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Grants, Awards & Commissions
Illinois Arts Council Grant, 2019
Individual Artist Fellowship
Book Prize: Traditional Prize Winner, Lucie Foundation, Los Angeles
“Here/Still/Now”, October, 2018
Best Photography Books of the Year, PDN Photo Annual, New York, NY
“Here/Still/Now”, May 2018
Finalist, Portrait Competition, Lensculture, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Portraits from “Here/Still/Now”, April 2018
Lightwork Residency Award, Syracuse New York, July 2016
Month long Residency and Honorarium to work on self directed projects
The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 2016
Finalist, Washington, D.C.
The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Grant, 2013
Grant to support the mounting of We Shall exhibition and publish the catalogue
The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 2013
Prize Winner and Special Commendation, Washington, D.C.
Morningstar Portrait Commission, 2008,
Portraits of clients in San Francisco, L.A., Princeton, London, Leeds & Amsterdam
Illinois Arts Council Grant, 2005,
Individual Artist Fellowship
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Subvention Grant, 2004,
Grant to aid in the publication of Barrio
Santa Fe Prize for Photography, 2004,
Finalist, Project Launch Competition
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, 2002,
Individual Artist Fellowship
Portland Museum of Art “Open House” Commission, 2002,
Commission to create an installation in the renovated McLellan House
National Millennium Survey Commission, 1999 – 2000,
Commission to photograph Men’s Social Clubs for traveling exhibition and book
The Rockefeller Foundation, 1998,
Residency at the Bellagio Study & Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy
New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1995,
Individual Artist Fellowship
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1994,
Individual Artist Fellowship
Maine Arts Commission Fellowship, 1993,
Individual Artist Fellowship
Blanche E. Colman Award, 1991,
Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co.
Illinois Arts Council Grant, 1989,
Individual Artist Fellowship
Reed College Travel Grant, 1978,
Grant to photograph and travel by freight train across the U.S.
Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, North Carolina
DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago, Illinois
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
LaSalle Bank Collection, Chicago, Illinois
Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Northlight Gallery at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
Readers Digest, Pleasantville, New York
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee
Selected Exhibitions
U.S. Blues, Kehrer Galerie, Berlin Germany
July 14 to September 8, 2018, four-person show
LensCulture Portrait Competition Finalists:
Les Rencontres d’Arles. Arles, France July 2 – 7, 2018
Photo London, May 17 – 20, 2018, Somerset House, London
Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Art Institute of Chicago
May through August, 2018, Chicago, IL
Don’t Forget to Move Your Feet, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago IL
September to November 2017, solo retrospective exhibition
The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
March 2016 to January 2017, Travelling Exhibition to:
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO – Oct. 6, 2017 to Jan. 7, 2018
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX – June 2, 2017 to September 10, 2017
Tacoma Art Museum, WA – February 4, 2017 to May 14, 2017
MoCP at 40, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
January – April, 2016, Selected images from the museums collection
We Shall, DeMenil Gallery, Groton, MA
October/November, 2015 one person show
The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
March 2013 to Spring 2014, Prize Winner, Special Commendation
About Face: Contemporary Portraiture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Survey of contemporary photographic portraiture, August, 2013 to January, 2014
We Shall, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois
September, 2013 – Travelling Survey of new work to various locations TBD
We Shall, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
September, 2011, one person exhibition
We Shall, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
September – October, 2010, one person exhibition
Black Is Black Ain’t, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
June 27 – October 17, 2009, traveling exhibition
Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographie, Arles, France
July 8, 2009, presentation of international photography by Yann Linsart, U.S. representative.
Documents: City Life, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
July 31 – September 4, 2009” four person exhibition
Black Is Black Ain’t, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan
February 13 – May 3, 2009, traveling exhibition
Barack Obama Senate Offices, Washington DC
2005 – 2008, suite of photographs representing Chicago
Black Is Black Ain’t, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
April 20 – June, 2008 group exhibition
Anne Harris & Paul D’Amato, Amherst College Gallery of Art, Amherst, Massachusetts
February, 2008, two person show
Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture, Lincoln, Massachusetts, Feb, – April 2008
PIP – China Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao China
Summer 2007 – One of five photographers representing the United States
Paul D’Amato: Barrio, Stephen Daiter Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois
May 2007, one person show
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
July 2005 – Portrait show
Pool Party, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, New York
July 2004, group show of gallery artists
Dwell: Life in the City, New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana, March & April, 2002, Two Person Show
In the Company of Men, Photographs of Men’s Social Clubs, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois, Sept. & Oct. 2002, one person show
Out of Place, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, New York
September, & October, 2001, Solo Exhibition
Two Photographers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine
August to October 2001
National Millennium Survey, Curated by James Enyeart
Fall 2000 – Fall 2001, traveling exhibition to various destinations in the U.S.
Future – Present: Contemporary Photographs of Children, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, January – March 1999,
Occupying the Street, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
January – March 1999, photographs from the collection
Eleven Artists, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts
November 1997 – January 1998
9 Artists, 9 Visions, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
June – August 1996
Perspectives: Paul D’Amato, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
April – July 1996, one person show
The Magic of Play, Grand Central Station, New York, New York
September 1995
The Magic of Play, The Directors Guild, Los Angeles, California
November 1994
Paul D’Amato, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
June and July 1994, North Gallery
Paul D’Amato, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
January – March 1994, one person show
Paul D’Amato, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
December 1993 – One person show
Paul D’Amato, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona
October 1993 – One person show
Paul D’Amato, The Emily Davis Gallery at The University of Akron
November – December 1992, one person show
Paul D’Amato: Pilsen, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts
January – February 1992, one person show
Almost Home, The Graham Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
December – January 1991
New Photography 6, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
October 1990 through January 1991, Three Person Show