Tomiko Jones
RATTLESNAKE LAKE
20″x16″ platinotypes (platinum-palladium prints)
The human histories embedded in our landscapes are uneasy and unresolved. When I first went to it Rattlesnake Lake it smelled of summer and promised happy memories. On a winter day, my birthday, I return to the lake. It is January and the drizzle will not let up as the mist rolls in the growing dark. There is nothing left but a mud puddle and a hundred enormous stumps. Once an indigenous site, the area was deforested and a town built, which was later destroyed by flooding.
Today the lake is an overflow reservoir of drinking water for the city of Seattle. The boundary between land and lake blurs as the water rises and falls, both revealing and hiding its history. In Rattlesnake Lake an embodiment of spirit is imagined as a lone figure moving through a place of untold stories. A bucket of water is collected from the lake to rinse the photographic film. Dirt and leaves rub together and onto the film, leaving artifacts behind and tearing small pieces of silver away-a conversation between place and image.
The series is photographed with a field camera reminiscent of those used for 19th century surveys of the Western landscape by European settler colonialists, and printed as platinotypes, an alchemical mix of precious metals
hand-coated onto paper and exposed to ultraviolet light.
Tomiko Jones’ photography and multidisciplinary installations explore social, cultural and geopolitical transitions in the landscape, and considers the twin crises of too much and too little in the age of climate change. Her current research, These Grand Places, is a socially-engaged investigation of people and place on public land. Her recent project Hatsubon is a memorial exhibition in photography, video and sculpture.
She is the recipient of awards including the 2013 En Foco New Works Fellowship (New York), 4Culture and CityArtists (Seattle), and Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes (France). Jones spent three months in residence at Museé Niépce in Chalon-Sur-Saône, France, and in Cassis, France for a project-specific Fellowship at The Camargo Foundation.
Currently Jones is an Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.She received her MFA in Photography with a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Arizona, Tucson.
EDUCATION
2008 Master of Fine Arts in Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Research Assistant for Professor Frank Gohlke, internship with 6+ for Professor Sama Alshaibi. Studies with Dr. Doug Nickel, Center for Creative Photography, instructor-of-record positions.
2008 Certificate of Museum Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Museum Studies coursework and research on contemporary curatorial practice with Dr. Sarah Moore; coursework and research for Dr. Britt Salveson, Center for Creative Photography.
UPCOMING
2022 (Untitled), two-person with Elizabeth Claffey, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
These Grand Places, solo exhibition, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 Hatsubon, solo exhibition, Art League Houston, TX
These Grand Places, introduction to the project, originally scheduled on-site, online due to COVID,
School of Education Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
2019 A Place to Rest, Museum of Wisconsin Art Downtown, Milwaukee, WI
Tomiko Jones, solo exhibition, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, AZ
2018 Hatsubon, Phebe Conley Art Gallery, California State University, Fresno, CA
2017 The Space Between Here and There, Mendocino Art Gallery, Ukiah, CA
2016 Hatsubon, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA
Hatsubon, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
2015 Rattlesnake Lake, California Institute of Integral Studies, San
Francisco, CA
Rattlesnake Lake, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
These Grand Places, Bisignano Gallery, University of Dubuque, IA
2013 These Grand Places, WorkSpace, Lincoln, NE
Passage, Haas Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg
2012 These Grand Places, Groundswell Gallery, Denver, CO
These Grand Places, El Paso International Airport, TX
2010 Passage, Vermillion, Seattle, WA
2006 What Could It Mean To Say Yes? Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
2005 Landscapes, Upfield Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Landscapes, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2005 The Bunny Chronicles, Upfield Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004 The Bunny Chronicles, Diego Rivera Sala, ENEP, UNAM, México City, México
2004 The Bunny Chronicles, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2001 The Bunny Chronicles, The Pound Gallery, Seattle, WA
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS and SITE-RESPONSIVE PROJECTS (solo)2014 Canal, public art, Scottsdale Public Art Commission, Scottsdale, AZ
2013 Billboard Project, public art, California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
2012 Uncovering the West Tributary, public art, Bellevue Special Projects, Bellevue, WA
Crossing, Ironton Gallery, Denver, CO
2009 There are Some Things You Cannot Forget, The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France
2008 Draw Forth, Cast Aside, public art, Start on Broadway Public Art Project, Seattle, WA
Draw Forth, Cast Aside, MFA Thesis Exhibition, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2020 Now You See Me, group exhibition, Foto Relevance, Houston, TX
From the Studios, Peninsula School of Art Gallery, Fish Creek, WI
Faculty Exhibition 2020, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
2019 Hatsubon, Wisconsin Triennale, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI
SPE Midwest Juried Exhibition, Juror Jennifer Murray, Brooks Stevens Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI
Nibikaang –From the Water, Watermark Art Center, Bemidji, MN
Chania International Photo Festival, Chania, Crete
Members’ Exhibition, Juror Cecily Cullen, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Woodstock AIR: Housed, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
Water 2019, Juror Elizabeth Avedon, online, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
39th Annual SECURA Fine Arts Exhibition, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI
Westward, group exhibition, SFAC Galleries at City Hall, San Francisco, CA
Un/Seen: The Alchemy of Fixing Shadows, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
2018 Story Space, O’Connor Art Gallery, Dominican University, River Forest, IL
International Tokyo Photography Competition, Online
Members’ Exhibition, Juror Brian Clamp, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
SPE Combined Caucus Exhibition, Juror Anthony Goicolea, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition, Juror Shane Lavalette, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT
2017 Timely Resonance/Dissonance, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
Water Line: a Creative Exchange, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
Public Forum: Natural Disasters & Climate Change, Art+Science collaboration and exhibition,
Stanford Center for Urban Resilience, Co-Risk, and ELL Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Contact 2016: Foreign and Familiar, curators Herman Piʻikea Clark and Isabella Ellaheh
Hughes, Honolulu Museum of Art School, Honolulu, HI
Water and the Sounding Sirens, Curator TeaRoots, Sherwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Colorado Contemporary, video, Juror Nora Burnett Abrams, Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, CO
Photo-Synthesis, Month of Photography, Arts Brookfield Republic Plaza, Denver, CO
2014 Rattlesnake Lake, En Foco New Works #17 Fellowship Exhibition, Juror Mary Virginia
Swanson, The President’s Gallery, John Jay College CUNY, New York, NY
Center Forward, Juror Hamidah Glasgow, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2013 Photo-Synthesis, Month of Photography, Arts Brookfield Republic Plaza, Denver, CO
MSU Denver Faculty Exhibition, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO
2013 After 5, MART Program exhibition, Drury University, Springfield, MO
SPESW Exhibition, Juror Jim Robischon, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Not Kansas, Curator Ann Jastrub, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
CPAC Members Show, Juror Shannon Corrigan, Colorado Photographic Arts Center,
Denver, CO
Photography and Environmental Concern, online, Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT
Unstable Systems, ArtLofts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
SPE Multicultural Caucus Portfolio, photography, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2011 Existence, Passage, Release (three-person), photography, Gaddis Geeslin Gallery, Sam
Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
Sculptural Books: Memory & Desire, book arts, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
SPE Multicultural Caucus Portfolio, American University, Washington, DC
2009 Delight Becomes Pictorial, Kore Press and Tucson Contemporary Arts, Tucson, AZ
Hidden Between Covers, book arts, Curator Elizabeth Mellott, Arts Gallery, Collin College,
Plano, TX
Emerging III, Creative Center for Photography, LA; Cypress College; California State University
2007 Basically Human University of Arizona and American University in Dubai, UAE
2006 SPESW Exhibition, Universe City, Ogden, UT
Photography Now, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Exile On Main Street, Lionel Rombach Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2005 Latin American Invitational, Curator Adrian Ayala, México, Cuba, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina
2004 101 Ways to Remove a President from Power, Curator Greg Lundgren, Center on
Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
2004 Arena, Pochron Studio, DUMBO Arts Festival, New York, NY
2003 Northwest Annual, Juror Linda Farris, Center On Contemporary Art (CoCA), Seattle, WA
2002 Western States Small Works, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
2002 Personal Viewpoints, Juror Michael Kenna, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
2001 Beneath The Surface, Juror Chien Chi-Chang, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Before/After, Curator Greg Lundgren, Vital 5 Productions, Seattle, WA
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS 2017 Waterlines with Jonathan Marquis, Center on Visual Art, Denver, CO
2015 The Gretel Project with Catherine Chung, Sidney Boquiren, Lauren K. Alleyne, interactive theatre performance and installation, University of Dubuque, IA
2014 You Get What You Pay For with Chris Dacre, Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO
2012 It’s Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas with Chris Dacre, Grunwald Gallery, Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN
2008 Air Traffic: control with Chris Dacre, Rocket Gallery, Tucson, AZ
