Brian Ulrich

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Photograph from Brian Ulrich's Copia series
Photograph from Brian Ulrich's Copia series

Brian Ulrich (born 1971) is an American photographer known for his photographic exploration of consumer culture.

Born in Northport, New York, Ulrich lives in Chicago, Illinois. In 2001 in response to a national call for citizens to bolster the American economy through shopping, Ulrich began a project to document consumer culture. This project, Copia, is a series of large scale photographs of shoppers, retail spaces, and displays of goods. Initially focused on big-box retail establishments, the series expanded to include thrift stores and back rooms of retail businesses. Ulrich's work is held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Art Institute of Chicago; and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.

[edit] Selected exhibitions

Solo:

  • Copia, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY (2007)
  • Thrift, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (December 1, 2006-2007)
  • Copia, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2006-2007)
  • Copia, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco (2006)
  • Copia, ArtUnit, Haarlem, The Netherlands (2006)
  • 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work: Shoppers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2005)

Group:

  • People Buildings and Cars, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT (2007)
  • Art Basel Miami Beach, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, (2006)
  • MP3, Kelli Connell, Justin Newhall, and Brian Ulrich, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, (2006)
  • Photocentric, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN (2005)
  • On the Scene, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2005)
  • The New Chicagoans, Select Media Festival, Chicago, IL (2005)
  • Contemporary American Photography/Internationalen Fototage Mannheim, Cologne (2005)
  • Manufactured Self, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL (2005)
  • Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel California (2003)

[edit] Publications

  • "Where do you shop?", Lens Culture, 2007
  • Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, Robert Hirsch, Focal Press, 2007
  • Mother Jones magazine, ‘Happiness’, March/April 2007
  • MP3: Midwest Photographers Project, “Copia”, Aperture Foundation, 2006
  • ArtForum, ‘Brian Ulrich, Robert Koch Gallery’, Glen Helfand,October 2006
  • Seeing & Writing 2, textbook, Donald McQuade, Christine McQuade, 2006
  • Photography Quarterly, “Photography Now”, 2006
  • Adbusters, #70 2007, #67 September/October 2006, #66 July/August 2006
  • Chicago Tribune Magazine, February 5, 2006
  • The New York Times Magazine, September 2004

[edit] Sources

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