Marc Yankus’ fine art and publishing experience span a period of more than forty years. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum and the South Street Seaport Museum, New York; the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the New-York Historical Society, New York; MTA Arts & Design, New York; and the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC. Marc Yankus is represented by ClampArt in New York City.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2019

“New York Unseen”, ClampArt, New York, NY

“Landmark City”, Grand Central Station, New York, NY, until July 2020

2016

“The Secret Lives of Buildings”, ClampArt, New York, NY

2015

“Portraits of the City”, Forward Thinking Museum, Online Museum

2014

“The Space Between”, ClampArt, New York, NY 2011 “Call It Sleep,” ClampArt, New York, NY

2010

“When You Were There”, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2009

“Cityscapes and Portraits”, Wave Photogallery, Brescia, Italy

2008

“The Point of Secret”, ClampArt, New York, NY

“Re•Visions”, Linstrum + Matre Artworks, Atlanta, GA

2007

Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA

2006

“Time and Again”, ClampArt, New York, NY

1984

“Windows”, Tiffany & Company, New York, NY

1983

Leonard Perlson Gallery, New York, NY

1981

School Of Visual Arts, New York, NY

1979

“Windows”, Tiffany & Company, New York, NY


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

“Your Very Own Paradise”, The Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI

“The City”, ClampArt, New York, NY

 “AIPAD”, ClampArt Booth, Pier 94, New York, NY

2017

“AIPAD”, ClampArt Booth, Pier 94, New York, NY

2016

“Unknown Landscapes”, North Coast Triennial, Gilleleje, Denmark

2016

“AIPAD”, ClampArt Booth, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

2015

“Of Time and Buildings”, Art Gallery of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

“AIPAD”, ClampArt Booth, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

“Art on Paper”, ClampArt Booth, Pier 36, New York, NY

“New Jack City”, Humble Arts Foundation, Online Exhibition

“Annual Dog Show”, Mascot Studios, New York, NY

2014

“INFOCUS Juried Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks”, Phoenix Art Museum, AZ

“Traces: Photographs of India”, Umbrella Arts Gallery, New York, NY

“Of Time and Buildings”, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY

“AIPAD”, ClampArt Booth, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

2013

“AIPAD”, ClampArt Booth, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

2012

“Occupy Wall Street”, The South Street Seaport Museum, New York, NY

2011

“Pulse LA”, The Event Deck, Los Angeles, CA 2010

“The Power of Place”, JRB Art at the Elms, Oklahoma City, OK

“It’s All A Blur”, The Shore Institute of The Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ

2009

“Looking Up”, A View of Contemporary Photography.”Ambient Art Projects, Las Vegas, NV

“Arcadia”, ClampArt, New York, NY

“Kids Behaving Badly”, ClampArt, New York, NY

“Night Moves, Angles of View”, Farmani Gallery, Dumbo, NY

“Photo LA”, ClampArt Booth, Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA

2008

Art Miami, ClampArt Booth, The Art Miami Pavilion, Miami, FL

“Photography Now”, Center For Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY

“Photo LA” ClampArt Booth, Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA

2007

“Best of Arles Foto Folio”, Farmani Gallery, LA, CA

“Foto Folio Winner”, Les Rencontres d’ Arles, Arles, France

“The Evolution of the Digital Portrait”, ClampArt, New York, NY

“Degrees of Separation”, Peer Gallery, New York, NY

“Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition”, Visual Arts Department of Fine Arts Gallery at Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX

“Photo LA”, ClampArt Booth, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA

2006

“Private / Public,”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY

“Photo Miami”, ClampArt Booth, SOHO Building, Miami, FL

“It’s very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present. You know what I mean?”, ClampArt, New York, NY

“12th Annual Juried Exhibition”, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA (Juried by Bonni Benrubi)

“Small Works”, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY (Juried by Jack Shainman)

“Photo LA”, ClampArt Booth, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA

2005

“Summer Show”, ClampArt, New York, NY

“Group Show,” Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA

“Group Show”, Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2004

“Horizontal Waves Nurture Art”, Gallery Boreas, New York, NY

2002

“September 11th: Acquisitions”, Library of Congress, Department of Prints and Photographs, Washington, DC

“Witness,” Exit Art, New York, NY

“Deep Beauty”, Ciao Bella, Brooklyn, NY

2001

“Muses”, Leslie-Lohman Gallery, New York, NY

1995

“Sex Show”, Siggraph, New York, NY

1994

Ansel Adams Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1983

“The Great East River Bridge”, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1981

