Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Marco Breuer

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Delhi, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000, 2001, 2004

Marco Breuer is a German-born photographer and visual artist. Breuer has exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and Europe. One-person museum exhibitions include Line of Sight at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, New Pictures 2: Marco Breuer at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and Circa 1999 at the MIT List Visual Art Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Morgan Library & Museum, the International Center of Photography, the Drawing Center, and White Columns in New York, the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. His work is in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the George Eastman Museum in Rochester; the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; the Art Institute of Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany. Breuer is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship (2006) and the inaugural Larry Sultan Photography Award (2015). Monographs of Marco Breuer’s work include SMTWTFS (Roth Horowitz, 2002), Early Recordings (Aperture, 2007), and Col·or (Blackdog, 2015). Breuer has been a guest lecturer at Yale School of Art, Rutgers University, Princeton University, and the San Francisco Art Institute, among others; and has taught photography at New York’s School of Visual Arts, and in the MFA program at Bard College.

Studios

New Hampshire

Marco Breuer worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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