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Education

1981

MFA in Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1977

BFA, Brown University, Providence, RI
Independent concentration in Art and American Studies, which included photography classes at
Rhode Island School of Design

Solo Exhibitions

2012

Place (Series) New Photographs, James Kelly Contemporary, Sante Fe, NM
Place (Series), Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA

2011

Into the Loving Nowhere (1989 till Now), Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2009

Some Planes, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
Bill Jacobson: New York, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
figure, water, land, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY
funny, cry, happy, Langhans Galerie, Prague
American Trip, 1974-1978 + A Series of Human Decisions, Exile, Berlin

2008

Some Planes, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2007

New Year’s Day, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
Interim Thoughts, and Others, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
Interim Thoughts, and Others, Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, Holland

2006

Bill Jacobson, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Bill Jacobson: Photographs,Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA

2005

Bill Jacobson: funny, cry, happy, Milliken, Stockholm
Bill Jacobson, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2003

New Year’s Day, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2002

New Colour Photographs, Rhodes + Mann, London
Bill Jacobson, Zinc Gallery, Stockholm
New Color Photographs, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
Dust to Dust, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001

New Photographs, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
New Work, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA

2000

Portraits, Songs, Thoughts: Photographs by Bill Jacobson, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Thought Series Photographs: 1993-1999, Rhodes + Mann, London
Photographs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Portraits, Songs, Thoughts (1992-1998), Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX

1999

Bill Jacobson, Zinc Gallery, Stockholm
Bill Jacobson, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
Interim Songs & Thoughts, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Portraits, Songs, Thoughts, University Art Museum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1998

Portraits, Songs, Thoughts, Rupertinum Museum, Salzburg, Austria
Thought Series, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1997

Bill Jacobson, Galerie H.S. Steinek, Vienna, Austria
Bill Jacobson, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1996

Songs of Sentient Beings, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Songs of Sentient Beings Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Recent Photographs, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO

1995

Interim Portraits + Figures, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bill Jacobson, Jamison Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
Recent Work, Photographers’ Gallery, London

1994

Photographs, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Bill Jacobson: Photographs, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

1993

Recent Photographs from the Interim Series, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Taos Pictures, Da’Vera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1981

The Raoul Series: Pages from A Diary, OS Gallery, Seattle, WA

1980

Two gay boys seek others for a good time, The Ambush, San Francisco, CA (site-specific installation)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013

The Art of Renewal, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Tracing the Fish Bladder, Radiator Arts, Long Island City, NY
Thanks For The Warning, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Encuentros, Beatriz Esguerra Arte, Bogota, Colombia

2012

Repeat, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
The Perfect Storm, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Do or Die: The Human Condition in Painting and Photography, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum , Dresden, Germany, catalogue

2011

The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, book
Unscharf. After Gerhard Richter, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, catalogue
The Garden, Allan Nederpelt, Brooklyn, NY
Fabric as Form, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
25 Years/25 Artists, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Mighty Tacoma, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Pictures are Words Not Known, Lishui Museum of Photography, Lishui, China

2010-11

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, catalogue Travels to The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY and Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Recollection: Thirty Years of Photography, The New York Public Library, New York, NY

2010

Incognito: The Hidden Self-Portrait, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Open Season, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Surroundings, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, KS
Object Lesson, curated by Vince Aletti, New York Photography Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Wall to Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Do or Die: The Human Condition in Painting and Photography, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne, Germany, catalogue

2009

Heads, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
All Roads Lead to Coney Island, A. M. Richards Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
Underwater, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
Windows and Mirrors, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2008

Male, An Exhibition of Work from the Collection of Vince Aletti, White Columns, New York, NY; travels to
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, book
Modern Photographs: The Machine, The Body, and the City, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, catalogue
Darkside 1, Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed, Photomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland, book

2007

Wall House #2, Thought Provoking, Sense Provoking, Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, Holland, catalogue
Mystery, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
A New York Picture Post: Gotham in the Twentieth Century, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
OOG-EYE, Foam, Amsterdam

2006

In Sight, Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Home is Where the Art Is, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Modern Photographs: The Machine, The Body, and the City, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, catalogue
Sans Regard, Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
Fifteen and 1/2, G.Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Horrors of War, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

2005

In Focus, Contemporary Photography from the Allen G. Thomas Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
New to View, Recent Acquisitions of Photography, Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA
Group Exhibition, Hamiltons, London
New Art. New York: Reflections On The Human Condition, Trierenberg Holding AG, Traun, Austria
Double Exposure. Galeria 2000, Nurnberg, Germany and Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Landscape as Metaphor, Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany, catalogue
Solitude and Focus, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, catalogue
The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fawbush Editions, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Home Again, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA

2004

Il Nudo, Ideale e Realta, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy, catalogue
Hidden Histories, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England, catalogue

2003

Double Exposure, Edition Schellmann, New York, NY. Travels to G Fine Art Washington, DC;
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA; Galerie Graff, Montreal
Photographs: Re-examining the Male and Female Nude, Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Scenery, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Blurred, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Visions and Revisions, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Fleshtones: 100 Years of the Nude, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Art Museum, Bowdoin, Maine. Travels to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, KS, and Austin Museum of Art, Austin TX(2004), catalogue
Boys of Summer, ClampArt, New York, NY
By The Sea, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY

2002

Urban Visions, The St. James Group Ltd Photography Prize 2002, Flowers East Gallery, London, catalogue
Blurred Image, Winston Wachter Mayer Fine Art, New York, NY
Escaping the Vault: The Contemporary Museum’s Collection Breaks Out, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Fiat Lux, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
A Matter of Degree: Abstraction in Twentieth-Century Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Everyman, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, catalogue
The Other Face, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany, catalogue

2001

The Human Figure in Photography, 1843-2000: Selections from the Grunwald Center Collection,
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Secret Victorians, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, catalogue
Size Matters, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY
Portraits: Real and Imaginary, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Rocks and Trees, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA
Digital Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, catalogue

2000

Surviving the Photograph, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ
The Liminal Body, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia, catalogue
Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography, Contemporary Arts Center,
New Orleans, LA , catalogue
Focused Reality, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
In Black and White, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Fusion, Rhodes & Mann, London, catalogue
Rapture, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, catalogue
Breathless! Photography and Time, Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Catalogue published by Aperture
Photographs from the ’90s, Anita Friedman Gallery, New York, NY

1999

Photography: An Expanded View, Recent Acquisitions, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Photography: An Expanded View, Recent Acquisitions, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Ex-Change, La Criee, Rennes, France
Humidity, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Female, curated by Vince Aletti, Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY
Calendar 2000, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, catalogue
The American Century, Part III: 1968-1999, James Danziger Gallery, New York, NY, book published
The Full Monty, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Reading, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
American Pictorialism: From Steiglitz to Today, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Full Exposure: Contemporary Photography, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
An American Century of Photography, Hallmark Collection, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Travels to
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, book published
The Emerging Image: Selected Contemporary Photographers, The Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
Distortion, Anna Kustera, New York, NY
Winter, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
View From Within, Hales Gallery, London
Secret Victorians, Armand Hammer Museum, CA, catalogue.
Assumed Identity, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
The Body and the Lens: Photography 1839 to the Present, Newcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1998

The Body Photographed, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Male, curated by Vince Aletti, Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY
The Masque, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England. Travels to Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, England.
Secret Victorians. Firstsite, Colchester, England. Travels throughout England to Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol;
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Middlesborough Art Gallery, Middlesborough, catalogue
Versus 2000, Museion (Museo d’Arte Modern), Bolzano, Italy, catalogue
Winter, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Preludes, Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1997

Water, PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY
Selected Artists from the Julie Saul Gallery, Montgomery Glasoe, Minneapolis, MN
Brooklyn, NY, USA, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
Oceans and Galaxies: Traditional Pathways to the Infinite, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
Fracturing the Gaze, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX
The Portrait As Object/The Figure As Ground, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Disappeared, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

