Bio
b. Jackson, MS, 1953
Education
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
Banff Centre School of Fine Art, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Solo Exhibitions
2020
Substance of Density, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Spuren, Station kasseler fotoforum, Kassel, Germany
2015
Paper Wait, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Light Sensitive, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
2014
Alison Rossiter: Revive, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
2013
Expiry, Les Recontres d’Arles Photographie, Arles, France
2012
Lost and Found, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2010
Reduction, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Latent, TrépanierBaer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2009
Lament, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Canada
2008
Abstractions, Art45, Montreal, Canada
2004
Light Horses, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003
Dark Horse, Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, NY
1999
HOLE, Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, NY
1997
Principia, Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, NY
1994
My Nature, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1990
Horse Portraits, Art 45, Montreal, Canada
1987
Persuasive Objects, Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal, Canada
1986
Willard Gallery, New York, NY
1985
Beauty Aids, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1984
Narrative Objects, Whyte Museum, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Group Exhibitions
2020
Imperfect Clocks, CHART, New York, NY
Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Photography to the Test of Abstraction, FRAC Normandie Rouen, Rouen, France; Micro-Onde, Centre d’art contemporain de l’Onde, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France; and Centre Photographie D’Île De-France, Pontault-Combault, France
2019
Unseen: 35 Years of Collecting Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
After Virginia, CHART, New York, NY
Anderson & Low: Voyages and Discoveries, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
The Beauty of Lines: Masterpieces from the Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection, Musée de l'Elysée, Fundación Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
The Extended Moment: Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Painting with Light, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Look Again: Collecting 45 Years of Photography, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
No Time, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Anna Atkins Refracted: Contemporary Works, New York Public Library, New York, NY
Let There Be Light, Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art, Tate Modern, London, UK
New Territory: Landscape Photography Today, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
The Beauty of Lines: Masterpieces from the Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Runes: Photography and Decipherment, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2017
Dark Room, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Light Play: Experiments in Photography, 1970 to the Present, LACMA Study Center for Photographs and Works on Paper, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Abstract/Object, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Surface of Things, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, TX
About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
Retro-spective: Analogue Photography in a Digital World, MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Chronologues, Museum London, Ontario, Canada
Sun on Paper, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany
This is a Photograph, Penland Gallery, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Look Inside: New Photography Acquisitions, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2015
Tales from a Dark Room, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Process and Abstraction, Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH
2014
Modern Alchemy: Experiments in Photography, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Tales from a Dark Room, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
CHEM 101: The Science of Photography, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Shadows on the Wall: Cameraless Photography from 1851 to Today, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Punctum, Reflections on Photography, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
Phantoms in the Dirt, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
What is a Photograph?, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2013
Shared Vision. The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla.Collection of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum. Princeton, NJ
Manipulated, Gallery See, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
With a Trace: Photographs of Absence, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Department of Light Recordings, Section IV – Lens Drawings, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
2012
Surface Tension, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Materiality, HackelBury Fine Art, London
Photography and Ruin, New York Public Library, New York, NY
2010
A to B, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2009
Ron Moppett, Fred Herzog, Alison Rossiter, TrépanierBaer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2008
The Calibration of Chance, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Bureau de Change, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada
The Death of Photography, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2005
Several Artists Consider Books, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bibliotheca, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004
Light Bound, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Book Keepers, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada
2001
White, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2000
Stacks, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Infinite Possibilities, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Acquisitions, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1999
Artificial Nature, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Reading: Photographer’s Fascination with Books, Yancey Richardson, New York, NY
Landmarks, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Bodies of Work: Series and Obsessions, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Phenomena, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA
1997
Depth of Field, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
1996
All You See, Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Representatives, Centre for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Longing and Belonging, From the Faraway Nearby, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
1992
Banff Souvenir, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1991
Messages Sent/Received, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1986
Rossiter, McEachern, Fairfield, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
1984
Canadian Contemporary Photography, National Film Board, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1983
Common Objects-Different Modes, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1982
New Canadian Photography, Canadian Centre of Photography and Film, Toronto, Canada
Grants & Awards
2018
Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1996
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation for The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1983
Photography B Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1981
Photography Short Term Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Selected Collections
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
International Center for Photography, New York, NY
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Québec, Canada
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Wesleyan University, Davidson Art Center, Middletown, CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Selected Bibliography
2020
Knoblauch, Loring. “Alison Rossiter, Substance of Density, 1918-1948 @Yossi Milo.” Collector Daily 15 July, 2020
Kastner, Jeffrey. “Alison Rossiter.” Artforum 1 July, 2020
Rossiter, Alison. Compendium 1898-1919. Radius Books, New York Public Library and Yossi Milo: June 2020
Ritter, Zach. “Alison Rossiter:Substance of Density, 1918-1948.” The Brooklyn Rail 17 August, 2020
Sheets, Hilarie. “This Photographer Finds Beauty in Accidental Abstractions on Expired Photo Paper.” Introspective 4 April, 2020.
