b. 1982, Washington, D.C.
Lives and Works in Baltimore, MD
curran.hatleberg@gmail.com
Curran Hatleberg is a photographer based in Baltimore, MD. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including recent exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the High Museum, MASS MoCA, the International Center of Photography and Higher Pictures. In 2019, Hatleberg was featured in the Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His works are held in numerous public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, SF MoMA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the High Museum of Art. Hatleberg is the recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2020 Maryland State Arts Council Grant, a 2015 Magnum Emergency Fund grant, and an 2014 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship grant. Lost Coast, his first monograph, was released by TBW Books in fall 2016, and his second monograph, River’s Dream, was published by TBW Books in 2022. Hatleberg has taught photography at numerous institutions, including Cooper Union and Yale University where he is currently a visiting critic in photography. He holds a BA in painting from the University of Colorado, Boulder and an MFA in photography from Yale University.
Gallery :
Higher Pictures
16 Main Street, Ground Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
212-249-6100
Education
2010 Yale University, MFA Photography
2006 University of Colorado, Boulder, BFA Painting
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Curran Hatleberg, Higher Pictures, Brooklyn, NY.
2018 Curran Hatleberg, Higher Pictures, New York, NY.
2016 Curran Hatleberg, Higher Pictures, New York, NY.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Turning the Page, Pier 24, San Francisco, CA (Forthcoming).
2024 New Directions/New Acquisitions, George Eastman Musuem, Rochester, NY.
2024 A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA.
2024 Documentary / Anti-Graphic: A Surrealist Eye on Photographs, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
2023 A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, High Museum, Atlanta, GA.
2022 But Still, It Turns, Arles Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France.
2021 But Still, It Turns, The International Center of Photography, New York, NY.
2020 The Neighbors, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL.
2019 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
2017 The Half-Life of Love, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA.
2017 Converging to a Center, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middleton, CT.
2016 Anthology: Somewhere Not Here, Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN.
2015 Light Atlas, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York, NY. (Collaboration with Cynthia Daignault)
2015 Icons in Transition_Take Care of Your Business, The Stillhouse Group, Brooklyn, NY.
2015 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2014 Stories In the Social Landscape, The International Center of Photography, New York, NY.
2013 Annual Juried Competition, The Camera Club of New York, New York, NY.
2012 After Death, Know More Games, Brooklyn, NY.
2012 High Definition, Primetime, Brooklyn, NY.
Awards
2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.
2020 Maryland State Arts Council Grant.
2020 Baltimore Artist Emergency Relief Fund.
2018 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Fellow.
2017 Galveston Artist Residency Independent Project Grant.
2015 Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund Grant.
2014 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowship Grant.
2010 Richard Benson Prize for Excellence in Photography.
Books
2022 River’s Dream, TBW Books, Oakland, CA.
2021 Double Rainbow, Self Published Artist Book.
2017 Somewhere Someone, Hassla Books, New York, NY. (Collaboration with Cynthia Daignault)
2016 Lost Coast, TBW Books, Oakland, CA.
Collections
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
KADIST, Paris, France.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
Teaching
2024, 2014-2015 Yale University, New Haven, CT.
2015 Cooper Union, New York, NY.
2013 College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA.
2010-2012 The International Center of Photography, New York, NY.
Selected Bibliography
2023
“Curran Hatleberg – Lost Coast & River’s Dream”, American Suburb X, Andrew Witt, December 14, 2023.
A Long Arc: Photography and the American South Since 1845, Sarah Kennel; Gregory J. Harris, Aperture, November 21, 2023.
“Reviews: A Long Arc…” Photograph Magazine, E.C. Flamming, November 1, 2023.
“Photographers on Photographers: Ian White in Conversation with Curran Hatleberg”, Lenscratch, Ian Edward White, August 29, 2023.
"Curran Hatleberg – River’s Dream", C4 Journal, Arturo Soto, July 14, 2023.
Smith, Ben (host). “208 - Curran Hatleberg, A Small Voice Podcast, July 5, 2023.
Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists, Rebecca Bengal, Aperture, June 6, 2023.
