Alex MacLean
EXHIBITIONS SOLO
Museums
2013 Reimagining the landscape - Art prize 2013- Grand rapids art museum- USA
2012 Alex MacLean, The Domaine du Chaumont-sur-Loire, Chaumont, France
2010 Vue Privee, Singapore
2008 The Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire
Mid-America Regional Council, Kansas City, MO
Lincoln Library, Lincoln, MA
2007 Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2006 Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Waltham, MA
2005 Airlines. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA
2000 From Above, Alex macLean, The Mesnil collection, Houston Texas, (USA)
Galleries
2014 Alex MacLean, aerial perspectives. Beetles + Huxley Gallery, London
2012 The Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Chaumont (France)
2011 L'avenir du Futur; Gallery Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
2010 On the Edge; Alex macLean. Vue Privee, Singapore
Vegas/Venice. ERES Stiftung Gallery, Munich, Germany
2008 The Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Chaumont (France)
Over the Top, Miller Block Gallery, Boston
2007 American Artifacts, Gallery Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
2006 Italian and French Landscapes, Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Waltham
2003 Patterns on the Land, Gallery Katz, Boston
Kansas City Design Center: Towards the Horizon, Commerce Trust Gallery, Kansas City
Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Waltham
2000 From Above: Photographs of Houston, The Menil Collection, Houston
1997 Taking Measures Across the American Landscap, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1993 Looking at the Land, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1990 From the Air, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1988 Bell Ross Gallery, Memphis
1980 Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Boston
1978 Alfred Stieglitz Gallery, New York
1977 North Street Gallery, Boston
Institutions
2009 Art into Action, Mid America Regional Council, Kansas City
2008 New Work, Lincoln Library, Lincoln
2007 Wellesley College, Horticulture Visitor Center, Wellesley
2003 Americaland, BETC Euro RSCG with the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, Paris
2002 Play in America Seen from the Sky, Les Rencontres d’Arles 33rd Annual International Photo Festival, Arles (France)
Urbanscapes, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Perspectives, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Boston
2001 American Institute of Architects (local chapter), Dallas
1994 Aerial Landscapes, Seaside Institute, Seaside
1993 Aerial Landscapes, Boston Society of Architects, Boston
Aerial Perspectives, Lincoln Library, Lincoln
1986 Currier House, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, Cambridge
1984 San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco
1978 Baker Library, Harvard University Business School, Cambridge
Corporations
1987 Bain and Company, Boston
1984 Bank of America Office Headquarters, San Francisco
EXHIBITIONS: GROUP
Museums
2013 Vues d'en haut, Centre Pompidou Metz, France
Bird eye's view, Westport art center, Irlande
Landmark : the fiels of photography, Somerset House, London
2010 Return of Landscape, Academy of art, Berlin (Germany)
Green Planet Blues. Sinaia, Romania
The world top view. Moscou (Russia)
2009 Burlington Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT
Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels
Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
La Gacilly, France
2008 Moving Through New England, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln
Beyond the Backyard, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
2007 Italian Atlas 2007 Portrait of a Changing Italy, National Museum of the XXI Century, Rome
Moving Through New England, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln
2006 Painters of Modern Life: Donation Photographic Collection”
- permanent collection of the Musee national d’art moderne –
The Caisse des Depots, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Looking at the Landscape: Environmental Puzzles from Three Photographers,
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge
2005 Manufactured Self, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
2001 Mutations: Événement Culturel sur la Ville Contemporaine, Arc en Rêve Centre d’Architecture, Brussels
Landscapes Seen and Imagined:
Sense of Place” & “Water: Photographs from the Permanent Collection,
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln
1998 Post-Pastoral: New Images of the New England Landscape,
The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover
1996 The DeCordova Collects Photographs: Recent Acquisitions, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln
1989 In Search of the American Experience, Museum of the National Arts Foundation, New York
1987 Skyborne: Aerial Photography, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
1986 One Percent for Art and the Rebirth of Madonna Hall, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield
Galleries
2009 Human = Landscape, Burlington Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT
Economies of Scale, Miller Block Gallery, Boston
6th Annual Festival of Photos, La Gacilly (France)
2008 Three Photographers, Three Publications, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Market Forces/Part I: Consuming Territories, Carriage Trade, New York
2007 TO FLY: Contemporary Aerial Photography, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston
2005 Les temps des Lumières, Nancy (France)
2004 Inhabiting the World, Forum Universal de les Cultures, Barcelona
Shock and Awe, Art Works for the Earth, New Orleans
Landscapes, Issabella/Brancolini Arte Contemporanea, Rome
Structure; Architecture in Photography, Gallery Katz, Boston
2002 Water: An Exhibition of Photography by ASMP New England
Photographers, Akillian Gallery at Massasoit Community College, Canton
1998 Drive-Ins: Disappearing Summer Cinema, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Water, Water, Everywhere . . . and Not a Drop to Drink, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Ground Control, Lombard/Freid Fine Arts, New York
1997 Let It Snow!, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Aerial Perspectives: Imagination, Reality and Abstraction, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York
1996 Silver Traces, The Boston Photo Collaborative, Boston, MA
1991 Good Sports: Art and the Athlete, Nutrilite Exhibit, Buena Park
1990 Images of New England, The Wrubel Gallery, Concord
1984 Urban Landscapes Wilhelm Gallery, Houston
Institutions
2004 Shrinking Cities, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2000 Mutations: Événement Culturel sur la Ville Contemporaine, Arc en Rêve Centre d’Architecture, Bordeaux
1999 The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec
1997 Lasting Impressions: Looking at the Land, The New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville
1993 Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, University of Pennsylvania, School of Landscape Architecture, Philadelphia
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge,
1988 Aerial Views of the Landscape, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge
1987 The Edge of Perception, Corporations, Gensler and Associates/Architects, Los Angeles
1984 Highlights from the Bank of America Collection, Bank of America Office Headquarters, San Francisco
1983 H20, Pan American Building (Museum of Modern Art Advisory Service, curator), New York
Contemporary Landscapes, Freeport McMoran (Museum of Modern Art Advisory Service, curator), New York
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
3M Corporation
American Bell
Arthur Anderson and Company
Bank of America
Banque Nationale de Paris
Centre Pompidou
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo
Chase Manhattan Bank
Citibank, N.A.
Citizen’s Bank, USA
Consolidated Freight
Dean Witter Reynolds
DeCordova Museum
Dudley and G. Herschbach
Dunn and Bradstreet
Federal Express
Federal Reserve Bank, Boston
Fidelity Investments
First Boston
GTE
George H. W. Bush Library
Goldman Sachs
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College
IBM
Institut d'art Contemporain
Jean-Pierre Michaux
Jean Louis Maubant
Jeremiah Eck
J. P. Morgan
Merrill Lynch and Company
Metropolitan Life
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
North Dakota Museum of Art
Northrop Corporation
Progressive Companies
Reliance Holding Group
Security Pacific Bank
Smith Barney
Steven Spielberg
Texaco
Texas Instruments
U.S. Alliance
The Waterfront Center
PUBLICATIONS
2012 Up on the Roof . New York's Hidden Skyline Spaces, Introduction by Robert Campbell. Princeton Architectural Press, New York 2012. Dominique Carré éditeur / Editions La Découverte, Paris 2012
Chroniques Aeriennes: L'art d'Alex MacLean. Éditions La Découverte. With a photo essay by Gilles A. Tiberghien. Dominique Carré éditeur / La Découverte, Paris
2010 Las Vegas / Venice With a photo essay by Wolfgang Kem Schirmer/Mosel Publishers, Munich
2008 Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point (New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.) Aerial Photographs and Essays by Alex S. MacLean, Introduction by Bill McKibben
2007 Visualizing Density (Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
Co-Authors Julie Campoli and Alex MacLean, aerial photographs by Alex MacLean.
2006 The Playbook (New York, NY: Thames and Hudson). Aerial photographs and Essay by Alex MacLean, introduction text by Susan Yelavich.
2005 Air Lines (Salem, Ma: Peabody Essex Museum). Air Lines is a 29 page catalogue Produced by the Peabody Essex Museum in conjunction with
MacLean's solo exhibition (May, 2005 - April, 2006).
2003 L’Arpenteur du Ciel (Paris, France: Textuel). Book coinciding with “Americaland,” a major exhibit of Alex MacLean’s work, with aerial
photographs by Alex MacLean, Co-Authors: Jean-Marc Besse, James Corner, Alex MacLean and Gilles Tiberghien.
Designs on the Land Exploring America from the Air (New York, NY: Thames and Hudson), Same as above, English version.
2002 The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate (Washington, DC: Island Press), Author, Oliver Gillham, with aerial photographs by Alex MacLean.
Above and Beyond: Visualizing Change in Rural Areas (Chicago: APA Planners Press), Aerial photographs by Alex MacLean. Co-authors Julie Campoli, Elizabeth Humstone, and Alex
MacLean.
1999 Vestiges of Grandeur: The Plantations of Louisiana’s River Road (San Francisco: Chronicle Books), by Richard Sexton, aerial photographs by Alex MacLean.
1996 Taking Measures Across the American Landscape (New Haven: Yale University Press), Aerial photographs by Alex MacLean. Co-authors: James Corner, and Alex MacLean.
1994 Cities of the Mississippi: 19th Century Images of Urban Development (Columbia: University of Missouri Press), Author, John W. Reps, with aerial photographs by Alex MacLean.
