BRIAN ULRICH

EDUCATION
MFA, Photography, Columbia College Chicago, 2004; BFA, Photography, University of Akron, 1996

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
TBA, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY [Spring 2009]
Copia, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, [September 28–December 14, 2008]
Thrift, Quality Pictures, Portland, OR [Jan–Mar, 2008]
notifbutwhen, Mississippi State University, MS [Feb 26–Mar 30, 2007]
Melodramas of Consumption, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois, Champaign, [Jan 22–Feb 23 2007]
Copia, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY [Jan 4–Feb 10, 2007]
Copia, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA [Dec 16, 2006–May 13, 2007]
Thrift, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL [Dec 1, 2006 – Jan 6, 2007]
Copia, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA [July 6–Sept 2, 2006]
12 x 12: New Artists/New Work: Shoppers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL [Mar 4–31, 2005]
Copia, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL [Sept, 10–Oct 30, 2004]
Produce, Protect, Project, Millworks Gallery, Akron, OH [1999]
Harmony, Dissonance, Harmony, Millworks Gallery, Akron, OH [1996]

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Dystopia, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA [ February 2009]
Lost in the Supermarket, Armand Bartos Gallery, NY [November 21 – December 19, 2008]
Made in Chicago, Photographs from the LaSalle Bank Collection,  Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL [October 18, 2008 – January 4, 2009]
Revisiting America, Bond St. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY [October 15 - November 15, 2008]
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Carnegie Museum of Art [October 4, 2008 - January 18, 2009]
Signs, Mt Tremper Arts Festival, Mt. Tremper, NY [July 19 - Aug 31, 2008]
About Art: Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich, City Gallery, Chicago [May 15 - Aug 3, 2008]
Variable Capital, Bluecoats Arts Centre, Liverpool, UK [Apr 17- May 29, 2008]
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN [Feb 16–May 18, 2008]
Branded and On Display, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ [Jun 14–Sept 21, 2008]
Branded and On Display, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA [Jan 17–Mar 30, 2008]
Cornucopia: Documenting the Land of Plenty, Montserrat College of Art Gallery , MA [Nov 8, 2007–Feb 2, 2008]
Ad | Agency, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA [Nov 8, 2007–Jan 27, 2008]
Chicagraphy, Gallerie f5.6, Munich, Germany [Sept 14–Nov 3, 2007]
Stalking Surburbia, Westport Arts Center, CT [Sept 14–Oct 26, 2007]
The New American Portrait, Jen Bekman Gallery, NY [June 13–July 21, 2007]
Photocentric, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN [Mar 31–May 27, 2007]
Branded and On Display, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL [Jan 27–Apr 1, 2007]
People Buildings and Cars, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT [Feb 2–Mar, 2007]
The Field, Jamaica Center for Arts, Jamaica, NY [Jan 27–Mar 24, 2007]
On Death and Dying, Galberg Gallery, College of DuPage, IL [Jan 25–Mar 3, 2007]
Four Freedoms, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA [Oct 13–Nov 11, 2006]
MP3, Kelli Connell, Justin Newhall, and Brian Ulrich, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL [Aug 18–Oct 14, 2006]
Point of Purchase, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY [July 29–Sept 24, 2006]
tinyvices, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY [Mar 9–Apr 8, 2006]
The Armory Show, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY [Mar 9–13, 2006]
Marcia Wood Gallery: Palm Beach 3 Contemporary Art Fair,West Palm Beach, FL [Jan 12–16, 2006]
Aus Amerika: Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany [Dec 17, 2005–Jan 22, 2006]
Photocentric, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN [Nov 19, 2005–Jan 15, 2006]
On the Scene: Jessica Rowe, Jason Salavon, and Brian Ulrich, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL [Nov 12, 2005–Jan 28, 2006]
Domestic Disturbance, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL [Oct 23–Nov 20, 2005]
The New Chicagoans (Select Media Festival), Iron Studios, Chicago, IL [Oct 21–Nov 13, 2005]
Photography 2005: Double Exposure, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL [Oct 8, 2005]
Servings, City Gallery, Chicago, IL [July 22­–Oct 10, 2005]
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie/Festival d’Arles, Arles, France [July 5–10, 2005]
Contemporary American Photography, Cologne, Germany [June 16–July 10, 2005]
Skinless Capital: Neoliberalism & Resistance, Opensource Art Gallery, Urbana-Champaign [Apr 2005]
Other America, Exit Art, New York, NY [Feb 22–May 11, 2005]
Manufactured Self, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL [Jan 7–Mar 3, 2005]
Frozen in Light, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL [Sept 10–Oct 9, 2004]
Unframed First Look, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY [Jul 28–Aug 6, 2004]
17th Annual Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL [May 30–July 11, 2004]
Fellowship 2004, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA [June 2–Aug 21, 2004]
FACT/FICTION, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT  [May 14–June 25, 2004]
ArtChicago, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL [May 6–10, 2004]
2003 Center Awards, Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA [Oct 24–Nov 21, 2003]
Union League Civic and Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL [June 2003]
ArtChicago, "Chicago Area Billboard Project," Chicago, IL [May 9–12, 2003]

PUBLICATIONS
Kansas City Star, ‘Copia’ at Nerman Museum of Art, October, 2008
New York Times Magazine, ‘No More Free Bubble’, Roger Lowenstein, July 27, 2008
Vice Magazine, Thrift, August 2008
Orion, ‘The Gospel of Consumption’, Jeffrey Kaplan, May/June, 2008
Lumpen Magazine, 'Leah Evans', Issue 109, 2008
YVI Magazine, ‘Brian Ulrich - Copia’, Joerg Colberg, No. 2, June 2008
Le Monde Magazine, ‘La Fin De L'Illusion, pg 66-70, Jeffrey Madrick, July 2008
D La Republicca, ‘Brian Ulrich: Thrift’, No. 601, June 2008
Proximity Magazine, 'Artist Portfolio', No. 1 2008
The American, 'American Seen', pg 96, March/April 2008
Presumed Innocence, ‘Photographic Perspectives of Children’, Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 2008
Harper’s Magazine, ‘Fear of Fallowing’, pg. 88 Steven Stoll, March 2008
‘Act of Faith’, Noorderlicht, Wim Melis, 2007
ARTnews, ‘'Brian Ulrich: The Tough Go Shopping’, Richard B. Woodward, November, 2007
The New York Times, ‘They Walk (Silently) Among You: The Suburban Photographers, Benjamin Genocchio, September 30, 2007
A Field Guide to the North American Family, Garth Risk Halberg, October, 2007
Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, Robert Hirsch,Focal Press, September, 2007Time Magazine, August, 2007
Time Out Chicago, ‘The Photo Issue’, August, 2007
The New York Times Magazine, ‘You Are What You Grow’, April 22, 2007
Photo District News, ‘PDN’ 30, March 2007
Mother Jones Magazine, ‘Happiness’, March/April 2007
Phat Photo (Japan), ‘Brian Ulrich’, March/April 2007
The New Yorker, ‘Brian Ulrich’, February 5, 2007
The New York Times, ‘Brian Ulrich, Copia’, February 2, 2007
Branded and On Display, Krannert Art Museum, exhibition catalogue, 2007
Jaar Magazine, ‘Leven in de Aanbieding’, 2006/2007
Chicago Tribune, ‘Still materialism, even when the material is second-hand’, Alan Artner, Dec 22, 2006
Harper’s Magazine, ‘Ambient Parking Lot’, Jan 2007
New City Chicago, ‘Consumer Culture Clash’, Burt Michaels, Dec 5, 2006
MP3: Midwest Photographers Project, “Copia”, Aperture/Museum of Contemporary Photography, 2006
ArtForum, ‘Brian Ulrich, Robert Koch Gallery’, Glen Helfand,October 2006
Photo-Eye Booklist, ‘MP3 Midwestern Photographers’, & ‘Publishing the Photographic Book’, Zane Fischer, Mary Virginia Swanson, Winter 2006
Seeing & Writing 2, textbook, Donald McQuade, Christine McQuade, 2006
Photography Quarterly, “Photography Now, juried by Dana Faconti”, 2006
Chicago Tribune Magazine, Feb 5, 2006
Leica World, 2/2005, September 2005
Mouvement Magazine (France), No. 35, July–Aug 2005, pp. 104–105
Fotopozytyw Magazine (Poland), July 2005
Adbusters Magazine, 2008 - 2004
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, 2005
Exklusiv Magazine (Poland), No. 23, Nov 2004, pp. 52–57, featured “Galeria: Brian Ulrich”
Photo District News EDU, Vol. 3, Issue 2, Fall 2004, pp. frontispiece, 6, 10
Sites, 6x6 Series, Columbia College, No. 3, Apr 2004

GRANTS/AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
Wright Auction House Commission, Chicago, IL [Oct, 2007]
Photo District News 30 Emerging Photographers, nomination by Martin Parr [Mar 2007]
Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship, Chicago, IL [Jan 2007]
Nominee, John Gutmann Fellowship, San Francisco, CA [Oct 2006]
Shortlist, Saatchi Gallery and the Guardian UK, ‘Your Gallery’ [Sept 2006]
Finalist, Critical Mass 2005 [Feb 2006]
Finalist, Leica Oskar Barnack Award [May 2005]
City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Community Arts Assistance Grant [Mar 2005]
Finalist, First Book Award, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University [Nov 2004]
Jurors Award, Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston, IL [June 2004]
Honorable Mention, FACT/FICTION, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT [May 2004]
Honorable Mention, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA [May 2004]
Stuart and Iris Baum Grant, Chicago, IL [Nov 2003]
Albert P. Weisman Scholarship, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL [Nov 2003]
Jack Jaffe Purchase Award, Chicago, IL [2002]
Follett Fellowship, Columbia College Chicago, IL [Fall 2001 – Spring 2002]

COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
North Carolina Museum of Art, NC
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, KS
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Akron Art Museum, OH
LaSalle Bank / Bank of America, Chicago, IL
Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
Larry Fields Collection, Chicago, IL

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Workshop, Digitatography, Maine Photographic Workshops [August 2009]
Workshop, Digitatography, Myers School of Art, Akron, OH [June 2009]
Part-time Faculty, Photography Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL [Aug 2006 to present]
Adjunct Faculty, Photography Instructor, Columbia College, Chicago, IL [June 2004 to present]
Photography Instructor, Minneapolis, College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN [Summer 2006]
Artist-Educator (Photography), Marwen Foundation, Chicago, IL [Oct 2005]
Artist-Educator (Photography), Arts Camp 2005, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago [June–Aug 2005]
Part-time Faculty/Teaching Artist (Photography), Gallery37 Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL [Aug 2004–June 2005]
Photography Instructor, Academy of Communications and Technology Charter School, Chicago, IL [Sept–Dec 2003]
Photography Teaching Assistant, Columbia College, Chicago, IL [Jan–May 2003]
Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL [Oct 2001–Sept 2004]
Part-time Faculty, Photography Instructor, The University of Akron, School of Art, Akron, OH [Jan 2000–May 2001]
Exhibition Technician, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH [June 1997–Aug 2001]
Director of Exhibitions/Preparator, Howard Greenberg Gallery/Gallery 292, New York, NY [Sept 1996–May 1997]

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
Midwest SPE Conference, Cleveland, OH [Nov 6-8, 2008]
Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI [Oct 13, 2008]
Nerman Museum of Art, Overland Park, KS [Sept 28, 3008]
Haggerty Museum of Art, Panel Discussion, Milwaukee, WI [Sept 18, 2008]
Aperture Foundation, Panel Discussion, NY [Sept 16, 2008]
Light Factory, Charlotte, NC [March 6, 2008]
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA [Nov 29–30, 2007]
Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, OH, [Nov 5–6, 2007]
East Tennessee State University, [Oct 19–20, 2007]
The Art Institute of Chicago, ‘Photography in the Digital Age’, Panel Discussion, [Sept 20, 2007]
Photoshelter Tour, Chicago, IL [Sept 19, 2007]
Coalition of Photographic Arts, Milwaukee, WI [July 28–29, 2007]
St. Edwards University, Austin, TX [April, 20, 21 2007]
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA [Mar 22, 2007)
Mississippi State University [Mar 1, 2007]
SPE National Conference, Miami, FL [Mar 15 - 18, 2007]
Youngstown State University, OH [Feb 21, 2007]
Aperture Foundation, NYC [Feb 6, 2007]
Residency, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL [Jan 2007]
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN [Nov. 13, 14, 2006]
San Francisco Art Institute, Lecture w/Bill Owens, San Francisco, CA [Oct 18, 2006]
School of the International Center of Photography, New York, NY [Mar 11, 2006]
New Trier High School, Wilmette, IL [Mar 2006]
Society for Photographic Education Conference, Chicago, IL [Mar 2006]
Minneapolis Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN [Jan 2006]
Artists Connect: Brian Ulrich connects with Gustave Caillebotte, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL [Nov 2005]
Domestic Disturbance Panel Discussion, Evanston, IL [Oct 2005]
Influence: Art + Design Panel Discussion, Chicago, IL [Apr 2005]
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL [Mar 2005]
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA [Jan 2005]
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL [Jan 2005]
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL [Nov 2004]
Marwen, Chicago, IL [Nov 2004; July 2004]
Columbia College, Chicago, IL [Oct 2004, Apr 2005]
Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL [Sept 2004]
Gallery37 Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL [Mar 2004]

SELECTED FREELANCE ACTIVITIES
New York Times Magazine [December 2008]
Readymade Magazine [October 2008]
New York Times Style Magazine [August 2008]
Art & Auction Magazine [August 2008]
Kiplingers Magazine [June 2008]
Craft Magazine [March 2008]
Newsweek [March 2008]
New York Times Magazine, [Nov 2007]
Conde Nast Portfolio, [Nov 2007]
Photo District News, [Sept 2007]
New York Times Style Magazine [March 2007]
Spin Magazine [Aug 2006]
WIRED Magazine [Sept 2004; June 2005; July 2005; Sept 2005; Nov 2005, Feb 2006]
Seed Magazine [Sept 2005; Nov 2005]
Time Out Chicago [Apr 2005]
Chicago Magazine [Feb 2005; Jan 2005]
Computer Arts Magazine [Nov 2004]
New York Times Magazine [Sept 2004; June 2005]
New York Times Magazine [Mar 2004]
The New Yorker [Dec 2003]
Salvation Army Annual Report [June 2003]