alex.sweetman@colorado.edu
303-492-1473
office: C276

My creative work is in the area of studio photography. My research is in visual studies, especially the history and theory of visual media.

Education

B.A., New York University, Washington Square College, 1970
M.F.A., State University of New York at Buffalo, Program in Photographic Studies, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, N.Y., 1975

Exhibitions

Over one hundred national and internation exhibitions, over thirty solo exhibitions includng The International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y., the Paris Biennale, the Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, the SanFrancisco Museum of Modern Art, and many universities and art schools nationally. In addition I have several large and small public art projects on permanent display, including 100 photographs and seven 10'x20' permanent color murals at the Denver International Airport.(these murals wre a technological breakthrough at the time)
My work in photography and artists books is represented in over thirty pemanent collections including the Museums of Modern Art in Tokyo, San Francisco, and New York. Other places include the Art Institute of Chicago, the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, the High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, the Calfornia Museum of Photography, University of Calfornia, Riverside, theHarry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. the Minneapolis Museum of Fine Arts, the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House,
Rochester, N.Y., the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, N.Y., the California Museum of Photography, San Diego, California, and others.

Selected Publications

Toward the New Histories of Photography, Society for PhotographicEducation, Chicago, 1983.
Photographic Book to Photobookwork: 140 years of Photography in Publication, University of California, Riverside, 1986.
Gary Winogrand, 1928-1984, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, 1990.
And over 30 articles in Afterimage, Exposure, and other publications.

Selected Honors and Awards

Presidents Fund for the Humanities, 1997
Faculty Teaching Excellence Summer Program, 2000
Dean's Faculty Enancement Award, 2001.
Faculty Sabbatical Grant, 2000.
Chosen by the Eleanor Roosevelt Foundadtion to participate in The International Conference on World Peace at the Waldorf Astoria, 1998.
Nominated to participate in the Professors World Peace Academy, 1998
Nominated to represent the Professors for World Peace Academy at the 1000 person Sino/Soviet/American Conference, Beijing, 2000.
Selected "Ambassador for Peace," by the Interreligious and International federation for World Peace, 2001
Invited to give the keynote panel at PhotoAmericas 2001, Portland, Oregon, (with Nathan Lyons, the Director of the Visual Studies Workshop, and Roy Flukinger, Curator, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas, Austin)
The Center for Creative Photography, San Diego, has recently acquired two of my pieces for their permanent collection.

Current Projects

Current projects include ongoing documentation of the Front Range of Colorado and various urban centers in this contry and Mexico.