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Education

1982

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

1977

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

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2023

• when is a place, Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, Germany
• when is a place, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA

2022

• American Trip 1975, Tenderloin Museum, San Francisco, CA
• Into the Loving Nowhere, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019

• Regards, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

2018

• Bill Jacobson and Giorgio Morandi: Photographs and Drawings, Robert Morat Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2017

• figure, ground, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2016

• This is, this is, Robert Klein Gallery and Robert Klein Gallery at Ars Libri, Boston, MA

2015

• Lines In My Eyes, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
• Place (Series), Lines In My Eyes, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO

2012

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

2011

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

2010

• A Series of Human Decisions, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA

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, Germany

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, UK
• Bill Jacobson, Zinc Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
• 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, UK
• 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, Sweden
• 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, UK

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

• House of Photographs: The Kasakoff – Adams Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

2022

• Luna Cornea, Centro de la imagen, Mexico City, Mexico, catalogue
• Shaker Inspired, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY, catalogue
• Variance, RISD Museum, Providence, RI, catalogue
• Nature Morte, UNC Charlotte, College of Art and Architecture, and MINT Museum, Charlotte, NC

2021

• On and Off the Grid, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

2020

• Keeper of the Hearth / Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photographs, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
• To Make Visible: Art and Activism, 1980-2000, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

2019

• 50 Years since Stonewall, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
• newflesh, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
• Contemporary Sublime, The Photographic Collecting of William G. Butler, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
• 19 Years at 535, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
• Recent Acquisitions: Photography and Abstraction, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
• About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and the New Queer, Wrightwood 659, Chicago, IL
• Don’t Touch My Circles, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Shoulder to Shoulder: Depicting the Figure, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

2018

• Framing the City: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Art Museum, The Pennsylvania State College of Arts and Architecture, University Park, PA
• On Disappearing and Appearing; On the Ephemeral in Photography, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
• Nature Morte, Guildhall, London, UK, book
• The Nature Lab, LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY, catalogue
• Intimacy, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
• Greyish, Hiram Butler Gallery, New York, NY
• Earth, Wind and Water, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
• Billboards and Broadsides, LIU Humanities Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• The Body: Concealing and Revealing, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

2017

• Nature Morte, National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, book published
• Recent Acquisitions, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
• Apertures, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

2016

• Art AIDS America, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, catalogue
• The Last Picture Show, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
• High Summer, Michael Foley Gallery, New York, NY

2015

• Familiar—altered, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
• Art AIDS America, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, catalogue
• Personalities: Fantasy and Identity in Photography and New Media, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert, CA
• Terminal: On Mortality and Beauty, Photographic Center NW, Seattle, WA.
• still, museumORTH, Orth an der Donau, Austria. Travels to Haus der Kunst, Baden, Austria and Langenzersdorf Museum, Langenzersdorf, Austria
• Dear Dave, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
• Director’s Cut: Recent Photography Gifts to the NCMA, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
• Nature Morte, Ha Gamle Prestegard, Stavanger, Norway. Travels to Konsthallen-Bohuslans Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden

2014

• Private Eye: Allen G. Thomas Jr. Photography Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
• Permanency: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY
• The Thing Itself, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
• Stories in the Social Landscape, International Center of Photography Education Gallery, New York, NY
• Image Search: Photography from the Collection, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
• Outsiders: Facing the Camera, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

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
• Do or Die: The Human Condition in Painting and Photography, Deutsches Hygine Museam, Dresden, Germany, catalogue
• The Perfect Storm, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2011

• Unscharf. After Gerhard Richter, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, catalogue
• The Garden, Allen Nederpelt, Brooklyn, NY
• Fabric as Form, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
• 25 Years / 25 Artists, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, catalogue
• Mighty Tacoma, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
• Petite Mort, Recollections of a Queer Public, Forever & Today, New York, NY, book

2010

• Hide / Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC,

2011

• book published. Travels to The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2011) and Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (2012).
• 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, NL

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, UK
• 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
• Sans Regard, Recontre de la Photographie, Arles, France
• Embodiment, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

2004

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

2003

• Double Exposure, Edition Schellmann, New York, NY. Travels to G Fine Art Washington, DC; Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA; Galerie Graff, Montreal, Canada
• 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

• 2019  VCCA Moulin a Nef, Auvillar, France
• 2018  Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
• 2017  Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
• 2016  Artist’s residency, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
• 2014  Residential Fellowship, Bogliasco Foundation, Bogliasco, Italy
• 2013  Artist’s Residency, Civitella Reniera Foundation, Umbertide, Italy
• 2012  Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 2010  Artist’s residency, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
• 2009  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 – 2018

