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Portrait of the artist Robert Polidori, Mumbai, 2011 © Dinesh Madhavan
Portrait of the artist Robert Polidori, Mumbai, 2011 © Dinesh Madhavan

Robert Polidori’s artistic career began in the mid-1980s when he started photographing the restoration of the Château de Versailles. He has since documented numerous sites across the world and is considered one of the world’s leading architectural photographers. He creates meticulously detailed, large-scale colour photographs that transcend the limits of pure architectural photography. The high level of detail allows the viewer to delve ever deeper into the places in question and be moved by the atmosphere of the works. He captures his interiors by means of a single long exposure in natural lighting. His tonally rich and seductive photographs are the product of long exposure times and careful contemplation of the angle of view. Polidori uses large-format sheet film, which produces images he believes to be superior to digital photographs.

Robert Polidori was born in 1951 in Montréal, Canada and relocated in the 1970s to New York, where he began working for Jonas Mekas at the Anthology Film Archives. He received his M.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1980. Robert Polidori has twice been awarded the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography (1999 and 2000). In 1998 he won the World Press Award for his coverage of the Getty Museum's construction, and in 2007 and 2008 he was selected to receive the Communication Arts awards. Polidori’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Robert Polidori lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.

Exhibitions

Publications

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
2023
Photographs

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, Frankreich

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2020
Robert Polidori

Camera Work, Berlin, Germany

2018-19
Robert Polidori

Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy

2017
Robert Polidori

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2016
Robert Polidori. Ecophilia / Chronostasis

Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2016
Robert Polidori. 1986 – 2016. Remembering Chernobyl

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France

2016
Robert Polidori. Chronophagia

Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, NY, USA

2014-15
Robert Polidori, Versailles

Edwynn Houk Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

2014-15
Robert Polidori - Exteriors and Interiors

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

2014
Robert Polidori Spuren der Zeit

Museum Schloß Arolsen, Bad Arolsen, Germany

2014
Robert Polidori, The Memories of Walls

Fontana Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2014
Robert Polidori. Selected Works

Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA, USA

2013
Robert Polidori - La Mémoire des Murs

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France

2013
Robert Polidori

Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA, USA

2013
Robert Polidori

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA

2012
World Inventory

Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA

2012
Robert Polidori Retrospective

Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, USA

2012
Robert Polidori Retrospective

11 Corso Como, Seoul, South Korea

2012
Portraits: Robert Polidori & Jonas Mekas

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2011
Robert Polidori: Versailles

Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy

2011
Robert Polidori – Ars Memorativa

Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2010
Robert Polidori

Camera Work, Berlin, Germany

2010
Robert Polidori: Versailles

Flowers Gallery, London, UK

2010
Robert Polidori: Versailles

Arthur Rogers Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA

2009
Robert Polidori Fotografia

Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo, Brazil

2009
Robert Polidori Fotografias

Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2009
Robert Polidori

Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada

Group exhibitions
2016
Status Quo. Mimmo Jodice, Robert Polidori, Yiorgos Kordakis, Sergio Vega

Photoszene Festival Köln 2016, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

2015
Frontiers Reimagined: Art That Connects Us

Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy

2014
Accrochage

Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland

2014
Künstlerräume

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

2013
Scale

Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2013
Memory Theatre 2013

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

2012
Interieurs: Angela Grauerholz, Lynne Cohen & Robert Polidori

Art 45, Montreal, Canada

2012
Group Show

Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2012
Beyond Words: Photography in The New Yorker

UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2012
Jonas Mekas / Robert Polidori: Portraits

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2011
Spectrum: East / West / Beyond

Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2011
Celebrating Noma's Centennial

New Orleans Museum of Art NOMA, New Orleans, LA, USA

2011
The Interior World

Danziger Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2011
Fifteen Years

Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA

2011
Structure

Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2011

Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA

2011
Process

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2011

Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA

2011
Yangtze - The Long River

Camera Work, Berlin, Germany

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