EDUCATION:

Master of Fine Arts, photography,
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1980.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, photography,
Rhode Island School of Design, 1975.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Art Institute of Chicago
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
International Center of Photography, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge
The Brooklyn Museum
The LaSalle National Bank Collection, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside
Photographic Resource Center, Boston University
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Museum of the City of New York
List Art Center, Brown University, Providence
New School for Social Research, New York
Goldman/Sachs and Company, New York
The David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Collection, Chicago
The Richard Menschel Collection, New York
Reader’s Digest Corporation, New York
Arthur Rubloff Corporation, Chicago
American Academy of Pediatrics, Chicago
Marshall Field and Company, Chicago
JMB Realty Corporation, Chicago
North Fork Bank Collection, New York
Johnson and Johnson, New Jersey
Erie Art Center, Pennsylvania
Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy
University of Oklahoma, Museum of Art, Norman
Free Library of Philadelphia

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2011 GROUP – Face to Face: 150 Years of Photographic
Portraiture, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson.
2010 SOLO – Look at me: Photographs From Mexico City
By Jed Fielding, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York.
2009 SOLO – Jed Fielding, 30 Years in the Street,
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago.
SOLO – Look at me: Photographs From Mexico City
By Jed Fielding, Chicago Cultural Center.
GROUP – Male, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York.
GROUP – This is Not a Fashion Photograph,
International Center of Photography, New York.
2008 GROUP – RISD and Photography, Museum of
Art, Rhode Island School of Design.
2006 GROUP – Former Faculty exhibition, University
of North Carolina, Charlotte.
2004 GROUP – Illusions of Innocence: The Child in Modern
Photography, Frist Center for the Visual Arts,
Nashville.
GROUP – Aaron Siskind and His Rhode Island Circle,
Newport Art Museum.
2003 GROUP – Selections from the Siskind Collection,
Center for Creative Photography, University of
Arizona, Tucson.
GROUP – Work by Six Former Students of Aaron
Siskind, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago.
2001 GROUP – Dressing for a New York City Childhood,
the Museum of the City of New York.
2000 SOLO – Jed Fielding, Facades, Alan Klotz/Photo-
collect, New York.
1999 SOLO – Jed Fielding: City of Secrets, Verso Gallery,
Tokyo.
GROUP – Future/Present: Contemporary
Photographs of Children from The Reader’s Digest
Collection, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary
Art, Ridgefield, CT.
1998 SOLO – Jed Fielding: Facades, 1975-1997, Gallery
312, Chicago.
SOLO – Alan Klotz/Photocollect, New York.
GROUP – Photography’s Multiple Roles: Art,
Document, Market, Science, The Museum of
1998 Contemporary Photography, Columbia College
Chicago [illustrated catalogue].
GROUP – Male, Wessel and O’Connor
Gallery, New York.
1997 SOLO – Naples: City of Secrets, The Museum of
Contemporary Photography, Columbia College,
Chicago [accompanying 124 page monograph and
traveling exhibition].
GROUP – Fifty Years of American Photography:
1947-1997, Museum Van Bommel-Van Dam,
Venlo, the Netherlands [illustrated catalogue].
1997 GROUP – The City, Harbor of Humanity, The
Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Columbia College, Chicago [illustrated catalogue].
1996 GROUP – Illinois Photographers in the 90’s: The
Midwest Photographers Project, The Museum of
Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
GROUP – Portraits: An Examination of Identity, The
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
1995 SOLO – Jed Fielding, Photographs: 1977-1992.
Exhibition of sixty photographs from Naples,
Mexico, and Spain, Gallery 312, Chicago.
GROUP – Scratching the Surface, The Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston.
1994 GROUP – Lessons in Life, Photographic Works from
the Boardroom Collection, The Art Institute of
Chicago.
GROUP – Illinois Photographers from the
Permanent Collection, The Museum of
Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
GROUP – One Hundred Years of Street
Photography, University Art Galleries, Wright
State University, Dayton [CD-ROM cata-
logue].
GROUP – Camera Obscura/Obscura Camera, The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
1993 GROUP – Sights Unseen: Photographs from the
Permanent Collection, The Art Institute of
Chicago.
GROUP – Recent Acquisitions, The Siskind Center,
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.
1993 GROUP – Close-Ups/Still Life, Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston.
GROUP – Gallery 954, Chicago.
GROUP – Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago.
GROUP – Tyler Gallery, Marlboro College,
Vermont.
1992 SOLO – John Grant Gallery, Denver.
GROUP – Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago.
1991 GROUP – The RISD Eye, photographs by Alumni
and Faculty of Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.
1990 GROUP – Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent
Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago.
GROUP – Ciao Italia!, Catherine Edelman
Gallery, Chicago.
1989 SOLO – Jed Fielding: Photographs, Chicago
Beaches 1978-1982, Evanston Art Center,
Illinois.
SOLO – Tarrant County Junior College, Hurst, Texas.
1989 GROUP – Beaches: Sand and Spirit, Santa Barbara
Contemporary Arts Forum, California.
GROUP – The Recorded Image, Brad Cooper
Gallery, Tampa, Florida [illustrated brochure].
1988 GROUP – Swimmers: Raptures of the Deep Seen by
Photographers Around the World, The Burden
Gallery at Aperture, New York City. Exhibition
traveled to Scottsdale Art Center, Arizona;
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; Salina
Art Center, Kansas City.
1987 GROUP – New American Photographs, Fogg
Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge
[illustrated catalogue].
1985 GROUP – Visual Thought, Image Formation,
Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York.
GROUP – Swimmers, Sandra Berler Gallery,
Washington, DC.
GROUP – Looking at Men, Artemesia Gallery,
Chicago.
1984 GROUP – A Year in Chicago’s Grant Park: 100
Chicago Photographers, Museum of
1984 Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
GROUP – Aaron Siskind, Photographed, Silver
Bullet Gallery, Providence.
1983 GROUP – E. J. Bellocq Gallery, Louisiana Tech
University, Ruston.
GROUP – Looking at Women: Images of Women
by Contemporary Artists, Artemesia Gallery,
Chicago.
GROUP – Photography as Metaphor: Five
Photographers, Sioux City Art Center, Iowa.
GROUP – Work by Former Students of Aaron
Siskind, The Center for Creative Photography,
University of Arizona, Tucson.
1982 GROUP – The Erotic in Photography: Contem-
porary Trends, curated by A. D. Coleman for
CameraVision, Los Angeles.
SOLO – University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
1981 GROUP – Midwest Photography: A Viewpoints
Exhibition, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
[illustrated catalogue].
SOLO – MoMing Gallery, Chicago.
1980 GROUP – Faculty Exhibition, University of North
Carolina, Charlotte.
SOLO – Photoworks Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
GROUP – Eccentricities, California Institute of
the Arts, Valencia.
GROUP – Photoworks Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
GROUP – Survey of Contemporary Portraiture in
America, Arizona State University, Tempe.
1979 GROUP – Alumni Exhibition, Rhode Island
School of Design, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence.
GROUP – Freshwork, 1979, Virginia Society for the
Photographic Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art of
the Virginia Museum, Richmond [illustrated
catalogue].
GROUP – Magic Silver Show, Murray State
University, Kentucky [illustrated catalogue].
1977 SOLO – Providence College Gallery.
ILLUSTRATED PUBLICATIONS, ARTICLES and REVIEWS
2008 Look at me: Photographs from Mexico City by
Jed Fielding, University of Chicago Press. 144
page hard cover monograph including 68
duotone reproductions, foreword, and two essays.
The Ancient Shore: Dispatches From Naples,
Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller.
2000 Natural Glow Magazine, Tokyo; portfolio and
biography.
1999 ASAHI Photo, Tokyo; portfolio, interview and review of exhibition, Jed Fielding, Naples: City of Secrets.
«I» Magazine, Tokyo; special edition, FACE,
portfolio and interview.
Japan GQ; article and review of exhibition, Jed
Fielding, Naples: City of Secrets.
Luna Cornea, publication of the Centro de la Imagen,
Mexico City, Mexico.
1998 Photography’s Multiple Roles: Art, Document,
Market, Science, The Museum of Contemporary
Photography, Columbia College
Chicago [catalogue].
Behind the Lions: A Family Guide to The
Art Institute of Chicago, published by The Art
Institute of Chicago.
Up Close and Personal, Los Angeles Times, Sunday
Book Review.
Harper’s magazine.
Hairtrigger journal of fiction (cover photograph),
Chicago.
1997 City of Secrets: Photographs of Naples by
Jed Fielding, published by The Museum of
Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and
Takarajima Books, New York. 124 page hard cover
monograph including 81 duotone repro-
ductions, foreword, and two essays.
Chicago Tribune Arts section; review of Naples: City
of Secrets exhibition, Museum of Contemporary
Photography, Columbia College Chicago.
1997 FOTO magazine; Fifty Years of American Photography:
1947-1997, Museum Van Bommel-Van Dam,
Venlo, the Netherlands.
Village Voice, New York; Voice Choices: The Season’s
Best Photograpy Books.
1997 New City, Chicago; Tip of the Week, review
of Naples; City of Secrets exhibition, Museum
of Contemporary Photography, Columbia
College, Chicago.
1994 Tradition and the Unpredictable, The Allan
Chasanoff Photographic Collection, Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston.
The New Street Photography, University Art
Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton
[CD-ROM catalogue].
1989 Moments in Time: 100 Years of Photography
from Harvard Collections, Harvard University Magazine, Cambridge.
The Recorded Image, Brad Cooper Gallery,
Tampa, Florida.
1987 New American Photographs, Fogg Museum
of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge.
1986 Chicago Tribune magazine; 86 People to Watch
in 1986.
1981 Midwest Photography: A Viewpoints Exhibition,
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis [catalogue].
1979 Freshwork, 1979, Virginia Society for the
Photographic Arts, The Institute of Contemporary Art of the Virginia Museum, Richmond.
Magic Silver Show, Murray State University,
Kentucky.

