Nicholas Pavloff was born in San Francisco and studied painting and photography at California College of the Arts, Okayama University, Japan, and San Jose State University. Since 1968, photography projects have taken him through the United States, Canada, the Pacific Basin, Asia and Europe. His commercial client list has included The Bank of Hawaii, BMW of North America, Chevron USA, Kellogg's, The Mandarin Hotel Group, Microsoft, and Saab Cars USA. In 1983, A Vineyard Year, the first book illustrated by his photographs, was published by Chronicle Books. He is currently producing a monograph of his images from Japan.
Communication Arts Photography Annuals 1987, 1992, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003
Camera and Darkroom magazine, July 1992
Golden Gate Bridge photography project for Bank of America and Ketchum Advertising,
1994
Hasselblad Cameras 50th anniversary, “Beyond Words”, Cologne, Germany,
1998
Photo District News: interview, Saab Cars ad campaign, Dec. 1999
Black & White magazine, April 2002
First Place, International Photography Awards, Landscape Photographer of the
Year, 2003
Applied Arts Photo Competition, Landscape & Personal Work, 2006
Black & White Spider Awards—Nature 2011
The Photographer’s Gallery, Palo Alto, Calif. 1987
Benham Gallery, Seattle, Washington 1995
Mumm Gallery, Napa Valley, Calif. 1997
Vision, Neil Folberg, Jerusalem, Israel 2001
Museum West, Palo Alto and J.J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco 2001
O’Rourke Gallery, Benicia, Calif. 2005
Alumni at the Centennial Exhibition, California College of the Arts 2007
Benham Gallery, Seattle, Washington 2007
Jacana Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. 2007
PhotoCentral Gallery, Hayward, Calif. 2009, 2010
The Johnson Company, Robert Wood Johnson, New York
American Express, Chicago
Kaiser Permanente Group, Oakland, Calif.
IDS Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Deloitte, San Francisco
Saret Gallery, Sonoma, CA
Taylor Bercier Fine Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Francesco Solari, Paris, France