Cig Harvey
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Cig Harvey: The Color of Life, Right Eye Dominant
bio
Cig Harvey is an artist whose practice seeks to find the magical in everyday life. Rich in implied narrative, Harvey’s work is deeply rooted in the natural environment, and offers explorations of belonging and familial relationships.
She is the author of three sold-out books, You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Gardening at Night and You an Orchestra You a Bomb. The photographs and artist books of Cig Harvey have been widely exhibited and remain in the permanent collections of major museums and collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine; and the International Museum of Photography and Film at the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.
Cig has been a nominee for John Gutmann fellowship, the Santa Fe Prize, and Prix Pictet, and a finalist for the BMW Prize, the Karl Lagerfield Collection at Paris Photo, the Clarence John Laughlin Award and The Taylor Messing Photographic Portrait Prize. In 2017 Cig was awarded the prestigious 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award from Center and in 2018 she was named the 2018 Prix Virginia Laureate, an international photography award.
Cig Harvey on the B&H Podcast
BIRTHPLACE
Devon, England, 1973
Rockport College
Education
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
I Want You To Remember This Forever, Alon Zakaim Fine Art, London, England
Emerald Drifters, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Emerald Drifters, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
2024
FEAST, Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY
2023
FEAST, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
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
2025
5 Fotografiska Years, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
2024
Human / Nature, Fotografiska, New York, NY
Human / Nature, Fotografiska, Talinn, Estonia
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
Pop Rocks, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
A Lot To Give, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
Got a Feeling ‘21 Is Going to be a Good Year, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
Love in the Time of Covid, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
Into Action, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME
2020
The Art of Gifting, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
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
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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
2023
Visionary Award, Maine Media
2022
Judge’s Choice Award, Fine Press Book Association, for Best Book in Show at the Manhattan, Fine Press Book Fair - Eat Flowers
Laureate, J.P.Morgan Chase at Paris Photo
2021
Maine in America Award, presented by the Farnsworth Art Museum
2018
Winner of Prix Virginia
Maine in America Award, Farnsworth Art Museum
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
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
2005
Award, Best Artist of the Year - Venus Magazine, December
Award "Emerging 30 of 2005," Photo District News
Emerald Drifters, Phaidon Press, 2025
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