About US american photographer Seth LOWER

Seth LOWER received his BFA in 2004 from The University of Michigan followed by his MFA in 2008 from San Francisco Art Institute.

Photobooks by Seth LOWER

  • 'Man with Buoy and Other Tales' (2010)
    'The Sun Shone Glaringly' (2014)
    'Units' (2019)
    'Dandelion' (2022)

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In 'Units' with color photographs depicting everyday materials and situations, many of them as sets, in parts or as multiples, Seth LOWER searches for a kind of integrity (or lack thereof): Scales, materiality, for boundaries of entities and experiences.
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Exhibitions
  • 2008: 'The Raccoon Shirt Coincidence', New Insights, Chicago; 'Numbers Game', Rhodes & Fletcher, San Francisco; 'Young Curators. New Ideas', Bond Street Gallery, Brooklyn; 'Meet Waradise', New York, NY.
    2009: 'LFLM', The Lab, San Francisco and at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei; 'Exercises in Seeing', Queen’s Nails Projects, San Francisco; 'The Man Behind the Curtain', Mission 17, San Francisco
    2010: 'Mirror', Royal NoneSuch, Oakland; 'Exquisite Corpse', Civilian Art Projects, Washington
    2011: 'Diamonds Are Forever', WEEKEND, Los Angeles; 'SVIT L.A., 1549 Baxter St., Los Angeles; 'Anatomy of a Moment -- It is a Poor Kind of Memory That Only Goes Backwards', Valand School of Fine Art, Gothenburg, Sweden; 'Sunny Side Up', Margate Photo Fest, Margate, UK
    2012: 'Narcissism, the Real, the Fake, and the Anti-Digital Impulse', Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles; 'Co/Lab', Art Platform Los Angeles
    2013: 'Hands' (POV), Torrance Art Museum, Torrance
    2014: 'Specters of the West. Fotografie in der Zwischenzone', Bäckerstraße 4, Vienna, Austria; 'Eternal Om', metro pcs, Los Angeles
    2015: 'Photographs and a Video', Glass Basement, Berlin
    2016: 'metro pcs in heaven', metro pcs, Los Angeles
    2018: 'Cheating Reality', The Weekend Gallery, Los Angeles
    2019: 'Políglotas', Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles,; 'ARTSST Exhibition', Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles; 'Instagram Inner Sanctum', Palais des Beaux Arts Wien, Vienna; 'Tired Eyes', Vienna Art Week, Salon für Kunstbuch
    2020: '8-BIT', KMIV Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
    2021: 'MULTIPLES', Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro; 'When in Athens', The Humid, Athens, Greece (organized by Irina ROZOVSKY and Mark STEINMETZ)
Bibliograph
  • 2009: 'The Man Behind the Curtain,' by Joseph del Pesco in: ArtinAmerica.com; 'Behind the Curtain', by Kevin Killian in: SFMOMA Open Space
    2010: 'Top 10 Books of 2010', by Grant Willing in: Humble Arts Foundation blog
    2011: 'Seth Lower: Diamonds Are Forever,' interview with Claudia Slanar in: L.A. Record
    2014: 'Best Books of 2014' by Alex F. Webb and Lewis Chaplin in: photo-eye; 'The Sun Shone Glaringly. A conversation with Seth Lower', by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa in: The Great Leap Sideways; 'Photobook Reviews', by Jörg M. Colberg in: Conscientious 37/2014; 'Seth Lower's 'The Sun Shone Glaringly', in: Capricious blog; 'Man with Buoy and Other Tales', by Molly E. Dotson in: TheArtBookReview.org; 'Critic's Pick for 'Eternal Om'', by Steve Kado in: Artforum.com
    2015: 'The Sun Shone Glaringly', reviewed by Adam Bell in: The Art Book Review; 'A Medicine for Melancholy', in: Phases Magazine; 'The Sun Shone Glaringly', by Joseph Houlihan in: Entropy
    2019: 'Units Book Review' by Jim Casper, in: Lensculture; Units Book review' by Dana Stirling in: Float; 'Units. by Photographer Seth Lower', by Anna Schneider, in: Booooooom (19.12.2019); 'Units. katas de Seth Lower, photographe', by Fabien Ribery, in: L'intervalle; 'Book Review: Units', by Paloma Broussal Lanusse, in: Musée Magazin
    2020: 'Units' by Blake Andrews, in: Collector Daily; 'Units', Phases Magazine; 'Seth Lower splits up reality into its original atomic units
    A Photographic Life - episode 92', UNP podcast; 'Units', in: LFI (Leica Fotografie International); 'Units' by Sophie Gladstone, in: Wallpaper*; 'Units' by Gunseli Yalcinkaya, in: Aesthetica
    2021: 'Multiples at Angels Gate Cultural Center', by Genie Davis, in: Art and Cake; 'Interview with Alessandra Lanza', in: Eyebook Magazine as well as in: WU Magazine