{{Short description|American photographer and educator}} '''Ron A. Jude''' (born 1965) is an American photographer and educator, living in Eugene, Oregon.<ref name="gf">{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-28|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/ron-jude/}}</ref><ref name="latimes">{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-28|title=Review: Ron Jude photographs Idaho in poetic fragments|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-xpm-2014-feb-13-la-et-cm-review-ron-jude-photographs-idaho-20140210-story.html|date=13 February 2014|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-28|title=Review: Ron Jude's jaw-dropping photographs at Gallery Luisotti put the awe back in awesome|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/museums/la-et-cm-ron-jude-20180924-story.html|date=24 September 2018|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> His photography, which "often explores the relationship between people, place, nature and memory",<ref name="bjp">{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-28|title=12 Hz by Ron Jude|first1=Marigold|last1=Warner|url=https://www.1854.photography/2020/10/12-hz-by-ron-jude/|website=British Journal of Photography}}</ref> has been published in a number of books. Jude works as a professor of art at the University of Oregon.<ref name="gf"/>
He has had solo exhibitions at the High Museum of Art,<ref name="atlanta-journal"/> Sheldon Museum of Art,<ref name="sheldonartmuseum">{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-30|title=Ron Jude: Lago|url=https://sheldonartmuseum.org/exhibitions/ron-jude-lago|website=sheldonartmuseum.org}}</ref> The Photographers' Gallery in London,<ref name="thephotographersgallery">{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-29|title=Exhibition History, 1971 - Present|url=https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/sites/default/files/1971-2017_TPGExhList.pdf|website=The Photographers' Gallery}}</ref> and was included in a three-person exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago.<ref name="mocp-backstory">{{cite web|access-date=2020-12-01|title=Backstory: LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ron Jude and Guillaume Simoneau|url=https://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2013/05/backstory-latoya-ruby-frazier,-ron-jude-and-guillaume-simoneau-.php|website=Museum of Contemporary Photography}}</ref> His work is held in the collections of the George Eastman Museum;<ref name="eastman">{{cite web|access-date=2020-12-01|title=Search|url=https://collections.eastman.org/search/Ron%2520Jude|website=George Eastman Museum}}</ref> High Museum of Art,<ref name="high">{{cite web|access-date=2020-12-01|title=Explore|url=https://high.org/explore/page/0/?keyword=Ron%252CJude|website=High Museum of Art}}</ref> MoCP,<ref name="mocp">{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-30|title=Museum of Contemporary Photography|url=https://www.mocp.org/info.php?s=ron+jude&t=objects&type=all|website=Museum of Contemporary Photography}}</ref> Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia,<ref name="mocaga">{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-30|title=Ron Jude|url=https://mocaga.org/collections/permanent-art-collection-artists/ron-jude/|website=Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia}}</ref> Ogden Museum of Southern Art<ref name="ogdenmuseum">{{cite web|access-date=2020-12-01|title=Under State Highway 90, Near Houma, LA|url=https://ogdenmuseum.org/collection/under-state-highway-90-near-houma-la/|website=Ogden Museum of Southern Art}}</ref> and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.<ref name="sfmoma">{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-30|title=Jude, Ron|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/ron_jude/|website=San Francisco Museum of Modern Art}}</ref> In 2019 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.<ref name="gf"/>
==Life and work== Jude was born in Covina,<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-30|title=Creator Record|url=https://mocaga.pastperfectonline.com/creator/EC8FB405-E7BC-44B7-8F73-971609663450|website=Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia}}</ref> Los Angeles County, California, and raised in rural Idaho.<ref name="gf"/> He gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Boise State University, Boise, Idaho in 1988; participated in the American Photography Institute's National Graduate Seminar at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York City in 1991; and gained a Master of Fine Arts from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge in 1992.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-28|title=About|url=http://ronjude.com/about|website=ronjude.com}}</ref> {{As of|2012}} he was living in Upstate New York.<ref name="mack-lickcreekline">{{cite web|access-date=2020-12-02|title=Lick Creek Line Ron Jude|url=https://mackbooks.co.uk/products/lick-creek-line-br-ron-jude|website=Mack}}</ref>
Jude's photographic work "often explores the relationship between people, place, nature and memory."<ref name="bjp"/> {{As of|2020}} he is living in Eugene, Oregon where he works as a professor of art at the University of Oregon.<ref name="gf"/> He is the co-founder of A-Jump Books.<ref name="saltonstall">{{cite web|access-date=2020-12-01|title=Ron Jude (2006)|url=https://www.saltonstall.org/project/ron-jude-2006/|website=Saltonstall}}</ref>
''Alpine Star'' (2006) contains photographs appropriated from the weekly newspaper in Jude's hometown in Central Idaho.<ref name="ajumpbooks-alpinestar">{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-29|title=Alpine Star – A-Jump Books|url=https://a-jumpbooks.com/books/alpine-star/|website=a-jumpbooks.com}}</ref>
''Other Nature'' (2008) depicts exterior and interior details of "anonymous motel rooms and the stranger regions of the American landscape".<ref name="iceplant">{{cite web|access-date=2020-12-02|title=OTHER NATURE|url=https://theiceplant.cc/product/other-nature/|website=Ice Plant}}</ref> It combines two separate sets of Jude's 4×5 color photographs, made between 2001 and 2008.<ref name="iceplant"/>
''Emmett'' (2010) contains a selection of his earliest work, made in the early 1980s in central Idaho and edited nearly 30 years later. The pictures are "enhanced by "special effects" filters and cheap telephoto lenses".<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-12-02|title=emmett|url=https://theiceplant.cc/product/emmett/|website=Ice Plant}}</ref>
''Lick Creek Line'' (2012) follows a fur trapper trekking in a remote area of Idaho in the Western United States.<ref name="mack-lickcreekline"/> "Through converging pictures of landscapes, architecture, an encroaching resort community, and the solitary, secretive process of trapping pine marten for their pelts,"<ref name="mack-lickcreekline"/> "Lick Creek Line tells a story, while constantly subverting it again."<ref name="colberg-2012">{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-29|first1=Jörg|last1=Colberg|author-link=Jörg Colberg|title=Review: Lick Creek Line by Ron Jude (and a confession of love for a unique medium)|url=http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/2012/06/review_lick_creek_line_by_ron_jude/|website=Conscientious Photography Magazine}}</ref>
''Executive Model'' (2012) contains photographs of American businessmen in the financial districts of Atlanta, Chicago, New York City and San Francisco between 1992 and 1995. It is "an exploration of the corporate executive as a representative type, as a locus of many of our unspoken assumptions about masculinity, social privilege, race, and power. [. . . ] In the majority of images in Executive Model, the men are seen from the back, their hulking forms filling nearly two-thirds of the frame. In other works, Jude depicts fragmented close-ups of turned heads or gesturing hands."<ref name="port">{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-30|title=Ron Jude: Executive Model|url=http://www.port-magazine.com/feature/ron-jude-executive-model/|website=Port Magazine|date=12 November 2012 }}</ref>
''Lago'' (2015) was made in the Salton Sea desert in Southern California, "the region Jude was raised in from the mid-1960s."<ref name="dazed">{{cite web|last1=Dazed|access-date=2020-11-29|title=These are ten photographers who owned it this month|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/28663/1/these-are-ten-photographers-who-owned-it-this-month|date=7 December 2015|website=Dazed}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-05|title=Ron Jude - Lago|url=https://paper-journal.com/ron-jude-lago/|date=9 December 2015|website=Paper Journal}}</ref>
