TOM BAMBERGER / WORKS / CV
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Tom Bamberger: Hyperphotographic Retrospective, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin
2016
Tom Bamberger: Civil Twilight, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2006
Tom Bamberger: The History of Photography, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2004
Tom Bamberger: New Photographic Works, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2003
Midwest Photographers Project: Tom Bamberger, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
Herter Art Gallery, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
2002
Tom Bamberger: New Photographic Works, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2000
Judy Ann Goldman Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1999
Tom Bamberger: Photographs, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
1998
Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1995
Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1993
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Carlsten Art Gallery at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
1992
Ehlers Caudill Gallery Ltd., Chicago, Illinois
Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1990
Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1989
Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1988
University of the Arts, Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1987
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1986
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
ISIS Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
1984
J. Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
1983
B.C. Space, Laguna Beach, California
1982
Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1980
Perihelion Galleries, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Person is a Noun: Contemporary Portrait Photography, Portrait Society/Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2008
Stretching the Truth, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2007
Sheldon Survey: An Invitational, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Film, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center,
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
renatured: Works by Tom Bamberger and Kyoung Ae Cho, Inova/Kenilworth, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2006
Shifting Terrain: Contemporary Landscape Photography, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
2005
Pairs, Groups, and Grids, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Out There: Landscape in the New Millennium, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2004
Outside, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York
About Face, The Art Institute of Chicago
Poster Project 2004, The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois
A More Perfect Union, Downtown for Democracy, Max Fish and Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York
Spacemakers, Lothringer-Dreizen, Munich, Germany
Artists Interrogate: Politics and War, Milwaukee Art Museum
2003
Extreme Landscape, The Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, New Jersey
The View from Here: Recent Pictures from Central Europe and the American Midwest, City Gallery of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic (Traveled to: Riffe Gallery, Columbus, Ohio; Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio; Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis; Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania)
2002
Regarding Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Canada
The View from Here: Recent Pictures from Central Europe and the American Midwest, Ludwig Museum / Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
Imaginary Homelands: Reconstructed Narratives in Digital Landscape, Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York
Ideal Avalanche, The Pond, Chicago, Illinois
2001
At the Edge: The Horizon Line in Contemporary Art, Dorsky Gallery, New York
2000
The Art Institute of Chicago
Photography About Photography, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
1999
Blind Spot 13, Robert Mann Gallery, New York
Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago
1997
American Photography: Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Midwest Landscape: 8 Photographers, Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago
1996
Gallery Artists, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Blind Spot: The First Four Years, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York
1995
Summer Salon II, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
1994
Picture Perfect, Elhers Caudill Gallery, Chicago
Amenities, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
1993
Image Making: Photographic Selections from the Permanent Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
1992
Group Show, Elhers Caudill Gallery, Chicago
1991
Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. (Traveled to: Baltimore Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Vertical Axis: Photographs from Central States, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
1990
A Decade of Acquisitions, Milwaukee Art Museum
1988
New Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
100 Years of Wisconsin Art, Milwaukee Art Museum
Individuals: New Art from Wisconsin, 333 Gallery, Chicago
Photography on the Edge, Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee
1987
Portrayals, International Center of Photography – Midtown, New York (Traveled to: Herron’s Gallery, University of Indiana, Indianapolis; Sewal Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Third Triennial, Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
Mother/Daughter, Burden Gallery, New York
1984
Contemporary American Portraiture, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1983
Rated X, Neikrug Photographica, New York
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of the Photographic Arts, San Diego
Madison Art Center
Milwaukee Art Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonMuseum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WIU.S. Department of State
Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MassachusettsSaint Kate-The Arts Hotel, Milwaukee WI
Bank of America
Citibank, N.A.
First Bank Minneapolis
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Thelan, Reid & Priest, New York
Weil, Gotshal, Manges, New York
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland
Williams and Connolly LLP, Washington, D.C.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen Hamilton LLP, Washington, D.C.
Hanley-Wood LLC, Washington, D.C.
Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa
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