Chuck Koosmann

Bio Chuck Koosmann is a life-long Midwesterner and currently lives in Afton, Minnesota. His background as an architect and his love for photography inform the images he makes. He has traveled extensively and has photographed around the world, from the familiar sights of Europe and Asia to remote locations in Mongolia, Patagonia and the Pacific. Koosmann’s work has been exhibited at the Exposure Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, the Minnesota Center for Photography, the Minneapolis Photo Co-op, and the Phipps Center for the Arts, and is in several private collections. More of his work can be viewed at his website www.chuckkoosmann.com. Interested parties can contact him by phone at (651) 436-3550, or by e-mail at chuck@chuckkoosmann.com. Resume Solo Exhibitions Wave Salon Gallery Minneapolis, MN): Markings: Abstractions-Intentions, December 2011 Wave Salon Gallery Minneapolis, MN): India-Bhutan, December 2010 HGA CoLab Gallery (Minneapolis, MN): Fork: Portraits of the Common, December 2009 Wave Salon Gallery Minneapolis, MN): Paris-Prague, December 2009 Christ Lutheran Church (Marine on St. Croix, MN): Vapor: Portraits of the Common, June 2009 Mpls Photo Coop (Minneapolis, MN): Three Gorges: A year before the dam, November 2007 Exposure Gallery (New Haven, CT): Three Gorges: A year before the dam, September 2007 Group Exhibitions Minneapolis Photo Center (Minneapolis, MN): Off the Cuff: The Spontaneous and Unrehearsed (Madeline Yale, Juror), January 2012 – February 2012 – First Place Minneapolis Photo Center (Minneapolis, MN): FStop Members Exhibit – Remember Me for a Little While, November 2011 – January 2012 Walker's Point Center for the Art's (Milwaukee, WI): CoPA 5th Annual Midwest Juried Exhibit (Catherine Edelman, Juror), December 2011-January 2012 Minneapolis Photo Center (Minneapolis, MN): FStop Members Exhibit – Remember Me for a Little While, November-December 2010 – January 2012 Minnesota State Fair (St. Paul, MN): Juried Fine Art Exhibition (Sean Smuda, Juror), August 2011 - Second Place The Phipps Center for the Arts (Hudson, WI): Members Exhibition, July 201 - Honorary Mention Walker's Point Center for the Art's (Milwaukee, WI): CoPA 4th Annual Midwest Juried Exhibit (Natasha Egan, Juror), December 2010-January 2011 Minneapolis Photo Center (Minneapolis, MN): FStop Members Exhibit – Personal Effects, November-December 2010 Leenhouts Gallery – First Universalist Society of Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI): Coalition of Photographic Arts Exhibit, September-October 2010 Minnesota State Fair (St. Paul, MN): Juried Fine Art Exhibition (David Little, Juror), August 2010 The Sharon Lynn Wilson Center (Brookfield, WI): Coalition of Photographic Arts 2010 Summer Juried Exhibit: “Wisconsin Artists Capture Nature”, June-July 2010 Thomas Barry Fine Arts (Minneapolis, MN): Going Yard! Art about Baseball, April 2010 Jennifer Jane Gallery (New Haven, CT): 5 Series, July 2009 Mpls Photo Coop (Minneapolis, MN): “One by Eleven”, May 2008 Minnesota Center for Photography (Minneapolis, MN): Three Gorges, November 2007 The Phipps Center for the Arts (Hudson, WI): Vapor: Portraits of the Common, October 2007 Exposure Gallery (New Haven, CT): Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, August 2007 The Phipps Center for the Arts (Hudson, WI): Members Exhibition, August 2007 Minnesota Center for Photography (Minneapolis, MN): Photocentric 2007(Lisa Hostetler, Juror), March 2007 Exposure Gallery (New Haven, CT): Premier Invitational Exhibition, September 2007 Hudson Hospital (Hudson, WI): Juried Healing Arts Exhibition, September 2006 Minnesota State Fair (St. Paul, MN): Juried Fine Art Exhibition (George Slade, Juror), August 2006 The Phipps Center for the Arts (Hudson, WI): Members Exhibition, July 2006 Minnesota State Fair (St. Paul, MN): Juried Fine Art Exhibition (George Slade, Juror), August 2005 The Phipps Center for the Arts (Hudson, WI): Members Exhibition, July 2005 - Award of Excellence Selected Private Collections Meg Anderson, Stillwater, MN Bye Barsness, Hudson, WI Jonathan Carlson, Minneapolis, MN John Cook & Joan Sorrano, Minneapolis, MN Mark Falcone, Eagan, MN Anne Haddad, Northfield, MN Liz Herrington, Afton, MN Art and Martha Kaemmer, St. Paul, MN Medtronic Incorporated, Fridley, MN Bill & Kristy Petrich, Afton, MN John & Barbara Rice, St. Paul, MN Mary Rice, Bayfield, WI Lucy Rogers, Afton, MN Jo-Anne Stately, Plymouth, MN Cindy & Mitchell Veness, Chanhassen, MN Lori Ann Wagner, Minneapolis, MN Sandy Worthy, Minneapolis, MN Kris Young, Minneapolis, MN Bibliography B&W Magazine, “Three Gorges”, Issue 67, June 2009 Focus Magazine, “Focus Gallery: Chuck Koosmann: Fork”, Issue 11, February 2007 Three Gorges. Edited by George Slade. Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Photography, 2007 Focus Magazine, “Focus Gallery: Chuck Koosmann”, Issue 5, February 2006 600 Contreprojects Pour Les Halles, “Les Halles Competition Proposal”, Edition du Moniteur, 1981 Design Quarterly, “City Segments – Les Halles Competition Proposal”, 113.114, 1979 Architecture Minnesota, “Cover Photograph”, July/August 1975