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Originally from Illinois teaches lighting and project classes.

Industry Experience

Exhibitions

• 2021 – (un)seen, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA
• 2019 – Ansel Adams in Our Time, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
• 2019 – New England Biennial 2019, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
• 2018 – NY Prison Nation, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
• 2018 – Unexpected Families, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
• 2017 – Of Length and Measures: Prison and the American Landscape, Harvard University Center for American Politics, Cambridge, MA

Publications

• 2018 – “Prison Nation,” Aperture Foundation Magazine
• 2018 – “Photographing the Lights of America’s Prisons—and the Lives Inside,” Wired Magazine
• 2017 – “A Matter of Life,” Harper’s Magazine
• 2014 – “The Night Watch,” Politico

Awards & Recognitions

• John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
• Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Foster Prize Finalist
• Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships 2001, 2007, 2011
• MacDowell Colony Fellowships

Collections

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Museum of Fine Arts Boston
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Museum of Contemporary Photography
• The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Connect

• tourlentes.com
• Twitter: @StephenTourlent
• Instagram: @stephentourlentes