SHELLBURNE THURBER

One Person Exhibitions 

2019

. Phantom Limb, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA September-October

2015

• Looking for Saint-Gaudens, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, NH, Summer

2011

• 9 Wellington Street, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA March-April

2004

• Bloomberg Space, London, UK, August–September

• Participant, Inc., New York City, NY, March

2002

• Renovation, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA, September–November

• Elias Fine Art, Allston, MA, September–October

2001

• Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, Summer

• Stark Gallery, New York, NY April–May

2000

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, December–January

• Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston, MA, October–January

• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April

1999

• Home, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, September–October

1998

• Elias Fine Art, Allston, MA, September

1997

• Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, November

1996

• Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY, September–October

1994

• Clark University, Worcester, MA, February

1990

• Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, December

1989

• Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, November

• Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA, March

1988

• Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, November

1986        

• Chapel Gallery, Newton, MA, February

1984

• The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, May

1983

• The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, July

Group Exhibitions

2020

. New Viewings, curated by Stephen Hepworth, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DE

2019

. Uncovered: Selected Works from the Collection, Museum of Art, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

2018

. Seeking Stillness, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2016

• Walls and Beams, Rooms and Dreams: Images of Home, Addison Gallery of Art, Andover , MA, January-July 2016

2014

• Mereology, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, December- January 2015

• Provincetown Fine Art Workshop, Provincetown, MA, New Faculty Show, June

2013

• 2Q13 Women Artists, Women Collectors, Lloyd’s Club, London, Fall, curated by Marcelle Joseph and Lydia Cowperwaith

• The Way of the Shovel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, November –March

• Serface- Summer Group Show, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, summer

2011

• Alumni Invitational 3, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, March-August

2010

• Psychological Interior, Gallery Out of Place, Tokyo, Japan, October

• Moving Patterns, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, Summer

2009

• Familiar Feelings: On The Boston Group, Centro Galego De Arte Contemporanea, Fall

2007

• Information, Insight, Interruption, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, September- October

• At Work, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA, September- October

• People Take Pictures of Each Other, organized by Robert Nickas, Lamontagne Gallery,September- October

2006

• The Couch: Thinking in Repose, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria, May–November*

• Director’s Choice: Chris McCarthy Curates Two Boston Photographers: Morgan Cohen & Shellburne Thurber, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, September–October

• Summer Group Show, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, June–August

• Reality/Play, Orchard, New York, NY, June

• Information Insight Interruption, Hallspace, Roxbury, MA, February–March

• Arbor, Judy Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA, January

2005

• Places of the Spirit, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA, June–September

2003

• Family Ties, The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, June–September

• Treat Yourself, The London Science Museum, London, UK, Summer

• Places of the Spirit, organized by the Lake Placid Institute

  The Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, Summer, travels to

  The Society for the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, November–December

  The Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, CT, June–July 2004

• Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, November–January 2004

2002

• This is Then, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, November–February 2003

• Illuminations, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY, March–April

2001

• House: Charged Space, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Newton, MA, June–September

• BuildingDwellingThinking, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA, June

• Rocks+Trees, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, April–May

• Photosynthesis: Recent Developments in Contemporary Photography, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, January–March, travels to

  Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, April–July

2000

• Photography in Boston: 1955–1985, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, October–January

• Interiors, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, September–November

1999

• A Range of Views, The Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October

• Playing off Time: Contemporary Photographers in Dialogue with the Past, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT September–January

• The Greatest Shows on Earth, Apex Art, NY, June

• Jim Dow & Shellburne Thurber, Escuela Nacional de Fotografo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June

• Domesticated, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, June

• Collectors Collect Contemporary 1990–99, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, April-May

• Building Representation: Photography & Architecture, Contemporary Interactions, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

1998

• Spectacular Optical, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, June–July travels to: Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL; CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado at Boulder, September–November

• Domain, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, February–March

• Kind of Blue: A Salon Show, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA, February

1997

• Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975 to Now, Nicole Klagsbrun, curator, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA, April

• Face and Figure, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Winter 1996–7

1996

• Pictures of Modern Life, École des Beaux–Arts, Tours, France, December

• Pictures of Modern Life, Gallerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium, June

1995

• Boston School, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, Fall–Winter

• Camera Craft, Beth Urdang / Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA, Fall

• Norfolk 95, Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT, Summer

1993

• Galerie FNAC–Montparnasse, Paris, France, Fall

• Four Photographers, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA, January

• Inhabited Spaces, Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Winter

1992

• Gifts of Compassion: the Judith Fields Alviani Memorial Exhibition, Miller/Block Fine Arts, Boston, MA, April

• New England Photographers, ‘92, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, April

• Currents ‘92: The Absent Body, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, Winter

1991

• National Color Photography Invitational, Pennsylvania School of Art and Design,Lancaster, PA, September

• New American Talent: The Seventh Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, May

• 4th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, April

1990

• Multiples, Chastain Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Fall

• Modern Life, The Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY, May

• Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA, January

1989

• Witnesses Against Our Vanishing, Artist’s Space, New York, NY, December

• New Portraiture, Clarence Kennedy Gallery, Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA, February

