*1951 Detroit, Michigan/USA. LEBT UND ARBEITET IN RED HOOK, NEW YORK/USA
B.A. in art, Antioch College
Studied photography with Minor White at MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology/USA
2005 EHRENDOKTORWÜRDE, Bank Street College of Education, New York City
Tätigkeiten in Auswahl
2006 to present, Artist-in-Residence Amherst College
2001 to presenT, Artist-in-Residence Franklin Center, Duke University
2000 –2003 Senior Fellow Vera List Center for Art and Politics New School for Social Research
1998 to 2001 Research Scholar at Duke University’s Center for International Studies and Program in Education
1991 to present: Senior Research Associate at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies
1996 Bard College, Visiting Associate Professor
1990 Teacher in Durham City Schools and Duke University’s Migrant Studies Project
1989 Educational Consultant and teacher, Houston Fotofest
1988-89 Photography teacher Gujarat, India
1986 Assistant Director and Script Writer, »La Mirada de Myriam,« a thirty minute documentary film produced in Colombia.
1982 Fulbright Fellow & photography teacher in Raquira, Colombia
1975-81 Director of the Mountain Photography Workshop, at Appalshop, Whitesburg, Kentucky
1976-80: Artist-in-the-Schools, Kentucky Arts Commission; teacher of photography and filmmaking, Curator for exhibition of students’ for the Smithsonian Institute Traveling, Exhibition Service (SITES)
1971-73 Founder and Director, Half Moon Gallery (now Camerawork) London, England
1969-73 Photography teacher on two Canadian Indian reservations
PREISE UND STIPENDIEN
2008 Open Society Institute grant to return to work in Labrador
1996 Surdna Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to the Addison Gallery of American Art for mid career retrospective
1992 MacArthur Fellowship
1992 National Endowment for the Arts Travel Grant
1992 Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Visual Arts Fellowship for South Africa
1990 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Non-fiction Literature
1988 NEA Visual Arts Fellowship
1987 Prizes for »La Mirada de Myriam«, Oberhausen Film Festival, Havana International Film Festival, Shown at the Public Theater's Latin American Festival in New York
1986 Lyndhurst Prize to individuals who have made a major contribution to the Southern US, Kentucky Foundation for Women grant
1984 Inter-American Foundation grant to write a film script about Myriam Ramirez, a Latin American woman
1983 Artist Fellowship Kentucky Arts Commission
1982 Fulbright Fellowship to Colombia
1981 Kentucky Humanities Commission grant to exhibit Appalachian Women: Three Generations
1980 Kentucky Arts Commission individual artist grant
1980 NEA Exhibition Aid grant to publish Portraits and Dreams: Photographs Stories by Children of the Appalachians
1979 Joint Foundation Support/Women's Fund New York
1978 NEA Exhibition Aid grant for Appalachia: A Self-Portrait
1976 NEA Photographic Survey grant to document the Appalachian region
Auftragsarbeiten in Auswahl
2008 Artist residency at HuiPress Maui, Hawaii
2004-2006 ArtAngel, Margate, England
2003 Handworkshop Richmond, Virginia
2002 Queens Museum Alphabet Project Commission
2002 Art Context Commission Rhode Island School of Design Museum
2001 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Ma.
