Biography

Gus Foster Biography
Gus and William Henry, Mt. Zirkel Wilderness, Colorado, photo by Jim Beckley

GUS FOSTER
Born 1940, Wausau, Wisconsin

 


Selected Exhibitions

 

 

2008     Art in Embassies, United States Embassy, Nouakchott, Mauritania


2007     Gus Foster and Ando Hiroshige: The Tokaido Road, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI


2006     Christmas Eve at Taos Pueblo, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
             Yosemite: Art of an American Icon, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA


2005     Gus Foster: The American Landscape Panorama, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
             Native Lands, United States Embassy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan


2004     Creativity beyond the Norm, Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Delaware, OH


2003     Art in Embassies, United States Embassy, Cairo, Egypt


2002     Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene: Visions of Passions, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
             The Peaks & Plains of New Mexico: Panoramic Photographs by Gus Foster, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
             The Full Circle: Panorama Photographs of the American West by Gus Foster, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY
             Retrospectacle: 25 Years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
             Art from the American Heartland, United States Embassy, Berlin, Germany


2001    The Great Wide Open: Panoramic Photographs of the American West, Huntington Library and Museum, Los Angeles, CA
            The American Rockies, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
            Route 66: Panoramic Photographs, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
            In the Eye of the Beholder: Ten Photographers' View of Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM

 

1999     The American Rockies: Photographs by Gus Foster, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM

 

1998     Land and Water: The Artists’ Point of View, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
             Tokaido Road: Gus Foster and Ando Hiroshige, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
             New Works by Contemporary Artists, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
             Meet the Artist: Taos Invitational, Taos, NM


1997     Taos Invites Taos, Civic Plaza, Taos, NM

 

1996     Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
             Taos Invites Taos, Civic Plaza, Taos, NM
             The Real West, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
             Eye of the Camera, 3M, St. Paul, MN
             New Mexico Landscape, Taos Inn Invitational, Taos, NM

 

1995     Wilderness Landscapes, Nicholas/Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
             New Work, New Directions, Taos, NM


1994     Panoramic Photographs, Trading Post Cafe, Taos, NM
             The Tokaido Road: Panoramic Photographs of the Fifty-Three Stations, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, Washington, DC
             Plains, Jones Troyer Fitzpatrick Gallery, Washington, DC
             Time, Stables Art Center, Taos, NM
             Quiet Skies, Bareiss Contemporary Exhibitions, Taos, NM


1993     Contemporary Art Society V, CAFE Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
             Views of Kyoto, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
             The Tokaido Road, Doizaki Gallery, Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
             Gus Foster: Panoramic Photographs, Thompson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
             Gus Foster/ Panoramic Photographs, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
             Above New Mexico Skies, Governor’s Gallery, State Capitol, Santa Fe, NM


1992     Gus Foster USA 360, European Center for American Photography, Gallery Mlada Fronta, Prague, Czechoslovakia
             Christmas at Taos Pueblo, The Taos Inn, Taos, NM
             Tokaido Road: Panoramic Photographs, CAFE Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
             Tokaido Road: Panoramic Photographs, Harwood Foundation, Taos, NM
             Landscapes of Northern New Mexico, The Taos Inn, Taos, NM
             Speaking with the Ancestors, Stables Art Center, Taos, NM
             Between Home and Heaven, National Museum of Art, Washington, DC
             The New Romantics, Jones Troyer Fitzpatrick Gallery, Washington, DC


1991     21 Photographers from New Mexico, Visions Gallery, San Francisco, CA
             Gus Foster Panoramic Photographs, Thompson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

             Gus Foster Panoramic Photographs, CAFE Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
             Contemporary Photographers, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver, CO
             Aspects of Landscape, Nutralite Products, Buena Park, CA


1990     Corporate Art Wisconsin, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, Madison, WI
             Night Moves, Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM
             Panoramic Photographs by Gus Foster, Albuquerque Museum, NM

