Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson was born in 1962 in Brooklyn, New York City, and studied at Yale University in Connecticut, USA, where he is now a professor and the director of the photography programme. He lives and works in New York and Massachusetts.
Crewdson stages his photographs like films, using actors, sets, props, people, storyboards and makeup artists. In this way, he addresses the dark side of the American dream as well as his own psychological issues. He believes that only photography always remains silent. There is no before and no after. The events it captures do not unveil their mystery.
His work has been widely exhibited and collected by numerous museums, notably in the USA, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; The Smithsonian American Museum, Washington D.C.. In Europe, he recently exhibited at the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria (2024); the Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France (2023); the Gallerie d’Italia in Turin, Italy (2022); the Centre for Contemporary Art in Toruń, Poland (2018); and The Photographer’s Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2018).
