Vince Leo
EXHIBITIONS
Maintaining Sanity, (group) Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York, 2020
Remembered As A Blessing
Jewish Community Center, St. Paul, MN, 2019
congregation Beth Jacob, Mendota Heights, MN 2018
Instagram and the Artist Studio, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, 2018
Round-tripping, Centre for Curatorial Studies/offshoreart.co, Bard College, New York, 2015
The Book In Extremis (group), MCAD Gallery, June 2015
Ordinarily Here (group)
Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, June 2010
For Daniel Pink (group)_
Vega Estates, Chicago, September 2009
Two Rabbits (solo)
Kiehle Gallery, St. Cloud University, November, 2008
WorkBook (group)
“Two Workbooks,” Katherine E Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, June 2008
Relative Closeness (group)
“Foxtrot for Three,” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Il, June 2007
Family Diaries (group)
"Foxtrot for Three," Rockford Art Center, Midwest Photographers Project, Rockford Il September, 2005
Midwest Photographers Project, participant, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago (2004-2005)
Three Stories From Little America,
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, solo exhibition, December-February, 2003
"Two Women"
Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, April, 2001
Slow Attention
Joachim Brohm and Vince Leo
Projectraum Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 1999
Lucky
Vince Leo, Melba Price, and Bruce Tapola
Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1996
Book Ends and Odd Books
(group) Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, 1993
Family Matters: An Exhibition of Works by Vince Leo, Sally Mann, Philip-Lorca diCorcica, and Melissa Shook,
Northlight Gallery, Tempe, Arizona, 1993
The Invention of Childhood (group) Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI,1992
"S&L: Transactions in the Post-Industrial Era"
(group), Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Arts Institute, 1991
Reframing the Family
(group), Artists Space, New York, NY, 1991
Public Photographs
(group), Camera Austria International Symposium on Photography, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria, 1991
Clear and Present Danger: Censorship in an Age of Intolerance
Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN, 1991
Birthday (slide/sound installation)
Film in the Cities, Minneapolis, MN, 1988
C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, Ohio, 1987
1981
The Modern Gallery, Columbus, Ohio (solo), 1986
The Family: Tradition/Transition
(group), Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis MN, 1985
Seven from Columbus
Wexner Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1984
Two Picture Pictures
Ten on Eight, New York, NY (solo), 1979
Masks Polaroids of Masks by Kerry Schuss
(group) Visiting Artist Collaborative, New York, NY, 1978
BOOKS
Remembered as a Blessing: visitation Stones in Jewish Cemeteries
MW Editions, New York, 2023
Three Canons
Self-published artist book, 2021
We Make Things
Self-published artist book, 2011
Timetable Project: National Association of Artists Organizations
Commissioned artist project, 1991
Timetable Project: First Banks (Mao Prints Kept over Objections)
Commissioned artist project
First Bank System, 1990
Glass/Serra Installation
Wexner Center for the Visual Arts,
limited edition artist book, 1987
WRITINGS
“First Encounters,” catalog essay, Two Rivers: Alec Soth and Joachim Brohm, NRW Forumn, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2019
Little Brown Mushroom Blog
“Honor Roll: PBS NewsHour,” review, 2013
“Lebensmittel by Michael Schmidt,” review, 2013
“Elementary Calculus by J. Carrier,” review, 2012
“Found Photos in Detroit by Arianna Arcara and Luca Santese” review, 2012
“The Heart of It All,” Introduction, Ohio, Joachim Brohm, Steidl Books, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2010
"A Tabletop Beyond Control is a World Beyond Desire,” catalog essay, Water Being Water, David Goldes, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 2005
“Daydream #9,” Spectra Journal, Museum Computer Network, March 2001
“Lake Street USA: Stories and Moments,” Walker Arts Center, Gallery 9, 2000
“Making Histories,” catalog essay for Dorit Cypes exhibition Angel of Histories, University of California, Riverside, 2000
“William Wegman at the Gates of Eden,” catalog essay, Isetan Muyseum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 1997
reprinted in On the Banal, On the Comic, and On the Tragic, Encontros da Imagem, Madrid, Spain, 1998
"Robert Frank: From Compromise to Collaboration," Parkett, Number 42, 1994
Artforum
"JoAnn Verburg," October, 1994
"Robert Frank's The Americans," June, 1994
"Vince Leo on Full Disclosure," March, 1994
"I Wuv You," October, 1993
"Stuart Mead at Riflesport," January, 1993
frieze
"Neighbourhood Watch: Vince Leo on the Politics of Visual Space," March, 1996
"Playing for Keeps, Vince Leo on POGs," November, 1995
"Say Cheese,” Vince Leo on Polaroid's New Talking Camera," June, 1995
Afterimage
"Born under a Visual Sign," May, 1996
"Listening to Avedon," November, 1995
"At Work in the Fields of the Bomb," book review. May, 1988
"Being Frank," review of assorted publications surrounding Robert Frank. Sept., 1986
"How German Is It?," photo-essay. December, 1985.
"The Mushroom Cloud Photograph: From Fact to Symbol," essay. Summer, 1985.
"After the Fact: The Work of James Friedman," review. May, 1985.