1996

Contemporary Photographs From the Museum Collection, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Illustrious History 1871 – Present, San Francisco Art Institute, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York,
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, catalogue
Photographs of Hands From the Collection of Henry Buhl, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, catalogue
A Centennial Exposed 1896-1996, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Prospect ’96, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, catalogue
Time Wise, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Out Takes: Obscure Works By Gallery Artists, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1995

100 Years, 100 Pictures, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, catalogue
I Wish, I Wish, Photographers’ Gallery, London
Fact, Fiction and Truth: Contemporary Portraits, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Desire, The Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki, Finland. Travels to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, catalogue
Spirit & Loss, Fotofeis, Glasgow, Scotland, catalogue
Large Bodies, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY
The Photographic Condition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Book Show, A New Direction, The Warren Street Gallery, Hudson, NY
Faggots: A Communique from North America, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, University of Buenos Aires
White, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1994

Don’t Leave Me This Way; Art in the Age of AIDS, National Gallery of Australia, Camberra, Australia
Desire (benefit exhibition for DIFFA), Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Present Future , Jane Jackson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Herve Charles and Bill Jacobson, L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
American Photography: A History In Pictures, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
The Psycho-Pathology of Everyday Life, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Absence, Activism and the Body Politic, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
The Kiss, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Truth Be Told: It’s All About Love, Lennon Weinberg, New York, NY
Natural Selection, Carl D’Aquino, New York, NY
Life, Love, Death: Ten Years of Photography About AIDS, FNAC,Paris.Three year traveling exhibit
throughout Europe, catalogue

1993

Guest Room, Achim Kubinsky Gallery, New York, NY
Jim Hodges and Bill Jacobson, Paul Morris Fine Art, New York, NY
Summer Selections, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Snap, Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York, NY
Forever, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY
Oliver Herring, Bill Jacobson, Scott Lifschutz, Kristin Oppenheim, Maura Sheehan,
Simon Watson’s Living Room, New York, NY

1992

Sex and Death, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY

1991

Photography Invitational, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY
Military, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Max Fish, New York, NY

1987

Thought Objects, Cash Newhouse Gallery, New York, NY, catalogue

1985

Sleep, Mascot Studio, New York, NY

1984

Photographic Salon, Defacto Gallery, New York, NY
The Pool Show, Mascot Studio, New York, NY
A More Store, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY

1983

Terminal New York Show, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY

1981

The Revealing Image, 544 Natoma Gallery, San Francisco, CA catalogue
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA catalogue

Awards and Residencies

2012 – Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

2010 – Artist’s residency, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

2008 – Artist’s residency, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

2004 – Artist’s residency, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

2002 – Artist’s residency, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

2000 – Artist’s residency, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1999 – Artist in Residence, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1997 – Artist’s residency Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY

1996 – Artist’s residency MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1995 – Photographer’s Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Foundation, New York, NY

1994 – Photographer’s Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts

1994 – Artist’s Residency, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

1989 – Artist’s residency, The Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY

Teaching Experience

2008-present

Graduate Faculty, International Center of Photography/ICP Bard program, New York, NY

2006

Graduate Master Class, International Center of Photography/ICP Bard program, New York, NY

1999-2004

Weekend workshops, International Center of Photography, New York, NY

Bibliography

Monographs

Bill Jacobson, A Series of Human Decisions (interview with Ian Berry), Decode Books, Seattle, 2009
Bill Jacobson Photographs (essay by Eugenia Parry), Hatje Cantz Publishers, Stuttgart, 2005
Bill Jacobson, 1989-1997, (story by Klaus Kertess), Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, 1998

Selected Book, Catalogue, and Magazine Reproduction

Best of the Northwest: Selected Works from Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, 2012
Gerhard Richter Au Centre Pompidou, Beaux Arts (editions), 2012
Hunt, W.M., The Unseen Eye, Aperture, 2012
Breaking Through, Tricycle (The Buddhist Review), Summer, 2012
Unscharf. After Gerhard Richter, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2011
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 2010
Do or Die: The Human Condition in Painting and Photography, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne, Germany, 2010
Dear Dave, Issue #6, Winter 2009
Bomb (First Proof, Literary Supplement), Number 107, Spring 2009, portfolio published with text by Ian Berry
Darkside 1, Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed, Photomuseum Winterthur/Steidl, 2008
Male, PPP Editions, in association with Andrew Roth Inc., New York, 2008
Modern Photographs: The Machine, The Body, and the City, Miami Art Museum, Miami, 2008
Borhan, Pierre, Hommes Pour Hommes (Men for Men), Touguna Conseil et Editions, Paris, 2007
Wall House #2, Thought Provoking, Sense Provoking, Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, Holland, 2007
ARTWORKS, The Progressive Collection, Distributed Art Publishers, New York, 2007
Noble, Laura, The Art of Collecting Photography, AVA Publishing, Lausanne, 2006
Landscape as Metaphor, Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany, 2005
Petry, Michael, Hidden Histories, Art Media Press, London, 2004
Il Nudo, Ideale e Realta, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy, 2004
The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin, Maine, 2004
Pandemic: Facing AIDS, Umbridge Editions, New York, 2003
The New York Times Magazine, August 25, 2002
Bomb, Summer 2002, front cover photograph
The Other Face, Metamorphoses of the Photographic Portrait, Deutsches Museum, Munich, 2002
The New York Times Magazine, November 11, 2001
The New York Times Magazine, October 14, 2001
Manger/Eat, Coromandel Editions, New York/Geneva, 2001
Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 2001
Desire, Edition Oehrli/Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany, 2001
Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Columbia University’s School of the Arts, New York, 2001
Face, Zinc Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2001
Nest, A Quarterly of Interiors, Summer 2000 (pp 90-97)
The Liminal Body, Australian Center of Phtography, 2000
21^st, The Journal of Contemporary Photography, Volume Two, Leo & Wolfe, Brewster, MA, 1999
An American Century of Photography, From Dry-Plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1998
Versus 2000, Museion (Museo d’Arte Modern), Bolzano, Italy, 1998
American Photographs, 1900/2000, Assouline, New York, 2000
Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Ewing, William. Love and Desire, Chronicle Books, San Francisco,1999
Bright, Deborah. The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire, Routledge, London/New York, 1998
Sabau, Luminita. The Promise of Photography: The DG Bank Collection, Prestel, Munich, 1998
New Art, Harry Abrams, New York, 1997
Brent Ingram, Gordon, Anne-Marie Bouthillette and Yolanda Retter, eds., Queers in Space, Bay Press, Seattle, Washington, 1997
See, A Journal of Visual Culture, Issue 2:2, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, 1996
Prospect ’96, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, 1996
Groff, David and Richard Berman, eds., Whitman’s Men: Walt Whitman’s Calamus Poems Celebrated by Contemporary Photographers, Universe Publishing, New York, 1996
Collection in Context, Photographs of Hands from the Collection of Henry Buhl, Thread Waxing Space, 1996
Creative Camera, December-January 1995 (cover, pp. 14-19)
Weiermair, Peter. 100 Years, 100 Pictures, Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 1995
Cooper, Emmanuel. Fully Exposed, The Male Nude in Photography, London/New York: Routledge, 1995
Desire, Visionaire 12, New York, 1994
Thought Objects, Just Another Assshole 7, New York, 1987

Selected Reviews

Weidemen, Paul. “All The Right Angles”, Pasatiempo (The New Mexican), April 6-12, 2012, page 44-46
Lindvay, Jaimee. “Bill Jacobson: A Series of Human Decisions”, Afterimage, Issue 37.6, page 34
Aletti, Vince. “Photo Books”, photograph, September/October, 2009
Lledo, Elena. “Bill Jacobson”, Exit Express (Madrid), #44 May 2009
McQuaid, Cate. “BILL JACOBSON: Some Planes”, The Boston Globe, April 29, 2009
Wolin, Joseph. “Bill Jacobson, Some Planes”, Time Out, December 11-17, 2008
“Bill Jacobson”, The New Yorker, December 8, 2008
Holtzman, Anna. “Bill Jacobson, ‘Interim Thoughts and Others at Trafic Frac haute-Normandie’”
Eyemazing, Issue 2, 2007
McQuaid, Cate. Arts & Reviews, “Bill Jacobson”, The Boston Globe, February 2, 2006
Rexer, Lyle. “The Arbus Effect”, Art on Paper, January/February 2004
McQuaid, Cate. “Communing With The Ghosts of Technology Past and Present”,
Boston Sunday Globe, November 2, 2003
Aletti, Vince. “Bill Jacobson”, Village Voice, October 29, 2003
Widdicombe. Ben. “Private Eye”, Art & Auction, November 2002
Hubbard, Sue. “Loss and Gain”, Art Review (UK), October 2002
“Bill Jacobson at Rhodes + Mann”, Pluk (UK), October 2002
Jones, Jonathan. “Bill Jacobson: Thought Series Photographs, 1993-1999″,
Contemporary Visual Arts (UK), October, 2000
McQuaid, Cate. “Bill Jacobson”, Art News, October 1999
Pollack, Barbara, “Summer Reading”, Art News, October 1999
Princenthal, Nancy. Art in America, February 1999
Saltz, Jerry. “Finders & Keepers”, Village Voice, June 1, 1999
Curren, Jenny. “Museum exhibits Jacobson”, Michigan Daily, February 22, 1999
Aletti, Vince. “The Season’s Best Photo Books”, Village Voice, December 15, 1998
Cary Parkes, James. “Fade to Gay”, Gay Times (London), October 1998
Chase, Clifford. “Ghosts in the Machine”, POZ, October 1998
“Bill Jacobson”, American Photographer, February 1997
Duffy, Robert. “Through A Mist, Beautifully”, St. Louis Post Dispatch, June, 1996
Arning, Bill. “Songs of Sentient Beings”, Time Out, March 12-20, 1996
Aletti, Vince. “Not Fade Away”, Village Voice, March 5, 1996
Hagen, Charles. “Bill Jacobson”, New York Times, March 8, 1996
Aletti, Vince. “Fade Out”, Village Voice, January 1996
Fitzpatrick, Laurie. “Bill Jacobson: Interim Worlds”, Art & Understanding, November 1995
Watney, Simon. “Bill Jacobson at Photographer’s Gallery”, Artforum, April 1995
Aukeman, Anastasia. “Bill Jacobson, Coming Together and Letting Go”, On The Edge, ARTnews, October 1995
Hagen, Charles. “Large Bodies”, Pace MacGill Gallery, New York Times, July 28, 1995
Baker, Kenneth. Blurred Photo Images Expose Shadowy Pain”, San Francisco Chronicle, May 27, 1995
Bonetti, David. “Gallery Watch”, San Francisco Examiner, May 25, 1995
Creative Camera, “Bill Jacobson”, December/January 1995
Visionaire, “Desire”, Fall 1994
Bickerton, Jane. “Present Future”, Art Papers, July/August, 1994.
Matis, Gretchen. “Artists’ Passionate Opinions Sear Through Color Photos”,
The Atlanta Journal Constitution, April 1, 1994
Aletti, Vince. “Choices”,Village Voice, June 1994
Wolin, Joe. “Virtual Reality: Portraits of America”, Luna Cornea (Mexico City), Volume #3, 1993
Hirsh, David. “Bill Jacobson at Grey Gallery”, New York Native, November 1, 1993
Aletti, Vince. “Choices”, Village Voice, August 10, 1993
Aletti, Vince. “Choices”, Village Voice, May 5, 1993
Hagen, Charles. “Snap!” Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York Times, July 16, 1993
Aletti, Vince. “Choices”, Village Voice, July 30, 1991

Public and Corporate Collections

Bank of America, London, England
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
DG Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Fond National d’Art Contemporain, France
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL
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
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Spencer Art Museum, Lawrence, KS
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY