Pelle Cass
Brookline, Massachusetts
pellecass.com
pelle_cass@yahoo.com

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2024 "Crowded Fields," Cortona on the Move, 14th International Photography Festival, Cortona, Italy. Curated by Paolo Woods
2024 "Pelle Cass," Praise Shadows Art Gallery, Brookline, MA
2023 "Pelle Cass," Gallery by the Harbor, Hong Kong
2022 "Pelle Cass," NEO Shibuya TV (slideshow on eight outdoor digital billboards), Tokyo, Japan
2022 "About an Hour," Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN
2022 "Crowded Fields," Foto Relevance, Houston, TX
2021 "Crowded Fields," Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 "Crowded Fields," Camerawork Gallery, Portland, OR
2012 "Strangers," Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2011 "Selected People," Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2010 "Selected People," Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2008 "Pins," Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2007 "Fugitives," Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2003 "Northeast Exposure: Vaughn Sills and Pelle Cass," Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA. Curated by Leslie K. Brown
1985 Stux Gallery, Boston, MA
1983 Stux Gallery, Boston, MA
1982 Frank Marino Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Donnelly + Stux Gallery, Boston, MA
1979 A Street/Donnelly Gallery, Boston, MA
1979 Gallery One, New England College of Photography, Boston, MA
1978 Fogg Art Museum, Print Room, Cambridge, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2027 (planned) “TIME.” 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo, Japan.
2027 (planned) “PLAY,” Fotografiska Tallinn (Jorven Viilik, curator), Tallinn, Estonia
2026 “PLAY,” part of Oulu 2026 European Capital of Culture, organized by Fotografiska Tallinn (Jorven Viilik, curator), Oulu, Finland
2026 “Spring Festival: Horses,” Lishui Photography Museum, Lishui, Zhejiang Province, China
2026 “SPIELFELD. Sport & Kunst” (Playing Field: Sport & Art), Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
2026 “Art of the Game,” Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
2025 “Game Time,” Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 “East to West,” Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 “The Summer Games,” KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY
2024 “Los Raros/Las Raras: New Narratives in Contemporary Collage,” SMF La Pasion, Valladolid, Spain (Cless and Máximo Tuja, curators)
2023 “Sport Games,” Masovian Center for Contemporary Art “Elektrownia,” Radom, Poland
2023 “Basic Needs and Justice: The Pursuit of Human Flourishing,” Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
2023 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2022–23 “New Formations,” deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2022 “Just an Idea Books,” Just a Space (Sarah Andelman, curator), Paris, France
2021 “Blue,” Beth Urdang Gallery, Wellesley, MA
2020 “#ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis,” International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2020 “Quarantine Exhibition,” Space52, Athens, Greece
2019 “As Many Reps as Possible,” Naughton Gallery, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2019 “Information Superpower,” Graphic Matters International Biennial, Breda, The Netherlands
2018 “The Fence,” images from Crowded Fields, United Photo Industries, Brooklyn, NY, and traveling to Boston, Atlanta, Santa Fe, Durham, Denver, Calgary, and Sarasota
2018 “Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives,” New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2017 “Emerging Photographers Showcase,” Mt. Rokko International Photography Festival, Kobe, Japan
2016 “Future Tense,” curated by the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Gallery 561, Albuquerque, NM
2016 “Selected People,” slide exhibition, part of Angkor Wat Photo Festival, Cambodia
2015 “The Expressive Voice,” selections from the Permanent Collection, Danforth Art Museum, Waltham, MA
2015 “Special Editions: The PRC Print Program,” Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
2014 “Selected People,” part of MetaMorf 2014: Biennial for Art and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
2014 “Selected People,” 9th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts (BIP 2014), Liège, Belgium
2014 “Tough Turf: New Directions in Street Photography,” Humble Arts Foundation (Jon Feinstein and Amani Olu, curators)
2013 “Digital Photography/Image Manipulation,” presented by Phrame at RECYCLART, Brussels, Belgium
2012 “ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY,” the central exhibition of Kaunas Photo 2012 (Mindaugas Kavaliauskas, curator), M. Žilinskas Art Gallery, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2012 “PRC in NYC,” New York Photo Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2011 “La XI Bienal Internacional de Fotografía de Tenerife Fotonoviembre 2011,” Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
2010 “Critical Mass Winners,” Photographic Center Northwest (Andy Adams, curator), Seattle, WA
2009 “Kaunas Photo Festival: RECYCLED” (Mindaugas Kavaliauskas, curator), Kaunas, Lithuania
2009 “New England Photography Biennial,” Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2008 “Is It Possible to Make a Photograph of New Jersey Regardless of Where You Are in the World?,” Pierro Gallery (Laurel Ptak, curator), South Orange, NJ
2008 “Art and Text,” Gallery One Visual Arts Center (Robert Tomlinson, curator), Ellensburg, WA
1988 “The Ninth Annual Boston Drawing Show,” Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
1986 “Inaugural,” Stux Gallery, New York, NY
1986 “Gallery Artists,” Stux Gallery, Boston, MA
1985 “Landscape,” Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
1984 “Small, Smaller, Tiny,” Stux Gallery, Boston, MA
1984 “Major Paper Works,” Stux Gallery, Boston, MA
1984 “Summer Review,” Stux Gallery, Boston, MA
1983 “Elements of Landscape,” Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
1983 “Recent Acquisitions,” Clarence Kennedy Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1983 “Polaroid Images,” Gallery East, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
1982 “Gallery Artists,” Stux Gallery, Boston, MA
1982 “Summer Selections,” Frank Marino Gallery, New York, NY
1982 “Artist Photographers and a Photographer of Art,” Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY
1981 “Still Life,” The Members’ Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1980 “Contemporary Photography,” New Art Center, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
1980 “The Photographer’s Hand,” originated at George Eastman House, curated by Susan Dodge Peters, and traveled with Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) to the Museum of Art, São Paulo, Brazil; Nagase Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, TX; and additional venues.

