Fellowship
2008 - 2010
Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA, Artist Career Development
Artist Residency/Lectures
2008
Lecture - 456 Hours of Solitude, Work from a C-Scape Dune Shack Artist Residency, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2007
C-Scape Dune Shack Artist in Residence, Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown,MA., July 2007
2006
Visiting Artist Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield,MI - lecture, critques, artist resources seminar, and large scale ink jet printing, Dec. 2006
2003
Outer Cape Artist in Residence, Peaked Hill Trust, Cape Cod National Seashore, Margo-Gleb Dune Shack Artist Residency, May 2003
Selected One/Two person Exhibitions
2008
Wellfleet Landscapes, Photographs by James B. Abbott, Wellfleet Public Library, Wellfleet, MA., August 23 - Sept.6, 2008
2007
The Landscape Before Me: Cape Cod Photographs by James B. Abbott, Salt Pond Visitors Center, Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, MA., April 2007
2006
The Landscape Before Me: Cape Cod Photographs by James B.Abbott, Endicott College, J D Broudo Gallery, Beverly,MA. Sept. 2006
2005
The Landscape: Photographs by James B. Abbott and Robert Asman, Philadelphia Museum of Arts, Art Works Gallery, Phila. PA. Fall 2005
2004
Bridge Works, photographs by James B. Abbott, One person Exhibition, St. Joseph’s University, Philadephila, PA
2002
Bridge Works Constructed Photographs of the Ben Franklin Bridge, Exhibit 231 Gallery, Large format black white multi imaged panoramics, Philadelphia, PA.
2000
The Bridge on the Horizon Show, Exhibit 231 Gallery, A three part exhibition on the Ben Franklin Bridge, Photographs by James b. Abbott with drawings and historic photographs from the DRPA archive.
2000
Sightlines; Berlin, 1988-1992 Photographs by James B. Abbottt, Exhibit 231 Gallery, Curator Carl Toth
1994
Jim Abbott: Berlin, 1988-1992, Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA
1987
Bridge Series Work, Harvard University, Gunn Gallery,Cambridge, Mass
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
Art of the State - Pennsylvania 2007, State Museum of PA. Harrisburg,Pa.
Perkins Center for the Arts, Photo 26, juried show, Morristown, NJ
2006
Visions of Liberty, National Constitution Center,Independence Mall, Phila.PA
Works from the Dune Shack,Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill,Truro MA.
Art of the State - Pennsylvania 2006, State Museum of Pa. Harrisburg, PA.
Juror Tom Beck. Award- 3rd place
Photography Works on Paper Selected by Cornelia Bulter, Arcadia Univ.,Glenside,PA. Center for the Photographic Image, Photo Image 06, Juror Ray K. Metzer
Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Phila. PA.
Perkins Center for the Arts Photo 25, Juror -Katherine Ware, Morristown,NJ. Texas Photographic Society Annual Juried Show, exhibition in San Francisco,CA. and Foto Fest Houston, TX. Juror - Richard Neiman Print Center 80th Annual International Competition, Phila.Pa.,
Juror - Stephen Pinson, Philadelphia Museum Purchase Award
2004
Print Center 78th Annual Photography Competition, Phila. PA. Photography Now, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, Ma., Juror - Jim Fitts Summer in Winter, International Juried Show, Mt. Scott Art Center, Portland, OR. Spectra ‘04: National Photography Triennial, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan,CN. Juror - Barbara Hitchcock
2003
63rd Annual Juried Exhibition Woodmere Art Museum ,Phila.PA 4th International Polaroid Photography Awards, Honorable Mention Traveling Show,CD-Rom, Publication
2002
Suspended in Time:The Ben Franklin Bridge, Rutgers Center for the Arts/ Stedman Gallery,Camden NJ
2001
New•Land•Marks Exhibition and Catalog, Site Photographer Commissioned by Fairmount Park Art Association, Exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 50- 4’x5’ prints in diptych and triptych configurations and exhibition book
2001
Take 5 on the American Landscape, Group show of Photosessions 2001 Speakers at the Nexus Foundation for Today's Art Gallery, Phila.PA
1992
Twenty-twenty Vision, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1991
Pennsylvania Photographers, Juried group show Allentown Museum of Art Allentown, PA
1989
150 Years of Photography in Philadelphia, Organized by the Atwater Kent Museum for Museo Bardini, Florence, Italy
Organized and Curator for
2002
Sandy Sorlien Photographs from Fifty Houses:Images from the American Road
One person exhibition and book signing, Exhibit 231 Gallery
2001
Geanna Merola; Poetic Transmissions:hand altered photographs One - person show Exhibit 231 Gallery
John Geard, System and Chaos, Paperworks and Artist Books, One - person show, Exhibit 231 Gallery, show and lectures part of PPC Joel Katz:Paris Dreamwalk, Photographic Assemblages One person show
Exhibit 231 Gallery
2000
Carl Toth; Photo-Montages 1970-2000, The Eye Evolves One - Person show, Exhibit 231 Gallery
2000
The Bridge on the Horizon Show, Exhibit231, Gallery Research and curate three part exhibition of the Ben Franklin Bridge; Urban Landscape photographs 1982-2000 by James B. Abbott with drawings and photographs from the bridge archives of the Delaware River Port Authority
2001 - 2008
Open Studio Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, city wide informal open studio and works in progress exhibit, host to R.Asman, Joel Katz,Trish Thompson, Jahn Almquist Grayton Wood, Jennifer Chapman at Exhibit 231 Gallery/Studio of J B Abbott
Employment
1985 - Present
Freelance Photographer-National and International Experience, Principal clients, art consultants, graphic designers, architects, landscape architects, universities, museums and corporations.
2003 - 2004
Senior Lecturer/Professor-adjunct University of the Arts. Philadelphia,Pa.
1999 - 2003
Director/Owner Exhibit 231 Gallery, Philadelpia, PA Organize, Curate, and Host photographic and fine arts exhibitions
1993
Adjunct Professor of Photography Moore College of Art, Philadelphia,PA
1985
Workshop Instructor for Photography and Collage/ Design sessions co-taught w/designer Jane Kosstrin of Doublespace, at Penland School of Crafts, Penland,NC
1983
Gallery Director - Burden Gallery, 20 East 23rd, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
1982
Photographer, Medical and Audio Visual, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia,PA
1981
Art Reproduction Photographer, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Steiglitz Center, Dept. of Prints and Photographs
1977
Intern Light Gallery, New York, NY
Education
1984-1985
Apprenticeship/Assistant to Burk Uzzle photographer
1977-1980
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, BFA Photography
1975-1977
Penland School of Crafts Penland, NC, Photographic Workshop CORE Scholarship Student
1972-1978
Biscayne College, N.Miami, FL. Undergraduate Liberal Arts Studies
Grants
2002
SOS Grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
1983 & 2001
Visual Arts Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Selected Commissions
2005
8-Large scale Iris Prints of Philadelphia for a Public Space in Phila.PA.
2003-2004
Creating Sacred Places, Transcultural Initiative Project for Rutgers Univ. and NJN Public TV, site photography of a church and temple for exhibition, web, cd,catalog
2000-2001
Landscape architecture photography: American Academy in Rome, Bryant Park and Wagner Park, NYC, National Gallery Sculpture Garden,Washington D.C. for Olin Partnership, Landscape Architects, Philadelphia,PA
2000
New. Land. Marks. Site photographs for Fairmount Park Art Association show and book at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia,PA
1998
Philadelphia Underground, Photographer for Philadelphia Magazine feature, Text by Mark Bernstein
Permanent Collections
Allentown Museum of Art, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, & numerous Corporate Collections
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