Paul Shambroom

Paul Shambroom is a photographer who explores American power and culture. His work is in the collections of many major American museums and has been exhibited internationally…

Working as an artist and photographer since the mid-1980s, Paul Shambroom studied at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He has exhibited extensively at galleries and museums, with works shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Shambroom’s works are also held in the permanent collections at the above museums, as well as at the Art Institute of Chicago…

Photographer Paul Shambroom went to both nuclear missile silos and city council meetings across America in search of evidence of democracy at work. What he found was both inspiring and sobering.

His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Chicago Art Institute, the Walker Art Center, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others…