Resume/CV
Awards/Grants/Fellowships
2024 The Photo Review 2024 Competiton Exhibition, Prize winner
2023 Kite Prize for Contemporary Art, Merit Awardee
2018 Meyer Award for Contemporary Art with Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
2012 - 2013 Independence Foundation Artist Fellowship, Berlin: the Landscape of Memory Project
2011 Lishui International Photo Festival, Lishui, China, Honored Guest Photographer
2008 - 2009 Artist Career Development Fellowship, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia
2002 SOS Grant for Exhibition Support, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
2001 Visual Arts Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
1983 Visual Arts Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Artist Residencies
2018 - 2023 Artist in Residence Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, PA
2007 C-Scape Dune Shack Residency, Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown, MA
2003 Outer Cape Artist in Residency, Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown, MA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021. On the River’s Edge: The Disintegrating Touch of Nature, Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Windows On Latimer, High tide, LowTide, High Tide. The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA Site specific installation.
2019 Florentina with Flowers by Clara Sophia, Flower show themed exhibition, The Gallery, Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Survey of Ben Franklin Bridge and Waterfront Work 1983 -2001, The Print Center, Philadelphia,PA
2018 BridgeWorks, Large scale images of Ben Franklin Bridge Anchorage, The Gallery, Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, PA
2018 What is & What if, 14th Annual Meyer Memorial Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
2018 Made in Italy, Italy Intensives, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 45 prints from long term project in Florence and Venice, Italy,
2015 The Landscape before Me: Cape Cod 2000-2012, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia,PA
2014 Berlin: Landscape of Memory, Saint Asaph Gallery, Bala Cynwd, PA
2013 Collaboration with Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra with Ignat Solzhenitsyn Conducting,
for The Philadelphia International Arts Festival, Time Machine - Berlin, Multi media
One person exhibition of Prints, Berlin: Landscape of Memory, CFEVA Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Making Way: Defining the Urban Landscape of the Ben Franklin Bridge [1983 -1987],
Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Pictures Gallery, Philadelphia,PA
2011 The Landscape Before Me: Cape Cod 2000-2011, Lishui Photo Festival, Lishui China
2008 Wellfleet Landscapes, Photographs by James B. Abbott, Wellfleet Public Library, Wellfleet, MA
2006 The Landscape Before Me: Cape Cod, Photographs by James B. Abbott, J. David Broudo Gallery of Art, Endicott College, Beverly, MA
2005 The Landscape: Photographs by James B. Abbott and Robert Asman, Art Works Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Bridge Works, St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Bridge Works: Constructed Photographs of the Ben Franklin Bridge, Exhibit 231 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2000 The Bridge on the Horizon, Exhibit 231 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA research archives of the Delaware River R
2000 Sightlines; Berlin, 1988-1992, Photographs by James B. Abbott, Curated by Carl Toth, Exhibit 231 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1994 Jim Abbott: Berlin, 1988-1992, Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA
1987 Bridge Series Work, Gunn Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 HONZO X ABBOTT present Black Excellence, Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, PA
2022 Two Person Exhibition, Facciate: Architectural Overlays in Italy, A Photographic Exhibition by James B Abbott & Blaise Tobia, Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia,PA
2021 Unfolding, In the Time of Covid Piece, Curated by Nicole Pollard, Philadelphia Contemporary, Atelier Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Seeing Old City, 83 On, Photo Projects by James Wasserman & James B Abbott, Cherry Street Pier Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Tyler School of Art Photography Faculty Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pa
2013 American Life, Group Exhibition of Twenty American Photographers, Touring exhibition ShiJia Zhuang Art Museum, Shijiazhuang, China, Curator Yan Li
2012 The Print Center: Four Photographers of the Landscape, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Science, Long Beach Island, NJ
2011 Documentary Pix: Philadelphia, A Century of Change, Free Library of Philadelphia,PA
2010 Art of the State Pennsylvania 2010, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
2009 Streets of Philadelphia, Photography 1970 – 1985, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Perspectives, Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
Sneak previews: CFEVA Presents, Philadelphia Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Selections, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2007 Art of the State, Pennsylvania 2007, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
Perkins Center for the Arts, Morristown, NJ
2006 Works from the Dune Shack, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA
Art of the State, Pennsylvania 2006, State Museum of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, PA (Third Place Award, Photography)
Works on Paper, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
Print Center 80th Annual International Competition, Philadelphia, PA (Philadelphia Museum Purchase Award)
2004 Print Center 78th Annual Photography Competition, Philadelphia. PA
Photography Now, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
2002 Suspended in Time: The Ben Franklin Bridge, Rutgers Center for the Arts, Camden, NJ
2001 New. Land. Marks, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Take 5 on the American Landscape, Group show of Photosessions 200, Speaker at the Nexus Foundation for Today's Art Gallery, Philadelphia,PA
1992 20/20 Vision, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1991 Pennsylvania Photographers, Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA
1989 150 Years of Photography in Philadelphia, Museo Bardini ,Florence, Italy
Select Commissions
2023 - 24 Four Seasons Photography of newly created private Japanese Sound Garden by Yamaguchi Yousuke
2015 - 17 Curate and Install 25 photographic works from three bodies of work for permanent display at corporate offices of Paratek Pharmaceuticals King of Prussia, PA
2001 – 18 Architectural and Urban Street photography for Center City District/Central Philadelphia Development Corp, Annual reports, collateral, web
2003 – 04 Creating Sacred Places, Transcultural Initiative Project for Rutgers University and NJN
Public TV, Site photography - architectural, interiors, portraits, of Under Ground Railroad Church and Buddhist Temple for exhibition, web, cd, catalog
2000 – 02 Landscape Photography for Laurie Olin of Olin Partnership, Philadelphia, PA
Sites include: American Academy in Rome, National Gallery Sculpture Garden Washington, DC, Bryant Park & Wagner Park, NYC
2000 New. Land. Marks. Site photographs for Fairmount Park Art Association, Book, Web, and Exhibition at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Philadelphia Underground, Photographer for Philadelphia Magazine feature. Text by Mark Bernstein
1983 – 84 Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Urban Photography for a Series of Posters Designed by Willi Kunz of Willi Kunz and Associates, NY
1980 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Architecture Department, Photography for Daniel Libeskind
Project: Symbol and Interpretation, catalogue, poster and exhibition at Suomen Rakennustaiteen, Helsinki, Finland
Visiting Artist Lectures
2018 East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
2014 SPE National Conference, Image Maker Lecture, Berlin: Landscape of Memory Collaboration project
2010 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2006 Visiting Artist, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2007 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Professional Experience
1983 - 2024 Freelance Photographer, National and International Experience
2021 - 2023. Conceive, Propose, and Master Printer for The Print Center's series of artist commissions for Windows on Latimer, utilizing the center’s iconic bay window
during covid for site specfic pieces, Ksenia Nouril curator
2021 - 2024 Board Member for Orchestra 2001, a collective of virtuoso performers dedicated to the music of our time, Philadelphia,PA
1999 - 2003 Founder/Director, Exhibit 231 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Organized and Curator for:
2002 Sandy Sorlien Photographs from Fifty Houses:Images from the American Road, One person exhibition and book signing
2001 Geanna Merola: Poetic Transmissions: hand altered photographs, One Person Show
John Geard, System and Chaos, Paperworks and Artist Book, One person show, show and lectures part of PPC
Joel Katz:Paris Dream-walk, Photographic Assemblages, One person Show
2000 Carl Toth; Photo-Montages 1970-2000, The Eye Evolves, One Person show host lecture for SPE
2000 The Bridge on the Horizon Show Exhibit231 Gallery, Research and curate three part exhibition of the Ben Franklin Bridge; Urban
Landscape photographs 1982-2000 by James B. Abbott with drawings & photographs from the bridge archives of the Delaware River Port Authority
1984 - 1985 Assistant to Photographer Burk Uzzle
1983 Gallery Director, Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
1982 Photographer, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
1981 Art Reproduction Photographer, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1977 Intern Light Gallery, New York, NY
Teaching Experience
2023 & 2024 Spring Semester Adjunct Instructor, East Carolina University Tuscany Global Studies, Certaldo Italy
2013-2018, 2020-2021 Adjunct Instructor, East Carolina University, Italy Intensive Program, Certaldo Italy
2012 - 2013 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Adjunct Professor, Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA
2003 – 04 Senior Lecturer, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1993 Adjunct Professor, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1985 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC - Workshop Instructor for Photography and Collage/ Design,
co taught with designer Jane Kosstrin of DoublespaceDesign
1978 - 79 Teaching Assistant to non major graduate students, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Public Collections
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Collection, Philadelphia, PA
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Education
1980 BFA Photography, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1975 - 1977 Core scholarship student, Photographic studies at Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
1972 - 1975 Liberal Arts studies St. Thomas University, Miami Gardens, FL