"Baltimore Photo Space Makes Room for Art Photography in Remington", Baltimore Magazine, Suzy Kopf, May 2023.
"Book Reviews", Source Magazine, Issue 110, John Beck, Spring 2023.
"2023 Guggenheim Fellowships Go to Artists Kapwani Kiwanga, Martine Syms, Pamela Council, and More", ARTnews, Maximilíano Durón, April 7, 2023.
2022
"Splicing the male gaze and strippers revisited: the best photography books of 2022", The Guardian, Sean O'Hagan, December 21, 2022.
"Le foto di Curran Hatleberg, scatti di un sogno americano", Il Foglio, Luca Fiore, November 12, 2022.
"TBW Books : Curran Hatleberg : River’s Dream", The Eye of Photography, Oct 14, 2022.
"Announcing the 2022 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist", Aperture, October 3, 2022.
"Deana Lawson’s Photos Are Stunningly Popular. They’re Also Dangerously Misunderstood", Artnet News, Danielle Jackson, September 20, 2022.
"Undivided Attention: River’s Dream by Curran Hatleberg", Bmore Art, Ted Hendricks,September 19, 2022.
"Awestruck, Stretched-Out", Blind Magazine, Gaia Squarci, September 12, 2022.
"Two Poems", Oxford American, Issue 118, Fall 2022, September 06, 2022.
“Curran Hatleberg’s Florida, Past and Future”, The New Yorker, Joy Williams, August 5, 2022.
“Joy Williams on Curran Hatleberg’s Florida”, Book Forum, August 5, 2022.
"Tiny Towns, Global Disasters and the Theory of Colour All Sit on August’s Reading List”, Elephant Art, July 29, 2022.
"Curran Hatleberg takes us on a sultry journey in a ‘River’s Dream’”, The Washington Post, Kenneth Dickerman, July 20, 2022.
“Les Rencontres d’Arles”, The Independent Photographer, Josh Bright, July 5, 2022.
“Curran Hatleberg, River’s Dream”, Collector Daily, Blake Andrews, July 1, 2022.
Smith, Ben (host). “183 - Les Rencontres d’Arles 2022 Special”, A Small Voice Podcast, July 2022.
"Five books not to miss this month”, 1854, British Journal of Photography, Hannah Abel-Hirsch, July 2022.
“Life, Untamed”, Blind Magazine, July 2022.
“Curran Hatleberg’s humid, hallucinatory images of the deep south”, The Guardian, Sean O’Hagan, June 26, 2022.
“Exhibition Review: Curran Hatleberg”, Musée Magazine, Dieu Linh, October 13, 2022.
Oxford American, Issue 118, Fall 2022
2021
“Curran Hatleberg at Higher Pictures Generation”, Collector Daily, Loring Knoblauch, October 21, 2021.
"Art Out: Kali, Jeff Mermelstein, Curran Hatleberg, Andre Kertesz", Musée Magazine, Kali, October 1, 2021.
This exhibition documents the joyful, unstaged spontaneity of pre-Covid America", Hero Magazine, J.L. Sirisuk, August 6, 2021.
"But Still, It Turns: A manifesto for photography by Paul Graham", Vogue Italia, Rica Cerbarano, March 16, 2021.
"But Still, It Turns at ICP", Collector Daily, Loring Knoblauch, March 12, 2021.
‘But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography From the World’ Review: Capturing Quotidian America", The Wall Street Journal, William Meyers, February 24, 2021.
"From A Mojave Counterculture To The Racial Divide Of St. Louis…", Forbes, Jonathon Keats, February 22, 2021.
“A reminder of what it means to photograph the tumult of everyday life”, 1854, British Journal of Photography, Hannah Abel-Hirsch, February 22, 2021.
"Take your seats: unfiltered views of everyday life – in pictures", The Guardian, February 16, 2021.
“Exhibition Review: 'But Still, it Turns' at the International Center of Photography", Musée Magazine, Dani Martin, February 15, 2021.
"Daily Discoveries", Internazionale, Italy, February 12, 2021.
"And the Clock Waits So Patiently", The Paris Review, Rebbeca Bengal, February 11, 2021.