Public Art Projects
2026 "Play," Metro Art Passageway Gallery at Union Station, Los Angeles, CA
2026 “Crowded Fields,” Transportation Mall Photography Space, Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, GA
2024 “RATP Invites Fisheye to Celebrate the Diversity of Sport,” Paris Metro stations, presented by RATP and Fisheye Magazine, Paris
2023 “Override: A Billboard Project,” Tenth Edition, a citywide collaborative public art initiative between EXPO CHICAGO and the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events

Art Fairs
2025 OTM Gallery, MIA Photo Fair
2024 “The Photography Show,” AIPAD, The Armory, New York, NY, presented by Koslov Larsen Gallery
2020 “Main Section,” Area Code Art Fair (Octavio Zaya, curator), Boston, MA

Public Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art
Danforth Art Museum
Fidelity
Fogg Art Museum
Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University
JP Morgan Chase Collection
Lehigh University Art Galleries
Lishui Photography Museum, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province, China
Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
New Mexico Museum of Art
Peabody Essex Museum
The Polaroid Collection
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum

Honors and Awards
2023 American Society of Magazine Editors Award for Photography, New York Magazine cover, “Reasons to Love New York”
2023 Art Directors Club Award for Photography, New York Magazine cover, “Reasons to Love New York”
2020 A.R.T. (Artist’s Resource Trust) Award, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
2019 Bronze Lion, Print, Cannes Lions (commissioned by Africa for ESPN’s “Never Miss a Move” campaign)
2019 Silver Award, Gráfica, El Ojo, Cannes Lions (commissioned by Africa for ESPN’s “Never Miss a Move” campaign)
2018 Top 50, Critical Mass, Photolucida, Portland, OR
2018 Fellowship, Yaddo
2016 Janet Sloane Residency, Yaddo
2015 Finalist Award in Photography, Massachusetts Cultural Council
2012 A.R.T. (Artist’s Resource Trust) Award, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
2012 Fellowship, Yaddo
2010 Fellowship, Yaddo
2010 Nominee, New England Art Award for Best Artist in a Group Show, Danforth Museum Photography Biennial
2009 Nominee, Foster Artist Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2009 Top 50, Critical Mass, Photolucida, Portland, OR
2008 Top 50, Critical Mass, Photolucida, Portland, OR
2005 Nominee, Santa Fe Prize, Santa Fe Center for Photography, Santa Fe, NM
2004 Nominee, ICA/Digitas Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1980–1984 Polaroid Collection Fellowship, Cambridge, MA
1979 Finalist, Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship

Artist Book
Cass, Pelle. Pelle Cass. Introduction by Durga Chew-Bose. Just an Idea Books, 2021.

