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Location:Brockton, MA, United States
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Gallery Representation:Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
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Schools Attended:University of New Mexico Department of Art and Art HistoryEdinburgh Napier University
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Photo Associations & Memberships:Society for Photographic Education (SPE)Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
Select Publications + Catalogues
British Journal of Photography
Art in America
Art Papers
Asian Art News
Eye-Ai
Shots
Through the Lens, Museum of New Mexico Press
Photography at Edinburgh Napier University
The Art of Photography Show
Water
Select Solo + Group Exhibitions
The Bond House Museum, Española, New Mexico
University of Wyoming Art Museum and American Heritage Center, Laramie, Wyoming - Solo
Museo de la Ciudad de Mérida, México
The New Mexico History Museum, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe
New Mexico Museum of Art, The Round House Gallery, Santa Fe
University of New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Marchmont Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Lyceum Gallery, San Diego, California
Ion Art Gallery, Singapore
Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, New Mexico
Salon Mar Graff, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Phil Space, Santa Fe, New Mexico - Solo
August Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico - Solo
University of Texas, Odessa, Texas
Smith Gallery, Covent Garden, London, England
Private + Public Collections
The New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Edinburgh Napier University Collection, Scotland
The University of Wyoming Art Museum Collection, Laramie
The New Mexico History Museum, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe
First Community Bank, Santa Fe
Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe
Various private collections in Switzerland, Germany, Britain, Singapore, South Africa and US
Short Biography
André Ruesch was born in 1961 in Zürich, Switzerland and grew up in an alpine region known as the Saanenland. His mother’s gallery, which showcased photographers and painters, inspired him in his youth. Photographer Ellen Auerbach was also influential as a family friend. While working for a volunteer organization in Asia in the early eighties he started to pursue photography.
Upon his return to Europe, he was accepted to Napier College in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he obtained a BA in Photography in 1988. After moving to Albuquerque, USA, for graduate studies in photography at the University of New Mexico, he obtained his MA in 1992 and his MFA in 1996. While there, his main mentors were Patrick Nagatani, Betty Hahn and Eugenia Parry.
He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is an Associate Professor of Photography and the Chair of the BFA Photography Department at the Lesley University College of Art and Design (LUCAD), formerly the Art Institute of Boston (AIB).