Jeffrey Silverthorne, Self-Portrait, 1971
Photo ©Jeffrey Silverthorne
Jeffrey Silverthorne
1946 - 2022
Jeffrey Silverthorne was an American photographer and educator. His boundary-pushing photographs explored physical and psychological borders.
About his work, he wrote: “When photographing I want a physical experience that allows various ideas to wrestle with one another. When looking at a photograph I want a psychological space where words are worthless, where it is the intensity and complexities of wondering that form the measure of being.” Whether photographing in the morgue, his studio, along the Texas-Mexico border, in Europe, or later in life, in his own home, Silverthorne continued to explore these spaces and boundaries. His work was direct, unapologetic, and empathetic.
Silverthorne studied with Harry Callahan at Rhode Island School of Design, receiving a BFA, MAT, and MFA. He was the recipient of a 1986 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 1992 Art Matters grant as well as a finalist for the 2007 MacCall-Johnson Fellowship. His work was featured in numerous exhibitions including a 2015 career retrospective The Precision of Silence at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce (Chalon-sur-Saône, France), a 2021 comprehensive solo exhibition Pleasures, Sadness, Sometimes at L’ahah (Paris, France), and a 2022 In Memoriam exhibition at Photographs Do Not Bend (Dallas, Texas). Recent monographs featuring his work include Morgue (Stanley Barker, 2017); Working (Kehrer Verlag, 2014); and Travel Plans (Noorderlicht, 2011). His work can be found in museum collections throughout the United States and Europe, including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and The Art Institute of Chicago.
Silverthorne taught at universities throughout the United States, returning to Rhode Island in 2001 where he taught at Roger Williams University until his retirement in 2018. His work is currently represented by Photographs Do Not Bend (a fine art gallery in Denton, Texas) and L'ahah (a nonprofit arts organization in Paris, France).
-
Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Museum of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Foundation Frances, Senlis, France
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Museum for Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
State Gallery of the Czech Republic, Galerie 4, Cheb, Czech Republic
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Musée de l'Elysée Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Isabelle Darrigrand, Paris/Biarritz, France
Lars Schwander, Copenhagen, Denmark
Christian Caujolle, Paris, France
Marin Karmitz, Paris, France
Pascaline Mulliez, Paris, France
Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
-
Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris, France
Morgue, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Stanley/Barker, London, UK, 2017
Studio Work, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Pascaline Mulliez Galerie, Paris, France, 2016
Working, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, + Les editions de l'Oeil, Montreuil, France, 2014
Jeffrey Silverthorne, Portraits & Figures, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark; +
Les editions de l'Oeil, Montreuil, France, 2013
Travel Plans, Noorderlicht, NL + les editions de l'oeil, FR, 2011
EYEMAZING, Amsterdam, NL, Issue 04-2011; + Issue 04-2012
foam, summer 2011, Foam Magazine, Amsterdam, NL
TRAVERSES, Actes Sud, Arles, France, 2010
Boystown, The Perfume of Desire, Galerie Wolfsen, Alborg, Denmark, 2009, forwards by Anne
Biroleau- Lemagny, General Curator, Bibliotheque nationale de France; Jon Hendricks, Fluxus Consulting Curator, MoMA, NY
Images magazine, Anne Biroleau presente Jeffrey Silverthorne, Nov. 2009, Paris, France
Private mag. #46, Mental Geography, Saint-Brisson, France, 2009
VU MAG, #4, Emergence, Galerie VU', Paris, France, 2009
Art in America, mag. Mar. 2009, NY, NY
SHOTS, mag., #105, Minneapolis, MN, 2009
The British Journal of Photography, Dec. 2008, London, England
Maskinfabrik, #36, mag., Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008
Photos Nouvelles, mag., Paris-Biarritz, France, 2008
70' La Photographie Americaine, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris, Fance, 2008
VU MAG, #1, Filiations, Galerie VU', Paris, France, 2008
Directions For Leaving, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Photographs, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark with Introductions by E. Annie Proulx, letter from Robert Frank, 2007
Die Nue Sichtbarkeit Des Todes, Wilhelm Fink Publisher, Berlin, Germany, 2007
Bizarre Magazine, London, England 2006
V&A Magazine (Victoria and Albert Museum) London, England 2005
Apfelboeck or About Killing, city of Munich, Munich, Germany 2004