Selected Books and Exhibition Catalogues
SPIELFELD. Sport & Kunst (Playing Field: Sport & Art). Exhibition catalogue, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany, 2026.
Los Raros/Las Raras: New Narratives in Contemporary Collage. 2024.
When Sports Inspires. Trajectorie Studio, 2024.
Antidote Magazine. Antidote Curates: Pelle Cass. Special issue, 2022.
Crosby Studios. How to Land in the Metaverse: From Interior Design to the Future of Design. Rizzoli International Publications, 2023.
Nassir, Jeremie, and Serge Ibaka. When Basketball Inspires. Trajectorie Studio, 2022.
Heine, Florian. The Art of Illusion. Prestel, 2020.
Editors. Fisheye Photo Review 2020.21. Fisheye, 2020.
Frichot, Hélène, Catharina Gabrielsson, and Jonathan Metzger, eds. Deleuze and the City. Oxford University Press, 2016. Includes the chapter “The Impredicative City, or What Can a Boston Square Do?” by Marc Boumeester and Andrej Radman, featuring discussion of Cass’s photograph.
Felton, Nicholas. PhotoViz. Gestalten, 2016. Four-page spread featuring Selected People.
Langford, Michael, Anna Fox, and Richard Smith. Langford’s Basic Photography. 10th edition. Focal Press, 2016.
Solo: Photographs. Otto Publishing, 2013.
Kavaliauskas, Mindaugas, ed. Recycled: Kaunas Photo Festival 09. Kaunas Photo Festival, 2010.
Ptak, Laurel. Is It Possible to Make a Photograph of New Jersey Regardless of Where You Are in the World? Exhibition catalogue. Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ, 2008.
Peters, Susan Dodge. The Photographer’s Hand. Exhibition brochure. George Eastman House, 1982.
Hitchcock, Barbara, ed. Selections 1: From the Polaroid Collection. Verlag, 1982.

Selected Editorial, Commercial, and Music Commissions
2026
Arkells
Basketcase
Nike
2024
NFL Films
2023
JP Morgan Chase
Palmer Magazine
Ssense × Gucci
2022
Antidote Magazine × Valentino
Many of Them Magazine
The New York Times
New York Magazine
On Running
2021
Buffalo Zine × Burberry
Dazed × Jacquemus
Veilance × Arc’teryx
Specialized Bicycle Components
2020
GQ
Ssense Magazine
It’s Nice That
Golfer’s Journal
2019
Nike × Antidote Magazine
Ssense × Victory Journal
Orlebar Brown
Zack Villere
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine
Pomona College Football
Private Collector, Strangers portrait series
2018
Consumer Reports
Corporate Collector, Selected People commission
2015
Maxim

