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Shellburne Thurber graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. Her work has been in numerous group and one person shows both here and abroad. Her work is in several collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Addison Gallery of American Art; the Worcester Art Museum; and the Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park.
Shellburne Thurber has taught extensively throughout New England, most recently as visiting professor of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and was recently awarded a fellowship from the Saint Gaudens National Historic Site.
One Person Exhibitions
2019
Shellburne Thurber: Phantom Limb, Krakow Witkin Gallery, September 21, 2019 – November 2, 2019
2011
Shellburne Thurber: 9 Wellington, Barbara Krakow Gallery, March 19, 2011 – April 26, 2011
2004
Bloomberg Space, London, UK, August September
Participant, Inc., New York City, NY, March
2002
Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA, September November
Elias Fine Art, Allston, MA, September October
2001
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, Summer
Stark Gallery, New York, NY April May
2000
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, December January
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston, MA, October January
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April
1999
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, September October
1998
Elias Fine Art, Allston, MA, September
1997
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, November
1996
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY, September October
1994
Clark University, Worcester, MA, February
1990
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, December
1989
Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, November
Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA, March
1988
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, November
1986
Chapel Gallery, Newton, MA, February
1984
The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, May
1983
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, July
Group Exhibitions
2021
Remake, Krakow Witkin Gallery, May 13, 2021 – June 3, 2021
2017
Space, Barbara Krakow Witkin Gallery, June 10, 2017 – July 28, 2017
2014
Mereology, Barbara Krakow Gallery, December 19, 2014 – January 26, 2015
2013
Serface, Barbara Krakow Gallery, June 8, 2013 – July 26, 2013
2012
Annotations, Barbara Krakow Gallery, January 28, 2012 – March 10, 2012
2011
Alumni Invitational 3, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, March-August
2010
Moving Patterns, Barbara Krakow Gallery, June 16, 2010 – August 3, 2010
Psychological Interior, Gallery Out of Place, Tokyo, Japan, October
2009
Familiar Feelings: On The Boston Group, Centro Galego De Arte Contemporanea, Fall
2007
Information, Insight, Interruption, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, September- October
At Work, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA, September- October
People Take Pictures of Each Other, organized by Robert Nickas, Lamontagne Gallery, September- October
2006
The Couch: Thinking in Repose, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria, May November*
Directors Choice: Chris McCarthy Curates Two Boston Photographers: Morgan Cohen & Shellburne Thurber, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, September October
Summer Group Show, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, June August
Reality/Play, Orchard, New York, NY, June
Information Insight Interruption, Hallspace, Roxbury, MA, February March
Arbor, Judy Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA, January
2005
Places of the Spirit, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA, June September
2003
Family Ties, The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, June September
Treat Yourself, The London Science Museum, London, UK, Summer
Places of the Spirit, organized by the Lake Placid Institute
The Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, Summer, travels to
The Society for the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, November December
The Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, CT, June July 2004
Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, November January 2004
2002
This is Then, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, November February 2003
Illuminations, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY, March April
2001
House: Charged Space, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Newton, MA, June September
BuildingDwellingThinking, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA, June
Rocks+Trees, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, April May
Photosynthesis: Recent Developments in Contemporary Photography,
Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, January March, travels to
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, April July
2000
Photography in Boston: 1955 1985, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, October January
Interiors, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, September November
1999
A Range of Views, The Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October
Playing off Time: Contemporary Photographers in Dialogue with the Past, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT September January
The Greatest Shows on Earth, Apex Art, NY, June
Jim Dow & Shellburne Thurber, Escuela Nacional de Fotografo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June
Domesticated, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, June
Collectors Collect Contemporary 1990 99, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA April May
Building Representation: Photography & Architecture, Contemporary Interactions, Harvard
University ArtMuseums, Cambridge, MA
1998
Spectacular Optical, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, June July travels to: Museum of
Contemporary Art North Miami, FL
CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado at Boulder, September November
Domain, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, February March
Kind of Blue: A Salon Show, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA, February
1997
Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975 to Now, Nicole Klagsbrun, curator, Bernard Toale
Gallery, Boston, MA, April
Face and Figure, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Winter 1996 7
1996
Pictures of Modern Life, École des Beaux Arts, Tours, France, December
Pictures of Modern Life, Gallerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium, June
1995
Boston School, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, Fall Winter
Camera Craft, Beth Urdang / Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA, Fall
Norfolk 95, Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT, Summer
1993
Galerie FNAC Montparnasse, Paris, France, Fall
Four Photographers, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA, January
Inhabited Spaces, Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Winter
1992
Gifts of Compassion: the Judith Fields Alviani Memorial Exhibition, Miller/Block Fine Arts, Boston,
MA, April
New England Photographers, 92, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, April
Currents 92: The Absent Body, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, Winter
1991
National Color Photography Invitational, Pennsylvania School of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA,
September
New American Talent: The Seventh Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, May
4th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State
University, Lake Charles, LA, April
1990
Multiples, Chastain Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Fall
Modern Life, The Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY, May
Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA, January
1989
Witnesses Against Our Vanishing, Artists Space, New York, NY, December
New Portraiture, Clarence Kennedy Gallery, Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA, February
1988
New Works Gallery, University of Illinois at Chicago, September
Recent Realities, Clary Miner Gallery, Buffalo, NY, May
Social Life, The Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY, May
Photography 88, Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Dorchester, MA, April
1987
Interior Spaces Work by Contemporary New England Artists, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham,
MA, Fall
1986
Fact, Fiction, Fragment, Fetish, Stux Gallery, Boston, MA, December
1985
Portraits: Artists by Artists, Montserrat School of Visual Art, Beverly, MA, October
Boston Now Photography, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, Summer
Images from the Photography Collection, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, January
1984
The Road Show Documents and Metaphors, The Photographic Archives, University of Louisville,
Louisville, KY, April
1983
Museum School Travelling Fellowship Winners, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, June
A Reasonable Likeness Contemporary Portraits, The Photographic Archives, University of
Louisville, Louisville, KY, February
Bibliography: Reviews and Articles
Caroline Cunningham, Artistry: Love Among The Ruins, New England Home, January/February 2010
Christine, Temin, A Soulful Look at Spiritual Sites, The Boston Globe, June 22, 2005
Martin Coomer, “Shellburne Thurber,” Time Out/ London, August 18 25, 2004
Martha Schwendener, “Shellburne Thurber,” Art Forum, Summer, 2004
Carrie Moyer, “A Sofa is Not Just a Sofa,” Gay City, April 1 7, 2004
Jerry Saltz, “Shrink Wrapped,” The Village Voice, March 29, 2004
David Bonetti,”Shellburne Thurber at the Boston Athenaeum, Art in America, April 2003
Joanne Silver, Photos catalog Athenaeums loveliness, The Boston Herald, October 11, 2002
Christine Temin, All over town, visual artists have a way with words, The Boston Globe, October 6, 2002
Christine Temin, Thurber wins prize, The Boston Globe, December 13, 2000
Joanne Silver, Thurbers photos find treasures in empty rooms, The Boston Herald, December 8, 2000
Vince Alletti, Air conditioned interiors, The Village Voice, August 22, 2000
Ken Johnson, Air conditioned interiors, The New York Times, August 11, 2000
Christine Temin, In therapists offices, light among shadows, The Boston Globe, April 14, 2000
Christine Temin, Thurber, Hodges limn a landscape of loss, The Boston Globe, September 10, 1999
Joanne Silver, Spirits lights way in Home, The Boston Herald, September 10, 1999
Joanne Silver, Home is where the art is, The Boston Herald, July 9, 1999
Miles Unger, Shellburne Thurber: Home, Art New England, December 1999/January 2000
Christine Temin, Collectors best of the 90s, The Boston Globe, April 2, 1999
Joanne Silver, Passion, power mark ICA show, The Boston Herald, April 2, 1999,p.S9
Christine Temin, Four shows offer Harvards photographic memories, The Boston Globe, April 4 1999, p. N2
Anne Wilson Lloyd, Shellburne Thurber at Elias Fine Art, Art in America, January, 1999, p. 109
Jane D. Marsching, Room: Photographs by Shellburne Thurber, Art New England, December 1998/January 1999, p. 38
Mary Sherman, Thurber works in a room of her own, The Boston Herald, October 25, 1999, p. 69
Christine Temin, Room examines the meaning of space, The Boston Globe, October 9, 1998, p. D6
Vince Aletti, Shellburne Thurber, The Village Voice, December 23, 1997
Ken Johnson, Shellburne Thurber, The New York Times, December 12, 1997
Jane Harris, Shellburne Thurber, Review, October 15, 1996, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Susan Inglett Gallery)
Linda Yablonsky, Shellburne Thurber, Time Out, New York, September 11 18, 1996, Issue No. 51 (Susan Inglett Gallery)
Brooks Adams New Humanist Photography, Print Collectors Newsletter, May/June, 1996, Vol. 27, No. 2
Vicki Goldberg, Intimate Snapshots from the Underground, The New York Times, December 24, 1995 (Boston School, ICA Boston)
Roland Tan, Tracing Bostons Gay Art Culture, The Harvard Crimson, October, 1995 (Boston School, ICA Boston)
Shawn Hill, Making the Scene, Bay Windows, October 26 November 1, 1995, Vol. 13 (Boston School, ICA Boston and Camera Craft, Urdang/Goldman)
Christine Temin, Before AIDS Remade the World, The Boston Globe, October 24, 1995 (Boston School, ICA Boston)
Shawn Hill, School Days, The TAB, Oct. 24 30, 1995, (Boston School, ICA Boston)
Miles Unger, Artificial Reality: Photography Today, Art New England, Feb. Mar., 1993, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Inhabited Spaces, Marquit)
Joanne Silver, Compassion Captures Women in Mourning, The Boston Herald, April 24, 1992 (Gifts of Compassion: Alviani Memorial Exhibition, Miller Block)
Nancy Stapen, Fresh Talent, A Timely Theme, The Boston Globe, January 24, 1992 (Currents 92: The Absent Body, ICA Boston)
Cate McQuaid, Missing Persons, Boston Phoenix, January 24, 1992 (Currents 92: The Absent Body, ICA Boston)
Kelly Spencer, Notable Absences, South End News, January 30, 1991, (Currents 92: The Absent Body, ICA Boston)
Laura C. Lieberman, Once is Not Enough, Afterimage, December, 1990, (Multiples, Nexus Gallery and Chastain Art Gallery)
John Russell, Images of Grief and Rage in Exhibition on AIDS, The New York Times, November 16, 1989, (Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, Artists Space)
Paul Richard, Witnesses: Testimony to the Power of an Age Old Taboo, The Washington Post, November 16, 1989, (Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, Artists Space)
Suzanne Muchnic, Witnesses Show Present AIDS as a Complex Issue, Los Angeles Times, November 16, 1989, (Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, Artists Space)
Tom Frick, Shellburne Thurber at Chapel, Art in America, October, 1986
Bibliography: Catalogues and Publications
Familiar Feeliings: On the Boston Group, 2009, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Divan, 3-4/2006, Tidskrift for psykoanalys och kultur, Stockholm, Sweden
Die Couch: Von Denken im Liegen, 2006, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria
Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death, 2006, Laura Tanner, Cornell University Press
October 113, Summer 2005, New York, NY
Southern Cultures, Fall 2004, UNC Center for the Study of the American South, Chapel Hill, NC
Nanoscopic Culture, 2003, National Institute of Medical Research, London, UK
Undomesticated Interiors, 2003, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton,, MA
Places of the Spirit, 2003, The Lake Placid Institute, Lake Placid, NY
Family Ties: A Contemporary Perspective, 2003, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Renovation: Photographs by Shellburne Thurber, 2002, The Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
The Georgia Review, Fall 2001, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Photosynthesis: Recent Developments in Contemporary Photography, 2001, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
Interiors, 2000, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Photography in Boston: 1955 1985, 2000, Lafo & Nagler, eds., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Home: Photographs by Shellburne Thurber, 1999, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Playing off Time: Contemporary Photographers in Dialogue with the Past, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990 1999, 1999, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Spectacular Optical, 1998 Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Pictures of Modern Life, 1996, Gallerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Boston School, 1995, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and Primal Media, Allston, MA
New American Talent: The Seventh Exhibition, 1991, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
Fourth Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, 1991, Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, 1989, Artists Space, New York, NY
Boston Now: Photography, 1985, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Public Collections
BankBoston, Boston, MA
Bates College, Lewiston, ME
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
The Photographic Archives, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Polaroid Corporation Photographic Collection, Cambridge, MA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Awards
Alpert/UCross Residency Prize, Alpert Award in the Arts, January 2005
Purchase Award, Maud Morgan Prize, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA, December 2000
Bunting Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1999 2000
Grant, Anonymous Was a Woman, New York, NY, 1996
Honorarium (awarded by Jane Baum), Images Gallery, June 1991
Rosalie Colligan Purchase Award, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, April 1991
The Ellwood Jonigan Fellowship, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, 1989
Albert H. Whitin Travelling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, June 1983
Residencies
The Boston Athenaeum, Artist in Residence, 1999 2000
Moonhole Artist Residence, Bequia, 1997
The Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc. Austerlitz, NY, 1989
Education
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1983 5th Year Graduate Program Certificate
1982 Diploma
Tufts University, Medford, MA
1975 BFA
Teaching
Massachusetts College of Art, Visiting Faculty, Photography Department, 1995 present
Tufts University, Visiting Faculty, Photography Department, 1994 1996
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