Fazal Sheikh
1996 FiftyCrows PhotoFund Winner
About Fazal
| Born |
New York City, 1965 |
| Education |
Princeton University, B,A, Honors, 1987 |
| Selected
Exhibitions |
International Center of Photography, NY, NY, 1996
Pace/Macgill Gallery, NY,NY, 1995
Silver Eye, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995
Light Factory, Charlotte, NC, 1994
FOTOFO, Bratislava, Slovakia, 1994
Princeton University, Lucas Gallery, NJ, 1994
Opsis Gallery, NY, NY, 1994
Syracuse University, Menschel Gallery, Syracuse, NY, 1993 |
| Group Exhibitions |
Multiple Exposure, The group portrait in photography,
traveling exhibtion, Bruce Museum, Conn., June 1995
A some of Us, an exhibition regarding sexuality, health, immigration and equality, Jan Kesner Gallery, LA, CA, June 1995
Targeting Images, Objects and Ideas, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Ill., November, 1995 |
| Grants/Awards |
Infinity Award, Young Photographer of the Year, 1994
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography, 1994
New Jesey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Photography, 1994
Ferguson Award, Friends of Photography, CA, 1994
Ruttenberg Award, Friends of Photography, CA, 1994
Fulbright Fellowship in the Arts, Kenya, 1992 |
| Publications |
A Sense of Common Ground, monograph, Scalo, January,1996
Multiple exposure, the group portrait in photography, Independent Curators Inc, 1995
Fazal Sheikh, A Sense of Common Ground, photographs from Kenya's Northern Frontier. Light works publication #34, monograph |
| Selected
Bibliography |
SEE, A journal of Visual Culture, "A prayer for the living", Issue 1:2, 1995
Doubletake, "In Progress", Premier issue, 1:1 Summer 1995
Artnews, Photography Today, Branching Out, C. Hagen, 2/95
New York Magazine, 1/2/95, Out of Africa, photographs of Fazal Sheikh
The New York Times Magazine, "30 Artists , 30 and under,whom the New York Times chose as among the most likely to change the culture for the next 30 years". 11/20/94.
The New York Times, Art in Review, "Refugees Portrayed as People", C. Hagen, 2/18/94
The Village Voice, "The Light Continent", an interview with Fazal Sheikh, Aletti, 2/8/94
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| Collections |
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
International Center of Photography, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Art Museum,Princeton University, NJ
International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
National Museum of Kenya, East Africa
Polaroid Corporation, MA
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, NY
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