Zoe Strauss

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Zoe Strauss
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Strauss in 2011
Born1970 (age 52–53)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Known forPhotography
Website www.zoestrauss.com

Zoe Strauss (born 1970) is an American photographer [1] and a nominee member of Magnum Photos. [2] She uses Philadelphia as a primary setting and subject for her work. [1] [2] Curator Peter Barberie identifies her as a street photographer, like Walker Evans or Robert Frank, and has said "the woman and man on the street, yearning to be heard, are the basis of her art." [3]

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In 2006 her work was included in the Whitney Biennial [4] and her solo exhibition, Ramp Project: Zoe Strauss, was shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. [5] In 2012 a mid-career retrospective, Zoe Strauss: 10 Years, was shown at Philadelphia Museum of Art, [6] accompanied in Philadelphia by a display of 54 billboards showing her photographs, and at the International Center of Photography in New York City.

Strauss received a Seedling Award from the Leeway Foundation in 2002, [7] a Pew Fellowship in 2005, [8] a USA Gund Fellowship and a grant of $50,000 by United States Artists in 2007, [9] and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. [10]

Life and work

Strauss was born in 1970 in Philadelphia. [11] Her father died when she was 5. She was the first member of her immediate family to graduate from high school. For her 30th birthday she was given a camera and started photographing in the city's marginal neighborhoods. [12] She is a photo-based installation artist who uses Philadelphia as a primary setting and subject for her work. Strauss typically photographs overlooked (or purposefully avoided) details with a humanist perspective and eye for composure. [13]

In 1995, Strauss started the Philadelphia Public Art Project, a one-woman organization whose mission is to give the citizens of Philadelphia access to art in their everyday lives. [14] Strauss calls the Project an "epic narrative" of her own neighborhood. [14] "When I started shooting, it was as if somewhere hidden in my head I had been waiting for this," she has said. [14]

Between 2000 and 2011, Strauss's photographic work culminated in a yearly Under I-95 show which took place in a public space beneath an I-95 highway overpass in South Philadelphia. [11] She displayed her photographs on concrete bridge supports under the highway and offered photocopies for $5 each. [1] The exhibit Zoe Strauss: 10 Years was organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where it appeared in 2012, and was also shown at the International Center of Photography, New York City, in 2013/2014. [15] [16] The show was a mid-career retrospective, building upon Strauss' ten years of photographic works, shown yearly from 2001 up to 2010. The 2012 exhibition was the first critical assessment of Strauss' ten-year project, [6] [17] and was accompanied by a 250-illustration catalogue, Zoe Strauss: 10 Years. [3]

The 2012 Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition included the installation throughout Philadelphia of 54 billboards featuring Strauss' photographs. Although they could be viewed individually, the images were loosely structured around the themes of the Odyssey, journey and homecoming. [18] In this, the Billboard Project was similar to Strauss' annual I-95 exhibition which she describes as an "epic narrative about the beauty and struggle of everyday life". [19] The Billboard Project included photographs from Strauss's travels around the country, from the Gulf of Mexico to Fairbanks, AK. [18] [19]

She frequently photographs near her grandparents' former home at 16th and Susquehanna. [20] Her photographs include shuttered buildings, empty parking lots and vacant meeting halls in South Philadelphia. Strauss says her work is "a narrative about the beauty and difficulty of everyday life." [21]

In July 2012 Strauss was elected into the Magnum Photos agency as a nominee. [2]

Strauss served as a Dodd Chair (2014–2015) at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. [22]

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Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

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Commissions

Collections

Strauss' work is held in the following permanent public collection:

Awards

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