ABOUT

Rob Stephenson is a fine art and architectural photographer who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums including The Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Center for Architecture, and The Museum of the City of New York. He has been awarded fellowships from the Design Trust for Public Space, The Camera Club of New York and the New York Foundation for Arts. His photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, T Magazine and Businessweek among other. Rob has published two books, Myths of the Near Future (Aint-Bad) exploring the post-Shuttle landscape in the Space Coast of Florida and From Roof to Table, documenting the urban agriculture movement in New York City.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

From Roof to Table, Pulp Gallery, Vancouver, CA 2019
Urban Agriculture, TWU, Denton TX, 2017
Authenticity and Innovation, Center for Architecture, New York, 2016
From Roof to Table, Camera Club of New York, New York, NY 2012
From Roof to Table, Next American City, Philadelphia, PA 2012 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Yes, And, Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, NY 2022

Ragusa Photo Festival, Sicily, Italy 2022
FOTOFILMIC18 Traveling Exhibition, Vancouver, San Francisco, Seoul, 2019-2020
Transit, Krasdale Galleries, White Plains NY, 2019
The Vernacular of Landscape, Usagi Gallery Brooklyn, NY, 2018
Coast to Coast, L Parker Stephenson Gallery, New York, NY 2018
Brooklyn Landscape, The Gallery @ 1GAP, Brooklyn, NY  2017
Staten Island Unlimited, Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, NY 2016
Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition, Denton TX 2016
Evidence, Format Photography Festival Derby, UK 2015
Homeland [In] Security, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY, 2014
Grand Prix de la Decouverte, Salon de la Photo, Paris, Fr, 2013
Rebels, Photoville, New York, NY, 2013
On Purpose, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
Greenbridge, Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
Home, Umbrella Arts, New York, NY 2012
Amplify Action, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
Renaissance Photography Prize London UK, 2012
Annual Benefit Auction, Camera Club of New York, NY, 2012
‘Scapes, Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY 2011
Lehman College 25th Anniversary Salon, Bronx, NY, 2010
Landscape Interrupted, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ 2010
Onward, Project Basho, Philadelphia, PA, 2009
Click, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY 2008
Surprisingly Natural, Lehman College, Bronx, NY 2008
Hey Hot Shot, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY, 2005 

AWARDS

2018 FotoFilmic Solo V award
2016 Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Solo Show Award
2013 Finalist, International Fine Art Photography Award
2013 NYFA artist fellowship
2012 Recipient of the Camera Club of New York Darkroom Residency, New York, NY
2011 Recipient of the Design Trust for Public Space’s Photo Urbanism Fellowship, New York, NY 

BOOKS

Myths of the Near Future, Aint Bad 2019
From Roof to Table , Design Trust for Public Space 2012