Stephen Strom has spent his professional career as an astronomer. Born in 1942 in New York City, he graduated from Harvard College in 1962. In 1964 he received his Masters and Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University. From 1964-68 he held appointments as Lecturer in Astronomy at Harvard and Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. He then moved to the State University of New York at Stony Brook and served for 4 years as Coordinator of Astronomy and Astrophysics. In 1972 he accepted an appointment at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, AZ, where he served as Chair of the Galactic and Extragalactic program. The following 15 years were spent at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA; from 1984-1997 he served as Chairman of the Five College Astronomy Department. In 1998 Strom returned to Tucson as a member of the scientific staff at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory where he carries out research directed at understanding the formation of stars and planetary systems, and serves as Associate Director of the New Initiatives Office.
Stephen began photographing in 1978. He studied both the history of photography and silver and non-silver photography in studio courses with Todd Walker at the University of Arizona. His work, largely interpretations of landscapes, has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and is held in several permanent collections. His photography complements poems and essays in three books published by the University of Arizona Press: Secrets from the Center of the World, a collaboration with Muscogee poet Joy Harjo; Sonoita Plain: Views of a Southwestern Grassland, a collaboration with ecologists Jane and Carl Bock; and Tseyi (Deep in the Rock): Reflections on Canyon de Chelly co-authored with Navajo poet Laura Tohe; as well as in a book currently in press: Otero Mesa: America’s Wildest Grassland, with Gregory McNamee and Stephen Capra, University of New Mexico Press (2008). A monograph comprising 43 images, Earth Forms, was published in 2009 by Dewi Lewis Publishing.
[Courtesy of Verve Fine Arts Gallery - 2006]Preparing biographies
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Solo Exhibitions
2009 Lishui, China Photo Festival, 2009 [Exhibition Selected for 5000 Yuan Award for “Best of Festival”]
2009 Benham Gallery, Seattle WA
2006 Etherton Gallery (Temple of Music and Art)
2006 Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Pima College, Tucson, AZ
2005-2006 Tucson International Airport
2005 Tucson Botanical Garden
1990 Light Fantastic Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
1983 Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1983 Ethel Walker School, Simsbury, CT
1981 Mind's Eye Gallery, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
1981 Josephus Daniels Gallery, Carmel, CA
1981 Rutger Gallery, Utica, NY
1981 Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX
1980 Silver Image Gallery, Laramie, WY
Two Person Exhibitions
2009 Verve Fine Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Verve Fine Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1990 Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
1988 The Gallery at Cornerstone, Waltham, MA
1988 University of Northern Iowa, Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls, IA
1988 Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
1985 Workspace Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1984 Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman, OK
1982 Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA
1982 Bailey Gallery, Cheyenne, WY
1982 Photogenesis, Albuquerque, NMv
Group Exhibitions
2009 Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Canyons of the Southwest
2009 Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
2009 Tubac Center for the Arts (AZ), Members Open
2006 Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Tough Lovelies
2005 Metamorphosis Gallery
2004 Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Wildfire!
2004 Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Garden Show
2004 Metamorphosis Art Gallery, Patagonia, AZ
1989 Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1987 Photography and the West: The 80's, The Rockwell Musuem, Corning, NY
1984 Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
1984 Massachusetts Photographers, 1984, Boston, MA
1984 Member's Exhibition, Santa Fe Center for Photography, Santa Fe, NM
1983 New Stuff, Hills Gallery, Denver, CO
1982 Hills Gallery, Denver, CO
1980 Fifth Ave Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Permanent Collections
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Fasseas Cancer Center, University of Arizona
Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport Collection
City of Phoenix (AZ), Portable Works Collection
University of Oklahoma Art Museum
Mead Museum, Amherst College
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
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