1993 Look at the Land: Aerial Reflections on America (New York: Rizzoli),
Author, Alex MacLean with text by Bill McKibbin, aerial photographs by Alex MacLean.
ARTICLES AND MATERIALS ABOUT MACLEAN
2009 How I Shot This, Popular Photography, August 2009
Up in the Air, by Paul Gleason for Harvard Magazine, January / February 2009
2008 2008 Best Holiday Books, NPR Photo Blog, for OVER The American Landscape at the Tipping Point
2007 Making a Living Shooting from the Air, by Alton K. Marsh for AOPA Pilot Magazine, May 2007
High Art, written by William Sawalich for PC Photo Magazine, March / April 2007
2006 Die Architektur des Vergnugens, German GEO, September
2005 View from the top, written by Christine Temin for the Boston Globe, July 17
Las Vegas Gambles on Growth, written by James Russell, Photos by MacLean Architectural Record, May
2004 Shared Wisdom, An Unflinching Eye, Landscape Architecture, September
Geometria Espacial, Super Interesante, August
2003 Alex MacLean, Channel 5 (ABC) Chronical (Film length approx. 5 minutes)
Toward the Horizon: Alex S. MacLean's Photographs, Review Magazine,Volume 5, #6, September
L’Amerique vue du ciel, Science & Vie Junior, July
Aparcados, Muy Interestante, July
Land Art, Ventiquattro Il Magazine, June
America From the Air, Cara, May
Ciel ! L’Amerique, Beaux Arts, March
Parkings, Geo Magazine, March
Le Survol de L’Architecte, Le Photo Graphe, March
Shape of the Union, Telegraph Magazine, April
2002 Alex MacLean was featured on KCUR-FM's Up to Date, November 4
Flying Solo, a film by French videographer Odile Fillion, documents MacLean as he begins his work in Kansas City. Film Length is approx. 1 hour
DeCordova Museum (Lincoln, MA) video Land of Freedom, Simon Bainbridge, British Journal of Photography, October
2001 Sprawled Out, Ross Atkin, The Christian Science Monitor, January 10
1999 Earthly Inscriptions, Architectural Record, December.
1998 The View from Above, View from the River, The American Institute of Architects Committee on Design.
1995 Perspective of a Winged Eye, Architecture California, May.
Interview: Alex MacLean, Judith Bell, Photographer's Forum, May.
Aerial Metaphors - Beyond Landscapes, Judith Bell, The Rangefinder, April.
The View From Above: Photographs by Alex MacLean, Art New England, April/May
1994 Flight Patterns, Progressive Architecture, March.
Sky King, Donna Gordon, The Boston Globe Magazine, July 24
1993 Plane Geometry, The New York Times Magazine, July 4
Aerial Photographs Reveal Beauty, Degradation and Sadness in America, The Northern Forest Forum, Winter.
Alex MacLean: Americaland – Le Survol de l’Architecte, Hervé LeGoff, Le Photographe, March
Alex MacLean: The Landscape of Play, Elizabeth Padjen, Architecture Boston, March/April Aerial Photographs Reveal Beauty, Degradation and Sadness in America, The Northern Forest Forum, Winter.
1988 Eye in the Sky, Donald Gropman, Berkshire Magazine, Spring.
1983 A Different Kind of Landslide, Barbara Floria, MD Magazine, June.
1980 Images of Earth, Laurie Beckelman, The Boston Globe Magazine, November 30.
Awards
CORINE International Book Award: For OVER: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point, 2009
Boston Society of Architects: Honor Award for Design Excellence, for Photographs of New Research Buildings Woods Hold, Massachusetts, designed by Ellenzweig, 2007
Brandeis University: Bolli Distinguished Speakers Award, March 2007
Boston Society of Landscape Architects: Award of Excellence, 2006
Boston Society of Landscape Architects: Award of Excellence, 2006
American Academy in Rome: Awarded the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture for 2003-2004.
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: Grant Recipient, 2003
Kansas City Design Center: Recipient of Resident Design Fellowship, 2002
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy: Grant Recipient, 2002.
The American Institute of Architects: Citation for Excellence awarded to “Taking Measures Across the American Landscape,” 1997.
The American Society of Landscape Architects: Honor Award in Communications bestowed upon “Taking Measures Across the American Landscape,” 1997.
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: Grant Recipient, 1997.
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: Grant Recipient, 1995.
Eleventh Annual American Photography Competition: Certificate of Excellence, 1995.
Seaside Institute, Escape to Create Program: Artist in Residence, 1994.
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: Grant Recipient, 1992.
National Endowment for the Arts: Design Grant, 1990-1992.
Massachusetts One Percent for Arts Program: Grant Recipient, Madonna Hall Commission, 1985.
National Endowment for the Arts: Design Grant, 1980-1981.
Alex Mac Lean,
vit et travaille à Boston