Jamey Stillings

His award-winning book, The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar (Steidl, 2015), documents the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the Mojave Desert of California. His photographs are in private and public collections, including the United States Library of Congress, the Museum of Fine Arts - Houston, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Nevada Museum of Art. Since 2010, Jamey Stillings' has focused on renewable energy through an aerial project entitled Changing Perspectives: Renewable Energy and the Shifting Human Landscape. He has photographed extensively over the United States, Japan, Uruguay, and Chile from helicopters and light airplanes.

Jamey Stillings earned a BA in art from Willamette University, magna cum laude (1978), and an MFA in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology (1982). His documentary master's thesis, Nicaragua: A Society in Transition (1980–81), examined social and economic changes in three rural Nicaraguan communities following the Sandinista revolution.

• photo-eye Gallery, “The Bridge at Hoover Dam,” Premier Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM, 2009 • Etherton Gallery, “Con-struct: The New West,” three artist exhibition, Tucson, AZ, 2010 • Springs Preserve, “The Bridge at Hoover Dam,” Las Vegas, NV, 2010 • Phoenix Art Museum, “The Bridge at Hoover Dam,” Phoenix, AZ, 2011 • photo-eye Gallery, "The Bridge at Hoover Dam," Santa Fe, NM, 2011 • Blue Sky Gallery, "The Bridge at Hoover Dam," Portland, OR, 2012 • PhotoVisa, "The Bridge at Hoover Dam," Solo Exhibition, Krasnodar, Russia, 2014 • Center for Fine Art Photography, "The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar," Solo Exhibition, curated by Hamidah Glasgow Ft. Collins, CO, 2014 • Festival de la Luz, "La Evolución de Ivanpah Solar," Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014 • Etherton Gallery, "The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar," Tucson, AZ, 2014-15 • UN Climate Change Legacy Exhibition, COP21, group exhibition, Paris, 2015 • Lianzhou Foto Festival 2015, "The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar," Solo Exhibition, Lianzhou, China • Dishman Art Museum, Lamar University, “Jamey Stillings: The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar,” Beaumont, TX, 2016 • Mt. Rokko International Photo Festival, "The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar," Solo Exhibition, Kobe, Japan, 2016 • FotoFest 2016 Biennial, Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet, Featured Artist, Group Exhibition, curated by Wendy Watriss, Fred Baldwin, and Steven Evans, Houston, TX, 2016 • Pingyao International Photography Festival 2017, "Changing Perspectives: Renewable Energy and Infrastructure," Solo Exhibition, Pingyao, China • Festival de la Luz, “Changing Perspectives: Renewable Energy and the Shifting Human Landscape,” Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2018 • Head On Photo Festival 2018, "Changing Perspectives: Renewable Energy and the Shifting Human Landscape," Solo Exhibition, Sydney, Australia

• The Bridge at Hoover Dam, Nazraeli Press, 2011, essays by William L. Fox and Jamey Stillings • The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar, Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, 2015,. With foreword by Robert Redford, introduction by Anne Wilkes Tucker, essays by Bruce Barcott and Jamey Stillings *

• The New York Times Magazine, “Bridge to Somewhere,” June 2009 • Smithsonian Magazine, “A Breathtaking New Bridge,” December 2010 • The New York Times Magazine, "A Bet on the Sun," June 17, 2012 • Newsweek Japan, "Picture Power: The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar," December 2012 • NPR, The Picture Show, "Under Construction: The World's Largest Thermal Solar Plant," January 9, 2013 • TIME Magazine, "Power Surge," October 2013 • TIME Magazine, "A Burst of Energy," March 2015 • Macleans, "Photo essay: Capturing the Sun," Canada, November 23, 2015, p. 47 (5 pgs) • National Geographic, "A Blueprint for a Carbon-Free America," November 2015 • New Republic, "The Beauty of the World’s Largest Solar Project," December 4, 2015 • WIRED Italia, "Riflessi Solari," Italy, March 3, 2016 • National Geographic, "The Art of Solar Energy," June 2016 • Bloomberg, “Japan’s Renewable-Energy Revolution,” July 2017 • Bloomberg Businessweek, “The Renewable Desert,” August 2018 • Photoworld, “Jamey Stillings: Documenting Renewable Energy Development from the Air,” China, June 2020

Jamey Stillings’ work is in the permanent collections of the U.S. Library of Congress; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Nevada Museum of Art, Center for Art + Environment; UNLV University Libraries Special Collections & Archives; University of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography; Middlebury College Museum of Art; and Stanford University Libraries Special Collections & University Archives