Born 1957 Great Falls, Montana
Education: Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
School of Visual Arts, New York, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2001 Night Shots, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, New York
Night Shots, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
1999 Cities and Towns, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
1998 Cities and Towns, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, New York
John Schabel, Galerie Index, Stockholm, Sweden
1997 Passengers, Morris-Healy Gallery, New York, New York
1996 Passengers, Dan Bernier Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 sotto voce, Curated by Robert Bordo, Bortolami, New York, New York
2018 Analog Culture: Printer’s Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography
Lab,1981-2001, Curated by Jennifer Quick, Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, Massachusetts, catalogue
2017 Picture City III, Curated by Peter Scott, carriage trade gallery, New York,
New York, catalogue
2015 Sweet Smell of Success, Offsite, offsiteoffsite.com, New York, New York
2014 Autonomous, Gallery@calit2, University of California, San Diego, California
Performance: Contemporary Photography from the Douglas Nielsen
Collection, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
2011 Social Photography, carriage trade gallery, New York, New York
2010 Mistaken Identity, Curated by Peter Scott, carriage trade gallery, New
York, New York catalogue
2003 Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International
Center of Photography, New York, New York, catalogue
The Idea of North, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2002 Defying Gravity, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina,
catalogue
Human Park, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, catalogue
2001 Ever Since Icarus, Lord Mori Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Paradise in Search of a Future, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Places and People, L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
Full Frontal, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Rocks and Trees, Curated by David Armstrong, Photographic Resource
Center at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
2000 Oliver Boberg, Tony Matelli, John Schabel, Paul Morris Gallery, New York,
New York
1999 Farewell Views from a Distance, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
1998 Dust Breeding, Curated by Steve Wolfe, Jeffery Fraenkel Gallery, San
Francisco, California, Catalogue
1997 Whitney Biennial, Curated by Lisa Phillips and Louise Neri, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, New York, catalogue
1996 100 Photographs, American Fine Arts, New York, New York
Anima Mundi, James Graham and Sons, New York, New York
1995 Late Spring, Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Selected Bibliography
2018 Analog Culture: Printer’s Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography
Lab, 1981-2001, edited by Jennifer Quick, Harvard Art Museums,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Molnar, Veronika, “New York as Non-Place?” Philosophy Magazine
Winter-Spring, illustration
2017 Picture City III, catalogue, essay by Peter Scott, carriage trade, New York,
New York
2013 Bell, Adam, “Passengers” book review Photo-eye Magazine April 22
Portfolio, Harper’s Magazine March
Schiller, Jakob Wired.com February 13
Avedon, Elizabeth, La Journal de la Photographie February 4
2012 Heyman, Stephen “Cabin Pressure” The New York Times Style Magazine
November 18
Passengers, Schabel, John, monograph, Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe,
New Mexico
2010 Mistaken Identity, catalogue, essay by Peter Scott, carriage trade, New
York, New York
2004 Kirn, Walter, “Winging It” The New York Times Magazine January 18,
illustration
2001 “Goings on About Town” The New Yorker September 24
Labelle, Charles, review, Frieze November-December
2000 Alimanestianu, Irina, review, Art Issues January-February
“Fiction” The New Yorker August 7, illustration
1997 Saltz, Jerry, “John Schabel and Ulf Rollof” Time Out New York January 9
Searle, Adrian, “Nowhere to Run, On the 1997 Whitney Biennial” Frieze
June
Tatley, Roger, “John Schabel” Dazed and Confused issue #37 December
1996 Hucko, Leslie, “Flight Recorder” World Art February
Darling, Michael, “High Anxiety: Passengers Artfully Captures the Drama
and Trauma of Air Travel” Los Angeles Reader February 9
Zellen, Jody, “The Passengers” Art Press April
Museum Collections
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York