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EDUCATION:
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Photo credit: Bill Jay
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MFA (photography), School of the Art Institute, Chicago, l975
AB (art history, with general honors), University of Chicago, 1965
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
The Ohio State University, Columbus, 2003-2004-2005-2006-2007
(Visiting Artist and adjunct professor)
Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, 1994-1997
(Academic Dean)
University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1989-1994
(Professor, Department of Art, 1989-1994; Head, Department of Art, 1989-1992)
Grand Valley State University, Michigan, 1987-1989
(Asst. and Associate Professor, School of Communications, Director, Calder Art Gallery)
Saint Xavier College, Chicago, 1974-84
(Asst. and Assoc. Professor, Department of Art, Director, SXC Gallery, 1979-81,
Chairperson, Department of Art, 1982-84)
Columbia College, Chicago, 1978, 1982
(Visiting Instructor: Photographic Criticism, History of Photography)
Institute of Design, IIT, Chicago, 1979
(Visiting Instructor: History of Photography)
LECTURES:
Bowling Green (OH) State University, 2006
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 2004
University of Connecticut, 2004
Society for Photographic Education, annual meeting, Newport, 2004
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 2003
Columbus (OH) Museum of Art, 2003
Ewha University, Seoul, Korea, 1996
Weir Farm Heritage Trust, Wilton CT, 1993
Indiana University, Bloomington, 1991
Society for Photographic Education, annual meeting, Santa Fe,1990
Arizona State University, Tempe, 1989
Columbia College, Chicago, 1989
Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1988, 1989
Sioux City (Iowa) Art Center, 1989
Emison Art Center, DePauw University (IN), 1988
Bowling Green (OH) State University, 1988
Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI, 1988
Chicago Cultural Center, 1987
San Francisco Art Institute, 1987
University of Wisconsin, Superior, 1987
Tweed Museum of Art, U of MN, Duluth, 1987
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1986
Film in the Cities, St. Paul, 1985
Northern State College, Aberdeen, SD, 1985
University of IL, Champaign, 1985
Notre Dame University, IN, 1982
University of NM, Albuquerque, 1982
Columbia College, Chicago, 1981
EXHIBITIONS:
(one and two-person)
Intimate Panoramas, Image House Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Feb-Mar 2001
Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Sept-Oct, 1994
Weir Farm National Historic Site, Wilton CT, April-May, 1993
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham MA, Jan-Feb, 1993
Intimate Landscapes, Ithaca College Photogaphy Gallery, Ithaca, NY, Feb-March, 1993
A Year at Weir Farm, Lyme Academy of Art, Old Lyme, CT, May-June 1992
Bushnell Promenade Gallery, Hartford CT, Mar-May, 1992
Quinebaug Valley Community College, Danielson CT, Feb-Mar 1992
Atrium Gallery, U of CT, Storrs CT, Sept-Oct 1990
Duluth (MN) Art Institute, June 1989
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Feb-Mar 1989
Space Gallery, W Michigan U, Kalamazoo, Feb 1989
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Sept-Oct 1988
Memorial Union Gallery, ND State Univ, Fargo, Feb 1987
Saint Paul (MN) Academy, Jan 1987
Tweed Museum of Art, U of MN, Duluth, Feb-Mar 1986
Lincoln Gallery, Northern State Coll, Aberdeen, SD, Oct-Nov 1985
Film in the Cities, St. Paul, Nov 1985
Krannert Art Mus, U of IL, Champaign, Oct 1985
Ruth Volid Gallery, Chicago, Nov 1984-Jan 1985
Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Dec 1982
Saint Xavier College, Chicago, Sept-Oct 1982, Nov 1976
Chicago Cultural Center, June-Aug 1982
Barat College, Lake Forest, IL, Oct-Nov 1981
Gallery of Photographic Art, Elgin (IL) CC, April 1981
Exposures Gallery, Libertyville, IL, Feb 1981
Dart Gallery, Chicago, Dec 1980
Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May-June 1980
Evanston (IL) Art Center, March-April 1980
Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, Sept-Oct 1979