“Photographing Life as It's Seen, Not Staged", The New York Times, Arthur Lubow, February 5, 2021.
"Editors’ Picks", Artnet News, February 1, 2021.
Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Photograph, Aperture, Jason Fulford, New York, NY, 2021.
But Still, It Turns, Mack Books, Paul Graham, London, UK, 2021.
2020
“Pictures for Elmhurst, the creative fundraiser,” Muse Magazine, April 14, 2020.
“ARTnews in Brief,” ARTnews, Feb 18 2020.
Keeper of the Hearth, Schilt Publishing, Odette England, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2020.
2019
“Remembering Robert Frank”, Photograph Magazine, November/December 2019.
“The Case Against Boeing”, The New Yorker, Alec MacGillis, November, 18, 2019.
“Curran Hatleberg,” Objectiv Press, October 10, 2019.
“Last Chance: Whitney Biennial 2019,” FAD Magazine, Ottilie Kemp, 23 October 2019.
“PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice,” Aperture, October, 2019.
“6 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York This Fall,” Artsy, September, 25. 2019.
“Curran Hatleberg,” Musée Magazine, September 13, 2019.
Cover: “Untitled (Azalea)” (2012), Oxford American, Issue 106, Fall 2019.
“Where We Could Go”, Commonwealth Magazine, Nicole-Ann Lobo, July 24, 2019.
“The Whitney Biennial’s Flimsy Promises”, The Nation, Barry Schwabsky, July 22, 2019.
“Special Feature: Whitney Biennial 2019”, Art Viewer, July 10, 2019.
“To America with Love”, Art Agency Partners, Christian Viveros-Fauné, July 3, 2019.
“What the Whitney Biennial Tells Us About the Future of Photography”,
Artnet, Danielle Jackson, July 3, 2019.
“Whitney Biennial: Speaking Softly”, Artillery Magazine, Sarah Sargent, July 2, 2019.
"The 2019 Whitney Biennial", Third Text, Frances DeVuono, July, 2019.
“What this year’s Whitney Biennial says about contemporary American art”, PBS News Hour, (Television), Jeffrey Brown, June, 28 2019.
“2019 Whitney Biennial”, The Brooklyn Rail, Alex Jen, June 2019.
"Whitney Biennial 2019", Art Agenda, Travis Diehl, May 24, 2019.
"Whitney Biennial 2019", Studio International, Jill Spalding, May 22, 2019.
"The Whitney Biennial in an Age of Anxiety", The New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl, May 20, 2019.
"The Whitney Biennial presents the best new artists in the country — and lots of fluff", The Washington Post, Sebastian Smee, May 18, 2019.
"The Whitney Biennial Cops Out", WNYC News, Deborah Solomon, May 17, 2019.
"'Voracious' Whitney Biennial Embraces Race, Gender Via Artists Emerging And 'Hiding In Plain Sight'", Forbes, Natasha Gural, May 16, 2019.
"The New Whitney Biennial Made Me See Art History in a New Way," New York Magazine, Jerry Saltz, May 14, 2019.
"Amid Controversy, the Whitney Biennial Plays It Safe", Artsy, Scott Indrisek, May 14, 2019.
"The Whitney Biennial Takes on the American Dream", Cultured, Dean Kissick, May 14, 2019.
"75 Emerging Artists Take Over The Whitney For 2019 Biennial", Gothamist, Scott Lynch, May 14, 2019.
"Whitney Biennial 2019: Highlights", Untitled Magazine, May 14, 2019.
"Take a Virtual Tour of the Whitney Biennial With Photos of Artworks by All of the Artists in the 2019 Exhibition", Artnet, Ben Davis, May 14, 2019.
"Whitney Biennial The Largest Survey of Contemporary Art", Muse, Mariana Herrera, May 14, 2019.
"Newcomers Bristling With Hope", The Wall Street Journal, Brenda Cronin, April 18, 2019.
"Meet the Baltimore-Based Artist Selected for the 2019 Whitney Biennial", BmoreArt, Suzy Kopf, March 7, 2019.
PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, Aperture, Sasha Wolf, New York, NY, 2019.
