Born
1975, Chappaqua, NY Lives in New York City
Education
1997 BA Comparative Literature; University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
American University of Paris
1998 Photography; International Center for Photography, New York, NY
Exhibitions
2009 "The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography"; The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
"Women Photographing Women"; Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France
2008 "Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children," The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
"Portraiture," Getty Images Satellite Show, New York Photo Festival
2007 "An American Life" Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art," The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
"Act of Faith: On Faith and Conflict, Ecstasy, and Excess," Noorderlicht Festival, Groningen, Netherland
2006 "20/30 Vision: An Anniversary Celebration," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"War and Terror Victims in Israel," Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"Learning from a Vast River of Suffering: A Global Human Rights
Epidemic," The Human Rights Gallery, The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
"New Art. New York: Reflections of the Human Condition," Hangar 7, Salzburg, Austria
2005 "New Art. New York: Reflections of the Human Condition";
Trierenberg AG Gallery, Traun, Austria
"Schweppes: Photographic Portrait Prize 2005," National Portrait Gallery London, Great Britain
2004 "Shifting the Political," Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
"Common Ground," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Water Water Everywhere" Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
"Terrorvision" Exit Art, New York, NY
"Beyond Compare: Women Photographers on Beauty," Presented by Dove, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Canadian traveling exhibition)
2003 "By the Sea," Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
"Flash: Swimsuits & Sports," Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
"Enough"; FOAM Photography Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"CMYK: Contemporary Color," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Central Park 150th year Anniversary," The Arsenal, New York
2002 "Advance Notice," International Center for Photography, New York, NY
"Sexuality and Voyeurism," Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
"At Play," SoHo Triad Fine Arts, New York, NY
2001 "Summer Saloon IV," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Identity in Relationships," Makor Gallery, New York, NY
"Family," Woodstock Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
Paris Photo International, Le Carousel de Louvre, Paris, France
2000 "Air Conditioned," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
COLLECTIONS:
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Terrana Collection, Boston, MA
Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Fried, Frank, Harris Shriver & Jacobson Collection, New York, NY
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA
MONOGRAPH:
Testimony: Photographs by Gillian Laub; (hardcover) Aperture press, 2007
Testimoni: Fotografie di Gillian Laub; (Italian Edition, hardcover) Contrasto, 2007
BOOKS AND CATALOGUES:
SPD: Land, Sea, Air, printed in conjunction with auction, 2008
Portfolio: New York Photography Festival, in conjunction with exhibition, 2008
Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, printed in conjunction with exhibition at the Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, February 2, 2008
Act of Faith: On Faith, Conflict, Ecstasy and Excess, Noorderlicht
Fotomanifestatie, Idea Books, 2007
Land in zicht: The World According to Vingboons in the 17th C., Waanders Uitgevers, Nationaal Archief, Exhibition Catalog, 2007
