Lucas Foglia

Lucas Foglia (born 1983) is an American photographer, living in San Francisco.{{cite web|first1=Jenny|last1=Stevens|access-date=2021-09-10|title=Lucas Foglia's best photograph: cowboys Casey and Rowdy in the Nevada desert|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/17/lucas-foglia-best-photograph-cowboys-nevada-ranch|date=17 September 2015|website=The Guardian}}{{cite web|access-date=2021-09-10|title=Biography|url=http://lucasfoglia.com/bio/|website=lucasfoglia.com}} "His work is concerned mainly with documenting people and their relationship to nature", for which he has travelled extensively making landscape photography and portraiture.{{cite web|access-date=2021-09-10|title=Photographing New York's first summer after 9/11|url=https://i-d.vice.com/amp/en_uk/article/88njkg/lucas-foglia-photography|website=i-d.vice.com}}

Foglia's Human Nature has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago{{cite web|access-date=2021-09-10|title=Lucas Foglia: Human Nature|url=https://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2018/7/lucas-foglia-human-nature.php|website=www.mocp.org}} and at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam.{{cite web|access-date=2021-09-10|title=Lucas Foglia - Human Nature|url=https://www.foam.org/museum/programme/lucas-foglia|website=Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam}} His work is held in the collections of Denver Art Museum,{{cite web|access-date=2021-09-10|title=Search the Collections|url=https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/search/collections?search_api_fulltext=Lucas%2520Foglia&f%255B0%255D=display_collection%253A3098&f%255B1%255D=display_collection%253A3098&page=0|website=www.denverartmuseum.org}} MoCP,{{cite web|access-date=2021-09-10|title=Museum of Contemporary Photography|url=https://www.mocp.org/info.php?s=Lucas+Foglia&t=objects&type=all|website=www.mocp.org}} Philadelphia Museum of Art{{cite web|access-date=2021-09-10|title=Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections : Search Collections|url=https://philamuseum.org/collections/results.html?searchTxt=&bSuggest=1&searchNameID=59918|website=philamuseum.org}} and Portland Art Museum.{{cite web|access-date=2021-09-10|title=Lucas Foglia|url=http://www.portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=19135;type=701|website=www.portlandartmuseum.us}}

Early life and education

Foglia was born on Long Island, New York. His parents were part of the back-to-the-land movement and he grew up on their farm, 30 miles from Manhattan.{{cite web|first=Sean|last=O'Hagan|authorlink=Sean O'Hagan (journalist)|access-date=2021-09-10|title=Lucas Foglia: the photographer in search of off-the-grid Americans|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jul/13/lucas-foglia-a-natural-order|date=13 July 2012|website=The Guardian}} He received his BA from Brown University in 2005 {{Cite web|url=https://www.lucasfoglia.com/bio/|title = Lucas Foglia | About}} and received his MFA from Yale School of Art, at Yale University, Connecticut in 2010.

Work

Foglia's first two books A Natural Order (2012) and Frontcountry (2014) merge landscape photography and portraiture. According to Sean O'Hagan in The Guardian, the portraits in those books and in Human Nature (2017), "occupy that tricky, slightly heightened hinterland between documentary and staging."{{cite web|first=Sean|last=O'Hagan|authorlink=Sean O'Hagan (journalist)|access-date=2021-09-10|title=Human Nature by Lucas Foglia review – into the wild|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/10/human-nature-lucas-foglia-revew-photography|date=10 October 2017|website=The Guardian}}

A Natural Order "looked at people who lived off the grid in the American backwoods – drifters, Christian communities, back-to-the-land hippies, survivalists".{{cite web|first=Sean|last=O'Hagan|authorlink=Sean O'Hagan (journalist)|access-date=2021-09-10|title=Call of the wild: photographer Lucas Foglia beds down in the American west|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/apr/01/lucas-foglia-american-west-photography|date=1 April 2014|website=The Guardian}} It was made over five years and several long trips south in a camper van.

Frontcountry is a book of two halves, depicting the contrast between the contradictory lifestyles of ranching and mining in the contemporary American West. It was made between 2006 and 2013 in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Wyoming.