SCREENINGS2011 Shorn, This is A Recording, Curators Sama Alshaibi and Gary Setzer, Conrad Wilde Gallery,
Tucson, AZ
2010 Across Land and Sky, 4Culture Media Gallery, Seattle, WA
Air Traffic: control, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
La Traversée, 17 Days, Curator Adrianne Little, Alfred State University, NY and Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
2009 Wound, Curator Carola Dreidemie, SPE National Conference, Dallas, TX
Shorn, San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, Brava Theatre, San Francisco, CA
2008-09 Shorn, Urban Jealousy: 1st Int’l Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Curators Amirali Ghasemi and Serhat Koksal, Hafriyat Karakoy, Istanbul, Turkey; Berlin, Germany; Belgrade, Serbia
PERFORMANCE HISTORY2006 I-Haul, U-Look, a public mobile art gallery and intervention, First Thursday, Seattle, WA
2003-06 Infernal Noise Brigade, a mobile sound ensemble activated by massive political and
cultural uprisings. Seattle, San Francisco, New York and other US locations, Canada,
México, UK, Netherlands, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria
2011-09 Vital 5 Productions: creation, production and representation of non-traditional art exhibits and performances. Photographer and performer at opening events, Seattle, WA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2018-present
Assistant Professor of Photography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tenure-track faculty teaching two undergraduate courses and graduate independent studies per semester. Strong focus on research, service at departmental, university and community levels.
2017–20187
Adjunct Faculty, Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA
Independent Study and MFA Thesis Mentor, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
July 2015–December 2016
Visiting Artist and Curator-in-Residence, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
Visiting Artist: create new work for residency exhibition, teach seminar courses and individual mentorship in the MFA Program in Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Arts.
Curator-in-Residence: Develop exhibition schedule, curate and manage exhibitions and attendant programming, promote and advance the visibility of the exhibition program and social media campaigns, coordinate visual campaigns with the MFA program, editorial writing for publication, supervise work-study students.
2011–2016
Assistant Professor + Photography Area Coordinator, Metropolitan State University of Denver, CO
Tenure-track faculty position teaching three courses per semester, oversee directed studies, BFA thesis committees, community-based internships and assistantships, and advise 50+ photography majors. Area Coordinator manages program budget, develops new curricula, manages affiliate faculty and class schedule, and co-chairs the Photography Steering Committee. Service at departmental, university and community levels, maintain an active exhibition record and pursue professional development opportunities.
January 2010–June 2011
Full-time College-Track Faculty, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Teach three courses per semester and graduate independent studies, participate in graduate seminar, and implement new curriculum with Professor David Taylor. Collaboratively combined courses with Printmaking Professor Chris Dacre in hybrid processes. Co-organized the Southwest Graduate Symposia at SITE Santa Fe International Biennale, and the bi-institutional Undergraduate Exchange with University of Arizona.
2010–2013 (summer intensive program)
Visiting Professor, Drury University, Springfield, MO
Master of Arts in Studio Art and Theory Program. Teach second year graduate students in 3D Concepts, including experimental media, with group and individual critiques, professional development in artist statements, written thesis and photographic documentation.
2008 Adjunct Faculty, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2006–08 Instructor-of-Record, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE and SERVICE 2017-21 Board of Directors, Society for Photographic Education (SPE)
Chair, Affiliated Chapters Committee, SPE
Chair, Awards and Recognition Committee, SPE
2019 Portfolio Reviewer, SPE Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH
2018 Annual Conference Planning Committee, SPE, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Portfolio Reviewer, SPE Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV
2011–15 Exhibition Planning Committee, Faculty Advisor for 965 Gallery, Center for Visual Art (CVA), Denver, CO
Assist Creative Director in maintaining mission of the CVA, MSU Denver’s off-campus gallery,
through selection, programming and outreach to broader community; liason with the Art
Department as a representative of the Faculty; advise the student-led 965 Gallery.
2012 Southwest Chapter Conference, SPE, Fort Collins, CO
Co-chair with Hamidah Glasgow, Director of The Center for Fine Art Photography. Reviewed
and organized speakers, maintained website, community outreach, and oversaw leads for
logistics, portfolio reviews, sponsorship and student volunteers.
2011–15 Southwest Chapter Multi-Cultural Caucus Representative, SPE
“Facilitating the investigation of multicultural image makers in regional, national, and international contexts; act as an arena for the discussion of particular cultural issues by people of diverse cultural backgrounds; confront the visual, social and political issues that arise from these discussions, with integrity, honesty and justice.”
2011 Peer Reviewer and Portfolio Reviewer, SPE Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA
2008 SITE Santa Fe Artist Assistant, International Biennale “Lucky Number 7”, curated by Lance
Fung, Santa Fe, NM
2006–08 Internship, 6+ Women’s Art Collective, Israel and Palestinian Territories, New York, NY,
Chicago, IL, Boulder, CO
2006–07 Director/Production Crew, “Voices of Photography”
Assist in developing an archive of oral history through interviews with photographers, with Professor Emeritus Harold Jones, Center For Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
2003-08 Tomiko Jones Photography, freelance business
2000-03 Custom Black & White Printer, Ivey Seright Professional Photographic Services, Seattle, WA Film Technician, Ivey Seright Professional Photographic Services, Seattle, WA
2000 Apprenticeship, Spike Mafford Photography, Seattle, WA
SELECTED GRANTS and AWARDS 2020 Fall Research Competition, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, WI
2019 Grand Challenges Seed Grant for These Grand Places, School of Education, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Director’s Choice, Members’ Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2017 Artist-in-Residence, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
2015 School of Letters, Arts, Sciences Faculty Grant MSU Denver (2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011)
2014 Honorable Mention Award, Colorado Contemporary, Fort Collins, CO
En Foco New Works Fellowship, New York, NY
2013 Provost Office Research Grant for Reassigned Time, MSU Denver, CO
2011 Honorable Mention Award, Specific Environments: Landscape as Metaphor, Fort Collins, CO
2010 4Culture Site-Specific Performance Network Grant, Seattle, WA
2010 Bellevue Special Project Grant, Bellevue, WA
City Artists Grant, King County Office of Cultural Affairs, Seattle, WA
2009 Camargo Foundation Fellowship, Cassis, France
2009 4Culture Digital Media Grant, Seattle, WA
Best Experimental Award for “Shorn”, San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, CA
2008 Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes, France
Sound Transit: Start on Broadway Public Art Project Grant, Seattle, WA
Freestyle Crystal Apple Award, Society for Photographic Education, National
Asian American Faculty, Staff and Alumni Association Grant, University of Arizona, AZ
Graduate and Professional Student Council Conference Grant, University of Arizona, AZ
2008 College of Fine Arts Travel Grant, University of Arizona, AZ (2008, 2007, 2006, 2005)
2007 Creative Achievement Award in School of Art, College of Fine Arts, University of Arizona, AZ
Tucson Pima Arts Council International Exchange Grant, Pima County, AZ
2007 Medici Scholar International Grant, University of Arizona, AZ
Graduate and Professional Student Council Conference Grant, University of Arizona, AZ
2006 Medici Scholar Grant, University of Arizona, AZ
Southwest Region Conference Graduate Scholarship, Society of Photographic Education
2005 King County Office of Cultural Affairs Grant, King County, WA
Grants for Artist Projects, Artist Trust, Washington State
ARTICLES, REVIEWS and PUBLICATIONS 2020 Now You See Me: Tomiko Jones, Lenscratch, Erica Cheung (author), October 31, web
Questions with an Educator: Tomiko Jones, ASMP Strictly Business Blog, Lily Barber (author),
April 27 web
Art League Houston, “Blue Tape (Virtual) Art Talks with Sarah Beth Wilson and Erin Carty”,
April 14 video
Art League Houston, Five-Minute Tours: Tomiko Jones at Art League Houston, March video
Art League Houston, Artist Talk, Facebook Live, March 13
2019 MMoCA Wisconsin Experience Bridging Old, New (group exhibition review), The Daily Cardinal,
Cara Suplee (author), October 25 web
Mobile Research, Photography Studio to Study National Parks, Madison Magazine, Joel Patenaude
(author), October 27 web
In Focus: Watermark Art Gallery’s ‘Nibikaang’ Exhibit Celebrates The Importance Of Water,
Lakeland News, Shirelle Moore (author), August 23 web
Strange Fire Collective, “Q&A with Tomiko Jones”, Hamidah Glasgow, March 28 web
The Nature of Refuge, interview, Sara Brown (author), March 26 web
Visual Art Resource, “Hatsubon”, Lynn Trimble, March 6 web
Edge Effect, “The Alchemy of Early Photography”, Iseult Gillespie, Tori Yonker (authors),
February 14 web
2018 Cap Times, “Back to the Water: Tomiko Jones”, Lindsey Christians (author), October 3 web
2018 Juried Exhibition, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT (catalogue)
SPE Combined Caucus International Exhibition, University of the Arts, Philadephia, PA (catalogue)
2017 Center for Photography at Woodstock, AIR Interview web
Timely Resonance/Dissonance, University of Nevada, Reno, NV (catalogue)
2016 SPE Multicultural Caucus, Monthly Featured Artist web
BW Gallerist, September 22, Forrest Olds (author) web
2014 Nueva Luz, “Rattlesnake Lake” feature, October, New York, NY (quarterly magazine)
BW Gallerist, June 30, Forrest Olds (author) web
Photography and Environmental Concern, Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT catalogue
Six Shooters, guest photographer for September web
2013 Adobe Airstream, “Ten Colorado Artists You Should Know About–They Happen to be Women”, Leanne Goebel (author) web
2012 Specific Landscapes: Landscape as Metaphor, Lincoln Art Center, Fort Collins, CO (catalogue)
2011 Nueva Luz, “Passage”, feature, October, New York, NY (quarterly magazine)
Newspace Center for Photography 10 Year Anniversary, Portland, OR (book)
2012 En Foco Artist Interview Series: Tomiko Jones, Tod Wemmer (author) web
The Outlook, “Art Exhibit teaches Languor, Temperance, Repose”, Vol. 83, No. 3, Sept 28,
Marissa Weber (author), Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ (newspaper)
The Houstonian, “Students to glimpse into “Passage”, Vol 119, Issue 23, November 10,
George Mattingly (author), Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX (newspaper)
Uncovering the West Tributary, Bellevue CTV (video documentary) web
CityArts, “Curatorʼs Eye: Tomikoʼs Floating World”, December 1, Tim Appelo (author),
Bellevue, WA (magazine) web
2010 CityArts, “Tomiko Jones’ Struggle of the Moth”, December 9, Corey Kahler, Bellevue, WA
(magazine) web
- Stuttgarter Filmwinter, exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart, Germany (catalogue)
2009 The Seattle Times, “Grants bring art to Bel-Red neighborhood in Bellevue”, December 23, Nicole
Tsong (author), Seattle, WA (newspaper) web
2008 Seattle Weekly, “Cold Confusion”, interview, June 25, Erika Hobart (author), Seattle, WA (weekly) web
Tucson Citizen, “Noisy Skies the Focus of Air Traffic: Control”, July 31, Polly Higgins (author),
Tucson, AZ (newspaper) web
UANews, “Award-Winning Photography Graduate Ventures Into Video”, May 5, La Monica
Everett-Haynes (author), Tucson, AZ web
2008 Arizona Daily Wildcat, “‘Negotiating’ Artist’s Eerie Vision”, March 8, Alexandria Kassman (author),
Tucson, AZ (newspaper)
2006 The Stranger, “Porta-Photo”, Vol. 16, No. 1, September 14, Carrie E.A. Scott (author),
Seattle, WA (weekly) web
2006 Mono, June, No. 518, Tokyo, Japan (magazine)
2003 The Excelsior, Art & Life, back cover interview, México City, México (newspaper)
2003 Shots Magazine, Portfolio Issue, cover feature, Minneapolis, MN (quarterly)
2002 The Stranger, “The Stranger Suggests”, Vol.10, No.46, August 2, Emily Hall (author),
Seattle, WA (weekly)
2002 Seattle Weekly, “SW This Week: Arts Picks”, August 2, Anna Fahey (author), Seattle, WA (weekly)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, front page, August 2, Regina Hackett (author), Seattle, WA (n
PUBLICATIONS as AUTHOR 2016 Sahar Khoury: ZOO, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA, catalogue, web
Lenscratch, “Natascha Seideneck: Uncanny Territory”, essay web
CIIS Today, Fall, San Francisco, CA, biannual magazine web
2015 CIIS Today, Spring, San Francisco, CA, biannual magazine
CIIS Today, Fall, San Francisco, CA, biannual magazine
2010 Altered: Experimental Photography National, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, catalogue
2009 The Rivers, documentary film with Sama Alshaibi for Direct Aid Iraq, Amman, Jordan
2007 Zaytoon, “The Geography of Borders and Liminal Spaces” (author), Middle Eastern North
African Graduate Conference and Journal, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, catalogue
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES and PRESENTATIONS 2020 Foto Relevance Gallery, “Now You See Me”, interview with Jennifer Ling Datchuk and Erica Cheung, Foto Relevance, Houston, TX
California Institute of Integral Studies, “The Role of Teaching and Learning in Art Making”, virtual panel discussion, San Francisco, CA
2020 University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
“Office Hours”, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2019 Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Art Lofts Gallery, “Manifest” (student exhibition) for Edgewood College students, Madison, WI,
American Studies Association Conference, Panel Chair, “Un/Natural Landscapes”, Honolulu, HI
Society for Photographic Education Northwest Conference, “In Our Own Voices”, Fairbanks, AK
Center for Fine Art Photography, “Members Exhibition”, Fort Collins, CO
San Francisco Arts Commission, “Conversation with Mercedes Dorame”, moderated by
Ann Jastrab, San Francisco, CA
Edgewood College, Madison, WI
Chazen Museum of Art, Gallery Talk, “Un/Seen: The Alchemy of Fixing Shadows”, Madison, WI
Chazen Museum of Art, Panel, “Un/Seen: The Alchemy of Fixing Shadows”, Madison, WI
Visiting Artist, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ (public lecture, individual critiques)
2018 Visiting Artist, California State University, Fresno, CA (workshop, classroom lecture, public lecture)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2017 San Francisco Camerawork, with Kate-hers Rhee, moderated by Viêt Lê and Heather Snider,
San Francisco, CA
Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA
Visiting Artist, Utah State University, Logan, UT (workshop, individual critiques, public lecture)
2016 California Institute of Integral Studies, “Interview with Dohee Lee”, San Francisco, CA
California Institute of Integral Studies, “Hatsubon”, panel with Cathy Chung and Deirdre Visser,
San Francisco, CA
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA (individual critiques, lecture)
2015 City College of San Francisco, CA
“Balance-Unbalance: Climate, Water, Environment”, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2014 Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
2013 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Conversation with Vivian Keulards, Denver, CO
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Portfolio Preparation with Mark Sink, Denver, CO
2012 Visiting Artist, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (workshop, individual critiques, public lecture)
2011 Visiting Artist, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX (individual critiques, public lecture)
Visiting Artist, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ (workshop, individual critiques,
public lecture)
Society for Photographic Education Annual Conference, “Passage”, Atlanta, GA
Visiting Artist, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (individual critiques, public lecture)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (individual critiques, public lecture)
2010 Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI (individual critiques, public lecture)
Vermillion Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 Visiting Artist, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (individual critiques, public lecture)
2006 Métafora International School of Art, Barçelona, Spain
2005 Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR (workshop, lecture)
Upfield Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
COLLECTIONSCHROMA, The Arts at CIIS, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
Light Work, Syracuse, NY
En Foco, New York, NY
Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
Metropolitan State University of Denver, CO
University of Colorado Boulder, CO
ARTIST RESIDENCIES2017 Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York
2012 Ironton Studios, Denver, CO
2009 The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France
2008 Musée Nicéphore Niépce Chalon-Sûr-Saone, France
Rocket Gallery Tucson, AZ
CURATORIAL PROJECTS 2016-19 “What Keeps You Up At Night?” SPE Multicultural Caucus Exhibition and Portfolio
2019 Centre College, Danville, KY
2018 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2017 Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA
2016 California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
2016 “Sahar Khoury: ZOO”, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015-17 “Cumulus” exhibition series, Desai | Matta Gallery, California Institute of Integral Studies:
2017 “Emma Nishimura: An Archive of Rememory”
“Neil Chowdhury: 46 Lahiri Lane”
“Past Tense, Future Tense” wih Chris Dacre, Mark Harris, Kameelah Janan Rasheed,
John Jota Leaños, Nina Ramos Harrison
2016 “Shifting Surfaces” with Roberto Fernández Ibáñez, Stephen Bruce, Tanja Geis
“April Showers” with Kim Anno, Cara Romero, Mayumi Hamanaka, Sama Alshaibi,
Michael Fadel
“Cycle” with Kim Stringfellow, Ian van Coller, Elliot Ross
2015 “Evanescence” with Michael Arcega, Amy Balkin, Natascha Seideneck
“Kei Ito: Sungazing”
2013 “Semblance” with Robert and Shana Parke Harrison, Janaina Tschäpe, Kim Keever,
Neil Chowdhury, Sama Alshaibi, Laura Shill.
Co-curated with Cecily Cullen, Center for Visual Art, an exhibition of lens-based practitioners for Denver’s bi-annual Month of Photography. Programming with lectures, video screenings, performances, workshops, student exhibition.
2010 “Altered: Experimental Photography”, University of West Florida, Pensacola
2008 “Elizabeth Mellott”, Union Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