Discipline: Visual Art – photography

David Goldes

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Minneapolis, MN
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002, 2003

David Goldes is a visual artist and faculty member at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His work (photographs, drawings, video and sculpture), is based on his examination of historical research into the nature of physical phenomena and is held in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Bibliotheque Nationale in France, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Yale University Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Bush Foundation and the McKnight Foundation. Educated in the sciences and arts, he received a MA from Harvard University in Molecular Genetics and and an MFA from SUNY Buffalo in Photography. His work is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery in New York.

Studios

Nef

David Goldes worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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