RESUME
Listed below is an abbreviated selection of Alex MacLean's resume.
EXHIBITIONS: SOLO
2020 Bardo Arts Center,Cullowhee, NC: "Curious Terrain: WNC From the Air."
2019 Anne Hunter Galleries/Seaside Institute,Seaside, FL: "High Art: Alex MacLean."
2018 Domaine de Chaumont Sur-Loire, Chaumont, France, "Renaissances."
2016-17 Landesmuseum for Nature and Man, Oldenburg, Germany, "Man and Coast: What to do When the North Sea Risis"
2016 Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France, "Finite World"
2015 Domaine de Chaumont Sur-Loire, Chaumont, France,"Unearthed"
2014 Beetles + Huxley Gallery, London, “Aerial Perspectives”
2011 Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA “The American Landscape at the Tipping Point”
2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy: “Alex MacLean: Given a Free Hand.”
2010 ERES Stiftung Gallery, Munich, Germany: “Vegas/Venice.”
2005 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, “Airlines”
2003 BETC Euro RSCG with the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, Paris, France, “Americaland”
2002 Les Recontres d’Arles 33rd Annual International Photo Festival, Arles, France: “Play in America Seen From the Sky.”
2000 The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, "From Above: Photographs of Houston by Alex S. MacLean”
EXHIBITIONS: GROUP
2021 Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan: "I Hear America Singing: Contemporary Photography From America."
2018 Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Opening in South Korea, to travel across Europe and Austrailia: "Civilization: The Way We Live Now."
2017 Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, "Notions of Home"
2017 Fondacion Cartier, Paris, France, "Autophoto"
2015 Beetles + Huxley Gallery, London, England: “The Photographers 2015.”
2015 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, "Sizing It Up: Scale in Nature and Art"
2014 Beetles + Huxley Gallery, London, UK, “The Photographers 2014”
2013 Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France, “Views from Above”
2010 Academy of Art, Berlin, Germany, “Return of Landscape”
2008 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL: “Beyond the Backyard.”
2007 Centre Pompidou, Paris, France: “Painters of a Modern Life: Donation – The Caisse des Depots, Photographic Collection."
2006 Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, “Painters of Modern Life: Donation – The Caisse des Depots, Photographic Collection."
2005 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Il “Manufactured Self”
2000 Arc en Rêve Centre d’Architecture, Bordeaux, France, “Mutations: Événement Culturel sur la Ville Contemporaine”
HONORS, AWARDS, AND RESIDENCIES
American Society of Landscape Architects: The Dirt's Best Books of 2020 for IMPACT: The Effect of Climate Change on Coastlines, 2020.
Paris Aerial Photography Awards: juror to select "Aerial Photographer of the Year," 2020.
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Insititute: Artist in Residence, Delmenhorst, Germany, 2012, 2015
CORINE International Book Award: For OVER: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point, 2009.
Boston Society of Landscape Architects: Award of Excellence, 2007.
American Academy in Rome: Awarded the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture, 2003-2004.
Seaside Institute: Escape to Create Program: Artist in Residence, 1994.
National Endowment for the Arts Design Grant: Co-principal Investigator in affiliation with the University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Registration Project, 1990-1992.
National Endowment for the Arts Design Grant: Demonstration project exploring the uses of aerial photography for urban planning, 1980-1981.
BOOKS
2020 IMPACT: The Effect of Climate Change on Coastlines (Basel: Birkhauser), aerial photographs and text by Alex MacLean, introduction by Bill McKibben.
2012Up on the Roof: New York’s Hidden Skyline Spaces (Paris: Editions La Decouverte), aerial photographs and text by Alex MacLean, introduction by Robert Campbell.
2010Vegas/Venice(Munich: Schirmer/Mosel), aerial Photographs and text by Alex S. MacLean, introduction by Wolfgang Kemp.
2008 Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point(New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.), aerial photographs and text by Alex S. MacLean, introduction by Bill McKibben.
2006 The Playbook(New York: Thames and Hudson), aerial photographs and text by Alex MacLean, introduction by Susan Yelavich.
2002 Above and Beyond: Visualizing Change in Rural Areas (Chicago: APA Planners Press), aerial photographs by Alex MacLean, text co-authored by Julie Campoli, Elizabeth Humstone, and Alex MacLean.
1996Taking Measures Across the American Landscape (New Haven: Yale University Press), aerial photographs by Alex MacLean, text by James Corner and Alex MacLean.
1993 Look at the Land: Aerial Reflections on America (New York: Rizzoli), aerial photographs by Alex MacLean, text by Bill McKibben.
PRESS
2021 “Urban Abundance: An Aerial Survey of Metro Boston Reveals a Regional Food System on the Rise,” Land Lines Magazine, June 2021.
2019 “2019: A Year in Photos,” Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, December 2019.
2019 Featured Artist, Radio France, September 2019.
2017 “Surveying Texas’s Post-Hurricane Harvey Landscape with a Camera and a Four-Seat Plane,” The New Yorker Photo Booth, November 2017.
2017 “A Crude Awakening: A Visual Exploration of the Pipeline Controversy,” Time Magazine, September 2017.
2015 “Aerial Images Show ‘Interesting’ Human Impact on Wales,” BBC News, October 2015.
2015 “Alex MacLean’s Aerial Photographs Reveal Man’s Impact on the Environment,” International Business Times, March 2015.
2015 “Photojournalism Daily: Jan. 9, 2015,” Time Magazine, January 2015.
2014 “Detroit By Air,” The New York Times, December 2014.
2014 “Aerial Photography Shows Pilot’s Perspective,” ABC News, 2014.
2014 “Beneath the Surface,:…Tar Sands Oil,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, November 2014.
2014 “World From Above,” Elle Men China, August 2014.
2014 “Flight Patterns," Conde Nast Traveler, July 2014.
2013 “Looking Down, Looking Around with Aerial Photography,” The Boston Globe, April 2013.
2012 “Hovering Above the Skyline, Armed with a Camera,” The New York Times, May 2012.
2012 “Do Look Down,” New York Magazine, April 2012.
2009 “The Picture Show: Photo Stories from NPR,” NPR, March 2009.
2005 “View from the Top,” The Boston Globe, July 2005.
2004 “Shared Wisdom, An Unflinching Eye,” Landscape Architecture, September 2004.
2002 "Flying Solo”, film by Odile Fillion documenting MacLean as he begins his work in Kansas City.
1994 “Sky King,” The Boston Globe Magazine, July 1994.
1993 “Plane Geometry,” The New York Times Magazine, July 1993.
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
3M Corporation · Bank of America · Banque · Chase Manhattan Bank · Boston Fidelity Investments · Black and Gold Museum · Centre Pompidou · Citibank North America · Citizen’s Bank USA · Clayman and Rosenberg · Comcast · Credit Suisse · Dean Witter Reynolds · Dartmouth College · DeCordova Museum · Dun and Bradstreet · Eurazeo · Federal Express · Federal Reserve Bank · Fleet Bank · George H.W. Bush Library · Goldman Sachs · Harvard Graduate School of Design · IBM Merrill Lynch and Co. · Institut d’art Contemporain · J.P. Morgan · Metropolitan Life · Mid-America Regional Council · Morgan Stanley Wealth Management · Nationale de Paris · North Dakota Museum of Art · Northrop Corporation · NYNEX · Peabody Essex Museum · Progressive Corporation · Steven Spielberg · Texaco · Texas Instruments · The Waterfront Center · U.S. Alliance · Wells Fargo