STEVEN AHLGREN

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Road and Sidewalk,
Springfield, PA









EXHIBITIONS & COMMISSIONS

2009   Group Show #32, Humble Arts Foundation. Curated by Nathaniel Ward.  (link here)

2009   Heron Crest Artists, Darlington Arts Center, Aston, PA

2008   Photography 27, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ. Jurored by Michael Mazzeo.

2007   Photography as a Fine Art, Susquehanna Museum of Art, Harrisburg, PA (catalog)

2007   The Biggs Picture, Landscapes by Regional Artists, Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE

2007   Photography 26, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ. Jurored by Mathew Pillsbury.

2006   The Office, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY. Curated by Alice Rose George and Lee Marks.

2003   Outakes, Alan Lambert Galleria, Toronto, Canada

1999   Outdoor Signage, Municipal Art Society of New York. Commision and Exhibition.

1997   Recent Faculty Work, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY

1997   Charette, Office of Munici;al Architecture. Commision by architect Rem Koolhass to photograph MoMA
          for his proposal regarding the museum's expansion.

1996   Corporate Documents, OK Harris Gallery, New York City (solo)

1993   Commodity Image, International Center for Photography, New York. Travelled to Institute for Contemporary
          Art, Boston; High Museum, Atlanta, GA; Cleveland Institute for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH;
          Laguna Art Center, Laguna, CA. Curated by Willis Hartshorn.

1993   Internal Affairs, The Photography Gallery, Florida International University, Miami, FL (solo)

1993   New Photography, Priory Museum, Southend-on-Sea, England

1992   MFA Photography Thesis Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

1991   Small Works Invitational, ArtSpace Gallery, New Haven, CT

1991   LaGrange National XI, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA

1991   Images, The Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT

1989   Places to Play, Concourse Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS

The Berlin Journal, The Organization Man, Number 19 - Fall, 2010

Believer Magazine,
This is Corporate America, by Britt Salvesen, November/December, 2008

The Photo Review, 2008. Curated by Julie Saul

Delaware Scene, The Biggs Picture, Landscapes by Regional Artists by Roberta Tucci, March 10 2007

South Jersey Courier Post, Perkins Photography 26,  by Robert Baxter, Februray, 2007

Trip Magazine (Brazil), Va Paro of Inferno, October, 2000

Adbusters, Corporate Crackdown, September, 2000

New York Times Magazine, What They Were Thinking, June 11, 2000

Detour Magazine, Corporate Affairs, May, 2000

Harpers Magazine, The Searchable Soul, January, 2000

Zine-O-Rama, Word, January, 2000

www.word.com, Going to Work, December, 1999

The New York Times, Op Art, September 6, 1999

www.word.com, Office Photos, July, 1998

NoZone Magazine, The Work Issue, No. 8, Fall, 1998

Doubletake Magazine, Corporate Documents, Summer, 1997

The New Office, published by Conran Octopus, London, 1997

Chairman Rolf Fehlbaum, by Tibor Kalman, published by the German Design Council, 1997

Cleveland Magazine, Money Art And Celebrity, December, 1994

The
Boston Globe, Taking a Shot at Commodity Culture by Stan Grossfeld,  October 15, 1993

The New York Times, The Camera As A Weapon to Assault Modern Ills, by Charles Hagen,  June 11, 1993

The New Journal, Through the Yale Lens, by Pauline Chiou, December, 1991

INTERVIEWS

A Few Questions for Steven Ahlgren, Amy Stein Blog, May 9, 2009  (link here)

Steven Ahlgren, Evan Sklar Blog, June 16, 2009  (link here)


COLLECTIONS

Microsoft Corporation

Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Yale University Sterling Library

Spike Jonze/Sophia Coppola

AWARDS

2007   Best of Medium, Landscapes by Regional Artists, Biggs Museum of Art

2007   Jurors Award (Mathew Pillsbury) Photography 26, Perkins Center for the Arts

1992   George Sakier Memorial Prize for Photography, Yale School of Art

TEACHING

1993-1998       Assistant Professor, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY

1992               Instructor, Photography, Yale Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT

EDUCATION

         
Yale School of Art, MFA, Photography, 1992

          University of Minnesota, BS, Finance, 1984