Tom Bamberger was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin in 1948. He went to Boston University and finished his education at the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee, where he studied philosophy as a graduate student and taught mathematical logic. He has been the recipient of both the National Endowment for the Arts and Wisconsin Arts Boards fellowships for photography. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. His work has been shown at the International Center for Photography and the Burden Gallery in New York City. Recently Tom Bamberger's work was included in the Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His work has been published by Aperture.

Tom Bamberger is also the adjuct Curator of Photography at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Under his direction the Museum produces three or four photography exhibitions each year. Over the last four years the Museum has also had an active acquistions program which has added significantly to a collection of about 3,000 photographs spanning the whole history of the medium.

Selected Exhibitions:

Major Exhibitions

Micheal H. Lord Gallery, Landscapes, Milwaukee WI 1995
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia Pennsyvania 1993
Carlsten Art Gallery at the University of Wisconsin -- Stevens Point, 1993
Ehlers Caudill Gallery Ltd., Neighbors, Chicago 1992
Micheal H. Lord Gallery, Edge City, Milwaukee WI 1992
Michael H. Lord Gallery, Habits and other Small Rituals, Milwaukee WI 1990
Michael H. Lord Gallery, Persons, Places and Things, Milwaukee WI 1989
University of the Arts, Mednick Gallery,  Philadelphia Penn. 1988
Milwaukee Art Museum, Multiple Exposures, Milwaukee WI 1987
Madison Art Center, Madison Wisconsin 1986
Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee WI 1986
ISIS Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame Indiana 1986
Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan WI 1984
Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee WI 1984
B.C. Space, Laguana Beach California 1983
Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee WI 1982
Perihelion Galleries, Milwaukee WI 1980
	

Group Exhibitions

Bonni Benrubi Gallery, Summer Salon II, New York New York 1995
Elhers Caudill, Picture  Perfect, Chicago 1994
Milwaukee Institute Of Art and Design, Amenities, 1994
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, at Vasssar College, Image Making: 
	Photographic Selections from the Permanet Collection, Poughkeepsie, 
	New York 1994
Elhers Caudill,  Group Show, Summer 1992
Photographic Resource Center, Benefit Auction, Boston 1992
West Bend Gallery of Fine Arts, Concerning the Spirit, West 
	Bend WI 1992
Museum of Modern Art, Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, New York,
 	1991 (Travelled to Baltimore Museum of Art, Los Angels 
	County Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati)
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Vertical Axis: Photographs from Central
 	States, Chicago, 1991
Milwaukee Art Museum, A Decade of Acquisitions, Milwaukee WI 1990
Basel Art Fair, Photography: 1980's -- Discovery and Invention, (sponsored by 	
	Association of International Photography Dealers), Basel, Switzerland
 	1990
Norman Eppink Gallery, Emporia State University, Emporia Kansas 1989
Museum of Modern Art,  New Acquisitions, New York NY 1988
Milwaukee Art Museum, 100 years of Wisconsin Art,  Milwaukee WI 1988
333 Gallery,  Individuals: New Art from Wisconsin, Chicago Ill. 1988
Haggerty Museum, Photography on the Edge, Milwaukee WI 1988
International Center for Photography _ Midtown, Portrayals, New York NY 1987
	(traveled to Herron Gallery, University of  Indiana and Sewal Art Gallery, Rice
 	University)
Madison Art Center, Third Triennial, Madison WI 1987
Burden Gallery, Mother/Daughter, New York NY 1987
Bogart and Greuel Studios, Drama _ Trauma, Milwaukee WI 1986
Madison Art Center, Fourth Wisconsin Biennial, Madison WI 1984
ASA Gallery, Contemporary American Portraiture, University of New  Mexico,
	Albuquerque 1984
University of Wisconsin _ Stevens Point, Edna Carlstein Gallery, Stevens Point
 	Wisconsin 1985
Kit Basquin Gallery, Milwaukee WI 1983
Neikrug Photographica, Rated X, New York NY 1983
Collectors Gallery, Milwaukee WI 1980
Perihelion Galleries, Milwaukee WI 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983


Awards and Grants
Milwaukee Artist Foundation Project Grant 1987
Wisconsin Arts Board Project Grant 1985
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1984
Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship 1984
Wisconsin Arts Board project grant 1983
For writing on photography:  the White Award (silver in1985 and gold1988), 
	the national  competition for city and regional magazines


Selected Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Museum of the Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, at Vasssar College, Poughkeepsie,
	 New York
Madison Art Center, Madison WI 
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee WI
First Bank Minneapolis
James Mundy Poughkeepsie, New York
Alexandra Marshal, Houston Texas
Robert and Barbra Horwich, Chicago Il
Thomas Maher, Milwaukee WI
John Fuller, Los Angeles California

Exhibitions Curated
Milwaukee Art Museum, Generation X: New Art From Milwaukee, 1995 (with
	publication)
Milwaukee Art Museum, Nathan Lerner Photographs, 1995 (with Publication).
Milwaukee Art Museum, New Wisconsin Photography, 1994 (with Publication).
Milwaukee Art Museum, The Jewish Contribution to 20th Century Art 1993 (with
 	Publication).
Milwaukee Art Museum, An American Story 1992 (with Publication)
Milwaukee Art Museum, Anatomy of a Small Town1992
Milwaukee Art Museum, A Sense of Place: H.H. Bennett 1992 (with publication)
Milwaukee Art Museum, Blood Relatives, Milwaukee Wisconsin 1991 (with
 	Publication)
Milwaukee Art Museum, From Talbot to Maplletorphe 1990
First Bank Minneapolis, Natural Beauty, Milwaukee WI 1989
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design,  The 1st MIAD/UWM Photography
 	Exhibition, Milwaukee WI 1989
Milwaukee Art Museum, The American Dream _ Considered, 1987 (with
 	publication)
Perihelion Galleries (as director, curated more than 25 exhibitions over four years) 


Lectures
including: the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of 
	Wisconsin _ Milwaukee and Green Bay, Pratt Institute NYC, 
	Philadelphia School of the Arts, University of Notre Dame, 
	Milwaukee Art Museum, University of Michigan.


Selected Bibliography

Charles Hagen, Summer Salon II (pictures we like) New York Times August 18, 1995
Judith Ann Moriarty, Landscapes, Art Muscle, August September 1995Vince Aletti, 
	Summer Salon II, Villiage Voice, August 1st, 1995
Dave Luhrssen, Inhabiting the Landscape, Shepard Express May 25, 1995
James Auer, Photographer Bamberger brings 19th-Century sensibibility to today,
 	Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 21, 1995
Stanely Grand, Tom Bamberger Photographs 1978-1992, Carlsten Art Gallery,
 	University of Wisconsin-Steven Point 1993
Images of Retrospection, Stevens Point Journal January 2,1993
Micheal A. Weinstein, New City, November 12, 1992
Abigail Foerstner, Bamberger Brings our the Mystery in Mundane Suburbia,
 	Chicago Tribune November 6, 1992
Janice Paine, An Edgy Vision of Suburban Life, Milwaukee Sentinel, October 2,1992
Kathy Mangol, Back to the Edge, Visions, September 10 1992
James Auer, Bamberger Aims Camera Deftly, Milwaukee Journal, September 13
 	1992
Alice Mc Dermott, Dark Domestic Visions? So what else is new?, The New York
 	Times, October 13, 1991
Peter Galassi, Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Museum of Modern
 	Art, 1991
Abigail Foerstner, Inaugural Exhibit an Attention-getter for Midwest Artists,
 	Chicago Tribune September 13,1991
Janice T. Paine, Bamberger Show Habit Forming, Milwaukee Sentinel September
 	14, 1990
James Auer, Bamberger's Photographs Improving with Age, Milwaukee Journal 
	September 9,1990
Geraldine Norman, The Independent, London England, June 18 1990
Dick Blau, Talking Pictures: Family Photo, Frame Work Vol.3 Number 1
Gerald Weisman and Uriel Cohen, Holding on to Home, Designing Environments
	 for People With Dementia, Center for Architectural Research,John Hopkins
	 University  Press 1989
James Auer, Photos that Challenge, Milwaukee Journal, March 12, 1988
John C. Blum, Persons, Places, and Things, Art Muscle March 15, 1989
Dean Sobel, 100 Years of Wisconsin Art, catalogue, Milwaukee Museum 1988
Victoria Donohoe, Tom Bamberger at Sol Mednick Gallery," Philadelphia
 	Inquirer, March 4, 1988
Brian Peterson, After Dark, March 2 1988 Philadelphia PA
Of People and Places, The Floyd and Josephine Segel Collection  of Photography,"
	 catalogue, Milwaukee Art Museum 1987
Mother/Daughter, an  Aperture  book , 1987
Multiple Exposures, a catalogue produced by the Milwaukee Art 
Portrayals, catalogue produced by the International Center for Photography
 	Midtown,  New York, New York, 1987
John Blum, Tom Bamberger,  Art Muscle Vol. 1 issue 3 Jan 15, 1987
James Auer,  As the Camera Caught  Us,   Milwaukee Journal Jan 11,1987
James Auer, Personal Comment,  Milwaukee Journal Oct. 26, 1986
Dean Jensen, New Show Proves Consistency of Tom Bamberger's Vision,
   	Milwaukee  Sentinel Oct 24, 1986
Tom Strini, Tom Bamberger's Camera Works Magic with Portraits,  Milwaukee
 	Journal  Sept 16,1984
Chuck Nicholson , Tom Bamberger Photographs,  Art Week, Jan 22, 1983
Dean Jensen, Photography Beyond Reality,   Milwaukee Sentinel Feb 26, 1982