2000 Artist Residency at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
1998 Commission from the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to produce a video piece for »To the Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive«
1997 mission from the Ackland Art Museum to produce an exhibition of photographs with five faith communities
1996 Mondrian Foundation Commission The Netherlands, Surdna Foundation
EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN in Auswahl
2008 WENDY EWALD, GALLERY Parrotta CONTEMPORARY ART, STUTTGART/Germany
2007 Amherst College Portraits: Collaborations with Wendy Ewald and Brett Cook Mead Museum Amherst, MA
2007 On Reading John Hope Franklin Center
2006 SECret Games Mint Museum Charlotte, NC
2006 University of Kentucky
2006 American Alphabets Amherst College
2006 American Alphabets Addison Gallery of American Art
2005-6 To the Promised Land Margate, England
2005 Secret Games Syracuse University
2004 »Secret GameS: Wendy Ewald Collaborative Works 1969-1999«-
2004 High Museum, Atlanta
2004 Handworkshop, Richmond, Virginia
2003 »Secret Games« Queens Museum of Art NYC
2003 Yossi Milo Gallery Chelsea, NYC
2003 Morocco Scalo Gallery NYC
2002 »Secret Games« Corcoran Gallery of American Art,
2002 Rhode Island School of Design Museum,
2002 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Kansas City
2001 »Secret Games« Addison Gallery of American Art,
2001 Stills Gallery Edinburgh, Scotland,
2001 Museet for Fotokunst Odense, Denmark
2000 »Secret Games« Fotomuseum Winterthur Switzerland
2000 »Durham« Partobject Gallery, North Carolina
1999 »Visions of Faith: Photographs by Wendy Ewald and Children« Ackland Art Gallery University of North Carolina
1999 University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive University of California at Berkley
1997 Nederlands Foto Instituut Rotterdam
1996 Addison Gallery of American Art
1995 Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame
1995 Southern Methodist University Dallas
1994 Photographic Resource Center Boston
1994 Rhode Island School of Design
1994 Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
1994 Southeast Museum of Photography Daytona Beach
1994 James Danziger Gallery NYC
1993 International Center of Photography, NYC
1993 George Eastman House Rochester, NY
1993 Ansel Adams Center San Francisco
1991 Catskill Center of Photography Woodstock, NY
1990 Blue Sky Gallery Portland, Oregon
1990 Houston FotofesT
1990 Images Gallery, Cincinatti Ohio
1989 Centre for Photography as an Art Form Bombay, India
1988 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan
1988 Foto Fest Houston, Texas
1988 Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
1987 Southern Arts Federation tour of Retrato de un Pueblo (photographs of a Colombian village)
1985-87 Side Gallery, Newcastle, England to tour Portraits and Dreams through Europe
1986 Southern Arts Federation tour of Portraits and Dreams in the Southern U.S.
1986 Stills Gallery Edinburgh Scotland
1986 Northlight Gallery Tempe Arizona
1985 Clarence Kennedy Gallery Cambridge Massachusetts
1984 Consejo de Fotograf'ia Mexicano Mexico City
1984-85 Southern Arts Federation tour of Appalachian Women: Three Generations
1983 Museo de Arte Moderno Bogota', Colombia
1983 Dance Theater Workshop New York
1981 University of Kentucky
1979-83 SITES tour to museums in the U.S.
1978 International Center of Photography
1977 Edinburgh Festival
1976 Visual Studies Workshop Rochester New York
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN in Auswahl
2004 »White« International Center of Photography
2003 »White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art« curated by MauriceBerger Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
2000 Art Gallery New South Wales, Australia
1999 »To the Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive«, International Center of Photography, Miami Museum of Art
1998 »Knowing Children« David Beitzel Gallery, NYC
1997 Biennial Whitney Museum of American Art
1997 Portraits: Dawoud Bey and Wendy Ewald Johnson Community College Gallery of Art, Missouri
1996 »Perfetti & Invisibili« PittiImagine Florence, Italy
1995 »Visions of Childhood« Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College
1995 »We Look and See« University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California at Berkley
1994 »Fables, Fantasies, and Everyday Things« Children's books by Artists Whitney
1994 Museum of American Art at Champion
1992 »Reinventing Childhood« Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin
1980 Baldwin Street Gallery Toronto
1978-79 Southern Arts Federation tour of Appalachia: A Self-Portrait
1978 International Center of Photography
1978 llth St. Gallery New York
1978 University of West Virginia
1970 MIT Creative Photography Gallery Boston
VORTRÄGE UND WORKSHOPS
2006 Amherst College
