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Steve Giovinco Photograph

Item Number
141
Estimated Value
2000 USD
Opening Bid
700 USD

Item Description

If you can't be there, why not be able to stare at it. On your wall. In your very own home. Get lost in the beauty of a Steve Giovinco photograph. Then be very happy that it's actually yours.

1 16"x20" photograph, from an edition of 5- Other Night Picture 140.

Steve Giovinco photographs intimate and emotional relations between couples using a digital camera. Earning his MFA from Yale University, Steve has been awarded fellowships to attend Yaddo artist residencies in 2001, 2002 and 2010.

Museums collecting his work have included Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Yale University Museum of Art, The Butler Institute of Art, The California Museum of Photography, Winnipeg Art Gallery and The Lowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, among others. Solo museum exhibitions include the California Museum of Photography, the Butler Institute of American Art, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, the VELAN Center, Torino, Italy, and the University of the Arts, Philadelphia.

Steve is represented by Jim Kempner Fine Art in New York, where he has been in numerous exhibitions, including a one person exhibition which was reviewed by Art in America in 2008. Steve’s work has been included in exhibitions in Europe and North America at museums and galleries with artists such as Jeff Wall, Sam Taylor Wood, Larry Sultan, and Richard Billingham. Group exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Sadler’s Wells, London, with Thomas Joshua Cooper, Exit Art, and was selected by Gregory Crewdson for an exhibition at White Columns in New York. Besides more than a dozen group shows in New York, other gallery shows have been in Spain, Chicago, Miami.

Reviews have been published in Art in America, Tema Celeste and Zoom magazine and his work has appeared in the New York Times. Steve has self published three books. He has also participated in many art fairs in Art Chicago, Art Miami, Ink, and his photographs have been in auction at Sotheby’s and at several benefit events. Filmmaker David McDonald, as part of the series, “The Mystery of Creativity,” has created a brief video about him and his work. Steve also invented a hand held large format camera.