S e l e c t e d S o l o E x h i b i t i o n s :
2022
DARK ARCHIVE, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
www.dariamag.com/home/dark-archive
Catharses/Antidotes, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, California
2020
Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75, series of 13 billboards throughout southwest Ohio and a limited edition book, Holding History In Our Hand, for the 30th annual Peace Symposium, Peace Resource Center, Wilmington College, Ohio http://www.wilmington.edu/wps-billboards
All to Pieces, with Susanne Slavick, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
2019
After Hiroshima, Galerie Block C, Groningen, Netherlands
2018
Blue Traumas, Lord Hall Gallery, University of Maine, Orono
After Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima, New Image Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
Workers Dreaming, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, Durham, NC
2017
Making the Invisible Visible, Staniar Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
2016
Hiroshima > Nagasaki > Fukushima, Gallery G, Hiroshima, Japan
2015
Seventy Year Old Shadows of Hiroshima, Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
East to East: Maine to Japan, ICA at MECA / Institute for Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, with Shane Smith, Portland, Maine
Hiroshima Skies, billboard project, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
70 Years After Hiroshima, Frederic Jameson Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC
Ladders, Artifacts and Trees: Selected Works from Hiroshima, Vacant Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014
Heterotopias, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC
2013
Until What Has Disappeared Appears, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
After Hiroshima, Daylight Project Space, Hillsborough, NC
2011
After Aftermath, The Former Imperial Bank, an A-Bombed building, Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima, Beland Galley, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2010
Aftermath, The Global Education Building, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC, with a lecture by Noam Chomsky
2009
Flags for Hiroshima, Cosign Projects, St. Louis, MO
Hiroshima: After Aftermath, Gallery 100, Golden Belt, Durham, NC
Flag for Hiroshima, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC
2007
Oma Auma, The John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
2005
Road In Sight: Workers Dreaming, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC
2003
Workers Dreaming and Mutter, Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville, TN
2002
Workers Dreaming and Protesting Cartography, The Annex, New York, NY
Protesting Cartography, the John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
2000
New Frontiers IV, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
1999
Workers Dreaming, Brewhouse Space 101, Pittsburgh, PA
S e l e c t e d G r o u p E x h i b i t i o n s :
2024 Pacific Standard Time, Getty Museum / Caltech, Pasadena, California
2023
Family Tree, Erie Art Museum, PA
2022
Spectacle and Scaffolding, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro
Family Tree, Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, NY
Lapdogs of War, The Empty Circle, Brooklyn, NY
Cutting Edge: Art of Collage, Pink Dog Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
Immemory: On Covid-19, online collective archive
covid-immemory.com/pandemic-portraits
2021
Spectacle and Scaffolding, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro
Family Tree Whakapapa,The Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
2020
Family Tree Whakapapa, Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton, New Zealand
Spectacle and Scaffolding, Media Arts Gallery, Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA
75 Years of Nuclear Weapons, Peace Resource Center, Wilmington College, OH
The Future Challenges Us Now, LaborFest, curated by David Duckworth, San Francisco, CA, online exhibition
Art In Place, organized by Terrain and CNL Projects, art on 400 sites across the country during quarantine, Chapel Hill, NC
2019
Catastrophes,Artifacts and Narrative, curated by Kohei Hosogaya, Hiroshima City University Museum, Japan
Photo LA, The Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA
Arboreal, Bailey Contemporary, Pompano Beach, FL
Apocalypse Then and Now, curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, Andrew and Anya Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, New York, NY
The Haunted Archive, Fort Worth Community Art Center, Texas
Dear Leader, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
Spectacle and Scaffolding, The Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC
Gender, Sexuality, and Cartography, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University, CA
Liten, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, Utah