             Center for Contemporary Arts Invitational, CCA, Santa Fe, NM
             Taos Close Up, Mission Gallery, Taos, NM
             Gus Foster Panoramic Photographs, The New Gallery, Houston, TX


1989     Contemporary Photography in New Mexico, Stables Art Center, Taos, NM
             Invitational, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
             Gus Foster Panoramic Photographs, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
             American Hieroglyphics, Stewarts Fine Art Gallery, Taos, NM
             150th Anniversary of Photography, Latvian Photo Art Society, Riga, Latvia, U.S.S.R.
             Time Photographs: 1989 World Alpine Championships, Village Hall, Beaver Creek, CO
             Rendezvous: Bell, Cooper, Foster, West, Broschofsky Galleries, Ketchum,ID
             High Country, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, NM
             1988 Vistas Buenas: Panoramas of Taos County, Centinel Bank, Taos, NM
             Photo Panoramas, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
             Time Photographs, Jones Troyer Fitzpatrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
             Artists of Taos 1988, Stables Art Center, Taos, NM
             Panoramic Photographs by Gus Foster, Kirby Arts Center, Lawrenceville, NJ
             Time Photographs: Central Avenue, Hoshour Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
             New Mexico Wilderness, Focus Series, The Albuquerque Museum, NM
             Visions, Fine Arts Gallery, NM State Fair Grounds, Albuquerque, NM


1987     Food for Thought, Stables Art Center, Taos, NM
             Earth Eyes/Sky Eyes, Two Photographers: Chappell, Foster, Wohlert Gallery/Nob Hill Café, Albuquerque, NM
             Gus Foster: Panoramic Photographs, Lansing Community College, MI
             Artists of Taos 1987, Stables Art Center, Taos, NM
             Skyborn: Aerial Photography, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
             Visions, Fine Arts Gallery, NM State Fair Grounds, Albuquerque, NM
             Poetics of Space, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe


1986     Road Show (with R. Doen Tobey), San Juan College, Farmington, NM
             Photography from Northern New Mexico, Mission Gallery, Taos, NM
             Statements 86, Fine Arts Gallery, NM Sate Fairgrounds, Albuquerque, NM
             Panoramic Photographs by Gus Foster, Bergstrom Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI
             Panoramic Photographs by Gus Foster, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, Wausau, WI
             The Pueblos of New Mexico, Stables Art Center, Taos, NM
             The New West, Colorado Springs Art Center, CO

 

1985      Art in Embassies, United States Department of State, Washington, DC
              Photography from Northern New Mexico, Mission Gallery, Taos, NM
              The Art Makers, Conlon Grenfell Gallery, San Diego, CA
              On the Wall/Off the Wall, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
              Landscapes of the Southwest, Stables Art Center, Taos, NM
              Embellished Calendars: An Illustrated History, Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY


1984      Christmas in Taos, DVS/Photographs, Taos, NM
              Gus Foster Panoramic Photographs, University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, MI
              Panoramic Photographs by Gus Foster, Multiples/Goodman Gallery, NY
              Photographs in Color, DVS/Photographs, Taos, NM
              Architecture of the Southwest, Stables Art Center, Taos, NM
              The Animal Kingdom, Stables Art Center, Taos, NM


1983      Around New Mexico, DVS/Photographs, Taos, NM
              Erotic Art, Advanced Art Gallery, Rinconada, NM
              Six Seconds Real Time, Advanced Art Gallery, Rinconada, NM
             Current Images, Unicorn Gallery, Aspen, CO


1982     Santa Fe Festival of the Arts, NM
             Panoramic Photographs by Gus Foster, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
             Panoramic Photographs by Gus Foster, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY


1981     ARTlines: The First Eighteen Months, Stables Art Center, Taos, NM
             Group Exhibition, Taylor Gallery, Taos, NM


1979    Cooper, Foster, Hall, Maggie Kress Gallery, Taos, NM
            New Mexico Photographers, Santa Fe Festival for the Arts, NM


1978    Artwords and Bookworks, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA