Amy Arbus has published five books of photographs including the award-winning On the Street 1980-1990 and The Inconvenience of Being Born. Hilton Als of The New Yorker called The Fourth Wall her masterpiece.
Amy Arbus’ photographs have appeared in over one hundred periodicals such as The Village Voice, French Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, New York Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. Her advertising clients include Chiat/Day, Saatchi & Saatchi, New Line Cinema, Nickelodeon, and Marina Rinaldi.
She has had thirty-eight one-person exhibitions around the world and is represented by The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts and Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Arbus taught photographic portraiture for twenty-five years at the International Center for Photography. Her photographs are in the collections of The Morgan Library, The Museum of Modern Art, The New York Public Library, The National Theater in Norway, the Richard Avedon Foundation, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Books
After Images – Schiffer Publishing, 2013
The Fourth Wall – Welcome Books, 2008
On the Street – Welcome Books, 2006
The Inconvenience of Being Born – Fotofolio, Inc., 1999
No Place Like Home – Doubleday & Co., 1986
Exhibitions
Irish Museum of Modern Art, IE; The Schoolhouse Gallery, MA; Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts, VT; The Norton Museum, FL; Cotuit Center of the Arts, MA; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA; Howl Gallery, NY; Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery, Colby-Sawyer College, NH; Outlet Fine Art, NY; New York Public Library, NY; International Center of Photography, NY; ClampArt, NY; Nathan A. Bernstein & Co., Ltd., NY; Clic Gallery, VI ; The Brooklyn Museum, NY; National Arts Club, NY; UARTS Gallery, PA; APA/LA, CA; Pace McGill, NY; LUAG Lehigh University Art Galleries, PA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; Fine Arts Work Center, MA; June Bateman Gallery, NY; Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY; Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg, NY; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NY; Maine Photographic Workshop Gallery, ME; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; California State University’s Art Galleries at Northridge, CA; Paul Kopeikin Gallery, CA; Ricco/Maresca Gallery, NY; Saba Gallery, NY; Worx Gallery, UK; Helander Gallery, NY; Aperture Foundation’s Burden Gallery, NY; Ogilvy & Mather, NY; Pascack Valley Hadassah, NJ; Light Gallery, NY; Goddard Riverside Community Center, NY; Fashion Institute of Technology, NY; Leica Gallery, Prague; Church of San Carpoforo, Italy; Patricia Conde Gallery, MX; Leica Gallery, NY; Griffin Museum of Photography, MA; The New York Design Center, NY; The National Theatre in Oslo, NO; Lincoln Center’s Furman Gallery, NY; Stephen Cohen Gallery, CA; Cohen Amador Gallery, NY; Paul Smith’s Windows, NY; Watermark Fine Art, TX; William Patterson University’s Ben Shahn Galleries, NJ; June Bateman Gallery, NY; Palladium, NY; Bennington College, VT; Seibu – Shibuya, JP; Aidel Torino Fotografia, IT; Area Gallery, NY; 4D Gallery, NY; Books & Company, NY; Mudd Club Gallery, NY
Editorial
Alaska Dispatch News; American Photo; American Photographer; Amica; Aperture; Anno; Assets; Avenue; Black & White Magazine; Bilanz; Boston Globe; Boston Phoenix; British GQ; Brown Alumni Magazine; Business Week; Bust; Camera Arts; Cape Cod View; Cape Week; Chicago Tribune; City; Communication Arts; Conde Nast Traveler; Connections: The Empire State College Magazine; Daily Candy; Daily News; Dazed & Confused; Details; Die Woche; East Side; Express, East West Journal; Eastern Review; The Edge; Egoiste; Elle Magazine; Entertainment Weekly; Flaunt; Forbes; Forbes Asia; Forbes Russia; Forbes Japan; Forbes Israel; Fortune; Fotophile; French Photo; Esquire Gentleman; ESPN Magazine; FlaFitness;; Vogue, Gentlemen’s Quarterly; G Q; German Vogue; German Geo; Glamour; Globe Press; Golf Journal; Graphis; Harper’s Bazaar; Harper’s Bazaar, Turkey; Health Magazine; Helsingin Sandomat; House & Garden; The Independent; Inside; Insurance Review; Island Magazine; International Herald Tribune; Ja; Jane; Japanese Asahi Camera; Japanese Commercial Photo; Japanese Izumiya News; Japanese Switch; Joe; Kiplinger’s Personal Finance; Korean Monthly; Latina; Lear’s; Life; London Sunday Times; London Telegraph; Long Shot; Los Angeles Herald Examiner; Los Angeles Times; M-The New York Art World; Mademoiselle; Magasinet; Manhattan Inc.; Manhattan Living; Marcopolo; Marie Claire; Maverick Arts ; Megapress Catalogue; Menninger Perspective; MGM Grand; Money Magazine; The Movies; Moviegoer; Ms., Nest; New Jersey Bride; New Jersey Monthly; The New Professional; New York Daily News; New York Law Journal; New York Magazine; New York Metro; New York Newsday; New York Observer; New York Post; New York Woman; The New York Times; The New York Times Magazine; The New Yorker; Newsweek; Newsweek Japan; Newsweek Korea; The Observer; O, The Oprah Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine South Africa; Outside Magazine; Paper; Parenting; Parents; People; People Australia; Philadelphia City Paper; Philadelphia Inquirer; Philip Morris; Photo District News/PDN; Photograph; Photography in New York International; Photo Metro; Photo Magazine; The Photo Review Newsletter; Photo Techniques USA; Playbill; Premiere; Professional Photographer; Provincetown Arts; Ptownie; The Provincetown Banner; Provincetown Magazine; Reader’s Digest; Rolling Stone; San Francisco Chronicle; Select; Self Magazine; Seventeen; Shutterbug; The Shuttle Sheet; SoHo Weekly News; Spirit & Flesh; Sports Illustrated; Sportswear International; Spy; The Sunday Telegraph Arts & Review Magazine; T–The New York Times Style Magazine; Tables; Talk; Teen Vogue; Tennessee Illustrated; Thirteen Program Guide; Time Magazine; Time Out New York; Tronder-Avisa; Trenton Times; Tronder-Avisa; Tufts Medicine; The UK Observer; U.S. Kids; Us; V; Vanity Fair; Venice; The Village Voice; Vogue; Vogue Girl Korea; Vogue Hommes; Vue; Washington Post Magazine; WhitePaperBy; Virtuoso Life; W Magazine; Weltbild; Woman’s Day; YM; Wall Street Journal; The Sound and Town Report; The Berkeley Daily Planet; Chicago Sun Times; The Photo Collector
Public Collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Morgan Library and Museum, NY; The New York Public Library, NY; The Columbus Museum of Art, OH; The Spencer Museum of Art, KS; The National Theatre, Norway; The Newbury Hotel, MA; The Provincetown Art Association and Museum; the Casey Family Programs; Nicola Erni Collection, CH
Private Collections
The David Kronn Collection, IE; The Madonna Archive, NY; The Madonna Archive, UK; Linda Evangelista, NY; Mario Sorrenti, NY; Richard Avedon Foundation, NY; David Davis, MA; Kate Ryan and Ainsley Burke, NY; Rick Grossman and Esther Paster, FL; Westlake Reed Leskosky; Myrna and Norman Katz
Advertising
Young & Rubicam; Spotco; World Gym; Chiat/Day; FCB Wilkins; California Children and Families Commission Billboards; Saatchi & Saatchi; The Art Directors Club; Christiano Fissore; Nickelodeon; Public Broadcasting Service; New Line Cinema; American Express
Awards
American Photo: Best Books; Photo District News Annual; Communication Arts: Best Books; Lucie Award: Best Books
Annual Reports
Vassar Book of Gifts; George Gund Foundation; Human Resources Administration; Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation; Howard Savings Bank
Curating and Jurying
Cotuit Center for the Arts; Alaska Photographic Center; American Society of Media Professionals; Photographers-New York Portfolio Review; The Center for Fine Art Photography; International Center of Photography; Powerhouse Arena
Books by Others
New York at Night; Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends; The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious; One Hundred New York Photographers: Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History; Eye of the Beholder; Graphis Books Nudes Two; Graphis Photo; City Dogs; Kate Jennings: Women Falling Down in the Street; Jocks and Nerds: Men’s Style; American Photography One; A Day in the Life of London; Fashion: Theory; Weltbild; The Art Director’s Annual; Chronogram; Thirteen Program Guide; Spalding Gray: Monster in a Box; New Jersey Monthly; Continental; Insurance Review
Teaching
International Center of Photography; Maine Media Workshops; Maine Media Workshops in Cuba; Anderson Ranch; Fine Arts Work Center; School of Visual Arts; Tim’s Used Books; Alaska Photographic Center; Nord Photography; Palm Springs Photographic Workshop; Jewish Community Center; Toscana Photographic Workshop; Adolf S. Ochs School - Community Service Program; Center for Photography at Woodstock; 92nd Street YMCA; Olden Photography Workshop
Television
Good Morning America; WNBC-TV Live at Five; CNN-Oooh Baby; WNET-American Masters; Kathleen Shannon: The Show; Big City Productions; CW Morning News; Fashion Television; E! Entertainment; WNBC-TV News; WABC-World of Photography
Presentations
Mitchell Giddings Fine Art; School of Visual Arts; American Photographic Artists; New York University; New York Film Academy; B & H; Alaska Photographic Center; Strand Bookstore; The Norton Museum; Columbia University-Narrative Medicine Program; New York University-Narrative Practice Program; The Walter Reade Theater-Lincoln Center; Portraits Without Walls; Sibley Auditorium, University of California; Book Soup; School of Visual Arts; International Center of Photography; State University of New York; Fine Arts Work Center; University of the Arts; Toscana Photographic Workshop; Maine Photographic Workshop; Center for Photography at Woodstock
Online Galleries and Press
“The Newbury Boston’s Hotel Art Collection Is Fit For A City Museum” (Forbes)
" 'Face Time’ Is A Compelling and Comprehensive Portrait Exhibit” (The Enterprise)
“Needs a book to pull her in” (Boston Globe)
“Amy Arbus on 80s Street Style Photography” (AnOther Magazine)
“Invincible Looks on City Streets” (The New York Times)
“Amy Arbus Talks To Elizabeth Avedon” (The Eye of Photography)
“Was My Son My Last ‘Good Egg’?” (Huffpost)
"Amy Arbus’s One-Woman Show With a View” (The New York Times)
“Amy Arbus, After Images” (Art New England)
“Amy Arbus: ICP Book Signing April 26” (Elizabeth Avedon Journal)
“Nobody Else Sees the Way I Do” (The Wall Street Journal)
“Diane Arbus’ daughter on the hidden lines connection her works to her mother” (Haaretz)
“How Amy Arbus Captured an Era” (Interview Magazine)
“Recollecting an Image” Amy Arbus and Ann Magnuson Visit the New York Public Library” (Huffpost)
“Famed Photographer Amy Arbus Snaps Shots of The Addams Family” (Broadway Buzz)
“NPR Exclusive: On The Street, Then and Now” (NPR)
“Amy Arbus: ‘On the Street 1980 - 1990’ " (The New York Times)
“Show People” (The New Yorker)
“Character / Actor” (The New York Times)
“Amy Arbus Returns to Shooting Style, This Time Focusing on Headwear” (The New York Times)
“Amy Arbus: Beyond Reality | Schoolhouse Gallery” (Musée Magazine)