Craig J. Barber is a photographer who travels and works exclusively with the pinhole format and focuses of the cultural landscape. During the past 10 years he has focused his camera on Viet Nam, Havana, and the Catskill region of New York State. In each, documenting a culture in rapid transition and fading from memory. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America and is represented in several prominent museum and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Brooklyn Art Museum; the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Aregentia, among others. He has received several grants including the Seattle Arts Comission, the Polaroid Corporation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2006 Umbrage Editions published his book, ”Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited.”

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 George Eastman Int’l Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY
Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Etra Art Gallery, Miami, FL
2006 Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA
Prachenske Muzeum, Pisku, Czech Republic
2005 Etra Art Gallery, Miami, FL
Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA
Naprstek Muzeum, Prague, Czech Republic
2004 Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Robin Rice Gallery, New York, NY
Center For Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
2002 Centro Fotografico Alvarez Bravo, Oxaca, Mexico
Instituto de Artes de la Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico
2001 Photographer Image Gallery, Portland, OR
Macon & Co Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2000 Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO
Halsey Gallery, Charleston, SC
Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Galeria de Arte Fotografico, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Mainsite Contemporary Art, Norman, OK
Galeria Palatina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museuo Nacional de Bellas Artes Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina
FOTOPADOVA 2000, Padova, Italy
1999 Galeria de Arte Fotografico, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Centro Colombo Americano Gallery, Medellin, Colombia
Oravska Galeria, Museum of Art, Dolny Kubin, Slovakia
Dom Fotografie, Poprad, Slovakia
1998 SE Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL (Installation)
1997 International Photography Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
1996 The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
1995 G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Robin Rice Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Book Trader Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Police Building Gallery, New York, NY
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
1993 Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans
1992 Pima College Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Photographic Center NW, Seattle, WA
Book Trader Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Robin Rice Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Level Three Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
1991 cont. University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, NV
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
Robin Rice Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Berkshire Artisans Gallery, Pittsfield, MA
Reed Whipple Cultural Center, Las Vegas, NV
Texas Technical University, Lubbock, TX
1989 Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
Bruskin Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
Quicksilver Gallery, Bellingham, WA
C.E. Rynd Gallery, Seattle, WA
1988 Northlight Gallery, Everett, WA Market Place Photo Gallery, Seattle, WA
King County Arts Commission Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987 The Hi-Spot Gallery, Seattle, WA
1982 Chrysalides Gallery, Kirkland, WA
1980 Open Mondays Gallery, Seattle, WA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006 “La Habana Bienal”, Biblioteca Nationale, Havana, Cuba
“Made in New York”, Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY
“The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the
Digital Age”, Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX
“Alumni Invitational”, Everett Community College, Everett, WA
2005 “Havana: The Revolutionary Moment”, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
“Viajeros: North Americans Working in Cuba”, Lehigh University Art Gallery, Bethlehem, PA (Traveling Exhibition)
“Changing Light”, Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, OR
“Recent Acquisitions: Gary Bettis Collection”, Boise Art Museum,
Boise, ID
2004 “Art Basel”, Etra Art Gallery, Miami, FL
“Permanent Collection Selections”, Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
Minneapolis, MN
“Permanent Collection Selections”, Mueso de Bella Artes,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Photography: Disparate Visions”, Marist Art Gallery,
Poughkeepsie, NY
“Critical Mass: Contemporary Photography”, (Traveling Exhibition)
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR 2004
Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA 2005
Paul Paletti Gallery, Louisville, KY 2005
Gallery Sink, Denver, CO 2005
Baldwin Gallery, Murfreesboro, TN 2005
Houston Center of Photography, Houston, TX 2005
Fine Arts Museum, W. Carolina U, Cullowhee, NC 2006
2003 “Cuba Now: Glimpses of Daily Life”, Photo West Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Celebrate Cuba”, Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Contemporary New York Artists”. Fenimore Museum,
Cooperstown, NY
2002 “A History of Photography”, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
“Viet Nam Then and Now”, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
“The House of Light”, International Center of Photography,
New York, NY
“Seattle Collects 2002”. City Space Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 “Resident Artist’s Exhibition”. Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Where Are We? Questions of Landscape”, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
“Why Pinhole”, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
“The World Through a Pinhole” Rotorua Museum, Rotorua,
New Zealand
“Shards of Light: An Exhibition of Pinhole Photography”,
Adirondack Com. College, Queensbury, NY
2000 “Odense Foto Triennale”, Museet For Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
Portland State University, Portland, OR
1999 Platinum Gallery, New York, NY
“The World Through a Pinhole”Otago Settlers Museum (Otago, New Zealand); Taranaki Museum (Taranaki,NZ); Eastern Southland Museum (GORE, NZ); Forrester Gallery (Oamaru, NZ);Akaroa Museum (Akaroa, NZ),
“The War in Vietnam--Afterimages”University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
1998 “Re: Imagining Vietnam”, Houston Community College, Houston, TX
Wellington Fine Arts Center, Wellington, New Zealand
“A Survey of Contemporary Pinhole Photography,”
Washington Center for Photography, Washington D.C. Giraffics Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1997 Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX , “Beaux Arts”
Photocentral Gallery, Hayward CA
Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
”Flowers”, The Platinum Gallery, New York, NY
“Enchanted Gardens”, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
Giraffics Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1996 “Waking Dreams”, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, Tulsa, OK
M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (Three Person)
Hands Gallery, New York, NY
New Land Gallery, Houston, TX
Robin Rice Gallery, New York, NY
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 cont. Platinum Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
“The Gleaning Light” , Photographic Archives Gallery, Dallas TX, 1995 University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
“Faculty Exhibition”, International Ctr of Photography, New York, NY “Works on Paper”, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos,TX “1995 Pacific Northwest Annual”, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1994 G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Eyes on Public Art” , Newmark Center & Norton Building Gallery, Seattle, WA,
“Faculty Exhibition”, International Ctr of Photography, New York, NY Robin Rice Gallery, New York, NY
Platinum Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1993 Robin Rice Gallery, New York, NY
Book Trader Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Platinum Plus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1992 NEW DIRECTIONS ‘92, Barrett House Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
Robin Rice Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Biblioteca Nazionale, Torino, Italy
Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Comm. College, Grants Pass, OR
Center Gallery, North Hennepin Comm. College, Brooklyn Park, MN
Orange College Art Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Gossmont College Art Gallery, El Cajon, CA
The Forum Gallery, Jamestown, NY
Artists and the American Yard, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine
Arts, Racine, WI
1990 Puchong Gallery, New York, NY (Three Person)
University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
Fine Art Photographic Exchange, Tashkent, USSR & Seattle, WA
1990 PHOTOKINA, Cologne, Germany; Tel Aviv, Israel
1989 100 Years of Wash. State Photography: Selected Artists, Tacoma
Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Photowork ‘89, Barrett House Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
150 Years of Photography, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
1988 Northwest International, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham,WA
Cliff Michel Gallery, Seattle, WA
Midwest International Exhibition, Central Missouri University,
Warrensburg, MO
Ikon Gallery, La Conner, WA
1987 Group Theater Gallery, Seattle, WA
Salute to the Arts, Seattle, WA
1981 Northlight Gallery, Everett, WA (Three person)
1979 Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Pacific Northwest Arts Fair, Bellevue, WA
1978 Riverside Gallery, Everett, WA
1977 Silver Image Gallery, Tacoma, WA
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AWARDS

2005 Photographer’s Fellowship, Ctr for Photography at Woodstock, NY
SOS Grant, New York Foundations for the Arts, New York
2000 New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist’s Fellowship, New York
1996 Artist in Residence Fellowship, Yosemite National Park, CA
1995 Artist in Residence Fellowship, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
1990 MacDowell Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1988 Seattle Arts Commission Grant, Seattle Artists Program
Polaroid Corporation Grant, Artists Support Program
1987 Portland Photographers Forum Grant, Portland, OR
King County Arts Commission Purchase, Seattle, WA

SELECTED BIBILIOGRAPHY
(Includes books, exhibition catalogues & reviews)

2006 Barber, Craig J., “Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited,” Published by Umbrage Editions, New York, NY, June, 112 pages, 46 plates, 2 Essays, Hardcover, ISBN-1-884167-53-5
Bergeron, Chris, “Vietnam Retold,” WinchesterDaily News, Sept. 7
Crafts, Lydia, “Barber’s Haunting Tale of Vietnam,” Winchester Star, September 7
Smart, Paul, “On Point...,” Ulster Almanac, May 25
2005 Viera, Ricardo, “Viajeros: North American Artist/Photographers’ Images of Cuba,” Published by Lehigh University Press, Bethlehem, PA, 171 Pages, 3 Essays
2004 Morton, Julia, “Design & Decay,” New York Press
Smart, Paul, “Sights Unseen,” Woodstock Times, NY, February 19
2002 PHOTOGRAPHY’S ANTIQUARIAN AVANT-GARDE, Lyle Rexer
2000 Martin, Frank, “Vietnam Photos Dreamlike”, Mar. 12, Charleston Post & Courier
Rhodes, Kristen, “Remembering Vietnam,” Charleston City Paper
Tortosa, Alina, “Vietnam Revisited,” Buenos Aires Herald
Hester, Ann, “Vietnam Revisited,” Oklahoma Daily
2001 B & W MAGAZINE, Issue 11, pages 102-105
2000 KATALOG, Vol. 12, #2/12, pages 12-15
BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY, James Luciana 1999 REFLEX, Vol. 4, Issue 25, pages 42-47
Wunsch, Matt, “Images of War,” N. Kingston Standard Times, RI
Van Siclen, Bill, “Images From Vietnam War,” Providence Journal
Rodriguez, Bill, “War Stories,” The Providence Phoenix
Pinhole Journal, Vol. 16 #1, pages 16-17 w/cover
Fotomundo, Julio 2000, #387, pages 24-27
1998 SLEEP, BEDTIME READING, Robert Peacock & Roger Gorman
Zoom, Mar-Apr ed., pg 4
The Egalitarian, review by Dee Manning
Photodom, Feb ed., pgs 44-49
Foto ReFlex, No. 18, page 49
1997 PHOTO METRO, Vol. 15, Issue 145, pages 8-17 w/cover
1996 BackFlash, review by Tim Nowlin, pages 18-20
Photo Metro, review by Bill Kouwenhoven, pages 30-31
The Tribeca Trib
1995 The Seattle Times, review by Robin Updike
The New Yorker, Photography Long List, December 18/25 w/photo
1994 Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic Technique, Eric Renner
1994 The Albuquerque Herald, review by Diane Armitage
1993 The New Orleans Picayne, review by Chris Waddington
Foto Pratica, Issue #288-289
1992 View Camera, Vol. 5 #
Pinhole Journal, Vol. 8 #3
1991 Peggy Ann Jones, ORACULAR ORIFICES, Orange Coast College, Exhibition Catalog
1991 The Daily Courier, review by Roger Hayden
1990 Las Vegas Review-Journal
Barbara Hitchcock, SELECTION 5 , Polaroid Corporation
SHOTS, Issue #20
PHOTO METRO, Vol. 8, Issue #79
John Boyland/A. Gilliagan, ART WORKS FOR AIDS , NW Aids Foundation Exhibition Catalog
1989 SHOTS, Issue #17
1988 Pinhole Journal , Vol. 4 #3
Habilitation News
1979 Photographers Forum

LECTURES

2003 Center For Photography Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Camera Club of New York, New York, NY
2000 Escuela de la Argentina de Fotografia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Everett Community College, Everett, WA
1998 Tatranska Galeria, Poprad, Slovakia
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
SE Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
1995 Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
1994 University of Texas, San Antonio
1993 Southwest Arts Center, San Antonio
University of Texas, San Antonio
1992 Olympic College, Bremerton, WA
1989 Kean College, Union, NJ
1988 Everett Community College, Everett, WA

COLLECTIONS

Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France
Bloomingdales Corporation, New York, NY
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Center for Photography Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Chase E. Rynd Collection, Seattle, WA
Clint Willour Collection, Galveston, TX
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Dow Jones Corporation, New York, NY
Escuela de la Argentina de Fotografia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Everett Community College, Everett, WA
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Graham Nash Collection, San Francisco, CA
Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Harry Ransom Collection, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Joaquim Paiva Collection, Brasilia, Brazil
LIGHTWORKS, Syracuse, NY
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Museet For Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, N.M.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Pinhole Resource Center, San Lorenzo, NM
Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR
Seattle City Light Art Collection, Seattle, WA
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Tashkent Cultural Center, Tashkent, USSR
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England