John Goodman
“John Goodmanʼs camera, is not an instrument of detachment, analysis, or judgment, but an iris of an eye that is our own, dissolving ostensible barriers between object and subject.”
—Joyce Carol Oates’ review of Goodman’s The Times Square Gym Book.
Upcoming in 2012, John has three solo exhibitions at Scott Nichols Gallery in San Francisco, Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston and the University of Maine in Bangor. In 2011, John exhibited his Boston Combat Zone work at Yezerski Gallery and was in the exhibition Exposed which travelled from the Tate Modern in London to San Francisco Moma and Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
John is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, MFA Boston and SF/MOMA. John has worked for such clients as the GAP, Puma, Converse, Gucci, Vanity Fair, RollingStone, Outside, and the New York Times Magazine. John is on the faculty of the Art Institute of Boston and this will be his 15th year teaching at the Workshops.


