ABOUT
Mark Christopher Steinmetz resides in Athens, Georgia with his wife, the photographer Irina Rozovsky, and their daughter Amelia.
Together they run The Humid.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Young Americans, in camera galerie, Paris
2023 Summertime, Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Insieme, Museo Casa Giorgione, Castelfranco Veneto, Italy (with Irina Rozovsky)
2022 Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
ATL, MiCamera, Milan
2019 South Central/ Berlin, Kominek Gallery, Berlin
A Personal Selection, Charles Hartman Fine Art, Portland, OR
united states, Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
Past K-Ville, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
K-Ville, Box Galerie, Brussels
2018 Terminus, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
2017 South, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
united states pt 1, Lothringer13 Halle, Munich
united states pt 2, Amerikahaus, Munich
Mark Steinmetz, Kasseler Fotoforum, Kassel, Germany
2016 Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen , Amsterdam
2015 South, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
2014 Paris, Italy, Galerie Madé, Paris
À la croisée des chemins, Box
Galerie, Brussels
2013 Photographs, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Summertime, MiCamera, Milano (with Guido Guidi)
South, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
2012 Summertime, Charles Hartman Fine Art, Portland, OR
2010 Greater Atlanta, Charles Hartman Fine Art, Portland, Oregon
SiFest, Savignano, Italy
MiCamera, Milano
2008 Charles Hartman Fine Art, Portland, Oregon
2006 Garden, Visual Arts Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta
2005 Project Gallery, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
2002 South, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
1999 Nightfall, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
1997 Youth, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 A Long Arc, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
2022 Summer Selections, Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla
Summer’s Prayer, Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans
2021 Object Lesson, TILT, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Boarding Pass, Box Galerie, Brussels
2019 Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
The Space Between, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
2018 Summer Selection, Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, Oregon
Summer in the City '18, Galerie Wouter Van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, Freiburg, Germany
2017 Picturing Love, Katonah Art Museum, Katonah NY
Notions of Home, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
2016 Edge to Edge, Moca GA, Atlanta, GA
Southern Accent, Southern Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
Face to Face, Bowling Green State University Gallery
Lux, The Radiant Sea, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
The Teen Years, Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla
2012 Americana, Box Galerie, Brussels
2011 Beautiful Vagabonds, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
East of Eden, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
Point of View, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
On Location, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
American Psyche, Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2009 Modern Wing Inaugural Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago
Faces, Charles Hartman Fine Art, Portland, Oregon
The Tree 树, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
2008 Girls on the Verge: Portraits of Adolescence, The Art Institute of
Chicago
2007 Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, NY
2005 Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, NY
No Eyes - Selections from the Collection Dancing Bear,
Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
When We Were Young, Foley Gallery, New York
2004 Picturing the Modern World, James Nicholson Gallery, San
Francisco
Recent Acquisitions, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New
Orleans
Common Ground, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Artists on the Road, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta
Recent Acquisitions, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
2003 New to View, The Art Institute of Chicago
Visiting Faculty Exhibition, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2002 Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
New Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Permanent Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art
FELLOWSHIPS
2016 Commission, Picturing the South series, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
2013 Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (September/October)
2006 George Gund Foundation Commission, Cleveland, Ohio
1995 Georgia Council for the Arts Grant
1994 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Cleveland Museum of Art
Fondation A Stichting, Brussels
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Knoxville Museum of Art
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
New Orleans Museum of Art
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
PaineWebber, New York
