Artist Bio
Education M.A. - Photography and Graphic Design, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1979 B.A. - Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1976 Recent Selected Exhibitions Director’s Choice, Newspace Gallery, Portland, Oregon, September, 2010 River Market Regional Exhibition, Kansas City Artists Coalition Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, July, 2010 (Curated by Barbara O’Brien) The Sea Series, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, April, 2010 PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, March, 2010 (Deborah Klochko, juror) Hide and Seek: Picturing Childhood, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, September, 2009 (Curated by Jane Aspinwall and April Watson) Small Works Portfolio Exhibition, Susan Maasch Gallery, Portland, Maine, April, 2009 Uganda, White Sturgeon Art Gallery, Water Resources Education Center, Vancouver, Washington, March, 2009 (One woman show) Collectible, Wallspace Gallery, Seattle, Washington, December, 2008 Texas Photographic Society 17: The National Competition, to travel throughout 2008 (Lisa Sutcliffe, juror) PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, May, 2008 (Rod Slemmons, Juror) Uganda, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, April, 2007 (One woman show) Portrait 2000, Truman Presidential Library, Independence, Missouri, February, 2008 (Two person show) Convergence, Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, Colorado, February, 2008 (One woman show) Group Photography Show, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, April, 2007 The Art of Photography, Lyceum Theatre Gallery, San Diego, California, April, 2007 (Tim Wride, Juror) PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, April, 2007 (John Paul Caponigro, Juror) 100 Women in Photography, Women in Photography International, 2006 (Online exhibition) Selections from the Contemporary’s Flat Files, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, July, 2006 Summer Show, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, July, 2006 PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, May, 2006 (Keith Carter, Juror) Women Artists: Selections from the A.G. Edwards Corporate Collection, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, May, 2006 The Space Between, Studio 2131, Kansas City, Missouri, October, 2005 (One woman show) Among the Ashes, Silver Eye Center for Photography Member’s Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August, 2005 Urban/Suburban, Epsten Gallery at Village Shalom, Overland Park, Kansas, August, 2005 The Children’s Hour, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, Michigan, May, 2005 PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, April, 2005 (Robert ParkeHarrison, Juror) ID = ♀, The Photography Room, Grand Rapids, Michigan, March, 2005 Recent Selected Awards/Honors Honorable Mention, The Julia Margaret Cameron Award, 2010 Director’s Choice Award, Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2010 (Christ Bennett and Laura Valenti, Jurors) 2nd Place Award, PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, 2010 (Deborah Klochko, Juror) Juror’s First Prize Award, State of the Arts Exhibition, Prairie Village, Kansas, 2009 (Mark English, Juror) Dr. Phyliss and Robert A. Bernstein Humanitarian Award, Jewish Family Services, Overland Park, Kansas, 2009 Bodhisattva Award, Rime Buddhist Center/ Tibetan Institute of Studies, Kansas City, Missouri, 2008 Nominated for UNICEF Photographer of the Year Award, 2007 3rd Place Award, PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, 2007 (John Paul Caponigro, Juror) Juror’s Award, Art at the Center 2007, Overland Park, Kansas (Dean Mitchell, Juror) Honorable Mention, PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, 2006 (Keith Carter, Juror) Juror’s Choice Award, Art at the Center 2006, Overland Park, Kansas (Sangram Majumdar, Juror) Recent Publications New Letters Magazine (cover), Volume 76 No. 3, 2010 Kutuuka, Yellow Bird Press, June, 2009 The Sun Magazine, February, 2009 (cover) New Letters Magazine, Volume 74, Number 4, 2008 Shots Magazine, Summer, 2008 Talking With The Wheel: The Ceramics of Ken Ferguson, contributing photographer, Silver Gate Publications, 2007 The Sun Magazine, May, 2007 Present Magazine, (online magazine) Spring, 2007 Ensemble Jourine, (online magazine) March, 2007 New Letters Magazine (cover and portfolio), Volume 73, Number 1, December, 2006 F-Stop Magazine, (online magazine) September, 2006 Present Magazine, (online magazine) Spring, 2006 The Sun Magazine, (cover), October, 2005 The Studio Potter, (“Remembering Ken Ferguson”) Volume 33, Number 2, June, 2005 The Sun Magazine, April, 2005 Ceramics Monthly, (“Ken Ferguson: A Remembrance”) March, 2005 Selected Collections The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri American Century Investments, Kansas City, Missouri Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin Sprint Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri Devos Children’s Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona The University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Nerman Contemporary Gallery of Art, Overland Park, Kansas University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas H & R Block World Headquarters, Kansas City, Missouri Permanent Installations The Pembroke Hill School, Kansas City, Missouri Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Overland Park, Kansas Village Shalom, Overland Park, Kansas Operation Breakthrough, Kansas City, Missouri The Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy, Overland Park, Kansas Gallery Representation Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, Colorado Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas