Kevin Bubriski

Kevin Bubriski has exhibited worldwide; his work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography, all in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Asian Cultural Council, Bubriski worked for nine years in Nepal, and has photographed his journeys to India, Tibet, and Bangladesh. Author of Portrait of Nepal (Chronicle), which won the Golden Light Documentary Award in 1993, and Power Places of Kathmandu: Hindu and Buddhist Holy Sites in the Sacred Valley of Nepal (Inner Traditions), Bubriski lives in Vermont with his wife.

Photography Grants and Fellowships

• Hasselblad Masters Award, 2004
• Visiting Fellow, CTAH, Williams College, 2001
• Artist Residency, Anderson Ranch, Colorado, 2001
• Vermont Arts Council, Opportunity Grant, 1999
• Guggenheim Fellowship, Photography, 1994-95
• Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, 1994-95
• Fulbright Fellowship, Nepal, Research Grant in Photography, 1989-90
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Photography, 1988
• Nepal Photography Project, Film Study Center, Harvard University, 1985-88

Photographic Collections

• Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont
• Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
• Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
• Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
• Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
• Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
• Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
• DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln , Massachusetts
• Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
• International Center of Photography, New York, New York
• International Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• LaSalle Bank Collection, Chicago, Illinois
• Library of Congress, Washington, DC
• Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
• Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, Washington
• Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
• Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
• New York Historical Society, New York, New York
• Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island
• David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Collection, Chicago, IL
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
• Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
• Vermont State House Art Collection, Montpelier, Vermont
• Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

One Person Exhibitions

• “Sacred Sites: Syria, Jordan, and Egypt”, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont August 2010
• "Himalayan Shamanism", The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, January-March 2010
• “Japan”, Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont, January 2010
• “Portrait of Nepal”, Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy, December 13, 2008- February 25, 2009
• “Nepal in Black and White”, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY, March – October 2008
• “Nepal”, International Biennial of Mountain Photography, Aosto, Italy, August 17- September 30, 2008
• “Molly Stark School Portraits”, Bennington Museum , Bennington, Vermont, December 2007
• “Nepal: Thirty Years 1975-2005”, Union College, Schenectady, New York, September – November 2007
• “Bridging People/Bridging Cultures”, Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, Turners Falls, MA, 2006
• “Ninth Month – Ninth Ward”, (two person show), Gallery 2306, Birmingham, Alabama, 2006
• “Rocks and Ruins”, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA, September 9th - October 15, 2005
• "Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero", Gallery at the VAULT, Springfield, Vermont, September 2005
• "Tibet", Indigo Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal, February - March 2005
• "Independence of Thought - Freedom of Speech", Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT, February - November 2004
• "The Tibetans and the Uighurs", Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington, VT, January - February 2003
• "Vintage Works", Flat Street Gallery, Brattleboro, Vermont, January 2003
• “Looking at Ground Zero”, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, September 2002 - February 2003
• "History Responds", New York Historical Society, New York, NY July – September 2002
• "Nepal and Tibet Photographs", Russian Cultural Center, Kathmandu, Nepal December 202
• "Reflections of Asia", Kismet Gallery, New York, New York October 2002
• "Kashgar", Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT July 2002
• “Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero”, Arts Atrium Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY, Feb-March 2002
• “Elders of North Bennington”, Vermont Arts Exchange, VT Oct.1999 – May 2003
• Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, November 2001
• "Butoh of Kudo Taketeru" , President's Gallery, Bennington College, Sept-Oct 2001
• Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC June-July 2000
• Telluride Mountain Film Festival, Telluride, CO May 2000
• Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont Aug.- Sept 1999
• "Butoh" , Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Wesleyan Unversity Spring 1999
• "Tibet Photographs," ArtAsia Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec.1997-Jan.1998
• "Butoh at the Crossroads," Flynn Theatre Gallery Space, Burlington, Vermont, Fall 1997
• "Eastern Horizons,",Left Bank Gallery, Bennington, Vermont Aug-Sept. 1997
• "Butoh - The Color Portfolio," Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Aug.-Sept. 1997
• Agnes Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama May-July 1996
• Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Canada October - December 1995
• National Arts Club, New York, N.Y. June 6th - July 16th 1995
• "Family and Self Image," Elm Street Arts, March 9th - April 3rd 1995
• Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA Jan. 18 - March 5 1995
• Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA Jan. 18 - March 5 1995
• Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, MA Jan. 20 - March 5 1995
• Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA July 1994 - January 1995
• Photo-eye Books & Prints, Santa Fe, New Mexico May-July 1994
• Shannon White Gallery, Los Angeles, CA January-March 1994
• Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City, OK December 1993
• Robert Hull Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont , Burlington Nov.-Dec. 1993
• Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA October 1993
• "Introductions," Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California, July 1991
• "In Tibet," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York;
• The University Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts;
• Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts; and
• Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania, 1991
• "Portrait of Nepal," Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, Fall 1991
• "Kathmandu Valley," American Cultural Center, Kathmandu, Nepal, October 1990
• Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, January - March 1990
• Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, May - July 1989
• Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, April 1989
• Port Washington Public Library, Long Island, New York, December 1988
• Emmanual Midtown Y, New York, New York, October 1988
• "Portraits from Nepal's Himalaya," American Cultural Center, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1987
• "Nepal 1985," Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts; 1986 and
• Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, 1986
• "Albuquerque," Santa Fe Center for Photography, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1984
• "Portrait of Nepal," The Interchurch Center, New York, New York, 1982, and Nick Potter , Santa Fe, NM 1981