Edward
Bateman

Edward Bateman (b. 1962) is an artist and Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Utah, where he is the head of the Photography and Digital Imaging area. He received his MFA from the University of Utah in 2003 and joined the faculty in 2008. That same year he was awarded the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award for his contributions to the arts. His innovative use of 3D computer modeling combined with photography has been widely written about, and has been including in Seizing the Light: A Social and Aesthetic History of Photography by Robert Hirsch and in Printmaking Today, the authorized journal of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in the UK. His work has been published (2009) as a signed and numbered book by Nazraeli Press titled Mechanical Brides of the Uncanny, which is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard University, Art Institute of Chicago, Stanford University, Getty Research Institute, New York University, Columbia University, Amon Carter Museum Library, and George Eastman House, among others. Bateman has been twice short-listed (2014 & 2016) for the Lumen Prize, described by The Guardian Culture Blog (U.K.) as “The world’s preeminent digital art prize.” In 2018 he received the “Nature Prize” at EarthPhoto 2018 at the Royal Geographical Society in London. His work has been shown internationally in over 25 countries and is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The China Printmaking Museum, Getty Research, the Pforzheimer Collection of the New York Public Library, and Cornell University, among others.