Brian Ulrich

Photograph from Ulrich's Copia series

Brian Ulrich (born 1971) is an American photographer known for his photographic exploration of consumer culture.[1]

Life and work

Ulrich was born in Northport, New York,[2] and lives in Providence, Rhode Island. He received a BFA in photography from University of Akron in Akron, Ohio (1996) and an MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago (2004).[2] He has taught photography at Columbia College Chicago and Gallery 37, both in Chicago; and at the University of Akron.[2] He is an Associate Professor of Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design.[3]

In 2001 in response to a national call for citizens to bolster the American economy through shopping, Ulrich began a project to document consumer culture. This project, Copia, is a series of large scale photographs of shoppers, retail spaces, and displays of goods. Initially focused on big-box retail establishments and shoppers, the series expanded to include thrift stores, back rooms of retail businesses, art fairs and most recently empty retail stores and dead malls.[4]

Ulrich works with a combination of 4×5 large format and medium format cameras,[5] and also incorporates found objects as sculpture, juxtaposed with his photographs on gallery walls.[6]

Publications

Publications by Ulrich

  • Is This Place Great or What. New York: Aperture; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. ISBN 978-1597111928.[7]
  • Closeout: Retail Relics and Ephemera. Anderson Gallery, 2013. With an interview with and an essay by Will Steacy.

Publications with contributions by Ulrich

  • MP3: Midwest Photographers Project. New York: Aperture, 2006. ISBN 978-1683951506.

Exhibitions

Solo

Group

  • Manufactured Self, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL (2005)[12]
  • On the Scene, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2005)[13]
  • Photocentric, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN (2005)
  • MP3, Kelli Connell, Justin Newhall, and Brian Ulrich, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, (2006)[14]
  • Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, (2008)[15]
  • World's Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN;[16] Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (2008)[17]
  • Made in Chicago, Photographs from the LaSalle Bank Collection, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (2008)

Awards

Collections

Ulrich's work is held in the following permanent collections

References

  1. ↑ Cleveland, Larissa (2008). Collector: Collection/possession/persona. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-549-49063-0.
  2. 1 2 3 "Brian Ulrich". Museum of Contemporary Photography. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  3. ↑ "Brian Ulrich". www.risd.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  4. ↑ "Images Reveal Unraveling of Rampant Consumerism (2)". The Akron Beacon Journal. 2012-01-08. pp. E008. Retrieved 2026-03-28.
  5. ↑ "Brian Ulrich" Archived 2017-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, Lost at E Minor, 10 September 2008. Retrieved on 2 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Brian Ulrich, Is This Place Great or What: Artifacts and Photographs @Julie Saul", Collector Daily, New York, 6 April 2012. Retrieved on 1 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Is big beautiful? Brian Ulrich's decaying shopping malls - in pictures". The Guardian. 11 November 2011. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  8. ↑ "UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work: Brian Ulrich". MCA. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  9. ↑ "Brian Ulrich: Copia". 21 August 2009.
  10. ↑ "Results – Search Objects – eMuseum".
  11. ↑ Department, JCCC Digital. "Richard Ross and Brian Ulrich". www.jccc.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  12. ↑ "Manufactured Self". www.mocp.org. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  13. ↑ "On the Scene: Jessica Rowe, Jason Salavon, Brian Ulrich". The Art Institute of Chicago. 12 November 2005. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  14. ↑ "MP3: Kelli Connell, Justin Newhall, Brian Ulrich". www.mocp.org. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  15. ↑ "Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children". decordova.org. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  16. ↑ "Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes". walkerart.org. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  17. ↑ "Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes". Carnegie Museum of Art: Storyboard. 7 October 2014. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  18. ↑ "Brian Ulrich". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  19. ↑ "Brian Ulrich". Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. 5 December 2012. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  20. ↑ "Brian Ulrich". The Art Institute of Chicago. 1971. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  21. ↑ "Museum of Contemporary Photography". Museum of Contemporary Photography. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
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