Bio
Joshua Lutz is an artist and educator working primarily in photography and text. His monographs include Mind The Gap (2018 Schilt), Hesitating Beauty (2013, Schilt) and Meadowlands (2008, Powerhouse). Lutz’s books have been named Best Art Books by Time Magazine, Photo District News, PhotoEye among others. Awards and Fellowships include The Aaron Siskind Fellowship, American Photography, Hudson Year Fellowship, Tierney Fellowship, Communication Arts, PDN 30. Solo shows include Clamp Art (New York), Koch Gallery (San Francisco), Blue Sky Lutz (Portland) Robert Morat (Hamburg), Robert Morat (Berlin). He has served on the faculty for The MFA Program at Bard College, The International Center of Photography, Pratt Institute and is currently Associate Professor and Chair of Photography at Purchase College.
Education
1997 BFA Bard College. Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
2005 MFA Bard College / ICP. New York, NY
Monographs
2017 Mind The Gap, Photographs and Text by Joshua Lutz, Schilt
2012 Hesitating Beauty, Photographs and Text by Joshua Lutz, Schilt
2008 Meadowlands Photographs by Joshua Lutz, Essay by Robert Sullivan, Powerhouse Books
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Clamp Art Mind The Gap, New York, NY
2015 Robert Morat Hesitating Beauty, Berlin, Germany
2014 Robert Morat Hesitating Beauty, Hamburg, Germany
2014 Breda Foto Meadowlands, Breda Netherlands
2014 Schilt Gallery Hesitating Beauty, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013 Blue Sky Hesitating Beauty, Portland, OR
2013 Robert Koch Hesitating Beauty, New York, NY
2013 Clamp Art Hesitating Beauty, New York, NY
2010 Robert Koch Meadowlands, Amsterdam, San Francisco, CA
2008 Clamp Art Meadowlands, New York, NY
2008 Barbara Walters Gallery Meadowlands, Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville, NY
2005 ICP-Bard Gallery Happily Ever, Long Island City, NY
2004 Gitterman Gallery Untitled, New York, NY
1997 Fischer Art Center Staffage, Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Group Exhibitions
2022 University of Oakland, Image and the Photographic Allusion. Oakland, CA
2017 The Green Gallery, Yale University Picturing Family. New Haven, CT
2015 The Cleveland Museum of Art Constructed Identities. Cleveland, OH
2014 Rider University Gallery Landscapes: Traditional, Social, Political. Lawrenceville, NJ
2013 Photoville The Tierney Show. Brooklyn, NY
2013 SI Fest From Archive to Book, Savignano, Italy
2013 Pingyao International Photo Festival The New York School. Pingyao, China
2013 ICP Triennial, A different Kind of Order (Reading Room) New York, NY
2013 Si Fest #21 Imparando Dalla Fotografia, Savignano sul Rubicone, Ital
2013 The Haggerty Museum of Art Dark Blue: Water as Protagonist. Milwauke, WI
2012 The LiShui Museum of Photography Pictures are Words Not Known. LiShui, China
2011 Ny Tap The Contemporary Photographic Portrait. Copenhagen, Denmark
2011 Estuary Gallery Love is a River. Beacon, NY
2010 The International Center of Photography The Exquisite Landscape. New York, NY
2010 Copenhagen Photo Festival Evolutions in Exchange. Copenhagen, Denmark
2010 25CPW New York Perspectives. New York, NY
2010 New York Photo Festival New Waves and Documentation. Brooklyn, NY
2010 New York Photo Festival World Vision. Brooklyn NY
2009 San Paulo Photo Festival San Paulo, Brazil
2009 Fovea Exhibitions American Youth. Beacon, NY
2009 Foam Museum/Stadsarchief Amsterdam New York Perspectives. Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009 Look3 Charlottesville, VA
2009 New York Photo Festival New York, NY
2009 Make Art Public Montreal High Lights Festival Public Arts, Montreal, Canada
2009 Photo LA / Clamp Art Santa Monica, CA
2008 New York Photo Festival, The Tierney Fellowship. Brooklyn, NY
2008 Fovea Exhibitions Beacon, NY
2008 Powerhouse Arena Brooklyn, NY
2008 The Heart Gallery New York, NY
2007 The Art Directors Club 25 Years of Metropolis. New York, NY
2006 Orchard Gallery Reality/Play. New York NY
2006 Katonah Museum of Art I Heart the Burbs. Katonah, NY
2005 The International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2004 Jacob Javitz Center PhotoPlus Expo. New York, NY
2003 Redux pictures New York, NY
1997 Woodstock Center of Photography Woodstock, NY
Books / Catalogs
2022 Image and the Photographic Allusion, University of Oakland
2021 OUTS, Skylark Editions
2020 Primal Sight, Gnomic Books
2018 The Mockingbird, Faith and Doubt
2017 Understanding Photo Books: the Form and Content of the Photo Book, Focal Press Books
2015 The Ones We Love, Ones We Love Press
2015 Constructed Identities Cleveland Museum of Art Press
2011 The Photographs Not Taken, Daylight
