Shellburne Thurber

Discipline: Photography

Based In: Cambridge, MA

Year at Millay: 1989

Fellowship: The Ellwood–Jonigan Fellowship

Awards/Honors: Fellow, The Saint-Gaudens Fellowship, Cornish, NH (2013–2015); Artist-in-Residence, Visual Arts, Herb Alpert/Ucross Residency Prize, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY (2005); Prize Winner, Maud Morgan Purchase Prize, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA (2000); Fellow, Bunting Fellowship, The Radcliffe Fellowship Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (1999–2000); Artist–in–Residence, The Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA (1999–2000); Artist–in–Residence, Moonhole Bequia, Bequia, St. Vincent & Grenadines (1997); Grant Recipient, Anonymous Was A Woman, New York, NY (1996); Fellow, Albert H. Whitin Travelling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA (1983).

Website: http://www.shellburnethurber.com

For much of my life, I have been engaged in an ongoing photographic investigation of the relationship between constructed space and human energy. Long intrigued by the idea of lived space as an extension of the body and a site for projection, I have photographed a wide variety of subjects beginning with the homes of family and friends who have passed to generic back road motels, churches, abandoned and derelict homes and hospitals, as well as commissioned projects such as the renovation of the Boston Athenaeum and the Saint–Gaudens National Historic Site.