Gregg Evans is an artist working in New York’s Hudson Valley. He holds an MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago and a BFA in Fine Art from the State University of New York at Purchase. Among other exhibitions, he has shown at the Aperture Gallery; New York, The Griffin Museum of Photography; Boston, White Columns; New York, and Photographic Center Northwest; Seattle. He has published five volumes of his ongoing series A Setting Sun with +Kris Graves projects to date and has books in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.
EDUCATION
Columbia College Chicago
Masters of Fine Arts in Photography, 2013.
State University of New York at Purchase, School of Art + Design.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concentration in Photography, 2005.
EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022-Present
Digital Facilities Manager, Photography Program, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
2014- 2022
Photography Technician, Photography Department, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY.
2013
Teaching Assistant, History of Photography - Professor David Travis, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2012
Teaching Assistant, Digital Photography 1 - Professor Ross Sawyers, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Teaching Assistant, Portrait/Self Portrait - Professor Kelli Connel, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
A Setting Sun, The Gallery at C'Mon Everybody, Brooklyn, NY.
2010
The Things I Once Owned, Ebersmoore Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2009
Lucy said, ‘I don’t get it.’ And I said: ‘Word’., Envoy Enterprises, New York, NY.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Free, For All, CPW, Kingston, NY.
2024
Tender. Curated by Kevin Ivester, Online Exhibition, https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/online-exhibition/tender
Photography Is Us: 50 Years of Faculty and Alumni, Curated by Joshua Lutz and Katie Murray, Purchase College, Purchase, NY.
A Gang, Curated by Hannah Choi and Hermes Payrhuber, Mama Tress Studio, New York, NY.
2023
School/House/Road, Curated by Bethany Ides and Ora Ferdman, Doors Unlimited, Accord, NY.
The Great Art Swap, Collar Works, Troy, NY.
2022
New Photography III, Curated by Kris Graves, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD.
2020
Distinction, Curated by Kris Graves, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA.
2019
The Universal, Curated by Gregory Harris, Filter Space, Chicago, IL.
2018
Nuclear, Like The Family, Curated by Ian Breidenbach, Feast Gallery, Fayetteville, AK.
Born Under A Bad Sign, Curated by Ian Breidenbach, The Neon Heater Gallery, Findlay, OH.
I Surrender, Dear, Curated by Frances Jakubek, Umbrella Arts, New York, NY.
American Splendor : New Photography, Curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Ilon Art, New York, NY.
This Is Not Here Re:21, 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY.
Home, Latitude, Chicago, IL.
Grief, Curated by Frances Jakubek, nyphotocurator.com.
2016
May I Introduce II, Curated by Hermes Payrhuber, Lantern Hall, Brooklyn, NY.
On The Shelf, Curated by Kelli Connell, Filter Space, Chicago, IL.
Appetite For Destruction, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY.
2014
Aperture Summer Open, Curated by Chris Boot, Aperture Gallery, New York, NY.
20th Juried Exhibition, Curated by Aline Smithson, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA.
13th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition, Curated by Elizabeth Siegel, Texas Woman’s University Fine Art Galleries, Denton, TX.
2013
Midwest Contemporary, Curated by Karen Irvine and Natasha Egan, Lillstreet Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Recession Art Presents: Facts and Fictions, Curated by Ani Katz and Sara Winston, Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY.
Kinsey Institute 8th Annual Juried Art Show, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Bloomington, IN.
2013 Columbia College MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Tricksters, Curated by Jefferson Godard, C33 Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2012
Pingyao Photo Festival, Pingyao, China.
The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics, The Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
S/he Loves Me, Curated by Camille Morgan and Betsy Odom, Northern Trust, Chicago, IL.
It’s a Thin Line Between Love and Hate, United Photo Industries, Brooklyn, NY.
2009
Registered, Curated by Amie Scally and Ryan Evans, White Columns, New York, NY.
Identities, Curated by Jorge Martin Villa, Brooklyn Borough Hall, Brooklyn, NY.
White Columns 40th Anniversary Benefit Auction, White Columns, New York, NY.
DIY WPA, Curated by Joe Sheftel, Envoy Enterprises, New York, NY.
Onward ’09, Curated by Peter Barberie, Project Basho Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
PUBLICATIONS
Precious Time, David Gibson, https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/precious-time, 2025.
I Like Your Work Winter 2024 Exhibition: Tender. Curated by Kevin Ivester, https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/online-exhibition/tender
A Setting Sun Vol. V By Gregg Evans, Sara J. Winston, Lenscratch.com
A Setting Sun, Vol. V, 5.5 x 8.5” perfect-bound softcover book, Published by +Kris Graves Projects, 2024.
Gregg Evans, Nicole Hawkins, Aint-Bad.com, 2020.
Bread and Roses // Kitsch Can’t Wait, Matthew Leifheit and Rachel Stern, dergreif-online.de/guest-room/matthew-leifheit/ ,2019.
A Setting Sun, Vol. IV, 5.5 x 8.5” perfect-bound softcover book, Published by +Kris Graves Projects, 2019.
Artist Spotlight: Gregg Evans, Photo-Emphasis.com, 2018
A Setting Sun, Vol. III, 5.5 x 8.5" perfect-bound softcover book, 68 pages, edition of 100, Published by +Kris Graves Projects, 2017.
A Setting Sun, Vol. II, 5.5 x 8.5" perfect-bound softcover book, 55 pages, edition of 125, Published by +Kris Graves Projects, 2016.
A Setting Sun, Vol. I, 5.5 x 8.5" saddle-stitched softcover book, 44 pages, edition of 125, Published by +Kris Graves Projects, 2015.
Gregg Evans: We Only See the Sky As It Was, Grant Gill, Lenscratch.com, 2013.
Don/Dean Interview, Dondeanblog.com, 2013.
FlakPhoto.com Feature, Flakphoto.com, 2013.
Magical Realism, Phillip A Hartigan, Hyperallergic.com, 2013.
At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Center For Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 2010.
Gregg Evans / Ebersmoore Gallery, New City, July 15, 2010.
Winners, Juror of the GEISAI Prize, Marci Kwon, Whitewallmag.com, 2008.
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
Meet The Artist: Gregg Evans. Visiting Artist Lecture at CPW Kingston, October 2024.
Visiting Artist Lecture for Bryson Rand’s Queer Perspectives in Photography Class, 2024.
Wassaic Project Winter Residency, Wassaic, NY, 2014.
Honorable Mention, Camera Club of New York Juried Competition, Curated by Justine Kurland, 2013.
Albert P. Weisman Award, 2013.
Commissioned photographs for the CCS Bard Hessel Museum, 2010.
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Nominee, 2009.
COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art Library
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Library
MIT List Visual Art Center
The Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Thomas J Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
National Gallery of Art Library
University of Chicago Library