Fazal Sheikh

Fazal Sheikh (born 1965 in New York City ) is an American photographer .

Life

Sheikh graduated from Princeton University in 1987 . His photographs have been shown at the International Center of Photography , the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art , and the Tate Modern , London; exhibited by the Henri-Cartier-Bresson Foundation , Paris, or the Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow.

Fazal Sheikh lives in Zurich , New York City and Kenya .

Publications

• A Sense of Common Ground  (Scalo Publishers), ISBN 978-1881616511 
• The Victor Weeps (Scalo, 1998), ISBN 978-3-931141-95-0
• A Camel for the Son (IHRS and Steidl, 2001), ISBN 978-0-970761309
• Ramadan Moon (IHRS and Steidl, 2001), ISBN 978-0-9707613-1-6
• Moksha  (IHRS and Steidl, 2005), ISBN 978-3-86521-125-5
• Un Chameau Pour Le Fils  (Photo Poche Societé, Actes SUD, 2005), ISBN 978-2-7427-5811-1
• Ladli , Steidl, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86521-381-5
• The Circle , Steidl, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86521-599-4
• Fazal Sheikh (Mapfre Foundation, 2009), ISBN 978-84-9844-177-2
• Portraits (Steidl, 2011), ISBN 978-3-86521-819-3
• Ether (Steidl, 2013), ISBN 978-3-86930-653-7
• The transformation of the world depends upon you (with W. Ewald, T. Keenan, and M. Saxton; Steidl, 2013), ISBN 978-3-86930-741-1
• The Erasure Trilogy (Steidl, 2015), ISBN 978-3-86930-805-0
• The Conflict Shoreline (with Eyal Weizman, Steidl, 2015), ISBN 978-3-95829-035-8
• Human Archipelago . with Teju Cole . Steidl , 2019, ISBN 978-3-95829-568-1

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1996 Fazal Sheikh: A Sense of Common Ground, International Center of Photography , New York City
• 1998 Fazal Sheikh: A Sense of Common Ground, Sprengel Museum , Hanover
• 1999 Fazal Sheikh: The Victor Weeps , Fotomuseum Winterthur
• 2000 Fazal Sheikh - The Victor Weeps, The Art Institute of Chicago
• 2002 Fazal Sheikh: The Victor Weeps - Afghanistan , Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey
• 2003 Cruel and Tender, The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph , Tate Modern , London
• 2003 Fazal Sheikh: A Camel for the Son - Ramadan Moon - The Victor Weeps, Davis Museum and Cultural Center
• 2004 Fazal Sheikh , The United Nations, New York City
• 2005 After the Fact , Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
• 2007 Fazal Sheikh - Moksha and Ladli - HCB Award Winner 2005, Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris
• 2008 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, Photographer's Gallery, London
• 2008 Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art International Center of Photography
• 2009 Fazal Sheikh, Fundación Mapfre, Madrid, Spain
• 2009 Fazal Sheikh, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam
• 2009 Beloved Daughters - Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art            
• 2010 Fazal Sheikh Museo de Arte de Banco de la República, Bogotá
• 2010 The Image in Question: War - Media - Art, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
• 2012 Fazal Sheikh - Ether , PaceMacGill Gallery , New York City
• 2014 Now You See It: Photography and Concealment , Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City       
• 2016 Fazal Sheikh , - Independence | Nakba , Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York City
• 2016 This Place , Brooklyn Museum of Art 

Awards and grants

• J. William Fulbright Foundation Fellowship to Kenya, 1992
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1994
• New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, 1994
• Infinity Award , International Center of Photography, 1995
• Leica Medal of Excellence, 1995
• Ruttenberg Award, 1995
• Ferguson Award, 1995
• Le Prix d'Arles, Dialogue de l'Humanité, 2003
• MacArthur Fellows Program , 2005
• International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, 2005
• Soros Foundation / Open Society Institute Distribution Award, 2007
• Prix ​​Nadar ( Ladli , special mention), 2007
• German Photo Book Prize (shortlist, Ladli ), 2007
• Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (finalist), 2008
• Lucie Foundation Humanitarian Award, 2009
• German Photo Book Prize ( The Circle ), 2009
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2012

Web links

• Steidl Verlag : https://steidl.de/Artists/Fazal-Sheikh-0518284350.html
• Pace / MacGill Gallery: http://www.pacemacgill.com/selected_works/artist_page.php?artist=Fazal%20Sheikh
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/fazal-sheikh/
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: https://www.macfound.org/fellows/770/
• Tate Modern : http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/cruel-tender/artists/fazal-sheikh
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art : http://www.nelson-atkins.org/art/Exhibitions.cfm?id=77
• Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation: http://www.henricartierbresson.org/en/expositions/fazal-sheikh-winner-2005-hcb-award/
• Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2008: http://deutsche-boerse.com/dbg/dispatch/en/listcontent/gdb_navigation/about_us/30_Art_Collection/25_photography_prize/Content_Files/DB_SP_Photography_Prize_2008.htm
• This Place: http://www.this-place.org/photographers/fazal-sheikh/
• Lucie Foundation: http://www.lucies.org/honorees/fazal-sheikh/
• Zochrot Truth Commission: http://zochrot.org/en/keyword/45328

Individual evidence

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