Sebastian Copeland


Biografi
SEBASTIAN COPELAND (f. 1964) er en britisk-amerikansk-fransk polfarer, klimaforsker, forfatter og fotograf. Han regnes som en av verdens fremste eventyrere og ble i 2017 kåret til en av de 25 viktigste oppdagerne de siste 25 årene.
Copeland bruker fotografiet som et medium for aktivisme, og hans kunstnerskap har blitt beskrevet å være av “enestående kunstnerisk verdi, og formidler budskap av presserende global betydning.”
Siden begynnelsen av 2000-tallet har Copeland vært en tydelig stemme i kampen mot de dramatiske endringene i Arktis og Antaktis og hvilke globale konsekvenser dette får. Han har holdt foredrag for blant andre FN, regjeringer verden over og flere av verdens største selskaper om behovet for en bærekraftig økonomisk endring.
Copeland er medlem av The Explorers Club, International Glaciology Society og American Polar Society, og han er en av grunnnleggerne av Artists for Amazonia. Bøkene hans er utgitt i mer enn 70 land, og han har blitt klåret til “Photographer of the Year” fire ganger, og senest i 2024 for The Arctic: A Darker Shade of White (Rizzoli 2024). Han har også regissert to prisvinnende dokumentarfilmer fra sine polarekspedisjoner.
I 2018 mottok Copeland den tyske Bambi-prisen i kategorien “Our Earth”. Han er tildelt den franske nasjonale fortjenstorden og Ordenen for kunst og litteratur.
CV
| Separatutstilling (utvalg) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | X-Gallery, Sharjah | |
| 2025 | EXPOSURE, Sharjah UAE, The Vanishing | |
| 2025 | CameraWork Gallery Virtual, The Arctic: A Darker Shade of White | |
| 2023 | Immagis Photo Gallery, Munich, The Vanishing | |
| 2023 | Via Napoleone, Milan, Vanishing Places | |
| 2021 | CameraWork Gallery (Virtual), Berlin, Antarctica | |
| 2021 | Petra Gut Gallery, Zurich, Vanishing World | |
| 2021 | Gallerie 12, Los Angeles, CA Sebastian Copeland’s ICE | |
| 2018 | CameraWork Gallery, Berlin, Sebastian Copeland | |
| 2018 | NextStreet Gallery, Paris Un Monde qui Disparaît | |
| 2018 | French Sénat, 80 panels on the gates of the Luxembourg gardens, Paris, De Pôle en Pôle: Un Monde qui Disparaît | |
| 2018 | Bernheimer Fine Art Gallery, Lucerne Switzerland, A Vanishing World | |
| 2017-2018 | Lumière Brothers Center for Photography in Moscow, Pure Arctic | |
| 2016 | Earth Day Texas, Dallas TX Icebergs | |
| 2015 | Yann Arthus Bertrand Gallery, Paris Arctica: The Vanishing North | |
| 2015 | Leica Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany Arctica: The Vanishing North | |
| 2013 | Gagosian Gallery, Ice, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2013 | Bernheimer Fine Art Gallery, Munich Germany, A Million Faces of Ice | |
| 2008 | SLO Museum Art Center, San Luis Obispo, CA, Antarctica: The Global Warning | |
| 2008 | Transfotografia--Poland Photography Festival, Gdansk, Celebrity Portrait | |
| 2008 | Napapijri Gallery Milan, Italy “Antarctica” | |
| 2008 | Flo Peters Gallery Hamburg Germany, Antarctica—The Global Warning | |
| 2008 | BREAD Show, Barcelona Antarctica Sponsored by Napapijri | |
| 2007-2008 | Jan Kesner Gallery Los Angeles, Antarctica: The Global Warning | |
| 2007 | Salon Imperial, Paris, Antarctica: The Global Warning | |
| 2007 | United Nations, NYC, Antarctica: The Global Warning | |
| 2007 | Council on Foreign Relations NYC, Antarctica—The Global Warning | |
| 2007 | Trans Photographiques 2007; Presented by the city of Lille, France, Celebrity Portraits | |
| 2006 | Napapijri Soho; The Global Warning — NYC | |
| Gruppeutstilling (utvalg) | ||
| 2025 | Camera Work Gallery (Virtual), Moods of the Sea | |
| 2024 | New York Public Library, New York City The Awe of the Arctic | |
| 2023 | Camera Work Gallery, Berlin Walk of Fame | |
| 2022-2023 | Petra Gut Contemporary, St Moritz | |
| 2019 | SP Foto 2019 w/GW Gallery, Sao Paolo | |
| 2019 | London Photo 2019 w/Camera Work Gallery, Somerset House, London | |
| 2018 | Paris Photo 2018, w/Camera Work Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris | |
| 2018 | BACC Museum, Bangkok, Thailand, Beyond the Air We Breathe | |
| 2017 | 2016 C40 Mayors Summit in Mexico City | |
| 2016-2017 | Bernheimer Gallery Luzern, Switzerland The Wold is a Book…” | |
| 2016 | Triennial Museum in Milan COP21 Exhibition | |
| 2016 | The Fence 2016—Large scale outdoor series exhibit in Brooklyn, Atlanta, Boston, Santa Fe and Houston in summer 2016, organized by Photoville | |
| 2016 | Booth D9—Selection Paris Photo, Bernheimer Gallery Luzern, Switzerland | |
| 2015 | Paris Photo 2015 w/Bernheimer Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris | |
| 2015 | Art Geneve w/Bernheimer Gallery Geneva | |
| 2014 | Green Good Design 2014, The European Centre’s Museum, Contemporary Space, Athens Greece | |
| 2014 | Art South Hampton w/Bernheimer Gallery South Hampton NY | |
| 2014 | Paris Photo LA w/Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| 2014 | Bernheimer Gallery Luzern, Switzerland The Art Of Platinum Printing | |
| 2014 | Global Arctic Award Exhibition, Moscow, Goglevskiy bulgar Russia | |
| 2013 | Paris Photo 2013 w/Bernheimer Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris | |
| 2013 | Paris Photo 2013 w/Bernheimer Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris | |
| 2013 | Bernheimer Gallery, Munich Germany, Platinum | |
| 2012 | Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg, Germany, Photos! | |
| 2010 | Salon d’Automne, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow Russia | |
| 2009 | Bernheimer Gallery, Munich Germany, Landscapes | |
| 2009 | Peabody Essex Museum Salem Massachusetts, Polar Attractions | |
| 2008 | Prix Pictet Exhibition Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Antarctica: The Global Warning | |
| 2008 | Prix Pictet Exhibition Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Antarctica: The Global Warning | |
| 2008 | Prix Pictet Exhibition Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Antarctica: The Global Warning | |
| 2008 | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Envisioning Change | |
| 2008 | Salle d'Exposition at Quai Antoine 1er, Monaco Ministry of Culture, Melting Ice—A Hot Topic Presented by The Natural World Museum | |
| 2007-2008 | BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium Melting Ice—A Hot Topic | |
| 2007-2008 | United Nation, NYC, On Thin Ice, Norwegian Ice Bridge | |
| 2007 | International Photography Awards NYC, Best in Show | |
| 2007 | MELTING ICE – HOT TOPIC World Environment Day 2007, Presented by The Natural World Museum, at the Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway | |
| 2006 | International Photography Awards NYC, Best in Show | |
| 2004 | Scope Art LA, Group Show Los Angeles, Standard Hotel | |