Green, Tyler. “No. 430: Alison Rossiter, David Maisel.” Modern Art Notes Podcast 30 January, 2020 [audio]
2019
The White Review Art Anthology The White Review: London July 2019
Hatfield, Zack. “Anna Atkins Refracted: Contemporary Works.” Artforum February 2019
2018
Smithson, Aline. "Alison Rossiter: The Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography." Lenscratch 7 December 2018
“Alison Rossiter Wins Shpilman Photography Prize.” Artforum 13 November 2018
Knoblauch, Loring, “Anna Atkins Refracted: Contemporary Works @New York Public Library.” Collector Daily 31 October 2018
Logan, Liz. “These Artists Are Changing the Nature of Landscape Photography.” Introspective 29 July, 2018
Ondrik, David. “Book Review: Expired Paper.” photo-eye 2 February 2018
2017
Rossiter, Alison. Expired Paper, Radius Books and Yossi Milo: September 2017 [book]
Torgoff, L-S. “The Opacity of the Medium: the Return of Photography as Trace.” Art Press September 2017
Jukić, Nina. “Works with Expired Photographic Paper.” Reset the Apparatus! May 2017
Anderson-Staley, Kelly. “The Photographer’s Lament: An Interview with Alison Rossiter.” Spot Spring 2017
2016
Rossiter, Alison. “The Darkroom.” Art in America October 2016
Batchen, Geoffrey. Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Prestel Publishing: New York 2016 [book]
Sonne auf Papier: Kunst / Experiment / Fotografie Städtische Galerie Nordhorn: Nordhorn 2016 [book]
Bloch, Judy, and Suzanne Stein, Ed. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360°: Views on the Collection SFMOMA: San Francisco 2016 [book]
Chickey, David, Ed. One Radius Books: November 2016. [book]
Crow, Kelly. “SFMOMA Stakes Out Photography.” Wall Street Journal 28 April 2016
Latimer, Bronwen. “Artistry and chemistry: A new way to look at the old practices of photography.” Washington Post 28 March 2016.
"Alison Rossiter: Reduction." Guide to Unique Photography 48 (2016): 82-93.
Dühren, Andreas van, Ed. TEXT: Issue 14 2016
2015
Harren, Natilee. “Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography.” Artforum. September 2015
Newman, Cheryl. “Secret traces: how expired photo paper caught the imagination of the art world.” The Telegraph 27 August 2015
Vellam, Nadia. “Vintage Photographs, Reinterpreted.” T Magazine 28 May 2015
Phillips, Christopher. “Experiments in Analog Photography.” The New Yorker 12 May 2015
Ollman, Leah. “’Light, Paper, Process’ an inventive subversion of photography,” Los Angeles Times 1 May 2015
Adamek, Pauline. “’Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography’ at the Getty – Los Angeles photo exhibition review.” Arts Beat LA 30 April 2015
Schoener, Allon. “Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography at The Getty.” Cultural Weekly 30 April 2015
Wallis, Brian. “’Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography.’” ArtForum 2015
Riefe, Jordan. “Lights! Camera! Bodily Fluids! Photographers bend the rules.” The Guardian 17 April 2015
Schwendener, Martha. “Alison Rossiter: ‘Paper Wait.’” The New York Times 17 April 2015
Keats, Jonathon. “Darkroom, Redux? Chemistry Bests Megapixels at the Getty’s New Photography Show.” Forbes 14 April 2015
Schwendener, Martha. “Alison Rossiter: ‘Paper Wait.’” The New York Times 9 April 2015
Larkin, Daniel. “A Black-and-White Gallery Tour of Chelsea.” Hyperallergic 2 April 2015
Nazarevskaia, Kristina. “In her new show Alison Rossiter focuses on geometry.” galleryIntell 2 April 2015
Comstock, Lindsay. “The 10 Best New Photography Exhibits of Spring 2015.” American Photo 30 March 2015
Knoblauch, Loring. “Alison Rossiter, Paper Wait @ Yossi Milo.” Collector Daily 31 March 2015
“Alison Rossiter [review].” The New Yorker 24 March 2015
Gauss, Daniel. “Paper Wait by Alison Rossiter at Yossi Milo Gallery.” ArteFuse 5 March 2015
2014
Rocco, Vanessa. “What Is a Photograph?” caa.reviews 19 November 2014
Nunes, Andrew. “No Cameras Necessary: 8 Camera-Less Photographers You Need to Know.” The Creators Project 30 June 2014
Robertson, Rebecca. “A Developing Love Affair with Film.” ARTnews February 2014
Rexer. Lyle. “A New Exhibition Asks, What Is a Photograph Anyway?” Time LightBox. 1.30.14
Johnson, Ken. “Digital, Analog and Waterlogged: ‘What is a Photograph?’ Opens at the I.C.P.” New York Times 30 January 2014
2013
“Expiry: Alison Rossiter,” The Photographer’s Gallery, 25 July 2013
“Discovery Award, 2013: Alison Rossiter.” Le Journal de la Photographie 7 July 2013
2012
“Adaptive Reuse: Artists Alison Rossiter and Stuart Rome Open Their Studio to Toujours.” Toujours Magazine April 2012
Schwendener, Martha. “Closing Generation Gaps.” The New York Times 29 March 2012
2011
Enright, Robert. “The Darkroom Alchemy of Alison Rossiter [Interview].” Border Crossings. Issue No. 119, 2011.
Fry, Naomi. “Original Model T’s – Alison Rossiter.” The New York Times Style Magazine. 8 August 2011.
Tousley, Nancy. “Darkroom Legacy: Alison Rossiter brings heirloom papers to the new world of photography.” Canadian Art. Spring 2011.
2010
Wise, Lloyd. “Alison Rossiter [review].” Artforum. December 2010.
“Alison Rossiter [review].” The New Yorker. 18 October 2010.
Witkovsky, Matthew. “Another History.” Artforum. March 2010.
2009
“Findings Section.” Harper’s Magazine. December 2009.
Clintberg, Mark. “Recording the Passage of Time.” BlackFlash. Spring/Summer 2009.
Dault, Gary Michael. “What one artist just felt like doing one day.” Globe and Mail. 9 May 2009.
Milroy, Sarah. “Memories, beyond Kodak moment.” Globe and Mail. 19 May 2009.
2008
Bryant, Eric. “The Indecisive Image.” Artnews. March 2008.