Orville Robertson
31-85 Crescent Street, 602. Long Island City, NY 11106
718 721-5254 orvillerobertson@gmail.com httpswww.newyorkstreetphotography.com

Born 1957 Jamaica, West Indies United States

Select Individual Exhibitions
2011 TCC Photo Gallery, Longview, TX
2009 University of the Arts Gallery 1401, Philadelphia, PA
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2003 Pfizer World Headquarters Corporate Art Gallery, New York City
1999 Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida

Select Group Exhibitions
2011 Format 11, Right Here, Right Now, street photography, Quad, Derby, UK
2006 Amon Carter Museum, Texas – “Masterworks of American Photography”
Queens Museum of Art, New York – “Queens Photo Project for Queens International 2006”
2004 Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida – “Man-ifestations Photographs of Men”
2003 Leica Gallery, NYC – “Saturday NightSunday Morning”, curated by Deborah Willis and Lisa Henry
Meizel Center for Arts and Culture, Singer Gallery, Denver, Colorado – “Street Level A Century of New York Street Photography”
2001 The Brooklyn Museum, New York – “Committed to the Image Contemporary Black Photographers”
Museum of the City of New York – “Dressing for a New York City Childhood”

Selected Collections
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
The New York Public Library, Central Research Branch
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Museum of the City of New York
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York
Musee Nicephore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Soane, France
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Center for Creative Photography, Arizona
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin
The Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida
Pfizer Corporate Art Collection, New York

Related Activities
Founding publisher and editor, Fotophile, photography journal, 1993 – 2008
Co-curator, “Committed to the Image Contemporary Black Photographers”, Brooklyn Museum, NY
Lead curator and organizer, “Man-ifestations Photographs of Men”, Southeast Museum of Photography, May through August, 2004
Reviewer for Fotophile at Houston Fotofest and Portlands PhotoLucida, 2000 - 2003
New York Foundation for the Arts 2002 Fellowship in Photography

Bibliography

2015 “Les Secret de Photo De Rue” by Gildas Lepetit-Castel, published in Paris, France by Eyrolles, ISBN 978-2-212-14245-7, pages 203 through 206 images and short interview...