1988

• New Works Gallery, University of Illinois at Chicago, September

• Recent Realities, Clary–Miner Gallery, Buffalo, NY, May

• Social Life, The Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY, May

• Photography ‘88, Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Dorchester, MA, April

1987

• Interior Spaces–Work by Contemporary New England Artists, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, Fall

1986

• Fact, Fiction, Fragment, Fetish, Stux Gallery, Boston, MA, December

1985

• Portraits: Artists by Artists, Montserrat School of Visual Art, Beverly, MA, October

• Boston Now–Photography, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, Summer

• Images from the Photography Collection, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, January

1984

• The Road Show–Documents and Metaphors, The Photographic Archives, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, April

1983

• Museum School Travelling Fellowship Winners, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, June

• A Reasonable Likeness–Contemporary Portraits, The Photographic Archives, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February

Bibliography: Reviews and Articles

. Cate McQuaid, “Phantom Limb”, Boston Globe, October 16, 2019

. Susan Boulanger, “Shellburne Thurber: Phantom Limb”, Art New England, November/December 2019

• Cate McQuaid, “Luring the eye to something beyond”, Boston Globe, April 13, 2011

• Caroline Cunningham, “Artistry: Love Among The Ruins”, New England Home, January/February 2010

• Christine, Temin, “A Soulful Look at Spiritual Sites,” The Boston Globe, June 22, 2005

• Martin Coomer, "Shellburne Thurber," Time Out/ London, August 18­–25, 2004

• Martha Schwendener, "Shellburne Thurber," Art Forum, Summer, 2004

• Carrie Moyer, "A Sofa is Not Just a Sofa," Gay City, April 1–7, 2004

• Jerry Saltz, "Shrink–Wrapped," The Village Voice, March 29, 2004

• David Bonetti, "Shellburne Thurber at the Boston Athenaeum,” Art in America, April 2003

• Joanne Silver, “Photos catalog Athenaeum’s loveliness,” The Boston Herald, October 11, 2002

• Christine Temin, “All over town, visual artists have a way with words,” The Boston Globe, October 6, 2002

• Christine Temin, “Thurber wins prize,” The Boston Globe, December 13, 2000

• Joanne Silver, “Thurber’s photos find treasures in empty rooms,” The Boston Herald, December 8, 2000

• Vince Alletti, “Air–conditioned interiors,” The Village Voice, August 22, 2000

• Ken Johnson, “Air–conditioned interiors,” The New York Times, August 11, 2000

• Christine Temin, “In therapist’s offices, light among shadows,” The Boston Globe, April 14, 2000

• Christine Temin, “Thurber, Hodges limn a landscape of loss,” The Boston Globe, September 10, 1999

• Joanne Silver, “Spirits lights way in ‘Home’,” The Boston Herald, September 10, 1999

• Joanne Silver, “Home is where the art is,” The Boston Herald, July 9, 1999

• Miles Unger, “Shellburne Thurber: Home,” Art New England, December 1999/January 2000

• Christine Temin, “Collector’s best of the ‘90s,” The Boston Globe, April 2, 1999

• Joanne Silver, “Passion, power mark ICA show,” The Boston Herald, April 2, 1999,p.S9

• Christine Temin, “Four shows offer Harvard’s photographic memories,” The Boston Globe, April 4 1999, p. N2

• Anne Wilson Lloyd, “Shellburne Thurber at Elias Fine Art,” Art in America, January, 1999, p. 109

• Jane D. Marsching, “Room: Photographs by Shellburne Thurber,” Art New England, December 1998/January 1999, p. 38

• Mary Sherman, “Thurber works in a room of her own,” The Boston Herald, October 25, 1999, p. 69

• Christine Temin, “‘Room’ examines the meaning of space,” The Boston Globe, October 9, 1998, p. D6

• Vince Aletti, “Shellburne Thurber,” The Village Voice, December 23, 1997

• Ken Johnson, “Shellburne Thurber,” The New York Times, December 12, 1997

• Jane Harris, “Shellburne Thurber,” Review, October 15, 1996, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Susan Inglett Gallery)

• Linda Yablonsky, “Shellburne Thurber,” Time Out, New York, September 11–18, 1996, Issue No. 51 (Susan Inglett Gallery)

• Brooks Adams “New Humanist Photography,” Print Collector’s Newsletter, May/June, 1996, Vol. 27, No. 2

• Vicki Goldberg, “Intimate Snapshots from the Underground,” The New York Times, nDecember 24, 1995 (Boston School, ICA Boston)

• Roland Tan, “Tracing Boston’s Gay Art Culture,” The Harvard Crimson, October, 1995 (“Boston School,” ICA Boston)

• Shawn Hill, “Making the Scene,” Bay Windows, October 26–November 1, 1995, Vol. 13(“Boston School,” ICA Boston and “Camera Craft,” Urdang/Goldman)