“An Exhibit of Small Collages”, The Key Gallery, New York, NY

1980

“Surrealist Collages”, The Key Gallery, New York, NY Motivation 5 Gallery, Montreal, Canada


PRESS RELEASES

2016 The Secret Lives of Buildings

2014 The Space Between

2011 Call It Sleep

2008 The Point of Secret

2006 Time & Again


BIBLIOGRAPHY


Holly Hughes, ”Must-See Exhibitions in NYC During PHOTOPLUS 1019”, PDNPULSE, (September, 2019)

Caroline Spivack, ”New exhibit captures ‘Slightly surreal’ portraits of NYC’s architectural icons”, Curbed New York, (September, 2019)

“See NYC’s Iconic Buildings Frozen in Time”, Untapped Cities, (September, 2019)

 “Marc Yankus: New York Unseen at ClampArt Chelsea in October”, GothamToGo, (September, 2019)

Dean Vaglia, “Gallery exhibition explores paradise though art”, The Oakland Post, (July, 2019)

David Schonauer, ”On View: Marc Yankus’s Grand Views of NYC, at Grand Central”, ProPhotoDaily, (July, 2019)

”Weekend Porfolio: Marc Yankus”, MUSEE, (June, 2019)

 Bree Lamb, ”The City Beneath the Sky”, Fraction, (April, 2019)

 “PDN Photo of The Day”, PDN, (January, 2019)

Dung Ngo, “On The Market-A Portfolio of Marc Yankus”, August Journal, (November, 2017), 18 page portfolio.

Betsy Horan, “One Photographer’s (Calmer, Quieter) Imagined New York City”, The New York Times, Style Magazine (October, 2016)

Erika Owens, “In Photos: The Secret Lives of New York City”, Travel + Leisure, (October 2016)

“The Secret Lives of Buildings”, L’Oeil de la Photographie, (October, 2016)

Gary Pini, “9 Must-See Art Shows Opening this Week”, PAPER, (October, 2016)

Ernie Anastos, “Feature Story: Art in the Sky”, Fox 5 News, Television (October 12, 2016)

David Schonaer, “Photographer Profile – Marc Yankus: ‘I like the quiet city”, AI-AP’s Profiles, (October, 2016)

“Parting Shot”, Interiors, (October/November 2016), inside cover.

Jessica Stewart, “Dreamy Photos of New York Architecture Capture the “Secret Lives of Buildings”, My Modern Met, (October, 2016)

David Schonauer, “Marc Yankus captures the “Secret Lives of Buildings”, ProPhotoDaily, (September, 2016)

David Rosenberg, “These Photographs Make You Take Notice of New York Architecture”, Slate, (September, 2016)

Sarah Stacke, ”Instagram Takeovers, and How They Work”, Photo District News, (June, 2016)

Betsy Horan, “One Photographer’s (Calmer, Quieter) Imagined New York City”, The New York Times, Style Magazine (October, 2016)

Erika Owens, “In Photos: The Secret Lives of New York City”, Travel + Leisure, (October 2016)

“The Secret Lives of Buildings”, L’Oeil de la Photographie, (October, 2016)

Gary Pini, “9 Must-See Art Shows Opening this Week”, PAPER, (October, 2016)

Ernie Anastos, “Feature Story: Art in the Sky”, Fox 5 News, Television (October 12, 2016)

David Schonaer, “Photographer Profile – Marc Yankus: ‘I like the quiet city”, AI-AP’s Profiles, (October, 2016)

“Parting Shot”, Interiors, (October/November 2016), inside cover.

Jessica Stewart, “Dreamy Photos of New York Architecture Capture the “Secret Lives of Buildings”, My Modern Met, (October, 2016)

David Schonauer, “Marc Yankus captures the “Secret Lives of Buildings”, ProPhotoDaily, (September, 2016)

David Rosenberg, “These Photographs Make You Take Notice of New York Architecture”, Slate, (September, 2016)

Sarah Stacke,”Instagram Takeovers, and How They Work”, Photo District News, (June, 2016)

“Issue 86: Eighth Anniversary Issue”, Fraction Magazine, (May, 2015)

Jennifer Schwartz, “Behold: Marc Yankus”, Crusade for Art, (May, 2015)

Freddy Martinez, “Seeing Beauty in New York’s Old, Forgotten Buildings”, PhotoWhoa, (March, 2015)

Charlotte Strick, “The Secret Lives of Buildings”, Paris Review, (December, 2014) Cover and 18 page portfolio.

