Amy Stein
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Amy Stein is an American
photographer known for her Domesticated, Stranded and Halloween in Harlem series. She was raised in Karachi, Pakistan and Washington, DC. Stein now lives in Jackson Heights, New York and teaches at the School of Visual Arts
and Parsons The New School for Design
.
Stein's work is featured in many public and private collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art
; the Museum of Contemporary Photography
, Chicago; the Portland Art Museum
; the Nevada Museum of Art
; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
; and George Eastman House
Photography Collection. In 2007 American Photo magazine named Stein one of the Top 15 Emerging Photographers in the world.
photographs of human and animal interaction in Matamoras, Pennsylvania
. The work "reveals the unresolved conflict between our yearning for kinship with nature’s mysteries and our desire to bring everything that surrounds us under rational control." A monograph of Domesticated was published by Photolucida in 2008. That same year Martin Parr
awarded Domesticated the Best Book award at the 2008 New York Photo Festival.
Group:
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
photographer known for her Domesticated, Stranded and Halloween in Harlem series. She was raised in Karachi, Pakistan and Washington, DC. Stein now lives in Jackson Heights, New York and teaches at the School of Visual Arts
School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...
and Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School For Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is the art and design college of The New School university. It is located in New York City's Greenwich Village, and has produced artists and designers such as Marc Jacobs, Dean and Dan Caten, Norman Rockwell, Donna Karan, Jane...
.
Stein's work is featured in many public and private collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States. It is located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The Museum was established in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year...
; the Museum of Contemporary Photography
Museum of Contemporary Photography
The Museum of Contemporary Photography was founded in 1984 by Columbia College Chicago. It is well known for an active program and curating which discovers many emerging and mid-career artists...
, Chicago; the Portland Art Museum
Portland Art Museum
The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in 1892, making it the oldest art museum on the West Coast and seventh oldest in the United States. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, the Portland Art Museum became one of the twenty-five largest art museums in...
; the Nevada Museum of Art
Nevada Museum of Art
The Nevada Museum of Art, located at 160 West Liberty Street in Reno, Nevada, is the only American Association of Museums accredited art museum in the state of Nevada. The museum is thematic, focusing on the growing interest in the protection of the land...
; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art is an art museum that is located on the campus and is a department of Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. The museum is named for donors and local art collectors Jerry and Margaret Nerman. It opened in October 2007, succeeding the...
; and George Eastman House
George Eastman House
The George Eastman House is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York, USA. World-renowned for its photograph and motion picture archives, the museum is also a leader in film preservation and...
Photography Collection. In 2007 American Photo magazine named Stein one of the Top 15 Emerging Photographers in the world.
Domesticated
For her Domesticated series Stein uses personal stories and local newspaper accounts to create staged tableauTableau vivant
Tableau vivant is French for "living picture." The term describes a striking group of suitably costumed actors or artist's models, carefully posed and often theatrically lit. Throughout the duration of the display, the people shown do not speak or move...
photographs of human and animal interaction in Matamoras, Pennsylvania
Matamoras, Pennsylvania
Matamoras is a borough in Pike County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,469 at the 2010 census. It is the easternmost town in Pennsylvania.-History:...
. The work "reveals the unresolved conflict between our yearning for kinship with nature’s mysteries and our desire to bring everything that surrounds us under rational control." A monograph of Domesticated was published by Photolucida in 2008. That same year Martin Parr
Martin Parr
Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take a critical look at aspects of modern life, in particular provincial and suburban life in England...
awarded Domesticated the Best Book award at the 2008 New York Photo Festival.
Selected exhibitions
Solo:- Stranded, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Australia (2010)
- Domesticated, Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia (2010)
- Domesticated, Harvard Museum of Natural HistoryHarvard Museum of Natural HistoryThe Harvard Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.It has three parts:* the Harvard University Herbaria* the Museum of Comparative Zoology* the Harvard Mineralogical Museum....
, Cambridge, MA (2010) - Domesticated, ClampArt, New York, NY (2009)
- Domesticated, Blue Sky GalleryBlue Sky GalleryBlue Sky Gallery is a non-profit exhibition space and archive for photography in Portland, Oregon. In 1975 a group of photographers pooled their resources to start a small gallery...
, Portland, Oregon (2009) - Domesticated, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark (2009)
- Domesticated, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (2008)
- New American Fables, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2008)
- New American Fables, Pool Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2008)
- Domesticated, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2008)
Group:
- No Place in Particular: Images of the American Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art JacksonvilleMuseum of Contemporary Art JacksonvilleThe Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, also known as MOCA Jacksonville, is a contemporary art museum in Jacksonville, Florida, funded and operated as a "cultural resource" of the University of North Florida...
, Jacksonville, FL (2011) - The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, Nevada Museum of ArtNevada Museum of ArtThe Nevada Museum of Art, located at 160 West Liberty Street in Reno, Nevada, is the only American Association of Museums accredited art museum in the state of Nevada. The museum is thematic, focusing on the growing interest in the protection of the land...
, Reno, NV (2011) - East of Eden: Doug DuboisDoug DuBoisDoug DuBois is an American photographer based in Syracuse, New York.-Biography:DuBois attended Hampshire College and received his Masters of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los...
, Amy SteinAmy SteinAmy Stein is an American photographer known for her Domesticated, Stranded and Halloween in Harlem series. She was raised in Karachi, Pakistan and Washington, DC...
& Mark Steinmetz, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA (2011) - Right Here, Right Now: Exposures from the Public Realm, Format Photography Festival, Derby, UK (2011)
- American Psyche, Religare Arts Initiative Gallery, New Delhi, India (2011)
- Contemporary Photography from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of ArtSan Jose Museum of ArtThe San Jose Museum of Art is an art museum in Downtown San Jose, California, USA. Founded in 1969, the museum hosts a large permanent collection emphasizing West Coast artists of the 20th- and 21st-century. It is located next to the Circle of Palms Plaza and Plaza de César Chávez...
, San Jose, CA (2011) - Museum of Unnatural History, ClampArt, New York, NY (2010)
- Faraway Nearby: Addressing Suburbia, Nerman Museum of Contemporary ArtNerman Museum of Contemporary ArtThe Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art is an art museum that is located on the campus and is a department of Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. The museum is named for donors and local art collectors Jerry and Margaret Nerman. It opened in October 2007, succeeding the...
, Overland Park, KS (2010) - Proof, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL (2010)
- Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (2010)
- Humanimal, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, NH (2010)
- Things Fall Apart, Pool Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2010)
- 100 Portraits, Corcoran Gallery of ArtCorcoran Gallery of ArtThe Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington, DC. The museum's main focus is American art. The permanent collection includes works by Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Pablo...
, Washington, DC (2010) - Auto. Sueño y Materia, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain (2009)
- Road Trip, San Jose Museum of ArtSan Jose Museum of ArtThe San Jose Museum of Art is an art museum in Downtown San Jose, California, USA. Founded in 1969, the museum hosts a large permanent collection emphasizing West Coast artists of the 20th- and 21st-century. It is located next to the Circle of Palms Plaza and Plaza de César Chávez...
, San Jose, CA (2008) - Photography and Reality, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China (2008)
- Beyond the Backyard, Museum of Contemporary PhotographyMuseum of Contemporary PhotographyThe Museum of Contemporary Photography was founded in 1984 by Columbia College Chicago. It is well known for an active program and curating which discovers many emerging and mid-career artists...
, Chicago, IL (2008) - Hijacked, Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney, Australia (2008)
- Car Culture, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ (2008)
- Two Person Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA (2007)
- Road Trip, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY (2007)
- Descubrimientos PHE07, El Museo Municipal de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain (2007)
- Saatchi Your Gallery, The Guardian, London, England (2006)
- Person in Place, International Center of PhotographyInternational Center of PhotographyThe International Center of Photography is a photography museum, school, and research center in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States...
, New York, NY (2006) - American Images, BBC Gallery, London, England (2004)
- Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA (2004)
Monographs and Books
- Domesticated, Photolucida, 2008
- Horizons, Ivory Press, 2008
- Hijacked Vol. 1: Australia and America, Last Gasp, 2008
- To The Dogs, Arsenal Pulp PressArsenal Pulp PressArsenal Pulp Press is a Canadian independent book publishing company, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company publishes a broad range of titles in both fiction and non-fiction, and is noted for founding the annual Three-Day Novel Contest .Authors who have been published by Arsenal Pulp ...
, 2008