Cig Harvey

Cig Harvey (born 1973 in Devon, UK) is a fine art photographer known for her surreal images of nature and family.[1][2] Her work has been compared to René Magritte and has been described as revealing “the mysticism in the mundane.”[3][4] Harvey’s work has been exhibited internationally and is included in several collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the George Eastman Museum, and the Farnsworth Art Museum.

Cig Harvey
Born1973
Devon, England
Known forPhotography
Websitewww.cigharvey.com

Harvey lives and works in Rockport, Maine.[5]

Early life

Cig Harvey grew up in the county of Devon in South West England. She became interested in photography at early age because of the photo portfolios that The Independent published in their Sunday editions.[6] At age thirteen, Harvey began working in a darkroom, which furthered her interest in photography.[6] She received her MFA from Rockport College and in 2005 was selected as one of Photo District News’s 30 emerging photographers to watch.[7]

Career

Harvey began her career as an assistant professor at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University where she worked for ten years.[8] Her first solo museum show was held at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo in 2012 in conjunction with the release of her first monograph, You Look At Me Like An Emergency (Schilt Publishing, 2012).[9] The book was selected by Photo District News as one of the best books of 2012, and was widely reviewed by international publications including The Independent and The Boston Globe.

Her second monograph, Gardening at Night (Schilt Publishing, 2015) received critical acclaim from Vogue and The New York Times, among others. In an interview with The Telegraph about the book, Harvey cited magical realism as a source of inspiration and said “I am very interested in finding magic in the real world and photography reminds me that this world is amazing.”[10]

Harvey’s third monograph, You an Orchestra You a Bomb (Schilt Publishing, 2017) was inspired in part by her near-death experience in a car accident.[11] She began to shoot in a more documentary style after the accident, which Harvey explains as being inspired by the “ [...] idea of the gasp and awe. We gasp when something is beautiful, and we gasp when something is terrible. I’m searching for that push/pull in each image.”[12][11] The New York Times review described this series as “carefully recreating that sense of childhood wonder, mixing saturated colors with verdant symbols and engaging text, allowing viewers to contemplate that sense of the unknown, but from a place of joy rather than anxiety.”[11]

Her recent work has expanded her focus on familial relationships to her own experience with motherhood and her relationship with her daughter.[13] She was featured in The New York Times in an article titled “Why Can’t Great Artists Be Mothers?” rejecting the stereotype that motherhood and artistic dedication are at odds.[3]

In 2017, Harvey was awarded the prestigious "Excellence in Teaching Award" from CENTER and in 2018 she was named the 2018 Prix Virginia Laureate, an international photography prize awarded to one woman each year.[14][15]

Harvey was among the five photographers chosen to be included in Return to Cuba: In the Footsteps of Walker Evans (2016), a feature-length documentary retracing the footsteps of photographer Walker Evans.[16]

In addition to her fine art work, Harvey also does select editorial and commercial work including projects for O Magazine, New York Magazine, T Magazine, Harper's Bazaar Japan, Bloomingdale's, Kate Spade, and Ralph Lauren.

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • 2019: Mid-Career Survey, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine.
  • 2018: Prix Virginia Exhibition, Espace Oppidum, Paris, France.
  • 2018: You an Orchestra You a Bomb, Kopeikin Gallery, New York, New York.
  • 2017-18: You an Orchestra You a Bomb, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, New York.
  • 2017-18: You an Orchestra You a Bomb, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • 2016: Gardening at Night, Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  • 2015: Gardening at Night, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, New York.
  • 2015: Gardening at Night, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • 2015: Gardening at Night, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
  • 2015: Gardening at Night, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, Maine.
  • 2013: You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
  • 2013: You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Firecat Studios, Chicago.
  • 2012: You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway.
  • 2012: You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Joel Soroka Gallery, Aspen, Colorado.
  • 2012: You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • 2012: You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Robin Rice Gallery, New York.
  • 2011: Cig Harvey, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, Maine.
  • 2011: Cig Harvey, Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona.
  • 2010: Cig Harvey – Photographs, The Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • 2010: The Hope Chest, JAGR Projects, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • 2010: The Hope Chest, Joel Soroka Gallery, Aspen, Colorado.
  • 2007: Cig Harvey – Photographs, Robin Rice Gallery, New York, New York.
  • 2006: The Self Portrait, Updated, Joel Soroka Gallery, Aspen, Colorado.
  • 2005: Cig Harvey – Photographs, Robin Rice Gallery, New York, New York.
  • 2005: The Impossible Tasks, Watermark Gallery, Houston, Texas.
  • 2005: Eyes Like Disappointed Lemons & The Impossible Tasks, Pikto Gallery, Toronto.
  • 2002: Tread Softly, The Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine.
  • 2001: Tread Softly, Paul Mellon Arts Center, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut.
  • 2000: Artists Up Front Street, Masterworks Gallery, Bermuda.

Group exhibitions

Collections

Books
  • Harvey, Cig (2015). You an Orchestra You a Bomb. Schilt Publishing. ISBN 9053308938
  • Harvey, Cig (2015). Gardening at Night. Schilt Publishing. ISBN 9789053308448
  • Harvey, Cig (2012). You Look At Me Like An Emergency. Schilt Publishing. ISBN 9053307710

Awards

References
  1. "Of Home and Nature" (PDF). International New York Times. 20 August 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  2. "Spring Photo Books Guide: Kikuji Kawada, Juergen Teller, Gillian Laub, and More". Vogue. New York City: Conde Nast. 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  3. Urist, Jacoba (21 May 2015). "Why can't great artists be mothers?". New York Times. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  4. "Photography: You Look at Me Like an Emergency, By Cig Harvey". The Independent. London. 12 May 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  5. "Sparklers and snow in Maine". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  6. Smithson, Aline (15 June 2012). "Interview With Cig Harvey: You Look At Me Like An Emergency". Lenscratch. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  7. "PDN's 30 2005". Photo District News. 17 January 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  8. "Cig Harvey: Voice Into Vision". PhotoNOLA.com. Retrieved 17 December 2016. She was an assistant professor at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University for ten years, but recently took a leap of faith to devote her life to purely making things.
  9. "Cig Harvey". CPW.org. Retrieved 17 December 2016. Cig Harvey’s photographs have been exhibited widely and are in the permanent collections of major museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. She was a recent finalist in Prix Virginia, an international photography prize for women, and had her first solo museum show at The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway, in the spring of 2012 in conjunction with the release of her monograph You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Schilt Publishing, 2012.
  10. Newman, Cheryl (10 September 2015). "Diary of a life: Cig Harvey's mystical portrait of home and family". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  11. Blaustein, Jonathan. "Fairytale Photos of Everyday Life". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  12. Drinkard, Jane. "The Beauty of Stillness". The Cut. New York Magazine. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  13. "Book Review: Gardening at Night". photoeye.com.com. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2016. Harvey’s words focus on familial relationships with her husband, daughter and mother and visual representations of the joys and trials of life fill the pages:
  14. "Excellence in Teaching Award". CENTER. CENTER. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  15. "Presentation of the 2018 Virginia Prize". Prix Virginia. Prix Virginia. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  16. "Return to Cuba: In the Footsteps of Walker Evans (2016)". IMDB. IMDB. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  17. "Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize". National Portrait Gallery. NPG. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  18. "The 2017 Clarence John Laughlin Award". New Orleans Photo Alliance. New Orleans Photo Alliance. Archived from the original on 19 October 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  19. "Discover the Karl Lagerfeld Selection at Paris Photo". Paris Photo. Paris Photo. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
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