Pier 24, San Francisco
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
Readers Digest, Pleasantville, New Jersey
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln Nebraska
Sir Elton John Collection
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
PODCASTS
A Small Voice
Magic Hour
Nearest Truth ep. 84
Nearest Truth ep. 169
PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf
Real Photo Show
The Modern Art Notes Podcast
TIS Podcast
United Nations of Photography
VISITING ARTIST/LECTURES
2023 Yale University, New Haven (visiting critic, instructor, spring semester)
2022 University of Hartford MFA program
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel CA
Do Good Foundation, Columbus, Georgia (talk with Baldwin Lee)
2021 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2020 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Filter Photo Festival, Chicago
2019 Charcoal Book Club, Chico Hot Springs, Montana
Yale University, New Haven (visiting critic, fall semester)
2018 Click! Photography Festival, Durham, NC
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Yale University, New Haven
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
2017 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston (visiting critic)
2016 Yale University, New Haven (visiting critic, fall semester)
Univ. of Hartford MFA program, Berlin, Germany
Colby College, Waterville, Maine
2015 Univ. of Hartford MFA program, Berlin, Germany
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
Yale University, New Haven (visiting critic, fall semester)
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Duke University, Durham, NC
2014 Aperture Workshop, New York
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
The Mill, Riga, Latvia
International Summer School of Photography, Pelci, Latvia
MiCamera Workshop, Val Trebbia, Italy
Univ. of Hartford MFA program, Berlin
2013 California College of the Arts/Pier 24, San Francisco
International Center of Photography, New York
Columbia University, New York
Tulane University, New Orleans
Project Basho, Philadelphia
MiCamera, Milano
East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Le Bal, Festival du Livre de Photographie, Paris
2012 Univ. of Hartford, Berlin, Germany & Hartford, CT
Visual Studies Workshop Photo Book Symposium, Rochester, NY
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2011 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2010 Yale University, New Haven, CT
SUNY, Purchase, NY
Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Sixteen Journal, Vol. 10, Paris
2023 A Long Arc, High Museum of Art, Aperture
Union Magazine (Tokyo) Issue #18
2022 Aperture, 70th Anniversary Issue #248, Irina and Amelia
Object Lesson: On the Influence of Richard Benson, Aperture
2020 Hotshoe (UK) Issue 205 - At Home
Glister (Vineland, NJ), cell phone images, with Christopher Anderson, Ed Templeton.
2019 Hotshoe (UK) Issue 203 - Southern
2017 Union Magazine (Tokyo) Issue # 11
2016 Juxtapoz (San Fransisco), April
Huck (London) Issue #57
True Image (London)
Union (Tokyo) Issue #10
2015 Heavy (Australia). Volume One
Camera (Paris), December
Union, (Tokyo) Issue #7, Issue #8
2014 Hotshoe Magazine (London), Issue #190
Blind Spot, Issue #47
The Photographer’s Playbook, Aperture
Union (Tokyo), Issue #6
piK (Lausanne), Issue #06
Tweed’s Magazine, Issue #1
2013 The New Review, The Independent on Sunday, 28 July
2012 Le réel de la photographie, Arnaud Claass, Filigranes, Paris
Le Tigre, July/August issue, Paris
Neon (Germany), September
Contatti, edited by Giammaria de Gasparis, Postcart, Rome
Canteen, issue 8, Brooklyn, NY
The Americans List, Jason Eskenazi, Red Hook Editions
2011 Photographs Not Taken, edited by Will Steacy, Daylight Books
Photo Book Award, Kassel, Germany (nominated by Robert
Adams)
2010 Minimalism and Fashion, Elyssa Dimant, Harper Collins
2007 MoMA: Highlights since 1980, New York, NY
2006 Blind Spot, Issue #32, April
2002 Visions from America, Whitney Museum of American Art
2000 Modern/Contemporary: Art at MoMA since 1980, Museum of Modern Art
Visualizing the Blues, Dixon Gallery, Memphis
Blind Spot, Issue #15, May
WRITING
Aperture (A List of Favorite Anythings)
Bomb Magazine (an interview with Baldwin Lee on his work)
Time/Lightbox (on an Arbus photo)
Time/Lightbox (on the new MoMA)
Time/Lightbox (on Baldwin Lee)
Time/ Lightbox (on Sage Sohier, Joan Albert and others)
The Photographer's Playbook essay
How to start a project, published on fototazo
Essay on an image from Robert Frank's The Americans
Contatti (Italian book on contact sheets)
WRITTEN INTERVIEWS/ARTICLES ETC..
This and That (on Paris)
Photo No-Nos
i-D
AnOther
Aperture (Review of Terminus)
Aperture (Gregory Crewdson)
Aperture (Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa)
Emmazed (Mo Mfinanga)
KLM Holland Herald
Landscape Stories
Twin Factory
Vogue
Magazine Gup
Juxtapoz Magazine
Mouvement, n 110
Rocket Science
The Great Leap Sideways
FotoFilmic
Conscientious
Ahorn Magazine
TBW Books
Blake Andrews Q & A
© Richard B. Woodward essay - South Central
© Peter Galassi essay - South East
© Linh Dinh poem in Greater Atlanta
© France 1987 Introduction - Mark Steinmetz
FILMED INTERVIEWS/LECTURES
Normal Vision
California College of the Arts
Vogue Italia
Flashes #4
Framelines on France 1987
COLLABORATION
A New Nothing (with Irina Rozovsky)