Hally Wolhandler, “Marc Yankus”, Surface Magazine, (October, 2014)

Marc Erwin Babej, “Marc Yankus’ Otherworldly Cityscapes”, American Photo, (October, 2014)

Julie Leonard, “In Photography, a Tale of Two Cites”, PBS-NYC Arts, Television (April, 2014)

Holly Stuart Hughes, “New York, City of Imagination”, Photo District News, (April, 2014)

Francesca Messina, “New and Upcoming Exhibitions”, Architectural Record, (March, 2014)

Vince Aletti, “Art, Marc Yankus”, The New Yorker, (May, 2014)

Mark McMenamin, “City Citizen: Hyperrealist Photography by Marc Yankus”, Interior Design,(February, 2014)

Ron Charles, “Jonathan Franzen’s “The Twenty-Seventh City” celebrates silver anniversary”, The Washington Post, (August 2013)

Margaret Tae, “In Focus”, Monthly Photography, Korea (2012)

Hamburg Kennedy, “New York; A Photographer’s City”, Rizzoli (2011)

Michael Slenske, “A Romantic Collision of Light”, Interiors Magazine (October, November 2011)

Ilenia Zane “Marc Yankus”, Zoom Magazine (2009)

Jill Waterman, “Night & Low-light Photography, PDN Pros Book”, (2008)

“A New Path Taken—Interview with Marc Yankus”, DoubleExposure.com, (December 2007)

Shots 97 (October 2007), illus.

“Yankus Melds Traditional and Digital Photo Techniques into a Sensual, Evocative Whole”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, (April 20th, 2007)

“Exhibition Focus”, Focus, (December, 2006), color illus.

“The Place to Be”, Leica World, (November, 2006), color illus.

Shots 93, (August 2006), color illus.

“Past and Present”, The New York Sun (July 28-30, 2006), color illus.

“Marc Yankus”, The New Yorker (June 26, 2006), p. 12

“Marc Yankus and Loretta Lux”, New York Press (June 14, 2006), Vol. 19, Issue 24

“Marc Yankus”, Time and Again, ZooZoom.com (June 5th, 2006)

“Marc Yankus,” Time and Again, Visual Arts Briefs (May 5th, 2006)

“Marc Yankus”, Communication Arts (2003)

“Marc Yankus’ Little Yellow Book”, Photo District News (2002)

“Portfolio,”, Photo District News (2000)

“Publish or Perish”, American Photography (1995)

“Expert Graphics”, MacWorld Magazine (1995)

“Electronic Collage”, MacUser (1992)

Contemporary Graphic Artists (1988)

“The Dream Juxtapositions of Marc Yankus”, American Institute of Architecture Journal (1982)

ARTSPEAK (1981)


AWARDS AND HONORS

2016

One of the Best Wired Photography Stories of the Year, “Wired Magazine”

Juried Annual “American Photography”

2015

Juried Annual “American Photography”

2012

Honorable Mention, “International Photography Awards”, (Architecture)

2011

Honorable Mention, “International Photography Awards”, (Landscape)

Honorable Mention, “International Photography Awards”, (Portrait)

2008

Nominee, “New York Photo Awards”, Personal Work/Fine Art single

Juried Annual “American Photography”

2007

“Photo Folio Winner”, Les Recontres d’ Arles, Arles, France

2006

Honorable Mention, “12th Annual Juried Exhibition”, Griffin Museum of Photography, Wincester, MA (Juried by Bonni Benrubi)

Honorable Mention, “Small Works”, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY

Nominated for the Santa Fe Prize for Photography, Santa Fe Center for Photography, Santa Fe, NM


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

New York Historical Society, New York, NY

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Library of Congress, Department of Prints and Photographs, Washington, DC

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS/TEACHING

2017

Thesis Advisor for the master program for Digitial Photography, School of Visual Arts

2016

Thesis Advisor for the master program for Digitial Photography, School of Visual Arts

2013

Lecture, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2011

Thesis Advisor for the master program for Digitial Photography, School of Visual Arts

2010

Thesis Advisor for the master program for Digitial Photography, School of Visual Arts

2006

Lecture, ClampArt, New York, NY Lecture, Griffin Museum, Wincester, MA


EDUCATION

19761981

School of Visual Arts, BFA, New York, NY

19731975

High School of Art and Design, New York, NY

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