SELECTED LECTURES

2001 An Intimate Salon Evening with Jed Fielding,
The University of Arizona College of Fine Arts,
School of Art Advisory Board.
1999 LaSalle National Bank lecture series, Chicago.
1998 Feature appearance on Zoom [Italian Television
Network show (RAI) ], New York.
Alan Klotz/Photocollect, New York
Photography Colloquium, University of
Illinois, Chicago, Circle Campus.
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.
1997 Words of Vision lecture series; Museum of
Contemporary Photography, Columbia College
Chicago.
1989 Photography Colloquium, University of
Illinois, Chicago, Circle Campus.
1985 The School of The Art Institute of Chicago,
Department of Photography.
1982 UCLA, Department of Photography.
1981 Sacramento State College, California.
1980 The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Colloquium series, Center for Contemporary
Photography, Columbia College, Chicago.
1979 Columbia College Chicago [lecturer and guest
critic].
Virginia Intermont College, Bristol.
Austin Peay State University, Clarksville,
Tennessee [lecturer and guest critic].
The History of Erotic and Sexual Photography,
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.
1978 Columbia College Chicago [lecturer and guest
critic].
1977 Rhode Island Junior College, Warwick; summer
lecture series.
Rhode Island School of Design, Provincetown,
Massachusetts; summer lecture series.
Rhode Island School of Design European Honors
Program, Rome, Italy [lecturer and guest critic