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Steve Giovinco


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Steve Giovinco earned his MFA in photography from Yale University in 1989, and a BA in history from Washington University in 1982.

His photographs have been exhibited in solo museum shows, including those at: California Museum of Photography; the Butler Institute of American Art; Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna; the VELAN Center, Torino, Italy; and the University of the Arts, Philadelphia.

He has had solo exhibitions at Jim Kempner Fine Art and Dru Arstark Fine Art, both in New York. Group exhibitions include: the Brooklyn Museum; the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; the Winnipeg Art Gallery, with Jeff Wall, Sam Taylor Wood; Sadler’s Wells, London, with Thomas Joshua Cooper and Richard Billingham; Exit Art, New York; and White Columns, curated by Gregory Crewdson. Besides more than a dozen group gallery shows in New York, other gallery shows have been in Spain, Chicago, and Miami. He received Yaddo artist residency fellowships in 2001 and 2002.

Museums collecting his work have included: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Brooklyn Museum of Art; Yale University Museum of Art; The Butler Institute of Art; The California Museum of Photography; the Winnipeg Art Gallery; and The Lowe Art Museum, Miami, among others.

Reviews have been published in Art in America, Tema Celeste and Zoom magazine and his work has appeared in the New York Times. He has self published three books, and his work as been published in many catalogues, most recently in 2009 for the Lowe Art Museum, Miami. He has also participated in many art fairs, and his photographs have been auctioned at Sotheby’s and elsewhere.

A video about his work was created by David McDonald, as part of the series, “The Mystery of Creativity”. Steve also invented a hand held large format camera.