James Casebere attended Michigan State University and earned his B.F.A. from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He received an M.F.A. from Cal Arts in 1979. For the last 30 years, he has created and photographed models based on architectural, art historical, and cinematic sources. His work extends to film and sculpture. Casebere has been the recipient of fellowships including three from the National Endowment for the Arts, three from the New York Foundation for the Arts and one from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His work is collected by museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, among many others. In 2016, Casebere was a New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame Honoree and the subject of important survey exhibitions: “Fugitive” at the Haus der Kunst in Munich; “Immersion” at Espace Images Vevey in Switzerland; and “After Scale Model: Dwelling in the Work of James Casebere,” at the BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium.
James Casebere
Studios
Nef
James Casebere worked in the Nef studio.
Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…