Los Angeles, CA
sethlower@gmail.com
Books
2022
Dandelion, self-published
2019
Units, MACK
2014
The Sun Shone Glaringly, The Ice Plant
2010
Man with Buoy and Other Tales, Little Brown Mushroom
Exhibitions
2024
Topophany, 620 S. Main, Los Angeles, CA. Organized by Josh Steichmann
2021
MULTIPLES, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA. Organized by Nathan Gulick, Megan Mueller, Sam Scharf
2019
Políglotas, with El Clasificado, curated by Pamela Ramos for Centennial, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
ARTSST Exhibition, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA. Organized by Andrew Armstrong
Instagram Inner Sanctum, Palais des Beaux Arts Wien, Vienna, and Tired Eyes, presentation by Alexandra Wanderer for Vienna Art Week, Salon für Kunstbuch. Organized by Seth Weiner
2018
Cheating Reality, The Weekend Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Josh Schaedel
2016
metro pcs in heaven, metro pcs, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Photographs and a Video, Glass Basement, Berlin, Germany, with Care of Editions*
2014
Specters of the West. Fotografie in der Zwischenzone, Bäckerstraße 4, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Claudia Slanar
Eternal Om, metro pcs, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Ian James
2013
Hands (POV), Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA*
2012
Narcissism, the Real, the Fake, and the Anti-Digital Impulse, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles. Curated by Biddy Tran
Co/Lab, Art Platform Los Angeles, with WEEKEND (Jay Erker and John Mills)
2011
Diamonds Are Forever, WEEKEND, Los Angeles, CA*
SVIT L.A., 1549 Baxter St., Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Zuzana Blochova and Benjamin Echeverria
Anatomy of a Moment -- It is a Poor Kind of Memory That Only Goes Backwards, Valand School of Fine Art, Gothenburg, Sweden. Curated
by Jasmine Idun Lyman
Sunny Side Up, Margate Photo Fest, Margate, UK. Curated by Wandering Bears
2010
Mirror, Royal NoneSuch, Oakland, CA*
Exquisite Corpse, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC
2009
LFLM, The Lab, San Francisco, CA*
LFLM, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan*
Exercises in Seeing, Queen’s Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA
The Man Behind the Curtain, Mission 17, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Laura Mott
2008
The Raccoon Shirt Coincidence, New Insights, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL. Curated by Susanne Ghez*
Numbers Game, Rhodes & Fletcher, LLC, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Laura Mott
Young Curators, New Ideas, Bond Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Grant Willing
Meet Waradise, New York, NY. Curated by Alana Celii & Grant Willing
* denotes solo exhibitions
Publications
2020
What Does Photography Mean to You? by Grant Scott, Bluecoat Press
2017
Library of the Printed Web: Collected Works 2013–2017, Library of the Printed Web
2016
Special Delivery, The Ice Plant
2015
The Wire, 373
Canteen, issue 9
2013
No Nay Never No More, Oranbeg Press
2008
Hamburger Eyes, issue 12
Bibliography
2023
Photobookstore, Photobooks of 2023: J Carrier, review of Dandelion
2021
Art and Cake, Multiples at Angels Gate Cultural Center, by Genie Davis
Eyebook Magazine, interview with Alessandra Lanza
WU Magazine, interview with Alessandra Lanza
2020
Collector Daily, article on Units by Blake Andrews
Phases Magazine, Units
C41, Seth Lower splits up reality into its original atomic units
A Photographic Life - episode 92 (UNP podcast)
LFI (Leica Fotografie International), review of Units, January
Wallpaper* Units feature by Sophie Gladstone
Aesthetica, interview & review of Units by Gunseli Yalcinkaya
2019
Lensculture, Units Book Review by Jim Casper
Float, Units Book review by Dana Stirling
Booooooom, “Units” by Photographer Seth Lower 19.12.19 by Anna Schneider
L'intervalle, Units, katas de Seth Lower, photographe, by Fabien Ribery
Musée Magazine, Book Review: Units, by Paloma Broussal Lanusse
2015
The Art Book Review, "The Sun Shone Glaringly," reviewed by Adam Bell
Phases Magazine, "A Medicine for Melancholy"
Entropy, "The Sun Shone Glaringly, " by Joseph Houlihan
2014
photo-eye, Best Books of 2014 by Alex F. Webb and Lewis Chaplin
The Great Leap Sideways, "The Sun Shone Glaringly, a conversation with Seth Lower," Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
Conscientious, "Photobook Reviews" (Week 37/2014) Jörg M. Colberg
Capricious blog, Seth Lower's 'The Sun Shone Glaringly'
TheArtBookReview.org "Man with Buoy and Other Tales," by Molly E. Dotson
Artforum.com, Critic's Pick, "Eternal Om," by Steve Kado
2011
L.A. Record, Seth Lower: Diamonds Are Forever, interview with Claudia Slanar
2010
Humble Arts Foundation blog,
"Top 10 Books of 2010," by Grant Willing
2009
ArtinAmerica.com “The Man Behind the Curtain,” by Joseph del Pesco
SFMOMA Open Space: “Behind the Curtain,” by Kevin Killian
Collections
MUSA, Art Collection of the City of Vienna, with Palais des Beaux Arts Wien
Palais des Beaux Arts, Vienna, Austria
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Research Libraries
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
LACMA, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Education
San Francisco Art Institute, MFA 2008
The University of Michigan, BFA 2004