EDUCATION

MFA in Studio Art, University of California, Davis, 1986

BA in History, University of California, Berkeley, 1969
 

AWARDS

Gyorgy Kepes Grant in Photography, 1988

National Endowment for the Arts, 1977, 1978, 1980

Guggenheim Fellowship, 1972

TEACHING

Academy of Art University, San Francisco, 1986-2006

City College of San Francisco, 1987-1994

San Francisco State University, San Francisco, 1986-1988

California State University, Sonoma, 1989-1990

California State University, Sacramento, 1986

Ansel Adams Photography Workshops, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1982

ASUC Studio, UC Berkeley, 1965-1974

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

Jan Kesner Gallery, "Legoland", Los Angeles, CA, 2000

Jan Kesner Gallery, "Sightseer Series", Los Angeles, CA, 1997

Vision Gallery, "Allison Diptychs & Works on Paper", San Francisco, CA, 1992

Photo Interform, "Sightseer Series", Osaka, Japan, 1991

Grapestake Gallery, "Sightseer Series", San Francisco, CA, 1981

Hunter Museum of Art, "Roger Minick Photographs", Chattanooga, TN, 1975

University Art Museum, "Ozark Photographs", Berkeley, CA, 1975

International Center of Photography, "Delta Photographs", New York, NY, 1975

Friends of Photography, "Delta and Ozark Photographs", Carmel, CA, 1971

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, Idaho 2014

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 1984, 1985, 1988, 2010

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009

J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2008

San Jose Museum of Modern Art, San Jose, CA, 2008

George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, 2004

Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, 1978, 1981, 1989, 2001

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, 1985, 2004

Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA, 2001

Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, 1998

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1983, 2000

Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999

The deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA, 1990

Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1985

Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, 1985

Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT, 1984

Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, 1983

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, 1982

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981, 1984

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, 1979

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1973

Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, 1968

SOLO BOOKS

The Oakland Paramount: Photographs by Roger Minick (Text by Susannah Harris Stone; Preface by Peter  Botto), Lancaster-Miller, 1981

Hills of Home: The Rural Ozarks of Arkansas:  Photographs by Roger Minick (Writings by Bob Minick; Drawings and
Etchings by Leonard Sussman; A Word Before by Joyce Minick), Scrimshaw Press, 1975; Ballantine Books, 1976

Delta West: The Land and People of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Photographs by Roger Minick (Historical Essay
by Dave Bohn), Scrimshaw Press, 1969
 

ANTHOLOGIES AND CATALOGS

An Uncommon Archive; Collected Images from Projects, Books and Saved References, James Danziger, T. Tadler Books, 2015

Undermining; A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West, Lucy R. Lippard, The New Press, 2014

Alter till verkligheten; Fotografi ur Moderna Museets samling, Lars Nittve, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010

Beyond Boundaries; Contemporary Photography in California, Nora Kabot, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA, 2001

Made in California; Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2000

Photography's Multiple Roles, Denise Miller, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, 1998

Picturing the Sierra Nevada, Kevin Starr, Nevada Museum of Art & The Wilderness Society, Reno, NV, 1998

Picturing California, Therese Heyman and Bill Barich, The Oakland Museum and Chronicle Books, 1989

Photography in California: 1945 -1980, Louise Katzman, Hudson Hills Press & San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1984

Landmarks Reviewed, Barry M. Winiker, Pensacola Museum of Art, 1983

In The Fields, Roger Minick, Reesa Tansey, Ken Light photographs, Harvest Press, 1982

American Photographers and the National Parks, Robert Cahn and Robert Glen Ketchum, Viking Press, 1981

Espejo, Joan Murray, The Oakland Museum, 1978

LA X SIX, Leland Rice, Mount St. Mary's College, 1976

Studio 1968, Ansel Adams, Friends of Photography, 1968

REVIEWS

LOS ANGELES TIMES, "Legoland", April 14, 2000

FRIEZE (magazine), "Sightseer Series", June-July-August, 1997

LOS ANGELES TIMES, "Sightseer Series", March 14, 1997

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Misc. Reviews, May 19, 1977; March 4, 1981; June 5, 1988; Sept. 16, 1989

ARTFORUM, "Sightseer Series", Summer 1981

ARTWEEK, Misc. Reviews, Nov. 13, 1976; Feb. 15, 1980; March 7, 1981; April 16, 1988; Sept. 17, 1988;

CHICAGO SUN TIMES, "Southland Series", June 15, 1980

SMITHSONIAN, "Hills of Home", December 1975

VILLAGE VOICE, "Delta West", A.D. Coleman. June 25, 1970

COLLECTIONS

(selected)

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC

Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

The Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN

Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA

Seattle Art Museum, Volunteer Park, Seattle, CA

Fotografiska Museet, Moderna Museet Akeppsholmen, Stockholm

Sheldon Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

Madison Art Center, Madison, WI

Exchange Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons Collection, New York, NY

Capital Group, Los Angeles, CA

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY