{{Short description|American photographer (born 1971)}} '''Peter Kayafas''' (born 1971) is an American photographer, publisher, and educator based in New York City. He creates black and white photographs that are "simple and spare, yet quietly overpowering with their evocation of a history on a scale beyond that of individual human lives."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Feeney |first1=Mark |title=Spare scenes at Kayafas exhibit |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2012/01/21/photography-review-mark-feeney-peter-kayafas-totems-and-surendra-lawoti-don-river/1LTt173X31S9o41HZqCklL/story.html |website=The Boston Globe |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> Kayafas is the Director of the Eakins Press Foundation and is a Guggenheim Fellow in photography.<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Kayafas |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/peter-kayafas/ |website=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> He is Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Corporation of Yaddo and was an adjunct associate professor of photography at Pratt Institute for 21 years.<ref>{{cite web |title=Guggenheim Fellowship Awarded to Photography Faculty Member Peter Kayafas |url=https://www.pratt.edu/news/view/guggenheim-fellowship-awarded-to-photography-faculty-member-peter-kayafas |website=Pratt Institute |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Yaddo board names new co-chairs |url=https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Yaddo-board-names-new-co-chairs-13218793.php |website=Times Union |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite interview|title=Interview with Peter Kayafas|url=https://museemagazine.com/features/2020/11/16/interview-with-peter-kayafas|access-date=2022-02-03|website=Musée Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref> Kayafas' photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New York Public Library, New Orleans Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the RISD Museum, and SFMOMA, and there are five monographs of his photographs in print.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}
==Life and work==
===Early work=== Kayafas was born in Boston in 1971 and raised in Concord, Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Kayafas Biography |url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/peter-kayafas/biography |website=artnet |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> His father, Gus Kayafas, founded the undergraduate photography program at Massachusetts College of Art, and his mother Arlette Kayafas, is the founder and owner of Gallery Kayafas in Boston.<ref>{{cite web |title=Curator's Viewpoint: Arlette Kayafas |url=https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/curators-viewpoint-arlette-kayafas/ |website=What Will You Remember |date=2 October 2014 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> He moved to New York City in 1989 to study photography at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, from which he received a BFA in 1993.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hyperallergic reviews 'The Way West' by DPI Alum Peter Kayafas |url=https://tisch.nyu.edu/photo/news/hyperallergic-reviews--the-way-west--by-dpi-alum-peter-kayafas |website=Tisch School of the Arts |accessdate=11 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Kayafas: Artist Profile |url=https://artofcreativephotography.com/photographers-featured-on-the-blog/peter-kayafas/ |website=The Art of Creative Photography |date=3 March 2014 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> During his college years, he worked as a printer for Rosalind Fox Solomon and Sylvia Plachy, and studied with Nan Goldin, Anthony Barboza, and A. D. Coleman.<ref>{{cite web |title=Photography |url=https://www.pratt.edu/academics/school-of-art/undergraduate-school-of-art/photography/ |website=Pratt Institute |accessdate=10 June 2020}}</ref> Kayafas spent the summer and fall of 1991 in San Francisco where he did an independent study with Henry Wessel, Jr. at the San Francisco Art Institute, and worked for Andy Grundberg at the Friends of Photography.<ref>{{cite web |title=Artist Biographies |url=https://sashawolf.com/artist-biographies/ |website=Sasha Wolf Gallery |accessdate=10 June 2020}}</ref> In 1990, he met and began working for Leslie George Katz, founder and publisher of the Eakins Press. In 1993, Katz appointed Kayafas the Director of the press, a position he has continued for three decades.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of the Press |url=https://eakinspress.com/history_of_the_press.cfm |website=Eakins Press Foundation |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref>
