Education
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island - M.F.A. in Photography, 1980
Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts - B.A. magna cum laude, 1975. Major:Fine Arts
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts - Fall 1971 - Winter 1973
Teaching, Professional Experience
Northampton, Massachusetts Artist, Photographer 1975 - present
Amherst College, Amherst Massachusetts Visiting Artist, Department of Fine Arts 2003, 1997 - 1998
University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut Lecturer, Department of Art 1993 - 1996, 1980 - 1984
Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts Adjunct Assistant Professor of Photography 1990 - 91
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts Assistant Professor, Department of Art 1984 - 1989
Solo (and Two/Three Person) Exhibitions
| 2010 | “Luminosity” The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, Massachusetts (three person) |
| 2008 | Book Arts Gallery, Neilson Library, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts Valley Photo Center, Springfield, Massachusetts (three-person) |
| 2007 | The State House, Boston, Massachusetts – Office of Senator Stan Rosenberg |
| 2006 | Mercy Gallery, Richmond Art Center, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Connecticut |
| 2005 | Kauffman Gallery, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania |
| 2003 | 100 Pearl Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut (two-person) Dakota Ridge Gallery, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania The Ralls Collection, Washington, D.C. Eliana Ortega Cultural Center, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts |
| 2002 | University Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico |
| 2001 | The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts |
| 1999 | Grubbs Gallery, Williston Northampton School, Easthampton, Massachusetts Old First Church Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts (two-person) Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts (two-person) |
| 1998 | See Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts (two-person) |
| 1996 | South Rotunda Gallery, Hynes Center, Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1994 | The Photography Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana |
| 1993 | Klebenov Gallery, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire |
| 1992 | George Waters Gallery, Elmira College, Elmira, New York Icons Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 1991 | New Works Gallery, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, Massachusetts |
| 1990 | Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts |
| 1989 | Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts (two person) |
| 1988 | Fogg Art Museum, Print Room, Cambridge, Massachusetts Midtown Y Gallery, New York, New York “Altered Images,” Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts (two person) |
| 1987 | Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts |
| 1986 | Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, Massachusetts Artworks Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut |
| 1985 | University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado |
| 1984 | Barnes Gallery, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Connecticut Artworks Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut |
| 1983 | Dibden Gallery, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont Burlington County College, Pemberton, New Jersey |
| 1982 | Silver Bullet Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island Artworks Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut |
| 1981 | Thornes, Northampton, Massachusetts |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2010 | “From Seed To Supper” Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA “Art+Space” The Gallery at Hallmark, Turners Falls, MA Carrie Haddad Photographs, Hudson, NY “RISD New England Biennial,” Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA |
| 2008 | “A Tribute to Polaroid,” Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2007 | “Titles,” sponsored by the University Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts, exhibited in Amherst and Montreal “Self Reflection,” Hosmer Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts “The World Is Still Flat,” Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts |
| 2006 | “Metamorphosis: The Director's Choices from the Benton Collection,” Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut “30th Anniversary Exhibition,” Artworks Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut |
| 2005 | “Displaced,” The Chocolate Factory, Phoenix, Arizona |
| 2004 | “Ten Years at 100 Pearl,” 100 Pearl Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut “Crosscurrents,” Pure Light Gallery, Turners Falls, Massachusetts “Viva Polaroid,” A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts |
| 2003 | “Faculty Exhibition,” Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts |
| 2002 | “Counter Clockwise: Photographs from the Polaroid Collections,” Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark “Small Works,” A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts “Summer Show,” The Ralls Collection, Washington, D.C. “Changing Prospects:The View from Mt. Holyoke,” Mount Holyoke College Art Museum |
| 2001 | “18 Alumni Artists,” Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts “25th Anniversary Exhibition,” Artworks Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut “Valley Photographers,” Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State College, Westfield, Massachusetts |
| 2000 | “Art From The Mechanism,” Pivot Gallery, Florence, Massachusetts “Millennium:Recent Gifts and Acquisitions,” William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut |
| 1999 | Summer Group Show, The Ralls Collection, Washington, D.C. |
| 1998 | “Intimate Objects,” The Ralls Collection, Washington, D.C. “Selections 6,” Weber State University, Ogden, Utah and national travel Gallery 57, Springfield, Massachusetts (award) “Air & Water,” The Ralls Collection, Washington, D.C. |
| 1997 | “Paradise Lost,” Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts “Self Portrait,” Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts “Contact Improvisation: 25 Years,” Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Gallery 57, Springfield, Massachusetts “Light Traces,” Richmond Art Center, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Connecticut |
| 1996 | “20th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition,” Artworks Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut “Surveying the Landscape,” Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts |
| 1995 | “Focal Point,” Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts “30th Annual Art Department Faculty Exhibition,” Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut (four person) |
| 1994 | “New England Photographers from the Danforth Museum Collection,” Atrium Gallery,University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut “New England Landscape,” Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts |
| 1992 | “Selections 6,” Polaroid, Cologne, Germany and international traveling “Selections,” University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Chilean-North American Institute, Santiago, Chile “New England Photographers,” Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts “Summer Invitational,” Keeney Cultural Center, Wethersfield, Connecticut |
| 1991 | “New England Biennial,” Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1990 | “Selections 5,” Polaroid, Cologne, Germany and international traveling “Postcards: Northampton,” Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts “Photography:From Fact to Symbol,” University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida “Landscapes,” Wenniger Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts “Review and Preview,” Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts |
| 1989 | “The Landscape:Painted, Drawn, and Photographed,” Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts “Formers and Founders,” Artworks Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut “Zone Artists,” The Artists Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts “Smith at Sync,” Sync Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts |
| 1988 | “Zone,” Berkshire Artisans Gallery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts “Ghost of a Chance,” Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts “Beyond Light,” University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, travel “Photography, Etc.,” Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1986 | “Photo-Collaborations” Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, Edinboro, Pennsylvania “Photo-Synthesis,” Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts Zone Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts |
| 1985 | “Pioneer Valley Photographers,” Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, Massachusetts “Chautauqua Faculty,” S.U.N.Y. Fredonia, Fredonia, New York “The Figure,” M. S. Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut “Smith College Faculty,” University Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 1984 | California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California Duke Art Museum, Durham, North Carolina New York Public Library, New York, New York M. S. Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut Zone Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts (award) Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, Massachusetts Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island "Coast to Coast," Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas |
| 1982 | “The Finished Print,” Farmington Art Guild, Farmington, Connecticut “Alumni Biennial III,” Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island “The Narrative on Paper,” Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee |
Grants, Awards
World Health Organization Photography Competition, “Images of Health and Disability,” award, 2002
Polaroid International Photography Awards: Winner, Fine Arts/Americas 2001
Northampton Arts Council Grant 1998,1990,1984,1983
Artists Support Program, Polaroid Corporation 1999, 1993,1991,1990,1984,1982
Holyoke (Massachusetts) Arts Council Grant 1990
Harnish Faculty Fellowship, Smith College 1985
Purchase Award, University of Connecticut Health Center 1983
Artist in Residence Grant, Massachusetts Artists Foundation 1980
Finalist in Photography, Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Program 1980
Youthgrant (co-recipient), National Endowment for the Humanities 1980
Wise Fine Arts Award, Amherst College 1975
Grand Prize for Best Design, Americana Textile Design Competition 1975
Collections
Aetna, Hartford, Connecticut
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California
City of Northampton, Massachusetts
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
Erie Art Center, Erie, Pennsylvania
First Massachusetts Bank
Forbes Library, Northampton, Massachusetts
Holyoke Community College
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts
Pfizer, Inc., New York, New York
Polaroid Collection, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Waltham, Massachusetts
Rhode Island School of Design
Richmond Art Center, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Connecticut
Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Smith College Museum of Art
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut
William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut
Visiting Artist, Lecture/Presentations, Workshops
Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska 2008
Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Connecticut 2004
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 2003
The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina 2001
University of North Carolina, Charlotte2001
Williston Northampton School, Easthampton, Massachusetts 1999
Juror, Saltonstall Foundation Residency and Grant Program, Ithaca, New York 1998
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 1986 - 2010
Horizons Craft Center, Williamsburg, Massachusetts 1987 - 2005
Guild Studio School, Northampton, Massachusetts 1992 - 1997
University of Houston, Houston, Texas 1994
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 1992
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts 1991
Weber State College, Ogden, Utah 1990
New England School of Photography, Boston, Massachusetts 1988
East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas 1988
Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts 1987
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut 1986
Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York 1985,1986
Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 1985
International Center for Photography, New York, New York 1984
Western New England College 1982, 1984
Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Connecticut 1984
Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont 1983
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Representation
Carrie Haddad Photographs, Hudson, New York
Dakota Ridge Gallery, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, Massachusetts
The Ralls Collection, Washington, D.C.