About US-American photographer, Ron A. JUDE (b.1965, in Covina, L.A. County, CA)
Ron JUDE raised in rural Idahe. He gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts(BFA) from Boise State University, Boise, Idaho in 1988; participated in the American Photography Institute's National Graduate Seminar at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York City in 1991; and gained a Master of Fine Arts from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge in 1992. His photography, which 'often explores the relationship between people, place, nature and memory', has been published in a number of books. Jude works as a professor of art at the University of Oregon. As of 2012 he was living in Upstate New York. He is the co-founder of A-Jump Books and has had solo exhibitions at the High Museum of Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, The Photographers' Gallery in London, and was included in a three-person exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago. As of 2020 he is living in Eugene, Oregon where he works as a professor of art at the University of Oregon.
Photo books by as well as with works by Ron JUDE
- '22 Postcards: 1991-2006' (2006); 'Alpine Star' (2006); 'Other Nature' (2008); 'Emmett' (2010); 'Lick Creek Line' (2012); 'Executive Model' (2012); 'Lost Home by Daido Moriyama' (2013, together with works by Daido MORIYAMA, Takashi HOMMA, Harvey BENGE, JH ENGSTROEM, Roe ETHRIDGE, Christian PATTERSON, Bertien van MANEN, Slavica PERKOVIC as well as by Terri WEIFENBACH); 'Fires' (2013); 'Lago' (2015); 'Vitreous China' (2016); 'Nausea' (2017); '12 Hz' (2020);
Awards
- 1994: Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowship, New York;
2000: James D. Phelan Award in Photography, SF Camerawork, San Francisco;
2001: Light Work Grant, Syracuse, New York;
2006: Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts 2006–2007 Artist's Grant;
2019: Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York Cit;
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- 1992: 'Nausea', The Photographers' Gallery, London;
1995: 'Executive Model: An Installation', High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia;
2016: 'Lago', Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska;
Group exhibitions
- 2013: 'Backstory', Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois (together with works by LaToya Ruby FRAZIER and Guillaume SIMONEAU;