Born: 1953 - US, CT, Bridgeport Died: Gender: Male Active: US
Born in 1953 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Stuart Rome received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography at the Arizona State University in 1980. He arrived in Philadelphia in 1985 to assist in the design of a curriculum and facility for a new photography department in the Design Arts College.
Rome is currently a professor of photography at Drexel University. Among his grants and awards are the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant in 1999 and 1992, Research Scholar Award from Drexel University in 1989, Artist-in-Residence at Blue Mt. in 1997 and Artist-in-Residence at Light Work at Syracuse University in 1978.
Mr. Rome has exhibited extensively in the United States including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, the New Orleans Museum of Fine Art and the Santa Barbara Museum of Modern Art. Recent exhibitions of his work have been hosted by the Seraphin Gallery in Philadelphia, Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles and Sepia International in New York.
Along with the public collections noted above, Rome's work has been collected by leading photography collections such as, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Yale Art Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Stuart Rome has published in numerous magazines and books; including Maya, Treasures of an Ancient Civilization (Abrams), Balinese Dance in Transition, Kaja and Kelod (Oxford University Press), and Haiti (Aperture Magazine). His book, Forest was published by Nazraeli Press in the fall of 2005.
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