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Special Projects/Commissions
J. Paul Getty Museum | Principal Photographer | View the Getty Collection 2009
J. Paul Getty Museum | Principal Photographer | View the Getty Center 2006-2007
J. Paul Getty Museum | Principal Photographer | Getty Conservation Institute Global Documentation Project, China, Russia, Tunisia, Salvador, LA, Malibu, CA 2001-2003
J. Paul Getty Museum | Principal Photographer | Villa Project, Malibu, CA 2000-2005
Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, Canada | Photographer for Guther, Asplund Law Court Annex, Gothenborg, Sweden, for exhibition and catalogue. 2000-2001
J. Paul Getty Museum | Principal Photographer | Center Project, Brentwood, CA 2005-2006
Awards & Grants
Annie E. Casey Foundation 2009-2010
Guggenheim Fellowship 2007-2008
Fulbright Research Scholar-Travel grant, Italy 1990-1991
National Endowment for the Arts grant, Visiting Artists at UCSB 1980-1981
National Endowment for the Arts grant, supported UC Santa Barbara University Art Museum | Exhibition and catalogue “Museology” 1987
California Arts Council, Artists Fellowship in the Visual Arts 1989-1990
Exhibitions Scheduled
Tampa Museum of Art 2010
CoalMine Gallery, Winterthur, Switzerland 2010
Exhibitions
National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. (Solo) 2009
APERTURE Gallery New York (Solo) May 2008
ACME Los Angeles July (Solo) 2007
“Unterirdisch Uberleben” Luzern, Switzerland (Solo) Sept 2006
“Unterirdisch Uberleben” Winterthur Museum, Switzerland (Solo) October 2006
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland (Solo) 2006
“Imposing Order” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Group) Summer 2006
Kentucky Derby Museum, Churchill Downs, Louisville, KY (Solo exhibit)
Otis College of Art and Design, Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Solo exhibit) 2004
J Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California (Solo exhibit) 2003-2004
Gathering Light, Traveling Exhibition (Solo) 2000-2003
“Ma Cille’s,” Evans Memorial Library, Aberdeen, Mississippi (Group Exhibition)
“Inquitable Conditions” Strider Gallery, Claypool-Young Art Building, Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky 2001
“Beyond Boundaries,” University Art Museum, Cal St. Univ. Long Beach, CA 2000
“Beyond Boundaries,” Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA 2000
“Beyond Boundaries,” Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA 2000
“A Lasting Legacy,” Orange County Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA 2000
“Fovea,” Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (Solo) 2000
“Gathering Light,” John Hansard Gallery, University South Hampton, UK (Solo) 2000
Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Solo)
“Bonjour Paris” Images of Paris, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
“Gathering Light,” Galerie H.S. Steinek, Vienna, Austria (Solo)
“Icebergs,” Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington D.C.
“Affinities and Collections,” California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
“The Circus/The Sideshow,” Paul Kopekian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“The Iceberg Exhibition,” Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington D.C.
“Richard Ross” Schloss Buchberg, Buchberg, Austria (Solo)
“Richard Ross-Fovea” Gallery of Contemporary Photography Santa Monica, CA (Solo)
“118W/24N” Minoritengalererie, Graz, Austria
“InVisible Light: Photography and Classification in Art, Science, and the Everyday,” European Traveling Exhibition 2000
“Museum Studies, Eleven Photographers' Views,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Recent Reviews
New Yorker, Boston Globe, SuicideGirls.com, Portland Mercury, Playgirl, Splendid, New York Times, Independent News, Liberation (Paris), NYArts Magazine, Reforma, Conscientious, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Sie+ER, Independent (London)
Recent Articles Photographed
Time, Newsweek (U.S., Hungary, Japan), Christian Science Monitor, Harpers, Architectural Digest, Hollywood Life, Matador (Spain), Getty Publications, FILE magazine, La Repubblica delle Donne, Newton, The WIRE, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, Fox News, Yahoo
Education
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, BA 1967
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida MFA 1973
Teaching Experience
Professor of Art, University of California, Santa Barbara 1978-Present
Major Publications
Architecture of Authority, Aperture Publications, NY, Essay by John R. MacArthur 2007
Museology, Aperture Publications, NY, Introduction by Marcia Tucker, Essay by David Mellor 1989
Richard Ross, Historia Natural, Museo National de Ciencias Naturales 1994
Gathering Light, Hansard Gallery, London & Speed Museum, Louisville, distributed by UNM Press, Introduction by Dave Hickey, Essay by Eduardo Cadava
Waiting for the End of the World, Princeton Architecture Press, NY, Introduction by Sarah Vowell 2004
Patently Erotic, Plume Publications, New York 2004
Patently Ridiculous Plume Publications, New York 2004
Patently Christmas, Plume Publications, New York 2005
The Getty Villa, J Paul Getty Trust Publications, Los Angeles 2005
Seeing the Getty Villa, J Paul Getty Trust Publications, Los Angeles 2005
Viewing the Getty Villa, J Paul Getty Trust Publications, Los Angeles 2005
Seeing the Getty Center, J Paul Getty Trust Publications, Los Angeles 2009