Doug DuBois

American, born 1960

BiographyDoug DuBois (American, b. Dearborn, MI, 1960) is currently an associate professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. He also teaches at the Hartford Art School's International Limited Residency Program and the Berlin Photo Workshops. Doug received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he studied under Larry Sultan, and his BA from Hampshire College, where photographers Jerome Liebling and Elaine Mayes and filmmaker Abraham Ravett were among his teachers.

The artist has exhibited internationally and his photographs are found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Among Doug DuBois' publications are the acclaimed monograph about his family, All the Days and Nights (Aperture, 2009); Where We Live: Photographs from the Berman Collection (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007); and The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort (MOMA, New York, 1991).

Doug has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, SITE Santa Fe, Light Works, and the John Gutmann Foundation. In 2011, the Society for Photographic Education's Northeastern Chapter presented Doug DuBois with its highest honor for a photographic educator.

-from Silver Eye email, March 2013

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