Steve Giovinco is a fine art photographer who photographs night landscapes, self-portraits, and people and private photography teacher.
Background
Steve Giovinco was born in Tarrytown, New New York He graduated from Washington University in Saint Louis with a Bachelor in history and literature and Yale University with an Master of Fine Arts in photography, where he studied with Tod Papageorge, Thomas Roma, Richard Benson. Gregory Crewdson was a classmate.
Career
His focus is on fine-art photography with lyrical and psychologically charged private moments of couples using himself and dark landscape photographs. Steve Giovinco has exhibited his art photographs with Jeff Wall, Sam Taylor-Wood, Catherine Opie, and others He has worked with a digital camera since 1999 and created a handheld 8x8" film camera.
His work was published in Summertime by Chronicle.
He also does fine art documentary wedding commissions. Giovinco created a personal photography project where images of himself and his father were displayed on the app Snapchat.
Fading after 24 hours, the project used Snapchat’s fleeting images to investigate ephemeral moments of life and memory. Giovinco has been commissioned for a range of photographic projects in New New York
His approach is usually unposed, natural, and documentary-like.
Brush Creek Foundation, Saratoga Springs, Wyoming. October, 2015. UCross Residency, Clearmont, Wyoming. March, 2015. Yaddo Artist Residency Fellowship, Saratoga, New New York
2001, 2002, 2009.
Myth of the Everyday, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, 2001. With Peter Freitag and Ursula Rogg. Myth of the Everyday, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California, 2001.
Photographs, Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2003.
Home Show, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2003. Group exhibition with Jeff Wall and Sam Taylor-Wood.
Ambient Life, Velan Center, Turin, 2005. Eclipse: Recent Photographs, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, 2007.
About Time: Contemporary Photographs, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, With five other artists.
Edge of Darkness: Photographs by Steve Giovinco and Tim Simmons, Sheldon Art Gallery, Saint Louis, 2012. The Kids Are Alright, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan,Wisconsin, 2012, with Catherine Opie. The Kids Are Alright, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina, 2013, with Catherine Opie, Ryan McGinley.
Membership
Brush Creek Foundation, Saratoga Springs, Wyoming. October, 2015.
UCross Residency, Clearmont, Wyoming. March, 2015.
Yaddo Artist Residency Fellowship, Saratoga, New New York 2001, 2002, 2009.