Robert Polidori lives and works in New York. He is an internationally renowned photographer specialized in shooting human environments and habitats, and has won many prices, including the World Press Award in 1998. Polidori started his career in the seventies as an assistant in avant-garde film in New York. While living in Paris in the early eighties he began documenting the restoration of Versailles, which he continued doing over a period of thirty years.
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ROBERT POLIDORI
Born in 1951, Canada.
Education
1980 State University of New York, Buffalo, Master of Arts in Film
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Robert Polidori, Camera Work, Berlin
2015 Exteriors and Interiors, Galerie Karsten Greve, Köln
2015 Versailles, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Zürich
2014 Spuren der Zeit, Museum Bad Arolsen, Bad Arolsen, Germany
2014 Versailles, The Memories of Walls, Galerie Fontana, Amsterdam
2014 Selected Works, Erie Art Museum, Pennsylvania
2013 Versailles, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2013 La Mémoire des Murs, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
2013 Selected Works, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, USA
2013 Secrets de Versailles, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
Group Exhibitions
2013 Acchrochage, Galerie Karsten Greve AG St. Moritz and at
Kûnstlerräume, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
2013 Scale, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
2013 Memory Theatre 2013, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
2013 Preview 2013, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, USA
Books
2015 RIO, publication: Steidl Göttingen
2014 Chronophagia: Selected Works 1984 2009, publication: Steidl Göttingen
2014 Eye & I, publication: Steidl, Göttingen
2009 Parcour Muséologique Revisité, 3 Volumes, publication: Steidl Göttingen
2009 Robert Polidori: Fotografias, publication: IMS Rio de Janeiro
Others
The Works of Robert Polidori are part of collections all over the world such as Château de Versailles,
First National City Bank New York, Fondation La Caixa Maison Européenne de la Photographie Paris,
Musée d’Art Contemporain Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum of Modern Art New
York, Museum of Art New Orleans, Centre Pompidou Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the
Victoria & Albert Museum London.
2007 Liliane Bettencourt Prix de la Photographie for Parcours Muséologique Revisité
2006 Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2006 for After the Flood
2000 Alfred Eisenstadt Award for Magazine Photography, Architecture
Born in 1951, Canada.
Education
1980 State University of New York, Buffalo, Master of Arts in Film
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Robert Polidori, Camera Work, Berlin
2015 Exteriors and Interiors, Galerie Karsten Greve, Köln
2015 Versailles, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Zürich
2014 Spuren der Zeit, Museum Bad Arolsen, Bad Arolsen, Germany
2014 Versailles, The Memories of Walls, Galerie Fontana, Amsterdam
2014 Selected Works, Erie Art Museum, Pennsylvania
2013 Versailles, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2013 La Mémoire des Murs, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
2013 Selected Works, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, USA
2013 Secrets de Versailles, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
Group Exhibitions
2013 Acchrochage, Galerie Karsten Greve AG St. Moritz and at
Kûnstlerräume, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
2013 Scale, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
2013 Memory Theatre 2013, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
2013 Preview 2013, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, USA
Books
2015 RIO, publication: Steidl Göttingen
2014 Chronophagia: Selected Works 1984 2009, publication: Steidl Göttingen
2014 Eye & I, publication: Steidl, Göttingen
2009 Parcour Muséologique Revisité, 3 Volumes, publication: Steidl Göttingen
2009 Robert Polidori: Fotografias, publication: IMS Rio de Janeiro
Others
The Works of Robert Polidori are part of collections all over the world such as Château de Versailles,
First National City Bank New York, Fondation La Caixa Maison Européenne de la Photographie Paris,
Musée d’Art Contemporain Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum of Modern Art New
York, Museum of Art New Orleans, Centre Pompidou Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the
Victoria & Albert Museum London.
2007 Liliane Bettencourt Prix de la Photographie for Parcours Muséologique Revisité
2006 Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2006 for After the Flood
2000 Alfred Eisenstadt Award for Magazine Photography, Architecture
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