Human Nature is "a series of vignettes about the relationship science, government, and individuals have with wilderness and nature."{{cite web|first1=Mark|last1=Murrmann|access-date=2021-09-10|title=Americans spend 90 percent of their lives indoors. These photos will make you want to get outside.|url=https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/11/americans-spend-90-percent-of-their-lives-indoors-these-photos-will-make-you-want-to-get-outside/|website=Mother Jones}}

Summer After (2021) contains black and white portraits of people that Foglia met on the street in New York City in 2002 in the wake of the September 11 attacks, after he moved to Manhattan.{{cite magazine|access-date=2021-09-16|title=Portraits of New Yorkers from the Summer After 9/11|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/portraits-of-new-yorkers-from-the-summer-after-911|date=11 September 2021|magazine=The New Yorker}}

Publications

=Books by Foglia=

A Natural Order. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2012. {{ISBN|978-1590053522}}.{{cite magazine|access-date=2021-09-10|title=A Natural Order by Lucas Foglia|url=https://time.com/3789327/a-natural-order-by-lucas-foglia/|magazine=Time}}
Frontcountry. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2014. {{ISBN| 978-1590054062}}.{{cite web|access-date=2021-09-10|title='Frontcountry': photographer Lucas Foglia captures the American heartlands|url=https://www.wallpaper.com/art/frontcountry-photographer-lucas-foglia-captures-the-american-heartlands|date=28 March 2014|website=Wallpaper}}
Human Nature. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli, 2017. {{ISBN|978-1-59005-464-2}}.{{cite magazine|access-date=2021-09-10|title=A Photographer's Journey Through Our Ever-Weirder Relationship to Nature|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-photographers-journey-through-our-ever-weirder-relationship-to-nature|date=14 November 2017|magazine=The New Yorker}}{{cite web|access-date=2021-09-10|title=Menselijke natuur|url=https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20171026_03154745|website=De Standaard}}{{cite web|first1=Andy|last1=Coghlan|access-date=2021-09-10|title=Stunning shots capture how we interact with our natural world|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23531430-300-stunning-shots-capture-how-we-interact-with-our-natural-world/|website=New Scientist}}
Summer After. UK: Stanley/Barker, 2021. {{ISBN|978-1-913288-26-6}}.{{cite web|access-date=2021-09-10|title=Summer After captures the fragility of a post-9/11 New York|url=https://www.creativereview.co.uk/lucas-foglia-summer-after-september/|date=2 September 2021|website=Creative Review}}

=Books with contributions by Foglia=

Core Samples from the World. New York: New Directions, 2011. By Forrest Gander. {{ISBN|978-0811218870}}. Poetry and essays by Gander, photographs by Foglia, Raymond Meeks, Graciela Iturbide.

