Curriculum Vitae

Lewis Kostiner | May 2021

Co-Founder kibbitznest books, brews and blarney, Chicago

BA, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Studied, Rhode Island School of Design
MSc., Photography, Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

Faculty: 
Visiting Artist 2015, The Chicago High School for the Arts
Photography Department (2008-2012), School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Continuing Studies (2008-2012), School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Adjunct Faculty (1973-1981), Columbia College Chicago

Selected Exhibitions: 
A LASTING VISION, Photographs from the ID 1970-2001
LUMA at 10, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
LUMA, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
The Leica Rangefinder Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
Moming, Chicago, Illinois
Hamilton College, Clinton, New York
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Library of Congress Gallery, Washington, DC
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Gallery 312, Chicago, Illinois
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Luminescence, Truman College, Chicago, Illinois
Visions From Chicago, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
Sharp Gallery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Visions from Chicago, Montreal, Canada
Night of the Dead, Hubbard Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
The Chicago Gift, Group Show, University of California, Riverside

Pending Exhibitions: 
The Gage Gallery, Roosevelt University, Chicago, 2015

Publications: 
Chicago: Classic Photographs by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams, CityFiles Press, 2017
Nathan Lyons, University of Texas Press, 2012
Brown Magazine Review, November 2012
CHOOSING FATHERHOOD America's Second Chance, GFT Publishing: www.gftbooks.com
Courthouse, Horizon Press
Aaron Siskind, Pleasures and Terrors
Swimmers, Jerry Gordon
New York Times Review
American Heritage Magazine
The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan published by The Richard Nickel Committee, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 2010

Selected Collections: 
Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Northwestern University, Chicago
Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Selected Lectures and Panels: 

Roosevelt University, Chicago 2014
The Chicago High School for the Arts, Chicago 2014
Mt. Sinai Adolescent Youth Health Center, NY, 2013
Loyola University, Chicago, 2013
Congressional Panel, Washington D.C. 2012
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 2012

Award: 
Independent Book Publishers Award, 2013
Canada Council for the Arts

Reviews:
New York Review of Books 2012

Commendations:
US Department of Justice 2013 National Fatherhood Initiative Judge