Graham Howe


Graham Howe is a curator, photo-historian, artist, and the founder and CEO of Curatorial Assistance, Inc., a museum services organization specializing in traveling exhibitions. Howe's art collection includes the E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection and the Paul Outerbridge II Collection. Born in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1950, Howe now resides in Los Angeles, California.

Education

Graham Howe received his bachelor's degree in 1971 from Prahran College of Advanced Education, Melbourne, Australia. He continued his tertiary studies in 1976, gaining his Master of Arts degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, California in Painting Sculpture, Graphic Arts in 1978 where he studied with Robert Heinecken, achieving his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1979.

Career

In 1972, Howe became one of the first employees of The Photographers' Gallery, London, a research assistant at the Royal Photographic Society, London, and, in 1973, the founding Director of the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. In 1976, he became the curator for Graham Nash and in 1984 to 1985 he was a visiting curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In 1988, he incorporated Curatorial Assistance, Inc., a company specializing in art and museum services, and in 2000 he founded Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, a 5013 nonprofit organization that originates and travels exhibitions of art to museums worldwide. His photographic work is collected in museums and galleries including Harvard University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and he is an advisor for the Lucie Awards and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship and a Ford Foundation grant.

Artist exhibitions

Howe's main area of expertise is early Modern twentieth century photography. He has published extensively on the work of American photographer, Paul Outerbridge and British photographer, E.O. Hoppé.