About the Artist
 
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EDUCATION

  • Howard University, Washington D.C., MFA and BFA
  • The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, MBA
  • Hampton Institute, Hampton, VA, BS
  • The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

VISUAL WORKS

  • Mary Warner Marien, Photography: A Cultural History, Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2002.
  • Deborah Willis and Carla Williams, The Black Female Body:A Photographic History, Temple University Press, 2002.
  • Stuart Hall and MArk Sealy, Different: Contemporary Photographers and Black Identity, Phaidon Press, 2001.
  • Deborah Willis, Reflections in Black: A Hisotry of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, W. W. Norton, 2000.
  • Alex Harris, A New Life: Stories and Photographs from the Suburban South, W. W. Norton, 1997.
  • Jo Spence and Joan Solomon, What Can a Woman do with a Camera? London: Scarlet Press, 1995.
  • Naomi Rosenblum, A History of Women Photographers, Abbeville Press, 1994.
  • Naomi Rosenblum, The World History of Photography, Abbeville Press, 1989.

AWARDS

  • 2003 Women's Studio Workshop Artist Book Residency Fellowship, Rosendale, New York
  • 2001 Anonymous was a Woman Award
  • 2000 Andrea Frank Foundation Project Award
  • 2000 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography
  • 2000 Light Wrok Artist Residency Fellowship, Syracuse, New York
  • 1995 International Center of Photography's Eleventh Annual Infinity Award for the use of photography with the other media
  • 1990 New York State Council on the Arts Project Grant
  • 1990 Light Work Artist Residency Fellowship, Syracuse, New York
  • 1990 Visual Studies Workshop Artist Residency Fellowship, Rochester, New York
  • 1988 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography
  • 1988 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2002 Albin Kuhn Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  • 2001 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY; University of Wisconsin, Stevens Pt, WI; Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI; Baton College Museum, Winston-Salem, NC
  • 2000 Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  • 1997 Edward Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
  • 1995 Galerie Junge Kunst, Trier, Germany
  • 1994 Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Canada
  • 1993 The Afro-American Historical & Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1992 Art In General, New York, NY
  • 1992 The Center for Photography in Woodstock, Woodstock, NY; catalogue
  • 1992 Boliou Art Gallery, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
  • 1991 Light Work Menschel Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; catalogue
  • 1991 Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.; brochure
  • 1991 Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
  • 1990 White Columns, New York, NY; catalogue
  • 1990 Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
  • 1987 C.E.P.A Satellite Space, Buffalo, NY
  • 1985 Rockland Community College - S.U.N.Y., Suffern, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2003 Triennial 9 Form and Contents: Corporal Identity-Body Language, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (with the Klingspor Museum, Offenbach and the Museum of Arts and Design, NY; catalogue
  • 2003 Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, Leica Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2003 The Wandering library, The International Artists' Museum in Venice with the Jewish Museum, Venice, Italy; catalogue
  • 2002 Photography and the American Scene: Visions of Passage, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA; book
  • 2001 The past is Still Here, Sung Harbor Cultural Center, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY
  • 2001 Dynamics of Form: Narrative in the Artists' Book, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada; video documentation
  • 2000 Picturing the Modern Amazon, The New Museum, New York, NY; catalogue
  • 2000 Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, Smithsonian Center for African American History and Culture, Washington D.C. and traveling; book
  • 1999 Recent Acquisitions, The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; brochure
  • 1998 Developing Illustions, 1873-1998: Photographs from the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
  • 1998 Experiments in the Book Arts, Newport Visual Arts Center, Newport, OR
  • 1997 Techno-Seduction, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY; catalogue
  • 1997 Crossing Over/Changing Places, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
  • 1997 American Families in Photographs, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
  • 1996 Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980-95, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; catalogue
  • 1996 Personal Narratives: Women Photographers of Color, traveling via the United States Information Agency
  • 1995 Messages and Stories From the Everyday World, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA; catalogue
  • 1995 reREADING, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public library, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • 1994 Imagining Families: Images and Voices, National African American Museum Project, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; catalogue
  • 1994 History 101: The Re-Search for Family, installation at The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; catalogue
  • 1994 Prince Street Gallery & Friends, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1994 The Visual Diary: Women's Own Stories, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX and Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX
  • 1993 Personal Narratives: Women Photographers of Color, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; catalogue
  • 1993 The Subject of Rape, Whitney Museum of American Art Film and Video Gallery, New York, NY; catalogue
  • 1993 Book Ends and Odd Books, Walter Phillips Gallery, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
  • 1992 Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon, installation at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; brochure
  • 1992 The Presence of the Past, installation at Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
  • 1992 Representatives: Women Photographers from the Permanent Collection, Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  • 1992 Bridges & Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews, installation at The Jewish Museum, New York, NY and traveling; catalogue
  • 1991 Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Drqwings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 1991 Convergence, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA and traveling; catalogue
  • 1990 Update 1990, White Columns, New York, NY
  • 1990 For Residents: Jo Babcock, Dawoud Bey, Clarissa Sligh and Mary Ann Toman, Visual Studies Worshop, Rochester, NY
  • 1990 Cheney Goodman and Schwerner, The Missisiippi Three, The Struggle Continues, installation at Soho 20 Gallery, New York, NY; catalogue
  • 1990 Four Photo Feminisms: Deborah Bright, Diane Neumaier, Martha Rosler, Clarissa Sligh, Rutgers University Art Center, New Brunswick, NJ and Carleton College Museum of Art, Northfield, MN
  • 1989 Selections: Six Contemporary African-American Artists, Williams College Museum of ARt, Williamstown, MA; catalogue
  • 1989 Constructed Images: New Photography, The Studio Museum In Harlem, New York, NY, FotoFest, Houston, TX, University of California, Berkeley, CA, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; catalogue
  • 1989 Le Mois de la Photo, Montreal, Canada; catalogue
  • 1988 Fotofest '88, Houston, TX
  • 1988 Women Photographer, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
  • 1988 The Print Club 63rd Annual, Philadelphia, PA