''Vitreous China'' (2016) contains photographs made in areas of light industry in (primarily) Midwestern American cities, in particular "the ambient peripheral zones suffusing these environments: big rig parking lots, side exits, and other secondary spaces".<ref name="libraryman-vc">{{cite web|access-date=2020-12-02|title=Ron Jude — Vitreous China — Libraryman|url=https://www.libraryman.se/ron-jude-vitreous-china/|website=www.libraryman.se}}</ref> Jude's grandfather worked as a kiln operator in plants using vitreous china, an enamel coating applied to porcelain. The photographs are interspersed with short texts by Mike Slack.<ref name="libraryman-vc"/>
''Nausea'' (2017) was made in a number of elementary schools across several Southern states in the USA between 1991 and 1992.<ref name="paper-journal">{{cite web|access-date=2020-12-02|first1=Darren|last1=Campion|title=Ron Jude - Nausea|url=https://paper-journal.com/ron-jude-nausea/|date=6 July 2017|website=Paper Journal}}</ref>
''12Hz'' (2020) was made in Oregon, California, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Iceland between 2017 and 2020.<ref name="latimes"/><ref name="bjp"/><ref name="colberg-2020">{{cite web|first1=Jörg|last1=Colberg|author-link=Jörg Colberg|access-date=2020-11-29|title=Heart of Darkness|url=https://cphmag.com/heart-of-darkness/|website=Conscientious Photography Magazine}}</ref> Its larger first section mostly depicts tightly cropped views of rocks, ice sheets, volcanoes and raging bodies of water, "with only occasional minor appearances of flora".<ref name="colberg-2020"/> Its second much shorter part depicts "tightly cropped parts of vegetation."<ref name="colberg-2020"/> The work, made in black and white, speaks of "forces of ungraspable scale, operating independently of our anthropocentric experiences".<ref name="bjp"/>
==Publications== ===Books of work by Jude=== *''Other Nature.'' Los Angeles: Ice Plant, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-9776481-6-0}}. *''Emmett.'' Los Angeles: Ice Plant, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-9823653-2-8}}.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Doug|last1=Rickard|author-link=Doug Rickard|access-date=2020-11-29|title=Ron Jude: "Emmett" (2010)|url=https://americansuburbx.com/2010/10/ron-jude-emmett-2010.html|date=22 October 2010|website=American Suburb X}}</ref> *''Lick Creek Line.'' London: Mack, 2012. {{ISBN|9781907946172}}. With an essay by Nicholas Muellner.<ref name="colberg-2012"/> *''Executive Model.'' Stockholm: Libraryman, 2012. {{ISBN|978-91-86269-26-5}}. Edition of 325 copies.<ref name="port"/> *''Fires.'' Santa Monica: Ram; Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Photography, 2013. {{ISBN|978-0-9703860-8-3}}. Exhibition catalog. Work from ''Alpine Star,'' ''Emmett'' and ''Lick Creek Line.''<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-30|title=Ron Jude: Fires|url=https://shop.mocp.org/products/ron-jude-fires|website=Museum of Contemporary Photography}}</ref> *''Lago.'' London: Mack, 2015. {{ISBN|978-1-910164-34-1}}.<ref name="dazed"/><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-29|title=Le choix de la librairie #23|url=https://www.mep-fr.org/2015/10/22/le-choix-de-la-librairie-23/|date=22 October 2015|website=Maison Européenne de la Photographie}}</ref> *''Vitreous China.'' Stockholm: Libraryman, 2016. {{ISBN|978-91-88113-04-7}}. With short texts by Mike Slack. Edition of 400 copies.<ref name="libraryman-vc"/> *''Nausea.'' London: Mack, 2017. {{ISBN|978-1-910164-79-2}}.<ref name="paper-journal"/><ref>{{cite web|first1=Brad|last1=Feuerhelm|access-date=2020-11-29|title=Ron Jude's Nausea: The Scissors and the Cockroach|url=https://americansuburbx.com/2017/06/ron-judes-nausea-the-scissors-and-the-cockroach.html|date=30 June 2017|website=American Suburb X}}</ref> *''12Hz.'' London: Mack, 2020. {{ISBN|978-1-912339-92-1}}. With a text by Paul Kingsnorth.<ref name="colberg-2020"/><ref name="bjp"/>
===Other publications by Jude=== *''Alpine Star.'' Ithaca: Self-published / A-Jump, 2006. {{ISBN|978-0977765508}}. Edition of 500 copies. Photographs from a newspaper.<ref name="ajumpbooks-alpinestar"/> *''Postcards.'' Ithaca: Self-published / A-Jump, 2006. {{ISBN|978-0-9777655-1-5}}. Edition of 500 copies. Unbound photographs in a slipcase.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-29|title=Ron Jude: Postcards – A-Jump Books|url=https://a-jumpbooks.com/books/ron-jude-postcards/|website=a-jumpbooks.com}}</ref>
