JUSTIN KIMBALL 413-218-2396 justinkimballphotography.com jfkimballphoto@gmail.com
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Photography, Yale University School of Art
B.F.A. Photography, Rhode Island School of Design
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
Who By Fire, Essay by Eileen Myles, Radius Books, Fall 2022
Elegy, Essay by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Radius Books, 2017
Pieces of String, Essay by Douglas Kimball, Radius Books, 2012
Where We Find Ourselves, Introduction by Richard B. Woodward, Center for American Places, 2006
Books
Object Lesson: The Legacy of Richard Benson Aperture, 2022
American Geography, Curator Sandra S. Phillips, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2021
The Map of Every Lilac Leaf: Poets Respond to the Smith College Museum of Art, SCMA, 2020
Manual, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, 2019
The Photographer in the Garden, Eastman Museum/Aperture, 2018
Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2015
America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, Jan Howard, RISD Museum of Art, 2012
Photography and Play, by Erin C. Garcia, Getty Publications, J.P. Getty Museum, 2012
Mead Museum Collection Guide, “Lewis Hine” p.174, Amherst College, 2011
Blue Sky 05/06, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2006
The Physical Print, A Brief Survey of the Photographic Process, Richard Benson, Yale, 2005
Photography, Barbara London and John Upton, 8th edition, Prentice Hall, 2004
Spirit of Family, Al and Tipper Gore, Holt Publishers, 2002
Selected Magazines, Journals and Reviews
Literary Hub, Eileen Myles on the “Astonishingly Vivid” Photos of Justin Kimball, 2022
ArtDoc Magazine, The American Life of Distress and Hope, Holland, 2022
Exibart Street, Justin Kimball / Who By Fire, Italy 2022
Image Journal, Home Alone Together, 2021
What Will You Remember, Sowing Seeds, 2020
What Will You Remember, Viewfinder, 2020
Scopio Editions, Scopio Networks, Porto, Portugal, editor Rita Silva 2019
The Guardian, The Photographer in the Garden – in Pictures, May 2018
Exit 71 Quarterly, Jardin/Garden, Prodicciones de Arte y Pensamiento SL, 2018
Boston Globe, Snatching stillness from motion at the Addison, Cate McQuaid, November 2018
Photograph, Justin Kimball: Elegy at The Gershman Y, Philadelphia, review by Lev Feigin, 2018
Broad Street Journal: Justin Kimball, Elegy, Left Behind, review by Pam Forsythe, 2018
Boston Globe, Lived Space: Looking at Architecture from the Inside Out, by Robert Campbell, 2018
The Wall Street Journal, Justin Kimball: ‘Elegy’ Review: Documents of Decay, A photographer catalogs the victims of deindustrialization between 2012 and 2016, review: William Meyers, 2017
American Suburb X: Justin Kimball: A Country Opening Soon, Indefinitely Closed for Renovations by Brad Feuerhelm, May 24, 2017
Wall Street International, In the Garden, Cummer Museum in Jacksonville, Florida, August, 24, 2017
PDN Annual Awards 2017, Elegy, Winner, photo book category
ZEKE, The Magazine of Global Documentary, Elegy, review by Glenn Ruga, 2017
Fotografia Contemporanea, September 16, 2017
Boston Globe, Elegy, review by Cate McQuaid, 2016
Fraction Magazine, Favorite Books of 2016, Elegy, review by Laura Greenwald`
Saint Lucy, The Seven: Elegy, by Mark Alice Durant, 2016
Photo District News, Notable Books 2016, Elegy, review by David Walker
What You Will Remember, Best of 2016, Elegy, review by Elin Spring
Fjords, Justin Kimball At Carroll and Sons, by Sam Nickerson, August 1st, 2014
Photograph Magazine, review, Where We Find Ourselves, by Edie Bresler, 2014
Photographers Forum, review, Pieces of String, 2013
Photo-Eye, video review, Pieces of String, by Melanie McWhorter, 2013
Art New England, November/December Issue, 2013
Photo District News, November Issue, two-page spread and interview, 2011
Harper’s Magazine, June 2006 Issue
Photo Metro Magazine, Volume 18, Issue 162, 2001
DoubleTake Magazine, Fifth Anniversary Issue 2, 2000
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer Fellowship
Project Development Grant, Center, Santa Fe NM
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Photography Competition, Winner
Artists Resource Trust, Berkshire Taconic Foundation
PDN Annual 17, Elegy, Winner, photo book category
John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund, Harvard University
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Fellowship, Finalist
Art Photographers Index, International online index, by invitation only
