$THE KING OF SUPERMARKETS$

Brian Ulrich was born 1971 in Northport, NY. His photographs portraying contemporary consumer culture reside in major museum collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Ulrich lives and works in Chicago and in addition to teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Columbia College, he curates exhibitions, and is an active member of a community of young photographers and artists both local and global through his website and blog. This spirit of community building extends to an active lecturing schedule, appearing in the last 6 months at the Aperture Foundation; the Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla; St. Edwards University; the School of Visual Arts; Mississippi State University; Youngstown State University; the University of Illinois; the San Francisco Art Institute; and the Society for Photographic Education National Conference in Miami.