
JUSTINE KURLAND
Feminine Hygiene
2000
C-print
30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Forest Fire
2000
C-print
30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
The Pig Roast
2001
C-print
30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Salt Rim
2000
C-print
30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
The Cave
1998
C-print
30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Bonfire
1999
C-print
30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Snake
2011
Digital C-print
19 by 23 in. 48.3 by 58.4 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Hemp Bracelet For Spanging
2008
C-print
30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Sparrow Road Kill
2013
Inkjet print
11 by 14 in. 27.9 by 35.6 cm.
Edition 1 of 6
JUSTINE KURLAND
After Darius Kinsey
2010
C-print
40 by 30 in. 101.6 by 76.2 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
280 Coup
2012
Inkjet print
18 1/2 by 24 in. 47 by 61 cm.
Edition 1 of 6
JUSTINE KURLAND
Donner Pass
2008
C-print
50 by 40 in. 127 by 101.6 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Prospecting the South Fork of the Platte River
2008
C-print
19 by 23 in. 48.3 by 58.4 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Casper on the Back Porch
2008
C-print
19 by 14 1/2 in. 48.3 by 36.8 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Waterfall Lesson, Drawing a Stick Figure
2007
C-print
40 by 30 in. 101.6 by 76.2 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Mount Baker, Commanding View
2007
C-print
30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Woman and Child on the Santa Fe River
2006
C-print
30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Siskiyou Mountain Tea Party
2006
C-print
30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm
JUSTINE KURLAND
Sea Stack
2006
C-print
30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Waterfall, Mama Babies
2006
C-print
30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Sleeping Mermaids
2006
C-print
19 3/8 by 22 3/8 in. 49.2 by 56.8 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Mama Baby, Ocean View
2006
C-print
30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Witch Circle
2005
C-print
30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
The Burned Down Forest, Twisted Limbs
2004
C-print
40 by 50 in. 101.6 by 127 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
Fool of Moxie in Tin Canoe
2003
C-print
17 3/4 by 22 1/2 in. 45.1 by 57.2 cm.
JUSTINE KURLAND
The Pale Serpent
2003
C-print
40 by 50 in. 101.6 by 127 cm.
b. 1969, Warsaw, New York
Lives and works in New York, NY
Justine Kurland is known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and the fringe communities, both real and imagined, that inhabit them. Her early work comprises photographs, taken during many cross-country road trips, which reveal the double-edged nature of the American dream. In series such as Golden Dawn (2001-2003) and Mama Babies (2004-2007), Kurland presents a reality where utopia and dystopia are not polar opposites, but rather fold together in an uneasy coexistence. In speaking about her first and, perhaps, most celebrated body of work, Girl Pictures (1997-2002), Kurland describes her practice as navigating “the spectrum between the perfect and the real.” The artist’s most recent body of work, however, eschews her former itinerant lifestyle with pictures that focus instead on the intimate, private spaces of her New York apartment or her mother’s home in rural Virginia.
Justine Kurland was born in 1969 in Warsaw, New York. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 1996, and her MFA from Yale University in 1998. Her work has been exhibited extensively at museums and galleries in the United States and abroad. Her recent gallery exhibitions include Girl Pictures, 1997-2002 at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (2018) and Airless Spaces at Higher Pictures, New York (2018). Museum exhibitions have included The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit (2016), Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009) and Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. (2009). Kurland was also the focus of a solo exhibition at CEPA in Buffalo, NY (2009). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York; the International Center of Photography, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and, the Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, among others.
All images © Justine Kurland.
As part of Topic's Federal Project No. 2: Re-examining America, Justine Kurland on Fulton, New York is published alongside Walker Evans on Altanta, Georgia from 1936.
Justine Kurland is featured in Fondation Cartier's Autophoto, an exhibition on the relationship between photography and the automobile.
Join us for the launch and book signing of Justine Kurland's Highway Kind on Tuesday, November 15 from 6 to 8pm at Dashwood Books.
Justine Kurland is featured in The McNay Art Museum's Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography.
I want to tell you why I sold my van. It’s not the first van I’ve left behind but it might be the last. I would like to publicly renounce a belief system that once seemed useful and true to me; I’ve outgrown the romantic escapism of this mode of travel. The boy who bought my van was excited to have it. He had just graduated from Bard and was planning to use it to drive to Marfa, where he had an internship. I felt like I was passing a baton. But exactly what kind of baton was it? Few things in the popular imagination are as symbolically loaded as cars. Or as guitars, for that matter. But let me start with vans.
American photographers and mothers Justine Kurland and Winona Barton-Ballentine make work about the search for self-defined space, from inside of the home to out on the road. In celebration of Winona Barton-Ballentine's site-specific Photo Walls n Picture Collection exhibition Wild Stainless, Kurland and Barton-Ballentine converse about how culture, gender, social class, and motherhood, among other things, affect the desire for self-reinvention through the shaping of one’s surroundings; and how this is explored in photography and literature.
Justine Kurland is included in the Montclair Art Museum group exhibition Work and Leisure in American Art: Selected Works from the Collection.
In a true collaboration, Justine Kurland and John Yau shared photographs and poems throughout the making of Black Threads from Meng Chiao, each reacting to the work of the other many times over.
Justine Kurland is incldued in FOTODOK's group exhibition Off the Grid, with work by Lucas Foglia, Bertus Gerssen, Justine Kurland, Pavel Prokopchik and Corine Vermeulen.
Featuring the works of Catherine Opie and Justine Kurland, America in View reveals a nation's ambitions and failings, beauty and loss, politics and personal stories through about 150 photographs spanning nearly 150 years.
Photographs : photographs by Justine Kurland CEPA Gallery 617 Main Street Buffalo, New York June 27 - August 22, 2009 New York City based Justine Kurland was born in Warsaw, NY, and is returning to her Western New York roots for her first exhibition in the region.
Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to announce Justine Kurland's inclusion in Into the Sunset, opening March 29th at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.