'Untitled, Thrift (0635)', 2006/2007 (from Thrift series)
SIGNED Color Photograph
Brian Ulrich’s photographs portraying contemporary consumer culture are held by major museums and private collections such as The Art Institute of Chicago; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Eastman Museum; the J. Paul Getty Museum; Milwaukee Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Museum of Contemporary Photography; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the North Carolina Museum of Art; the Margulies Collection; the Bidwell Collection; and the Pilara Foundation Collection.
Ulrich has had solo exhibitions at venues such as: the Eastman Museum; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the North Carolina Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Haggerty Museum of Art; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art; the North Carolina Museum of Art; the Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; the Julie Saul Gallery; Galerie f5,6; and the Robert Koch Gallery. His work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art; Pier 24 San Francisco; Art Institute of Chicago; the Walker Art Center; the Museum of Contemporary Photography; the San Diego Museum of Art; the Haifa Museum of Art; the Krannert Art Museum; the New York Public Library; the Carnegie Museum; the Aperture Foundation, among others.
In 2009, Ulrich was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. The Aperture Foundation and the Cleveland Museum of Art collaborated to publish his first major monograph, “Is This Place Great or What”, in 2011, which was later included in The Photobook: A History Volume 3(2014). The Anderson Gallery published the catalog Closeout: Retail, Relics and Ephemera(2013). Aperture also published his work as part of the “MP3: Midwest Photographers Project” in 2006. In 2016 Ulrich received an Imagemaker award from the Society for Photographic Education.
He is currently an Associate Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Ulrich is represented by Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2025
'Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Photography' (group exhibition), New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT (10/16/2025 - 4/26/2026)
'Brian Ulrich: Centurion', Pictura Gallery, FAR Center for Contemporary Arts, Bloomington, IN
2023
'Brian Ulrich: Centurion', Casper College, Casper, WY
'50th Anniversary: Selections from Light Work Collection' (group exhibition), Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
2022
'In Focus: Photographs from the O’Neil Collection' (group exhibition), New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
2020
'Keeper of the Hearth' (group exhibition), Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
'What Does Democracy Look Like' (group exhibition), Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
'The Big Picture' (group exhibition), Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2019
'Civilization: The Way We Live Now' (group exhibition), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
'Civilization: The Way We Live Now' (group exhibition), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2018
'Brian Ulrich: Magic Lanterns', Clark University, Worcester, MA
2017
'Brian Ulrich: Charge!', Kentucky College of Art + Design, Louisville, KY
'Aperture Summer Open: On Freedom' (group exhibition), Aperture Gallery, New York, NY
2016
'MoCP at 40' (group exhibition), Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2015
'Brian Ulrich: The Centurion', Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
'Brian Ulrich: The Centurion', George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
2014
'Brian Ulrich: Copia -- Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001 - 2011', Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
2013
'Brian Ulrich: Copia -- Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001 - 2011', North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
'Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles' (group exhibition), Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
'Brian Ulrich: Copia -- Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001 - 2011', Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2012
'Behold America!' (group exhibition), San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
'Brian Ulrich: Is this Place Great or What: Artifacts and Photographs', Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
2011
'Brian Ulrich: Copia -- Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001 - 2011', Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (traveling)
'No Direction Home' (group exhibition), Head On Photo Festival, Depot II Gallery, Sydney, Australia
'American Psyche' (group exhibition), Religare Arts Initiative Gallery, New Delhi, India
2010
'Made in Chicago: Photographs from the Bank of America Collection' (group exhibition), Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France
'Brian Ulrich: Dark Stores, Dead Malls & Ghostboxes', Galerie f5,6, Munich, Germany
'Road to Nowhere' (group exhibition), FotoFest 2010 Biennial, Winter Street Studios, Houston, TX
'Instruments of Empire: Photographs by Amy Stein and Brian Ulrich', Caption Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
'Versus' (group exhibition), Hous Projects, New York, NY
2009
'Brian Ulrich: Dark Stores, Ghostboxes and Dead Malls', Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
'Glitz & Grime: Photographs of Times Square' (group exhibition), Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
'Brian Ulrich: Retail and Dark Stores', CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
'Brian Ulrich: Thrift and Dark Stores', Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
'Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes' (group exhibition), Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT
'Distopia: A Group Show', Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008
'Revisiting America' (group exhibition), Bond St. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
'Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes' (group exhibition), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
'Brian Ulrich: Copia', Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College (JCCC), Overland Park, KS
'SIGNS' (group exhibition), Mount Tremper Arts Festival, Mt. Tremper, NY
'Branded and on Display' (group exhibition), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
'Variable Capital' (group exhibition), Bluecoats Arts Centre, Liverpool, UK
'World Away: New Suburban Landscapes' (group exhibition), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
'Branded and On Display' (group exhibition), Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
'Brian Ulrich: Thrift', Quality Pictures, Portland, OR
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