ITEM #010
The Children
Francois Deschamps
2009, 8.5"x8.5"
artists' book
Value: $45
Minimum bid: $15
Francois Deschamps is a professor at the State University of New York in New Paltz, NY where he teaches photography and related media. As a photographer and book artist he has produced over 10 artists’ books including the following: The Return of the Slapstick Papyrus (Visual Studies Workshop, 1986), Particle Theory (Nexus Press, 1992), Memoire D’un Voyage en Oceanie (University of Auckland, 1995), Sombras Rojas (Visual Studies Workshop, 1999) and most recently Drone 1/2/3 (2010). His photographs are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as two artists’ fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2002, he was awarded a residency at the Cite Internationale Des Arts in Paris. In 2004, he was included in the exhibition “Pieced Together: Photomontages from the Collection” at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was awarded a Fulbright grant to Mali Africa for 2010-11.