CRAIG RICHARDS

Box 2532
Banff, Alberta, Canada T0L 0C0
(403) 678-2408 home
(403) 762-2291 (ext.308) work

crich@telusplanet.net



Solo exhibitions
Selected group exhibitions
Education
Employment
Grants
Publications
Collections
Representing Galleries

Solo Exhibitions

1997 Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, JAPAN
1997 Sol del Rio, Guatemala City, GUATEMALA
1996 Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alta, CANADA
1996 Jasper Museum and Art Gallery, Jasper, Alberta, CANADA
1996 The Centre for Photography, San Juan Capistrano, U.S.A
1994 "The Canadian Rockies," Museo Nazionale della Montagne, Torino, Italy
1994 "The Canadian Rockies," Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff
1994 "The Canadian Rockies," Folio Gallery, Calgary
1991 Auto Gallery, Bankers Hall, Calgary, Alberta
1989 "Guatemala," Folio Gallery, Calgary
1988 "Guatemala," Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff
1986 Canada House, Banff
1986 Eric Harvie Theatre, The Banff Centre, in conjunction with the 1986 Mountain Film Festival
1985 "Among the Mountains," Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, Medicine Hat
1985 "Among the Mountains," Whitehorse Gallery, Whitehorse, N.W.T.
1985 "Among the Mountains," Folio Gallery, Calgary
1983 Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff

Education

1984 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, Preservation of Black & White Photographic Images
1982 Owens Valley Photographic Workshop, Oregon Coast, directors: Bruce Barnbaum, Ray McSaveney and John Sexton
The last 19 years worked as photographer/darkroom technician

Employment

Since 1981 Working for the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, as the Photographic Technician/Photographer. Since October 1986, Head of Photography
Since 1987 Guest instructor with Photographic Arts Workshop (formerly Owens Valley Photography Workshops), Canada, Mexico & United States Workshops
1980 Photographer, Alberta Rockies Mountaineering Society
1978-79 Photographer/Technician for The Alberta Report magazine
1977 Graphic Arts Cameraman for Spectrum Industrial Photographers, Edmonton

Grants

1990 Canada Council project grant, "Guatemala"
1985 Alberta Culture Visual Arts Project Cost Grant for the Exhibition, "Among the Mountains"
1984 Short Term Study Grant under the Canadian Museums Association Bursary Programme to attend conference on Preservation of Black and White Photographic images, Rochester, N.Y.
1980 Grant Recipient, Alberta 75th Anniversary Project photographing in the mountains of Alberta

Selected Group Exhibitions

1995 The Center for Photography, San Juan Capistrano, California, U.S.A.
1992 "Man, Land, Place," three Alberta photographers, touring show, organized and circulated by the Edmonton Art Gallery
1991 "A Conscious Choice," six documentary photographers, Muttart Gallery, Calgary
1990 "Spirit of the Wilderness," Whyte Museum, Banff
1988 Nova Garden, Calgary
1988 "Impressed by the View," Whyte Museum, Banff
1988 "Alberta Visual Artists," Centre for Performing Arts, Calgary
1987 "An Alberta Sense of Place," McMullen Gallery, Edmonton
1987 "Photographers of the Canadian Rockies," Whyte Museum, Banff
1986 "C.N.I.B. Art 86," Edmonton
1986 "Small Prints," Folio Gallery, Calgary
1985 "New Faces," Muttart Gallery, Calgary
1984 "Summer Celebration," recent work by seven Alberta photographers, Folio Gallery, Calgary
1983 "High Light: The Mountain in Photography, 1840 to the Present," the International Centre for Photography, New York, N.Y.
1982 "Being There," Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff
1982 "Exceptional Pass, the Quests, the Expeditions, the Explorations," Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff
1981 Juried, the Canmore Artists and Artisans Guild, Canmore

Publications

CRAIG RICHARDS, Un Fotografo alla Riscoperta della Montagne Rocciose, Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Duca Delgi Abruzzi, Club Alpino Italiano, 1994

CRAIG RICHARDS, THE CANADIAN ROCKIES, Book, Sawback Press, 1994

Portfolio, CANADIAN ALPINE JOURNAL, pages 34-37, 1994

Profile, ARTS ALBERTA, CKUA radio

A Conscious Choice, Six Photographic Projects, Catalogue, March 1991, Muttart Gallery

Borealis Magazine, "Profile," Fall 1990, pages 38-43

1988 Diachem Corporate Calendar, The Young Canadian Artist Series No. 8

Cityscope Magazine, Calgary, "Profile," Winter 84/85, pages 32-33

A Grand and Fabulous Notion, The First Century of Canada's Past, NC Press Limited, 1985, back cover

Happy Birthday Alberta 75th, Alberta 75th Publication, 1980, page 25 (3)

Lake Louise, A Diamond in the Wilderness, Altitude Publishing, 1982, page 64

Exceptional Pass, the Quests, the Expeditions, the Explorations, Peter Whyte Gallery, 1982, page 60

Reproduction printing for numerous publications including Legacy in Ice, the Vaux Family and the Canadian Rockies, The Whyte Foundation, 1983, and Great Days in the Rockies, the Photographs of Byron Harmon, 1906-1943, Altitude Publishing Limited, 1984


Collections


Alberta Art Foundation
Alberta Government Telephones, Calgary
Air Canada, Montreal
Amoco Petroleum, Calgary
Berzak Partners Architects, New York
Brewster Transport, Banff
Calgary Regional Arts Foundation
Carruthers, Marshall & Associates Architects, Calgary
City of Calgary
City of Edmonton
Diachem, Vancouver
Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y.
Government of Alberta, Board of Industrial Relations and Labour
Hamich International Corporation, Vancouver
Marquis Enterprises, Calgary
Museo Nazionale della Montagne, Torino, Italy
Norman Mackenzie Medical Research Hospital, Edmonton
Rex Petroleum, Calgary
Trimac Ltd., Calgary
Trizec Corporation, Calgary,
Waterous Securities Inc., Calgary
Western Securities, Calgary
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff
Wooliams, Korman, Moore & Wittman, legal firm, Calgary
Numerous private collections

Representing Galleries


updated February 1998