Odalisques, Marval Publishers, 2004
Here is New York, Rizzoli Press, New York, NY, 2002
Goth, Subrosa Press, Detroit, MI, 21 original photographs by J. Silverthorne, ed. of 50, Poetry by Cary Loren, Destroy All Monsters, 2002
Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography, Abrams, 1999
Dialogue Magazine, Columbus, OH Nov/Dec 1998
Body Icons, Photographic Center of Stopples, Stopples, Greece 1998
Sleep: Bedtime Reading, Universe Publishing, Spring 1998
Flying over water/Volant damunt l'aigua, Peter Greenaway, Merrell Holberton Publishers Ltd., London, England 1997
Dark Days, Aperture, NY, NY 1997
Identity and Alterity: Figures of the Body 1895/1995, Marsilio, Venice, Italy 1995
The Human Body in Photography, 1849 to the Present, William Ewing, Ed., Thames & Hudson, London, England 1994
Endzeitstimmung, (Apocalyptic Mood) series Dumont Tashchenbucher, Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne, Germany 1994
Jeffrey Silverthorne Photographs, Galerie A and Book Beat Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany 1993
Photonews, Hamburg, Germany, Nov. 1993
Picturing Ritual, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY 1993
Creative Camera. London, England, June/July 1993
Granta, Granta Publications Ltd., New York, NY, Spring 1992
The Interrupted Life, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY 1991
The Surgeon's Ontic: Silverthorne's Eschatology Monograph Series. Arizona State University,Tempe, AZ 1991
NewArt Examiner, Chicago, IL, November l989
New Nude Two, Japan 1985
Selections 2, Verlag Photographie, Germany l984
Private Viewing, New Leaf Publishers, London, England 1983
Creatis, No. 18, Paris, France 1982
New American Nudes, Morgan & Morgan, Dobbs Ferry, NY 1981
Camera Magazine, October 1974
Modern Photography Annual, New York, NY 1969
-
*denotes solo show
2022
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas2021
L’ahah, Paris, France*2019
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas*2016
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany*
Galerie Pascaline Mulliez, Paris, France*
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, PhotoFest2015
Kehrer Berlin Galerie, Berlin, Germany*
FoMu, Antwerp, Belgium*
Paris Photo, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
Welcome Collection, London, England
Galerie VU’, Paris, France2014
Galerie VU’, Paris, France*
Musee Niepce, Chalon Sur Saone, France*
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Galerie VU’, Paris, France2013
Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark*
Galerie VU’, Paris, France2012
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Galerie VU’, Paris, France2011
Fotografie Noorderlicht, Groningen, NL*
Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark*
Galerie VU’, Paris, France*
Photographique Nantaise, Nantes, France
Daniel Blau, London, England2010
Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia*
Foundation Frances, Senlis, France
Paris Photo, Leica Gallery, Paris, France
Galleria Dora Bassi, Gorizia, Italy
Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas, TX
Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, PhotoFest
Le Capital, Galerie VU’, Recontres d’Arles, Arles, France2009
Le Capital, Galerie VU’, Recontres d’Arles, Arles, France
Galerie Kunstagenten, Berlin, Germany
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas, TX2008
Galerie VU’, Recontres d’Arles, Arles, France*
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas*
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
La Maison d’art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent-sur Marne, Paris, France2007
Fotografisk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark*
Paris Photo, Gallerie VU’, Paris, France
Gallery Z, Providence, RI
Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas, TX2006
Rogue Artists Studios , Manchester UK
Impression
Grafisch Centrum HogeDrukgebied, Rotterdam, Holland2005
Ahorn-Grieneisen Gallery, Berlin, Germany*
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale AZ
Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas, TX2004
Book Beat Gallery, Oak Park, MI*
Loomis Chaffee Art Gallery, Windsor CT*
LA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA2002
C Pop Gallery, Detroit, MI*
Book Beat Gallery, Oak Park, MI*
Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
Here is New York, New York, NY
Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY2001
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI2000
Book Beat Gallery, Oak Park, MI*
Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland1999
Artists’ Alliance, Lafayette, LA*
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas*
Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY1998
University of Toledo, OH*
Book Beat Gallery, Oak Park, MI*
Photographic Center, Skopelos, Greece1997
