Marco Bohr
Born 1978 in Wiesbaden, Germany
German and Canadian Citizenship
Lives and works in London, UK
 
Exhibitions
2008 Floating Cities, Solo Show at Mummery+Schnelle – London, UK
  European Eyes on Japan / Japan Today vol.10, Group Show at Novas Contemporary Art Centre curated by Kikuta Mikiko - Liverpool, England
  Happiness in Everyday Life , Group Show at Art Tower Mito curated by Mori Tsukasa and Takehisa Yuu – Mito, Japan (Book)
  Collectif, Group Show at arc en rêve centre d’architecture curated by Eric Troussicot – Bordeaux, France (Book)
2007 Making, Marking, Mapping - approaches to the next generation, Group Show at Photo Gallery International curated by Takahashi Sayaka – Tokyo, Japan
  Leisure, Three Artist Show at the Stephen Bulger Gallery – Toronto, Canada
  Shot and go – A vision of today's international photography, Group Show on the Island of San Servolo curated by Raffaele Gavarro – Venice, Italy (Book)
  The Summer Show, Graduating Show at the Royal College of Art curated by Nigel Rolfe – London, UK (Book)
2006 Flash Forward 2006: Emerging Photographers, Group Show at Lennox Contemporary selected by Daniel Faria, Darren Ching and Simon Bainbridge – Toronto, Canada (Book)
  reGeneration, Group Show at the Pingyao International Photography Festival curated by Nathalie Herschdoerfer - Pingyao, China
  Here Today, Group Show at the Jersey Galleries, Osterley House curated by Anne Kathrin Greiner and Neil Shirreff – London, England
  New Generation Park, Group Show at the Photo Imaging Expo at Tokyo Big Sight curated by Masato Terauchi - Tokyo, Japan
The Seven Deadly Sins, Group Show at the Bienale Internationale de l’Image de Nancy curated by Nathalie Herschdoerfer - Nancy, France
  Event Cities, Three Artist Show with Scott Connaroe and Sheryl Sourkes at Gallery 44 - Centre for Contemporary Photography curated by Katy McCormick - Toronto, Canada (Cat.)
  Fuke, Landscapes, Landschaften, Two Artist Show with Keiko Sato at Japan Foundation curated by Angela Ziegenbein - Cologne, Germany (Cat.)
  Uniforms, Solo Show as part of CONTACT Festival of Photography at the Japan Foundation - Toronto, Canada (Cat.)
  Observatories, Solo Show at the European Photocenter for Young Photography curated by Tanja Eickmeier - Viernheim, Germany
2005 Enseigner/Produire and L’art de produire l’art, Two Parallel Group Shows at the Studio National des Arts ContemporainsLe Fresnoy, Tourcoing and the Centre Pompidou curated by Christophe Kihm - Paris, France
  Observatories, Solo Show at the Folly Gallery - Lancaster, England
  reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Travelling Group Show at the Musee de l’Elysee curated by William Ewing - Lausanne, Switzerland (also Galleria Corso Como - Milan, Italy and the Aperture Gallery - New York, USA) (Book)
2004 Uniforms, Solo Show at the Days Photo Gallery - Tokyo, Japan
  Photorama, Group Show at the TPW Gallery - Toronto, Canada
  Connect the Dots, Multimedia Group Show travelling to ten cities across Canada curated and organized by CBC Radio 3 - various venues in Canada
2003 No Ball Games, First Solo Show at the Ryerson Gallery - Toronto, Canada
  Red, Group Show at the Bluffs Gallery as part of the Contact Photography Festival - Scarborough, Canada
2002 Photo Neolea, Group Show at the Pittenweem Arts Festival - Fife, Scotland
2001 Second Year Show, Group Show at the Ryerson Gallery - Toronto, Canada
   
Education
2007 Royal College of Art, MA Photography - London, UK
2004 Nihon University, Intensive Japanese Language Program - Tokyo, Japan
2003 Ryerson University, Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours - Toronto, Canada
2002 Napier University, Exchange Semester Photographic Studies - Edinburgh, Scotland
1998 Martin Niemoeller High School, German Abitur - Wiesbaden, Germany
   
Achievements
2006 Critique of the Alps Exchange - Lausanne, Switzerland
2005 Canada Council Travel Grant - Lausanne, Switzerland
2003 Recipient of the du Maurier Grant for Emerging Artists - Toronto, Canada
   
Commissions
2006 Photographs from Vietnam, commissioned by Make Poverty History - London, UK
  Material Matters: Glass, commissioned by the Manser Practice - London, UK
   
Artist Talks and Lectures
2009 Early and late Modern Japanese Photography, Lecture at the University of Westminster – London, UK
2008 A Contextual Approach to Japanese Photography, Lecture at the University of Westminster – London, UK
2007 Artist Talk with Marie-France Kittler at the University of Derby - Derby, UK
2006 Artist Talk in Dialogue with Keiko Sato at Japanisches Kulturinstitut – Cologne, Germany
  Artist Talk at the Japan Foundation - Toronto, Canada
  Artist Talk with Ryo Ohwada, Marla Rutherford, Shigeru Takato, Petur Thomsen and Pablo Zuleta Zahr hosted by Masato Terauchi - Tokyo, Japan
  Guest Lecturer for Prof. Don Snyder's Contemporary Movements Class, Ryerson University - Toronto, Canada
2005 Artist Talk at the Folly Gallery - Lancaster, UK
2004 Guest Lecturer for Prof. Don Snyder’s 3rd Year Photography Production Class, Ryerson University - Toronto, Canada
  Guest Lecturer for Prof. Suzuki Takafumi’s Master Class in Photographic Studies, Nihon University - Tokyo, Japan
2003 Guest Speaker for Prof. Don Snyder’s Theories of Representation, Ryerson University - Toronto, Canada
   
Book Publications
2008 European Eyes on Japan / Japan Today vol.10, published by EU Japan Fest, Tokyo, Japan
  Happiness In Everyday Life, published by Art tower Mito, Mito, Japan
  Transform, published by grafiche antiga, Treviso, Italy
2007 Shot and go – A vision of today's international photography, published by Damiani Editore, Bologna, Italy
  Reference Book, published by the Royal College of Art, London, UK
2006 Flash Forward 2006, published by the Magenta Foundation, Toronto, Canada
  Carte Blanche: Made in Canada, published by the Magenta Foundation, Toronto, Canada
2005 reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, 2005-2025, published by Thames and Hudson(UK), Aperture (US), Akaaka (Japan)
   
Collections

Michael Wilson Photographic Collection – London, England
Europäisches Fotozentrum für junge Fotografie – Viernheim, Germany
Musee de l’Elysee – Lausanne, Switzerland
Japan Foundation – Toronto, Canada
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Corporate Archives - Toronto, Canada
The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University - Toronto, Canada
The City of Toronto Archives - Toronto, Canada
Folly Gallery - Lancaster, England
Days Photo Gallery - Tokyo, Japan
Private Collections