New Mexico State U, Las Cruces, June 1979
Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, Jan 1979
Lorado Taft in Illinois, traveling show for IL Arts Council, 1978-1982
The Darkroom, Chicago, April 1976
ARC Gallery, Chicago, Dec 1975
Reclaiming Paradise: American Women Photograph the Land, curated by Gretchen Garner and circulated by the Tweed Museum of Art, Un. of MN, Duluth:
Nora Eccles Harrison Mus. of Art, Utah State U., Logan, Nov-Dec, 1989
Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, Sept-Oct 1989
SUNY Art Gallery, Albany, May-June 1989
Grand Rapids (MI) Art Museum, Feb-April 1989
Sioux City Art Center, Iowa, Jan-Feb 1989
S. Dakota Memorial Art Center, Brookings, Nov-Dec 1988
Emison Art Center, DePauw U., IN, Sept-Oct 1988
Bowling Green State U., OH, July-Aug 1988
Houston Foto-Fest, Feb-March 1988
N. Dakota State U. Art Gallery, Fargo, Jan-Feb 1988
N. Dakota Mus. of Art, Grand Forks, Oct-Nov 1987
Chicago Cultural Center, June-Aug 1987
Tweed Museum of Art, U. of MN, Duluth, Feb-Mar 1987
(group)
Reality Revisited: Photography from the Moderna Museet Collection, Moderna Museet,
Stockholm, Sweden, May-September, 2009
Masala: Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art, Wm. Benton Museum of Art,
University of Connecticut, February-April, 2004
Women Artist/Educators, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott ColIege, Decatur GA, Sept-Oct 1995
Inaugural exhibition, Norman Stevens Gallery, Babbidge Library, U of CT, Storrs, March-May 1995
Evercolor: A Group Show of Permanent Pigment Prints, Alinder Gallery, Gualala, CA, Sept-Nov, 1994
New England Photographers '94, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham MA, March-April 1994
Camera Obscura/Obscura Camera, School of the Art Inst. of Chicago, Betty Rymer Gallery, Feb-Mar 1994
UCONN Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich CT, June-Aug, 1993
Johnson Heritage Post Gallery, Grand Marais , MN July-Aug, 1992
The Country Between Us, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Jan-Mar, 1992
Four Media/Five Artists, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, Oct-Nov, 1991
Floral Works, Ruth Volid Gallery, Chicago, May 1991
Photographers Collect Photography, Michigan Friends of Photography, N. Michigan University,
January 1990, Kalamazoo Art Center, June-July 1990
Center Gallery, Detroit, Sept-Oct 1990
University of CT Faculty Show, Benton Museum, Sept 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993
62nd Regional, Muskegon (MI) Museum of Art, March-April 1989
Recent Acquisitions, Grand Rapids Art Museum, summer, 1988
McKnight Fellows, Film in the Cities, St. Paul, summer, 1988
Clover/Garner/Kerr, Calder Gallery, Grand Valley State University, Nov 1987
Lifestories, MCAD Gallery, MPLS, Oct-Nov 1986
Color Photography: New Work, University Art Museum, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, March-April 1985
A Year in Chicago's Grant Park, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Oct-Dec 1984
Offset: A Survey of Artists' Books, New England Foundation for the Arts, 1984
Arboretum, University of Colorado, Denver, Sept-Oct 1983
Considering Beauty in Photography, Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Sept-Oct 1983
Chicago, the Architectural City, Art Institute of Chicago, July-Sept 1983
A Show of Chicago Photographers, Robert Freidus Gallery,NY, Aug-Sept 1982
Recent Acquisitions, Art Institute of Chicago, Sept 1982
American Photography Today, University of Colorado, Denver, Mar 1982
Chicago Women Photographers, Exposures Gallery, Libertyville, IL, Sept 1981
By Arrangement: Photography's Contemporary Still-Lifes, Chicago Center for
Contemporary Photo., Oct-Nov 1980
Inner Landscape, ARC Gallery, Chicago, June-July 1980
IL Photographers, IL State Mus, Springfield, 1982, 1980
The Homecoming Show, Evanston (IL) Art Center, Oct-Nov 1979
ARC Past and Present, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Oct 1979
3 Photographers/ 3 Sculptors, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, summer 1978
13 Photographers, Rizzoli Gallery, Chicago, Jan 1978
The Chicago Photographer, Evanston (IL) Art Center, Dec 1977
