Doug Rickard
Born
San Jose, CA, 1968. Lives in Sacramento, CA.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, 1994
University of
California San Diego, emphasis on United States History and Sociology
Founder and Editor
American Suburb X
(www.americansuburbx.com)
These Americans (www.theseamericans.org)
A New American Picture, Stephen Wirtz Galelry, April 27-July 30, 2011
Exhibitions
2011
A New American Picture,
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) April 27-July 30.
New Work 2011, Museum of
Modern Art, New York, NY, September.
From Here On,
curated by Clément Chéroux, Joan Fontcuberta, Erik Kessels, Martin Parr,
and Joachim Schmid for the 42nd edition of
Les Rencontres d’Arles
Arles,
France, July 4-September 18.
Here,
Pier 24, San Francisco, CA, through December 16, 2011.
No Directon Home, Head On Photo Festival, Depot II Gallery,
Sydney, Australia.
2010
Anonymes - L' Amerique Sans Nom: Photographie et
Cinema, Walker Evans, Standish
Lawder, Chauncey Hare, Bruce Gilden, Doug Rickard, Lewis Baltz, Jeff Wall,
Arianna Arcara & Luca Santese, Anthony Hernandez, Sharon Lockhart, Le Bal,
Paris, September 18-December 19
Writing on photography
“William Eggleston: Before Color,”
American Suburb X, 2010
“Asger Carlsen: Wrong,”
American Suburb X, 2010
“Antoine d’Agata: An Empty Shell
Walking,” American Suburb X,
2009
“Hally Pancer: America 1986-1990,”
American Suburb X, 2009
“Tanyth Berkeley: The Special Ones,”
American Suburb X, 2009
“Robert Adams: Summer Nights Walking,”
American Suburb X, 2009
“Asako Narahashi: Half Awake and Half Asleep in
the Water,” American Suburb X, 2009
“Richard Billingham: Ray’s a
Laugh,” American Suburb X, 2008
“Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs: The Great Unreal,”
American Suburb X, 2008
“Julius Shulman: LA Son,” American Suburb X, 2008
“Chris Shaw: Life as a Night Porter,”
American Suburb X, 2009
“Victor Cobo: Remember When You Loved Me,”
American Suburb X, 2009
“Lise Sarfati: Molly #03,”
American Suburb X, 2008
“Mark Steinmetz: The Gray the Blankets the Living,”
American Suburb X, 2008
“Michele Abeles: Old New Work,” American Suburb X, 2008
“Mike Brodie: The Roof on the World is
the Place to Be,” American Suburb X,
2008
“John Humble: A Place in the Sun,”
American Suburb X, 2008
“Alison Sexton: Tap Into the Language or You’re Neutral”
American Suburb X, 2008
“Ed
Templeton: Deformer,” American Suburb X, 2008
“Roswell Angier: Sticky Floors and White
Men Roars,” American Suburb X,
2008
“Todd Hido: Two Way Street,”
American Suburb X, 2008
“Tony Stamolis: Frezno,”
American Suburb X, 2008
A New American Picture, 69 plates, limited edition of 250 copies, hand made By White Press/Schaden.com, 2010
A New American Picture, trade edition, (upcoming 2012)
Campany, David and Diane Dufour. Anonymes – L’amerique sans nom: Photographie et cinema, exhibition catalogue, Steidl/Le Bal, 2010, 96 pp.
Articles and Reviews
2011
Appleyard, Bryan. "Google Street View as Art," The Sunday Times, December 11.
Graham, Paul. "20/20, Doug Rickard," Frieze, September.
Ho, Alexander. "Art and the Outside World: MoMA's 'New Photography,'" Time LightBox, September 27.
O'Toole, Erin. "Issue 27 / Report / Doug Rickard - A New American Picture," Foam Magazine, June.
Archer, Larissa. "Decaying, Powerful Scenes in "New American Picture," San Francisco Examiner, June 8.
Baker, Kenneth. "Rickard at Stephen Wirtz," San Francisco Chronicle, June 4.
Bravmann, Melony. "A New American Picture, Doug Rickard," ArtPractical, Shotgun Review, Vol. 2.18.
Winant, Carmen. "Doug Rickard @ Wirtz," SquareCylinder.com, May 19.
Bowers, Keith. "First Thursday: Doug Rickard's "A New American Picture" Shows American Desolation, SFWeekly, May 5.
Smyth, Diane. “The View from the Streets,” British Journal of Photography, February 22.
Badger, Gerry. “Anonymes,” AG Quarterly, Winter.
“The Best Books of 2010,” photo-eye Magazine, A New American Picture selected as a best book of 2010 by Morten Andersen, Gerry Badger, John Gossage, Jeff Ladd, and Martin Parr
2010
Ladd, Jeff. “A New American Picture by Doug Rickard,” 5B4 Photography and Books, November 30, 2010.
Houghton, Max. “Paris Photo and Beyond,” Foto8, December 2, 2010.
Bertrand, Anne. “Opening of Le Bal, paris, Paris Anonymes, Unnamed America in Photography and Film,” Camera Austria, #112, 2010.
Public Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Yale University Art Gallery