Written by Tom Bamberger
Why Do We Need Milwaukee, Milwaukee Magazine, June 1995 (with Bruce Murphy)
Unwelcome Walls, Milwaukee Magazine, November 1994
New Wisconsin Photography, Milwaukee Art Museum, (catalogue essays) July 1994
What "Here" Is, Milwaukee Magazine, May 1994
Don't Worry Be Happy,  Milwaukee Magazine, March 1994
Justifiable Homicide, Milwaukee Magazine, November 1993
From Koufax to Arbus, Milwaukee Art Museum,(catalogue essay)1993
An American Story, Milwaukee Art Museum (catalogue essay) 1992
The Bomb Through Two Lenses (a review of Peter Goin and Patrick Nagatani), The
 	Progressive, March 1992
Blood Relatives (catalogue), Milwaukee Art Museum 1991
Another View (with Nathan Guequierre), Art Muscle Magazine March 1990
How Safe is Your Neighborhood (with Bruce Murphy), Milwaukee Magazine April
 	1990
MakingSpace, Milwaukee Magazine, Janurary 1990
Lee Friedlander, Art Muscle November 1989
Packaging Culture, Milwaukee Magazine August 1989
The 30 Second Campaign,  Milwaukee Magazine, February 1989
A Moral Drama,  Milwaukee Magazine, August 1988 (review of "1988, the World of
 	Art  Today" the Milwaukee Art Museum 
ThirtySomething,   Art Muscle, March 15, 1988
The Education of Howard Fuller,  Milwaukee Magazine July 1988
Unavoidable Art,  Milwaukee Magazine, April 1988
Richard Avedon,  an interview, Art Muscle February 1988
Money Talks,  Milwaukee Magazine, August 1987  (review of corporate
 	sponsorship of the arts)
3 Out Front,  Art Muscle, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 1987
The Philosopher Coach,  Milwaukee Magazine, July 1987 (photographs and text)
Julian Schnabel,  Art Muscle, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 1987
A Guide to Bad Art,  Milwaukee Magazine, May 1987           
Dream Portrait,  Milwaukee Magazine, M arch 1987 (catalogue essay from the
 	exhibition  "The American Dream _ Considered)
Dangerous Visions,  Milwaukee Magazine, June 1986 (essay on Diane Arbus)
Ordinary People, Milwaukee  Magazine, March 1986 (essay on artists stereotypes
David's Story, Milwaukee Magazine,  August 1986(text and photographs) 
At the Heart of Art, Milwaukee Magazine, 1986
The Poverty of Style, Milwaukee Magazine, July 1985 (essay on Irving Penn)
Like an Explorer, Milwaukee Magazine, November 1984 (essay on Eugene Atget)
Does Subject Matter?, Wisconsin Photographer, February 1980


Extended Photo Essays
The City Revisited, Milwaukee Magazine, December 1987 (with text)
Law and Order, Milwaukee Magazine,  November 1986 (with text)
Seven Women,  Milwaukee Magazine,  September 1984 (with text)
Portraits of Power, Milwaukee Magazine 1984


Current Positions
Self employed artist and Commercial photographer
Adjunct Curator of Photography, Milwaukee Art Museum


Community Service
NEA Juror, Mid America Arts Alliance, March 1995
Member of Art Futures (1987-present)
Board member of the Milwaukee Artist Foundation (1988-1991)
Director of Perihelion Galleries  (1978-1982)


Gallery Representation
Photocollect, New York, NY 212.222.7381
Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee WI 414.272.1007
Ehlers -Caudill Ltd., Chicago, 312.642.8611