Dateline: Israel, In conjunction with exhibition, 2007
New Art-New York: Reflections of the Human Condition, printed in conjunction with exhibition, 2005
Recontres de la Photographie, Arles, 36th edition, exhibition catalog, 2005
Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize, Exhibition Catalog, 2005
Society of Publication Designers Photography and Illustration, printed in conjunction with auction, 2004
Beyond Compare: Women Photographers on Beauty, printed in conjunction with exhibition 2004
Enough; World Press Photo Catalog, 2003
Fashion Photography Now, Catherine Chermayeff, 2000
PRESS:
CNN Headline Prime News May, 29, 2009
Radio: Interview on The Joan Hamburg Show (WOR) May 26, 2009
"Showcase: A Prom Divided," by Niko Koppel, The New York Times, May 22,2009
"In the Middle East: The Tenacity of Hope," by Melanie Stetson Freeman, The
Christian Science Monitor, November 27, 2007
"Art," Monthly Reviews of Books Worth Reading, by Bryony Roberts, Boldtype
Issue #49, November 3, 2007
"And we both say 'hello' with the word 'peace'" by Alex Levac, Haaretz, October 11, 2007
"Family Life: Photographer Focus," Focus Magazine, Issue 13, August 2007
"Putting Our Eyes to Work," The New York Sun, June 14, 2007
"Caught in the Crossfire," Telegraph Magazine, June 9, 2007
"Conflict Exposed, Israel & Palestine," Good Magazine, May 2007
"Envisager La Paix," French Vogue, pg. 62, May, 2007
"Den raa bilden av krigets vardag," Expressen, Sweden, April 2007
"Caught in the Moment," Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2007
"Unflinching Look at Israel," The Times, April 29, 2007
"Faces of Conflict," The British Journal of Photography Volume 154, #7631, April 25, 2007
"The Visible Costs of War," The Burlington Free Press, April 22, 2007
"Recording Hate's Carnage," The Post Star, April 22, 2007
"Broken Bodies, Survival, & Hope," Herald Press, April 22, 2007
"NA FEA A&E BKS US Gillian Laub," by Adam Goldman, Associated Press, April 19, 2007
"Photography book takes unflinching look at victims of Arab-Israeli conflict," International Herald Tribune, April 19, 2007
"Snap Judgments of Israel, More Than Words Can Say," The New York Times, April 14, 2007
"The Go-Between," Rebecca Spence Interview with Gillian Laub, Forward, April 13, 2007
"Testimony, by Gillian Laub," Ideas, Rabbi Andy Bachman, April 10, 2007
"Libros y Exposiciones," sophot.com, April 2, 2007
"Gillian Laub Testimony," Foam Magazine #10/Stories, Spring 2007
"Israel Salam Shalom," iO donna, pg. 115 March 10, 2007
"Weekend Update," Art on Paper Magazine, March 9, 2007
"Book Learning," Interviews by Anthony LaSala, PDN, March 2007
"Hardcover Debuts," by Edgar Allen Beem, PDN, March 2007
"Gillian Laub's Best Shot" Interview by Leo Benedictus, The Guardian, pg. 27, December 7, 2007
"Testimonianze," Portfolio 07 un anno di foto, pg 98-105
"Beyond Wounds: A Portfolio of Gillian Laub," Guilt and Pleasure, N°2, Fight Issue, Spring 2006
"Photo Annual 2005, Nikon Storytellers Award," PDN, pg. 75, May 2005
American Photography 21, collection of imagery, pg. 118 & 119, 2005
"The Arbus Effect," Art on Paper, Vol. 8, No. 3, pg. 66, Jan-Feb 2004
"Shooting Co-Existence," by Liel Liebovitz, The Jewish Week, September 17, 2004
American Photography 20, 2004
Because I'm Worth It, Assouline Press, 2004
"Gillian Laub"; Fotophile, Number 46, 2003
"Focus On: Gillian Laub," Art on Paper, May – June, 2003
"PDN'S 30, Our Choice of Emerging Photographers to Watch" PDN, March 2002
"The Family as Muse," The Jewish Week June 22, 2001
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
"Voices from a Prom Divided," New York Times Multimedia May 24, 2009
"A Prom Divided," New York Times Magazine May 21, 2009
"Heeeere's . . . Conan!!!," New York Times Magazine May 20, 2009
"My Personal Credit Crisis," New York Times Magazine May 14, 2009
"The Let's-Just-Party-Boy," New York Magazine April 26, 2009
"Sugar and Spice (And Every Last Vice)," Entertainment Weekly April 3, 2009 2
"The Hard Sell," New York Time Magazine March 11, 2009
"2 Kids+ 0 Husbands = Family," New York Times Magazine January 29, 2009
"Rose's Last Turn," New York Magazine January 25, 2009
"Her Body, My Baby," New York Times Magazine November 30, 2008
"Dead Man Walking," Details September 2008
"Let God Love Gene Robinson," GQ July 2008
"Womb for Rent," Newsweek April 4, 2008
"Karl Rove Likes What He Sees," April 2008
"Daddy's Little Phenoms," March 2, 2008
"The Sy Empire," October 14, 2007
"The Matchmaker," September 10, 2006
"A Haifa Life," July 30, 2006
"Secret of my Excess," Tatler Magazine May 2006
"Hindsight: The Evolution of the AP Annual," Stop Smiling Issue 29 2006
"Power and Dreams," The Woodstock Times (exhibition review)
"The Making of an Ice Princess," New York Times Magazine Dec 18, 2005
"The Apolitical Israeli," New York Times Magazine June 26, 2005
"Ban of Brothers," New York Times Magazine January 9, 2005
"An Alt-Cabaret Diva," New York Times Magazine Jan 2, 2005
"Sulla Stessa Terra: Israele & Palestina," Flair Magazine, October 2004
"Can A Billionaire Beat Bush?," Newsweek Magazine October 18, 2004
"Gillian Laub: Common Ground," Fall Preview; Time Out New York, September
9-16, 2004
"Sharon's Wars"; (Cover Story) The New York Times Magazine, August 15, 2004
"The Maimed," The New York Times Magazine, July 18 2004
"Fans"; COLORS, Summer 2004"Upper Class Warfare at the Met"; New York Magazine, July 12, 2004
"The Dead Wives Club, or Char in Love"; New York Magazine, May 31, 2004
"Could You Face the Man Who Killed Your Mother?" Marie Claire, May, 2004
"The Multilevel Marketing of the President," The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 2004
"Coast Lines"; Details Magazine, March 2004
"Amass Appeal"; W Magazine, October 31, 2003
"Jimmy Carter"; Flair, August 2003
"The Way We Live Now (What They Were Thinking)"; The New York Times Magazine, June 29, 2003"Separate But Equal: Spin Magazine, May 2003
"Let Them Lead the Way"; I-D Magazine, 2003
"The Thin Green Line"; Mother Jones Magazine, October 2002
"Decision, Decisions"; PDN, September 2002
"The Breeders Are Still At It," New York Times Magazine March 17,2002
"Old Hollywood"; Fashions of the Times, New York Times Magazine, February 24, 2002
"Love and Loss" Newsweek Magazine, September 24, 2001
"FAME; In
Sync: Destiny's Child"; The New York Times Magazine, September 9, 2001
"Fashion Portraits," PDN Fashion and Portrait Issue, pg. 32-34, July 2001
"Fashion + Portraits: Visionaire," PDN Magazine, July 2001
"The Family as Muse," The Jewish Week, June 22, 2001
"Cajun Cotillion", The New York Times Magazine, April 15, 2001
"Lost Lives", Newsweek Magazine, December 3, 2001
"What Beyonce Wants"; Newsweek, December 3, 2001
"Welcome to Chappaqua, Meet the Neighbors"; The New York Times Magazine, December 10, 2000
"Fashion Editorial"; The Sunday Times Magazine September 24, 2000
"Alone at the Top, Sandy Weill (Cover Story); The New York Times Magazine, August 27, 2000
"What They Were Thinking"; The New York Times Magazine, July 30, 2000
"The Cowboy Couturier" The New York Times Magazine, March 19 2000
AWARDS/HONORS
2009: AI-AP: Award Recipient
2009: PDN Photo Annual: Magazine Award Recipient
2008: Prix de la Photographie Paris, 1st Place Professional Book
2008: Art Directors Club Annual Award: Testimony (Aperture)
2007 Aperture Young Artist of the Year
2005 Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize, Selected Exhibitor
2005 American Photography 21; Selected Participant
2005 PDN Photo Annual; Nikon Story Tellers Award
2004 American Photography 20, Selected Participant
2003 World Press Photo; Joop Swart Master Class Award Participant
