Ordinary People (Like Me), Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, AB, February 10, 2022-May 22, 2022

On the Nest, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON January 23-February 27, 2016

On the Nest, Fine Art Museum n.a. Kovalenko, Krasnodar, Russia, 2013

In the Kitchen, University of Minnesota, Women's Center Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2012

In the Kitchen, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 2009

In the Kitchen, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 2006

In the Kitchen, Stephen Bulger Gallery (Project Space), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2006

In the Kitchen, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN, 2004

Waucoma Twilight: Generations of the Farm, Paul Whitney Larson Gallery, St. Paul, MN, 1993

Photographs from the Waucoma Project, Film In The Cities, St. Paul, MN, 1987

Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, June 2 - September 17, 2023

Civilization: Vivere, Sopravvivere, Buon vivere, Musei San Domenico - Forli, Italy, September 17-January 8, 2023

Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem), Marseille, France, February 24-August 15, 2021; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, September 13, 2019-February 20, 2020; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, March 9-May 19, 2019.

The Qualities of Light, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, December 14, 2019 - May 9, 2020

The Female Lens, Christine Klassen Gallery, Calgary, AB, 2019

Showing (work x family), University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, The Art Gallery at the Fulginiti Pavilion, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, Aurora, Colorado, 2019

Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America’s Library, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, California, 2018

Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, 2018

Touch, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2018

Showing (work x family), University Art Gallery, California State University, Stanislaus, Califormia, 2018

Showing (work x family), Mazmanian Gallery, McCarthy Center, Framingham State University, Framingham, Massachusetts, 2017

Picture This! Canadian Sociological Association, The Little Gallery, Department of Art, University of Calgary, 2016

Showing (work x family), United States Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., 2016

For Love or Money, The Kinsey Institute Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 2015

L I N E U P : Pattern, Type, Taxonomy, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 2014

Face-to-Face, The Human Image in the Collections of Photographers:Network 2004-2013, Städtische Galerie Iserlohn, Iserlohn, Germany, 2013

The Youth Code! Juvenilia Photographica 2012 Photo Biennale, Daegu, Korea, 2012

Domestic, Biennal Xavier Miserachs, Palafrugell, Spain, 2012

Collecting Evidence, Altered Esthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2012

Contemporary American Photography, Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival, 2012

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, 2011

The Art of Caring: A Look at Life, Art Museum of Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2011

Likeness: Portraiture from the Photography Collection, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 2011

Discoveries of the Meeting Place, RedLine Gallery, Denver, CO, 2011

Der Zweite Blick: Schätze aus unserem Lager, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany, 2011

Discoveries of the Meeting Place, XIV Bienal de Fotografia 2010, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico, 2010

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, 2010

Ethnographic Terminalia 2010, DuMois Gallery, New Orleans, LA in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 2010

The Art of Caring: A Look at Life, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2010

Discoveries of the Meeting Place, FOTOFEST2010, Houston, TX, 2010 (Selected by William A. Ewing, Director, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland)

Domestic, Espacio Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona, Spain, 2010

Digital—Daguerreotype: Photographs of People, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009

The Art of Caring, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, 2009

Visions of Life, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt, Germany, 2009

I Want to Be Happy, Uno Art Space, Stuttgart, Germany, 2009

Teen City: The Adventure of Adolescence, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2008

The Photographic Portrait Prize 2007, Lowry Art Gallery, Manchester, UK, 2008

The Photographic Portrait Prize 2007, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, 2007

Spectra '07 National Photography Triennial, Silvermine Guild Art Center, 2007

Kinsey Confidential, Kinsey Institute Gallery, Indiana University, 2007

Expressive Bodies: Contemporary Art Photography from the Kinsey

Institute, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, IN, 2007

Photographers:Network, Studio Thomas Kellner, Siegen, Germany, 2007

Suburban/Domestic, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, 2007

Interactions, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, 2007

Photocentric, Minnesota Center for Photography Juried Member’s Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN, 2007

Regarding Intimacy, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY, 2007

Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, 2006

Domestic Diaries, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, 2006

Selbstsicht—der Schritt ins Bild, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstädt, Germany, 2006

Aus Amerika, Galerie Lichtblick, Köln, Germany, 2006

12th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 2006

Center Awards Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, 2006

Photo Review Best of Show, University of the Arts Gallery 1401, Philadelphia, PA, 2006

New Works Gallery Online, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006

Artists Interrogate: Race and Identity, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, 2005

Contemporary American Photography, 7th Internationale Fototage,

Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany, 2005

Photocentric, Minnesota Center for Photography Juried Member’s Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN, 2005

15th Annual Center Awards Juried Competition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, 2005

Focused, Photographic Center Northwest 10th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition,Seattle, WA, 2005

Members’ Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA, 2005

11th Annual Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 2005

14th Annual Center Awards Juried Competition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, 2004

Visual Proof! Photographic Center Northwest, 9th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition, Seattle, WA, 2004

The Humor Show, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN, 2003

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

United States Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY

Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ

Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

On the Nest, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2015

In the Kitchen, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2009

Contesting the Super Bowl, New York and London: Routledge, 1997

Waucoma Twilight: Generations of the Farm, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992

“Eltern werden, Eltern bleiben,” Florian Sturm, Kwerfeldein, April 23, 2018

“Dona Schwartz: On the Nest,” Seock hyun hye, Sajinyesul, March 2016

“Book Review: On the Nest by Dona Schwartz,” Cary Benbow, F-Stop, February 1, 2016

“Home Alone,” Emily Landau, Toronto Life, February 2016

“‘They take over your life and then, one day, they walk off with it’: life before and after children,” