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Twice the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships (1982 and 1991) and a New York State Council for the Arts Fellowship (1973), Thomas Roma's work has appeared in one-person and group exhibitions internationally, including one-person shows with accompanying books at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the International Center of Photography. In 2003 he received a New York City Council Proclamation for contributions to the cultural and educational life of New York City and in 2011 the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Roma has published fourteen monographs including Come Sunday,Sunset Park, Higher Ground, Enduring Justice (with an introduction by Norman Mailer), The Waters of Our Time (with a collaborative text by his son, Giancarlo T. Roma), and most recently In the Vale of Cashmere (with an introduction by G. Winston James). In 2010, the Wallach Gallery at Columbia University exhibited his work and published Pictures for Books, a catalogue including work from four of his series. He has taught photography since 1983 at Yale, Fordham, Cooper Union, and The School of Visual Arts and in 1996 became the Director of the Photography Program at Columbia University School of the Arts where he is a Professor of Art. He …
Twice the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships (1982 and 1991) and a New York State Council for the Arts Fellowship (1973), Thomas Roma's work has appeared in one-person and group exhibitions internationally, including one-person shows with accompanying books at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the International Center of Photography. In 2003 he received a New York City Council Proclamation for contributions to the cultural and educational life of New York City and in 2011 the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Roma has published fourteen monographs including Come Sunday,Sunset Park, Higher Ground, Enduring Justice (with an introduction by Norman Mailer), The Waters of Our Time (with a collaborative text by his son, Giancarlo T. Roma), and most recently In the Vale of Cashmere (with an introduction by G. Winston James). In 2010, the Wallach Gallery at Columbia University exhibited his work and published Pictures for Books, a catalogue including work from four of his series. He has taught photography since 1983 at Yale, Fordham, Cooper Union, and The School of Visual Arts and in 1996 became the Director of the Photography Program at Columbia University School of the Arts where he is a Professor of Art. He was also a founding photographer of DoubleTake Magazine.
Courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery
Born 1950
Hometown Brooklyn, NY
Lives and Works New York, New York
Permanent Collection
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
The International Center of Photography, NY
Henie-Onstad Museum, Norway
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
The Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
The Temple Tifereth-Israel Museum, Cleveland, OH
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
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