Robert Adams

Robert Adams (born 1937) is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s

During his childhood, Adams often accompanied his father on walks and hikes through the woods In 1966, he began to teach only part-time to have more time to photograph. 1989: The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Mid-career retrospective. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2005; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 2006; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson. 2008, Rencontres d'Arles festival, Arles, France. 2010–2014: The Place We Live, a Retrospective Selection of Photographs. Retrospective. Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, 2010–2011; Denver Art Museum, 2011–2012; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 2012; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2013; , Quadrat, Bottrop, Germany, 2013; Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2014; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, 2014. 2012: On Any Given Day in Spring and Light Balances, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 2015: Green/Gray: Photographs in the Los Angeles Basin, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles 2018: A Right to Stand, Fondation A Stichting, Brussels. Traveled to Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris (catalogue) 2022: American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Awards 1973: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1973: Photographer's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. 1978: Photographer's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. 1994: MacArthur Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation. 1995: Spectrum International Prize for Photography from the Foundation of Lower Saxony. 2006: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for the exhibition Turning Back at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany. 2014: Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters 2020: Induction into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.

Collections Adams' work is held in the following public collections: Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA