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Thomas McGovern

2848 North D Street
92405 San Bernardino, California, USA
United States
909-882-9415

http://www.thomasmcgovern.net

category: Photography
technique: Fine-Art-Print
Style: Representational

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Bio / Resumee / Statement:
Thomas McGovern has been making photographs since 1977 and his work has been in over 20 solo and 30 group exhibitions. His artwork has been reviewed in The New York Times, Village Voice, Boston Herald, Boston Globe and many other publications. His photographs are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Library of Congress, among others. He is the author of "Bearing Witness (to AIDS)" (A.R.T. Press/Visual AIDS 1999) and "Alpha Teach Yourself Black and White Photography in 24 Hours" (Pearson Education 2002) and his work is included in "Pandemic: Facing AIDS" (Umbrage Editions 2003), an international collection and travelling exhibition about the AIDS crisis. He has two forthcoming monographs, �Hard Boys + Bad Girls� (Schiffer Publishing) and �Amazing Grace� (Parker Publishing). He has written art criticism for Art Papers and Afterimage and Artweek magazines. He is an Associate Professor of Art at California State University, San Bernardino, where he teaches photography and oversees the graduate program in art.

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PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming:
HARD BOYS + BAD GIRLS, Schiffer Books
AMAZING GRACE, Parker Publishing
2003 PANDEMIC: FACING AIDS, Umbrage Books, New York. Sixteen photographs from my series on the AIDS crisis included in this book about the global pandemic.
1999 BEARING WITNESS (to AIDS), Visual AIDS/A.R.T. Press, New York. Hardcover monograph with 65 duotone photographs from my ten-year project on the AIDS crisis.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM, Riverside, CA. Vital Signs
2007 FINE ART GALLERY, Cal State Los Angeles, Simultaneous Ideas/Projects
2003 GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Winchester, MA, Hard Boys & Bad Girls
ART RESOURCES TRANSFER, NYC, Grotesque
2002 POST, Los Angeles, CA. The Wrestlers
2001 ART RESOURCES TRANSFER, NYC, The New City
1999 LABAND ART GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA. Bearing Witness (to AIDS)
ART RESOURCES TRANSFER, New York, NY. Bearing Witness (to AIDS)
1995 NEUE GALERIE, Hannover, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 NORTHLIGHT GALLERY, ASU, Tempe, AZ.
CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Riverside, CA. Truthiness
DBA 256, Pomona, CA. American Lifescapes
MANNHEIMER KUNSTVEREIN, Germany. Break the Rules!
WIGNALL MUSEUM, Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Inlandia
2007 DBA 256, Pomona, CA. Inland Emperors
2006 RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM, Riverside, CA. New Acquisitions
2004 GALLERY C, Hermosa Beach, Ca American Gothic: Talent for the Dark Ages curated by Tyler Stallings.
DIRT, Los Angeles, CA Stacked; An Homage to Pamela Anderson
CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Riverside, CA. Dog Days
18th STREET ART CENTER, Santa Monica, CA. Artists Who Write
2002 LINC REAL ART, San Francisco, CA Nest Egg Omelette
PANDEMIC: FACING AIDS, traveling exhibition. Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, travels to Paris, Johannesburg, New York, Moscow, etc.
2000 POST, Los Angeles, CA,
1999 NEUER AACHENER KUNSTVEREIN, Aachen, Germany. Gender Trouble

COLLECTIONS

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
MUSEUM FUR PHOTOGRAPHIE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
NEW MUSEUM (NY) (archive) BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WOODSTOCK CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY
SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE
LOS ANGELES COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE
RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM

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