Stephen DiRado

Stephen DiRado (born 1957) is an American photographer. His work is mostly black-and-white, and he makes frequent use of large-format cameras. He is most noted for his portraiture, night-astronomical photography, and semi-composed group photography, and for the extensive length of his projects.^[1]^[2]

He has been the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,^[3] the Massachusetts Cultural Council, National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artist Foundation.^[4] He has taken part in solo and group exhibitions at venues including the DeCordova and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. His work is held in both public and private collections and has appeared in print in The New York Times Magazine and Esopus.

He is currently a Senior Lecturer in photography within the Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University.

Selected exhibitions

Great River Arts, Bellows Falls, VT, "H2O, Film on Water" 2009
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA "Stephen DiRado's Dinner Series: How We Lived" 2008
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, "JUMP" 2007
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, New Acquisitions Show 2004
Denis Bibro Fine Arts, New York, NY, "About Face" 2004
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY. "By The Sea"
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. "Landscapes Seen and Imagined: Part II" 2003
Tom Blau Gallery, London, UK, Celestial Series 2002
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, "Stephen DiRado, Dinner Table Series" 2002
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA "Lens Landscape" 2002
The Photography Armory Show, New York, NY, Celestial Series 2002
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. " Alone" 2002
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. " Landscapes Seen and Imagined: Sense of Place" 2001
Dorsky Gallery, (SOHO) New York City, NY, "At the Edge" 2001
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA, " Night Light" 2001
The Afterimage Photograph Gallery, Dallas, TX, "Still Lifes" 2000
MTA, Transit for Arts, Penn Station, New York City, NY, "Celestial Photographs" 2000
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, "MFA, Houston: Recent Acquisitions" 1997
Afterimage Photograph Gallery, Dallas, TX, "Nighttime" 1997
Toledo Museum of Art, Center for the Visual Arts, Toledo, OH," Beach People" 1995
The Vineyard Museum, Edgartown, MA, "Beach People" 1994
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, The New England Biennial 1993
University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA, Jacob's House 1993
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA," Beach People" 1992
Akin Gallery, Boston, MA, "Photo Constructions" 1991
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, "Galleria Series" 1986
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, "Galleria Series" 1986
Grove Street Gallery, Worcester, MA, "Bell Pond, Portrait of A Community" 1984

Selected collections

Museum of Natural History Berlin, Germany
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, CT
New Hampshire Institute of Art, Teti Collection, Manchester, NH
Polaroid Corporation, Dallas, TX
Vineyard Museum, Edgartown, MA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, MA

Selected publications

Esopus, Fall 2009, Issue 13, Artist’s Project: Oliver Herring and Peter Krashes. Photograph Portraits of Herring and Krashes.
New York Times Magazine, September 6, 2009, The Way We Live Now, article by Walter Kirn: A Pharmacological Education
Boston Globe Arts Magazine, September 11, 2009, Shimmering Downriver, Cate McQuad. Review of exhibition.

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External links

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 5986035 ULAN: 500333064

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