curator
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, writer, photo-historian, artist, and founder and CEO of Curatorial, Inc., a museum services organization supporting nonprofit traveling exhibitions.Article Double Exposure. December 1, 2007. Accessed August 23, 2009.Interview Imaging Insider. December 25, 2008. Accessed August 23, 2009.Review Iphoto Central October 24, 2009. Accessed December 5, 2009. Curatorial Inc. manages the E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection and the
Paul Outerbridge
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II Collection among others. Born in Sydney, Australia, Howe now resides in Los Angeles and London.
Education
Graham Howe received his bachelor's degree (Diploma of Art & Design in Photography, Film and Art History, (Hons)) in 1971 from Prahran College of Advanced Education, Melbourne, Australia where he was a student and employee of Gordon De Lisle whom he regarded "as the Sam Haskins of Australia". He continued his tertiary studies in 1976, gaining his Master of Arts degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, California (UCLA) in Painting Sculpture, and Graphic Arts (Majoring in Photography) in 1978 where he studied with Robert Heinecken, achieving his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1979.
Career
In 1972, Howe became one of the first employees of
The Photographers' Gallery
The Photographers' Gallery was founded in London by Sue Davies opening on 14 January 1971, as the first public gallery in the United Kingdom devoted solely to photography.
It is also home to the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, established i ...
, London, a research assistant at the
Royal Photographic Society
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, London, and, in 1973, the founding Director of the
Australian Centre for Photography
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, Sydney, where in 1974 he organised a exhibition and publication of contemporary practitioners ''New photography Australia : a selective survey,'' and published ''Aspects of Australian Photography.''
In 1976, he became the curator for
Graham Nash
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and from 1977 was Los Angeles Correspondent for the Australian journal '' Light Vision'', to which he contributed a photo-essay ''Sneaker in the Sky'' for the January 1978 edition. From 1984 to 1985 he was a visiting curator at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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.
In 1988, he incorporated Curatorial Assistance, Inc., a company specializing in art and museum services, and in 2000 he founded Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that originates and travels exhibitions of art to museums worldwide.
Collections
Howe's photographic work is collected in museums and galleries including
Harvard University
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, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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, New York, the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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LACMA was founded in 196 ...
, the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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, the
Victoria & Albert Museum
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, London, and he is an advisor for the
Lucie Awards The Lucie Awards is an annual event honoring achievements in photography, founded in 2003 by Hossein Farmani.
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Lucie Awards. 2008. Accessed August 23, 2009. and a recipient of a
National Endowment for the Arts
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Photography Fellowship and a Ford Foundation grant.Festival of Photography , Bio November 6, 2009. Accessed December 5, 2009.
Artist exhibitions
*''Art of Illusion: Photography and Perceptual Play'', Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 2021
*''California Cool: Art in Los Angeles 1960s–70s,'' National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2018-19
*''Forsaken Utopias: Photographs from the OCMA Permanent Collection,'' Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, California, 2018
*''Graham Howe: Colour Theory,'' Rooftop Gallery, Bangkok, 2013
*''Graham Howe: Color Theory,'' Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2012
*''Street Sight,'' Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena. Curated by Tim Wride, 2011.
*''Time Signatures,'' Grunwald Study Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, 2011
*''And Howe! Photographs By Graham Howe, 1968–2008,'' (mid-career survey) University of California, Riverside California Museum of Photography, California Museum of Photography, Riverside. Curated by Colin Westerbeck, 2009.
*''Graham Howe,'' Gallery Min, Tokyo, Japan, 1984, publication with essay by Colin Westerbeck
*''Arranged Image Photography,'' a traveling exhibition organized by the Boise Gallery of Art, 1983–1984
*''Graham Howe,'' BC Space, Laguna Beach, California, 1981
*''Graham Howe,'' The Photographers’ Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 1980
*''Invented Images,'' a traveling exhibition organized by the
University Art Museum, Santa Barbara
The Art, Design & Architecture Museum (AD&A), formerly the University Art Museum (UAM), is located on the campus of the UCSB in Goleta, California, United States. Built in 1959, it was originally a gallery for art education at UCSB.Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1979
*''The Photograph as Artifice,'' a traveling exhibition organized by The Art Galleries, California State University, 1978
Curatorial research and publications
Howe's main area of expertise is early Modern twentieth century photography. He has published extensively on the work of American photographer,
Paul Outerbridge
Paul Outerbridge, Jr. (August 15, 1896 – October 17, 1958) was an American photographer prominent for his early use and experiments in color photography.
Outerbridge was a fashion and commercial photographer, an early pioneer and teacher of ...