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Todd Watts | |
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| Born | 1949 (age 75–76) New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | photography |
| Movement | Contemporary art |
| Website | www |
Todd Watts (born 1949) is an American photographer.
Todd Watts was born in Manhattan. From 1961 to 1963 he studied at the Pratt Institute, thereafter at the High School of Music & Art in New York. He graduated in 1967. He studied at the School of Visual Arts and graduated in 1971. In the 1970s he was a Photography Instructor at the School of Visual Arts and at Hunter College in NYC. He worked as a printer for Berenice Abbott. [1] [2]
He maintained a studio in New York from 1971 to 2000, there he explorated a wide variety of photographic processes. His work was shown in several solo exhibitions in the United States, in Canada, Austria and France. He participated in numerous group exhibitions in the States, in Canada and in Europe. He published several catalogues and books. [3] His works are included in several prestigious museum collections. [4]
In 1984 he was invited to Vienna by the MOLOTOV photo gallery, run by Jorit Aust and Christian Michelides. After the Vienna exhibit, the gallery sold some of his art works to Albertina. During his stay in Vienna, at least two art works were created — Chaos in Wien and Methane Breather (a portrait of photographer Fritz Simak). [5] [6] His 1994 exhibit at the Grey Art Museum was reviewed by magazines Artforum, ARTnews [7] and Art in America; [8] David Levi Strauss wrote: "The individual images are remarkably compelling and disturbing." [9]
Since 2000, Todd Watts and sculptor Jemma Gascoigne, his wife, are living in Blanchard, Maine. [1] [10]
In 2011, his work was represented in the exhibition Magic of the Object at the Leopold Museum, 2011, Vienna, together with collegues Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Herbert Bayer, Harry Callahan, Madame d'Ora, Ernst Haas, Hans Kupelwieser, Richard Misrach, Aaron Siskind, Josef Sudek, Arthur Tress, and Edward Weston. [1] Since 2021 he is the director of the Abbott Watts Photography Residency, Monson, ME. [11] In 2023, his works were exhibited at the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts in Portland. Critic Linda Sutherland mentioned a recent work — Now and Then — as ″particularly fascinating″. [12] [13]
Thomas W. Sokolowski curated a 10-year survey exhibition with catalog at the Grey Art Museum, New York, in 1994. Title of show and book was New Lamps for Old.
There are several more publications by the artist.
Photographs by Todd Watts can be found in the following American collections:
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