Steve Giovinco
| Steve Giovinco | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 31, 1961 Tarrytown, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Yale University |
| Known for | Photography |
Steve Giovinco is a fine art photographer who photographs landscapes, self-portraits, and people. His focus is on fine-art photography with lyrical and psychologically charged private moments of couples using himself and dark landscape photographs. Steve Giovinco has exhibited his art photographs with Jeff Wall, Sam Taylor-Wood, Catherine Opie, and others. He has worked with a digital camera since 1999 and created a handheld 8x8" film camera. His work was published in,[1] by Chronicle Books.
Life and career
Steve Giovinco was born in Tarrytown, New York on 31 August 1961; he graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in history and literature and Yale University with an MFA in photography, where he studied with Tod Papageorge, Thomas Roma, Richard Benson; Gregory Crewdson was a classmate.[2] Steve Giovinco also received three Yaddo artist residency fellowships in 2001, 2002 and 2009.
Collections
Steve Giovinco's work is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum.[3] and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
Exhibitions
- Myth of the Everyday, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, 2001. With Peter Freitag and Ursula Rogg.[4]
- Myth of the Everyday, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California, 2001.[5]
- Photographs, Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2003.[6]
- Home Show, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2003. Group exhibition with Jeff Wall and Sam Taylor-Wood.[7]
- Ambient Life, Velan Center, Turin, 2005.[8]
- Eclipse: Recent Photographs, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, 2007.
- About Time: Contemporary Photographs, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, 2010. With five other artists.[9]
- Edge of Darkness: Photographs by Steve Giovinco and Tim Simmons, Sheldon Art Gallery, St. Louis, 2012.[10]
- The Kids Are Alright, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan,Wisconsin, 2012, with Catherine Opie.[11]
- The Kids Are Alright, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina, 2013, with Catherine Opie, Ryan McGinley.[12]
Selected articles
- Conti, Tiziana. Tema Celeste, Issue 110, 2005, page 120.
- Finocchi, Daniela, “Steve Giovinco,” Zoom, September–October 2005, pages 36–39.
- Leffingwell, Edward. Art in America, February, 2008, page 145.
- Zoom, July/August 2007, page 62.
References
- ↑ Summertime_Book
- ↑ Bio page, Luminous Lint. Accessed 27 February 2011.
- ↑ Search results, Brooklyn Museum, Accessed 27 February 2011.
- ↑ Exhibition notice, Fotogalerie Wien. Accessed 27 February 2011.
- ↑ Exhibition notice, absolutearts.com. Accessed 27 February 2011.
- ↑ Table of activities (XLS file), MyUArts, University of the Arts. Accessed 27 February 2011.
- ↑ Amy Karlinsky and Anne Brydon, Home Show (Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2003; ISBN 0-88915-219-5).
- ↑ Exhibition notice, exhibart.com. Accessed 27 February 2011.
- ↑ Exhibition notice, artnet.com. Accessed 28 February 2011.
- ↑ Exhibition notice Sheldon Art Gallery website.
- ↑ Exhibition notice John Michael Kohler Arts Center website.
- ↑ Weatherspoon Art Gallery website.
External links
- Steve Giovinco Contemporary Fine Art Photography
- Steve Giovinco's photography website
- Photographs from "On the edge of somewhere"
- Steve Giovinco on Artnet
- Additional photos
- Steve Giovinco on Artreview
- Steve Giovinco on Saatchionline
- MoMA, PS1
- Summertime Book