• Christine Temin, “Before AIDS Remade the World,” The Boston Globe, October 24, 1995(“Boston School,” ICA Boston)

• Shawn Hill, “School’ Days,” The TAB, Oct. 24–30, 1995, (“Boston School,” ICA Boston)

• Miles Unger, “Artificial Reality: Photography Today,” Art New England, Feb.–Mar., 1993, Vol. 14, No. 2 (“Inhabited Spaces,” Marquit)

• Joanne Silver, “‘Compassion’ Captures Women in Mourning,” The Boston Herald, April 24, 1992 (“Gifts of Compassion: Alviani Memorial Exhibition,” Miller Block)

• Nancy Stapen, “Fresh Talent, A Timely Theme,” The Boston Globe, January 24, 1992 (“Currents ‘92: The Absent Body,” ICA Boston)

• Cate McQuaid, “Missing Persons,” Boston Phoenix, January 24, 1992 (Currents ‘92: The Absent Body, ICA Boston)

• Kelly Spencer, “Notable Absences,” South End News, January 30, 1991 (“Currents ‘92: The Absent Body,” ICA Boston)

• Laura C. Lieberman, “Once is Not Enough,” Afterimage, December, 1990, (“Multiples,” Nexus Gallery and Chastain Art Gallery)

• John Russell, “Images of Grief and Rage in Exhibition on AIDS,” The New York Times, November 16, 1989, (“Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing,” Artists Space)

• Paul Richard, “Witnesses: Testimony to the Power of an Age–Old Taboo,” The Washington Post, November 16, 1989, (“Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing,” Artists Space)

• Suzanne Muchnic, “Witnesses’ Show Present AIDS as a Complex Issue,” Los Angeles Times, November 16, 1989, (“Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing,” Artists Space)

• Tom Frick, “Shellburne Thurber at Chapel,” Art in America, October, 1986

Bibliography: Catalogues and Publications

• The Way of the Shovel: On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art, 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois

• Familiar Feeliings: On the Boston Group, 2009, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

• Divan, 3-4/2006, Tidskrift for psykoanalys och kultur, Stockholm, Sweden

• Die Couch: Von Denken im Liegen, 2006, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria

• Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death, 2006, Laura Tanner, Cornell University Press

• October 113, Summer 2005, New York, NY

• Southern Cultures, Fall 2004, UNC Center for the Study of the American South, Chapel Hill, NC

• Nanoscopic Culture, 2003, National Institute of Medical Research, London, UK

• Undomesticated Interiors, 2003, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton,, MA

• Places of the Spirit, 2003, The Lake Placid Institute, Lake Placid, NY

• Family Ties: A Contemporary Perspective, 2003, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

• Renovation: Photographs by Shellburne Thurber, 2002, The Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA

• The Georgia Review, Fall 2001, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA

• Photosynthesis: Recent Developments in Contemporary Photography, 2001, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL

• Interiors, 2000, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

• Photography in Boston: 1955–1985, 2000, Lafo & Nagler, eds., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA

• Home: Photographs by Shellburne Thurber, 1999, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

• Playing off Time: Contemporary Photographers in Dialogue with the Past, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

• Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990–1999, 1999, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

• Spectacular Optical, 1998 Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

• Pictures of Modern Life, 1996, Gallerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

• Boston School, 1995, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and Primal Media, Allston, MA

• New American Talent: The Seventh Exhibition, 1991, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX

• Fourth Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, 1991, Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA

• Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, 1989, Artists Space, New York, NY

• Boston Now: Photography, 1985, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Public Collections

• Addison Gallery, Philips Academy, Andover, MA

• BankBoston, Boston, MA

• Bates College, Lewiston, ME

• Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH

• DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA

• Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

• The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

• McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA

• Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA

• The Photographic Archives, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

• Polaroid Corporation Photographic Collection, Cambridge, MA

• Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Awards

• The Saint-Gaudens Special 50th Anniversaty Fellowship, Cornish, NH 2013- 2015

• Alpert/UCross Residency Prize, Alpert Award in the Arts, January 2005

• Purchase Award, Maud Morgan Prize, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA, December 2000

• Bunting Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,1999–2000

• Grant, Anonymous Was a Woman, New York, NY, 1996

• Honorarium (awarded by Jane Baum), Images Gallery, June 1991

• Rosalie Colligan Purchase Award, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, April 1991

• The Ellwood–Jonigan Fellowship, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, 1989

• Albert H. Whitin Travelling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, June 1983

Residencies

• The Boston Athenaeum, Artist–in–Residence, 1999–2000

• Moonhole Artist Residence, Bequia, 1997

• The Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc. Austerlitz, NY, 1989

Education

• School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

  • 1983 5th Year Graduate Program Certificate

  • 1982 Diploma

• Tufts University, Medford, MA

  • 1975 BFA

Teaching

• Massachusetts College of Art, Visiting Faculty, Photography Department, 1995–2013

• Tufts University, Visiting Faculty, Photography Department, 1994–1996