2018
“Traveling Through the Dark”, Spot Magazine, Houston Center for Photography, Spring, 2018.
2017
"A look inside Curran Hatleberg's 'Lost Coast'", Juxtapoz, January 12, 2017.
"Curran Hatleberg at Higher Pictures, New York", Blouin Artinfo, December 30, 2017.
"Curran Hatleberg", Collector Daily, Loring Knoblauch, December 5, 2017.
“Goings on About Town: Art”, The New Yorker, November 27, 2017.
2016
"Staff Picks: Tests, Tongues, Tinfoil Orbs", The Paris Review, December 12, 2019.
“18 Photographers Capturing Every Hidden Corner Of America”, Fader, Yael Malka, November 18 2016.
"Curran Hatleberg: Lost Coast", Photograph Magazine, Vince Aletti, November 1, 2016.
Goings on About Town: Art, The New Yorker, Vince Aletti, June 10, 2021.
"Curran Hatleberg at Higher Pictures", Collector Daily, Loring Knoblauch, June 9, 2016.
“Sounds of Photography, Bronx Survivors and a Lost Coast”, The Wall Street Journal, William Meyers, May 27, 2016.
“Curran Hatleberg, Higher Pictures”, Photograph Magazine, Jordan G. Teicher, May 27, 2016.
"9 Artists to Watch This May", Artspace, Artspace Editors, April 30, 2016.
"Cynthia Daignault", Art in America, David Duncan, February 25, 2016.
“Florida’s Shadow Country”, The New Yorker, Gideon Jacobs, March 27, 2016.
“Curran Hatleberg – In Conversation with Stanley Wolukau Wanambwa”, Heavy V.2, The Heavy Collective, Sydney, Australia, 2016.
2015
“Critics’ Picks: Cynthia Daignault”, Artforum, Lauren Cavalli, November, 2015.
"MATTE Magazine Presents: Photos That Don't Fit Anywhere", Vice Magazine, Matthew Leifheit, September 17, 2015.
"The Polar Extremes of Communities Behind California's 'Redwood Curtain'", Vice Magazine, August 12, 2015.
“Gorgeous Photos of the Summer Heat”, Vice Magazine, July 13, 2015.
“Five Very Short Stories by Diane Williams”, Vice Magazine, Diane Williams, June 15, 2022.
“An antidote to irony at Fraenkel Gallery”, San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, June 12, 2015.
"Obsessive, Peculiar, Funny’ Art at a Fraenkel Show," San Francisco Chronicle, Kimberly Chun, June 3, 2015.
“What the Heart Wants” Interview Magazine, Colleen Kelsey, June 4, 2015.
“Curran Hatleberg”, The Heavy Collective, May 29, 2015.
“Curran Hatleberg”, Hero Magazine, Issue 13, April 30, 2015.
Take Photography Magazine, Issue Four, January, 2015.
Homeless, Matte Magazine, Curran Hatleberg, New York, NY, 2015.
2014
“Beeper World”, Harper's Magazine, Karen Russell, December, 2014.
“Interview with Photographer Curran Hatleberg”, Birmingham Museum of Art,
Suzi Van Sickle, November 3, 2014
"Curran Hatleberg", People of Print, Lo Parkin, October 10, 2014.
“Curran Hatleberg”, Verve Photo, Geoffrey Hiller, May 26, 2014.
“Mossless in America: Curran Hatleberg”, Vice Magazine, Romke Hoogwaerts, January 20, 2014.
The United States (2003-2013), Mossless Publishing, Romke Hoogwaerts, New York, NY, 2014.
2013
"Emotional photographs of America's real 'beauty and sadness' captured by roaming photographer during 5-year journey across the country, Daily Mail UK, October 7, 2013.
"Curran Hatleberg’s Intimate Photos of Strangers Met on Road Trips Across America", Feature Shoot, Bryson Rand, October 4, 2013.
"On the Road to Photograph America", Slate, Jordan G. Teicher, September 18, 2013.
“Riverfront by Curran Hatleberg”, Conscientious Photography Magazine, Jorg Colberg, April 27, 2013.
Interleaves: Curran Hatleberg, Oranbeg Press, Boston, MA, 2013.