1969
born in Minneapolis, Lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Selected Solo Exhibitions
I M ART (Seoul, Korea) 2009
Gagosian Gallery (New York, NY) 2009
Haunch of Venison (Z¸rich, Switzerland) 2008
Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur, Switzerland) 2008
Stephen Daiter Gallery (Chicago, IL) 2008
BBK (Bilbao, Spain) 2008
Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN) 2008
Jeu de Paume (Paris, France) 2008
Weinstein Gallery (Minneapolis, MN) 2007
Power House (Memphis, TN) 2007
Host Gallery (London, UK) 2007
California Museum of Photography, UC-Riverside (Riverside, CA) 2006
Weinstein Gallery (Minneapolis, MN) 2006
Wohnmaschine (Berlin, Germany) 2006
Gagosian Gallery (New York, NY) 2006
Des Moines Art Center (Des Moines, IA) 2006
Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN) 2005
Open Eye (Liverpool, UK) 2004
Wohnmaschine (Berlin, Germany) 2004
Weinstein Gallery (Minneapolis, MN) 2004
Stephen Wirtz Gallery (San Francisco, CA) 2004
Yossi Milo Gallery (New York, NY) 2004
Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL) 2003
Weitman Gallery of Photography (Washington University, St. Louis, MO) 2003
Selected Group Exhibitions
National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC) 2008
Museu Collecao Berardo (Lisbon, Spain) 2008
Gagosian Gallery (New York, NY) 2007
Jen Bekman (New York, NY) 2007
Cinémathéque Francaise (Paris, France) 2007
Yossi Milo Gallery (New York, NY) 2007
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, England) 2007
Koldo Mitxelena (San Sebastian, Spain) 2007
Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels, Belgium) 2006
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Madison, WI) 2006
The Photographers' Gallery (London, UK) 2006
Haus der Kunst (Munich, Germany) 2006
Columbia University's Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery (New York, NY) 2006
George Eastman House (Rochester, NY) 2006
Timezone 8 Editions (Beijing, China) 2005
T.H. InSide (Milan, Italy) 2005
MassMoCA (North Adams, MA) 2005
Gagosian Gallery (New York, NY) 2005
Cohan and Leslie (New York, NY) 2005
Wirtz Gallery (San Francisco, CA) 2005
Jackson Fine Art (Atlanta, Georgia) 2005
North Carolina Art Museum (Raleigh, NC) 2005
Pace / MacGill (New York, NY) 2004
Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo (São Paulo, Brazil) 26th Bienal de São Paulo, 2004
ArtChicago 2004 Artist Booth (Chicago, IL) 2004
Whitney Musuem of American Art (New York, NY) Whitney Biennial, 2004
Alice Austen Museum (Staten Island, NY) 2003
Selected Public and Private Collections
Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
General Mills Corporate Art Collection, Golden Valley, MN
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Progressive Corporate Art Collection, Cleveland, OH
Regis Corporate Art Collection, Minneapolis, MN
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Fellowships and Prizes
PhotoVision Award 2008
Bush Artist Fellowship 2008
Golden Light Book Award 2006
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2006 (finalist)
CEPA Artist Residency 2005
McKnight Photography Fellowship, 2004
Santa Fe Prize for Photography, 2003
Minnesota State Arts Board, 2001
MCAD / Jerome Fellowship, 2001
Jerome Travel and Study Grant, 2001
McKnight Photography Fellowship, 1999
Publications
Last Days of W. Little Brown Mushroom, 2008.
Dog Days, Bogotá. Steidl: Göttingen, 2007.
Fashion Magazine. Photographs by Alec Soth. Magnum: Paris, 2007.
XL Photograpy 3. Hatje Cantz, 2007.
The Image To Come: How Cinema Inspires Photographers. Steidl: Göttingen, 2007.
Between the Lakes: Artists Respond to Madison. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art: Madison, 2006.
Image Makers, Image Takers. Thames and Hudson: London, 2006.
Vitamin Ph. Phaidon Press: London, 2006.
NIAGARA. Photographs by Alec Soth. Essays by Richard Ford and Philip Brookman. Steidl: Göttingen, 2006.
Granta. The Making of Parts. Photoessay by Alec Soth. Issue 89. 2004.
Sleeping by the Mississippi. Photographs by Alec Soth, essays by Patricia Hampl and Anne Wilkes Tucker. Steidl: Göttingen, 2004.
Vantage Points: Campus as Place. Photographs by Alec Soth, Beth Dow, Chris Faust. Carleton College Press: Northfield, 2002.
Linked to the Future: Minneapolis and St. Paul. Six b/w plates by Alec Soth. Towery Publishing, Inc: Memphis, 1997.
Visiting Artist Lecture Venues
Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, NY
Art Guild Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota
California College of Art, Oakland, CA
Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Eastern Tennessee University, Memphis, TN
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
International Center for Photography, New York, NY
Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
PhotoMidwest, Madison, WI
PhotoLA, Los Angeles, CA
PhotoSF, San Francisco, CA
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
San Francisco Photo Alliance, San Francisco, CA
The Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
The Photographers' Gallery, London
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
University of Louisville, KY
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
