Paul D'Amato
Occupation(s)Photographer and Teacher
Websitepauldamato.com

Paul D'Amato is a American photographer represented by Stephen Daiter Gallery[1] in Chicago. He was born in 1956 in Boston, MA and he live in Chicago, IL. He is specialized in portrait photography and documentary photography and he is a professor at Columbia College Chicago.[2]

Early life and education

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Degrees B.A., Art Reed College 1980 M.F.A., Yale University School of Art 1985

Grants, Awards & Commissions

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  • Illinois Arts Council Grant, 2019

Individual Artist Fellowship

  • Book Prize: Traditional Prize Winner, Lucie Foundation, Los Angeles

“Here/Still/Now”, October, 2018

  • Best Photography Books of the Year, PDN Photo Annual, New York, NY

“Here/Still/Now”, May 2018

  • Finalist, Portrait Competition, Lensculture, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Portraits from “Here/Still/Now”, April 2018

  • Lightwork Residency Award, Syracuse New York, July 2016

Month long Residency and Honorarium to work on self directed projects

  • The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 2016

Finalist, Washington, D.C.

  • The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Grant, 2013

Grant to support the mounting of We Shall exhibition and publish the catalogue

  • The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 2013

Prize Winner and Special Commendation, Washington, D.C.

  • Morningstar Portrait Commission, 2008,

Portraits of clients in San Francisco, L.A., Princeton, London, Leeds & Amsterdam

  • Illinois Arts Council Grant, 2005,

Individual Artist Fellowship

  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Subvention Grant, 2004,

Grant to aid in the publication of Barrio

  • Santa Fe Prize for Photography, 2004,

Finalist, Project Launch Competition

  • Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, 2002,

Individual Artist Fellowship

  • Portland Museum of Art “Open House” Commission, 2002,

Commission to create an installation in the renovated McLellan House

  • National Millennium Survey Commission, 1999 – 2000,

Commission to photograph Men’s Social Clubs for traveling exhibition and book

  • The Rockefeller Foundation, 1998,

Residency at the Bellagio Study & Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy

  • New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1995,

Individual Artist Fellowship

  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1994,

Individual Artist Fellowship

  • Maine Arts Commission Fellowship, 1993,

Individual Artist Fellowship

  • Blanche E. Colman Award, 1991,

Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

  • Illinois Arts Council Grant, 1989,

Individual Artist Fellowship

  • Reed College Travel Grant, 1978,

Grant to photograph and travel by freight train across the U.S.

Public Collections

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  • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  • Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
  • Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, North Carolina
  • DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois
  • Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago, Illinois
  • Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
  • LaSalle Bank Collection, Chicago, Illinois
  • Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, New York
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
  • Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
  • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
  • Northlight Gallery at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
  • Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
  • Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
  • Readers Digest, Pleasantville, New York
  • Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
  • Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee

Selected Exhibitions

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  • U.S. Blues, Kehrer Galerie, Berlin Germany

July 14 to September 8, 2018, four-person show

  • LensCulture Portrait Competition Finalists:

Les Rencontres d’Arles. Arles, France July 2 – 7, 2018 Photo London, May 17 – 20, 2018, Somerset House, London

  • Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Art Institute of Chicago

May through August, 2018, Chicago, IL

  • Don’t Forget to Move Your Feet, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago IL

September to November 2017, solo retrospective exhibition

  • The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

March 2016 to January 2017, Travelling Exhibition to:

  • Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO – Oct. 6, 2017 to Jan. 7, 2018
  • Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX – June 2, 2017 to September 10, 2017
  • Tacoma Art Museum, WA – February 4, 2017 to May 14, 2017
  • MoCP at 40, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

January – April, 2016, Selected images from the museums collection

  • We Shall, DeMenil Gallery, Groton, MA

October/November, 2015 one person show

  • The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

March 2013 to Spring 2014, Prize Winner, Special Commendation

  • About Face: Contemporary Portraiture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
  • Survey of contemporary photographic portraiture, August, 2013 to January, 2014
  • We Shall, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois

September, 2013 – Travelling Survey of new work to various locations TBD

  • We Shall, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon

September, 2011, one person exhibition

  • We Shall, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

September – October, 2010, one person exhibition

  • Black Is Black Ain’t, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

June 27 – October 17, 2009, traveling exhibition

  • Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographie, Arles, France

July 8, 2009, presentation of international photography by Yann Linsart, U.S. representative.

  • Documents: City Life, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

July 31 – September 4, 2009” four person exhibition

  • Black Is Black Ain’t, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan

February 13 – May 3, 2009, traveling exhibition

  • Barack Obama Senate Offices, Washington DC

2005 – 2008, suite of photographs representing Chicago

  • Black Is Black Ain’t, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

April 20 – June, 2008 group exhibition

  • Anne Harris & Paul D’Amato, Amherst College Gallery of Art, Amherst, Massachusetts

February, 2008, two person show

  • Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture, Lincoln, Massachusetts, Feb, – April 2008
  • PIP – China Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao China

Summer 2007 – One of five photographers representing the United States

  • Paul D’Amato: Barrio, Stephen Daiter Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois

May 2007, one person show

  • Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

July 2005 – Portrait show

  • Pool Party, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, New York

July 2004, group show of gallery artists

  • Dwell: Life in the City, New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana, March & April, 2002, Two Person Show
  • In the Company of Men, Photographs of Men’s Social Clubs, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois, Sept. & Oct. 2002, one person show
  • Out of Place, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, New York

September, & October, 2001, Solo Exhibition

  • Two Photographers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine

August to October 2001

  • National Millennium Survey, Curated by James Enyeart

Fall 2000 – Fall 2001, traveling exhibition to various destinations in the U.S.

  • Future – Present: Contemporary Photographs of Children, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, January – March 1999,
  • Occupying the Street, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine

January – March 1999, photographs from the collection

  • Eleven Artists, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts

November 1997 – January 1998

  • 9 Artists, 9 Visions, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts

June – August 1996

  • Perspectives: Paul D’Amato, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

April – July 1996, one person show

  • The Magic of Play, Grand Central Station, New York, New York

September 1995

  • The Magic of Play, The Directors Guild, Los Angeles, California

November 1994

  • Paul D’Amato, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois

June and July 1994, North Gallery

  • Paul D’Amato, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts

January – March 1994, one person show

  • Paul D’Amato, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon

December 1993 – One person show

  • Paul D’Amato, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona

October 1993 – One person show

  • Paul D’Amato, The Emily Davis Gallery at The University of Akron

November – December 1992, one person show

  • Paul D’Amato: Pilsen, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts

January – February 1992, one person show

  • Almost Home, The Graham Foundation, Chicago, Illinois

December – January 1991

  • New Photography 6, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

October 1990 through January 1991, Three Person Show

References

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  1. ^ "Stephen Daiter website". www.stephendaitergallery.com.
  2. ^ "Paul D'Amato". Columbia College Chicago.
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