Internationally known Mexican Documentary Photographer aturok55@mac.com
Photographic Experience and Lectures
2009
- Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Spring semester
- Lecture and Exhibition at Michigan State University “In the Name of the Blood Shed”
- On going documentation in the United States of the Mexican Community
- Lecture and book presentation at North Eastern University Latino Literature Fair
2009
- Exploring Alternative Photographic Processes: Summer Workshop in Jalapa, Veracruz
2008
- Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Fall semester
- Lecture and Exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Art: Mexican Photographers Today
- Lecture in Oaxaca, Mexico, for the Denmark University Art Department Visiting Summer Program
- On going documentation for LeMonde Magazine in Oaxaca, Mexico
- Judge for the Invitational: Resistance and Popular Movements at Manuel Alvarez Bravo Museum, Oaxaca, Mexico
2007
- Lecture: Documentary Photography in Mexico at EL FARO Cultural Center in Mexico City, Mexico
-Teaching a two month workshop at Centro de Las Artes San Agustin (CASA) Oaxaca, Mexico
- History of Photography and Image making, (CASA) Oaxaca, Mexico
- The gaze of 45 Mexican Photographers: lecture and traveling exhibition Guangdong Museum of Art, China
- Lecture and traveling exhibition: Aqui No Pasa Nada, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA; La Curtiduria, Oaxaca, Mexico; Casa Vecina, Mexico City, Mexico
- Lecture and exhibition: Little Heroes for the Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern and Mexican Photography, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
- Judge 2nd Biennial of Photography Mexicali, Baja California
- Workshops: New Ways of Seeing, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico, Mexicali, Baja California; Guadalajara, Mexico; Oaxaca, Mexico
2006
- Documenting the Uprising Revolt in Oaxaca, Mexico, for eight months
2005
- Constructed digital studio and worked on new digital imagery
2004-07
- Lecturer for Mary Ellen Mark Photography Workshop course, Oaxaca
2004-06
- Photography Workshop Instructor, Coneculta, Chiapas, Mexico
- Judge for the Jóvenes Creadores, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico
2003
- Times and Looks Conference, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
- Times and Looks Conference, Santa Fe Workshops, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2002
- Magna Exhibition in Paris, France: Chiapas- Frontera- California Parc La Villette
2001
- Appointed photography judge for the national award, Jovenes Creadores
2000
- Appointed photography judge for the national award, Jovenes Creadores
1999
- Book and lecture tour. Venues included: The Antioch College Summer Documentary Institute, Yellow Springs, Ohio, and the David Alfaro Siqueiros Artists Services Festival, Los Angeles, California
1997
- Panel discussion Mesa de Conferencias de Fotografos en Elatrio, Canadian Embassy, Mexico City, Mexico
1996-99
- Independent project on Central American immigrants in the United States, supported by the Guggenheim Foundation and the US-Mexico Fund for Culture
1995-97
- Publication and exhibition of a twenty-year retrospective, Chiapas: The End of Silence/El fin del silencio, in collaboration with Aperture (United States) and Ediciones Era (Mexico)
1990
- Awarded financial support for Los Vecinos, Dos Caras de Una Moneda, documenting Central Americans immigrating to the United States by The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
1989-95
- Photographic correspondent in Chiapas for Imagenlatina, a photographic agency in Mexico City, Mexico
1988-90
- Photographic war correspondent in Central America
1983-89
- Photographer in Central America for Casa de las Imágenes, Mexico City
1938-86
- Photographic war correspondent in Nicaragua
1983
- Photographic essay published about Guatemalan refugees in Chiapas, Mexico
1980-82
- Freelance photographer for the daily newspaper, Uno Más Uno, Mexico City
1979-80
- Freelance photographer for the Ministry of Education documenting Indian cultures in Chiapas
1978-79
- Director of the Centro Cultural de Bellas Artes, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
Notable Achievements
2009
-Henkels Interdisciplinary Visiting Speaker Grant
Henkels Lecture: Antonio Turok: 35 Years of Photography, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Henkels Lecture: “Antonio Turok: Documentary Photography in Mexico, A Personal Perspective” University of Notre Dame, Indiana
2000-06
- Sistema Nacional de Creadores, The Mexican National Visual Arts Award every three years
1997
- US-Mexico Fund for Culture second phase grant
Chiapas: The End of Silence/El fin del Silencio
- Traveling exhibition opens at Aperture Foundation, New York
1996
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
- Documentary project on Central Americans immigrating to the United States
1995
- US-Mexico Fund for Culture grant (Rockefeller Foundation)
- Twenty-year retrospective of work in Chiapas
- Publication by Aperture Foundation and Ediciones Era
1994
- Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography Award
1990
- The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
- Travel funds for documentary project Los Vecinos, Dos Caras de Una Moneda
1988
- Maine Photographic Workshop Book Award
Imágenes de Nicaragua (Casa de las Imágenes, Mexico City)
1984–88
- Casa de las Imágenes, Mexico City
Funding for documentary project in Central America
1983
- Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
First place award for photographic essay
Refugiados Guatemaltecos en Chiapas
Solo Exhibitions
2009
- Antonio Turok 35 Years: Galeria America, Notre Dame Indiana
1998–2001
- Chiapas: The End of Silence/El Fin del Silencio
- Traveling exhibition. Venues include: Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York; Fotoseptiembre, Museo del Chopo, Mexico City; other sites in Latin America, the United States, and Europe
1998
- Antonio Turok: Chiapas
- Blue Sky/Oregon Center for Photographic Arts, Inc., Portland
1991
- Sol de Medio Día
- Centro Cultural Coyoacanense, Mexico City
1989
- Imágenes de Nicaragua
Side Gallery, New Castle, England
1984–86
- Nicaragua. Traveling exhibition. Venues in Mexico include: Casa de la Cultura Benito Juárez, Villahermosa, Tabasco; Museo Nacional de la Fotografía Agustín Casasola, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico; Museo del Chopo, Mexico City
1978
- Antonio Turok
Galería de la Universidad, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas
1975
- Quijotadas: Casa del Lago, UNAM, Mexico City
Group Exhibitions
2008
Mexican Photographers Today, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
2007
- 45 Miradas Mexicanas, Guandog Museum of Art, China
- Aquí no Pasa Nada: La Curtiduria Oaxaca,Mexico; Casa Vecina, Mexico City; Galeria La Raza, San Francisco, California
- Cura de Viento: Estacion Indiania Cultural Center, Mexico City, Mexico
2004-05
- Witness: Contemporary Mexican Photography: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Illinois
2002-04
- Chiapas- Frontera- California: Magna Exhibition at Parc La Villette in Paris, France, and throughout Europe
1997
- El Amor/La Muerte
Digital exhibition on the web
Organized by Centro Cultural Latino Americano, Munich, Germany
1996
- Opening of collection for Witliff Gallery of Southwestern and Mexican Photography
Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
1995
- Mother Jones Winners
Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
- Mother Jones Winners
New works by Mexican award-winners
Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
1994–97
- Chiapas, Tres Fotógrafos Mexicanos
Traveling exhibition to the United States, France, and other European venues
1993
- Refugiados Guatemaltecos
Museo Casa Leon Trotsky, Mexico City, Mexico
- Mexican Photographers 1920–1993
- Europalia 1993
Los vecinos, dos caras de una moneda
Traveling exhibition to seven locations in Mexico
1991
- México Desconocido
Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, California
1990-92
- Memoria del tiempo
Traveling exhibition throughout Europe
1990
- Los Vecinos, The Neighbors: An Exhibition and Symposium
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
1989
- 150 Años de la Fotografía en México
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
- Photography in Mexico
Institute of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois
1985
- Encuentro de Fotografos Mexicanos con Aaron Siskind
Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico
1983
- Refugiados Guatemaltecos
Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía, Mexico City, Mexico
- Guatemala: A Testimonial
Cayman Gallery, New York
1982
- Refugiados Guatemaltecos
Museo Carlos Pellicer, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
1981
- La Costa Atlántica
Casa de la Cultura, León, Nicaragua
1979
- Presencias
Foro de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
1977
- Antonio Turok
f22 Photography Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1974
- Feria del Arte
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum and Private Collections
· Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
· Banamex Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico
· Margolis Foundation, Tucson, Arizona
· Los Angeles County Museum of Art—Photography Collection, Los Angeles, California
· Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern and Mexican Photography, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
· Brooklyn Museum—Photography Collection, Brooklyn, New York
· Aperture Foundation, New York
· Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
· Centro Cultural Latinoamericano, Munich, Germany
· Instituto de Cultura Chiapaneca, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico
· Eugene A. Rogolsky MD, Los Angeles, California
· Armando and Mary Duron, Los Angeles, California
· Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, New York
· Other private collections
Solo Books
1998
- Chiapas: The End of Silence/El fin del silencio
Aperture Foundation, New York and Ediciones Era, Mexico City
1991
- Los vecinos: dos caras de una moneda. Exhibition catalog
Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
1988
- Imágenes de Nicaragua
Casa de las Imágenes, Mexico City
1983
- Guatemala: A Testimonial. Exhibition catalog
Cayman Gallery, New York
Collective Books
2008
- Mexican Photographers Today Tucson Museum of Art
2007
- 45 Miradas Mexicanas Guandog Museum of Art, China
- Aqui no pasa nada
1993
- El ojo de vidrio: Cien años de fotografía del México indio
Banamex, Mexico City
1993
- Photographie Mexico. Europalia Festival, catalog of Mexican photographers, French Community, Belgium; Mexican Embassy, Belgium; Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Mexico City
1991
- Nicaragua: A Decade of Revolution
Selected photographers
W.W. Norton, New York
Magazines and Newspapers
· Aperture, United States
· Artes de México, Mexico
· Camera Work, United States
· Cronica, Mexico
· DoubleTake, United States
· El Financiero, Mexico
· Excelsior, Mexico
· Grand Street, United States
· HQ, Australia
· La Jornada, Mexico
· Luna Córnea, Mexico
· New York Times, United States
· Paris Match, France
· Proceso, Mexico
· Reforma, Mexico
· Stern, Germany
· Texas Monthly, United States
· The Independent, Great Britain
· Unomásuno, Mexico
Education
2005
- Digital Fine Art Printing Workshop, Mac Holbert of Nash Editions of Los Angeles, California; Oaxaca, Mexico
1976
- Assistant to photographer George Tice, New York
- Workshop at the International Center of Photography, New York
1975
- Assistant to photographer Gertrude Duby Blom, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico1974
- Workshop at the Friends of Photography, Carmel, California
