Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Stephen Tourlentes

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Somerville, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003

Stephen Tourlentes received his B.A. from Knox College and his M.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Currently he teaches and works in the photography department as a visiting professor of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art.

He is the recipient of artist fellowship grants from various organizations including the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Artadia, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, MacDowell, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. He was a finalist for the 2010 Institute of Contemporary Art’s Foster Prize in Boston, MA.

His work is held in many public and private collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; The Princeton Art Museum; The Santa Barbara Museum of Fine Arts; Harvard University; The Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO; and Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery.

Stephen’s work has been exhibited in many museum and gallery venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; The Inside Out Museum in Beijing; and The Datz Museum of Art in Seoul.

His work has been published in many journals, including the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, Esquire Magazine (Russian Edition,) The Atlantic Monthly, Politico, The Daily Mail, Arhitext Design Journal, and Blindspot.

His work is represented by Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston.

Studios

Nef

Stephen Tourlentes 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…

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