Solo exhibitions

2012. David Winton Bell Gallery of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. “A Natural Order” {{Cite web|url=https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/arts/bell-gallery/exhibitions/lucas-foglia-natural-order|title=Lucas Foglia: A Natural Order|website=www.brown.edu|accessdate=10 June 2023}}
2012. Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France. “A Natural Order” {{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jul/08/rencontres-arles-2012-koudelka-review|title=Les Rencontres d'Arles 2012 – review|website=TheGuardian.com|date=7 July 2012}}
2012. Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, United Kingdom. “A Natural Order” {{Cite web|url=https://www.artrabbit.com/events/lucas-foglia-a-natural-order|title = Lucas Foglia: A Natural Order - Exhibition at Michael Hoppen Gallery in London}}
2013. Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland. “A Natural Order” {{Cite web|url=https://www.culturenorthernireland.org/reviews/visual-arts/natural-order|title=A Natural Order|date=8 February 2013}}
2013. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, Colorado. “A Natural Order” {{Cite web|url=https://mcadenver.org/exhibitions/month-photography-2|title = Month of Photography}}
2013. Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon. “A Natural Order” {{Cite web|url=https://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibitions/archives/2013/lucas-foglia|title=Lucas Foglia|date=2 May 2013|website=Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts|accessdate=10 June 2023}}
2013. Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise, Nantes, France. “A Natural Order” {{Cite web|url=http://la-qpn.blogspot.com/2013/10/lucas-foglia-presente-natural-order.html|title=Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise: Lucas Foglia présente "A natural order" à Nantes dans le cadre de la 17 ème édition de la QPN Biotope à l'Atelier|date=10 October 2013}}
2013. Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece. “A Natural Order” {{Cite web|url=http://www.actualcolorsmayvary.com/2013/10/athens-photo-festival-2013/|title = Athens Photo Festival 2013}}
2014. Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, New York. “Frontcountry” {{Cite web|url=https://www.fredericksfreisergallery.com/exhibitions/lucas-foglia|title = Lucas Foglia - Exhibitions - Fredericks & Freiser}}
2014. Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London, United Kingdom. “Frontcountry” {{Cite news|url=https://www.galleriesnow.net/shows/lucas-foglia-frontcountry/|title = Lucas Foglia: Frontcountry at Michael Hoppen Gallery| newspaper=Galleriesnow.net }}
2014. Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado. “Frontcountry” {{Cite web|url=https://www.robischongallery.com/exhibition/157/|title=Lucas Foglia : Frontcountry | Robischon Gallery Web site|website=www.robischongallery.com|accessdate=10 June 2023}}
2014. MiCamera, Milan, Italy. “Frontcountry” {{cite web | url=https://www.klatmagazine.com/en/photography-en/lucas-foglia-frontcountry-pics-058/44005 | title=Lucas Foglia | date=3 December 2014 }}
2016. Jeonju International Photography Festival, Jeonju, South Korea. “A Natural Order” {{Cite web|url=http://www.jpf.co.kr/index.php|title=2016전주포토페스티벌|website=Exhibition introduction|accessdate=10 June 2023}}
2017. Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London, United Kingdom. “Human Nature” {{Cite web|url=https://www.artland.com/exhibitions/human-nature|title=Human Nature by Lucas Foglia at Michael Hoppen Gallery - Artland|website=www.artland.com|accessdate=10 June 2023}}
2017. Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, New York. “Human Nature” {{Cite web|url=https://www.fredericksfreisergallery.com/exhibitions/lucas-foglia2|title=Lucas Foglia - Exhibitions - Fredericks & Freiser|website=www.fredericksfreisergallery.com|accessdate=10 June 2023}}
2018. Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. “Human Nature”
2018. Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California. “Human Nature” {{Cite web|url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/179463/spring-exhibitions-and-programs/|title=Spring exhibitions and programs - e-flux Education|website=www.e-flux.com|accessdate=10 June 2023}}
2018. Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois. “Human Nature” {{Cite web|url=https://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2018/7/lucas-foglia-human-nature.php|title=Lucas Foglia: Human Nature | Museum of Contemporary Photography|accessdate=10 June 2023}}
2021. Public Installation, Milan, Italy. “Human Nature” {{Cite web|url=https://www.vogue.it/fotografia/article/5-exhibitions-to-see-in-july|title = 5 Exhibitions to see in July|date = 22 July 2021}}
2021. Photoclimat Biennale, Place du Palais Royal, Paris, France. “Human Nature” {{Cite web|url=https://photoclimat.com/les-expositions/#|title = LES EXPOSITIONS – Photoclimat}}

Awards

2006. Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Aaron Siskind Fellowship in Photography{{Cite web|url=https://www.robischongallery.com/news/29/|title = LUCAS FOGLIA / Aaron Siskind Foundation Recipient - | Robischon Gallery Web site}}
2007. Light Work, Artist in Residence {{Cite web|url=https://www.lightwork.org/archive/lucas-foglia/|title = Lucas Foglia | Light Work|date = January 2007}}
2008. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Photography Now {{Cite web|url=https://www.cpw.org/category/past-exhibitions/past-2008/|title=You are being redirected...|website=www.cpw.org|accessdate=10 June 2023}}
2008. Magenta Foundation, Flash Forward {{Cite web|url=https://www.magentafoundation.org/program/flash-forward-2008/|title = Flash Forward 2008}}
2009. Photo District News, PDN 30 {{Cite web|url=https://www.rit.edu/news/emerging-young-photographers-present-work-and-offer-career-insight-oct-1|title = Emerging Young Photographers to Present Work and Offer Career Insight Oct. 1}}
2012. Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, Shortlist {{Cite web|url=https://aperture.org/editorial/photobook-awards-shortlist-announced/|title = 2012 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist Announced!|date = 28 September 2012}}
2014. Foam Talent {{Cite web|url=https://east-wing.org/foam-talents-2014-ezp-35.html|title=Foam Talent 2014|website=east-wing.org|accessdate=10 June 2023}}
2014. Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Foundation {{Cite web|url=https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/08/aaron-siskind-foundation-announces-2014-grant-recipients.html|title = Aaron Siskind Foundation Announces 2014 Grant Recipients|date = 20 August 2014}}
2017. Syngenta Photography Award, Shortlist {{Cite web|url=https://genesisimaging.co.uk/clients/syngenta-photography-awards-2017/|title = The Syngenta Photography Awards 2017}}
2018. Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence {{Cite web|url=https://www.headlands.org/artist/lucas-foglia/|title = Lucas Foglia| date=February 24, 2018 }}
2019. Prix Pictet, Shortlist {{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/05/prix-pictet-2019-shortlist-photo-essay|title = Prix Pictet 2019 shortlist – photo essay|website = TheGuardian.com|date = 5 July 2019}}

