- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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Los AngelesIssue 273 May 20, 2008
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Philip-Lorca diCorcia (b. 1951, Hartford, CT) studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and received his MFA in photography from Yale University in 1979.
DiCorcia received his first solo show in 1985 and has been featured in one-person exhibitions worldwide, including those at New York's Museum of Modern Art; Paris' Centre National de la Photographie; London's Whitechapel Art Gallery; Madrid's Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Tokyo's Art Space Ginza; and Hannover's Sprengel Museum.
In 1991, he participated in the traveling exhibition Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, organized by New York's Museum of Modern Art. His work was also featured in the 1997 Whitney Biennial and in the 2003 exposition Cruel and Tender at London's Tate Modern. His most recent series was seen in the Carnegie Museum of Art's 54th Carnegie International exhibition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
DiCorcia's work is currently on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from Friday, May 23rd through Wednesday, September 24th. Read our listing for more information.







