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OWEN RILEY JR. RESUME
Owen Riley Jr
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Greenville, South Carolina 29615
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www.owenriley.com
SELECTED RECENT AND UPCOMING SHOWS
2012
Opening January 2012, Solo Show, Milliken Gallery, Converse College, Spartanburg,
S.C.
2011 Artisphere Artists of the Upstate Juried
Show, opens April 26, 2011
2011 Wide Open 2 Art Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, New York,
National juried art show curated by the Guggenheim Museum of Arts' Associate Curator
Nathan Trotman,
2010 South Carolina Scholastic Invitational at Click 646, Greenwood, SC
2010 Upstate Visual Arts Annual Juried Show, Greenville, SC
2010 U.S. Professional Bicyle Championship's Pedalpop Invitational Show, Greenville, SC
2010 "A Portrait of Greenville " Group Show of works from the Permanent Collection. The
Greenville Museum of Art
2010 Boundaries - Recent Work Solo Show
The Moon Gallery, Berry College,
Rome, Georgia
2010 "Artisphere International Art Festival, 2010 Annual Juried Show," Greenville, S.C.
2010 "Crossing Over " Three person show at Riverworks Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina
2010 "Greenville Scene" The Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, South Carolina
Juried Show
2009
"Imaging Desire," The Hite Art Institute Biennial, The University of Kentucky,
Louisville, Kentucky National Juried Show
2008 "Artisphere International Art Festival, First Annual Juried Show," Greenville, S.C.
2008 "Clemson s Anagama Exhibit," Anderson Art Center, Anderson, South Carolina Group
show
2007
Moments In Between Solo Show. The Greenville Fine Arts Center, Greenville South
Carolina
COLLECTIONS
The Greenville Museum of Art,
Greenville, South Carolina
The Greenville Fine Arts Center,
Greenville, South Carolina
Multiple private and corporate collections across the United States
RECENT AWARDS
2010 Clemson Art Department Research Grant for the study of the Wet Plate Collidion
photographic process at the Santa Fe Photo Workshops, New Mexico
2009 -10 Clemson Art Department Graduate Fellowship Award
2009 Site Specific Sculpture Award - Clemson University Art Department Team Award
PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARDS
"South Carolina Photojournalist of the Year" by the South Carolina Press Photographers
Association.
Multiple First Place South Carolina Press Association Awards in news, sports and feature
including multiple Best of the Best News Photo Awards.
Contract Photographer "America 24/7" Book Project
RECENT ARTIST TALKS
2011 The Wet Plate Collodion Process workshop and demonstration at Furman University's
Art Department on April 7, 2011.
2010 Greenville County Museum of Art, for "Portrait of Greenville"
2010 Greenville Circle of Friends Community Center summer school program lecture on
Photojournalism
2010 "Crossing Over" at Riverworks Gallery, Greenville, for students from Greenville Tech
Art Department
2010 "Boundaries" at Berry College, Rome, Georgia for students faculty and the public
2010 Art Slide Jam, Clemson, South Carolina
2009 Digital Photography Lecture, Furman University Art Department
2009 Pecha Kucha presentation, The South Carolina Arts Commission Annual Retreat at the
South Carolina Governors School for the Arts
EDUCATION
2008
2010 Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, Center for Visual Art
Master of Fine Arts
degree in Visual Art/Photography
2010 The Santa Fe Photographic Workshops
Workshop in wet plate collodion photography
1983
- 1984 Graduate studies in Journalism -The University of Georgia Henry Grady School
of Journalism
1976
-1980 Berry College, Rome, Georgia Bachelors Degree in Art, with Honors
1979
Residential program in Fine Art Black and White Photography- The Maine Photographic
Workshops
ASSOCIATIONSThe College Art AssociationThe Society for Photographic Education
EMPLOYMENT
2011
Adjunct Art Faculty, Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina
. Teaching Art 315,
The History of Photography
2008
-2010Graduate Teaching Assistant and MFA student, Clemson University
. Taught Photo
213 in
Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010. Taught Directed Independent Studies in
Intermediate and Advanced Photography Fall 2009 and Spring 2010. Taught Photo 313 in Fall
of 2010.
2008
-CurrentStaff PhotographerThe Greenville News Media Group,
2007
- CurrentTALK Magazine Homes Photographer
2003
-2008Chief PhotographerThe Greenville News Media Group, Greenville, S.C.
1988
-2004Staff PhotographerThe Greenville News, Greenville, S.C.
1985
-1988Staff PhotographerThe Anderson Independent, Anderson, S.C.
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