===Professional life=== Kayafas' photographs have been published in five monographs: Peter Kayafas: ''Coney Island Waterdance (2021),'' Peter Kayafas: ''The Way West'' (2020), ''Totems'' (2012), ''O Public Road! Photographs of America'' (2009), and ''The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta'' (2007).<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Kayafas |url=https://www.pratt.edu/faculty_and_staff/bio/?id=pkayafas |website=Pratt Institute |accessdate=10 June 2020}}</ref> His photographs have also been published in various magazines and journals—including DoubleTake Magazine and The Southern Review—as well as in photography books, including ''Bystander: A History of Street Photography'' (2001 and 2017), and ''The Spirit of Family'' by Al Gore and Tipper Gore (2002). Kayafas has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York City and Boston. In 2018 he became Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Corporation of Yaddo.<ref>{{cite web |title=Yaddo board names new co-chairs |url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Yaddo-board-names-new-co-chairs-13218793.php |website=Houston Chronicle |date=10 September 2018 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> In 2019, Kayafas was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for photography.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Risch |first1=Conor |title=2019 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to 12 Photographers |url=https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2019/04/2019-guggenheim-fellowships-photographers.html |website=PDNPulse |date=10 April 2019 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> As a publisher and editor running the Eakins Press Foundation for three decades, Kayafas has produced books by photographers. He has been teaching photography at Pratt Institute since 2000, and has been represented by Sasha Wolf Projects since 2003.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bray |first1=Matthew |title=Photography - Peter Kayafas |url=https://talks.pratt.edu/media/t/1_b9bi660i |website=Pratt Institute |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref>
=== ''Coney Island Waterdance'' === ''Coney Island Waterdance'' is a collection of photographs by Kayafas taken between the years of 1991 and 2002, which depicts swimmers in the summertime as well as the Polar Bear Club in the winter.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Borst |first1=Sarah |title=Peter Kayafas |url=https://www.aint-bad.com/article/2015/02/26/pete-kayafas/ |website=AINT-BAD |date=26 February 2015 |accessdate=5 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Photographs |journal=The Southern Review |issue=Spring 2012 |page=266 |url=https://thesouthernreview.org/issues/detail/Spring-2012/218 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> A book featuring this work was published in 2021 by Purple Martin.
=== ''Cuba'' === Kayafas travelled to Cuba in 2000 and 2001. ''The New Yorker'' called his Cuba photographs "crisp and direct, and the best of them vibrate with understated graphic tension."{{citation needed|date=June 2023}} Kayafas' pictures from Cuba were exhibited in ''Two Views of Cuba'' with photographer Lou Jones, at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts in 2002.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}
=== ''Romania'' === ''Romania'' is a collection of photographs that was made during several trips to Romania by Kayafas from 2003 to 2005. The collection was created by driving more than 10,000 kilometers and photographing the Romanian countryside and many Romanian cities. These photographs were exhibited at the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York City (2005) and the Romanian Embassy in Washington, DC (2006).<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Kayafas – Romania |url=http://www.oitzarisme.ro/2012/08/31/peter-kayafas-romania/ |website=oitzarisme |date=31 August 2012 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref>
=== ''The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta'' === Designed by the Dutch designer Tessa van der Waals and produced in Holland in 2007, ''The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta'' is a book about the carved graves in the remote Merry Cemetery. There are photographs of the colorful tombstones and their respective epitaphs, with translations by Adrian Sahlean. The book also includes an essay by the Romanian scholar Sanda Golopentia. These photographs were exhibited at the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York City (2005) and the Romanian Embassy in Washington, DC (2006).{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}
=== ''People In New York'' === Published in coordination with the Sasha Wolf Gallery in 2004, ''People In New York'' is an exhibition catalogue that includes a selection of 13 photographs by Kayafas of people on the streets and in the parks of New York City. The book includes a short essay on that common occurrence in the city: the familiar glance from a stranger.<ref>{{cite web |title=People In New York |url=https://www.purplemartinpress.com/people-in-new-york/ |website=Purple Martin Press |accessdate=10 June 2020}}</ref>
=== ''O Public Road!'' === ''O Public Road! Photographs of America'' is a 2009 book of photographs published by Purple Martin. It features 160 pages of black and white photographs of landscapes, road signs, and people made by Kayafas during two decades of road trips across America. The book includes an essay by Allan Gurganus and a song by Eef Barzelay.<ref>{{cite web |title=Search Results Web results Showcase: On, and Off, the Road |url=https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/showcase-8/ |website=The New York Times |date=4 July 2009 |accessdate=1 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=From The Desk Of Clem Snide's Eef Barzelay: Peter Kayafas' "O Public Road!" Photo Book |url=http://magnetmagazine.com/2010/02/26/from-the-desk-of-clem-snides-eef-barzelay-peter-kayafas-%E2%80%9Co-public-road%E2%80%9D-photo-book/ |website=Magnet |date=26 February 2010 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref>
=== ''Totems'' === ''Totems'' is an exhibition and publication project by Kayafas that consists of photographs of abandoned buildings in the west that ''The New Yorker'' said "have both sculptural presence and a symbolic weight." The book ''Totems'' is a 2012 monograph by Kayafas, with an essay by art critic, Jed Perl. Of the Totems photographs, Perl writes: "Kayafas's explorations of an endangered vernacular architecture are at once straightforward records and unabashedly poetic meditations, a matter of the photographer testing the quality of his attentiveness against the facts on the ground. The lyric impulse is sharpened by the documentary convention."<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Peter Kayafas |url=https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/peter-kayafas |magazine=The New Yorker |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Feeney |first1=Mark |title=Spare scenes at Kayafas exhibit |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2012/01/21/photography-review-mark-feeney-peter-kayafas-totems-and-surendra-lawoti-don-river/1LTt173X31S9o41HZqCklL/story.html |website=The Boston Globe |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref>
=== ''Mexico City'' === ''Mexico City'' is a collection of photographs that were made by Kayafas between 2012 and 2016. Since more than half of Mexico City's 21 million people are under twenty-five, Kayafas chose to focus on various rituals of the youth sub-culture that are prevalent in many parts of the city.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mexico's urban youth culture explosion |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-21959375/mexico-s-urban-youth-culture-explosion |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref>
=== ''The Way West'' === ''The Way West'' is a photographic project by Kayafas that includes exhibitions and a monograph. The book, ''Peter Kayafas: The Way West'', is the third monograph of Kayafas' work photographing along the roads of the United States, released in 2020. It includes an essay by writer Rick Bass, as well as images from ten years and thousands of miles of travel in the Plains States of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Colorado. According to a review of the book in ''Hyperallergic'' from April 14, 2020: "Kayafas has come back with what surely constitutes one of the most exhaustive, vivid photographic studies of a region to be produced anywhere in recent decades."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gómez |first1=Edward |title=A Photographer's Travels Across the Real American West |url=https://hyperallergic.com/553781/the-way-west-by-peter-kayafas/ |website=Hyperallergic |date=11 April 2020 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Myths and magic: the new American west – in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/apr/01/myths-magic-new-american-west-pictures-cowboys-rodeos-peter-kayafas |website=The Guardian|date=April 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Critic's Notebook |url=https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/the-critics-notebook-11550 |website=The New Criterion |date=14 April 2020 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gómez |first1=Edward |title=The Way West: Photographs by Peter Kayafas from America's Open Road |url=https://hyperallergic.com/127709/the-way-west-photographs-by-peter-kayafas-from-americas-open-road/ |website=Hyperallergic |date=24 May 2014 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Everich |first1=Amanda |title=Peter Kayafas 'The Way West' at Sasha Wolf Gallery |url=https://museemagazine.com/culture/culture/art-out/peter-kayafas-the-way-west-at-sasha-wolf-gallery |website=Musée Magazine |date=28 April 2014 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref>
