Stuart Klipper

Stuart David Klipper (born 1941 in the Bronx) is an American photographer based in Minneapolis. Best known for his panoramic landscape shots, Klipper has visited Antarctica six times between 1976 and 2009, five of which were as part of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. The family was reform but attended a conservative synagogue. Klipper became interested in photography early in life, in part due to his father's dedication to documenting their childhood in photos.

Klipper is well-known for his panoramics of the Antarctic and, as of 2018, has visited six times. His most recent trip with the NSF was in 1999. He has also worked in Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, and the area of Lapland irradiated by the Chernobyl disaster. In 2008, he published the book The Antarctic: From the Circle to the Pole through Chronicle Books about his time in Antarctica. and has been volunteering for decades at a local elementary school, teaching photography to kids in first through fifth grades. Israel Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Fotogalleriet in Oslo, US Embassy in Santiago, Canterbury Museum, and Bonn Kunsthalle in Bonn, Switzerland. He has been commissioned by the states of Texas and Minnesota, Cray Research Corp., First Bank System, Valspar, University of Minnesota, and Medtronics Corp.

Grants, honors, and fellowships Minnesota State Arts Board Grant (1974) Bush Foundation Fellowship (1980) NSF Antarctic Artists and Writers Program (1989) NSF Antarctic Artists and Writers Program (1999) Bogliasco Foundation (2003) Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2019/2020) McKnight Foundation Photography Fellowship (unknown date ) Graves and Memorials 1914 to 1918 at Winthrop College, 1985 Most North at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1985-1986 Stuart Klipper: On Antarctica at the Joslyn Art Museum, 1992 Stuart Klipper: Images from a Frozen Continent at the Christchurch Art Gallery, 1994 at Yancey Richardson Gallery, 1995 Looking... Seeing... Knowing: The Photographs of Stuart Klipper at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1998 Disparate Geographies at the Schmidt/Dean Gallery (Philadelphia), 1998 Cardinal Points at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, 1998 Arktis - Antarktis at the Kunsthalle des Deutschesrepublic (Bonn), 1998 At Sea Near the Poles at the Spencer Gallery (Wickford), 1999 Antarctica at the Yancey Richardson Gallery, 2000 Wyoming at the University of Wyoming Art Museum, 2001-2002 In the Australian Outback at Gallery 360 (Minneapolis), 2002 United States at the Candace Perich Gallery (Katonah), 2002 Rock art, bush fire, termite mounds and other aspects of the outback of the Top End of Australia at Gallery 360 (Minneapolis), 2002 Portraits about Pakistan, 1987 at the Icebox Gallery (Minneapolis), 2002 The Louisiana Purchase at the Olson-Larsen Gallery (Des Moines), 2003 Antarctica at Electrolift Artworks (Minneapolis), 2006 Louisiana: Photographs by Stuart Klipper at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 2008 Antarctic Photographs at the Charleston Museum, 2009 Local Places – Remote Terrains at the Olson-Larsen Gallery (Des Moines), 2009 The Dead Sea Region, Israel at the Basilica of Saint Mary, 2010 The World in a Few States at the Muskegon Museum of Art, 2014 Passages at the Joseph Bellows Gallery (La Jolla), 2018

Group Photographers: Midwest Invitational at University of North Dakota Art Gallery, 1974 Minnesota Survey: Six Photographers at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1978 Anasazi Places. The Being of Place: The Presence of Time at the Drake University Art Gallery, 1982 Stuart Klipper and Rhondal McKinney at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1989 Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie at the University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1996 Photography of New York City at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1998 Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography at the Center for Creative Photography, 1998/99 American farms and farming at the Candace Perish Gallery (Katonah), 1998-1999 Views from the Edge of the World at the Marlborough Gallery, 1999 Claiming Title: Australian Aboriginal Artists and the Land at St. Olaf College and Carleton College, 1999 The Infinite and the Intimate; Waterscapes of Stuart Klipper and Frank Gohlke at the Dorsky Gallery (NYC), 1999 An Eclectic Focus: Photographs from the Vernon Collection at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1999 Aqua at the Gallerie Thierry Marlat (Paris), 1999 Restructuring the Prairie at Grinnell College, 1999 The Mural as Muse at the Deutsches Bank Gallery (NYC), 2000 earth, sky at Jackson Fine Art (Atlanta), 2000 Western Panoramas at the Huntington Museum (Santa Barbara), 2001 I Love New York - World Trade Center benefit (NYC), 2001 Antarctic 1: Views Along Antarctica's First Highway at the Center for Land Use Interpretation (Los Angeles), 2002 Melodrama at the Artium Museum, 2002 Antarctic Visions and Voices at Carleton College, 2003 Contemporary Desert Photography at the Palm Springs Art Museum, 2005-2007 Downriver: New Orleans before the Flood at the Minnesota Center for Photography (Minneapolis), 2006 Midwestern View: Contemporary Photography in Minnesota at the Pingyao International Photography Festival, 2007 Visions of Music at the Acadiana Center for the Arts (Lafayette), 2007 Antarctic at the University of Wyoming Art Museum, 2007 Photographs from the Ends of the Earth at the Milwaukee Art Museum, 2007 Antarctica on Thin Ice at the United Nations (NYC), 2007 Remembering Dakota at the North Dakota Museum of Art, 2008 The Minnesota Eye at the College of Visual Arts, 2009 NSF Antarctic Artists at the Maryland Science Center, 2009 New Orleans photographs at the Mill City Museum, 2009 Animals: Them and Us at the North Dakota Museum of Art, 2009-2010 The Watery Part of the World at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, 2011 Framing the Field at St. Catherine University, 2013 Land Meets Water at the Artipelag, 2015 On Place: Three Views of the Land at the Plains Art Museum, 2019 From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez at the Sheldon Museum of Art, 2023