Tirelessly traveling
the United States, Graham captures the colorful,
sometimes surreal, and often bizarre, in the thoroughly
American landscape. Graham seeks out subjects
which celebrate our singular freedom of expression
in colorful roadside attractions and general oddities:
toys and trompe l’oeil signs found in suburban
settings, idiosyncratic sculptures like the California
dentist and his mammoth Amazon warriors, and eccentric
scenes such as the Dallas hamburger stand that features
a life size statue of Lenin. Chronicling the
American scene with his unique sensibility and acknowledging
popular forms of American photography: the snapshot,
the family portrait and vacation pictures, Graham
brings relevance to the creativity and dreams of
the common man.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS,
selected
- Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 2008
- Gallery 339, Phila, PA 2007
- Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago IL 2004
- Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA 2004
- The Print Center, Phila., PA 2003
- Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC 2003
- Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA 2002
- Ricco/Maresca Gallery, NYC 2002
- Paul Kopeikin Gallery, LA, CA 2002
- James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown,
PA 2001
- Burden Gallery, NY, NY 2000
- Institute for Contemporary Art, Phila, PA
1999-2000
- Snyderman Gallery, Phila, PA 1999
- Menschel Gallery, Syracuse University, NY
1998
- Locks Gallery, Phila., PA 1994
- Institute for Contemporary Art, Phila, PA
1991
- Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY 1991, 1989,
1987
- International Center of Photography, NY, NY
1987
- Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA 1986
- Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA 1986
- Armstrong Gallery, NY, NY 1985
- Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH
1985
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS, selected
- Engulfed by Katrina, NYU, NYC 2006
- Heartfelt, Florida State University 2005
- Home Ricco/Maresca, NY, NY 2003
- Maine ASAP, Northeast harbor, ME 2003
- Elvis, Howard Greenburg Gallery, NY, NY 2002
- Re/viewing Photography, Uarts, Phila., PA
2002
- Bucks County Portraits, Doylestown, PA 2002
- Pretty, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, NY, NY 2001
- Family, Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY 2001
- Murals, Deutsche Bank, NY, NY 2001
- Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY 2000
- Bienniel 2000, Delaware Art Museum,Wilmington,
DE 2000
- Wonderland, Noorderlicht Fotofest, Netherlands
1999
- Four American Photographers, Athens, Greece
1998
- BANG! The Gun as Image, Florida State Univ.
1997
- Las Vegas, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, LA, CA 1997
- Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden, Fay
Gold Gallery,
Atlanta, GA 1996
- Home, Noorderlicht Fotofest, The Netherlands
1993
- Our Town, Burden Gallery, NY, NY 1992
- Pivot, Mostyn Art Gallery, Gwynedd, North
Wales 1991
- Nuclear Matters, SF Camerawork, SF, CA 1991
- Landscapes, Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY 1990
- Fire Sites, Museum of Contemporary Photography,
- Chicago, IL 1989
- Photographic Truth, Bruce Museum, Greenwich,
CT ‘88
- Alteradiants, Austin College, Sherman, TX
1988
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COLLECTIONS,
selected
- Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Phila, PA
- International Museum for Photography, Rochester,
NY
- International Center of Photography, NY, NY
- Brooklyn Museum, NY, NY
- Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France
- Fotografie Forum, Cologne, Germany
- Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
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PUBLICATIONS,
Books, selected
- Past/Forward, Aperture, NY, NY 2003
- Murals, Temple University Press, Phila., PA
2002
- Wonderland, Noorderlicht Fotofest, Netherlands
1999
- My House, My Paradise, Galfetti, Barcelona,
Spain 1999
- Moments of Grace, Thomas Bridges, Aperture,
NY 1998
- Hail! Babylon, Andrei Codrescu, St. Martins,
NY 1998
- Chairman Rolf Fehlbaum, Tibor Kalman, M&Co,
NY 97
- Paradise Garden, w/Mary Ellen Mark, Chronicle,
SF ‘96
- A Day in the Life of Hollywood, Collins, SF
1992
- Modern Color Photography, Photokina, Germany
1986
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SOLO BOOKS
(see also BOOKS section)
- Declaring Independence, David Graham, Pond
Press, 2004
- The Christmas List, David Graham, Quirk Books.
2003
- Alone Together, David Graham, Pond Press,
2002
- Taking Liberties, David Graham, Pond Press
2001
- Land of the Free, David Graham, Aperture,
1999
- Ay, Cuba!, w/Andrei Codrescu, St. Martins
Press, 1999
- David Graham,Past & Present Tense, Lightwork,
1998
- Road Scholar, w/Andrei Codrescu, Hyperion,
1993
- Only in America, David Graham, Knopf, 1991
- American Beauty, David Graham, Aperture 1987
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PERIODICALS,
selected
- New York Times" Home. 2/13/03
- "Aperture at 50", NY, NY Spring
2003
- “New York Times Magazine”, Thinking,
8/20/00
- “Phila. Inquirer Magazine”, Land
of the Free, 11/14/99
- “The New Yorker”, Flight, 6/14/99
- “ID Magazine”, Las Vegas, Sept/October
1999
- “The Hungry Mind”, Placentia Island,
Spring 1999
- “Harper’s Magazine”, Readings,
1993, 1989, 1987, 1986, 2003
- “Frankfurter Allgemain Magazin”,
American Beauty, 87
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GRANTS
- Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 1999, 1997
& 1987
- English Speaking Union, Phila., PA 1990 &
1987
- ASMP/Nikon Emerging Photographer Award, NY
1986
- National Endowment for the Arts, Wash, D.C
1984
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