Born 1957, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Lives and works in New York City
Selected Awards
1999
European Publishers Award for Photography
1991
Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowship
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2006
Jeff Mermelstein
Steven Kasher Gallery, New York City
2002
Ground Zero
International Center of Photography, New York City
Ground Zero
Jewish Museum, New York City
Ground Zero
Paul Rodgers Gallery, New York City
2001
SideWalk
Cote Saint-Luc Public Library; Montreal, Canada
SideWalk
Old Museum Arts Centre; Belfast, Ireland
1999
SideWalk
Colette; Paris, France
1991
Recent Color Photographs
The Camera Club of New York; New York City
1987
Color Photographs
Dance Theater Workshop Gallery; New York City
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005
24 X 36
Leica Gallery; New York City
Contemporary American Photography
International Fototage; Mannheim-Ludwigshafen, Germany
2004
Illusions of Innocence
Frist Center for the Visual Arts; Nashville, Tennessee
2002
New York: Capital of Photography
The Jewish Museum; New York City
New York Apres New York
Musee de l'Elysee; Lausanne, Switzerland
Star Spangled Spirit
Bonni Benrubi Gallery; New York City
Contrasts
The National Arts Club; New York City
Witness and Response: September 11, 2001
Acquisitions, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
September 11 Memorial Exhibition
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
2001
The Sidewalk Never Ends
The Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
2000
Air Conditioned- Interiors
Bonni Benrubi Gallery; New York City
New York Now 2000
Museum of the City of New York; New York City
1999
Eight Million Stories
The New York Public Library; New York City
Under/Exposed
Stockholm, Sweden
1998
Blue Sky Gallery; Portland, Oregon
Living for the City
Parsons; New York City
Photo Forum
Museum of Fine Arts; Houston, Texas
Selections/Contemporary Photography
The Jewish Museum; New York City
1995
New York City, 1988-1995
The Midtown Y Photography Gallery; New York City
1991
On The Edge, Contemporary Photographs of Manhattan's Perimeter
Henry Street Settlement; New York City
1987
Mothers and Daughters
Aperture Traveling Exhibition
24 Exposures
Union Square Gallery; New York City
1986
The Second Central Park Biennial
The Dairy; New York City
Three Rivers Arts Festival
Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Books
2009
Twirl / Run
Monograph, Essay by Robin Hemley
Forthcoming from powerHouse Books
2003
No Title Here
Monograph, Introduction by Marvin Heiferman
powerHouse Books
2002
New York: Capital of Photography
by Max Kozloff, Yale University Press
Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs
Edited by Alice Rose George, et al., Scalo
2001
Bystander: A History of Street Photography
by Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz, Bulfinch
1999
SideWalk
Monograph, Dewi Lewis Publishing
Love and Desire: Photoworks
by William A. Ewing, Chronicle Books
1998
Time Frames: The Story of Photography
by Ian Jeffrey, Amphoto Art
Magazines
10 Magazine
Aperture
Artforum
Details
DoubleTake
Esquire
Exit
GQ (US and UK)
Life
Newsweek
New York Magazine
The New York Times Magazine
The New Yorker
Photo District News
Time
Vanity Fair
Vogue Japan
Wired
Teaching Positions
1998-present
Faculty, International Center of Photography; New York City
2002-2003
Graduate Faculty, School of Visual Arts; New York City
Visiting Artist Lecture Venues
Baruch College, New York City
Columbia University, MFA Program, New York City
Fordham University, New York City
International Center of Photography, New York City
School of Visual Arts, MFA Program, New York City
Education
1978
Rutgers College, Bachelor of Arts; New Brunswick, New Jersey
1979
International Center of Photography; New York City
Collections
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Buhl Collection, New York City
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York City
The International Center of Photography, New York City
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
The Jewish Museum, New York City
Johnson and Johnson Collection, New Brunswick, New Jersey
The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
The New York Public Library, New York City
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
La street photography connaît aujourd’hui un renouveau sans précédent.
A travers le portrait de 46 photographes actuels, les auteurs de ce livre nous donnent à voir le meilleur de la création contemporaine dans un domaine qui n’a cessé depuis Gary Winogrand, Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier-Bresson et Robert Frank — quatre des plus grands noms de la photographie de rue — de fasciner photographes, écrivains et un public amateurs d’« instants décisifs ». Toute la magie, la poésie, la beauté mais aussi le comique et le tragique de nos vies urbaines sont révélés par ces photographes capables en une fraction de seconde de rendre compte avec une rare éloquence de la complexité de la...
Twirl / Run, the second powerHouse artist's book by Jeff Mermelstein, is a surprising combination of two extensive bodies of work -women twirling their hair and people on the run - whose dissonance creates a new way of observing our prevailing anxiety and sense of disorder....
For over thirty years, the New York Times Magazine has presented the myriad possibilities and applications of photography. The New York Times Magazine Photographs is an exhibition that reflects upon and interrogates the very nature of both photography and print magazines at this pivotal moment in their history and evolution.
The exhibition is cocurated by Kathy Ryan, longtime Photo Editor of the Magazine, and Lesley A. Martin, Publisher of Aperture Books. The Aperture-produced exhibition is comprised of eleven individual modules, each of which focuses on a notable project or series of projects that have been presented in the pages of the Magazine.
The featured projects mirror the Magazine's eclecticism, presenting seminal examples of reportage, portraiture, as well as fine art photography. Using visual ...
For over thirty years, the New York Times Magazine has presented the myriad possibilities and applications of photography. The New York Times Magazine Photographs is an exhibition that reflects upon and interrogates the very nature of both photography and print magazines at this pivotal moment in their history and evolution.
The exhibition is cocurated by Kathy Ryan, longtime Photo Editor of the Magazine, and Lesley A. Martin, Publisher of Aperture Books. The Aperture-produced exhibition is comprised of eleven individual modules, each of which focuses on a notable project or series of projects that have been presented in the pages of the Magazine. The featured projects mirror the Magazine’s eclecticism, presenting seminal examples of reportage, portraiture, as well as fine art photography. Using visual mate...
A photographer's journey through the world of style - Jeff Mermelstein in New York, Paris and Milan. Rick Wester Fine Art is pleased to announce our second exhibition featuring the work of renowned New York street photographer Jeff Mermelstein; and the first to feature his editorial work for the fashion industry.
Mermelstein followed the taste making elite from New York to Paris to Milan, photographing runway shows, behind the scenes and in the streets surrounding the intricate and often ostentatious presentations. Not in the category of paparazzi, he had privileged access to all of fashion's leading figures, from the designers to the models to the audience. In New York he photographed designers' collections from Calvin Klein to Proenza Schouler. The Parisian collections ranged from Chanel to Alexander...
Rick Wester Fine Art is pleased to present Jeff Mermelstein's first one-person exhibition in New York in three years, Twirl / Run. Comprised of selections from two related projects, Twirl / Run further extends the artist's exploration of the streets of New York in all its random, chaotic organization. Mermelstein sees New York not from the comfort of an office or as a city of interiors, but rather as an organism of millions, all the parts of which intersect in a classic Rube Goldbergian contraption. The pictures shown illustrate two generic, ubiquitous, nearly involuntary gestures: mostly young women mindlessly twirling their hair as well as the denizens of this hyperactive city — mostly men — running in the street.
Mermelstein, a quintessential New Yorker, photographs his hometown and its quirky inhabitan...