Graham Howe (born 1950) is a curator, writer, photo-historian, artist, and founder and CEO of Curatorial, Inc., a museum services organization supporting nonprofit traveling exhibitions. Curatorial Inc. manages the E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection and the Paul Outerbridge II Collection among others. Born in Sydney, Australia, Howe now resides in Los Angeles and London.

Education

Graham Howe received his bachelor's degree (Diploma of Art & Design in Photography, Film and Art History, (Hons)) in 1971 from Prahran College of Advanced Education, Melbourne, Australia where he was a student and employee of Gordon De Lisle whom he regarded "as the Sam Haskins of Australia". He continued his tertiary studies in 1976, gaining his Master of Arts degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, California (UCLA) in Painting Sculpture, and Graphic Arts (Majoring in Photography) in 1978 where he studied with Robert Heinecken, achieving his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1979.

Career

In 1972, Howe became one of the first employees of The Photographers' Gallery, London, a research assistant at the Royal Photographic Society, London, and, in 1973, the founding Director of the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, where in 1974 he organised an exhibition and publication of contemporary practitioners New photography Australia : a selective survey, and published Aspects of Australian Photography. In 1976, he became the curator for Graham Nash and from 1977 was Los Angeles Correspondent for the Australian journal Light Vision, to which he contributed a photo-essay Sneaker in the Sky for the January 1978 edition. From 1984 to 1985 he was a visiting curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In 1988, he incorporated Curatorial Assistance, Inc., a company specializing in art and museum services, and in 2000 he founded Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that originates and travels exhibitions of art to museums worldwide.

Collections

Howe's photographic work is collected in museums and galleries including Harvard University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and he is an advisor for the Lucie Awards and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship and a Ford Foundation grant.

Artist exhibitions

Curatorial research and publications

Howe's main area of expertise is early Modern twentieth century photography. He has published extensively on the work of American photographer, Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958) and British photographer, E.O. Hoppé (1878-1972).