raymond meeks raymondmeeks@earthlink.net
Raymond Meeks (Ohio, 1963) has been recognized for his books and pictures centered on memory and place, the way in which a landscape can shape an individual and, in the abstract, how a place possesses you in its absence. His books have been described as a field or vertical plane for examining interior co-existences, as life moves in circles and moments and events—often years apart—unravel and overlap, informing new meanings.
Raymond Meeks lives and works in the Hudson Valley (New York). His work is represented in numerous private and public collections. He is the sixth laureate of Immersion, a French-American photography commission sponsored by Fondation d’entreprise Hermès. Exhibitions from this commission are scheduled for New York (ICP September, 2023) and Paris (Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson September, 2024). The Inhabitants, a book made in collaboration with writer George Weld, was published in August 2023 by MACK
Raymond Meeks is a 2020 recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography and was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2022.
Born: Columbus, Ohio 1963
Education: The Ohio State University Social Anthropology
Recent Group and Solo Exhibitions
The Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, FR 2024
Musée des Beaux-Arts Mulhouse Biennale, Mulhouse, FR 2024
International Center of Photography. The Inhabitants. New York. 2023
Casemore Paris Photo Geography of Abandonment Paris 20222
Fotografia Europea halfstory halflife. Reggio Emilia, Italy 2021
Paris Photo. halfstory halflife Paris. 2019
Unseen Photo Fair seven kinds of loneliness Amsterdam 2019
Casemore Kirkeby sonder San Francisco. 2019
Peckham 24 For Those Who Could See Beyond The Surface. London 2019
Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen housekeeping 2018
Charles Hartman Gallery halfstory halflife Portland 2018
Unseen Photo Fairciprian honey cathedral 2018 Amsterdam 2018
Unseen Photo Fair halfstory halflife Amsterdam 2016
Seen Fifteen Gallery burning with pleasure London 2016
Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen cabbage white Amsterdam 2016
Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam 2016
Unseen Photo Fair furlong Amsterdam 2015
Hartman Fine Art in love with drama Portland, OR 2015
Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen in love with drama Amsterdam 2015
Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery where objects fall away Syracuse University 2014
Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam 2014
Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen where objects fall away Amsterdam 2014
Charles Hartman Fine Art Shine Portland 2014
Tokyo Institute for Photography 10x10 American Photobooks Japan 2013
ICP Triennial Reading Room a different kind of order New York 2013
Galerie Camera Obscura Summer Exhibition Paris 2012
Charles A. Hartman Fine Art Amwell | Continuum Portland 2011
Galerie Camera Obscura C'estl"ete Paris 2009
PDX Contemporary Catch All Portland 2009
AIPAD Photography Show New York 2009
Galerie Camera Obscura a Clearing Paris 2009
Collections
George Eastman House, NY
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Columbus Museum of Fine Arts
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art, Washing, D.C.
Bibliotheque Nationale, France.
Museum of Modern Art Library, NYC
Bibliography (partial)
The Inhabitants. MACK. Autumn 2023
Geography of Abandonment Origini Edizioni Winter 2022
Somersault MACK Autumn 2021
ciprian honey cathedral MACK Autumn 2020
halfstory halflife chose commune 2018
ciprian honey cathedral dumbsaint 2018
Township dumbsaint 01 / TIS Books 2017
winter farm auction 1.2016 dumbsaint 2016
in love with drama dumbsaint February 2015
erasure TBW Books October 2013
2 solitudes dumbsaint January 2013
pretty girls wander dumbsaint October 2011
orchard vol. 1 crime victims chronicle (deborah luster)
orchard vol. 2 not seen | not said (wes mills)
orchard vol. 3 idyll (mark steinmetz)
amwell nazraeli press Winter 2010
who will stay dumbsaint September 2010
amwell | continuum dumbsaint April 2010
carousel dumbsaint December 2009
middle air dumbsaint June 2009
doctrine of an axe Nazraeli Press 2008
a Clearing Nazraeli Press 2008
Sound of Summer Running Nazraeli Press 20
teaching, visiting artist, lectures
University of Nebraska Visiting Artist. Autumn 2023
R.I.T. Visiting Artist. Autumn 2023
Bard College, Artist in Residence in Photography Spring 2021
Aperture Foundation, NYC Editing and Sequencing the Photo Book (co-taught with Justine Kurland) 2015
Rhode Island School of Design The Photo Book 2014-2015
Yale School of Art 2014, 2015
Hartford Art School MFA Photography 2014, 2015