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Greg Stimac was born a first generation Croatian-American in Euclid, OH. His interest in photography matured in Linda, CA, while attending Yuba Community College (1997-2002) where he practiced traditional darkroom processes. In 2002, his work was included in the Crocker-Kingsley: California’s Biennial at the Crocker Art Museum, (Sacramento, CA) juried by artist Gladys Nilsson. He relocated to Chicago to finish his undergraduate education at Columbia College (2003-2005) and found employment at both the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Croatian Ethnic Institute. From 2011-2013 Stimac attended graduate school at Stanford University.
Artistic practice
Stimac first gained attention for his serial photographic series titled “Recoil” (2005), a project made in collaboration with gun enthusiasts at unregulated shooting ranges in California and Missouri. Other subjects from this period include; lawn mowing, unattended campfires, urine-filled bottles at the roadside, and cars peeling out.
In 2009 Stimac collected ephemera on plexiglass plates attached to the grill of his car between destinations, then scanned them at road-side with a flatbed scanner. This work became a series loosely referred as “Driving Photographs” and served as a departure from his traditional photographic practice. Each individual image bears the point and destination as its title.
In recent work, Stimac continues to investigate myth and reality of American identity through its landscape, cultural traditions, folk heroes, and histories, with subject matter such as the Golden Spike, Old Faithful, the Flag of the United States, and America’s Independence Day (the 4th of July). Stimac’s work has been collected and exhibited by institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, and the Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT.
Exhibitions
2013 Lost Spike, In The Pines, Jackson, WY
2012 The Long Stare, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago IL
2011 Empire, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 Empire, New Capital, Chicago, IL
2010 Self-Titled, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
2010 Self-Titled, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Recoil; Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2007 Self-Titled, Museum of Contemporary Art, 12 X 12, Chicago, IL, 2007
2007 Mowing the Lawn, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group exhibitions
2013 The 7 Borders, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
2013 Stanford MFA Thesis Exhibition, Stanford, CA
2013 Fifteensixteenseventeeneighteennineteen (LAND AND SEA), Southern Exposure, San Francisco CA
2012 Self-Help Book Club, Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
2011 Is This Thing On? / Screen Test, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2010 FAMILIAR: Portraits of Proximity, Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art
2010 Whatever Was Splendid, (Curated by Aaron Schuman) Fotofest Biennial, Houston, TX
2010 Road to Nowhere (Curated by Natasha Egan), Fotofest Biennial, Houston, TX
2010 Faraway Nearby, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, KS
2009 Performance Anxiety, Souvenirs from Earth, Paris, France
2009 Hidden Places; Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery, Cologne, Germany
