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2009 AWARDS|EXHIBITIONS|PUBLICATIONS|LECTURES


AWARDS

Artist in Residence, Winter 2009, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA  


ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

Subhankar Banerjee: PHOTOGRAPHS  
Jaffe-Friede Art Gallery, Hopkins Center for the Arts | Curator Professor Gerald Auten
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 13 - February 8, 2009
Monograph with essay by Professor Karl Jacoby of Brown University | READ ONLINE  
THE DARTMOUTH   | THE DARTMOUTH FREE PRESS   | INSTALLATION PHOTOS  
In 2007 Subhankar had a one-person exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College  

ARKTIS
The CoalMine Fotogalerie, Volkart House, Winterthur, Switzerland | April 22 - July 25
Curator Katri Burri | COALMINE FOTOGALERIE ANNOUCEMENT  
KUNST BULLETIN ARTIKEL, 7/2009  


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Focus on Photography: Works from 1950 to Today
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 13 - March 8 2009
This exhibition will present a broad genre of artists including Diane Arbus, Subhankar Banerjee, Edward Burtynsky, William Christenberry, Rineke Dijkstra, Walker Evans, Lotte Jacobi, Nikki S. Lee, Loretta Lux, Sally Mann, James Nachtwey, Sebastiao Salgado, Stephen Shore, Malick Sidibe, Joel Sternfeld, Andy Warhol, Carrie Mae Weems among others
Curator Emily S. Burke | Subhankar will lead a gallery talk on Feb. 3 |  

Picturing the Process: Exploring the Art and Science of Photography
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, February 7 - July 25 2009 | MOPA WEBPAGE  

And for all this, nature is never spent  
Pelham Art Center in collaboration with Fordham University, New York. Catalog | March 13 - April 25, 2009
Subhankar Banerjee, Sue Coe, Mark Jones, Stephanie Lempert, Jesse Potts, Samm Kunce, Christy Rupp,
Alan Sonfist, Chris Sollars and Susan Unterberg | PRESS RELEASE  
Curator Professor Jo Anna Isaak | Catalog with text by Fordham University students
THE NEW YORK TIMES ART REVIEW BY BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO  


PUBLICATIONS

Art in America, Subhankar Banerjee: An Interview by poet Debora Kuan (forthcoming)  
Kunst Bulletin, Artikel, Switzerland, July 2009  
American Art Journal, essay on Ecocritical Art History by Alan C. Braddock, Summer 2009  
The New York Times, Benjamin Genocchio review of And For All This Nature Is Never Spent, March 27  
ARTCO Magazine, Eco Art - Cover Story, March 2009, Taipei, Taiwan  
Monograph with essay by Professor Karl Jacoby of Brown University, January 2009
      Published by Dartmouth College Artist-in-Residence Program | READ ONLINE  
Dr. Kelley Wilder, Photography and Science, Reaktion Books, London, Spring 2009  
Popular Photography, My Photos Made a Difference, by Lori Fredrickson, June 2009  
The Alaska Native Reader: History, Culture, Politics, Editor Professor Maria Sháa Tláa Williams
      Contributed essay and cover photograph, Duke University Press (forthcoming)  
Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Fall 2009
      Published by Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College and University Press of New England  
Professor Finis Dunaway, Reframing the Last Frontier: Subhankar Banerjee and the Visual Politics of the
      Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
, to appear in the anthology A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in
      American Art History
, edited by Professors Alan C. Braddock and Christoph Irmscher, with a foreword by
      Professor Lawrence Buell, University of Alabama Press, November 2009, Fall catalog (pg. 28)  


ARTIST LECTURES

Artist-in-Residence | Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire | Winter 2009  
      Artist Lecture, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, January 13
      Conversation with Studio Art Faculty and Hood Museum of Art Staff, January 22
      Conversation with Sarah James and Robert Thompson - Gwich'in and Inupiat perspectives, January 29
      Gallery talk on Focus on photography: Works from 1950 to Today exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Feb. 3

Public Event | Seattle YMCA, Seattle, WA
      Subhankar Banerjee and Winona LaDuke | March 18, 2009  

Visiting Artist | Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
      April 6-7, 2009 | CRITICAL ENCOUNTERS - HUMAN|NATURE  

Joan and Dick Stroud Memorial Lecture | Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale, PA
      April 9, 2009  


2008 EXHIBITS|LECTURES|PUBLICATIONS

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

Resource Wars | Sundaram Tagore Gallery  
      New York, New York, March 25 – April 19, 2008 | INSTALLATION PHOTOS  
      Beverly Hills, California, July 19 – August 17, 2008
Catalog | INTRODUCTION PETER MATTHIESSEN   | ESSAY DR. KELLEY E. WILDER   | TEXT BOOKLET  
Reviews | ART IN AMERICA by DEBORA KUAN   | THE NEW SCIENTIST by ANDREW ROBINSON  


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Feeling The Heat: Art, Science, and Climate Change
Deutsche Bank Art Gallery, New York, New York, May 20 - October 24, 2008
Curator Liz Christensen | DB ARTMAG INTERVIEW   | CURATOR'S INTRODUCTION  

Polar Attractions
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, June 28, 2008 - June 7, 2009
Curator Janey Winchell | PEM ANNOUNCEMENT  

Dimensions of Color | Summer Group Exhibition
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Beverly Hills, California, August 23 - October 5, 2008

In Your Mind's Eye | Summer Group Exhibition
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, New York, July 24 - August 30, 2008

Envisioning Change: Melting Ice - A Hot Topic
United Nations Environment Programme & Natural World Museum, catalog
Curator Randy Jayne Rosenberg
Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway, June 5 - September 7, 2007
Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, October 5, 2007 - January 6, 2008
    BRUSSELS CLIMATE CHANGE SYMPOSIUM  
Ministry of Culture, Monaco, February 14, 2008 - March 20, 2008
The FIeld Museum, Chicago, United States, April 18 - September 6, 2008
NWM ANNOUNCEMENT         INSTALLATION PHOTOS [pdf 3.4MB]  

Unlearning Intolerance: Art Changing Attitudes Toward The Environment
United Nations Headquarters, New York | Seminar: May 8, 2008 | Exhibition: May 2 - May 31, 2008
United Nations Department of Public Information, UNEP, and the Natural World Museum
UNITED NATIONS ANNOUNCEMENT   | ARTIST PROFILES  
Press Coverage | USA   | INDIA   | CHINA   | UAE   | EARTHTIMES ARTICLE  
Curator Randy Jayne Rosenberg

Arctic Wings: Miracle of Migration
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle, Washington, September 13 - December 31, 2008
BURKE ANNOUNCEMENT  


ARTIST RESIDENCIES AND LECTURES

Gender on Ice: The Virginia C. Gildersleeve Conference, Barnard College, New York
      THE SCHOLAR & FEMINIST JOURNAL, FALL 2008   | SUBHANKAR CONTRIBUTION  
      November 20-21, 2008 | THE CONFERENCE   | BCRW FALL NEWSLETTER (pg. 6-7,20-21)  

Visiting Scholar | College of Humanities, University of Utah, Salt Lake City | Fall 2008  
      Lyceum Lecture - Peter Matthiessen and Subhankar Banerjee, Nov. 13, 2008 | LISTEN ONLINE  
      Subhankar taught a graduate level class land-as-home at the College of Humanities

Visiting Artist | F.A.R. (Future Arts Research) at ASU, Phoenix, Arizona | Fall 2008  
      Lecture at Global Institute of Sustainability at ASU, October 2, 2008, 7pm  

Unlearning Intolerance Seminar, United Nations, New York, May 8, 2008 |  ANNOUNCEMENT  

Agents of Change: Art and Advocacy
      45th National Conference of the Society for Photographic Education
      Denver, March 13 - 16, 2008 | Featured Speaker (canceled due to health issue) |  ANNOUNCEMENT  


PUBLICATIONS

Gender on Ice: A Special Issue of The Scholar and Feminist Journal, Invited Contributor, Fall 2008
      THE SCHOLAR & FEMINIST JOURNAL, FALL 2008   | SUBHANKAR CONTRIBUTION  
click! Photography Changes Everything: A Project of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative  
      Curator Marvin Heiferman | SUBHANKAR CONTRIBUTION   | ALL CONTRIBUTORS  
Art in America: Review by Debora Kuan of Resource Wars exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
      June/July 2008 | READ ONLINE  
Art in America: Global Warnings, Feature essay by Dr. Suzaan Boettger
      June/July 2008 | READ ONLINE  
Once a Physicist, Physics World - magazine of the Institute of Physics | READ ONLINE  
EYE: Sunday Magazine of The Indian Express, Cover Profile Story by Irena Akbar, June 1, 2008
      READ ONLINE  
The Arctic Oil Rush, Vanity Fair, May 2008
      Text by Alex Shoumatoff | Photographs by Subhankar Banerjee | VANITY FAIR  
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, The Library of America, April 2008
      Edited by Bill McKibben | Foreword by Al Gore | Contributed Photographs | LOA  


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