Judith Joy Ross
Judith Joy Ross (* 1946 in Hazleton , USA) is an American photographer .
life and work
Judith Joy Ross studied at the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. She graduated there in 1968. She then studied with Aaron Siskind at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where she completed her Masters in 1970.
Judith Joy Ross works with a large format camera, 8 × 10 inches. She makes contact sheets for the presentation .
She photographed a cross-section of the US population in the 1980s, primarily in Pennsylvania. In addition, she pursues photographic projects, such as a series about visitors to the memorial for the US soldiers who died in the Vietnam War (1983–1984 / Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC) or series of portraits of congress members and their staff (1986 -1987). On behalf of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, she photographed employees of the IT and high-tech industry in Silicon Valley in California . Judy J. Ross names August Sander and Diane Arbus as role models for her work
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 2017 Judith Joy Ross, Galerie Zander, Cologne
- 2013 Judith Joy Ross - The Devil Today and Reading to Dogs, Fondation Stichting A, Brussels, Belgium
- 2012 Judith Joy Ross, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen in Magdeburg, Foundation A Stichting, Brussel
- 2011 Judith Joy Ross, The Photographic Collection of the SK Foundation, Cologne (retrospective)
- 2009 Judith Joy Ross: Living with War, Museum for Photography, Braunschweig
- 2008 Judith Joy Ross - Living with War, C / O Berlin, Berlin; Square, Josef Albers; Museum, Bottrop; Gallery of the College of Graphics and Book Art, Leipzig; Judith Joy Ross, The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (USA)
- 2003 Judith Joy Ross, Quadrat, Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop
- 1997 Judith Joy Ross: Retrospective, Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania,
- 1996 Judith Joy Ross - Portraits, Sprengel Museum, Hanover: Portraits from the Hazleton Public Schools: 1992–1994, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts (USA)
- 1993 New Work: Photographys by Judith Joy Ross, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
- 1988 Easton Portrait, Young Women's Christian Association, Easton, Pennsylvania
- 1987 Portrait of the United States Congress, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- 1985 Photographs by Judith Joy Ross: Eurana Park Series, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Books (selection)
- 2011 Judith Joy Ross. Photographs since 1982. Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, Munich
- 2009 Judith Joy Ross. Photographs, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middleton
- 2008 Living with War. Portraits, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Gulf War, Protest the War, Göttingen, Steidl
- 2007 Protest the War, Göttingen, Steidl
- 2006 Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools, New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery
- 1996 Judith Joy Ross. Portraits, Hanover, Sprengel Museum
- 1995 Judith Joy Ross, Contemporaries / A Photographic Series, New York, The Museum of Modern Art
- 1993 New Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
- 1992 Judith Joy Ross. Annual Report 1992. The George Gund Foundation, West Cleveland, Ohio
Awards (selection)
- 2017 The Lucie Awards, Achievement in Portraiture
- 2000 Anonymous Was A Woman Award
- 1998 Andrea Frank Foundation Award
- 1992 Charles Pratt Memorial Award
- 1988 City of Easton / Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant
- 1985 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation scholarship
Collections
Sprengel Museum, Hanover / Museum Ludwig, Cologne / Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne / Museum Folkwang, Essen / Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung Niedersachsen, Hanover / Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, USA / Birmingham Museum of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL, USA / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA / Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA / National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa / Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA / Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
Web links
- http://www.photographie-sk-kultur.de/?id=50&goback=ausstellungen_archiv&actBtn=ausstellungen_archiv&pasBtn=ausstellungen_archiv
- http://galeriezander.com/de/artist/judith_joy_ross/information
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ross, Judith Joy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hazleton, Pennsylvania , USA |