About the Artist
Frank Hallam Day, a fine art photographer based in Washington DC, was the winner of the 2012 Leica Oscar Barnack Prize as well as the Bader Prize in 2006, and numerous other awards, commissions and grants. His work has been widely exhibited and collected by the Berlinische Gallerie und Landesmuseum Berlin, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection, the Orlando Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Kreeger Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the Katzen Museum at American University, and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, among many others.
He was invited to show work at Singapore Contemporary 17, the Athens Photo Festival 2017, the Kreeger Museum also in 2017, in Ukraine in 2019, and the Bangkok Biennale 2020. He was the subject of a large solo show at the Katzen Museum in 2019.
A monograph of his photographs of night in Florida jungles was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2012, and was named a “photography book of the year” by Photo District News the following year. A new book, also from Kehrer Verlag, on Bangkok is also available now.
Much of his work is concerned with culture and social history, as in his series on the impact of globalization on African culture, and on the erasure of cultural, political and personal memory in the rebuilding of East Berlin in the 1990‘s.
His work has also been concerned with the fraught relationship between man and nature, as in the Florida series and earlier work on the manmade landscape along the eastern seaboard of the U.S.
His multi-year work on Bangkok at night dealt with obsolescence, the passing of time, and the transient nature of progress as well as life itself.
Contact: info@frankhday.com
Selected Exhibitions
- Bangkok Art Bienalle 2020 (solo)
- Center for Creative Photography, Phoenix, Arizona Dec. 2019 (group)
- Kreeger Museum at American University, Wash. DC Nov. 2019 (solo)
- VisArts Gallery, Rockville Maryland Sept. 2018 (solo installation)
- Green Scene Festival, Chernihiv Ukraine June 2018 (solo)
- Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Nov/Dec 2017 (solo)
- Kreeger Museum, Washington DC (solo installation, March/July 2017)
- Athens Photo Festival (solo installation, June/July 2017)
- Syngenta Photo Awards, Somerset House, London (March 2017, group)
- Singapore Contemporary 2017 (Jan. 2017 solo installation)
- Leica Gallery, Los Angeles (July 2016, solo)
- Randall Scott Projects (Baltimore, Jan. 2016 solo)
- H Gallery Bangkok 2015 (solo)
- Washington Project for the Arts, Select 2015 (group)
- Centro Cultural de Sao Paulo (July 2015 Syngenta Photography Award, group)
- Somerset House, London (March 2015 Syngenta Photography Award, group)
- Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC Dec. 2014 (solo)
- Transformer Gallery, Washington DC Nov. 2014 (Benefit Exhibition, group)
- Goethe Institute, Washington, DC Oct. 2014 (group)
- Leica Gallery, Washington DC Nov. 2014 (solo)
- Beers Contemporary, London, UK Aug. 2014 (solo)
- Katzen Arts Center at American University, Bader Prize Winners, June 2014 (group)
- Leica Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany, March 2014 (solo)
- Maryland Arts Place, March 2014 (solo)
- Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC March 2014 (group)
- Cafritz Center for the Arts, Silver Spring, Oct. 2013 (solo)
- Community College, Baltimore Country, Oct-Nov. 2013 (solo)
- Catherine Edelman Gallery, 2013 Oct. 2013 (group)
- Jean Efron Art Consultants, Sept. 2013 (solo)
- Farmani Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand July 2013 (group)
- Sondheim semi-finalists at MICA, Baltimore 2013 (group)
- Orlando Museum of Art, Dec. 2012 (solo)
- Addison/Ripley Fine Art, (solo), 2012
- Leica Galerie, Salzburg, solo, 2012
- Leica installation, Photokina Cologne, solo, 2012
- Artisphere, Virginia, solo, 2012
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, group, 2012
- SNAP Festival, Orlando, 2012 (group)
- Salisbury University, Maryland (solo, 2012)
- Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Wash DC (group, 2012)
- Washington Project for the Arts (group, 2012)
- Transformer Gallery (Washington DC, Benefit Exhibition, group 2011)
- World Photography Events, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC (group, 2011)
- Goucher College, Baltimore (solo, 2011)
- Edison Gallery, Washington DC (9/11: Ten Years After, group) 2011
- Somerset House, London (Sony Photography Prize, group, 2011)
- Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington DC (solo, 2010)
- Washington Project for the Arts (group, 2010)
- Catonsville Community College, Baltimore (group, 2010)
- Curators Office, Washington DC (group, 2010)
- Addison/Ripley Fine Art, (group, 2010)
- Arts Club of Washington (solo, 2009)
- Hemphill Fine Arts Washington DC (group, 11/2009)
- Hamiltonian Gallery (solo, 2009)
- Washington Photo Week (at Addison/Ripley, solo, 11/08)
- Addison/Ripley Fine Art, (2008 (solo)
- Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, Va. 2008 (solo)
- Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or 2008 (group)
- School of Fine Art, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 2008 (solo)
- Central Market, Addis Ababa Ethiopia 2008 (solo)
- Addison/Ripley Fine Art Warner display space 2007-8 (solo)
- Abbe Museum, Maine 2007 (solo)
- Baltimore Museum of Art 2007 (solo/group)
- German Marshall Fund, Washington DC 2007 (solo)
- Gettysburg College 2007 (group)
- Civilian Art Projects, Washington DC 2007 (group)
- Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC 2006 (solo)
- Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington DC, 2004 (solo)
- Strand on Volta, Washington, DC, 2003 (group)
- Otto Nagel Galerie, Berlin, 2003 (solo)
- Corcoran Museum, Washington DC, 2003 (group)
- American Embassy Athens, 2002 (group)
- Mois de la Photo, Dakar, 2001 (group)
- Internationaler Kunsttage Drewin, 1997 (group)
- Amerika Haus, Berlin 1996 (solo)
Selected Public Collections
- Center for Creative Photography, Phoenix, Arizona
- Phillips Collection, Washington DC
- Kreeger Museum, American University, Washington DC
- The Federal Reserve Board of Governors
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
- Berlinische Galerie und Landesmuseum Berlin
- Baltimore Museum of Art
- Sackler Museum/Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution
- Portland Art Museum, Portland Oregon
- San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts
- Kreeger Museum, Washington DC
- American Embassies Berlin, Khartoum, Addis Ababa and Accra
- German Marshall Fund of the United States
- City Council of the District of Columbia
- DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Arts Bank
- Sallie Mae, Washington DC
Selected Awards, Grants, and Commissions
- Individual Artist’s Grant, Commission on the Arts and Humanities, District of Columbia 2016
- Prix Pictet, nominated 2016
- Nominated for ICP Infinity Award, 2015
- Photo District News, Winner, 2013 PDN Photobook Photography Annual
- Leica Oskar Barnack Prize, 2012
- Semi-finalist, Hasselblad Prize, 2011
- Third Prize in Professional Landscape, Sony Prize, 2011
- Finalist, Voies Off Prize, Arles Festival, 2010
- Cultural Envoy Program, US Dept. of State, 2008
- Artist in Residence, Acadia National Park, 2007
- Franz and Virginia Bader Prize, 2006
- DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, 2007
- DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, 2006
- Kreeger Museum, 2004
- Sackler/Freer Gallery of Art, 1991
- DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, 1989
Selected recent reviews and publications
- Forthcoming: Prix Pictet 2017: Space
- Forthcoming: Bangkok: Call Waiting, Kehrer Press Heidelberg, monograph, 6/2017
- Baltimore City Paper, March 19, 2014
- Washington City Paper, Oct. 24 2013
- Tampa Bay Times October 9, 2013
- Politiken (Denmark) October 4, 2013
- Monograph: “Nocturnal,” Kehrer Press, 2012
- Die Zeit, December 8, 2012
- Der Spiegel Online November 29, 2012
- Slate.com, November 21, 2012
- Washington City Paper, November 12, 2012
- Washington Post Express, November 24, 2010
- Washington Post Express, November 15, 2010
- Washington City Paper, November 12, 2010
- Washington City Paper, August 6, 2010
- Washington Post, January 3, 2010
- Washington Post, September 21, 2008
- ARTnews, summer 2004
- Washington Post, March 4, 2004
- Washington City Paper, March 19, 2004, and December 24, 2004
- Published in “Landscape: Photographs of Time and Place,” by Ferdinand Protzman, National Geographic Books, 2003
Online Reviews, 2013 and 2014, selected
- Creative Review (UK) March 2014
- La Vida Leica March 2014
- Feature Shoot (US) February 2014
- LensCulture (US) December 2013
- Esquire, Russian Edition October 2013
- Washington City Paper (US) October 2013
- The Weather Channel (US) October 2013
- Fast Company Design (US) August 2013
- InspireFirst August, 2013
- Slate.com (US) July 2013
- Designinspiration.net March, 2013
- PDN Photo of the Day March, 2013
Visiting Artist Events and Residencies
- Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2013
- Central Florida University, Orlando, 2009 and 2010
- Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, Fl. 2010
- National Museum of Sudan, 2009
- Addis Ababa University, School of Fine Art 2008
- Acadia National Park, 2007