Faculty Research Award Program, Amherst College
The L. Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Award, Nominee, Diana Gaston, Fidelity
John Gutmann Photography Fellowship, Nominee, San Francisco, CA
Critical Mass, Finalist, Photolucida, Portland, OR
Project Competition 2001, Honorable Mention, Santa Fe Center for the Arts
Society of Publication Designers, DoubleTake Magazine, cover story
Photo Metro 18th Annual Competition, San Francisco, CA
Gordon Parks Competition, Finalist, Fort Scott, KS
Faculty Foundation Grant, Rhode Island School of Design
Ward Cheeny Award, Yale University School of Art
COLLECTIONS
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson AZ
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
DeCorvoda Museum, Lincoln, MA
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Global Collection of Photography, Weeks Gallery, JCC, Jamestown, NY
Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, South Hadley, MA
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MS
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Southeastern Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Fidelity Collection, Boston, MA
The Henry Museum of Art, Seattle, OR
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
The wareHouse, the Wieland Collection, Atlanta, GA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Yale Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Who By Fire, Personal Structures; Beyond Boundaries, European Cultural Council, Venice, Italy
2021 A Room That Grew, Justin Kimball and Jonathan Jackson, (collaboration) Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
2018 Elegy, Rhode Island School of Design Museum. Providence, RI
Elegy, Gershwin Y/ Philadelphia Photography Art Collective, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Elegy, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
2016 Elegy, Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 Pieces of String, Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
Where We Find Ourselves, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA
Pieces of String, Month of Photography LA, Doyle Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, CA
Pieces of String, Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
2013 Pieces of String, University Art Gallery, UMass, Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA
2012 Pieces of String, Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
2010 Then and Now, Rhodes Art Center, Northfield Mount Hermon School, Northfield, MA
2008 Where We Find Ourselves, Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Where We Find Ourselves, Foster Gallery, Noble and Greenough School, Dedham, MA
2006 Where We Find Ourselves, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Where We Find Ourselves, Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst, MA
Where We Find Ourselves, Weeks Gallery, Jamestown, NY
Where We Find Ourselves, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
2001 Surroundings, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
2000 Surroundings, Photography Gallery, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Object Lesson, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image in collaboration with Aperture, Philadelphia, PA
Home Alone Together, Henry Luce III Center for the Arts & Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC
2020 American Geography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, curated by Sandra S. Phillips (canceled/postponed due to Covid-19)
Yellow Dot Exhibition/Fundraiser, Ballarat International Foto Biennale Ballarat, Australia
Home Alone Together (online exhibition) Image Journal
2019 Truthiness and the News, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
All the Marvelous Surfaces: Photography Since Karl Blossfeldt, curated by Sarah Montross, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, MA
2018 From Starfield to MARS: Paul Manship and His Artist Legacy, Barbara Bosworth, Justin Kimball, S. Billie Mandle, and Abelardo Morell
Lived Space: Humans and Architecture, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
In the Garden, (Traveling) George Eastman House International Museum Photography, Dickson Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
View Finder: Landscape and Leisure in the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Effects That Aren't Special: The 40th Photography Regional, curated by Tim Davis, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
New Acquisitions, Bell Art Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
