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last update: April 24, 2011
The FotoFest 2010 Biennial, the Thirteenth International Biennial of Photography and Photo-related Art, took place March 12-April 25, 2010. Biennial exhibits and events started as early as October 2009 and continued through May 2010.
In addition to its well-known photographic Biennials, FotoFest does year-round art and educational programming. The 2010-2011 art programs begin September 2010.
For FotoFest's year-round student education program, Literacy Through Photography, please click here.
March 10 - April 23, 2011 |
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Nowhere Near Here:
New Photographic Work by Texas Artists
Presented by FotoFest and Houston Center for Photography
Curated by Toby Kamps and Michelle White, The Menil Collection
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| Santiago Forero, Self-Portrait, from the series A Story About Gnomes, 2009
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From the Talent in Texas Exhibition Series
Chris Akin (Houston, TX)
Adam Boley (Georgetown, TX)
Logan Caldbeck (Marfa, TX)
Santiago Forero (Austin, TX / Bogotá, Colombia)
Mimi Kato (San Antonio, TX / Nara, Japan)
Ivete Lucas and Otis Ike (Austin, TX)
Wura-Natasha Ogunji (Austin, TX)
Nancy Newberry (Dallas, TX)
Mike Osborne (Austin, TX)
Walker Pickering (Austin, TX)
David Politzer (Houston, TX)
Kelly Sears (Houston, TX)
Clarissa Tossin (Houston, TX)
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January 13 - February 25, 2011 |
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A Matter of Wit
Gilbert Garcin, Miro Švolík, Colin Blakely
Curated by Wendy Watriss, FotoFest Co-founder and Senior Curator
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| Gilbert Garcin, The Collector, 2004 |
A MATTER OF WIT features three international artists with a talent for humor and visual puns. Smart, cheeky and wry, the artists - who span three generations and two continents - have diverse approaches to their work.
Visual paradox and staged fantasy are the most difficult things to do successfully in photography, but this is just what these artists do so well, says the exhibit's curator Wendy Watriss, FotoFest Artistic Director and Senior Curator.
A MATTER OF WIT is the first large-scale U.S. exhibition of French artist Gilbert Garcin, alongside the work of one of Prague’s heralded masters of staged photography, Miro Švolík, and U.S. artist Colin Blakely, whose whimsical images make humorous commentary on everyday life.
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October 21, 2010 - December 11, 2010 |
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B-Sides: A Dialogue with Contemporary U.S. Photography
Curated by Jennifer Ward, FotoFest Exhibitions Coordinator
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Nic Nicosia, Untitled (dirt target), 2008
Courtesy of the artist and Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas |
The eight artists exhibited in B-Sides explore themes fundamentally tied to the current state of affairs in the U.S. They each bring to the exhibit vastly different ways of working with conceptual photography, from staged and conceptual still imagery to animation, performative and appropriated video. They address technology, the American political process, grief and loss, identity, growth and youth culture.
“The works in this exhibition are new or have not been widely seen,” says curator Jennifer Ward, FotoFest Exhibitions Coordinator. “The exhibition’s title refers to the reverse, or ‘B-Side’ of a vinyl record – the side that typically contained additional, often complementary music tracks. B-Sides was envisioned as a way to show other, interesting bodies of work that inform, complement or contrast with what audiences may have previously seen from of these artists’ work.”
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September 23 – October 10, 2010 |
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The Collector's Eye: Peers
From the Collection of Fernando Castro
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| Pedro Meyer, Manuel Alvarez Bravo and his good reputation sleeping, Mexico, 1974/2000 |
The Collector’s Eye: Peers was a new exhibit created from the photographic collection of Fernando Castro, photographer, critic, and curator. The exhibit featured conceptual and surrealist work from 39 artists from Latin America, Europe and the United States.
From established masters to younger and emerging artists, Mr. Castro’s collection is an eclectic record of the personal and professional relationships he has forged over the past three decades as a philosopher, poet, photographer, and teacher. “I am not an art collector in the traditional sense,” says Mr. Castro. “My collection is an artist’s collection – the result of gifts between friends and trades amongst colleagues. These are my friends and my peers.”
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March 12 – April 25, 2010 |
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FotoFest 2010 Biennial
Contemporary U.S. Photography
For the 2010 Biennial’s four principal exhibitions dedicated to Contemporary U.S. Photography, FotoFest invited five curators to put together the exhibitions.
Whatever was Splendid: New American Photographs
Curated by Aaron Schuman, SeeSaw Magazine, U.K.
Assembly:
Eight Emerging Photograhers
from Southern California
Curated by the Curatorial Team of the Wallis Annenberg Center for Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Road to Nowhere?
Curated by Natasha Egan, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago
Medianation: Performing for the Screen
Curated by Gilbert Vicario, Des Moines Art Center, IA
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November 5 – December 19, 2009 |
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International Discoveries II
Outstanding work from Asia, Europe, Latin America,
Canada and the United States
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| Wei Bi, Untitled, 2007 |
Nine artists from four continents were featured in the exhibition:
Alejandro Cartagena (Mexico)
Minstrel Kuik Ching Chieh (Malaysia and France)
Christine Laptuta (Canada and the United States)
Rizwan Mirza (United Kingdom)
Vee Speers (Australia and France)
Kurt Tong (United Kingdom and China)
Takeshi Shikama (Japan)
MiMi Youn (United Kingdom and Korea)
Wei Bi (China)
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September 10 – October 24, 2009 |
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| Curtis Mann, Collective Thought, 2007 |
POKE! Artists and Online Social Media
curated by Jennifer Ward, FotoFest Exhibitions Coordinator and Associate Curator
The increasingly pervasive, user-created content of online social media – tweets, confessional video, status updates, online gaming - are these subjects for art? In online parlance a poke is a virtual gesture intended as interaction without any specific purpose, usually interpreted as “hello.” POKE! is also a FotoFest exhibition featuring eight technologically savvy artists who explore online social media and its evolving relationship with the public, the media, and art.
POKE! explored the inter-personal intentions of social media technology and the nature of modern internet-mediated relationships with work that references and uses source material from popular online social media websites such as Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Craigslist, and YouTube.
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May 11 – 20, 2009 |
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 FotoFence 2009
The annual year-end exhibition of writing and photography from FotoFest’s school-based education program Literacy Through Photography (LTP)
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February 5 – April 25, 2009 |
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New Visualism
Abstractions in photography
by Štěpán Grygar and
Fernando La Rosa
curated by Wendy Watriss, FotoFest Co-founder and Artistic Director
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| Štěpán Grygar, Untitled (Mala Strana, Prague), 1997 |
FotoFest Artistic Director Wendy Watriss curates this exhibition of contemporary Black & White photographs from two international masters. Štěpán Grygar (Czech Republic) and Fernando La Rosa (Peru) record everyday scenes in unexpected ways that transform these most ordinary objects in wholly unexpected ways.The works are studied and contemplative with a surprising amount of humor and playfulness.
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November 6, 2008 – January 10, 2009 |
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Viewfinder: New Images by Texas Artists
From the Talent in Texas Exhibition Series
Presented by FotoFest and Houston Center for Photography (HCP)
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| Ben Aqua |
The Talent in Texas series focuses on photo-related works by artists living and working in Texas. The exhibition features 12-15 artists. The organizations have commissioned Arturo Palacios (Director, Art Palace, Austin) and Risa Puleo (Assistant Curator of American and Contemporary Art, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin) to co-curate this new exhibition, the third in a series. The 2008-2009 Talent in Texas exhibition is a collaboration between FotoFest and HCP. The exhibition will span both spaces.
Viewfinder explores the wide scope of photographic art practice today from traditional film-based still photography to video and installation work. Featured artists are: Ben Aqua (Austin); Rebecca S. Carter (Dallas); Piotr Chizinski (Lubbock); Beau Comeaux (Dallas); Emilie Duval (Beaumont); Robin Germany (Slaton); Buster Graybill (Huntsville); Anna Krachey (Austin); Ivan Lozano (Austin); Lupita Murillo Tinnen (Fort Worth); Justin Parr (San Antonio); Zeque Peña (El Paso); Eduardo Garcia (Laredo); Ansen Seale (San Antonio) and David Waddell (Houston). The work explores themes that are both personal and universal; that are local and international.
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September 5 – October 18, 2008 |
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| Eileen Maxson |
Mechanical Perceptions
Presented by The School of Art at the University of Houston and FotoFest
Mechanical Perceptions is a multi-media exhibition by alumni from the University of Houston Photo/Digital Media Department, featuring the work of Mei-Mei Liem, Eileen Maxson, Brian Piana, Soody Sharifi, and Anderson Wrangle.
Mechanical Perception is curated by Stephan Hillerbrand, University of Houston Assistant Professor and Coordinator for the Photography/Digital Media Program, Toby Kamps, Senior Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, and Ariane Roesch, artist and alumna. The artists were selected from a list of graduates nominated by Houston Area curators and current and past University of Houston professors.
FotoFest is collaborating with the University of Houston School of art in presenting this exhibition.
Saturday Matinee Artist Talks - Free talks at FotoFest Headquarters
September 6, 2pm: Eileen Maxson and Anderson Wrangle
October 4, 2pm: Soody Sharifi and Brian Piana
This exhibition is presented due to the generosity of the Houston Arts Alliance, the School of Art at the University of Houston, and FotoFest.
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For more information on older exhibitions and events please see the FotoFest Archive.
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