Selected Features and Profiles
2026
“Connections: Pelle Cass.” MAPS Magazine (Korea), Vol. 08, March 16, 2026.
Marie Pozdniakov. “Pelle Cass.” Interview and photo feature. Parisienne Magazine. Forthcoming, 2026.
“Quincey Spagnoletti in Conversation with Pelle Cass.” Cover photograph. photoED (Canada), Issue 76, Spring 2026.
Geneviève Ruiz. “Créer du non-sens athlétique.” Portfolio featuring photographs by Pelle Cass. Hémisphères, no. 31. June 2026.
2024
Ana Murcha. “Everything Everywhere, All at Once.” Vogue Portugal, Issue 252. August 2024.
Editors. “Subways, Sphinxes and the Stones: Highlights from NYC’s The Photography Show.” The Guardian. April 24, 2024.
Loring Knoblauch. “Highlights from the 2024 AIPAD Photography Show.” Collector Daily. April 30, 2024.
Ana Tess. “Pelle Cass: I Never Fabricate.” Lampoon Magazine. Summer 2024.
2023
Robert Diament. “Pelle Cass.” Circle Zero Eight. Issue 04.
Editors. “Pelle Cass: Photographs, First Solo Exhibition in Asia.” South China Morning Post. March 3, 2023.
Editors. “Pelle Cass: Photographs | Art in Hong Kong.” Time Out Hong Kong. March 3, 2023.
Tania Ralli. “12 Art Exhibits to Explore This Winter.” WBUR Arts & Culture. January 9, 2023.
Nell Porter Brown. “Bodies in Motion.” Harvard Magazine. January–February 2023.
2022
Juule Kay. “#LIEBE: FROZEN TIME.” Editorial feature with photographs by Pelle Cass. Numéro Berlin, Issue 13, Winter 2022/2023.
Editors. “Autonomy.” Le Mile, Issue 30. 2022.
Editors. Le Petit Voyeur, Issue 07. 2022.
Editors. “Morning Links.” ARTnews. December 6, 2022.
Christopher Bonanos. “One Intersection, 72 Celebrities, 10,912 Clicks of the Shutter: The Making of Our ‘Reasons to Love New York’ Cover.” New York Magazine. December 5, 2022.
Isabelle Durso. “Seven Must-See Arts and Culture Events in Boston This Winter.” Boston Magazine. November 15, 2022,
2021
Laura Bannister. “8 Contemporary Artists Taking Fresh Approaches to Sports.” Artsy. July 19, 2021.
Saskia Solomon. “Pelle Cass’s Composite Images Reimagine Sports Photography.” Prospero, The Economist. February 19, 2021.
Mee-Lai Stone. “Some People Are on the Pitch! Sports Photos with a Twist.” The Guardian. February 11, 2021.
Cate McQuaid. “Photos Teem with Energy and Athletes at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery.” The Boston Globe. February 18, 2021.
Pam Reynolds. “In ‘Crowded Fields,’ Artist Pelle Cass Takes an Artful Approach to Sports Photography.” The ARTery, WBUR. February 18, 2021.
2019
“Connections.” MAPS Magazine, No. 8, 2019. Photographs by Pelle Cass.
Louis Kaplan. “Pelle’s Playtime.” FOAM Magazine, No. 54. 2019.
A.S. Hamrah. “Multiplicity.” Victory Journal, No. 20. 2019.
A.S. Hamrah. “Fever Pitch: The Photographs of Pelle Cass in Motion.” Ssense. November 15, 2019.
Editors. “Pelle Cass.” McSweeney’s Quarterly, No. 55. 2019.
Annie Armstrong. “Pelle Cass Taught Me How to Like Sports.” Cover story. Boston Art Review. Spring 2019.
Editors. “Emerging Artists.” Musee Photo, No. 20. 2019.
Julien Langendorf. “Extravaganza.” Society (France). July 25, 2019.
Editors. “Perpetual Motion: A New Way of Seeing Dartmouth Athletes in Motion.” Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. September/October 2019.
2018
Mathilda Cuzon. “Dans le grand bain photographique.” Beaux Arts (France). September 2018.
“Todo el mundo en la foto.” Quo (Spain). June 2018.
Editors. “Dangerous Dives.” NatGeo Kids (UK). Summer 2018.
Gus Lubin. “See if You Can Spot What’s Wrong in These Photos of Crowds.” Business Insider. July 9, 2018.
Ellyn Kail. “These Funny, Disarming Photos Will Make You See Sports in a New Way.” Feature Shoot. July 4, 2018.
Fanny Arlandis. “Ce que je voulais, c’était du bordel!” Slate France. July 27, 2018.
David Schonauer. “What We Learned This Week: The Next Generation of Fashion Photography Stars.” ProPhotoDaily, American Photography. May 3, 2018.
Laura Collinson. “Crowded Fields: Composite Photographs of Sports Fields That Show Human Patterns.” Creative Boom. April 24, 2018.
Andy Smith. “A Look at ‘Crowded Fields’ Captured by Photographer Pelle Cass.” Hi-Fructose. April 18, 2018.
Jesus Diaz. “These Mesmerizing Images of Athletes Reinvent Sports Photography.” Fast Company. April 16, 2018.
Michael Zhang. “Hours of Sports Events Photoshopped into Distinct Single Photos.” PetaPixel. April 13, 2018.
Laura Staugaitis. “The Dizzying Patterns of Movement at Athletic Events Captured in Composite Photographs by Pelle Cass.” Colossal. April 12, 2018.
Editors. “The Brilliant and Absurd Time-Lapse Photography of Pelle Cass.” Booooooom. April 4, 2018.
2013–2017
Jessica Stewart. “Composite Photo Created by Selectively Omitting People.” My Modern Met. May 16, 2017.
Editors. “Photos of Exaggerated Order and Chaos by Photographer Pelle Cass.” Booooooom. May 10, 2017.
Margaret Rhodes. “Take a Trip through the Wild New World of Photoviz.” Wired. March 24, 2016.
Anne Quito. “Mesmerizing Infographics Stitched Together from Millions of Selfies and Snapshots.” Quartz. March 30, 2016.
Editors. “Pelle Cass: Selected People.” Digital Camera World (UK). May 2016.
Creative Boom. “Selected People: Photographer Merges Hundreds of Images to Create a Chaotic Overpopulated World.” December 17, 2015.
Mark Feeney. “Show at PRC Offers Visual Diversity.” The Boston Globe. October 1, 2015.
Kevin Hartnett. “The Hidden Patterns of Boston.” The Boston Sunday Globe. August 4, 2013.
Washington Post. “A Busy World in a Camera (Annotated by the Photographer).” July 17, 2013.
Jakob Schiller. “Time-Squished Photos Turn Random Moments into Patterns.” Wired Raw File. June 28, 2013.

