Gregory Crewdson on the Set of Untitled (Maple Street), 2003

Gregory Crewdson received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1985 and an M.F.A. in photography from Yale in 1988. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe and is represented by Luhring Augustine Gallery in New York City.

Crewdson's work has been included in many public collections, most notably the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has received numerous awards including the Skowhegan Medal for Photography, the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship and the Aaron Siskind Fellowship.

Crewdson has published several books of his photographs including Hover with ArtSpace Books, Dream of Life with the University of Salamanca, Spain, and Twilight with Abram. Most recently, Hatje Cantz published a book of his work entitled Gregory Crewdson from 1985 to 2005.

Crewdson is Senior Critic at the Yale School of Art, and is currently heading the Graduate Photography Program.

Crewdson’s exhibition, Beneath the Roses was exhibited in the spring of 2005 at Luhring Augustine in New York, Gagosian in Los Angeles and White Cube in London. A retrospective of Crewdson’s work, spanning his career, from 1985-2005, is being shown as a traveling exhibition from 2005-2008, at major museums in Hannover and Krefeld (Germany), Winterthur (Switzerland), Linz (Austria), The Hague (The Netherlands), Gothenburg (Sweden) and Rome (Italy). Crewdson’s most recent work, produced from 2005-2007, will be shown in the spring of 2008 at Luhring Augustine in New York, Gagosian in Los Angeles and White Cube in London. A book containing his work from 2003-2007, entitled Beneath the Roses, will be published by Abrams, in concurrence with these shows.