Tom Arndt American, b. Born in 1944
Born in Minneapolis, Tom Arndt’s photography focuses on his native Minnesota. Belonging to the grand, classic tradition of American documentary photography, Tom Arndt’s body of work offers us a sensitive, empathetic portrayal: a family album of the people who live in his state including their coffee shops and soda fountains, their streets, their shop windows, their parks, the popular state fairs. Pessimism and pity are out of place here. As Arndt’s friend and well known writer Garrison Keillor points out, Tom Arndt photographs the DNA of Minnesotan culture: the poor and the left out.
Tom Arndt belongs to the silver print processing tradition; his printing is exceptionally beautiful. He spends at least several hours daily in the darkroom; he really loves the paper print.
Arndt received a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (1968) and did graduate study at the University of Minnesota (1969-1971). His photographs have been exhibited at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and other venues. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
In 2023, Leica Fotographie International magazine published a portfolio from the book American Reflections, published in 2022 by the Atelier EXB.
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Beauty shop window, Minneapolis, 1970View more details
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Merry Christmas, Chicago, 1992View more details
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Street musician, Chicago, 1997View more details
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38th & Chicago, June 2020View more details
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Shiny Coat, Minneapolis, 1970View more details
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Ticket taker, Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1973View more details
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Chicago, Illinois, 1975View more details
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Anoka, Minnesota, 1975View more details
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Anoka, Minnesota, 1975View more details
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38th & Chicago, June 2020View more details
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38th & Chicago, June 2020View more details
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38th & Chicago, June 2020View more details
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38th & Chicago, June 2020View more details
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Bar scene, Chicago, 1990View more details
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Man in a shoe store, Chicago, 1992View more details
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Camping, Yellow Stone national Park, 1978View more details
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Freed Hostage Parade, New York City, 1981View more details
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Two friends at a farm auction, Minnesota, 2009View more details
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Woman and Furcoat, New York City, 1980View more details
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Man on a newspaper stand, Chicago, 1987View more details
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Street Preacher, Chicago, 2001View more details
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Two people on a bus, Chicago, 1987View more details
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Young women, Englewood, Chicago, 2000View more details
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Beauty shop window n°2, Minneapolis, 1970View more details
Born in 1944, lives and works in Minnesota (USA)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
2016 Home, Artothèque, Vitré.
2014 Home, Les Douches la Galerie, Paris.
2012 4th of July, Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.
2010 Being Human, Galerie Axel Breuer, Munich, Allemagne.
2009 Tom Arndt's Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of Art.
2006 Minnesota, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
2002 American Photographs, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2001 The Big Picture, Photographs by Tom Arndt, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MI.
1999 A City Called Heaven, Beloit College, WI.
1998 Recent Work, Institute of Design, Chicago, IL.
1995 Chicagoland, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MI.
1992 Men in America, Art Institute of Chicago, IL.
1989 Tart Gallery, Washington D.C.
1989 Photofind Gallery, New York, NY.
1986 Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1986 Light Gallery, New York, NY.
1984 H.F. Manes' Gallery, New York, NY.
1984 Tom Arndt's America, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MI.
1977 O.K. Harris, New York, NY.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2016 A democracy of imagery, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
2015 Chicago Eyes, Les Douches la Galerie, Paris
2009 Picturing New York, exposition itinérante organisée par le MoMA de New York, présentée en Italie, Irlande et Espagne.
2008 The Minnesota Eye, College of Visual Art Gallery St. Paul, MI.
Hall to the Chief, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MI.
2007 New York at Night, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
2006 From Darkroom to Digital, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2004 Photographs by the score, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2002 City of Life, photographs of New York from the permanent collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
2001 The Sidewalk Never Ends, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2001 Street Photography, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, NY.
2000 City 2000, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.
The Face of Minnesota, Minnesota Historical Society,
Crossing the Line, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1999 The American Farm, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, NY.
1997 New Faces, photographs from the permanent collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1996 Crossing the Frontier, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
1996 The Subject Was Music, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1992 At the Edge of Shelter: Homeless in Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1982 Twentieth Century Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Museum, Tokyo Japan
1973 Midwest Photographer's Invitational, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI.
1970 6th Artist's Biennial, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MI.
SELECTED EDITIONS
2001 Bystander, A History of Street Photography, Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz
1997 A World History of Photography, Naomi Rosenblum
1995 Men In America, photographs by Tom Arndt, National Museum of American Art
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Soixante ans d’histoires de solitude et d’Amérique, par Tom Arndt, photographe
Fabien Ribery, L'intervalle, 25 December 2022 -
Tom Arndt, American Reflections
Frédérique Chapuis, Télérama Sortir, 29 November 2022 -
10 expositions photo à voir en marge de Paris Photo
Marina Hemonet, AD, 11 November 2022 -
L'éloge de la main
Frédérique Chapuis, Télérama Sortir, 24 May 2021 -
Paris Photo 2019
Zoom, 1 November 2019 -
Black Chicago
Frédérique Chapuis, Télérama Sortir, 30 November 2017 -
Black Chicago, des années 40 à nos jours
Raphaèle Santa Maria, Cultur'Easy, 20 November 2017 -
À Paris Photo il n'y a plus de frontière entre documentaire et art
Magali Jauffret, L'Humanité, 11 November 2017 -
Paris Photo: coup d'oeil dans les galeries
Valérie Duponchelle, Agathe Moreaux et Isabelle Stassart, Le Figaroscope, 8 November 2017 -
Black Chicago : chronicle of African-American life in the city - in pictures
The Guardian, 1 November 2017 -
Where I live : Tom Arndt documents the everyday people of Midwestern America
Creative Boom, 15 May 2017 -
Tom Arndt ou la passion de l'argentique
Tony Goupil, Le magazine des arts -
Vitré, Galerie de l'Artothèque
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La balade de Tom Arndt
Christine Coste, L'Oeil -
Au CAUE92, une exposition loin des clichés
Milena Chessa, Le Moniteur, 10 April 2017 -
L'exposition L'ombre et l'angle met en lumière les liens entre architecture et photographie
François Tassin, Cyberarchi, 6 April 2017 -
Mpls. Institute of Arts offers photos from 'Resistance'
Gregory J. Scott, Star Tribune, 23 November 2016 -
L'Américain Tom Arndt expose ses photos
Ouest France, 4 February 2016 -
Paris: New York Group Show à la galerie les Douches
L'Oeil de la photographie, 25 March 2015 -
Expo : la ville de New York à travers le regard de photographes célèbres
Sophie Bouchet, Glamour.com, 24 March 2015 -
Tome Arndt 'home'
Véronique Poczobut, Private Magazine, 4 October 2014 -
S?rie photo #28 - Tom Arndt : "Mon travail est un immense album de famille"
Michèle Warnet, Les Échos, 3 October 2014 -
Tom Arndt - Home
La panse de l'Ours, 2 October 2014 -
Paris: Tom Arndt, Home à Les Douches La Galerie
L'Oeil de la photographie, 1 October 2014 -
Tom Arndt, le passant pensif
Brigitte Ollier et uc Briand, Libération, 30 September 2014 -
Tom Arndt
Toby Kamps, Caleluna, 28 September 2014 -
Les coulisses du Midwest
Brigitte Ollier, Libération, 27 September 2014 -
Photographie : Tom Arndt
Politis, 25 September 2014 -
L'Amérique dans le viseur
Murielle Bachelier, A Nous Paris, 15 September 2014 -
Tom Arndt, Home - Les Douches la Galerie
Léa Chauvel-Lévy, Slash - Critiques, 14 September 2014 -
Tom Arndt : une exposition inédite à Paris
Gralon.net, 12 September 2014 -
Les Douches La Galerie présente "Home" : une exposition de Tom Arndt
ActuPhoto, 5 September 2014
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Tom Arndt
American Reflections 4 November 2022 - 21 January 2023After Home in 2014, Les Douches la Galerie dedicates a new solo exhibition to the work of Tom Arndt. Alongside the publication of the book American Reflections by the Atelier...Read more -
In Praise of the Hand
Group Show 11 March - 31 July 2021Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present L’éloge de la main [In Praise of the Hand], a collective exhibition crossing various movements that investigates the motif of the hand...Read more -
Staff picks
Group show 20 June - 27 July 2019This summer, from 20 June through 27 July, Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present a selection of our favourite works by Berenice Abbott , Tom Arndt , John...Read more -
Black Chicago
Group show 28 October 2017 - 13 January 2018The seven photographers who are the subject of this exhibit – Wayne Miller, Ray K. Metzker, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Marvin E. Newman, Vivian Maier, Tom Arndt and Carlos Javier Ortiz –...Read more
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Chicago Eyes
Group show 16 October - 27 November 2015This exhibit is part of CHICAGO À PARIS, organized by the Théâtre de la Ville, with the support of The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States...Read more -
New York
Group show 20 March - 13 June 2015We are pleased to announce New York, a group show including Berenice Abbott, Tom Arndt, Arlene Gottfried, Ernst Haas, Helen Levitt, Vivian Maier, Ray Metzker, Louis Stettner, and Sabine Weiss....Read more -
Minnesota
13 September 2014 - 10 January 2015We?re happy to introduce for the first time in France the photographer Tom Arndt. Born in Minneapolis, Tom Arndt?s photography focuses on his native Minnesota. Belonging to the grand,...Read more
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Chicago intime / My Chicago
Actualités des artistes 27 October 2018Festival Chroniques Nomades, AuxerreRead more -
Where I live
Actualités des artistes 25 May 2017Howard Greenberg Gallery, New YorkRead more -
L'ombre et l'angle
Actualités des artistes 7 April 2017CAUE 92Read more -
Chicago Eyes with Henri Peretz
Conférence 18 October 2015Pourquoi et comment Chicago est devenue au début du vingtième siècle, la ville de l?avant-garde dans des domaines aussi différents que le jazz, la photographie,...Read more
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AIPAD 2024
25 - 28 April 2024Les Douches la Galerie a le plaisir de participer à l'AIPAD - The Photography Show, du 25 au 28 avril 2024 au Park Avenue Armory...Read more -
Paris Photo 2022
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Paris Photo 2021
11 - 14 November 2021 -
Paris Photo 2019
7 - 11 November 2019 -
AIPAD 2018
5 - 8 April 2018Les Douches la Galerie is proud to exhibit at the longest-running exhibition dedicated to the photographic medium, The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, April 5-8...Read more -
Paris Photo 2017
8 - 12 November 2017The photographs we have chosen for Paris Photo 2017 are firmly in line with the artistic stance we privilege at Les Douches la Galerie. The...Read more -
Paris Photo 2016
20e édition 9 - 13 November 2016 -
Photo London
21 - 24 May 2015