"Social Graces" by Larry Fink, book review. January, 1985
Here + Now, “The New Patronage,” The McKnight Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, 1996
Camera Austria
"Written on the Wind: Rethinking the Photographic Network," Spring Issue, 1992
"Interview with Jonathan Greene," (reprint) translated to German. #22, 1986
Edward Hopper and American Photography
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (illustrated catalogue essay)
Artpaper
Online project:"Teletimetable: An Interactive History of Telecommunications Culture," interactive online timetable, April, 1991
Interviews:
--"It Has to Be Right: An Interview With Evelyn Raymond," June, 1993 --"An Interview with Dorit Cypis." March, 1990
--"Opposition, Intervention, and Photography: An Interview with Abigail Solomon Godeau." December, 1987
Essays/columns:
--"On the History of the Involvement of the Federal Government in the Arts." May, 1990
--"Vince Leo on Kids' Books." Summer, 1990
--Material Culture, column. 1988
Reviews:
--"Amber Waves of Grain." April, 1989
--"Christopher Makos." November, 1988
--"Deborah Bright/Jeff Weiss." January, 1988
Joachim Brohm: Photographs
"Acts of Allegiance," catalog introduction, Siemens Company, Munich, 1991
"A Critical Interview with Jonathan Green," interview. Exposure Magazine, Spring, 1985.
LECTURES
“Digital Frontiers,” lecture, Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis, July 2011
"Diane Arbus: From Shutterbug to Superstar," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2006
“Parables of the Index: Religious Experience in Twentieth Century Photography,” paper, Symposium for Liberal Arts in Education, New York, 2001
“My Favorite Maybes,” Visiting Artist Lecture,
California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, 2001
Otis School of Art, Los Angeles, 2001
“Christian Iconography in 20th Century Photography,”
paper, College Art Association Annual conference, Chicago, February, 2001
“The Photographic Nude in Context,”
Minneapolis Institute of Art, December 2000
“Man Ray: Invention and Ideology,”
Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, May 2000
“Minor White: Photography, Spirit, and the Real World,”
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN 1999
“Allan Sekula: Ten Stories,”
Hochscule fur Grafik and Buchunst, Leipzig, Germany, 1998
"The Photography of Desire: Group F 64 and the Politics of Purity"
Society of Photographic Education National Convention, Atlanta, GA, 1995
Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN, 1994
"The Assimilationists"
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 1993
Focus Conference, Dortmund, Germany, 1993
"Written on the Wind: Rethinking the Photographic Network"
Camera Austria, Graz, Austria, 1991
Film in the Cities, St. Paul, MN, 1992
New York University, New York, NY, 1992
"Rereading Minor White"
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, 1987
"Berenice Abbott and the Forces of History"
keynote address, College of Arts Symposium, Ohio State University, 1986
"The Mushroom Cloud Photograph: Terror and Identification" Columbia College, Chicago, IL, 1985
"The Cloud at the End of the World: Mushroom Cloud Photographs and the New Apocalypse"
University Gallery, Ohio State University, 1985
PRESS
Kristian Wilson, Offshoreart.co, International finance and Contemporary Art, Business BVI, 2015
Susannah Schouweller, “Ordinarily Here,” MNPost, July 19, 2010
Jay Gabler, “Ordinarilly Here,” Twin Cities Daily Planet, June 14, 2010
Mary Abbe, “Inward and Outward, McKnight Photographers,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, Nov 28, 2003
Doug Hanson, “Go Forth and Prosper,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 10, 2003
Michael Fallon, “Once Upon a Time in America,” City Pages Weekly, December 25, 2002
Abigail Solomon Godeau,” Photography After Art Photography," in
Photography At the Dock, University of Minnesota Press (illustration), 1991;
Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation, The New Museum, 1985
Mike Gunderloy, "Timetable Project: NAAO," Factsheet Five, Jan. 1991
"Timetable Project: NAAO," review, Umbrella , 1991
"Timetable Project: First Banks," review, Umbrella, summer, 1990
Mason Riddle, "Timetable Project: First Banks" Arts, January, 1990
Michael Karp, "Corporate Art," The Journal of Art, January, 1990
Robert Atkins, "Mau-mauing Mao," Village Voice, Aug. 8, 1990
Nancy Princenthal, "Artists Bookbeat," The Print Collectors Newsletter, September, 1990
Roslyn Bernstein, "Timetable Project," Contemporanea, Oct, 1990
Jeremiah Creedon, "Facelifts on the Face of History" In These Times, July 5, 1990
Stuart Klawans, "American Notes," London Times Literary Supplement, Oct. 6, 1990
Steven Durland, "Timetable Project," High Performance, Fall, 1990
David Skarjune, "Making Meaning" New North Artscape, Fall (review of "Recaption/Recontext"), 1989
Nancy Roth, "Home Cooked," Artpaper, April (review of "Birthday"), 1988
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship (Photography) 2018, 1998
Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant, 2003
McKnight Foundation Fellowship (Photography), 2002/03, 1989
Dayton Hudson Foundation/Center for Arts Criticism Critic's Travel Grant, 1992
Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship, 1991
Jerome Foundation Grant for Individual Artists (Photography), 1989
Professional Development Award, Ohio Arts Council, 1986
Individual Artist Fellowship (criticism), Ohio Arts Council, 1985
Individual Artist Fellowship (photography), Ohio Arts Council, 1985
Individual Artist Fellowship (criticism), Ohio Arts Council, 1984
COLLECTIONS
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Houston Museum of Art, The Weisman Museum, Walker Art Center, Biblioteque Nationale, Museum of Modern Art (New York), Banff Center for the Arts, Chicago Institute of Contemporary Art
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