Thomas Bangsted

Thomas Bangsted (b. 1976, Kalundborg, Denmark) lives and works in Detroit, Michigan. Bangsted is a landscape photographer whose work evokes the sublime in nature. Bangsted's photographs evolve through a lengthy process that often takes years to complete. He photographs places and objects over long periods of time. The goal of layering numerous images is to gain a new understanding of place - what we see in a single, fleeting moment is always incomplete.

Bangsted's images have a sense of the uncanny; something isn't quite right. Whether it is the precarious tilt of a ship's masthead or an icy reflection in the water, the viewer is forced to question what is seen and, by extension, what is ever seen. We are presented with such a rich and beautiful visual palette, and we always seem to be in the midst of a deeply interesting narrative, left to fill in the before and after.

Thomas Bangsted received his MFA in Photography from Yale University, School of Art in 2007. Bangsted has had numerous solo exhibitions in Denmark, including Brandts 13 (2018), Galleri Tom Christoffersen (2018), and Galleri Hornbaek (2007). Group exhibitions include Tang Museum, NY (2016), The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2016), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (2015), Knoxville Museum of Art, TN (2015),  Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY (2012), Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY (2011), The Prague Biennial, Czech Republic (2009) and the New York Photo Festival, NY (2008). His work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was included in their 2015 exhibition of recent acquisitions and reviewed in the New York Times.