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THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW - 2026
Presented by AIPAD - Park Avenue Armory, New York April 22 - 26, 2026Read more -
Recent Arrivals: Expanding the Collection
September 6 - November 25, 2025Read more -
THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW
Presented by AIPAD - 2025 - Park Avenue Armory, New York April 20 - 27, 2025Read more -
This Is, This Is (1989-Now)
@ Ars Libri (500 Harrison Ave) and RKG (38 Newbury Street) February 27 - April 30, 2016Robert Klein Gallery is pleased to present This Is, this is (1989 - Now) , the gallery's sixth solo exhibition of photographs by New York artist BILL JACOBSON. This survey...Read more -
Bill Jacobson: Place (Series)
@ Robert Klein Gallery (38 Newbury Street) September 15 - October 27, 2012The exhibition includes a selection of prints from Place (Series) as well as a group of the photographer’s earliest work, taken with a plastic Diana camera in 1975 and 1976.Read more
"I’ve always loved looking. I still remember being five years old and staring out the window for the longest time. And it’s clearly this fascination that led me to pick up photography, combined with feeling alienated as a teenager. I probably used the act of looking, and recording, to create a connection with the world around me, to try to figure it all out. The camera was a license to travel both physically and mentally. Over time, it brought me many places and erased many of my fears."
Bill Jacobson has been making photographs for over forty years. Though his methods have varied considerably, the work is joined by underlying concerns with memory, perception, and the dialogue between absence and presence.
"There has always been a poetic stance in my work. Whether in focus or out, it’s never been about a single narrative, but rather something beneath the surface of what’s being photographed. And while there is a story here...that it’s fairly open-ended."
Bill Jacobson was born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1955. 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 in the US and Europe, and is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum; Whitney Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Brooklyn Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Victoria and Albert Museum, and many others.
Jacobson received fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2017, 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 seven residencies at MacDowell Colony and also attended Yaddo, Civitella Rainieri Foundation, Bogliasco Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Edward Albee Foundation. For the past decade he has taught in the ICP/Bard MFA program.
Six monographs have been published of Jacobson's work. The most recent, 945 Madison Avenue, is a survey of the building at that address following the Whitney Museum's departure and prior to the arrival of its new tenant, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Selected Collections:
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
International Museum of Photography, George
astman House, Rochester, NY
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
New York Public Library, New York, NY
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, NJ
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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Photographs
Bill Jacobson Bill Jacobson , 2005Hardcover , 96 pagesRead more
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
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A Series of Human Decisions
Bill Jacobson Bill Jacobson , 2009HardcoverRead more
Publisher: Decode Books
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Bill Jacobson: Place (Series)
Poem by Maureen N. McLane Bill Jacobson, 2015Paperback, 92 pagesRead more
Publisher: Radius Books
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Bill Jacobson: Place (Series)
Poem by Maureen N. Mclane Bill Jacobson, 2015Paperback, 92 pagesRead more
Publisher: Radius Books
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Bill Jacobson: 1989-1997
Bill Jacobson Bill Jacobson and Klaus Kertress, 1998Hardcover, 112 pagesRead more
Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Dimensions: 10 x 12.01 inches