John Divola

John Divola was born in 1949 in Los Angeles and received a BA from California State University, Northridge, and both an MA and MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.  Since 1975 he has taught photography and art at numerous institutions, including California Institute of the Arts, and since 1988 he has been Professor of Art at the University of California, Riverside.

Among Divola's awards are four Individual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, a Flintridge Foundation Fellowship, and a California Arts Council Individual Art Fellowship.

Three recent books by John Divola are Continuity, Isolated Houses, and Dogs Chasing My Car In The Desert.  His work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Japan, Europe, Mexico, and Australia, and is represented in the collections of the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Australian National Gallery, the Denver Art Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and many more.

Learn more on Divola's website.