Cig Harvey
ABOUT IMAGES
BIRTHPLACE
Devon, England, 1973
Rockport College
Education
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
FEAST, Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY
2022
Stories — The Work of Cig Harvey, FAS44, Las Vegas, NV
Eat Flowers, Bidhalle Gallery, Zurich
2021
Blue Violet, Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY
2020
Pink Is A Touch Red Is A Stare, Robert Mann Gallery, Online Exhibition
2019
Eating Flowers: Sensations of Cig Harvey, Oqunquit Museum of American Art
2018
You an Orchestra You a Bomb, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
2017
You An Orchestra You A Bomb, Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY
You An Orchestra You A Bomb, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
2016
Gardening at Night, Photo-Eye gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2015
Gardening at Night, Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY
Gardening at Night, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gardening at Night, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
Gardening at Night, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
2014
You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Louisiana State University, Ruston, LA
2013
You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Kopeiken Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Firecat Studios, Chicago, IL
2012
You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Joel Soroka Gallery, Aspen, CO
You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Robin Rice Gallery, New York City, NY
2011
Cig Harvey, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
Cig Harvey, Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2010
Cig Harvey — Photographs, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
The Hope Chest, JAGR Projects, Philadelphia, PA
The Hope Chest, Joel Soroka Gallery, Aspen, CO
2007
Cig Harvey — Photographs, Robin Rice Gallery, New York City, NY
2006
The Self Portrait, Updated, Joel Soroka Gallery, Aspen, CO
2005
Cig Harvey, Photographs, Robin Rice Gallery, New York City, NY
The Impossible Tasks, Watermark Gallery Houston, TX
Eyes Like Disappointed Lemons & The Impossible Tasks, Pikto Gallery, Toronto, CA
2002
Tread Softly, The Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2001
Tread Softly, Paul Mellon Arts Center, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT
2000
Artists Up Front Street, Masterworks Gallery, Bermuda
Cig Harvey, Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2024
Human / Nature, Fotografiska, New York, NY
2023
Summer Lovin’, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
Dear Mom (An Online Exhibition), Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
In Bloom, Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
2022
Celebrating Women’s History Month, Robert Mann Gallery, NY
2021
The Dog Days of Summer, Robert Mann Gallery, NY
Into Action, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME
2019
Sleep with the Fishes, Robert Man Gallery, NY
2018
“Retour a la Ligne”Photographs from the Collection of Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Fall Musee de l’Eysees, Lausanne, Switzerland
2018
Memory: Mystery, Magic, and Make-believe. Ms. Anna Fritzel, Ph.D, curating for the Comer Collection, University Dallas, Texas
2017
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Museum, London, England.
On Photography, Johnson State College, Vermont
Contrasts: Seven Unique Visions in Photography, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis
2016
Back at the Water's Edge, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
Feature Length Documentary, Cuban Footsteps: Five diverse photographers follow in the footsteps of Walker Evans: Mark Klett, Abe Morell, Cig Harvey, Sam Abell and Greg Gorman
The Gender Show, Fundación Canal, Madrid, Spain
2015
Picturing Maine, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine
Pairings: Selections from the Bruce Brown Collection, University Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine
Highways & Byways, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Portland Public Library, Maine
2014
The Gender Show, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
2012
Rarefied Light, Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
2005
Figuratively Speaking: Cig Harvey and Tom Sale, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
Group Exhibitions & DOCUMENTARIES
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Library of Congress, New York, NY
Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
Bowdoin College, Special Collections, Brunswick, Maine
Estee Lauder Companies, Inc
Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine
Fidelity Corporation, Special Collections
JP Morgan Chase Art Collection
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Masterworks Foundation, Hamilton, Bermuda
University of Texas Dallas, Comer Collection, Dallas, Texas
University of Washington, Special Collections, Seattle, Washington
Boston Athenaeum, Boston
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Special Collections, Ogunquit, ME
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
University of San Francisco, CA
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Yale University, New Haven, CT
AWARDS
2022
Judge’s Choice Award, Fine Press Book Association, for Best Book in Show at the Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair - Eat Flowers
2021
Maine in America Award, presented by the Farnsworth Art Museum
2018
Winner of Prix Virginia
2017
CENTER Excellence in Teaching Award, Maine Media College, Anderson Ranch, Santa Fe Workshops
Finalist, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, London
Finalist, The Clarence John Laughlin Award
2013
Nominated. Gutmann Photography Fellowship
2012
Finalist, Prix Virginia, Paris, France
You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Schilt Publishing
Cover and Book Review, PDN, November Issue
Artist Profile and Feature, Blink, "Cig Harvey" September
Artist Profile and Feature, Aesthetica, "Uncertain Beauty"
Cover and Feature, Fotografi (Norway)
Exhibit Review, Boston Globe
Book review, Literary section, Independent On Sunday (UK)
2010
Shortlisted Finalist for International BMW Prize Paris Photo
2009
Nominee, The Santa Fe Prize
2008
Critical Mass Photo Lucida
Image of the Year 2008, American Photo
Gold Award Self Portrait Competition Photo District News, December
Artist Profile "The Best Photography Workshops" American Photo, July/August
Artist Profile "The Moments Between The Moments," Maine Home and Design, March
2007
Exhibit Review. "Photosynthesis," Bangor Daily News, September 20th
Exhibit Review "She Came, She Saw, She Focused," Maine Sunday Telegram, Jan. 14th
2006
Artist Profile "Schoner Schein," Frankfurter Rundschau, April 29th
2005
Award, Best Artist of the Year - Venus Magazine, December
Artist Profile, Popular Photography, September
Award "Emerging 30 of 2005," Photo District News
Artist Profile, "Cig Harvey — An Interview," Shots Magazine — Spring
2004
Artist Profile, "Rising Star" Photo District News
Blue Violet, Monacelli Press, 2021
Eat Flowers, Two Ponds Press, 2021
You An Orchestra You a Bomb, Schilt Publishing, 2017
Gardening at Night, Schilt Publishing, 2015
You Look at Me like an Emergency, Schilt Publishing, 2012