Photos by BIRON: Selected Bibliography

Photography:

Featured in 3 European photography books, several gayzines (BLUE, XY, aK, OG, OBLIVION, ODYSSEY, GRUF and FRONTIERS) and twenty exhibitions including the "The Male Nude" group exhibition with works by Joel-Peter Witkin, Bruce of L.A., and Edward Weston held at the SCOTT NICHOLS GALLERY, San Francisco.

For Biron Mail Art in the 1970s see Getty Museum (Los Angeles): Inventory of the Jean Brown Papers (1915-1995)
http://www.getty.edu/gri/htmlfindingaids/jnbrown_m7.html

EXHIBITIONS -- (PUBLICATIONS follow)

EXHIBITIONS are individual shows in San Francisco unless otherwise noted:

2018, Photos by BIRON website exhibition, "Verges victorieuses/ Hot rods," of 34 8x12" Fuji archival prints of hard-on images sent to the Au Bonheur du Jour Gallery in Paris, April 2018.

2014 The Kinsey Institute, University of Indiana, Bloomington. Group exhibition: FLORA presents including my Asian Male Nudes book, January 24 – April 4, 2014.

2014 The First International LGBT Juried Show: ROUND HOLE SQUARE PEG, a new LGBT visual aesthetic for the 21st Century at Photo LA (L.A MART, Los Angeles), Jan. 16-19. Then to be exhibited at The Artists Corner Gallery & Bookmaking, Hollywood, CA, 'til February 28th.

2013-14 Au Bonheur du Jour Gallery, Paris. "NUS MASCULINS," Nov. 30, 2013-January 31, 2014.

2013-14 The Kinsey Institute, University of Indiana, Bloomington. Group exhibition: "Past/Present," September 6, 2013-January 15, 2014.

2013 Photoworks, SF Gallery. Book Exhibition:"Transfixed by Art," 15x11.5" 100 page hardcov

   2012 Center for Sex And Culture, Tough Love, Folsom St. Fair Group show, September 7-21.

         2012 Au Bonheur du Jour Gallery, Nus masculins asiatiques/Asian Male Nudes April 4-May 26 (Paris).



              2011 Kinsey Institute Annual Juried Art Show , May-July (Bloomington, IN).

                2010 Au Bonheur du Jour Gallery, nus masculins de 1870-2010, May-July, (Paris).

               2008 Au Bonheur du Jour Gallery, Les Marins..., Sept.-Oct, (Paris).

2007 Au Bonheur du Jour Gallery , Le Corps et son Visage, group show, May 16-June 30 (Paris).

   2003 Blow Buddies, a sex club: Photos by BIRON: HARD BOYS ONLY (32) 11x17" photocopies.



1999 A Different Light Exhibition:  "Photos by BIRON: Pretty Boys," 12"x16" ektaprints.

                1999 INSOMNIA Art/Photography - BIRON Guest Gallery (Paris) http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/7747/

               1998 UTOPIA Exhibition (Bangkok, Thailand) – Selection of Biron's photography from 1994-98 @ Gay Asian site http://www.freakography.com/gal.htm

   1997-98 Photos by BIRON (USA) – Free for All galleries feature over 200 Photos by Biron. Not X-rated. http://www.photos-biron.com/

1997-98 Photos by BIRON 18+Adult Galleries (Amsterdam, Netherlands) –X-rated male photos. Adult Check (AVS) entry. http://www.male-art.com/biron/

1997-98 "A Bad Boys presents Photos by BIRON" (Netherlands) – Free galleries with 25 x-rated photos. http://www.abadboy.com/biron/

   1997 Interview and photographs in MANBASE (Germany, November). Multi-lingual European gayzine!

1996 People's Cafe – CENSORED: Hand colored 32"x40" blow-ups of portraits from CLUB JESUS. Closed down by management (reason given: text on Biron's publicity flyer for exhibition describing CLUB JESUS' public events was found offensive.)

1996 Moby Dick – CENSORED: Nude male photo exhibition closed down by management morning after well-attended artist's reception. (reason given: client displeasure with the images exhibited . Displayed only six days of advertised month-long show.)

1996 Wings Galleria. – Group exhibition of photos and graphic arts auctioned in AIDS fund raiser at the San Francisco Eagle bar.

1996 Lone Star Saloon – First exhibition of "Homage to Peter Berlin" series.

1996 Group exhibition: auction AIDS donated works at the Eagle

1996 ARTwork Gallery – Three Group exhibitions including: "Men at Work" and "Over 50"

1995 RoB Gallery – Selected works featuring Dwone Jones and Zak Chandler

1995 Pancho Villa – Second Exhibition of 80" x 128" photocopy blow-up

1994 Electric City/Cheap TV - KCAT-TV – Video-taped color prints and b/w photocopies.
1994 Worn Out West (co-exhibition)
1994 Ram Studios – Group Lesbian/Gay Pride invitational exhibition

1994 Castro Station – Selected works from Eagle Exhibition

1994 San Francisco Eagle – Major multi-cultural Gay Pride month exhibition

1994 Scott Nichols Gallery – Group exhibition: "The Male Nude" with Edward Weston, Joel-Peter Witkin, Bruce of LA and others.

1994 Giladon – AON (Architecture of Noise) series

1994 Zip Zap – First exhibition of photocopy blow-ups

1994 End Up – 20"x30" color prints1994 Café International First Exhibition of 80" x 128" photocopy blow-up

1994 Headquarters – First exhibition of 20"x30" color print blow-ups

1993 A Different Light – First individual photography exhibition. Photos from 1993 San Francisco Pride Parade and Celebration

1979 Fey-Way Studios – Group exhibition: photocopy collage

1979 Artist Guild of Detroit (Michigan) – Group exhibition: "Lightworks Envelope Show; Exhibition of Correspondence Art"

1978 Ann Arbor (Michigan) Public Library – Group exhibition: "Lightworks Envelope Show; Exhibition of Correspondence Art"

1978 Top Floor Gallery – Group exhibition: showed photocopy collages

1977 Café Ladyfingers, Ann Arbor, Michigan – "The Vogel Show Leftovers" conceptual piece

1961 UNH Student Union, Durham, New Hampshire – Juried photography exhibition: 1st and 3rd place ribbons

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Têtu, No. 138, Archéologue du Désir, (two Photos by BIRON of Itay Atias as sailor) October 2008, pp. 126-127, 131.

• Photos by BIRON: The Fetsh Fashion of Peter Berlin, Queer Arts Resource (QAR), January 2006 @ <www.queer-arts.org/berlin/index000.html/>.

• Peter Berlin: Between Porn and Art, Queer Arts Resource (QAR), December 2005 @ <www.queer-arts.org/berlin/index000.html>.

• Greasetank: Our Very Own Flowers of Evil, Queer Arts Resource (QAR), September 2005 @ <www.queer-arts.org/greasetank/>.

• Eurofærie Newsletter Quarterly «Die Marieposa Zeitung» (MpZ): The Sex Issue, Winter 2003/2004, Vol. 3 No. 1, "The Pursuit of Happiness and the New Morality" and 2 Photos by Biron of Shauntay, pp. 27-28.

• GRACE CATHEDRAL REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY [September] 2003. Back cover and inside Photos by BIRON of the San Francisco Grace Cathedral Peace Prayer Service, March 2, 2003.

• MAGNET Exhibition photo by BIRON of Jòan in BAY AREA REPORTER, San Francisco, 3 July 2003, p.39.

• SAN FRANCISCO BAY TIMES, featured photo by BIRON in each issue from March 2003 to August 2004.

• SAN FRANCISCO BAY TIMES, Vol. 24., No. 7 , San Francisco, CA, December 24, 2002. (New Years color cover of ITAY with poped bottle of champagne.)

• TRIKONE magazine, Vol. 15 , No. 2 , San Jose, CA, April 2000. (Cover and layout of Rob Kumar in this East-Asian Gay magazine.· XY magazine (No. 24, April 2000). Full color cover of Itay and eight page portfolio.· Blue magazine (No. 23, Sydney, October 1999) 10 page color layout and profile "ALL SORTS - Where do you go from Radical? In the case of 70's artist BIRON he's moved from the Xerox to photography, and is using the internet to push the (pornographic) envelope."

· XY magazine (No. 20, July 1999). Photo of Itay and Murasaki.

· aK magazine (3/99, Zurich, June-July 1999) Full color cover and four page color layout.

· XY magazine (No. 19, May-June 1999). Photo of Joàn sailor boy.

· XY magazine (No. 18, April 1999). Photos of Josh Puckett.

· BLACK BEAUTY, Janssen Verlag, Berlin, 1999. The best images of 9 international photographers: Biron, Pierre D'Harville, Norman Hatton, Jamal, Kaguta Mbeya, Bruno de Medeiros, Hal Roth, Vesselin Valchev,and Leonard Zett.

· XY magazine (No. 15, Dec.-Jan. 1999). 'Versaceboy' layout with Itay.

· PHOTOS BY BIRON: RAINBOW BOYS, Vol. 3, Photo CD-ROM with 300+ original Biron images of three (3) multi-cultural 18+ sexy male models (Angel, Ba, and Jeff) in complete sets of GIF and JPEG High-Resolution digital images, October 1998.

· PHOTOS BY BIRON: RAINBOW BOYS, Vol. 2, Photo CD-ROM with 300+ original Biron images of three (3) multi-cultural 18+ sexy male models (Da-Li, Rak, and Scooter) in complete sets of GIF and JPEG High-Resolution digital images, September 1998.

· PHOTOS BY BIRON: RAINBOW BOYS, Vol. 1, Photo CD-ROM with 300+ original Biron images of three (3) multi-cultural 18+ sexy male models (Devesh, Leo, and Stephe) in complete sets of GIF and JPEG High-Resolution digital images, September 1998.

· TRIKONE magazine, Vol 12., No. 4 , San Jose, CA, October 1998. (Cover and photo essay on cross-cultural Gay relationships for this 10 year old worldwide distributed East-Asian Gay magazine)

· OG [Oriental Guys] magazine, Issue 20, Sydney, July 1997. (Full inside cover advertisement featuring 36 color thumbnail Photos by Biron.)

· ISSEY, Vol. 2, Photo CD-ROM with 300+ original Biron images of OG coverboy in two complete sets of GIF and JPEG High-Resolution digital images,   May 1997.

· ISSEY, Vol. 1, Photo CD-ROM with 300+ original Biron images of OG coverboy in two complete sets of GIF and JPEG High-Resolution digital images,    February 1997.

· OG [Oriental Guys] magazine, Issue 19, Sydney, February 1997. (Color cover and 15 page color photo essay featuring Issey.)

· MÄNNER AKT 2 - THE MALE NUDE, Vol. 2, Janssen Verlag, Berlin, 1996. (120 page anthology of international photographers includes photos by George Platt Lynes, Tom Bianchi, Dean Keefer, Roy Blakey, and Biron.)

· OBLIVION magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 4, San Francisco, May 16-June 17, 1996. (Nine photos by Biron includes color cover.)

"Steamy massage-auction at SF Eagle nets $2,255 for PARADIGM," BAY AREA REPORTER, May 30, 1996, p. 14.

· MIKE- TADZIO OF THE NINETIES, Janssen Verlag, Berlin, 1995. (Hard-cover edition, 64 color Photos by BIRON evocative of the androgynous golden-haired boy in Thomas Mann's classic novella DEATH IN VENICE).

· GRUF [Great Unshaven Face] magazine , Vol. 1, Issue 4, San Francisco, September 1995. (twenty-five photos by Biron includes color cover and centerfold.)

· "This Do Not Look Past" two-page layout designed by Architecture of Noise [AON] featuring Photos by Biron and the poetry of two of his models in SAN FRANCISCO FRONTIERS, Vol. 13, Issue 16, San Francisco, December 8, 1994, 36-37.

· ODYSSEY magazine, Vol 3, Issue 17, San Francisco, September 23-October 7, 1994. (First ODYSSEY color cover: Photo by Biron of Dwone Jones.)

· "G.A.W.K. TALK: Jon Sugar on Bashings, Rap and Radio," THE SENTINEL, Vol. 21, No. 25, June 23, 1993 (San Francisco) 88, 92.

· BAY AREA RESOURCES FOR TIBETANS, published by the Bay Area Friends of Tibet, San Francisco, July 1993 (Detailed twelve page manual with Introduction.)

· "The Tibetan Resettlement Project in the Bay Area," DHARMA WHEEL, Spring 1993, (Buddhist Churches of America, San Francisco).

· "Art Only Exists Beyond the Confines of Accepted Behavior," Crime Contest conceptual piece by Biron, reproduced by Jerry Dreva, in HIGH PERFORMANCE, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1980 (Los Angeles) 26.

· TRISTAN TZARA: DADA AND OTHER PROJECTS, 1980. Catalog for Tzara book exhibition held at the Main Library, University of California at Berkeley, May - June 1980.

· LIGHTWORKS ENVELOPE SHOW - An Exhibition Catalog of Correspondence Art (see Exhibitions above), Lightworks Magazine, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1979.

· G. A. Cavellini, NEMO PROPHETA IN PATRIA . Edizioni Nuovi Stumenti, Brescia, Italy, 1978. This homage to Cavellini includes a photocopy-collage of "Andy Warhol: Homage to Richard Mutt [1975]."

· "The Vogel Show Leftovers,"(documentation on conceptual piece by Biron, exhibited at Ann Arbor's Café Ladyfingers, November 11-12, 1977) in CHEAP TRASH, One, Spring 1978 (Cheap Trash Productions, Ann Arbor, Michigan) 4-5.

· Documentation of conceptual piece by Ben Vautier at Fluxus Concert held at the Corroboree Gallery of New Concepts at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, April 1, 1978, in CHEAP TRASH, One, Spring 1978(Cheap Trash Productions, Ann Arbor,) 11.

· "Ann Arbor Gays Proud of Past," THE ANN ARBOR NEWS, No. 1 & No. 3,January 1 & 3, 1978 (Ann Arbor, Michigan) B1, B4 & 15, respectively. (Comprehensive two-part article co-authored with Laura Sky Brown, traces ten years (1969-78) of Ann Arbor's Lesbian/Gay history.)

· 1977 LESBIAN AND GAY MALE DIRECTORY (First comprehensive local directory published by Gay Community Services, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1977- 2,000 copies, distributed free.)

· THE PINK TRIANGLE, published by The Pink Triangle Project, Gay Community Services, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1977. (2,000 Pink Triangle buttons attached to printed card explaining fact 250,000 Gays wore pink triangle symbol to their death in German Nazi concentration camps; distributed free .)

· YOUTH SURVIVAL GUIDE published by E.A.S.Y.-- Easy Access to Services for Youth, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Fall 1977. (Reference brochure - including Gay referrals - 4,000 copies distributed free to all public high school students in Ann Arbor, Michigan.)

· THE PHILIP J. BIRON TRISTAN TZARA COLLECTION, (Book catalog, preface, with six original drawings and a poem by Biron ) October 1977 (Ann Arbor, Michigan).

· "Andy Warhol: Homage to Richard Mutt [1975]," LIGHTWORKS (Ann Arbor,Michigan), 1976. (First Joint-Assisted-Ready-Made. A 1975 collaboration with Andy Warhol in Ann Arbor.

· "Editorial Comments: Gay Space/Gay Pessimism," GAY SPACE, Vol. 1, No.1, July 16, 1976 (Gay Community Services, Ann Arbor, Michigan) 2.

· "Editorial Space: Don't Spread it Around," (article on new Ann Arbor VD Clinic) GAY SPACE, Vol. 1, No. 2, July 30, 1976 (Gay Community Services, Ann Arbor, Michigan) 2.

- "The ADVOCATE: Capitalist Manifesto," GAY SUNSHINE, No. 28, Spring 1976 (Gay Sunshine Press, San Francisco) 22-24. (Critical analysis quotes from secret Chicago conference documents revealing the ADVOCATE magazine's strategy to isolate leftist elements within the gay community and establish a clearly defined gay capitalist market.)

· "The Secret French and German Editions of Tristan Tzara's Dada 3," RACKHAM LITERARY STUDIES, Vol. 6, 1975 (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) 35-40.

· "Philippe Soupault's Early Contact with Zurich Dada: A Gracious Butterfly Flirting with Dada in Les Champs Magnétiques," in RACKHAM LITERARY STUDIES, Vol. 6, 1975 (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)41-49.

· TRISTAN TZARA, POET: DADA/SURREALISM/COMMUNISM, 1975, catalog for Tzara rare book exhibition held at University of Michigan Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June-July 1975.

· "Interview with Spanish playwright Arrabal," translation from the French of exclusive interview on theater and Garcia Lorca, in MICHIGAN FREE PRESS, March 1975 (Ann Arbor, Michigan).

PRIOR WORK HISTORY:

Grant Writer:

Grant Proposals and Annual Report for the Bay Area Cluster of the Tibetan U.S. Resettlement Project, sponsored by the Bay Area Friends of Tibet (1992-93).

Litigation Paralegal:

Cartwright, Slobodin, Bokelman et al. (Asbestos-Plaintiff litigation); Rogers, Joseph, O'Donnell & Quinn; Feldman, Waldman & Kline; California Appellate Project (CAP) Computer case management of defense cases of condemned prisoners on California's death row; San Francisco (1985-1992).

College Teacher:

French Language & Literature, University of Michigan, Drake University, and University of Iowa. (Recipient of Drake University Fund Grant for advanced French language TV course. Taught courses on French comedy and the role of the woman in French literature at University of Michigan's experimental Residential College.)

EDUCATION:

· ABD, French Literature, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Dissertation proposal.

· M.A., French Literature, University of Iowa (Iowa City).

· Certificat de Français Usuel, Sorbonne, University of Paris.

· B.A., History and Literature, University of New Hampshire (Durham).