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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 Exhibitions
2023
- when is a place, Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, Germany
- 945 Madison Avenue, Josh Pazda Hiram Butler, Houston, TX
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
- Decade, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
- Selections from BAGAC, Bill Arning / Exhibitions, Houston, TX
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, The 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, MO
- 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, MO, 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 17th 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
- 21st, 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
- 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
- RISD Museum, Providence, RI
- 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
- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
- 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