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Biography
Bill Jacobson (b.1955, Norwich, CT) has been making photographs for nearly forty years. Prior to moving to New York in 1982, he received a BA from Brown University (1977) and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute (1981).
He has exhibited widely, and work has been acquired by the Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum; and many others.
Fellowships were awarded from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2012, the Aaron Siskind Foundation in 1995, and the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1994. He has had six residencies at MacDowell Colony, and also been to Yaddo, The Edward Albee Foundation, and Blue Mountain Center.
Three monographs have been published of Jacobson’s work: bill jacobson 1989-1997, Twin Palms Publishers (Santa Fe) 1998; Photographs, Hatje Cantz Verlag (Stuttgart) 2005; and A Series of Human Decisions, Decode Books (Seattle) 2009.
An overview of Jacobson’s photographs since 1975 can be found at billjacobsonstudio.com
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