News and Events

Paul Shambroom’s American Photographs, Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Jan. 21 - March 8, 2025. Opening event Jan. 24, 2025 7:00 pm.

PBS News Hour segment on Purpletown, October 30, 2024. (4:51) View here

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Power of the People: Art and Democracy (group exhibit) October 26, 2024–February 16, 2025

Photobook Banter on Purpletown with George Slade rephotographica, Oct. 16, 2024 (1:03:35) view here

Purpletown book available, order HERE

CIVILIZATION: The Way We Live Now,  Curated by William Ewing, Bartomeu Marí and Holly Roussell Perret-Gentil.,preseted by FEP. “..a major exhibition, featuring the work of 100 of the world’s finest photographers. It addresses and illuminates major aspects of our increasingly global 21st century civilization.
Upcoming: Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany, April 11 - August 25, 2025
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland, March - July 2026

Previous:
Jut Art Museum, Taipai, Taiwan, March 16 - June 30, 2024
Saatchi Gallery, London, June 14 - Sept 17, 2023
Musei San Domenico, Forlì, Italy, mid-September 2022 (TBC) - Jan. 8, 2023
Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (MUCEM), Marseille, France, May 19 - Aug. 15, 2021
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand June 13 - October 18 2020
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia September 13 2019 - February 2 2020
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, October 18 2018-February 17 2019

Past Time published by Fall Line Press, 2020. Order HERE

Childhood, group exhibition. Rocket Gallery, London. July 7 - Sept. 24, 2022

OUTS group exhibition, Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, Curated by Kelli Connell. July 1 - Aug. 19, 2022
OUTS, published by Skylark Editions. “For this publication, the editors of SKYLARK EDITIONS asked 70 artists to provide us with a photograph which didn’t fit into any of their projects, their OUT, but remained compelling for them nonetheless.”

Paul Shambroom presents Past Time, in conversation with Tim Davis, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, April 29, 2021 (archived)

Sub-Rural #2, Paul Shambroom- Past Time, review in Bad At Sports, Paul Krainak, May 3, 2021

Past Time selected for photo-eye 2020 Favorite Photobooks

It's a Book, Dummy! Conversation about Past Time with Eric William Carroll as part of his IGTV series It's a Book, Dummy! (December 30, 2020) (archived)

Getty Museum Blog What Does Democracy Look Like? A conversation with Mazie Harris, Assistant Curator of Photography.