Born July 6,1950, Ithaca, New York

Died October 3, 1988, Binghamton, New York

Education

University of Rochester, Rochester, NY , Bachelor of Arts Degree in History, 1972

Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 1977-78

Experience

1973-1988, commercial and advertising photographer while pursuing independent personal documentary projects

Exhibitions

“Three Families, Kinship and Ethnicity in Broome County”, Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, NY 1982

“Three Generations, Immigrants and Their Children in Broome County”, Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, NY 1983

“Threaded Memories”, Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, NY 1984

“Folk Artists of the Southern Tier”, Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, NY 1985

“Starting Over, Ethnic Communities in Broome County”, Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, NY 1985

“Doxology” (Study of iconography of the ethnic churches in Broome County), Tioga City Council of the Arts, 1986

“Architectural Perspectives: Binghamton, NY”, Broome County Urban Cultural Park, 1986

“Hunter to Farmer”, Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, NY 1986

“Goddesses and their Offspring”, Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, NY 1987

“Dinosaurs and Dreamboats” (study of 1950’s Detroit auto design), Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, NY 1987

“Saint George and the Dragon”, Lightwork Gallery, Syracuse, NY 1987

“Saint George and the Dragon”, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Ga. 1987

“Saint George and the Dragon”, 92nd Street Y Gallery, New York, NY 1988

“Interiors”, Upstate Invitational at Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY 1988

“A Portrait of Binghamton: The Photographs of Bruce Wrighton”, City Hall Gallery, Binghamton, NY 1989

“Courthouse Dome and Other Binghamton Views: An Exhibition of Bruce Wrighton”

Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton, 1990

“Seven Visions: The Spirit of Religion in Contemporary Regional Art”, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY,  and Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton, 1991

“Counter Culture”, group exhibition, Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC, 1998

“Bruce Wrighton: A Photographic View of Greater Binghamton Architecture”, Binghamton Visitor Center, Binghamton, 2005

“Dinosaurs and Dreamboats”, CWJ Classic Automobile Museum, Bernardsville, NJ 2006

“Dinosaurs and Dreamboats”, Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC, 2006

“The Joy of Color”, group exhibition, Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC, 2007

“Through and Open Window”, Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC, 2008

“OJOS PRIVADOS, Coleccion Laurence Miller”, Barcelona, Spain, 2009 and traveling to Oviedo, Almeria, and Vallodolid, Sapin

Only Photography/Roland Angst, Berlin, 2009

"L'Amérique des années 80", Les Douches la Galerie, Paris, 2010

Publications

Broome County Heritage, Larry Bothwell, 1984

Three Catskill Storytellers, Catherine Schwoeffermann, 1986

Automotive Quarterly, Vol. 26, #1. 1987

Ojos Privados, Coleccion Laurence Miller, Fundacio Foto Colectania, Barcelona, 2008

Ah Lord, Love me passionately, Images of Bodies & Religion in the Lutz, Teutloff Collection

Collections

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Museum Folkwang, Essen

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Goldman Sachs, New York

Dow Jones, New York, USA

Margulies Collection, Miami, USA

Roland Angst, Berlin, Germany

Jan and Trish DeBont, Los Angeles

Eva Felten, Munich, Germany

Sharon and John Hoffman, Kansas City, USA

Lutz Teutloff Photo + Video Collection, Bielefeld, Germany

Laurence Miller, New York, USA

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Artothèque de Caen , France

Projets inachevés

“The Courthouse Dome and Other Binghamton Views”, A commission by the Broome County Historical Society

“The Pride and Pathos of Street People, In and Around Binghamton”, Lightworks Gallery Grant Recipient

“The Character of the Times”, Study of the workers at Endicott Johnson Corporation

“Saint George and the Dragon”, An inquiry into the symbol making process in both the sacred and secular realms