RESUME (Abbreviated)
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DONA SCHWARTZ
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55408
abqppr@r.postjobfree.com
www.donaschwartz.com
EDUCATION
PhD University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communications, Philadelphia, PA, 1983
MA University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communications, Philadelphia, PA, 1978
BA University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1977
Studies in photography
New School for Social Research, New York, NY, 1974
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 1973
BOOKS
In the Kitchen. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg: Germany, 2009
Contesting the Super Bowl. New York and London: Routledge, 1997
Waucoma Twilight: Generations of the Farm. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2009 University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, In the Kitchen
2006 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, In the Kitchen
Stephen Bulger Gallery (Project Space), Toronto, Canada, In the Kitchen
2004 Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN, In the Kitchen
1993 Paul Whitney Larson Gallery, St. Paul, MN, Waucoma Twilight: Generations of the Farm
1987 Film In The Cities, St. Paul, MN, Photographs from the Waucoma Project
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 National Portrait Gallery, London, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011
Art Museum of South Texas, The Art of Caring: A Look at Life
Art Museum of Fort Lauderdale, The Art of Caring: A Look at Life
Portland Art Museum, Likeness: Portraiture from the Photography Collection
Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany, Der Zweite Blick: Sch tze aus unserem Lager
RedLine Gallery, Denver, CO, Denver Month of Photography, Discoveries of the Meeting Place
2010 XIV Bienal de Fotografia 2010, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico, Discoveries of the
Meeting Place
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010
DuMois Gallery, New Olrleans, LA, Ethnographic Terminalia 2010
Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH, The Art of Caring: A Look at Life
FOTOFEST2010, Houston, TX, Discoveries of the Meeting Place (Selected by William A. Ewing,
Director, Mus e de l Elys e, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Houston Center for Photography, 2010 Print Auction Exhibition
Espacio Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona, Spain, Domestic
2009 New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, The Art of Caring: A Look at Life
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Digital Daguerreotype: Photographs of People
Darmst dter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt, Germany, Visions of Life
Uno Art Space, Stuttgart, Germany, I Want to Be Happy
2008 Mus e de l Elys e, Lausanne, Switzerland, Teen City: L aventure adolescente
Lowry Art Gallery, Manchester, UK, The Photographic Portrait Prize 2007
2007 National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, The Photographic Portrait Prize 2007
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, Spectra '07 National Photography Triennial
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Kinsey Institute Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Kinsey Confidential
Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN, Expressive Bodies: Contemporary Art Photography
from The Kinsey Institute
Studio Thomas Kellner, Siegen, Germany, Photographers:Network
Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Interactions
Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, Suburban/Domestic
Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN, Photocentric
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY, Regarding Intimacy
2006 Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, Center Awards Juried Exhibition
University of the Arts Gallery 1401, Philadelphia, PA, Photo Review Best of Show
Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA, New Works Gallery Online
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, Midwestern Views: Contemporary
Photography in Minnesota
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, Domestic Diaries
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 12th Juried Exhibition
Darmst dter Tage der Fotografie, Darmst dt, Germany, Selbstsicht der Schritt ins Bild
Galerie Lichtblick, K ln, Germany, Aus Amerika
2005 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, Artists Interrogate: Race and Identity
7th Internationale Fototage, Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany, Contemporary American
Photography
Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN, Photocentric
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, 15th Annual Center Awards Juried Competition
Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, 10th Annual Photographic Competition
Exhibition: Focused
Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA, Members Juried Exhibition
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 11th Annual Juried Exhibition
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, 14th Annual Center Awards Juried Competition
2004
Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, Visual Proof! 9th Annual Photographic Competition
