Victor Cobo

 
                
                
http://victorcobo.com/
Victor Cobo, Spanish, born United States, 1971
Lives and works in New York City
Victor Cobo is an American artist from San Francisco who specializes in creating large scale black and white photographs. His works explore our evolving isolation through memory, dreams, sexuality and the translucency of the psyche. Cobo is a self-taught photographer who was originally trained in life-drawing. He grew up in northern California where his earliest memories of photography involved stealing his stepfather's cameras, playing dress up and creating theatrical images with teenage friends. His work has been featured in the New York Times Magazine; Newsweek; Time; Surface; the San Francisco Chronicle; Ojo De Pez; Burn Magazine; Leica World; Courrier Int'l.; The Advocate; Private; Foto8; American Suburb X; One Giant Arm; Fraction Magazine, Eyemazing and Idoménée. In 2007 he was the winner of the Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer's Fellowship. Cobo's photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally and his work is featured in private and public collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Akron Art Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and the Amon Carter Museum, as well as numerous private collections. In 2009 the Amon Carter Museum featured his work in a group exhibition titled, "Masters of American Photography", amongst such artists as Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Robert Frank and Diane Arbus.
Education:
2000 Academy of Art (Photography), San Francisco, CA
1996 BFA (Life Drawing), State University, Chico, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2011 Centre for Photography, "100 Portraits", Australia
2011 Corcoran Gallery of Art, “100 Portraits”, DC
2010 Berkeley Art Museum, "Hauntology", CA
2010 Torrance Art Museum, "Eros/Thanatos", CA
2010 Photo Center NW, "EXPOSED: Critical Mass", WA
2009 Project Kreuzberg, "Eros/Thanatos", Germany
2009 Post Gallery, "Eros/Thanatos", CA
2009 Deitch Projects, "Dash Snow Memorial", NY
2009 Alice Austen House Museum, "Interlude", NY
2009 Humble Arts Foundation, "Group Show 29", NY
2009 SF Camerawork, "Ersatz Exhibition", CA
2009 Amon Carter Museum, "American Masters", TX
2007 Blue Sky Gallery, "Victor Cobo & Amy Stein", OR
2007 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "Acquisitions", TX
2007 Randall Scott Gallery, "Sub-text", Washington, DC
2007 79 Gallery, "The Only Human Exhibit", CA
2006 Fifty Crows Gallery, "Cruzando", CA
2006 Center for Photographic Arts, "06' Awards", CA
2005 Michel Novelozo Gallery, "Suenos", CA
1996 1078 Gallery, "Countdown 2000", CA
Public Collections:
Akron Art Museum, OH
Amon Carter Museum, TX
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, CA
Center for Photographic Art, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Photographic Center NW Collection, WA
William Benton Museum of Art, CT
Awards:
2007 Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship
2007 Surface Magazine Abstract Impressions Award
Selected Articles & Reviews:
2011 idoménée, "New Fashion", (France), Issue 02, Sept.
2011 American Suburb X, "Specter of Theater", Aug. 22.
2011 Burn, "Behind Smoke Colored Curtains", Aug. 12.
2011 aCurator Magazine, "100 Photogs", Nov.
2011 One Giant Arm, "Cobo", (England), Issue 01, Aug.
2011 Fraction Magazine, “So I Can...”, Issue 27, June.
2011 Eyemazing, “Cobo”, (Netherlands), Issue 01, March.
2011 OGA, “Interview w/ Cobo”, (England), March.
2010 The New Yorker, "Monumental Portraits", Nov.
2010 Wired, "Portraits Grew Up on Web", Raw File, Nov.
2010 Landscape Stories, "How’s It...", (Italy), LS02, Oct.
2010 NPR, "Contemporary Portraits", Picture Show, Aug.
2010 BAM/PFA, "Hauntology", Jul./Aug.
2010 Prison Photography, "Critical Mass", March 12.
2010 Washington Post, "The Art Isn't On Paper", Nov.
2009 Blue Sky Gallery, 07/08 Catalog, Nov.
2009 SF Camerawork, Benefit Auction Catalog, Dec.
2009 Ojo De Pez, "Remember...", (Spain), #17, June.
2009 American Suburb X, "Remember...", May 26.
2009 Burn Magazine, "Victor Cobo", Feb. 01.
2008 SF Camerawork, Benefit Auction Catalog, Dec.
2008 1000 Words Photography, "Remember...", Sept.
2008 Newsweek, "Young, Gay & Murdered", Jul.
2008 Leica Photo Int'l, "Shadows", (Germany), Jan.
2007 SF Chronicle, "Hopelessness", Jul. 08.
2007 Courrier Int'l., "Le Monde de Cobo", (France), Apr.
2006 Private, "Metropolis", (Italy), Winter 06-07'.
2006 Foto8, "Suenos", (England), Sept.
2006 TIME, "To Be an American?", Apr. 10.
2006 TIME, "The Plight", Apr. 04.
2001 Leica Photo Int'l, "Victor Cobo", (Germany), Nov.
Books Group:
TBA Best of Contemporary B&W, Gomma, England
2011 R.S.V.P, One Giant Arm, England
2011 Burn 01, David Alan Harvey | Magnum Photos, NY
2011 Self Publish, Be Naughty, SPBH, England
Presentations & Festivals:
2011 Head On Photo Festival, Australia
2011 New York Photo Festival, NY
2011 Snap Orlando Photo Festival, FL
2010 FotoWeek Festival, DC
2009 Look3 Festival of the Photograph, VA
2007 Academy of Art University, CA
2006 Academy of Art University, CA
2006 California College of the Arts, CA
2005 San Francisco Art Institute, CA
2004 Academy of Art University, CA
2003 Academy of Art University, CA
作品：http://www.douban.com/photos/album/61749364/