PHILIP ZIMMERMANN
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Philip Zimmermann works primarily in the medium of photo-based artists' books. He usually uses a combination of text and photographic images that are generally narrative in nature and on the topic of personal, societal, or political culture.
He has been making bookworks since 1975 and established his Spaceheater Editions imprint in 1979 with a focus on publishing editioned narrative artists’ books. His most recent book, Delirium, (ed. 30, out-of-print) was a winner of the 2021 “50 Books/50 Covers” Award for best-designed-books of 2020.
Over the last forty years Zimmermann has published over 35 books and received many awards and grants. These include an NEA Regional Fellowship through the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship for Works on Paper/Artists' Books, and two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships.
After teaching design, book arts, prepress and offset production at Purchase College, S.U.N.Y., for 24 years. He taught at the University of Arizona another 10 years. He retired in 2019 and lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Zimmermann was a principal in the artists’ offset printshop and bindery in Rhinebeck NY, Open Studio. For ten years he was also the proprietor of a prepress and printing consultancy in New York, Zimmermann Multiples.
His artwork is in many private, public, curatorial, and academic collections internationally including the Getty Research Institute, Harvard University (Houghton Library, and Fine Arts Library Special Collection); Yale University (The Arts of the Book Special Collections, Sterling Library, and Haas Arts Library Special Collections); The New York Public Library (Spencer Collection); Museum of Modern Art (Fine Art Library Special Collections), UC Boulder Libraries (Norlin Library) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (National Art Library) and dozens of others.
