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Checefsky's works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Whitney Museum of American Art; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; Allen Memorial Museum of Art; The Getty Research Center; Museum of Modern Art, Japan; The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; British Film and Video Collection, London, and others.
A four-time recipient of CEC ArtsLink International Fellowships, Checefsky has collaborated on photography and film projects at the Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland (2007); The Baltic Center of Photography, St. Petersburg, Russia (2003); Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria (2001); and Hungarian Union of Photographers, Budapest, Hungary (1999); Checefsky was also artist-in-residence at the Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, in 2005 where he directed a film written by Polish experimental filmmaker Andrzej Pawlowski in 1954.
Education
- M.F.A. Dept of Photography, Cranbrook Academy of Art. Bloomfield Hills, MI,
1984
- B.S. Dept of Education, Kutztown University of Penn., 1980
- International Center of Photography, New York City, 1977
Grants/Awards
2009 Creative Workforce Fellowship from the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture
1993
Murphy Foundation Grant, Ohio
1991
Foundation For Contemporary Performance Arts, New York City
1991 Murphy
Foundation Grant, Ohio
1990 Ohio Arts
Council; Cleveland Photographic Workshops, Ohio
1988 Art
Matters, New York City
1987 Detroit
Council on the Arts, Michigan; Michigan Council on the Arts
Solo & Group Exhibitions 1995 - 2006
Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio
Shaheen Modern & Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
National Centre of Photography, St. Petersburg, Russia
Beverly Arts Center of Chicago, Chicago
Shaheen Modern & Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Galerie Tolgyfa, Budapest, Hungary
Shaheen Modern & Contemporary Art
Academie de Arte, Bucharest, Romania
Kunsverein,Pforzheim, Germany
Budapest Academy of Art, Budapest, Hungary
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
The John J. McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Museum of York County, South Carolina
Het Apollohuis, Netherlands
Galerie Litera, Prague, Czech Republic
Kastrich Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
1994
Strategies
of Staging, Kastrich Galerie, Frankfurt, German (solo)
The Spiritual in Photography: Recent Abstractions, Puchong Gallery,
NYC(group)
Bruce Checefsky: Photograms, Municipal Museum, Iwano Frankowsk, Ukraine (solo)
1993
Fotografische
Werke, Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (solo)
Bruce Checefsky: Photograms, Galerie Litera, Prague, Czech Republic
(solo)
Strategies of Staging, Gallery ll, Washington State University,
Pullman, WA (solo)
Bruce Checefsky: Photography, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland,
Ohio (solo)
Young Artist, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, NYC (group)
20/20 Vision, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
(group)
ATC, The Workhouse, Chicago (group)
1992
International
Fotofest, Houston, Texas (group) Heat,
Ukraine Museum, Cleveland, Ohio (solo)
Cleveland: A Portrait Of A Place B y Nine Photographers, William
Busta Gallery (invitational)
Enlightened Papers, Afa Gallery, Scranton, PA, (solo)
Collections
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
The Getty Research Center
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
The National Centre of Photography, St. Petersburg, Russia
British Film and Video Collection, London
Museum of Art, Lodz, Poland
Netherlands Foto Institute, Rotterdam
Hungarian Photomuseum
Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
Carnage Mellon University
Yale University Library
Stanford University
University of Chicago
Cranbrook Academy of Art
Oberlin College
Duke University
Cornell University
The University of Iowa
Cleveland Public Library
Publications
The Films of Bruce Checefsky, book published in conjunction
with film release 'in ni' (others) with essays by Lukasz Ronduda,
Director of Polish Film Archives and Curator of Film, Center of Contemporary
Art, Warsaw; Marcin Gyzicki, Professor of Film Studies, Rhode Island
School of Art; and Saul Ostrow, Dean Visual Arts and Technologies
Environment, Chair Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art. Published
by Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Al. Ujazdowskie
6, 00-461 Warsaw, Poland, March 2005.
2001 Bruce Checefsky & Kiril Prashkov: Bugs/Eating &
Reading, Artist Book. Limited Ed. 150/signed, Institute
of Contemporary Art -Sofia, Bulgaria
1996 Bruce Checefsky: Other People's Money, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1995 The Language of Place, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama,
Japan
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