Photography and Art
Ira Joel Haber-Featured Photographer and Artist, July 1st, 2011
About this month's featured artist...
Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is a sculptor, painter, book dealer, photographer and teacher. Haber's work has been seen in numerous group shows in United States and Europe and has been honored with nine one man shows, including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum and The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. His paintings, drawings and collages have been published in many on line and print magazines. Over the years he has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and two Pollock-Krasner grants. In 2004, he received The Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grant, and in 2010 he received a grant from Artists' Fellowship Inc. Currently he teaches art at the United Federation of Teachers Retiree Program in Brooklyn.