Phil Bergerson has photographed for over 30 years. His work has been exhibited internationally and is found in many prestigious collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. His photographs have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Toronto Life and Walrus Magazine, and his book, Shards of America will
be published in September 2004. Since 1975, Bergerson has been
a professor of photography at Ryerson University in Toronto where
he established and organized the annual international "Kodak Lecture Series" on photography. In 1979, he organized "Canadian Perspectives",
a National Conference on Photography in Canada, and in 1983,
the first International Symposium on Photographic Theory. He has also
arranged several photographic study trips to Europe and Asia. |
PHIL BERGERSON
BORN:
Toronto, Ontario, 1947
Ryerson Diploma, Photographic Arts TEACHING: Professor, School of Image Arts, (1972 to 2007) |
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ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES:
1987 - 1989 Kodak Chair International Lecture Series at Ryerson - Evergon, Danny Lyon, Olivia 1986 - 1987 Kodak Chair International Lecture Series at Ryerson - Hiro, Frederick Sommer, 1985 International Lecture Series on Photography at Ryerson - B Lynn Cohen, Todd Walker 1984 Photography Study Trip to People's Republic of China and Japan - Visited with photographers, 1983 International Symposium on Photographic Theory - Joel Snyder, Allan Sekula, Victor Burgin, 1979 European Photography Study Trip - Led 16 Ryerson students and teachers through England and France studying the major photography collections and discussing photography with European photographers, students, curators and teachers 1975 - 1977 Attempted to establish Focus, Museum of Photography in Toronto. Photographers, historians, curators and critics of International stature lectured within these series. People like - John Szarkowski, Hiro, Andre Kertesz, Eugene Smith, Robert Frank, Jerry Uelsmann, Cole Weston, Helmut Gernsheim, Berenice Abbott, Emmett Gowin, Bruce Davidson, Lee Friedlander, Todd Walker, Duane Michals, Aaron Siskind, Robert Heinecken, Judy Dater and others. GRANTS AND AWARDS:2006 Sahota Award for Distinguished Scholarly, Research, and Creative Activity
2005 Ryerson Research Grant, Canadian/ American Border Project 2001 Ryerson, Research Grant, Washington D.C. 2000 Ryerson, Research Grant, New York, New York 2000 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibitions Grant 2000 Ryerson, Research Grant, Masterworks Artist-in-Residence, Bermuda 2000 Masterworks Foundation Artist-in-Residence, Bermuda 1999 Ryerson, Research Grant, Exhibition Venues, Western Canada 1999 Ryerson, Research Grant, Shards of America, Western States 1998 Ryerson, Research Grant, Shards of America, Central States 1997 Ontario Arts Council, Senior Photography Grant 1997 Ryerson, Research Grant, Shards of Civilization II 1995 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibitions Grant 1994 Ryerson, Research Grant, Signs of a Culture 1994 Ryerson, Research Grant, Travel SPE Conference 1990 Ontario Arts Council, Senior Photography Grant 1985 Ontario Arts Council, Senior Photography Grant 1981 Canada Council Arts "B" Photography Grant 1980 Ontario Arts Council, Photography Project Grant 1980 Canada Council Photography Project Grant Four Special Project Grants one each from - 1971 Carl Dair Scholarship - York University 1970 Soame Scholarship - Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. 1970 Canadian Kodak Award - Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. PUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHS: 2011 (book) - Exploring Color Photography, From Film to Pixels, Focus Press, 5th Edition 2009 thestar.com - article "America unbroken: Phil Bergerson at Stephen Bulger" 13/17/2009 2009 Blue Sky Gallery Exhibition Catalogue 2007 Is there a there there? National Gallery Travelling Exhibition Catalogue 2005 Image and Imagination, Edited by Martha Langford, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal Quebec 2004 PDN, (Photo District News), Signs of the Times by Christopher Ringwald, November 2004 Boston Globe, Canadian Finds a Wry American Identity by Cate McQuaid, Dec.17 2004 Toronto Star, Photographs Change Perspectives by Peter Goddard, October 30 2004 Globe and Mail, Toronto, Visual Arts Review by Gary Michael Dault, October 9 2004 National Post, Toronto, The American Poetry of Messages Left Behind, by Mary Vallis, Friday, September 3 2004 National Gallery of Canada, On Tour Magazine, April 2004 (September) Shards of America by Phil Bergerson 2004 Buried Alive, Essays on Our Endangered Republic by Walter Karp - Book Cover 2004 Walrus Magazine, April/May 2003 Toronto Life Magazine, August 2003 New Yorker Magazine, August 18/25 2003 New York Times Magazine, May 13 2002 Barrie Examiner, August 26 2001 The Power of Reflection, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal 1999 Love and Desire, Photoworks, Edited by William Ewing, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, USA 1998 Canadian Collection, CD Rom Catalogue, National Gallery of Canada 1995 Architecture and Design Insight Magazine, November, Toronto 1995 Why Magazine, Fall Issue, Toronto 1993 The Theatre of CaricatureMagazine, Publication, October '93, Ottawa 1993 Photo Life Magazine (article), February/March Issue, Toronto 1992 BEAU(exhibition catalogue), C.M.C.P., Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, May 1992, Ottawa, Canada, 1992 Postcard, Best Duck, C.M.C.P., Ottawa, Canada 1992 Look Again, A Guide to the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada, (special article) 1986 Exposition Realisee, catalogue, Musees D'Art et D'Histoire de La Rochelle, La Rochelle , France 1986 American Chamber of Commerce Magazine, Hong Kong - cover, October 1986 NAKED, portfolio, University of Colorado, Boulder, Photographs by 25 Artists 1986 50 Years of Modern Colour Photography, - Photokina Exhibition Catalogue, Cologne, 1984 B Magazine, "Photography, Unconventional Photographic Images @ , May 1984 La Photographic Creative, (exhibition catalogue), Jean-Claude Lemagny, 1984 Seeing People, Seeing Space, (exhibition catalogue), Photographer's Gallery, London , England 1984 Contemporary Canadian Photography, From the Collection of the N.F.B. of Canada, 1984 Catalogue - N.F.B.'s travelling exhibitions, Ottawa, Canada 1982 Catalogue - Canada Council Art Bank Collection, Ottawa, Canada 1982 New Canadian Photography, (exhibition catalogue), Canadian Centre of Photography, 1981 S.P.E., Exposure Magazine, 19:4, Chicago, U.S.A. 1980 Photo Communique Magazine, Cover 1975 Toronto Life Magazine -, May 1975 1975 EXPOSURE, (exhibition catalogue), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada 1975 EXPOSURE, (exhibition postcard), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada 1974 Ryerson: A Community of Photographers, (exhibition catalogue), Royal Ontario Museum, |