===Publications with contributions by Jude=== *''Lost Home.'' Kamakura, Japan: Super Labo, 2013. {{ISBN|978-4-905052-57-9}}. Ten photographers, each of whom contribute a volume, respond to a prose poem by Nobuyuki Ishiki. Eleven volumes in a slipcase. Text in Japanese and English. Edition of 1000 copies.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-12-01|title=Super Labo|url=https://www.superlabo.com/catalogue/spl045ps/index_en.html|website=www.superlabo.com}}</ref>
==Awards== *1994: Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowship, New York<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-12-01|title=How I Got That Grant: The Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowship|url=https://pdnonline.com/photography-business/photo-grants-funding/how-i-got-that-grant-the-aaron-siskind-foundation-individual-photographers-fellowship/|date=27 May 2015|website=Photo District News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-12-01|url=http://www.aaronsiskind.org/recipients.html|title=IPF Grant Recipients|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224102750/http://www.aaronsiskind.org/recipients.html|archive-date=2019-12-24}}</ref> *2000 James D. Phelan Award in Photography, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-30|title=2000 Exhibitions|url=https://sfcamerawork.org/archive-2000-exhibitions|website=SF Camerawork}}</ref> *2001: Light Work Grant, Syracuse, New York for the project ''Landscapes (for Antoine)''<ref name="lightwork">{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-30|title=Ron Jude|url=https://collection.lightwork.org/Detail/artist/Jude%252C%2520Ron|website=Light Work}}</ref> *2006: Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts 2006–2007 Artist's Grant<ref name="saltonstall"/> *2019: Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York City<ref name="gf"/>
==Exhibitions== ===Solo exhibitions=== *''Nausea,'' The Photographers' Gallery, London, 1992<ref name="thephotographersgallery"/> *''Executive Model: An Installation by Ron Jude,'' High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1995<ref name="atlanta-journal">{{cite news |date=7 July 1995 |title= Visual Arts: Last Chance|url= https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/403529000/|work= The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |location= Atlanta, Georgia |access-date=2 December 2020|page=376}}</ref> *''Lago,'' Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2016<ref name="sheldonartmuseum"/>
===Exhibitions with others=== *''Backstory,'' Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois, 2013 with LaToya Ruby Frazier and Guillaume Simoneau.<ref name="mocp-backstory"/>
==Collections== *George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York: 37 prints and postcards (as of December 2020)<ref name="eastman"/> *High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia: 4 prints (as of December 2020)<ref name="high"/> *Light Work, Syracuse, NY: 2 prints and 1 sequence of 12 prints (as of December 2020)<ref name="lightwork"/> *Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia: 3 prints (as of December 2020)<ref name="mocaga"/> *Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois: 24 prints (as of December 2020)<ref name="mocp"/> *Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana: 3 prints (as of December 2020)<ref name="ogdenmuseum"/><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-12-01|title=Under State Highway 90, Near Houma, LA|url=https://ogdenmuseum.org/under-state-highway-90-near-houma-la-2/|website=Ogden Museum of Southern Art|date=17 November 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-12-01|title=Near Ponchatoula, LA|url=https://ogdenmuseum.org/collection/near-ponchatoula-la/|website=Ogden Museum of Southern Art}}</ref> *San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California: 2 prints (as of December 2020)<ref name="sfmoma"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|ronjude.com}}
{{ACArt}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Jude, Ron}} Category:University of Oregon faculty Category:Photographers from Los Angeles Category:Louisiana State University alumni Category:New York University Tisch School of the Arts alumni Category:Boise State University alumni Category:People from Covina, California Category:Living people Category:1965 births