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

2006

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

1999-2004

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

Monographs by Bill Jacobson

• when is a place (text by Wayne Koestenbaum), L’Artiere, Bologna, 2023
• 945 Madison Avenue (text by David Deitcher), Some Planes Press, New York, 2017
• figure, ground, (texts by Bill Arning, Barbara Stehle, and Robert Gluck), Some Planes Press, New York, 2017
• Place (Series) (poem by Maureen N. McLane). Radius Books, Santa Fe, 2015.
• 48 Great Jones St (interview with Chris Wallace). 3.1 Phillip Lim, New York, 2014.
• A Series of Human Decisions(interview with Ian Berry). Decode Books, Seattle, 2009.
• Photographs (essay by Eugenia Parry). Hatje Cantz Publishers, Stuttgart, 2005.
• 1989-1997, (story by Klaus Kertess). Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, 1998

Selected Book, Catalogue, and Magazine Reproductions

• Manual, Issue 17, Spring / Summer, 2022, (in connection with the exhibition Variance at the RISD Museum), Providence, RI
• Agnes Martin – Independence of Mind, Radius Books (Santa Fe), 2022 (text by Jacobson about Agnes Martin)
• Centro De la Imagen 024, Luna Cornea 30 Anos, Mexico City, MX, 2022, catalogue cover
• Shaker Inspired, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY, 2022, catalogue cover, pg. 22-23
• Sesé, Marta. EXIT (no. 87 Portrait Typologies) Madrid, Spain, pg. 52-59
• New York Magazine, The 17^th Annual Reasons to Love New York, December 6-19, 2021, cover photograph
• Postdocument, Issue #16 (Date of Photograph), July 2021, pg. 14, 16, 35 and 49
• Aletti, Vince. Identity, Musée No. 24. 2021. pg. 76
• England, Odette. Keeper of the Hearth/Picturing Roland Barthes Unseen Photograph, Schilt Publishing (Amsterdam, NL) 2020, cover photograph.
• Hohe Luft. Das Philosophische Foto. Begriff: Minimalismus: Bill Jacobson,August 2020. pg. 70-71
• Newflesh, Light Factory, Charlotte, NC. Catalog published, 2019
• Newspaper, Volume five, Number Two, 2017
• Newspaper, Volume five, Number One, 2016
• Los Angeles Review of Books. Fall 2015
• Weiermair, Peter. still. NoART – Niederosterreich Gesellschaft fur Kunst und Kultur, St. Polten, Austria, 2015
• Roswell Angier. Train Your Gaze (second edition). Bloomsbury, London, UK and New York, NY, 2015, pg. 168-171
• The Jewel Thief. The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 2014, pg. 56-61
• Encuentros. Beatriz Esguerra Arte, Bogota, Colombia, 2013, pg. 7
• Petry, Michael. Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still-Life Tradition. Thames & Hudson, London, UK, 2013, pg. 152, 274, 375
• Eyemazing: The New Collectible Art Photography. Thames & Hudson, London, UK, 2013, pg. 25, 26, 214, 215
• The Naked & The Nude. Grafiche Dell’artiere, Bologna, IT, 2013
• Why It Does Not Have to be in Focus. Prestel, London, UK, 2013, pg. 199
• S. F. Jazz 2012. TBW Books, Oakland, CA, 2012
• Hunt, WM. The Unseen Eye. Aperture, New York, NY, 2012
• Gerhard Richter Au Centre Pompidou. Beaux Arts (editions), 2012
• Tricycle (The Buddhist Review). Summer, 2012, pg. 80 – 83
• Lubin-Levy, Joshua & Mota, Carlos. PETITE MORTE, Recollections of a Queer Public. Forever & Today Inc, 2011, pg. 26-27
• Unscharf. After Gerhard Richter. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2011
• 25 Years, 25 Artists. Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, 2011. catalogue
• Katz, Jonathan and Ward, David. Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 2010. Book published in conjunction with traveling exhibition.
• Do or Die: The Human Condition in Painting and Photography. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne, Germany, 2010. Catalogue published in conjunction with exhibition.
• 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
• Merkin, Daphne. Reinventing Middle Age, The New York Times Magazine, May 6, 2007
• Wall House #2, Thought Provoking, Sense Provoking. Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, Holland, 2007
• ARTWORK. 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(cover photograph)
• 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 Photography, 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 Asshole 7. New York, 1987

Selected Reviews

• Scott, Andrea, “Inside the Breuer Building, After the Whitney and Before The Met”, The New Yorker Photo Booth, March 12, 2016.
• 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

• Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
• Bank of America, London, England
• Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
• Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
• Brown University, Providence, RI
• Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, MX
• Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
• 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
• J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• 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
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 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