Background
Graham Howe was born on April 18, 1950 in Sydney, Australia.
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Graham Howe was born on April 18, 1950 in Sydney, Australia.
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. 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, Graphic Arts (Majoring in Photography) in 1978 where he studied with Robert Heinecken, achieving his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1979.
In 1976, he became the curator for Graham Nash and in 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 nonprofit organization that originates and travels exhibitions of art to museums worldwide.
His 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
Graham Howe is an advisor for the Lucie Awards and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship and a Ford Foundation grant.
In 1972, Graham 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.