Ed Templeton
1972-
American
American artist and photographer Ed Templeton (b. 1972) is known for his intimate documentation of youth, suburban life and skateboarding culture in Southern California. Moving between photography, painting and drawing, his work explores adolescence, identity, religion and the contradictions of contemporary American life.
Selected Works
Selected Exhibitions
2026 — Une exposition de Ed Templeton, Leica Store Paris Beaumarchais, Paris, France 2025 — Wires Crossed, NILS STÆRK, Copenhagen, Denmark 2024 — Wires Crossed: The Culture of Skateboarding, 1995–2012, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA 2023 — Wires Crossed, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands 2014 — Wayward Cognitions, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands 2011 — Art in the Streets, MOCA, Los Angeles, USA 2010–2011 — The Cemetery of Reason, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium; MAN, Nuoro, Italy; Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary 2010 — Perspectives 2010, International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, USA 2006 — Deformer, Colette, Paris, France 2004–2007 — Beautiful Losers, international touring exhibition 2002 — The Essential Disturbance, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 1994 — Waiting for the Earth to Explode, Alleged Gallery, New York, USA
Publications
Wires Crossed
City Confessions #1 Tokyo
Tangentially Parenthetical — Um Yeah Arts
Hairdos of Defiance — Deadbeat Club
Contemporary Suburbium — Nazraeli Press
Memories of the Salt Charged Whiffs... — Nazraeli Press
Adventures in the Nearby Far Away — Éditions Bessard
Teenage Smokers 2 — Super Labo
Wayward Cognitions — Um Yeah Arts
Teenage Kissers — Seems
The Cemetery of Reason — S.M.A.K.
Litmus Test — Super Labo
Deformer — Damiani / Alleged
The Golden Age of Neglect — Drago
Teenage Smokers — Alleged Press
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