2006 Massacusetts Institute of Technology
2005 Syracuse University Borders Symposium
2005 Manuel Alvarez Bravo Museum Oaxaca, Mexico
2004 Wexner Center Ohio State University
2004 Amherst College
2004 High Museum Atlanta
2004 Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
2004 Galeria de la Luz, Oaxaca, Mexico
2003 Columbia College of Photography, Chicago
2003 University of Maryland at Baltimore College
2003 San Francisco Art Institute
2003 California College of Arts, Oakland
2003 Galeria de la Luz, Oaxaca, Mexico
2002 Brown University
2002 Atlanta Celebrates Photography
2002 Bard College
2002 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
2002 Virginia Commonwealth University »Community and Crisis«
2001 University of Rhode Island Distinguished Scholar Lecture, Yale University
1999 Miami Art Museum
1999 Harvard School of Education John Landrum Bryant Lecture Series
1999 University of Michigan »Photography and Feminism« Lecture Series
1998 Townsend Humanities Center University of California at Berkley
1998 American Montessori Society, Boston
1997 University of Nevada
1997 University of Missouri
1996 Buffalo State College Distinguished Lecture Series
1996 Caixa Foundation Barcelona, Spain
1996 Addison Gallery
1996 Nehru Society London, England
1995 Bard College
1995 American Photography Institute New York University
1995 Notre Dame College
1994 Center for Creative Photography Tucson
1994 Anderson Ranch Aspen, Colorado
1993 George Eastman House
1993 Friends of Photography, San Francisco
1993 Bard College, Annandale, NY
1992 Friends of Photography
1992 Contemporary Art Museum, Houston
1991 Bard College
1990 International Center of Photography
1988 Houston Foto Fest
1988 Other Voices - Society for Photographic Education New York City
1987 Governor's School Louisville, Kentucky
1986 New York University
1986 University of Michigan
1986 Photographic Resource Center Boston
1986 Society for Photographic Education Keynote speaker
1985 Murray State University Murray, Kentucky
1983 Museo de Arte Moderno Medellin, Colombia
1983 University of Kansas
INTERVIEWS UND DOKUMENTATIONEN IN AUSWAHL
2005 Women’s News Hour BBC Radio
2002 MacNeil Lehrer News Hour
2002 Boston Arts WGBH Television
1998 »Kids« Channel 4 Britain
1996 Good Morning America
1996 Morning Edition National Public Radio
1996 BBC The World
1996 MS NBC
1992 Christian Science Monitor
1992 Crossroads NPR
1990 NBC Nightly News
1988 Today Show NBC
1988 Morning Edition NPR
1987 National Media Tour
1986 All Things Considered NPR
1984 Colombia Today Colombian National Television
1983 Headwaters NBC Southeastern region
1980 Big Blue Marble NBC
PUBLIKATIONEN IN AUSWAHL
2006 Towards A Promised Land Steidl and Artangel
2005 American Alphabets, Scalo
2005 In Peace and Harmony, HandWorkshop
2003 Cabinet
2001 The Best Part of Me: Children and the Body Little, Brown and Co.
2000 I Wanna Take Me a Picture: Teaching Photography and Writing to Children to be published by Beacon Press
2000 Secret Games: Wendy Ewald Collaborative Works 1969-1999, Scalo
1999 To The Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive Jewish Distribution Committee
1998 DoubleTake, Vile Bodies Photography and the Crisis of Looking Chris Townsend, Prestel
1998 Pictures of Innocence The History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood Anne Higgonet Thames and Hudson Transitions The White Issue
1997 Photowork(s) in Progress/Constructing Identity, Nederlands Foto Instituut
1996 I Dreamed I Had a Girl in My Pocket, W.W. Norton
1996 Doubletake Black Self/White Self
1996 Elle
1995 Double Take
1993 New York Times Op-Ed
1992 Magic Eyes: Scenes from an Andean Girlhood, Bay Press, Seattle
1991 American Voice
1991 Family Snaps: The Meanings of domestic Photography ed Jo Spence and Patricia
1991 Holland Virago Press
1990 Aperture
1989 Family Circle Vicki Goldberg
1987 American Voice
1986 Art in America
1985 Portraits and Dreams: Photographs and Stories of Children of the Appalachians
1985 Writers and Readers
1985 Harper's
1985 Aperture
1985 Psychology Today
1985 Creative Camera
1985 CameraworK
1983 Retrato de un Pueblo Ewald Museo de Arte Moderno Bogota', Colombia
1982 Ms Magazine
1981 Appalachian Women: Three Generations Ewald Appalshop
1979 Appalachia: A Self-Portrait ed.Ewald Gnomon Press
1978 Village Voice Time/Life Photo Year
1970 Learning to See ed Susan Meiselas Polaroid
SAMMLUNGEN IN AUSWAHL
The Detroit Art Institute
The Dreyfus Collection
The Collection of Howard Stein
The Addison Gallery of American Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Hallmark Collection
The International Center of Photography
The Polaroid Corporation
The University of Kentucky
The Library of Congress
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School University
The Franklin Center Duke University
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum