Graham Howe

Graham Howe (born 1950) is an Australian curator, writer, photo-historian and artist. He is founder and CEO of Curatorial, Inc., a comprehensive fine art services organisation that also encompasses nonprofit traveling museum exhibitions as well as art collection management and advisory services. Curatorial Inc. manages the E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection and the Paul Outerbridge II Collection among others. Born in Sydney, Australia, Howe now resides in Los Angeles and London.

Education Graham Howe received a Diploma of Art & Design in Photography, Film and Art History, (Hons) in 1971 from Prahran College of Advanced Education, Melbourne, Australia. He continued his tertiary studies in 1976, gaining his Master of Arts degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, California (UCLA) in Painting Sculpture, and Graphic Arts (Majoring in Photography) in 1978 where he studied with Robert Heinecken, achieving his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1979.

Career In 1972, Howe became one of the first employees of The Photographers' Gallery, London, a research assistant at the Royal Photographic Society, London, and, in 1973, the founding Director of the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, where in 1974 he organised an exhibition and publication of contemporary practitioners New photography Australia : a selective survey, and published Aspects of Australian Photography.

In 1976, he became the curator for Graham Nash and from 1977 was Los Angeles Correspondent for the Australian journal Light Vision, to which he contributed a photo-essay Sneaker in the Sky for the January 1978 edition. From 1984 to 1985 he was a visiting curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

In 1988, Howe incorporated Curatorial Assistance, Inc., a company specialising in fine art and museum services, and in 2000 he founded Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organisation that originates and travels exhibitions of art to museums worldwide. In 2025, Howe co-founded Curatorial Gallery, based in South Kensington, London.

Awards National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship Ford Foundation grant Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Los Angeles County Museum of Art Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Artist exhibitions Art of Illusion: Photography and Perceptual Play, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 2021 California Cool: Art in Los Angeles 1960s–70s, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2018-19 Forsaken Utopias: Photographs from the OCMA Permanent Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, California, 2018 Graham Howe: Colour Theory, Rooftop Gallery, Bangkok, 2013 Graham Howe: Color Theory, Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2012 Street Sight, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena. Curated by Tim Wride, 2011. Time Signatures, Grunwald Study Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, 2011 And Howe! Photographs By Graham Howe, 1968–2008, (mid-career survey)California Museum of Photography, Riverside. Curated by Colin Westerbeck, 2009. Graham Howe, Gallery Min, Tokyo, Japan, 1984, publication with essay by Colin Westerbeck Arranged Image Photography, a traveling exhibition organized by the Boise Gallery of Art, 1983–1984 Graham Howe, BC Space, Laguna Beach, California, 1981 Graham Howe, The Photographers’ Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 1980 Invented Images, a traveling exhibition organized by the University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, 1980 Attitudes: Photography in the 1970s, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1979 The Photograph as Artifice, a traveling exhibition organized by The Art Galleries, California State University, 1978

Publications Howe's main area of expertise is early Modern twentieth century photography. He has published extensively on the work of American photographer, Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958) and British photographer, E.O. Hoppé (1878-1972).

Howe, G. (1988). Graham Howe Exhibition (catalogue). Gallery Min, Osaka, Japan. Osaka Contemporary Art Center.

Howe, G. (2025). Epoch: Graham Howe: 1970-1971. Photographs and text by Graham Howe. Pasadena, California: Curatorial Books. .