Selected Editorial Publications
Robb Report. June 2026.
The Observer. May 11, 2025.
Zeit Wissen Magazine. July 2024.
The New York Times. March-April 2023.
Harvard Business Review. 2023.
Financial Times. 2022.
The Atlantic. October 2020.
GQ. October 2020.
Harvard Business Manager (Germany). September 2020.
Financial Times Weekend Magazine. April 25, 2020.
Personal Magazin (Germany). Cover and cover story, August 2020.
Ssense (Canada). Spring/Summer 2020.
Die Zeit (Germany). December 5, 2019.
Die Zeit (Germany). October 10, 2019.
Hohe Luft (Germany). August 6, 2019.
Bloomberg Businessweek. June 25, 2018.
Personal Magazin (Germany). December 2018.
Inc. November 2018.
Consumer Reports. February 2018.
Media Interviews and Conversations
AOI. “Searching for Self-Identity with Fellowship Artists Prisca Munkeni Monnier, Laurie Simmons, and Pelle Cass.” Podcast. January 7, 2022.
Victor Hong. “Pelle Cass Interview.” Victor Hong Berries. Podcast. November 2021.
The Editors. “Pelle Cass Interview.” The Weird Show. Podcast. November 2021.
Mika Brzezinski. “New York Is Back and Here Are the Reasons to Love the City.” Morning Joe, CNBC. December 5, 2022.
Sofia Bernal. “El deporte también es un arte: Pelle Cass.” Atzeca TV (Mexico). June 17, 2020.
Daylight Books. “Pelle Cass.” July 2020.
Troy Schulze. “Pelle Cass: Selected People.” The Front Row, KUHF, Houston Public Radio. October 28, 2011.
Vice Media, The Creators Project. “Pelle Cass: Selected People.” Video documentary. October 15, 2013.

Education
1993 B.A. in Art, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
1977 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1974 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
1972 Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Born 1954, Brooklyn, New York





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