(un) Expected Families, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
2017 Child’s Play, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
In the Garden, Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL
New Acquisitions, Portland Art Museum, Portland OR
2016 In the Garden, (traveling) George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY
New England Photographers, 2016 Flash Forward Festival, Magenta Foundation, Ontario, Canada
The Curve, A Global View of New Photography, Colorado Photographic Art Center, Denver, CO
The Curve, A Global View of New Photography, Santa Fe Center Contemporary Art, NM
2014 Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, VA
Halcyon Days: The Camera in the Garden, Portland Art Museum, Portland, ME
Awardees 2014, Massachusetts Cultural Council, New Art Center, Boston, MA
2013 Unfolding Images: Photography Book Exhibition, CAC, New Orleans, LA
The Ubiquity of Photography, Dada Post Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Art of the White Mountains, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
Erasures, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Art Gallery
Memory Theater, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
The Fence, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Flash Forward Photography Festival, Boston, MA
The Fence, Brooklyn Bridge Park, (DUMBO) Brooklyn, NY
2012 Flesh and Bone: Photography and the Body, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI
2005 Global Collection of Photography 2005, Weeks Gallery, JCC, Jamestown, NY
Eye on Water, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
2003 By the Sea, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Project Competition 2001, on-line exhibition, Santa Fe Center for the Visual Arts, NM
Photo Metro: The 18th Annual Exhibition, Curated by Duane Michals, SFAC Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2000 Awards Exhibition, Gordon Parks Competition, Fort Scott Community College, Fort Scott, KS
VISITING CRITIC AND ARTIST LECTURES
2025 Meet the Artist: Unreliable Narrator, Center for Photography Woodstock. Kingston New York
2023 Artist Talk: Why Books, Massachusetts College of Art
Artist Talk: Who By Fire (zoom), Arizona State University
2021 A Room That Grew, Jonathon Jackson and Justin Kimball, Gallery talk. Mead Art Museum
Artist Talk: Rowan University
2020 Artists on Artists: Justin Kimball and Jenny Vogel discuss Roni Horn’s exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst.
What I Have Seen, Protect Your Care Giver, Kristen Gresh, Senior Curator, MFA, Boston: Justin Kimball, Tanya Marcuse and Rania Matar
2019 Colby College Visiting Artist lecture and Senior thesis critic
2018 Addison Gallery of American Art, Artist Talk: Starfield through Contemporary Lenses, Justin Kimball and Abelardo Morell
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, A conversation: Justin Kimball: Elegy, Justin Kimball and Dr. Maria Morris Hambourg.
2017 University of Kansas, Lawrence, Hallmark Distinguished Lecture Series, Artist lecture/visiting critic
Greenfield Community College, Artist lecture
2016 UMass Amherst, Panel: Binding Light: photography and its relationship with the book
Carroll & Sons Gallery, Boston, Elegy, a conversation, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa and Justin Kimball
Rhode Island School of Design, Outside Evaluator Graduate thesis reviews
2014 Salve Regina University, Artist lecture
Wesleyan University, Artist lecture
Orange Coast College, Artist lecture
Middlebury College, Artist lecture
Marlboro College, Artist lecture
2013 Rhode Island School of Design, TC Coley Lecture Series
Rhode Island School of Design, Outside Evaluator Graduate thesis reviews
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Artists lecture
2008-12 Rhode Island School of Design, Outside Evaluator annual senior thesis reviews
2010 Bard College at Simons Rock, Artist lecture
2007 Noble and Greenough School, Artist lecture
2007 Rhode Island School of Design, Artist lecture
2006 Greenfield Community College, Artist lecture
Dartmouth College, Artist lecture and outside evaluator senior thesis reviews
Society for Photographic Education Conference, Chicago, IL
Hampshire College, Artist lecture
2005 Wesleyan University, Artist lecture
2004 University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Artist lecture
2001 Marlboro College, Outside evaluator senior thesis reviews
1998 Georgetown University, Artist lecture
1993 Smith College, Artist lecture