Robert Polidori
Biography
1951 Born in Montreal, Canada
1972-1974 Theatre Manager, Anthology Film Archives
1980 MA from State University of New York at Buffalo
1998-2007 Staff Photographer at the New Yorker Magazine
SOLO EXHIBTIONS
2007 ‘After the Flood’, Jarach Gallery, Venice
‘After the Flood’, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
2006 Chernobyl, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
‘After the Flood’, Flowers East, London
New Orleans after the Flood, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Fotografien, Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum, Berlin
2005 Chernobyl, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
Flowers Central, London
2004 Havana, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis
Contact, Toronto
2003 Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
2000 Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
1999 Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis
Robert Miller gallery, New York
Gallery One, Toronto
1997 Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1991 Galerie Jaques Gordat, Paris
1990 Galerie Urbi et Orbi, Paris
1988 Atelier des Cannettes, Mois de la Photo, Paris
1983 Braathen Fine Arts, New York
1979 CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1975 Whitney Museum of Art-New Filmakers Program, New York
1970-75 Anthology Film Archives
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Ingenuities: Photography & Engineering, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
toured to Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels.
‘New Work by Gallery Artists’, Flowers Central, London
‘says the junk in the yard’, Flowers East, London
2006 ‘the living is easy,’ Flowers East, London
2003 ‘Esther haase –Kuba’, CameraWork, Berlin
2001 Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
1999 Preview IV, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis
1998 Weinstein Gallery, New York
St. Paul Companies, St. Paul
1997 Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1994 Conseil Generale de la Nievre, Nevers, France
1989 Chicago Art Institute, Chicago
1982 Braathen Fine Arts, New York
1981 P. S. 1, Long Island City, New York
1980 Braathen-Gallozzi Gallery, New York
1978 International Center of Photography, New York
1975 Bykert Gallery, New York
ART FAIRS
Art London
Cornice Art Fair, Venice
Kunst Zurich
Photo-London
Photo-Miami
The London Art Fair
Basel and Basel Miami
PUBLICATIONS
2006 After The Flood, Photographs by Robert Polidori, Editions Steidl, Gottingen, Germany.
2004 Robert Polidori’s Metropolis. Photographs by Robert Polidori, text by Robert Polidori and Martin C. Pedersen. Metropolis/D.A.P., New York.
2003 Zones of Exclusion Pripyat and Chernobyl. Photographs by Robert Polidori. Editions Steidl, Gottingen, Germany.
2001 Havana. Photographs by Robert Polidori. Editions Steidl, Gottingen, Germany
Palm Springs Weekend: The Architecture and Design of a Midcentury Oasis. Photographs by Robert Polidori, text by Alan Hess. Chronicle books, San Francisco.
1999 The Levant: History and Archeology in the Eastern Mediterranean. Photographs by Robert Polidori, text by Pierre-Louis Gatier. Konemann Verlag Gesselschaft, Cologne.
1998 La Libye Antique: Cities perdues de L’Empire Romaine. Photographs by Robert Polidori, text by Antonio and Jeanette di Vita. Editions Menges, Paris.
1997 Chateaux de la Loire. Photgraphs by Robert Polidori, text by Jean-Marie Preouse de Montclos. Editions Menges, Paris. Konemann Verlag Gesselschart, Cologne
Sites Greco-Romaines de la Triploitane et Cyrenaique.
Photographs by Robert Polidori, text by Antonio and Jeanette di Vita. Editions Menges, Paris. Konemann Verlag Gesselschart, Cologne
1991 Versailles. Photographs by Robert Polidori, text by Jean-Marie Perouse de Monclos. Editions Menges, Paris; Abbeville Press, New York; Edizione Magnus, Milano; Konemann Verlag Gesselschaft, Cologne.
COLLECTIONS
UBS
MOMA, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Biblioteque National, Paris
Maison Europeen de la Photography, Paris
Foundacion “La Caixa,” Barcelona
The Link Group, Chicago
First National City Bank, New York
The Santander Bank, New York
La Caisse des Depots et Consignations, Paris
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Berman Collection, Los Angeles
HONORS AND AWARDS
2000 Alfred Eisenstadt Award for Magazine Photography, Architecture
1999 Alfred Eisenstadt Award for Magazine Photography, Architecture
1998 World Press Award for Art
MAGAZINES
Contributer, Conde Nast Traveller, GEO, Numero, House and Garden, Wired,
Metropolis, Fortune, Architecture, Amica, De la Republica, Architectural Digest France, Nest, Newsweek, Vanity Fair,...