2010 New York, New York, Rizzoli
2010 Foam Album 09, Foam Museum
2008 American Youth, Contrasto Press
2008 American Short Fiction, Badger Dog Publishing
2008 Light and Lens, Photographs in the Digital Age, Focal Press
2006 The Book on Vegas, Greybull Press
2006 I Heart the Burbs, Katonah Museum of Art
2006 Houses of Worship, Assouline Publishing
Selected Press
2019 Photo Bite Mind The Gap Review
2018 Télérama (France) Mind The Gap Review
2018 Wall Street International Mind The Gap Review
2018 A Photo Editor Mind The Gap Review
2018 Paper Journal Mind The Gap Review
2018 Medium Mind The Gap Review
2018 The Photobook Club Mind The Gap Review
2018 Le Monde de la Photo Mind The Gap Review
2018 Shutr Mind The Gap Review
2018 Photo District News Mind The Gap Review
2018 F Stop Magazine Mind The Gap Review
2018 Collector Daily Mind The Gap Review
2018 PH Museum Mind The Gap Review
2018 Conscientious Magazine Mind The Gap Review
2018 Il Magazine Mind The Gap Review
2018 Photographic Museum of Humanity Making Sense of Confusion, Mind The Gap Review
2018 Photoworld Hesitating Beauty
2018 PhotoEye Mind The Gap Review
2018 Professional Photography Mind The Gap Review
2018 The Eye of Photography Joshua Lutz’s physical, mental and psychological gap Review
2018 Edge of Humanity Magazine Meadowlands Feature
2018 Fisheye Magazine Mind The Gap Review
2018 Musee Magazine Mind The Gap Review
2018 Ain’t Bad Mind The Gap Review
2018 Vice Joshua Lutz's Peculiar, Lonely Photos of Sex, Addiction, and Mental Illness Interview
2018 L’oeil de la photographie Mind The Gap Review
2018 Regia Mind The Gap Review
2017 Photo District News Pushing the Boundaries of objective Reporting
2013 Mother Jones Hesitating Beauty Review by Mark Murrman
2013 Conscientious Hesitating Beauty Review by Joerg Colberg
2013 ASX Hesitating Beauty Review by Raphael Shamma
2013 Le Journal De La Photographie Hesitating Beauty Review by Sara Rosen
2013 NewYorker Hesitating Beauty Review by Vince Alleti
2013 Photo District News Hesitating Beauty Review by Conor Risch
2013 The Wall Street Journal Hesitating Beauty Review by William Meyers
2013 Time Machine Review Hesitating Beauty Review by Zoltan Jokay
2013 PhotoEye Hesitating Beauty Review by George Slade
2013 LensScratch Hesitating Beauty Review by Aline Smithson
2013 Photograph Magazine Hesitating Beauty Review by Jean Dykstra
2013 Visual Culture Hesitating Beauty Review by Marco Bohr
2013 British Journal of Photography Hesitating Beauty Review by Gemma Padley
2013 This is the what Hesitating Beauty Review by Kate Osbra
2013 The Brooklyn Rail Hesitating Beauty Review by Talia Bloch
2013 A Curator Hesitating Beauty Review by Julie Grahame
2013 New Yorker Photo Booth Interview by James Pomerantz
2013 Visual Culture Interview with Marco Bohr
2013 Two Way Lens interview with Michael Werner
2012 American Public Radio Interview with Joshua Lutz on Hesitating Beauty
2012 American Public Radio Interview with Joshua Lutz on The Photographs Not Taken
2010 The San Francisco Chronicle Joshua Lutz at Koch Gallery, Review by Kenneth Baker
2010 DART Design Arts Daily Beyond the Meadowlands, Interview by Peggy Roalf
2010 Houston Center of Photography Spot Interview by Joerg M Colberg
2009 Dwell Meadowlands
2009 Foam New York Perspectives four New York Photographers look at Amsterdam
2009 PhotoEye Magazine Meadowlands Review by Ryon James
2009 Herald News The Meadowlands Up close and personal Review by Tim Norri
2009 Conscientious Joshua Lutz, Interview by Joerg M Colberg
2008 Foam Meadowlands, Book Review
2008 Art + Auction Meadowlands, Review
2008 Metropolis Bookshelf, Meadowlands, Review
2008 The New Yorker Meadowlands Review by Vince Alleti
2008 PBS/NJN Meadowlands (Aired weekly on PBS October 2008)
2008 DART Design Arts Daily Meadowlands Review by Peggy Roalf
2008 The Village Meadowlands. Review
2008 Photo District News Interview by David Walker
2008 Hudson Reporter, Shutter Wide Open, Interview by Asseta Wright
2008 The Star Ledger Review of Meadowlands
2008 Paper Magazine Meadowlands, Review by Logan Barmier
2013 Publishers Weekly Meadowlands
2008 The Village Voice “Best in Show” Joshua Lutz at ClampArt
2008 The First Post A look at Joshua Lutz’s Meadowlands
2008 The Leader Focusing on the Joshua Lutz’s Meadowlands, Interview by John Soltes
2008 The New York Post “Page Six” Swamp Things a look at Joshua Lutz’s Meadowlands
2008 PhotoShelter Joshua Lutz, Interview by Rachel Hulin
2008 Daylight Magazine
2005 Architectural Record
2005 Photo District News
2005 The New Yorker Joshua Lutz at Gitterman Gallery, Review by Vince Alletti
2005 The Village Voice Voice Choices, Review
2015 The New York Sun A Segmented View of America, Review