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Thomas McGovern
    All Along the Freeway
    People in Cars
    Chabad of the Inland Empire (CA)
    Portfolios
      Pickers and Packers: Collaboration with Juan Delgado
      This Was New York
      Tarps
      Hard Boys + Bad Girls
      Vital Signs
      Bearing Witness (to AIDS)
      Amazing Grace
      Swap Meet- This is San Bernardino
    Resume
    Artist's Statements
    Contact

 

 

RESUME


PUBLICATIONS

2013    VITAL SIGNS, Heyday Books (collaboration with poet Juan Delgado)
2010    HARD BOY + BAD GIRLS, Schiffer Publishing
            AMAZING GRACE, Parker Press
2008    VITAL SIGNS, Riverside Art Museum. Exhibition catalog with essay by Peter Frank.
2003    PANDEMIC: FACING AIDS, Umbrage Books, New York. Sixteen photographs from my series
on the AIDS crisis included in this book about the global pandemic.
1999    BEARING WITNESS (to AIDS), Visual AIDS/A.R.T. Press, New York. Hardcover monograph
with 65 duotone photographs from my ten-year project on the AIDS crisis.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023.        RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM, Riverside, CA.  Discrete + Skin + Signs + Sites + Poems 

                 (collaborative team of Juan Delgado and Thomas McGovern)

2017         UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS, Redlands, CA Beyond the Fences (with Juan Delgado)

2015        NATIONAL ORANGE SHOW ART GALLERY, San Bernardino, CA Swap Meet: This is San Bernardino
2014        MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY, Lancaster, CA Vital Signs
                ROBERT AND FRANCES FULLERTON MUSEUM OF ART, Vital Signs
2013        MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY, Lancaster, CA Sign Language
2010        ANDI CAMPOGNONE PROJECTS, Pomona, CA HARD BOYS + BAD GIRLS
2008        RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM, Riverside, CA. Vital Signs
2007        FINE ART GALLERY, Cal State Los Angeles. Simulatneous Ideas/Projects
2003        GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Winchester, MA, Hard Boys & Bad Girls
                 ART RESOURCES TRANSFER, NYC, Grotesque
2002        POST, Los Angeles, CA. The Wrestlers
2001        ART RESOURCES TRANSFER, NYC, The New City
1999        LABAND ART GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA. Bearing Witness (to AIDS)
                  ART RESOURCES TRANSFER, New York, NY. Bearing Witness (to AIDS)
1995 NEUE GALERIE, Hannover, Germany

 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023           CHEECH MARIN CENTER FOR CHICANO ART & CULTURE, Riverside, CA. Land of Milk and Honey: Mexicali Biennial

2021          Golden Hour: California Photography from LACMA- traveling exhibition (Museum of Art & History, Riverside Museum of Art, Vincent Price Art                                           Museum, Cal State Northridge)

2018          CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Riverside, CA In the Sunshine of Neglect (catalog)

                 ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Whose Streets? Our Streets! (catalog)

2016         NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Tattooed New York

2015         Art, AIDS, America- traveling exhibition curated by Johathan Katz (Tacoma Art Museum, Bronx Museum of Art (catalog)

2014         MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY, Lancaster, CA Being Here and There, curated by Sant Khalsa

2010         ANDI CAMPOGNONE PROJECTS, Pomona, CA. Curiosities of the Curio
                  
RED DOT ART FAIR, NYC. Andi Campognone Projects Booth
2009         JOHNSON JENKINS, NYC and SF. Connections
2008         WIGNALL MUSEUM, Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Inlandia
                  
CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Riverside, CA. Truthiness
                  
MANNHEIMER KUNSTVEREIN, Germany. Break the Rules!
2007        DBA 256, Pomona, CA. Inland Emperors
2006        RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM, Riverside, CA. New Acquisitions
2004        GALLERY C, Hermosa Beach, CA. American Gothic: Talent for the Dark Ages
                DIRT, Los Angeles, CA. Stacked; An Homage to Pamela Anderson
                CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Riverside, CA. Dog Days
                18th STREET ART CENTER, Santa Monica, CA. Artists Who Write
                DEBS & CO, New York, NY. Sausage Factory
2002       LINC REAL ART, San Francisco, CA Nest Egg Omelette
PANDEMIC: FACING AIDS, traveling exhibition. Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, travels to Paris, Johannesburg, New York, Moscow, etc.
2000 POST, Los Angeles, CA,
1999      MUNICIPAL ART GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA, Moving Toward the Millennium
              NEUER AACHENER KUNSTVEREIN, Aachen, Germany. Gender Trouble

COLLECTIONS

INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY

LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON
BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
MUSEUM FUR PHOTOGRAPHIE
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
NEW MUSEUM (NY) (archive)
BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WOODSTOCK CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY
SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE
LOS ANGELES COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE
RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM

LESLIE-LOHMAN MUSEUM OF GAY AND LESBIAN ART

CERRITOS COLLEGE ART GALLERY