Bill Jacobson

when is a place #350, 2019, 91.5 x 76.2 cm, (also available in 50.8 x 40.6 cm), Analogue Silver Gelatin Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (7 + 2 AP's)

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when is a place #324, 2019, 91.5 x 76.2 cm, (also available in 50.8 x 40.6 cm), Analogue Silver Gelatin Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (7 + 2 AP's)

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when is a place #269, 2019, 50.8 x 40.6 cm, Analogue Gelatin Print, Ed. of 7 + 2 AP's

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when is a place #253, 2019, 50.8 x 40.6 cm, Analogue Silver Gelatin Print, Ed. of 7 + 2 AP's

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when is a place (Untitled 1), 2018-2020, 91,5 x 76,2 cm, (also available in 50,8 x 40,6 cm), Silver Gelatin Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (7 + 2 AP's)

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figure, ground #234, 2016, 131 x 110 cm (also avaiable in 89 x 75 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 4 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)

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figure, ground #190, 2016, 131 x 110 cm (also available in 89 x 75 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 4 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)

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Place (Series) #1159, 2013, 97 x 76 cm (also available in 71 x 56 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 4 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)

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Place (Series) #1034, 2013, 97 x 76 cm, Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 4 + 2 AP's

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Place (Series) #1068, 2013, 97 x 76 cm (also available in 71 x 56 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 4 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)

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(Untitled) #4033, 2000, 147 x 122 cm (also available in 91 x 76 cm & 56 x 51 cm), C-Print, Ed. of 2 + 1 AP (7 + 2 AP's & 9 + 3 AP's)

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(Untitled) #4033, 2001, 147 x 122 cm (also available in 91 x 76 cm & 56 x 51 cm), C-Print, Ed. of 2 + 1 AP (7 + 2 AP's & 9 + 3 AP's)

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New Year's Day #4580, 2002, 91 x 76 cm (also available in 56 x 51 cm), C-Print, Ed. of 7 + 2 AP's (9 + 3 AP's)

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Interim Portrait #271, 1992, 92 x 76 cm (also available in 61 x 51 cm), C-Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (9 + 2 AP's)

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Interim Portrait #525, 1993, 92 x 76 cm, C-Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's

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Song of Sentient Beings #1114, 1994, 127 x 107 cm (also available in 92 x 76 cm & 61 x 51 cm), Silver Gelatin Print, Ed. of 3 + 1 AP (5 + 2 AP's & 9 + 2 AP's)

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Thought Series #703, 1993, 92 x 76 cm (also available in 61 x 51 cm), Silver Gelatin Print, Ed. of 7 + 2 AP's (9 + 2 AP's)

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Biography

Bill Jacobson (*1955, Norwich, CT, USA) has been making photographs for over fifty years. Although his methods have varied considerably, the work is united by underlying concerns with memory, perception, and how photography can simultaneously explore both absence and presence.

Prior to moving to New York in 1982, Jacobson received a BA from Brown University (1977) and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute (1981). He has exhibited widely in the US and Europe, and is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum; Whitney Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Brooklyn Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Getty Museum; Rijksmuseum; Art Institute of Chicago; Victoria and Albert Museum, and many others.

Jacobson received fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2017), the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2012), the Aaron Siskind Foundation (1995), and the New York Foundation for the Arts (1994). He has been awarded eight residencies at MacDowell and has also attended Yaddo, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Bogliasco Centre, Blue Mountain Centre, Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts, and Edward Albee Foundation. From 2008 to 2018, Jacobson was a member of the critique faculty in the ICP/Bard College MFA program.

Bill Jacobson (*1955, Norwich, CT, USA) fotografiert seit über fünfzig Jahren. Obwohl seine Methoden variieren, beschäftigt sich seine Arbeit doch immer mit grundsätzlichen Fragen nach Erinnerung, Wahrnehmung und darüber, wie Fotografie gleichzeitig Abwesenheit und Präsenz erforschen kann.

Bevor er 1982 nach New York zog, erwarb Jacobson 1977 einen BA an der Brown University und 1981 einen MFA am San Francisco Art Institute. Er hat zahlreiche Ausstellungen in den USA und Europa realisiert und ist in den Sammlungen des Guggenheim Museums, des Whitney Museums, des Metropolitan Museum of Art, des Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, des Brooklyn Museums, des Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Getty Museum, Rijksmuseum, Art Institute of Chicago, Victoria and Albert Museum und vielen anderen.

Jacobson erhielt Stipendien von der Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2017), der John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2012), der Aaron Siskind Foundation (1995) und der New York Foundation for the Arts (1994). Er erhielt acht Residenzen bei MacDowell und besuchte außerdem Yaddo, die Civitella Ranieri Foundation, das Bogliasco Centre, das Blue Mountain Centre, das Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts und die Edward Albee Foundation. Von 2008 bis 2018 war Jacobson Mitglied im kritischen Beirat des MFA-Programms des ICP/Bard College.

CV Selection

2025: “Queer Lens”, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2025: “Frente a la Cámara. Aproximaciones al retrato fotográfico”, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
2025: “Relational Landscapes”, Spritz3000, Catskill, USA
2024: “To Move Towards the Limits of Living”, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, USA
2023: “945 Madison Avenue”, Josh Pazda Hiram Butler, Houston, USA
2023: “House of Photographs: The Kasakoff – Adams Collection”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
2022: “American Trip: 1975”, Tenderloin Museum, San Francisco, USA
2022: “Luna Cornea”, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
2022: “Variance”, RISD Museum, Providence, USA
2022: “Nature Morte”, UNC Charlotte, College of Art and Architecture, and MINT Museum, Charlotte, USA
2020: “Keeper of the Hearth / Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photographs”, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, USA
2020: “To Make Visible: Art and Activism, 1980-2000”, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, USA
2019: “50 Years since Stonewall”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
2019: “Contemporary Sublime”, The Photographic Collecting of William G. Butler, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, USA
2019: “19 Years at 535”, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
2019: “Recent Acquisitions: Photography and Abstraction”, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, USA
2019: “About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art”, Wrightwood 659, Chicago, USA
2019: “Shoulder to Shoulder: Depicting the Figure”, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, USA
2018: “On Disappearing and Appearing; On the Ephemeral in Photography”, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
2018: “Nature Morte”, Guildhall, London, UK
2017: “figure, ground“”, Julie Saul Gallery, New York City, USA
2017: “Recent Acquisitions”, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
2016: “Art AIDS America”, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York City, USA
2011: “Into the Loving Nowhere (1989-Now)”, Julie Saul Gallery, New York City, USA
2009: “funny, cry, happy”, Langhans Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic
2009: “American Trip, 1974-1978 + A Series of Human Decisions”, Exile, Berlin, Germany
2007: “New Year’s Day”, M+B, Los Angeles, USA
2007: “Interim Thoughts, and Others”, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France

2017: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2012: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1995: Photographer’s Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Foundation
1994: Photographer’s Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts