JOEL LEIVICK
Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Photography (emeritus)
Department of Art & Art History
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2018
EDUCATION1980 Master of Fine Arts, Yale University
1973 Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, University of California at Santa CruzEMPLOYMENT
2001-2015 Professor (Teaching), Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University (Department Chair, 2002-2005, 2006-2007)
1981-2001 Senior Lecturer, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University
1986-2000 Curator of Photography, Stanford University Museum of Art (Cantor Arts Center)
1994 Professor of Art, University of Georgia Summer Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy
1983 Lecturer in Photography, Yale University
1980-1981 Instructor in Photography, Filmmaking, and History of Photography, East Tennessee State University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 "The Rapture: Photographs from the Pantheon", Stanford University Art Gallery
2009 “Joel Leivick”, Emory University Art Gallery, Atlanta
2008 “In the Garden,” Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco
2001 "Joel Leivick", Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco
2000 "Joel Leivick. Survey: An Artist at Mid-Career", Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
1999 "Joel Leivick", Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Arts, Jacksonville, Florida
1998 "The Marble Quarries of Carrara", Bank of America Building Concourse Gallery, San Francisco
1995 "Joel Leivick: Photographs of Italian Marble Quarries", Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1991 "Carrara and Other Photographs of Italy", T. W. Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University
"Contact Prints 1979-1991", Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1988 "Images of the Land", William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Western Landscapes", Ledel Gallery, New York, NY
“Joel Leivick”, Koslow-Rayl Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
"Photographs of Italy", Introductions 1988, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 “Joel Leivick”, Dancing Man Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
1983 “Joel Leivick”, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
1982 “Joel Leivick”, T. W. Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University
“Joel Leivick”, Rice University Media Center, Houston, TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 “From Their Studios: Stanford Faculty Exhibition”, Cantor Art Center, Stanford University
2003 "A Decade of Collecting", Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1999 "Tenth Anniversary Exhibition", Alinder Gallery, Gualala, CA
1997 "L.A. Current: The Photographers' Perspective", Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
1996 "Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition", Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1995 "But It Doesn't Match the Couch", Alinder Gallery, Gualala, CA
"An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Photographs commissioned by SFMOMA)
1994 "Mostra", University of Georgia, Summer Program Exhibition, Palazzo Vagnotti, Cortona, Italy
"Photographs", Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
"Focus '94", Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA
"Black and White", The Pope Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
"20th Anniversary Auction Exhibition", Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Nature/Culture", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1993 "Warm Truths and Cool Deceits: Photographs from the Permanent Collection", Santa Barbara Museum of Art
"Vast Endeavors", Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA
"Recent Acquisitions", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"Tribute", William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Eye Gallery Benefit Auction, San Francisco
1992 "Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures VII", Fraenkel Gallery. San Francisco, CA
1990 "Curator's Choice", Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA
"Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures V", Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 "Polaroid 20 x 24", Photographer's Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1988 "Fine Art Polaroid Photography", Los Angeles Center for Photographic Art, Los Angeles, CA
"National Aperture 3", Winston-Salem, NC
"Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures III", Fraenkel Gallery
"Queer Landscapes", Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Stairways and Empty Chairs", traveling exhibition curated by Ledel Gallery, New York
1987 "Simple Pleasures: Photographs from the Seagram Collection", Seagram Gallery, New York
"The Courthouse Annex, A Photographic Essay", The Art Museum of Santa Cruz, CA
"Stanford Artists in New York", Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
1986 "Selections 3", Photokina '86, Cologne, West Germany
"The Flower Show", Design Center of Los Angeles, (20 x 24 inch Polaroid prints)
"With the Land", Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
1985 "The Carmel Project", 20 x 24 inch Polaroid prints, Friends of Photography Gallery, Carmel, CA
1984 Faculty Exhibition, T. W. Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University
1983 "Photographs: 1927 to 1983", Selections from the Collection, Stanford University Museum of Art
EXHIBITIONS CURATED FOR THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART / CANTOR ARTS CENTER
2001 Wright Morris: Celebration of the Commonplace
2000 John Gutmann: Culture Shock
1996 The Enduring Illusion: Photographs from the Stanford University Museum of Art
1993 Personal Best: The Select Portfolios of Edward Weston and Ansel Adams
1990 Barbara Morgan
1989 Photography's Sesquicentennial: Masterpieces from the Stanford Museum Collection
William Carter Photographs
Bill Burke Portraits
1988 Laura Volkerding: Photographs of Workshops
Fay Godwin: Land
1987 Eugène Atget: Photographer of Paris
Paul Strand: Photographs of Mexico
Jakob Lorent: Ruins of the Acropolis
1986 Process and Image: 150 Years of Photographic Method
AWARDS
2012 Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, Fall 2012
1980 Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship, Yale University
1979 Ford Foundation Special Projects GrantPUBLICATIONS
Lost Boat, photographs by Joel Leivick, text by Thomas Grizzard, published privately, 2011
The Star Wizard’s Legacy, Poems by Vasco Popa, photographs of Popa by Joel Leivick,
White Pine Press, Buffalo, NY, 2010
Carrara: The Marble Quarries of Tuscany, Stanford University Press, 1999"Quarrying Images at Carrara", View Camera: The Journal of Large-Format Photography, March/April 1999
"The Enduring Illusion", exhibition catalogue, Stanford University Museum of Art, January 1996
"A Photographic Sojourn in the Valley of Fantiscritti", In Sight, May 1994
"Portfolio - Carrara Quarry", essay and six photographs, PLACES, Journal of Environmental Design, Winter, 1990
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Vincent, Stephen, Taking on the Landscape, A View of Work by Joel Leivick, Black & White Magazine, June 2010Fox, Catherine, Joel Leivick Photographs at Emory’s Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 9, 2009
Baker, Kenneth, Exhibition Review, San Francisco Chronicle, October 4, 2008
Leitch, Alison, Visualizing the Mountain: The Photographer as Ethnographer in the Marble Quarries of Carrara, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, December 2007
Gordon, Richard, "Carrara: Book Review", PhotoMetro, June 2000
"Carrara: Book Review", The Art Newspaper, No.96 (London). October 1999
Sardar, Zahid, "The Houses of William Wurster", San Francisco Examiner Magazine, November 12, 1995
Scanlon, Tom, "Sharing a Vision of the Land", San Jose Mercury News, July 6, 1993
Deragon, Rick, "Unlikely Subjects", Monterey Herald, February 9, 1993
Mozley, Anita V., "Joel Leivick: Carrara and Other Photographs of Italy", Photo Metro, April 1991
Burkhart, Dorothy, " Looking at the Big Picture", San Jose Mercury News, April 5, 1991
Hinton, Susan, "Maneuvers for a Greater Truth", Artweek, February 25, 1989
Exhibition review, Artscene, December 1988
Burkhart, Dorothy, exhibition review, San Jose Mercury News, January 13, 1989
Greer, Suvan, exhibition review, Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1988
Palmer, Rebecca, exhibition review, Artweek, November 21, 1988
Burkhart, Dorothy, exhibition review, San Jose Mercury News, November 22, 1987
Foley, Matthew, "The Courthouse Annex - A Photographic Essay", Prelude Magazine, October 1987
Exhibition review, Santa Cruz Sentinel, October 30, 1987
Bolam, Vicki, "Museum to Sprout from Front Street Jail", Santa Cruz Sun, October 15, 1987
Palmer, Rebecca, "Process and Image at Stanford University", Artweek, May 10, 1986
"How do you use a 200-pound camera? Carefully." San Jose Mercury News, August 25, 1985
"Using a Giant Polaroid", Los Angeles Times, August 11, 1985
Exhibition reviews, Friends of Photography Newsletter, July and August 1985
"Stanford Photographer Goes for the Really Big Picture", Campus Report, June 5, 1985
MAJOR COLLECTIONS
Bank of America Corporation
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
The Capital Group
Citibank Corporation
Consolidated Freightways
Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center
Hewlett Packard Corporation
Johnson and Higgins, Inc.
Joseph Seagram Corporation
Levi, Strauss and Company
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pacific Bell
Pacific Telesis Corporate Collection
Polaroid Corporation
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Stanford University Special Collections
Sterling Library, Yale University
University of California at Santa Cruz
Leonard and Marjorie Vernon Collection
Yale University Art Gallery