Photo Images '77 Invitational, Springfield IL, Sept 1977
Fabric as Idea, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL, March 1977
Women's Invitational Photographic Exhibit, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, March 1977
American Landscapes, Assoc. of College Unions traveling show, 1975-6
Personal Statements: 9 Women Photographers, IL Arts Council traveling show, 1975-79
First Light, Eureka, CA, 1975
The Naked and the Nude, The Darkroom, Chicago, 1975
Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, 1975
Exposures '74: the Work of Women Photographers, The Darkroom, Chicago, 1974
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
(books and catalogues)
Gretchen Garner, Disappearing Witness: Change in 20th Century American Photography, Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2003
Gretchen Garner, Six Ideas in Photography, Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1989
Gretchen Garner, Reclaiming Paradise: American Women Photograph the Land, Tweed Museum of Art, Univ. of MN, Duluth, 1987
Gretchen Garner, An Art History of Ephemera: Gretchen Garner's Catalog, Tulip Press, 1982
(portfolio)
Vanitas (10 still-lifes), 1980
(poster)
A Grove of Birches, 1988
Still Water, 1992
(photos reproduced)
Naomi Rosenblum, A History of Women Photographers, 1994, Abbeville Press, p 29
Robert Hirsch, Exploring Color Photography, 1992 (2nd ed.), Wm. C. Brown publishers, pp 157, 188
Edward Tufte, Envisioning Information, 1990, Graphcs Press, Cheshire CT, p 90
Harper's, October 1988, p 39
Lake Superior Magazine, Duluth, March-April 1987, p 72
Plainswoman, January 1987, p 12 and cover
"Notes of an Urban Traveler," White Walls #7, fall 1982
"Gretchen Garner's Catalog," Popular Photography, Feb 1982, pp 84-89
"Vanitas," Helicon Nine #5, fall 1981, pp 22-25
Recent Acquisitions, IL State Museum, 1981, p 7
Inner Landscape, ARC Gallery, 1980, p 22
"Chicago: For Artists It's a City That Works," ARTnews, May 1980, p 81
(articles and essays)
Gretchen Garner, "Photography and Society in the 20th Centry," Focal Encyclopedia of Photography,
Focal Press/Elsevier, 2007
Andrew Hershberger, "The Past, Present and Future of the History of Photography: Interviews
with Peter C. Brunnell, Gretchen Garner and Britt Salvesen, History of Photography, 30:3, Autumn 2006
"Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer," book review, Exposure 39:2, Fall 2006
"Silver and Ink: State of the Teaching Art," Exposure, 38:1, 2005
“The Undiscerning Eye,” Newsday, Aug. 31, 2003
“A Disappearing Witness: Change in the Practice of Photography," The Photo Review, Fall/Winter, 1996
“Gertrude Kasebier, Helen Levitt," exhibition/book review, ArtJournal, College Art Association, Winter 1992
Ten entries: Linda Connor, Marion Faller, Imogen Cunningham, Meridel Rubenstein,
Mary Beth Edelson, Barbara Crane, Linda Gammell, Anne Noggle, Geraldine
Sharpe, and Olivia Parker, in An Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century North
American Women Artists, edited by Jules Heller, Garland Publishers, 1995
"New Metaphorics: Spirit and Symbol in Contemporary Landscape Photography," Center
Quarterly, The Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY, Fall 1988
"Are Portraits Possible?" Grand Valley Review, Grand Valley State University,
Vol 3 #1, fall 1987, pp 73-85
"House, Garden--The Spirit of Place," MN Artists Exhibition Program, MPLS Inst. of Arts, 1986
"Seeing the Light: Photographs as Works of Art," Tweed Museum of Art, Univ.of MN, Duluth, 1985
"Pencil of Nature, Part II," Exposure 19:4, 1981
"An Interview with Larry Viskochil, Who Keeps Chicago's Family Album," Exposure 20:1, 1982
"ARC Past and Present," ARC Gallery, Chicago, Sept 1979
"Monumental Lincoln Park," Chicago Magazine, March 1979
"Stanley Milgram: A Psychologist Looks at Photography,” Camera 35, Sept 1977 (also New Art
Examiner, May 1977)
"A Double Tribute at the MCA," New Art Examiner, Feb 1977
"Photographs Have Consequences," New Art Examiner, December 1976
"The Photographic Gesture," New Art Examiner, Oct 1976
(plus book reviews in the Santa Fe New Mexican, 2001; numerous book reviews in Booklist [American Library Assn.], 1982 to 1997; in Exposure [Society for Photographic Education], 1981-2; and numerous show and book reviews in New ArtExaminer, 1975-77)
(reviews of my work)
"Disappearing Witness," by Kathleen Collins, Librrary Journal, March 15, 2004
“Disappearing Witness,” by Bruno Chalifour, Afterimage, January/February, 2004
“Disappearing Witness,” by Martha A. Sandweiss, History, Winter 2004, p. 47
“Disappearing Witness,” by C. Stroh, CHOICE, February 2004
"The Landscapes of Gretchen Garner," Susan M. Wadsworth, Willimantic Chronicle, Sept 28,1990
"Transform," by Larry Thall, Chicago Tribune, Sept 9, 1988
"Reclaiming Paradise," by Alan G. Thomas, New Art Examiner, October 1987
"Reclaiming Paradise," by Helen Smith, WARM Journal, Vol 8 #2, 1987, p 23
"Tweed Museum of Art: Reclaiming Paradise," unsigned, Print Collector's Newsletter, Vol 18 #3,
July-Aug 1987
"Exploring the Intimate Landscape of American Women Photographers," by Abigail Foerstner,
Chicago Tribune, June 12, 1987, pp 45-6
"Women and the Land," by Diane Hellekson, Minnesota Monthly, Feb 1987, pp 13-15
"Gretchen Garner's Photographs," Plainswoman, Jan 1987
"One Hopes for Something Special from the Chicago Crowd," by Owen Edwards, American
Photographer, Nov 1982
"It's Hard to Picture Photos Better than Garner's," by David Elliott, Chicago Sun-Times,
July 11, 1982
"Gretchen Garner's Catalog," by Nancy Timmes Engel, Popular Photography, Feb 1982
"Apollo in the Studio," by Carole Harmel, Afterimage, Feb 1981
Review by David Elliott, Chicago Sun-Times, Dec 21, 1980
"Chicago: For Artists It's a City That Works," by David Elliott, ARTnews, May 1980
"Garner's Catalog No Muddle," by David Elliott, Chicago Sun-Times, Mar 16, 1980
"Gretchen Garner, Klaus Frahm," by Don Gruber, Artweek, Oct 13, 1979
“Art and Artists," by Irene Lagorio, Sunday Peninsula Herald, Oct 7, 1979
"Strong Look at Common Things," by David Elliott, Chicago Sun-Times, July 30, 1978
"Surprises at the Ukrainian Institute," by Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune, Sept 1, 1978
(essays on my work)
Diane Hellekson, "A World in Balance," in exhibition brochure,
Gretchen Garner Landscapes, 1981-88, Grand Rapids (MI) Art Museum, 1989
Harold Spencer, untitled essay, in exhibition brochure,
A Year at Weir Farm, Landscape Photographs by Gretchen Garner,
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT, 1992
(editorial)
Editor, Exposure (Journal of the Society for Photographic Education), 1981-2 (Vols 19 and 20)
Photography Editor, New Art Examiner, 1975-77
CURATORIAL:
Guest Curator, Grand Rapids Art Museum, for Six Ideas inPhotography, June/July 1989
Director, Calder Gallery, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, 1987-1989
Guest Curator, Tweed Museum of Art, Univ. of MN, Duluth, for
Reclaiming Paradise: American Women Photograph the Land, 1987
(traveling to 13 sites between 1987-89)
Director, SXC Gallery, Saint Xavier College, Chicago, 1979-81
Curator of Photography Exhibitions, Evanston (IL) Art Center, 1977-79
Curator, Fabric as Idea, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern Univ. Evanston (IL), 1977
HONORS AND GRANTS:
1994, Purchase Award, New England Photographers '94, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
1993, Research Grant, University of Connecticut
1991-2, Visiting Artist, Weir Farm National Historic Site, Wilton CT
1991, Research Grant, University of Connecticut
1990, Research Grant, University of Connecticut
1988, Research Grant, Grand Valley State University
1987, McKnight Foundation Photographer's Fellowship from Film in the Cities, St. Paul
1986, Arrowhead Regional Arts Council production grant for Reclaiming Paradise catalogue
1983, selected for NEH Summer Seminar on Portraits, Columbia University, NY
1980, Teaching Excellence Award, Saint Xavier College
1979, Project Completion Grant, IL Arts Council
1978, Director's Grant for Lorado Taft in Illinois, IL Arts Council
1973-75, Danforth Foundation Fellowship for graduate study
1965, AB with General Honors, University of Chicago
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