The Deep Gallery, Tokyo, Japan*
Galerie A, Stuttgart, Germany*
Flying over water, Foundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie A, Stuttgart, Germany1995
Galerie 4, Cheb, Czech Republic*
Galerie A, Stuttgart, Germany*
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
American Center in France, Paris, France1994
Galerie Stelling, Leiden, Holland*
Museum for Photography, Antwerp, Belgium*
Book Beat Gallery, Oak Park, MI*
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC1993
Galerie A, Stuttgart, Germany*
Book Beat Gallery, Oak Park, MI*
The Drawing Center, New York, NY1992
The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA*1991
Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ*
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA*
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY1990
Book Beat Gallery, Oak Park, MI*1989
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Tartt Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA1988
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL1987
Columbia College, Chicago, IL*1985
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX*1984
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY*
Boston Museum School, Boston, MA1982
Ufficio Dell ‘Arte, Paris, France*
Robert Samuel Gallery, New York, NY*
Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
Galerie Texbraun, Paris, France1980
Carpenter Center for the Arts, Cambridge, MA1979
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA1977
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT*
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA1976
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA1974
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI*
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA1973
Witkin Gallery, New York, NY*1972
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA*1969
Hallmark Gallery, New York, NY
Underground Gallery, New York, NY1968
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI* -
PhotoAlliance, San Francisco, CA, 2016
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1973, 1981, 1994, 2004, 2016
Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2016
FoMu, Antwerp, Belgium, 2015
International Center for the Arts at Monte Castello, Umbria, Italy, 2014
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2012
Fotografie Noorderlicht, Groningen, NL 2011
Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2010
Cobertura Photo, Seville, Spain 2010, 2011
Ecole Nationale Superieure de la Photographie, Arles, France 2009
Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, March 2008
Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark 2007
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK 2006
Trinity College, Hartford, CT 2006
UMass Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA 2006, 2010
Humboldt University/Ahorn-Grieneisen, Berlin, Germany 2005
Boston University, College of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 2004
Salve Regina College, Newport, RI 2003
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 1973, 1977, 2003
Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT 2002
Connecticut College, New London, CT 2001
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 2001, 2002
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1974, 1981, 1983, 2001
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 1984, 2000
Rhode Island College, Providence, RI 2000
Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY, 2000
Kendall College of Art, Grand Rapids, MI, 2000
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 1998
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 1998
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 1997
University of Arizona, Department of Art, Tucson, AZ 1997
New York University. New York. NY 1991, 1997
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 1996
Galerie 4, Cheb, Czechoslovakia, 1995
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 1991, 1994
Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI 1993
Illinois State University, Normal, IL 1992
The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA 1992
Chautauqua Institute, School of the Arts, Chautauqua, NY 1991
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 1990
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI 1989
Carnera Obscura,Tel Aviv, Israel 1988
Tufts University, Medford, MA 1987
University of Maryland, Baltimore. MD 1987
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 1983, l986
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX 1985
Boston Museum School, Boston, MA 1981, 1984
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1980
Columbia College, Chicago, IL l974
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1973
Jeffrey Silverthorne, Paris, 2017
Photo ©Vincent Soulie