Collections

Foglia's work is held in the following permanent collections:

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt, Germany: 12 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) {{Cite web|url=https://www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org/en/collect/artists/lucas-foglia.php|title=Lucas Foglia|website=www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org|accessdate=10 June 2023}}
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA: 10 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) {{cite web | url=https://cantorcollection.stanford.edu/artist-maker/info/10619 | title=Cantor Arts Center - Lucas Foglia }}
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH: 7 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) {{Cite web|url=https://www.clevelandart.org/art/collection/search?filter-artist=Lucas%20Foglia|title = Search the Collection}}
David Winton Bell Gallery of Brown University, Providence, RI: 88 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) {{Cite web|url=https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/arts/bell-gallery/collection/Photography/all?exact=4447&display=list&quick=lucas%20foglia|title=Search the Collection Photography | David Winton Bell Gallery}}
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO: 13 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) {{Cite web|url=https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/search/collections?search_api_fulltext=lucas%20foglia&page=0|title = Search the Collections | Denver Art Museum}}
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA: 3 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) {{Cite web|url=https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/person/67054?person=67054|title = Harvard Art Museums}}
International Center for Photography New York, NY: 42 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) {{Cite web|url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/lucas-foglia?all/all/all/all/1|title=Lucas Foglia|date=20 April 2020}}
Light Work, Syracuse, NY: 7 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) {{Cite web|url=https://collection.lightwork.org/MultiSearch/Index?search=lucas+foglia|title = Light Work Collection / Search / Lucas foglia}}
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA: 14 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) {{Cite web|url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/2292160|title=Lucas Foglia | LACMA Collections|website=collections.lacma.org|accessdate=10 June 2023}}
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI: 10 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) {{Cite web|url=https://collection.mam.org/search.php|title = Collection | Milwaukee Art Museum}}
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois: 53 prints (as of December 14, 2021)
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX: 7 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) {{cite web | url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/people/28882/lucas-foglia/objects | title=Works | Lucas Foglia | People | the MFAH Collections }}
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 8 prints (as of December 14, 2021){{Cite web|url=https://philamuseum.org/search?q=lucas%20foglia&cat=collection&from=0&size=12|title = Philadelphia Museum of Art - Search}}
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon: 10 prints (as of December 14, 2021){{Cite web|url=http://portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=19135;type=701|title = Lucas Foglia}}
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI: 45 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) {{Cite web|url=https://risdmuseum.org/art-design/collection?search_api_fulltext=lucas+foglia&op=&field_on_view=0&field_public_domain=0&has_images=0&field_recent_acquisition=0&field_type=All&page=0|title=Collection | RISD Museum|website=risdmuseum.org|accessdate=10 June 2023}}
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA: 5 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) {{Cite web|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Lucas_Foglia/|title = Foglia, Lucas}}
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE: 6 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) {{Cite web|url=https://emp-web-95.zetcom.ch/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultListView/result.t1.collection_list.$TspReferenceLink.link&sp=10&sp=Scollection&sp=SfieldValue&sp=0&sp=0&sp=3&sp=SdetailList&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F&sp=Sartist&sp=l3711|title=Stale Session|website=emp-web-95.zetcom.ch|accessdate=10 June 2023}}
Comer Collection of Photography at University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX: 6 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) {{Cite web|url=https://comer.utdallas.edu/|title=Comer Collection at UT Dallas|website=Jerry and Marilyn Comer Collection of Photography|accessdate=10 June 2023}}
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, EN: 1 Print (as of December 14, 2021) {{Cite web|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/|title=Search Results | V&A Explore the Collections|first=Victoria and Albert|last=Museum|website=Victoria and Albert Museum|accessdate=10 June 2023}}
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY: 1 Print (as of December 14, 2021) {{Cite web|url=https://www.cpw.org/about/print-collection/search-collection/|title=You are being redirected...|website=www.cpw.org|accessdate=10 June 2023}}

References

External links

{{Official website|lucasfoglia.com}}

Category:American landscape photographers

Category:American portrait photographers

Category:Photographers from New York (state)

Category:People from Long Island

Category:Yale School of Art alumni

Category:Living people

Category:1983 births

Category:Date of birth missing (living people)