Quote: "My work is based in trust. I don't work well just snapping pictures, although some people would say the opposite. I really feel like intimacy and trust are the guide to my work."
Jim Goldberg joined Magnum Photos as a Nominee in 2002 and became a Full Member in 2006.

Jim Goldberg
American, b. 1953

Jim Goldberg has been a member of Magnum Photos since 2006, he is also a Professor of Art at the California College of Arts and Crafts. He has been exhibiting for over twenty-five years and his innovative use of image and text make him a landmark photographer of our times.

He began to explore experimental storytelling and the potentials of combining image and text with Rich and Poor (1977-85), in which he juxtaposed the residents of welfare hotel rooms with the upper class and their elegantly furnished home interiors to investigate the nature of American myths about class, power and happiness. In Raised by Wolves (1985-95) he worked closely with runaway teenagers in San Francisco and Los Angeles to create a book and exhibition that combined original photographs, text, home movie stills, snapshots, drawings and diary entries, as well as single- and multi-channel video, sculpture, found objects, light boxes and other 3-D elements.

He is currently working on two new book projects - one a fictional autobiography, and the other on migration and trafficking in Europe. He is represented by Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York and the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Francisco.

Education

1979 Master of Fine Arts (Photography), San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
1975 Bachelor of Arts (Interdisciplinary Major in Photography and Education), Western
Washington University, Washington, USA

Awards

2003 Alpert Ucross Residency Prize
2001 The Art Council Award
Hasselblad Award
1997 Wallace A. Gerbode Foundation Grant
1996 Eureka Fellowship
Fleishhaker Award
1995 Ernst Haas Award (Photography Book of the Year for Raised by Wolves)
1994 Highland Award
Roberts Foundation Grant
1992 Glen Eagles Foundation Grant
Art Matters, Inc., New York
1990 NEA Fellowship in Photography
California Arts Council Fellowship
1989 Mother Jones Photography Award
Art Matters, Inc., New York
NEA Fellowship in Photography
T.B. Walker Foundation
California Tamarack Foundation
1985 Guggenheim Fellowship
Engelhard Award
Cambridge Art Council Commission
1983 Ruttenberg Fellowship
1980 NEA Fellowship in Photography
Hasselblad Award
Art Council Award
National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Guggenheim Fellowship
Gerbode Fellowship

Exhibitions

2005 In the Open See - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004 Two Stories - Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA
1999 Rich and Poor - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
57/78/97 - San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1998 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1997 Raised by Wolves - San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, USA;
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA; Pace/Wildenstein/MacGill,
Los Angeles, USA
1996 Jim Goldberg: Raised by Wolves - Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan;
Pace/Wildenstein/MacGill, New York, USA; Addison Gallery of American Art,
Andover, USA
1995 Raised by Wolves - Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA; Zürich
Museum of Design, Zürich, Switzerland
1991 Art in General, New York, USA
1990 Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., USA
Art at the Anchorage - Creative Time, New York, USA
1989 Capp Street Project, San Francisco, USA
University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, USA
1988 Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., USA
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA
1987 Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA
Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA
Clarence Kennedy Gallery, Cambridge, USA
University Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
1986 The Tartt Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
1985 Northlight Gallery, Tempe, USA
Ithaca College, Ithaca, USA
De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, USA
G. H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, USA
1984 Houston Center for Photography, Houston, USA
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Friends of Photography Gallery, Carmel, USA
Lightsong Gallery, Tucson, USA
1982 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, USA
1981 O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, USA
Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, USA
1980 Equivalents Gallery, Seattle, USA
1979 Nova Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Collections

Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, USA
Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Clarence Kennedy Gallery, Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, USA
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, USA
Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, USA
High Museum of Art, USA
Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, USA
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA
Light Work, Syracuse, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
La Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., USA
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
University of California Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
Whitney Museum of Art, New York, USA

Books

1996 Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry (In collaboration with Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, Jack
Radcliffe, and Kathy Vargas), Bulfinch/Little, Brown & Company, USA
1995 Raised by Wolves, Scalo Publications, USA
1985 Rich and Poor, Random House, USA