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Gregory Halpern grew up in Buffalo, New York. He currently lives in Rochester, New
York with his wife Ahndraya Parlato. His email is gregoryhalpern [at] gmail.com.


BOOKS

2011      A, J&L Books
2009      Omaha Sketchbook, Artist's Book, J&L Books
2003      Harvard Works Because We Do, W.W. Norton / Quantuck Lane Press


BOOKS (GROUP)

2013     The Photobook: A History, Vol. III, Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, forthcoming, Phaidon Press
2013     Photobook Award 2012, forthcoming from Kasseler Fotoforum / Schaden
2012     A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks (Exhibition Catalogue)
2012     Photographs Not Taken: A Collection of Photographers' Essays, Daylight Books
2012     Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, Edited by Robert Hirsch, Focal Press
2011     No Destiny, Transitions: Rochester, Visual Studies Workshop & Fotodok
2010     Smoke Bath, Seems Books
2010     SF Jazz, TBW Books, Edited by Paul Schiek
2009     The Collector's Guide to Emerging Art Photography, Humble Arts Foundation
2008     Let Us Now Praise San Francisco, 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


PRESS
/ REVIEWS

2012     The New Yorker, Gregory Halpern
2012     Aperture PhotoBook Review 002
2012     ArtReview, Gregory Halpern: A, by Siona Wilson, Issue 57 (March)
2012     The Great Leap Sideways, Hope in the Dark, by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
2012     VICE Magazine, Interview
2012     Claxton Projects
2012     Ahorn Magazine
2012     The Atlantic Cities, Faces of the Rust Belt, by Bonnie Tsui
2012     Photo District News, “What Galleries Want,” June 12
2012     Photo District News, “End Frame: Know Your History,” June 29
2011     Photo-Eye Magazine, A, by Adam Bell
2011     Photo District News, Gregory Halpern Explores the Rustbelt, by Conor Risch
2011     Philadelphia 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 EXHIBITIONS

2012     A, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2012     A, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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 EXHIBITIONS
    
2013    White Boys, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2013     Photo Forum 2012, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, 9.1.2012 - 1.7.2013
2012     VICE Photo Show, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012     Centrum Beeldende Kunst Utrecht, Transitions, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2012     Into the Woods, Clamp Art, New York, NY
2012     A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks, Gallery Carte Blanche, San Francisco, CA
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     Never Been to Tehran, traveled to Iran, Turkey, New Zealand, Denmark & Germany
2007     Tsinghua University, Critical Art, Beijing, China, traveled 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 (Traveling)
2003     Southern Exposure Gallery, Landing, San Francisco, CA


MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS


2012     VICE: The Photo Issue
2012     "The Rise of the Corporate Chaplain," Bloomberg Businessweek, August 23
2012     "Back to Work," Bloomberg Businessweek, May 31
2012     Problematica Physica (Zine), Ohja Books, Essen, Germany
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
2005     Harvard Works Because We Do (Excerpt), Dollars and Sense, July 31
2003     The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Going to Harvard for $7.50 an Hour,” September 22


ONLINE PROJECTS

2011     Listen & Repeat
2010     RITPhoto
2008     Art for Obama


AWARDS / GRANTS

2013     Residency, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY
2012     Photobook Award, 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 & 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


11-12         Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Lecturer, Cambridge, MA
09-12         Rochester Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor, Rochester, NY
2009          Harvard University, Visiting Instructor, Cambridge, MA
2009          School of the Museum of the Fine Arts, Visiting Instructor, Boston, MA
'07-09        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
'04-05        California College of the Arts, Instructor, Oakland, CA