In 2008, through research on the work in his Copia series, Brian Ulrich began collecting, salvaging, and archiving objects, photographs, signage, and ephemera from the remnants of the retail spaces ...
Brian Ulrich
Brian Ulrich, born in 1971 in Northport, New York, has exhibited his photographs extensively since receiving his MFA from Columbia College, Chicago, in 2004, including solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Julie Saul Gallery, New York; and Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco. In 2009, he received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. In 2011, in conjunction with the Cleveland Museum of Art, Aperture published his first monograph, Is This Place Great or What. Ulrich currently lives in Richmond, Virginia, where he is Assistant Professor in the department of Photography and Film at the VCU School of the Arts. 