Bio
b. San Jose, CA, 1968
Education
1994
B.A. University of California San Diego, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2018
Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
2016
A New American Picture, Jaffa Port International Photography Festival, Tel-Aviv, Israel
A New American Picture, Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA
2015
A New American Picture, Fresno Art Museum, CA
2012
A New American Picture, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2011
A New American Picture, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Consent: Complicating Agency in Photography, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2017
Space: On Urbanism, Anonymity, Street Life, Triennial of Photography, Hamburg, Germany
The Photographic I: The Pull of the World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
AnonimX: The End of the Privacy Era, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2016
I Wanted to Be a Photographer, Foto Colectania Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Public, Private, Secret, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
The Peeled Eye, Fotofocus Biennial 2016, Wave Pool, Cincinnati, OH
2015
A New American Picture, Landskrona Foto Festival 2015, Landskrona, Sweden
N.A., Noorderlicht Photofestival 2015, Groningen, The Netherlands
When we share more than ever, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Triennale of Photography Hamburg 2015, Germany
City Limit, The Journal, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Three Themes: Contemporary Connections with Paul Strand, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
2013
Surveying the Terrain, Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, Raleigh, NC
Classless Society, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Staking Claim: A California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Club, La Bourse du Travail, Les Recontres d’Arles, Arles, France
Head on Photo Festival, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2012
Publicly Private: Enrico Natali and Doug Rickard, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Aperture Remix, Aperture Gallery, New York, NY
Next Generation: Young American Photography, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany
Peripheral Views: States of America, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
America in View, Landscape Photography 1865 – Now, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Photographic!, Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, Korea
From Here On, FotoMuseum Provincie Anwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Cinema du Reel, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
RAY, +Making History, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Publicly Private: Enrico Natali and Doug Rickard, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2011
New Photography 2011, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Best Books of the Decade, PhotoIreland Festival, National Photographic Archive, Dublin, Ireland
No Direction Home, Head On Photo Festival, Depot II Gallery, Sydney, Australia
HERE., Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
From Here On, 42nd Edition of Les Recontres d’Arles, Arles, France
Idyll, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010
Anonymes – L’Amerique Sans Nom: Photographie et Cinema, Le Bal, Paris, France
Selected Collections
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
New York Public Library, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Selected Bibliography
2015
Rickard, Doug. All Eyes On Me. Nazraeli Press, CA, March 2015 [book]
Hau, Sebastian, and Bastian Tebath. "On Blurriness." The Lazlo Reader Volume 1. 2015.
Gefter, Philip. “This is a…Photograph?” Departures May/June 2015
Indrisek, Scott. “Doug Rickard Samples YouTube’s Chorus.” Blouin ArtInfo. 6 January 2015
2014
Rickard, Doug. N.A., Verlage Kettler, Germany/ D.A.P., New York, December 2014 [book]
Zhong, Fan. “Doug Rickard: N.A” W Magazine.com 12 December 2014
Horne, Rebecca. “What do these uploaded videos say about society?” CNN 25 September 2014
Higgins, Jackie. The World Atlas of Street Photography, Yale University Press, September 2014 [book]
“TIME Special Preview: A Guide to the Best Fall Photo Books.” TIME Lightbox 8 September 2014
Badger, Gerry. “Doug Rickard, N.A.” 1000 Words Photography Summer 2014
Buskirk, Martha. “Fair Game: Martha Buskirk on Networked Photography and Copyright.” Artforum Summer 2014
Jobey, Liz. “The Street’s a Stage.” FT Weekend Magazine 16 August 2014
Jacobs, Gideon. “The Internet is Overwhelming, So Photograph It.” Vice 25 March 2014
2013
Rickard, Doug. TOM Little Big Man, September 2013 [book]
“Doug Rickard: Simply Something Else.” Musée Magazine Nov/Dec 2013
Gamerman, Ellen. “The Art of Spying.” Wall Street Journal 12 September 2013
“The Photography of Doug Rickard,” news segment on KQED Public Media for Northern California/PBS News Hour, 29 October 2013
Thompson, Clive. “Vision Quest: Doug Aitken’s teach-fueled, all-night, glow-in-the-dark, cross-country, pop-art train ride.” Wired 20 June 2013
Chang, Chris. “Doug Rickard.” Art In America February 2013
Nader, Alexia. “Making Sense of Google Street Views.” The Nation 3 January 2013
2012
Woodward, Richard. “TIME’s Best of 2012: The Photobooks We Loved.” Time LightBox 24 December 2012
“The Best Books of 2012, Doug Rickard: A New American Picture.” PhotoEye Magazine December 2012
“Notable Photo Books of 2012, Doug Rickard: A New American Picture.” Photo District News December 2012
Jenkins, Karen. “Book Reviews: A New American Picture.” PhotoEye Blog November 19 2012
Miller, Sarah. “Mapmaker Mapmaker, Make Me a Map.” Trunk Magazine Fall/Winter 2012
Halle, Howard. “Doug Rickard, ‘A New American Picture.’” Time Out New York 22-28 November 2012
Garcia-Bustamante, Marcia. “Under the Influence of Aperture.” The New Yorker: Photo Booth 15 November 2012
Klapheke, Rachelle. “Doug Rickard’s Street View.” The New Yorker: Photo Booth 9 November 2012
Shuster, Robert. “The Google Riis, Doug Rickard: A New American Picture.” Village Voice 7 November 2012
“Goings on About Town, Doug Rickard.” The New Yorker 5 November 2012
Meyers, William. “Doug Rickard, A New American Picture.” The Wall Street Journal 3-4 November, 2012
Grinberg, Emanuella. “Artists ‘reimagine’ iconic photography.” CNN Living 30 October 2012
Steadman, Ryan. “Critics’ Pick, Doug Rickard.” Artforum International 11 October 2012
Roffino, Sara. “See Doug Rickard’s Google Street View-Inspired Art at Aperture and Yossi Milo” ArtInfo 5 October 2012
“Doug Rickard Presents A New American Picture at Yossi Milo Gallery” Actuphoto 4 October 2012
Rickard, Doug. “A New American Picture” Aperture/Koenig Books, London, September 2012
Barden, Lane. “Street With A View: Doug Rickard and Michael Wolf Appropriate the World.” Artillery Volume 6, Issue 6 July/August 2012
Warren. Lydia. “A Window on ‘forgotten’ America: More fascinating images of the country’s poorest communities from Good Street View Artist.” Mail Online 3 June 2012
Westgeest, Helen. “Digital Appropriation as Photographic Practice and Theory.” Depth of Field Volume 2, No. 1 June 2012
Galperina, Marina. “Revealing Street View Shots of America’s Invisible Communities.” Flavorwire 30 May 2012
Pyon, Kathy M.Y. “Framework: Capturing the World Through Photography, Video and Multimedia.” Los Angeles Times 23 April 2012
Bohnacker, Siobhán. “Artists at Work: Doug Rickard.” Afterall 18 April 2012
“A New American Picture: Tour Across the American Suburbia Following the Trike of Google Street View.” Abitare March 2012
Wright, Sophie. “The Whispering Minority: Doug Rickard’s ‘A New American Picture.’” Fourth and Main Spring/Summer 2012
Foster, John. “A New American Picture: Doug Rickard and Street Photography in the Age of Google.” Observatory: Design and Visual Culture 1 January 2012
2011
“A New American Picture: Doug Rickard Captures U.S. Poverty via Google Maps.” The Daily Beast December 2011
Appleyard, Bryan. “They’ve Been Framed.” The Sunday Times Magazine 12 November 2011
Brown, Kristen. “Doug Rickard: One Eye, 15 Lenses.” 5 x 12 18 November 2011
Johnson, Ken. “Exploring Truth (And Fiction) Through a Camera Lens.” The New York Times 13 October 2011
Ruttle, Caitlin. “Four Artists Rocking NYC Museums.” Artlog 27 October 2011
Graham, Paul. “20/20.” Frieze Magazine Issue 141, 23 September 2011
O’Toole, Erin. “A New American Picture: Streets of Heartbreak.” Foam Issue 27, Summer 2011
Norris, Scott. “Resdiscovering Photography at Three SF Galleries.” Art Culture: Contemporary Art, Innovation and Design 7 June 2011
Archer, Larissa. “Decaying, powerful scenes in ‘A New American Picture.’” San Francisco Examiner. 8 June 2011.
Baker, Kenneth. “’Haute’ at Silverman, Rickard at Stephen Wirtz.” San Francisco Chronicle. 4 June 2011.
Bowers, Keith. “First Thursday: Doug Rickard’s ‘A New American Picture’ Shows American Desolation.” SFWeekly. 5 May 2011.
Smyth, Diane. “The View from the Streets.” British Journal of Photography. 22 February 2011.
Badger, Gerry. “Anonymes.” AG Quarterly. Winter 2011.
2010
Rickard, Doug. A New American Picture. Cologne: White Press/Schaden, 2010.
Campany, David and Dufour, Diane. Anonymes – L’amerique sans nom: Photographie et cinema. London: Steidl, Paris: Le Bal, 2010.
Bertrand, Anne. “Opening of Le Bal, Paris. Anonymes. Unnamed America in Photography and Film.” Camera Austria. Issue 112, 2010.
Houghton, Max. “Paris Photo and Beyond.” Foto8. 2 December 2010.
Ladd, Jeff. “A New American Picture by Doug Rickard.” 5B4 Photography and Books. 30 November 2010.