Exhibition
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Mus e de l'Elys e, Lausanne, Switzerland
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN
Midwest Photographers Project, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
PUBLICATIONS ABOUT OR INCLUDING MY PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK
Artvas, In the Kitchen, Autumn, 2011, Vol. 4
Visual Anthropology Review, Ethnographic Terminalia 2010: New Orleans 27 Works, Kate Hennessy,
Fiona P. McDonald, Trudi Lynn Smith, and Stephanie Takaragawa, Volume 27, Number 1 Spring 2011
Visual Anthropology Review, A Gallery of Prototypes: Ethnographic Terminalia 2010, Dominic Boyer,
Volume 27, Number 1 Spring 2011
Gastronomica In the Kitchen, reviewed by Lynne Christy Anderson, Spring 2011, pp 117-118
Star Tribune, "A view with a room," Bill Ward, December 22, 2010
American Anthropologist, "In the Kitchen," reviewed by Jay Ruby, Vol. 112, No. 4, December 2010
Social Psychology Quarterly, "Pairings," Vol. 73, No. 4, December 2010
Good Age: The Journal of Active Living, "On, and Off, the Nest," C.C. Strom, December 2010
Southwest Journal, "When the Nest Empties," October 18-31, 2010
Parenting.com, "Readying the Nest and Empty-Nesters: Parents at the Opposite Ends of Childhood," Melanie
Rosen, October 13, 2010
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The New York Times, "Leaving a Childhood Room Behind, and Much More," Alina Tugend, September 25,
2010
Spot, In the Kitchen by Dona Schwartz, Natalie Zelt, Fall 2010
PHOTONEWS, Dona Schwartz In the Kitchen, Peter Lindhorst, June 2010
Learning to eat, Review: In the Kitchen by Dona Schwartz, Caroline Grant, May 27, 2010
Photo-Eye Magazine, In the Kitchen, Aline Smithson, May 12, 2010
Boston.com, What the family kitchen is really like, Sheryl Julian, February 26, 2010
Smithsonian.com, Home is where the Kitchen Is, Amanda Benson, April 1, 2010
too much chocolate, Photographing Family, Aline Smithson, October 17, 2009
Stern.de, In the Kitchen: Wo Sich die Familie trifft, September 25, 2009
PHOTO International, Wo gekocht wird und gegessen und gelebt, Hans-Michael Koetzle, June 2009
Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World, Karen Ritzenhoff and Katherine A. Hermes eds. Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2009
The Rambler Magazine, 6(1), Chapel Hill, NC, January 2009
OjodePez, I Want to be Happy, Madrid, Spain, December 2008
Camera Arts, Artists Showcase, Albuquerque, NM, July/August, 2007
access+ENGAGE, Zoom In: Photographer Dona Schwartz, Issue #15.1, mnartists.org
10,000 Arts, Minnesota's Creative Quarterly, Minneapolis, MN August 2007
Profifoto, Photographers:Network Selection 2007: Patience, June 2007
Popular Photography, How I Shot This: Soccer Mom, January 2007
Magenta Magazine, In the Kitchen, Toronto, Canada, Vol. 1(1) Spring 2006
Hotshoe, In the Kitchen: Words and Work by Dona Schwartz, October/November 2005
Frankfurter Rundschau Magazin, Fokus auf Dona Schwartz: Das Zentrum des Lebens. Frankfurt, Germany,
October 22, 2005
Leica World, Discoveries of the Meeting Place: Photographers and photographic projects that caught our
attention at the Fotofest 2004, Hans-Michael Koetzle, 2/2004
Minnesota Monthly, Behind the Bowl, Russell Scott Smith, January 1998
Photo District News, Staying Close to Home: A Changing Vision of Documentary Photography, Frank Jossi, June 1992
RECENT HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
Winner, Third Prize, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize competition, National Portrait Gallery,
London, for Christina and Mark, 14 months, from On the Nest, 2011
Nominee, Santa Fe Prize for Photography, 2011
Imagine Fund Grant, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2011
Imagine Fund Grant, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2010
Imagine Fund Grant, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2009
McKnight Summer Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2008
Summer Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2008
Honorable Mention, Photography Now 07, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY, 2007
Juror s Selection, Interactions, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, 2007
Griffin Award, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 2006
Sixth Prize, Photo Review Best of Show, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2006
Honorable Mention, HCP Photography Fellowship, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, 2006
Semi-finalist, Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, Duke University,
Durham, NC, 2006
Finalist, Critical Mass, Photolucida, Portland, OR, 2006
Finalist, Santa Fe Prize for Photography, Santa Fe, NM, 2005
Finalist, MCAD/Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists, Minneapolis, MN, 2005
Nominee, No Strings Foundation Grant, Los Angeles, CA, 2005
Critical Mass Top 50 Photographer, Photolucida, Portland, OR, 2005
Honorable Mention, Visual Proof! Photographic Center Northwest, 9th Annual Photographic Competition
Exhibition, Seattle, WA, 2004
Graduate School Research Grant, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2001
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EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Stephen Bulger Gallery
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