Alec Soth

Born:
1969
Residence:
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Nationality:
American
Trust:
APT New York
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  • Beetles+Huxley, London, are hosting the first ever London exhibition of Alec Soth’s Sleeping by the Mississippi.

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  • Like annual family portraits, photographs depicting motherhood are often staged presentations of love and comfort that gloss over the daily trials experienced by mothers—from the physical demands of pregnancy to the difficulties that arise when raising angsty teenagers.

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  • The Grain of the Present, Pier 24 Photography’s ninth exhibition, examines the work of ten photographers at the core of the Pilara Foundation collection—Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lee Friedlander, Nicholas Nixon, Stephen Shore, Henry Wessel, and Garry Winogrand—whose works share a commitment to looking at everyday life as it is.

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  • On March 2, 2017, as part of its Contemporary Curated sale in New York, during Armory Week, Sotheby’s will be offering the very first public sale of works from the Artist Pension Trust® (APT) Collection. APT was founded in 2004 as a mutual assurance program providing long-term financial security for its member artists who deposit artworks with the trust over a 20-year period, and share the net proceeds from the sales. With 13,000 works, by 2,000 member artists, it is the largest private collection of global contemporary art in the world.

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  • “20 Years” is on view at Weinstein Gallery till January 7, 2017.

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  • Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees experience corpsing and art at an Austin Airbnb, and look forward to a promising art walk in West Dallas.

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  • Construction cranes loom over Walker Art Center, while Bobcats sculpt dirt in the muddy lot across the street.

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  • Originally from the heart of Central California, Garrett Remy is photographer currently living in San Francisco.

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  • Alec Soth's latest exhibition presents a dreamlike retrospective of his captivating opus.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • Frieze Art Fair returns to London this month with an inspiring array of shows and special events. We take a look at a selection of must-see exhibition

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  • ‘If we hadn’t our bewitching autumn foliage,’ wrote Mark Twain, ‘we should still have to credit the weather with one feature which compensates for all its bullying vagaries – the ice storm: when a leafless tree is clothed with ice from the bottom to the top – ice that is as bright and clear as crystal;

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  • 20th anniversary of Toronto photography festival a special time to salute the steps that helped event grow.

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  • An unusual new “super PAC,” run by artists, has cropped up on the political landscape — and it’s one that says it won’t support (or oppose) candidates or parties.

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  • Alec Soth’s “Colorado Dispath” is currently on display at the Denver Art Museum through November 29, 2015.

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  • The photographer Alec Soth is a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the early nineties, after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, in New York, he returned to his home town and, for a period, worked in the darkroom of the Visual Resources Department of the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia).

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  • Ginsberg’s verse is an unsurprising endnote to Soth’s video, a nearly seven-minute-long work composed of dozens of fixed camera shots, lingering on si

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  • Vice has teamed up with Magnum Photos for its latest annual Photography Issue, which is dedicated to social documentary and features work by new and established photographers from Europe, Africa, the US, Asia and the Middle East.

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  • Anderson Ranch’s largest community event, the 35th Annual Art Auction and Community Picnic, will feature over 200 works of art by top contemporary artists available for bid in live and silent auctions.

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions around the world. Our list includes Paradise Lost, a three-venue exhibition of London-based, Kashmiri artist Raqib Shaw at Pace New York, a retrospective of Ad Reinhardt’s work at David Zwirner in New York, Project Los Altos: SFMOMA in Silicon Valley, a multisite exhibition that features newly commissioned artist projects, Frank Gehry: Fish Lamps highlights the latest work by the famous architect at the Gagosian Gallery in London, and Zeng Xiaojun’s first solo exhibition at Sotheby’s Hong Kong titled Labyrinths.

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  • Rob Sato’s watercolor paintings are whimsical clashes of documented history and personal dreaming: a magpie pictorial narrative of his own internal processing system or as he says, an “extension of writing” and “sifting through garbage.

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  • Sean Kelly Gallery announces the opening of Alec Soth’s new exhibition, Broken Manual.

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  • For the aesthete, art books are the great democratizer. Without buying a piece of art (or even leaving your home), you can own a small

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  • When American photographer Alec Soth landed at Heathrow earlier this year, he was looking forward to two things: working on a commission in Brighton

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  • Organized by internationally known Twin Cities photographer Alec Soth, the five-day, free shindig last week attracted more than 400 applicants after Soth announced it on his blog in March. They didn’t have to send evidence of maladjustment, just a picture and story about themselves.

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  • The Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit pairs established artists with individuals outside the mainstream art world.

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  • Warm weather means baseball—and baseball art. The game has attracted a steady stream of interest—from folk artists to conceptualist

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  • Opening Friday: With his books, blogs, summer camp and generous contributions to local art benefits, photographer Alec Soth is always out-and-about in the Twin Cities, when he’s not jetting to Paris or Shanghai

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  • The 2014 season has begun. While popular shows of artists like Magritte, Hopper, and Carrie Mae Weems continue their travels, dozens of new exhibition devoted to modern and contemporary art are opening across the country. Here are some observations.

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BIOGRAPHY

Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials. In 2008, a large survey exhibition of Soth’s work was exhibited at Jeu de Paume in Paris and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. In 2010, the Walker Art produced a large survey exhibition of Soth’s work entitled From Here To There. Alec Soth’s first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published by Steidl in 2004 to critical acclaim. Since then Soth has published NIAGARA (2006), Fashion Magazine (2007) Dog Days, Bogotá (2007) The Last Days of W (2008), Broken Manual (2010) among others. In 2008, Soth started his own publishing company, Little Brown Mushroom. Soth is represented by Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, Loock Galerie in Berlin and is a member of Magnum Photos.


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