== Publications == === Books === * {{cite book|last1=Kayafas|first1=Peter|last2=Jones|first2=Lou|title=Two Views of Cuba Photographs by Lou Jones and Peter Kayafas|date= 2002 |publisher=DeCordova Museum|location=Lincoln, Massachusetts|lccn=2001096810}} * {{cite book|last1=Kayafas|first1=Peter|title=People In New York|date= 2004 |publisher=Sasha Wolf Gallery and Purple Martin |location=New York, NY}} * {{cite book|last1=Kayafas|first1=Peter|last2=Sahlean|first2=Adrian|last3= Golopentia|first3=Sanda|title=The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta|date= 2007 |publisher=Purple Martin Press|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-0-9797768-0-9}} * {{cite book|last1=Kayafas|first1=Peter|last2=Gurganus|first2=Allan|last3=Barzelay|first3=Eef (song)|title=O Public Road!|date= 2009 |publisher=Purple Martin |location=New York, NY|isbn=978-0-9797768-1-6}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Search Results Web results Showcase: On, and Off, the Road |url=https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/showcase-8/ |website=The New York Times |date=4 July 2009 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * {{cite book|last1=Kayafas|first1=Peter|last2=Perl|first2=Jed|title=Totems|date= 2012 |publisher=Purple Martin |location=New York, NY|isbn=978-0-9797768-2-3}} * {{cite book|last1=Kayafas|first1=Peter|last2=Bass|first2=Rick|title=The Way West|date= 2020 |publisher=Purple Martin |location=New York, NY|isbn=978-0-97977-683-0}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gómez |first1=Edward |title=A Photographer's Travels Across the Real American West |url=https://hyperallergic.com/553781/the-way-west-by-peter-kayafas/ |website=Hyperallergic |date=11 April 2020 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Myths and magic: the new American west – in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/apr/01/myths-magic-new-american-west-pictures-cowboys-rodeos-peter-kayafas |website=The Guardian |date=April 2020 |accessdate=9 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Critic's Notebook |url=https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/the-critics-notebook-11550 |website=The New Criterion |date=14 April 2020 |accessdate=11 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title="The Way West" by Photographer Peter Kayafas|url=https://www.booooooom.com/2020/09/03/the-way-west-by-photographer-peter-kayafas/|access-date=2022-02-03|website=BOOOOOOOM!|language=en-US}}</ref> * Kayafas, Peter; (2021) ''Coney Island Waterdance'' New York, NY: Purple Martin ISBN 978-0-97977-684-7
=== Other publications === * ''The Spirit of Family'', Albert and Tipper Gore. Holt, 2002<ref>{{cite web |title=The Spirit of Family |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8050-6894-8 |website=Publishers Weekly |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''Lincoln Kirstein: A Bibliography of Published Writings'', edited by Kayafas. Eakins Press Foundation, New York, 2007<ref>{{cite web |title=Lincoln Kirstein: A Bibliography of Published Writings |url=https://eakinspress.com/book.cfm?slug=lincoln-kirstein-a-bibliography-of-published-writings |website=Eakins |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''CIRCUS: The Photographs of Frederick W. Glasier'', edited by Kayafas and Deborah W. Walk. Eakins, New York, 2009<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Perl |first1=Jed |title=The Modern High-Wire |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/75592/the-modern-high-wire |magazine=The New Republic |date=18 June 2010 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Discovering the Soul of the Ringlings' Circus |url=http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/archive-15 |website=The New York Times |date=5 April 2010 |accessdate=11 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Sante |first1=Luc |title=Circus: The Photographs of Frederick W. Glasier |url=https://designobserver.com/feature/circus-the-photographs-of-frederick-w-glasier/14948 |website=Design Observer |date=22 September 2010 |accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref> * ''THE AMERICANS LIST: By the Glow of the Jukebox (contributor)'', Red Hook, Brooklyn, 2012<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bicker |first1=Phil |title=The Americans List: A Salute to Robert Frank |url=https://time.com/3792019/the-americans-list-a-salute-to-robert-frank/ |website=TIME Magazine |date=4 October 2012 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''LEE FRIEDLANDER: THE PRINTED PICTURE.'' Edited by Stephen Hilger and Kayafas, The Pratt Photography Department and Libraries and Eakins, Brooklyn and New York, 2014<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roma |first1=Giancarlo |title=Photographer Lee Friedlander's Monumental Legacy in Books |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-whole-picture-0000596-v22n3/ |website=VICE |date=17 March 2015 |access-date=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Five decades of Lee Friedlander's |url=https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2014/04/24/five-decades-of-lee-friedlanders-monographs-to-be-displayed-at-pratt/ |website=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=24 April 2014 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * '''O, Write My Name': American Portraits, Harlem Heroes, Photographs by Carl Van Vecthen'', Edited by Leslie George Katz and Kayafas, Eakins, New York, 2015.