, MD. Curated by Carl Gunhouse.
stet, solo exhibition, M+B and François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gibberish, solo exhibition, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2010
stet, solo exhibition, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
2009
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Commercial Paper, Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville, New York
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Yale University School of Architecture Gallery. Organized by Andrew Blauvelt.
Sparkling Fresh, NY Studio Gallery New York, New York
2008
The Printed Picture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Organized by Peter Galassi and Richard Benson
Thursday the 12th, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
White Noise, solo exhibition, MARCH, New York, NY
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Walker Art Center and Carnegie Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN, and Pittsburgh, PA. Organized by Andrew Blauvelt.
Signs, Mount Tremper Arts, Mt Tremper, NY. Organized by Mathew Pokoik.
2007
Outpost: Tim Davis, John Lehr, and Michael Vahrenwald, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
2006
Storefront Stories, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, New York
2005
Closer to Home: The 48th Corcoran Biennial, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Organized by Jonathan Binstock and Stacey Schmidt.
Yale MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
The Physical Print, Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Organized by Richard Benson.
Yale MFA Exhibition, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Norfolk, Connecticut
2003
Collected Evidence, Artspace, Richmond, Virginia. Organized by Elizabeth Schlatter.
2000
Artscape Annual, Decker Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland. Organized by Helen Molesworth and Lorna Simpson.
1999
Critics Residency Program, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland. Organized by Ingrid Schaffner.
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Publications
2021
Object Lesson: The Legacy of Richard Benson, Aperture, New York, NY
2020
The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Thames and Hudson, London UK
Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Barthes’ Unseen Photograph, Schilt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019
Photo Work: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, Aperture, New York, NY
There There, Issue Three, theretherenow, Columbia, MO
n e w f l e s h, Gnomic Book, New York, NY
The Island Position, MACK, London, UK
2016
El Camino Real, Roman Nvmerals, New York, NY
Else #11, Musée De L’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2015
Photography is Magic, Aperture, New York, NY
C Photo “Don’t call me a Photographer”, Ivory Press, Madrid, Spain
The Pure Products of America Go Crazy, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
2013
Blind Spot Magazine 20th Anniversary Issue
Wax Magazine, New York, NY
Notes from the Foundry, Spaces Corners, Pittsburg, PA
2011
Generous Structures, Casco, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2008
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2005
The Physical Print, Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Closer to Home: The 48th Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Public Collections
The Cleveland Clinic
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
The Denver Art Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Morgan Library and Museum
The Museum of Modern Art
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Yale University Art Gallery
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2005
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, 1998