Greg Halpern was born in 1977 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 is a bit nomadic, but currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he teaches
Photography at Harvard University and the Museum School.
CONTACT: gregoryhalpern@gmail.com
GROUP SHOWS
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
SOLO SHOWS
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
REVIEWS
2004 The New York Times Book Review, Harvard's Working Poor, by Margo Jefferson
PUBLICATIONS
2009 Thin on the Ground, These Birds Walk Press (forthcoming)
2008 Let Us Now Praise San Francisco, Marx & Zavattero Gallery
2008 Smithsonian Magazine, Plitt Family Reunion, August Issue
2008 Sports Illustrated, Calcio Fiorentino, July 31
2007 Artists of Invention: A Century of California College of the Arts
2007 The New York Times Magazine, The Day of the Salamander, September 16
2004 Harvard Works Because We Do, W.W. Norton / Quantuck Lane Press
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
AWARDS & GRANTS
'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