Sirius Arts Centre Announcement – Doug DuBois

Sirius Arts Centre is pleased to announce that Doug DuBois, has been honoured with a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in America.

Photographer and teacher, Doug DuBois has been working in partnership with the Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh County Cork Ireland since 2009 through Srius’ international Artist in Residency Programme funded by the Arts Council and Cork County Council. This partnership has lead to the development of his new body of work, “My Last Day At Seventeen” which takes as its focus a housing estate in Cobh, County Cork.  It was announced yesterday that Doug has won one of the highest awards of achievement for this work in America – A John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

Doug met Sirius Arts Centre’s Artistic Director, Peggy Sue Amison at “the Meeting Place” during Fotofest Houston in 2008 in the United States and was invited by Peggy  to have a residency at Sirius Arts Centre the following year.  During this first residency at Sirius, Doug taught a photographic workshop for young people, supported by Cork County Council and the Arts Council and through his association with two of the young participants in his programme he began to photograph in a local housing estate in Cobh.

Doug returned the following year with support from Syracuse University in New York where he teaches in America and with additional support of Cork County Council to continue the project working for another 6 weeks and then returned once more in 2011 to complete the project, again working for 5 weeks in the Sirius Residency Programme to complete the body of work.

“My Last Day at Seventeen” will be exhibited in the Sirius Arts Centre in October 2012 and it is hoped that an international publication of the work will follow in 2013.  This is a high honour both for Doug, for Sirius and for Cobh.  We look forward to exhibiting “My Last Day at Seventeen” in October 2012.  For more information contact Sirius Arts Centre at +353 (0) 21 481 3790

BIO

Douglas DuBois

http://dougdubois.com/

Doug DuBois’ photographs are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, SFMOMA in San Francisco, J. Paul Getty Museum and LACAMA in Los Angeles, The Museum of Fine Art in Houston, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The National Endowment for the Arts, SITE Santa Fe, Light Works, and The John Gutmann Foundation. Doug DuBois has exhibited at The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art and Higher Pictures in New York; SITE, Santa Fe; New Langton Arts in San Francisco; PARCO Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, and at Voies Off in Arles, France. His photographs have been published by Aperture, All the Days and Nights (2009); the J. Paul Getty Museum, Where We Live: Photographs from the Berman Collection (2007); the Museum of Modern Art, The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort (1991); as well as Double Take, The Picture Project, The Friends of Photography, and in magazines including The New York Times, Time, Details, Black Book, The Telegraph (London), Monopol (Berlin), and Outlook (Beijing).

Doug DuBois received his M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute and is an associate professor at Syracuse University where he teaches in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

His monograph, All the days and nights, features a tightly edited sequence of photographs of his family made over a period of twenty years. Doug DuBois’ most recent work, My last day at seventeen, is about coming of age in Ireland during the current economic downturn.