Nuclear Visions: The Atomic Photographers Guild, Allcot Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Innovation/Tradition, The Collective Center, Enfield, NC
2018
Marx@200, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/humanities-center/center-events/marx-at-200-art-exhibition.html
Atomic Traces, curated by Liz Faust, New York, NY, https://atomictraces.com/
Mother Mother, Studio IX Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Valediction, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA
Analog, In Focus Gallery, Green Hill Center, Greensboro, NC
Feminine Spectrum, VAE (Visual Art Exchange), Raleigh, NC
Source Material, curated by Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation, online exhibition, http://hafny.org/group-show-56-source-material
One Night Stand, Golden Belt, Durham, NC
2017
After Hiroshima, IoDeposito, B#S Gallery, Treviso and Punto Croce, Venice, Italy
Governors Island Art Fair, New York, NY
Hiroshima Nevermore, Legislative Assembly of Goiânia; Centro Culturama, Goiânia, Brazil
Radeo Flyer: Artists Re-Imagine the Flyer, DAC Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Spectacle and Scaffolding: Contemporary Photography Muses Hierarchy, curated by Anne Pegelow Kaplan, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Regard, Weems Gallery, Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina
The Nothing That Is, The Carnegie Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Nasty Woman, The Carrack, Durham, North Carolina
100 Days Action, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California
2016
The Last Four Years, Cohen's Gallery closing exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Photo LA, Cohen Gallery booth, Los Angeles, CA
Playing in the Fukushima Forest, Tobito, Japan
Atomic Particles, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Mobius Gallery, Bothell, WA
2015
Camera Atomica, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Photography and the Scientific Spirit, curated by Alison Ferris, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Photo LA, Cohen Gallery booth, Los Angeles, CA
Out of Rubble, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County
The Nothing That Is, curated by Bill Thelen, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC
Photo Basel, Cohen Gallery booth, Basel, Switzerland
Hiroshima / Nagasaki 70, SAPE, Angrense Society for Ecological Protection, Angra dos Reis, Brazil
Nuclear Photographs, Concorde Hotel, Quebec City, Canada
Fall Out, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI
Atomic Photographers Guild, Bank of Japan, A-bombed Building, Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima Intersections, four artists, Gallery Ishiko-ya, Hiroshima, Japan
2014
Mt Rokko Photography Festival, Kobe, Japan
FotoFever, Photography Art Fair, Cohen Gallery booth, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Out of Rubble, UC Art Museum, Boulder, CO; Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, PA; Jack Olson Gallery, DeKalb, IL
Close to Home, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
State of Emergency: Disasters, VanEvery Smith Gallery, Davidson College, NC
Photo LA, Cohen Gallery booth, Los Angeles, CA
Duplicates, New Image Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Highlights, Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Women, An Exhibition, Detroit Contemporary, MI
Faculty Art from the Big Four, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Particles on the Wall, Gallery 4500, Seattle, WA
The Swap, online exhibition curated by Stuart Pilkington, UK
Washi, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
FotoFlic: Part Photo Project, Part High-Wire Act, The Carrack, Durham, NC
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Far Away / Nearby, Graduate Faculty Photographers at Duke and UNC, Cassilhaus, Durham, NC
Loaded Objects, curated by Chris Vitiello, The Carrack, Durham, NC
Occultisms, curated by Amani Olu and Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY
2013
Jeonju Photography Festival, War and Memory, curated by Hoon Jung, Jeonju, Korea
ORGANIX, Contemporary Artists from USA, curated by Diego Cortez for Luciano Benetton, Venice Biennale, Italy
Out of Rubble, Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, CA; String Room Gallery, Wells College, Aurora, NY
Particles on the Wall, Physicians for Social Repsonsibility, Washington State University's Tri-Cities Art Center, Seattle, WA
Risk and the Landscapes of Militarization, curated by Hsuan Hsu, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany
2012
Out of Rubble, Bowling Green State University Gallery, OH; Miller Gallery, Kutztown University, PA
The Fire Does Not Go Out, Baron Gallery, Oberlin College, OH
Atomic Photographers, Form Gallery, Perth, Australia
The Plastic Propaganda Poster Project, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT
To What Purpose? Photography as Art and Document, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Behind the Atom Curtain, Uranium Film Festival, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
The Atomic Photographers Guild, The Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, Arvada, CO; Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA
2011
Dark Matters: Shadow, Technology. Art, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Vedute, URDLA, Lyon, France
Out of Rubble, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Offrez l'art de demain (Offer the Art of Tomorrow), URDLA, Lyon, France
The Last Book, organized by Luis Camnitzer, New York Public Library, Aguilar Branch, NY
Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
No Glory, Form and Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Behind the Atom Curtain: Life and Death in the Nuclear Age, the Atomic Photographers Guild, Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Sala Terrana, Heiligenkreuzehof, Vienna, Austria
2010
Atomic Photographers Guild, University of Basel, Switzerland; Cooper Union, New York, NY
The Last Book, organized by Luis Camnitzer, Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland
Race, Sex, Politics, Religion: 4 things not talk about in the South, organized by Larry Jens Anderson, Space One-Eleven, Birmingham, AL; Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Delineate: an Invitational Exhibition of Drawings, McMaster Gallery, Columbia, SC
2009
Bad Moon Rising, Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis, MO
Capitalism in Crisis, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
A Book About Death, The Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
Bail Out Biennial, Golden Belt, Durham, NC
Cool, Collected and In Context, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2,191 Days and Counting, Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY
Paper Politics, Ghostprint Gallery, Richmond, VA
50 States Project, curated by Stuart Pilkington, http://www.50statesproject.net/
Grassroots Cartography, Sea Change Gallery, Portland, OR
To Be or Not To Be: A Painter's Dilemma, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
Outside the Lines: New Directions in Drawing, A.D. Gallery, Pembroke, NC
2008
Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Contemporary Art Photography from The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Contemporary Gallery, Gary, Indiana
Art and Social Conscience: the Holocaust, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC
Paper Quilts, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2007
The Big Picture, Contemporary Photography, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Paper Politics, Esplanade Loft Project Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2006
New Cartography, LeBot Gallery, Oakland, CA
Terror? Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Paper Politics, Portland State University Gallery, OR; 5+5 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, catalogue
Restating Empire, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
Bunker than Thou, Bemis Underground, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Crosscurrents, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, catalogue
2005
PatriART: Artists Defend Civil Liberties, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ
Paper Politics, Phinney Gallery Center, Seattle, WA
Crosscurrents, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, catalogue
Art / Work, Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA
The Simnuke Project, curated by Sasha Harris-Cronin and Max Carlson, Rx Gallery, San Francisco, CA,
2004
News from Home, The Annex, New York, NY, catalogue
Felix Variations, Play Space, California College for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Women in the Middle, the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee Union Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Active Duty, Armed Artists of America, Studio 84, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
The Art of Politics, Ashmore Gallery, Miami, FL
Toxic Landscapes, Long Beach Island Foundation Art Center, Loveladies, NJ
Hall of Portraits, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
2003
Les Fables de la Fontaine, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; The Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
The New Normal, Borofsky Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Violent Violence, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Holland
Bad Touch, Rose Art Museum, Boston, MA; Keith Talent Gallery, London, England
2002
Bad Touch 3, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Art Basel / Miami, Art Positions, Miami, FL
Figurative Works, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL, catalogue
Toxic Landscapes: Artists Examine the Environment, Reino de este Mundo International Gallery, Biblioteca Nacional Jose Marti, Havana, Cuba; the Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ
Some Kind of Dream, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC
Les Fables de la Fontaine, Temple University, Rome, Italy; Americain Universitaire, Aix-en-Provence, France
2001
Paradise in Search of a Future, CEPA, Buffalo, NY
Ladyfest, Arches Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland
A Social Event Archive, Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Toxic Landscapes, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Gallery, PA
Homegrown, curated by Douglas Bohr and David Brown, SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC
2000
Flesh and Blood V, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
Counter Productive Industries, 1926 Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL
Visual Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Flesh and Blood IV, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, catalogue
EDUCATION
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Master of Fine Arts 1991
MFA in Photography; merit scholarship; Top Prize for Graduate Work: Raymond Traveling Fellowship; Teaching Fellowships for Color, Experimental and Advanced Photography, Ancient and Modern Art History Surveys, and Feminism and Film; studied with Carol Mavor, James Elkins, Mark Alice Durant, Lynn Book and Robert Loescher; co-founded and coedited the journal Lament
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, USA
Bachelor of Arts 1988
BA; merit scholarship; concentration in poetry, photography, film and art history; studied with Joel Sternfeld, Susan Jahoda, Jean Valentine, Tom Lux, Jane Cooper and Gil Perez
Semester Abroad 1987
Fall semester in Florence, Italy with a concentration in art history, drawing and Italian
Sarah Lawrence College, Florence, Italy
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Guest Year 1985
Dean’s List; merit scholarship; studied with Will Larson; tutored MFA students in writing; concentration in photography
ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
CalTech, Pasadena, CA, 2022
Huntingdon Art and Research Fellowship, Visiting Lecturer
University of California, Irvine, 2022-2024
Artist-in-Residence / Communications Specialist
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1994-present
Professor Emerita 2020 - present
Tenured Full Professor since 2002
Director of Graduate Studies for Studio Art, 2014-2017; 2004-2006
Advisory Board, Institute of Arts and Humanities 2010-2013
Glen Elder Distinguished Term Professor 2008-2012
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Studio Art 2006-2008
Associate Chair, Art and Art History Department 2004-2005
Tenured Associate Professor of Art 1999-2002
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor 1994-1999
CULTURAL SECTOR POSITIONS
Independent Curator 1994-present
Selected Curatorial Projects
2021 Betsy Kenyon; Migiwa Orimo; Ejecta Projects; Abraham Oghobase, Allcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
2020 Andre Leon Gray, Allcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
2019 Nuclear Visions; Kelly Popoff; Andrew Johnson; Angela Kelly, Allcott Gallery
2018 Anti-Nostalgia, Carrack, Durham, NC
2017 Materia: Heterotopia, Materialization; Dystopia, Dematerialization; Utopia, Rematerialization, MFA Seminar project in 3 locations, Chapel Hill, NC
The Anxious Condition, Anchorlight, Raleigh, NC
Cameras are Clocks for Seeing, Allcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
2016 We Stand. We Matter. Art Majors installation, Polk Place and forum, Wilson Library, UNC, Chapel Hill
2015 Beyond Cameras, Duke/UNC MFAs, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC
Neo-Pre-Proto-Anti-Para-Ultra-Contra-Post-Photography, Spectre Arts, Durham
2014 Anti-Precision, Visualizing Science seminar, Dan Ariely's Center for Advanced Hindsight, Duke University, Durham, NC; Liberty Arts, Durham, NC
2011 The Ground We Walk On, Local Histories, 523 Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC
Local Histories II, Orange County Historical Museum, Hillsborough, NC
2009 Bail Out Biennial, Golden Belt, Durham, NC
2008 Heroes, co-curator with Laura Sharp Wilson, LUMP Projects, Raleigh, NC
2005 Images That Matter: Us and Them, Honors Seminar, Ackland Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2004 Loom 3: Labeler, co-curator, with Jeff Waites, Old Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC
2003 Violent Violence, Gallery Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Holland
Loom 2 and Loom 1, Old Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC
2001 Perpetuating History, student collaboration at Silent Sam, confederate soldier memorial, UNC, Chapel Hill
1997 Mother Smother Other Lover, Allcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
1994 Bodily Functions, co-curator with Carol Mavor, Student Union Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
2022
DARK ARCHIVE, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
www.dariamag.com/home/dark-archive
Catharses/Antidotes, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, California
2020
Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75, series of 13 billboards throughout southwest Ohio and a limited edition book, Holding History In Our Hand, for the 30th annual Peace Symposium, Peace Resource Center, Wilmington College, Ohio http://www.wilmington.edu/wps-billboards
All to Pieces, with Susanne Slavick, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
2019
After Hiroshima, Galerie Block C, Groningen, Netherlands
2018
Blue Traumas, Lord Hall Gallery, University of Maine, Orono
After Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima, New Image Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
Workers Dreaming, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, Durham, NC
2017
Making the Invisible Visible, Staniar Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
2016
Hiroshima > Nagasaki > Fukushima, Gallery G, Hiroshima, Japan
2015
Seventy Year Old Shadows of Hiroshima, Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
East to East: Maine to Japan, ICA at MECA / Institute for Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, with Shane Smith, Portland, Maine
Hiroshima Skies, billboard project, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
70 Years After Hiroshima, Frederic Jameson Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC
Ladders, Artifacts and Trees: Selected Works from Hiroshima, Vacant Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014
Heterotopias, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC
2013
Until What Has Disappeared Appears, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
After Hiroshima, Daylight Project Space, Hillsborough, NC
2011
After Aftermath, The Former Imperial Bank, an A-Bombed building, Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima, Beland Galley, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2010
Aftermath, The Global Education Building, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC, with a lecture by Noam Chomsky
2009
Flags for Hiroshima, Cosign Projects, St. Louis, MO
Hiroshima: After Aftermath, Gallery 100, Golden Belt, Durham, NC
Flag for Hiroshima, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC
2007
Oma Auma, The John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
2005
Road In Sight: Workers Dreaming, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC
2003
Workers Dreaming and Mutter, Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville, TN
2002
Workers Dreaming and Protesting Cartography, The Annex, New York, NY
Protesting Cartography, the John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
2000
New Frontiers IV, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
1999
Workers Dreaming, Brewhouse Space 101, Pittsburgh, PA
S e l e c t e d G r o u p E x h i b i t i o n s :
2024 Pacific Standard Time, Getty Museum / Caltech, Pasadena, California
2023
Family Tree, Erie Art Museum, PA
2022
Spectacle and Scaffolding, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro
Family Tree, Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, NY
Lapdogs of War, The Empty Circle, Brooklyn, NY
Cutting Edge: Art of Collage, Pink Dog Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
Immemory: On Covid-19, online collective archive
covid-immemory.com/pandemic-portraits
2021
Spectacle and Scaffolding, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro
Family Tree Whakapapa,The Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
2020
Family Tree Whakapapa, Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton, New Zealand
Spectacle and Scaffolding, Media Arts Gallery, Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA
75 Years of Nuclear Weapons, Peace Resource Center, Wilmington College, OH
The Future Challenges Us Now, LaborFest, curated by David Duckworth, San Francisco, CA, online exhibition
Art In Place, organized by Terrain and CNL Projects, art on 400 sites across the country during quarantine, Chapel Hill, NC
2019
Catastrophes,Artifacts and Narrative, curated by Kohei Hosogaya, Hiroshima City University Museum, Japan
Photo LA, The Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA
Arboreal, Bailey Contemporary, Pompano Beach, FL
Apocalypse Then and Now, curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, Andrew and Anya Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, New York, NY
The Haunted Archive, Fort Worth Community Art Center, Texas
Dear Leader, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
Spectacle and Scaffolding, The Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC
Gender, Sexuality, and Cartography, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University, CA
Liten, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, Utah
Nuclear Visions: The Atomic Photographers Guild, Allcot Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Innovation/Tradition, The Collective Center, Enfield, NC
2018
Marx@200, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/humanities-center/center-events/marx-at-200-art-exhibition.html
Atomic Traces, curated by Liz Faust, New York, NY, https://atomictraces.com/
Mother Mother, Studio IX Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Valediction, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA
Analog, In Focus Gallery, Green Hill Center, Greensboro, NC
Feminine Spectrum, VAE (Visual Art Exchange), Raleigh, NC
Source Material, curated by Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation, online exhibition, http://hafny.org/group-show-56-source-material
One Night Stand, Golden Belt, Durham, NC
2017
After Hiroshima, IoDeposito, B#S Gallery, Treviso and Punto Croce, Venice, Italy
Governors Island Art Fair, New York, NY
Hiroshima Nevermore, Legislative Assembly of Goiânia; Centro Culturama, Goiânia, Brazil
Radeo Flyer: Artists Re-Imagine the Flyer, DAC Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Spectacle and Scaffolding: Contemporary Photography Muses Hierarchy, curated by Anne Pegelow Kaplan, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Regard, Weems Gallery, Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina
The Nothing That Is, The Carnegie Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Nasty Woman, The Carrack, Durham, North Carolina
100 Days Action, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California
2016
The Last Four Years, Cohen's Gallery closing exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Photo LA, Cohen Gallery booth, Los Angeles, CA
Playing in the Fukushima Forest, Tobito, Japan
Atomic Particles, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Mobius Gallery, Bothell, WA
2015
Camera Atomica, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Photography and the Scientific Spirit, curated by Alison Ferris, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Photo LA, Cohen Gallery booth, Los Angeles, CA
Out of Rubble, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County
The Nothing That Is, curated by Bill Thelen, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC
Photo Basel, Cohen Gallery booth, Basel, Switzerland
Hiroshima / Nagasaki 70, SAPE, Angrense Society for Ecological Protection, Angra dos Reis, Brazil
Nuclear Photographs, Concorde Hotel, Quebec City, Canada
Fall Out, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI
Atomic Photographers Guild, Bank of Japan, A-bombed Building, Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima Intersections, four artists, Gallery Ishiko-ya, Hiroshima, Japan
2014
Mt Rokko Photography Festival, Kobe, Japan
FotoFever, Photography Art Fair, Cohen Gallery booth, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Out of Rubble, UC Art Museum, Boulder, CO; Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, PA; Jack Olson Gallery, DeKalb, IL
Close to Home, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
State of Emergency: Disasters, VanEvery Smith Gallery, Davidson College, NC
Photo LA, Cohen Gallery booth, Los Angeles, CA
Duplicates, New Image Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Highlights, Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Women, An Exhibition, Detroit Contemporary, MI
Faculty Art from the Big Four, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Particles on the Wall, Gallery 4500, Seattle, WA
The Swap, online exhibition curated by Stuart Pilkington, UK
Washi, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
FotoFlic: Part Photo Project, Part High-Wire Act, The Carrack, Durham, NC
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Far Away / Nearby, Graduate Faculty Photographers at Duke and UNC, Cassilhaus, Durham, NC
Loaded Objects, curated by Chris Vitiello, The Carrack, Durham, NC
Occultisms, curated by Amani Olu and Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY
2013
Jeonju Photography Festival, War and Memory, curated by Hoon Jung, Jeonju, Korea
ORGANIX, Contemporary Artists from USA, curated by Diego Cortez for Luciano Benetton, Venice Biennale, Italy
Out of Rubble, Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, CA; String Room Gallery, Wells College, Aurora, NY
Particles on the Wall, Physicians for Social Repsonsibility, Washington State University's Tri-Cities Art Center, Seattle, WA
Risk and the Landscapes of Militarization, curated by Hsuan Hsu, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany
2012
Out of Rubble, Bowling Green State University Gallery, OH; Miller Gallery, Kutztown University, PA
The Fire Does Not Go Out, Baron Gallery, Oberlin College, OH
Atomic Photographers, Form Gallery, Perth, Australia
The Plastic Propaganda Poster Project, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT
To What Purpose? Photography as Art and Document, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Behind the Atom Curtain, Uranium Film Festival, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
The Atomic Photographers Guild, The Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, Arvada, CO; Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA
2011
Dark Matters: Shadow, Technology. Art, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Vedute, URDLA, Lyon, France
Out of Rubble, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Offrez l'art de demain (Offer the Art of Tomorrow), URDLA, Lyon, France
The Last Book, organized by Luis Camnitzer, New York Public Library, Aguilar Branch, NY
Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
No Glory, Form and Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Behind the Atom Curtain: Life and Death in the Nuclear Age, the Atomic Photographers Guild, Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Sala Terrana, Heiligenkreuzehof, Vienna, Austria
2010
Atomic Photographers Guild, University of Basel, Switzerland; Cooper Union, New York, NY
The Last Book, organized by Luis Camnitzer, Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland
Race, Sex, Politics, Religion: 4 things not talk about in the South, organized by Larry Jens Anderson, Space One-Eleven, Birmingham, AL; Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Delineate: an Invitational Exhibition of Drawings, McMaster Gallery, Columbia, SC
2009
Bad Moon Rising, Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis, MO
Capitalism in Crisis, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
A Book About Death, The Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
Bail Out Biennial, Golden Belt, Durham, NC
Cool, Collected and In Context, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2,191 Days and Counting, Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY
Paper Politics, Ghostprint Gallery, Richmond, VA
50 States Project, curated by Stuart Pilkington, http://www.50statesproject.net/
Grassroots Cartography, Sea Change Gallery, Portland, OR
To Be or Not To Be: A Painter's Dilemma, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
Outside the Lines: New Directions in Drawing, A.D. Gallery, Pembroke, NC
2008
Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Contemporary Art Photography from The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Contemporary Gallery, Gary, Indiana
Art and Social Conscience: the Holocaust, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC
Paper Quilts, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2007
The Big Picture, Contemporary Photography, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Paper Politics, Esplanade Loft Project Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2006
New Cartography, LeBot Gallery, Oakland, CA
Terror? Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Paper Politics, Portland State University Gallery, OR; 5+5 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, catalogue
Restating Empire, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
Bunker than Thou, Bemis Underground, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Crosscurrents, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, catalogue
2005
PatriART: Artists Defend Civil Liberties, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ
Paper Politics, Phinney Gallery Center, Seattle, WA
Crosscurrents, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, catalogue
Art / Work, Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA
The Simnuke Project, curated by Sasha Harris-Cronin and Max Carlson, Rx Gallery, San Francisco, CA,
2004
News from Home, The Annex, New York, NY, catalogue
Felix Variations, Play Space, California College for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Women in the Middle, the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee Union Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Active Duty, Armed Artists of America, Studio 84, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
The Art of Politics, Ashmore Gallery, Miami, FL
Toxic Landscapes, Long Beach Island Foundation Art Center, Loveladies, NJ
Hall of Portraits, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
2003
Les Fables de la Fontaine, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; The Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
The New Normal, Borofsky Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Violent Violence, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Holland
Bad Touch, Rose Art Museum, Boston, MA; Keith Talent Gallery, London, England
2002
Bad Touch 3, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Art Basel / Miami, Art Positions, Miami, FL
Figurative Works, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL, catalogue
Toxic Landscapes: Artists Examine the Environment, Reino de este Mundo International Gallery, Biblioteca Nacional Jose Marti, Havana, Cuba; the Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ
Some Kind of Dream, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC
Les Fables de la Fontaine, Temple University, Rome, Italy; Americain Universitaire, Aix-en-Provence, France
2001
Paradise in Search of a Future, CEPA, Buffalo, NY
Ladyfest, Arches Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland
A Social Event Archive, Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Toxic Landscapes, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Gallery, PA
Homegrown, curated by Douglas Bohr and David Brown, SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC
2000
Flesh and Blood V, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
Counter Productive Industries, 1926 Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL
Visual Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Flesh and Blood IV, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, catalogue
EDUCATION
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Master of Fine Arts 1991
MFA in Photography; merit scholarship; Top Prize for Graduate Work: Raymond Traveling Fellowship; Teaching Fellowships for Color, Experimental and Advanced Photography, Ancient and Modern Art History Surveys, and Feminism and Film; studied with Carol Mavor, James Elkins, Mark Alice Durant, Lynn Book and Robert Loescher; co-founded and coedited the journal Lament
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, USA
Bachelor of Arts 1988
BA; merit scholarship; concentration in poetry, photography, film and art history; studied with Joel Sternfeld, Susan Jahoda, Jean Valentine, Tom Lux, Jane Cooper and Gil Perez
Semester Abroad 1987
Fall semester in Florence, Italy with a concentration in art history, drawing and Italian
Sarah Lawrence College, Florence, Italy
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Guest Year 1985
Dean’s List; merit scholarship; studied with Will Larson; tutored MFA students in writing; concentration in photography
ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
CalTech, Pasadena, CA, 2022
Huntingdon Art and Research Fellowship, Visiting Lecturer
University of California, Irvine, 2022-2024
Artist-in-Residence / Communications Specialist
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1994-present
Professor Emerita 2020 - present
Tenured Full Professor since 2002
Director of Graduate Studies for Studio Art, 2014-2017; 2004-2006
Advisory Board, Institute of Arts and Humanities 2010-2013
Glen Elder Distinguished Term Professor 2008-2012
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Studio Art 2006-2008
Associate Chair, Art and Art History Department 2004-2005
Tenured Associate Professor of Art 1999-2002
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor 1994-1999
CULTURAL SECTOR POSITIONS
Independent Curator 1994-present
Selected Curatorial Projects
2021 Betsy Kenyon; Migiwa Orimo; Ejecta Projects; Abraham Oghobase, Allcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
2020 Andre Leon Gray, Allcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
2019 Nuclear Visions; Kelly Popoff; Andrew Johnson; Angela Kelly, Allcott Gallery
2018 Anti-Nostalgia, Carrack, Durham, NC
2017 Materia: Heterotopia, Materialization; Dystopia, Dematerialization; Utopia, Rematerialization, MFA Seminar project in 3 locations, Chapel Hill, NC
The Anxious Condition, Anchorlight, Raleigh, NC
Cameras are Clocks for Seeing, Allcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
2016 We Stand. We Matter. Art Majors installation, Polk Place and forum, Wilson Library, UNC, Chapel Hill
2015 Beyond Cameras, Duke/UNC MFAs, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC
Neo-Pre-Proto-Anti-Para-Ultra-Contra-Post-Photography, Spectre Arts, Durham
2014 Anti-Precision, Visualizing Science seminar, Dan Ariely's Center for Advanced Hindsight, Duke University, Durham, NC; Liberty Arts, Durham, NC
2011 The Ground We Walk On, Local Histories, 523 Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC
Local Histories II, Orange County Historical Museum, Hillsborough, NC
2009 Bail Out Biennial, Golden Belt, Durham, NC
2008 Heroes, co-curator with Laura Sharp Wilson, LUMP Projects, Raleigh, NC
2005 Images That Matter: Us and Them, Honors Seminar, Ackland Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2004 Loom 3: Labeler, co-curator, with Jeff Waites, Old Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC
2003 Violent Violence, Gallery Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Holland
Loom 2 and Loom 1, Old Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC
2001 Perpetuating History, student collaboration at Silent Sam, confederate soldier memorial, UNC, Chapel Hill
1997 Mother Smother Other Lover, Allcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
1994 Bodily Functions, co-curator with Carol Mavor, Student Union Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