<ref>{{cite news |title=Search Results Web results Photography: Carl Van Vechten, Cecil Beaton and More | work=The New York Times | date=December 2015 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/books/review/photography-carl-van-vechten-cecil-beaton-and-more.html?smid=pl-share |accessdate=13 June 2020| last1=Sante | first1=Luc }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Meyers |first1=William |title=The Best Books for Photography Lovers |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-best-books-for-photography-lovers-1448045295 |website=The Wall Street Journal |date=20 November 2015 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Aletti |first1=Vince |title=July - August 2015 |url=http://photographmag.com/issues/july-august-2015/photo-books/ |website=Photograph Magazine |accessdate=2 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pinckney |first1=Darryl |title=Looking Harlem in the Eye |url=https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/02/19/carl-van-vechten-harlem-photographs/ |website=The New York Review of Books |date=19 February 2015 |accessdate=9 June 2020}}</ref> * ''PETER KAYAFAS: ECOS (exhibition catalogue)'', Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City, 2016.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ecos. Peter Kayafas |url=http://foror-38.blogspot.com/2017/05/ecos-peter-kayafas.html |website=Foro R-38 |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> * ''Pilgrimage: Photographs by Mary Frank. Edited and sequenced by Mary Frank and Peter Kayafas'', Eakins, New York, 2017.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gómez |first1=Edward |title=In New Photo Books, a Strong Sense of Place |url=https://hyperallergic.com/412036/the-cube-archive-slant-rhymes-pilgrimage/ |website=Hyperallergic |date=18 November 2017 |accessdate=6 June 2020}}</ref> * ''Bystander: A History of Street Photography'', Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck. Laurence King. London, 2017.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Baker |first1=Tora |title=Bystander: A history of street photography by Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck |url=https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/bystander-a-history-of-street-photography-by-joel-meyerowitz-and-colin-westerbeck/ |website=Creative Boom |date=16 October 2017 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gadgil |first1=Salonee |title=Bystander: the history of street photography revisited |url=https://www.creativereview.co.uk/bystander-history-street-photography-revisited/ |website=Creative Review |date=25 October 2017 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''Stephen Shore: Elements'', Edited and sequenced by Stephen Shore and Kayafas, Eakins, New York, 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stephen Shore: Elements |url=https://eakinspress.com/book.cfm?slug=stephen-shore-elements |website=Eakins|accessdate=5 June 2020}}</ref> * ''PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice'', Edited by Sasha Wolf. Aperture, New York, 2019.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pesantes |first1=Emilia |title=Book Review: Photowork |url=https://museemagazine.com/culture/2019/10/25/book-review-photowork |website=Search Results Web Result with Site Links Musée Magazine |date=25 October 2019 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''Object Lesson: On the Influence of Richard Benson.'' (Contributor) Aperture, New York, NY 2022
== Exhibitions == === Solo exhibitions === * ''‘O Public Road’: Photographs by Peter Kayafas'', Public Policy Research Center, University of Missouri, Saint Louis, 2001 * ''Two Views of Cuba: Photographs by Lou Jones & Peter Kayafas'', the Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 2002 * ''The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta and Selected Photographs of Romania'', the Romanian Cultural Institute, New York, 2005 * ''An American in Romania: Photographs by Peter Kayafas'', the Romanian Embassy, Washington, Dc, May 4-June 4, 2006 * ''Peter Kayafas: Recent Photographs of America'', Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, January–March 2008<ref>{{cite web |last1=Meyers |first1=William |title=American Aesthetic, by Default |url=https://www.nysun.com/arts/american-aesthetic-by-default/70880/ |website=The New York Sun |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''Peter Kayafas: Totems'', Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, May–July 2011<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Peter Kayafas |url=https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/peter-kayafas |magazine=The New Yorker |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''Peter Kayafas: Totems'', Gallery Kayafas, Boston, January–February 2012<ref>{{cite web |last1=Feeney |first1=Mark |title=Spare scenes at Kayafas exhibit |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2012/01/21/photography-review-mark-feeney-peter-kayafas-totems-and-surendra-lawoti-don-river/1LTt173X31S9o41HZqCklL/story.html |website=The Boston Globe |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''The Way West: Photographs by Peter Kayafas'', Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, April–June 2014<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gómez |first1=Edward |title=The Way West: Photographs by Peter Kayafas from America's Open Road |url=https://hyperallergic.com/127709/the-way-west-photographs-by-peter-kayafas-from-americas-open-road/ |website=Hyperallergic |date=24 May 2014 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Barnas |first1=Ed |title=On The Road, Again |url=http://www.nyphotoreview.com/NYPR_REVS/NYPR_REV3836.html |website=The New York Photo Review |accessdate=2 June 2020}}</ref> * ''Peter Kayafas: Ecos, Universidad Del Claustro De Sor Juana'', Mexico City, March–May 2016<ref>{{cite web |title=El Claustro de Sor Juana expone a Peter Kayfas |url=https://noticias.canal22.org.mx/2016/04/02/el-claustro-de-sor-juana-expone-peter/ |website=Noticias 22 Digital |date=2 April 2016 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Vinós |first1=Gabrielle |title=Peter Kayafas: Nada que ver con la nostalgia |url=https://revistacodigo.com/arte/entrevista-peter-kayafas/ |website=Revista Código |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=El Claustro de Sor Juana expone a Peter Kayfas |url=https://lagazzettadf.com/noticia/2016/04/01/claustro-sor-juana-expone-peter-kayfas/ |website=La Gazzetta DF |date=2 April 2016 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''Coming of Age in the West, Photographs by Peter Kayafas'', the Century Association, New York, March–April 2017
=== Group exhibitions === * ''Straight Arrows (Group Show)'', Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, 2001<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Flipbook |magazine=The New Yorker |date=12 Dec 2001 |page=28 |url=https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/2001-03-12/flipbook/028/ |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''The Sidewalk Never Ends (Group Show)'', Art Institute of Chicago, 2002<ref>{{cite web |title=Photography: The Sidewalk Never Ends |url=https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/8426/photography-the-sidewalk-never-ends |website=Art Institute of Chicago |date=17 November 2001 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Stein |first1=Lisa |title=Photo show puts the streets back in focus |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2001-12-30-0112300319-story.html |website=Chicago Tribune |date=30 December 2001 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Sidewalk Never Ends: Street Photography Since the 1970's |url=https://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2001/11/23/29381.html |website=AbsoluteArts |publisher=Art Institute of Chicago |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''Alone: Images of Isolation from the Permanent Collection (Group Show)'', the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 2002 * ''Gotham: Photographs of New York (Group Show)'', Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, 2002 * ''Vernacular Territory: Photographs by George Tice, Kate Schermerhorn & Peter Kayafas'', Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, 2005<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Flipbook |magazine=The New Yorker |date=2 May 2005 |page=26 |url=https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/2005-05-02/flipbook/026/ |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''Moving Through New England (Group Show)'', the Decordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, October–September 2007 * ''Photographs of Children from the Permanent Collection (Group Show)'', the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts February–April 2008 * ''In Our Dreams (Group Show)'', Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, June–August 2008<ref>{{cite web |last1=Meyers |first1=William |title=Dream Weavers Captured in Print |url=https://www.nysun.com/arts/dream-weavers-captured-in-print/82502/ |website=The New York Sun |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Roalf |first1=Peggy |title=In Our Dreams at Sasha Wolf |url=https://www.ai-ap.com/publications/article/651/in-our-dreams-at-sasha-wolf.html |website=American Illustration - American Photography |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Where To Go and What To See |url=https://www.popphoto.com/news/2008/06/where-go-and-what-see/ |website=Popular Photography |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''Signs: Wordplay in Photography (Group Show)'', De Young Museum, San Francisco, Ca., January–June, 2009<ref>{{cite web |title=Signs: Wordplay in Photography |url=https://deyoung.famsf.org/deyoung/exhibitions/signs-wordplay-photography |website=de Young Museum |date=30 January 2010 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Beardshear |first1=Kristi |title=Talk to Me |url=https://www.artslant.com/sf/articles/show/5036-talk-to-me |website=ArtSlant |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''Residents & Visitors: 20th Century Photographs of Louisiana (Group Show)'', New Orleans Museum of Art, November, 2011<ref>{{cite web |title=Residents and Visitors: 20th-Century Photographs of Louisiana |url=https://noma.org/exhibitions/residents-and-visitors-20th-century-photographs-of-louisiana/ |website=New Orleans Museum of Art |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''AIPAD Photography Show (Sasha Wolf Gallery) (Group Show)'', the Armory, New York, March–April 2012 * ''AIPAD Photography Show (Sasha Wolf Gallery) (Group Show)'', the Armory, New York, April 3-April 6, 2013 * ''Group Exhibition: The Drinking Show'', Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, July 10-August 16, 2013<ref>{{cite web |last1=O'Neill |first1=Claire |title=Cheers To That! A Photo Exhibit All About Drinking |url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/307082-cheers-to-that-a-photo-exhibit-all-about-drinking/ |website=WNYC |publisher=New York Public Radio |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Art of Drinking |url=https://potd.pdnonline.com/2013/07/18/21345/ |website=PDN Online |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''Romeo & Juliet in Pictures: A Group Show'', Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, June–August 2014<ref>{{cite web |last1=Meyers |first1=William |title=Photography Exhibitions: Tintypes, Shakespeare and Belgian Strangers |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/photography-exhibitions-tintypes-shakespeare-and-belgian-strangers-1406334893 |website=The Wall Street Journal |date=26 July 2014 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''The Collected Image: Photography Portfolios'', Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, October 2018 – August 2019<ref>{{cite web |title=The Collected Image: Photography Portfolios |url=https://fitchburgartmuseum.org/the-collected-image-photography-portfolios/ |website=Fitchburg Art Museum |date=15 January 2019 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> * ''Unlimited: Recent Gifts from the William Goodman and Victoria Belco Photography Collection (Group Show Curated by Sandra Phillips)'', UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Rim Archive, Berkeley, California, March–September 2019<ref>{{cite web |title=Unlimited: Recent Gifts from the William Goodman and Victoria Belco Photography Collection |url=https://bampfa.org/program/unlimited-recent-gifts-william-goodman-and-victoria-belco-photography-collection |website=UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive |date=4 February 2019 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref>
==Collections== {{BLP sources section|date=June 2023}} Kayafas' work is held in the following public collections: *Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL<ref>{{cite web |title=Dallas, Texas |url=https://www.artic.edu/artworks/233225/dallas-texas |website=The Art Institute of Chicago |year=1990 |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> *Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY<ref>{{cite web |title=China Town, New York City |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/158794 |website=Brooklyn Museum |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> *DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA *Fidelity, Boston, MA *Joy of Giving Something (Dreyfus) Collection<ref>{{cite web |title=Artist: Peter Kayafas |url=http://www.jgsinc.org/detailpopup.php?a=388 |website=Joy of Giving Something, Inc. |accessdate=1 June 2020}}</ref> *Museum of the City of New York, NY *Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter G. Kayafas |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/8590 |website=Museum of Modern Art |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> *Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV *New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA *New York Public Library, New York, NY<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Kayafas |url=http://pic.nypl.org/constituents/3097 |website=The New York Public Library |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> *Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI *San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA *UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|www.peterkayafas.com}} *[https://sashawolf.com/artist/peter-kayafas/ Kayafas on Sasha Wolf Projects]
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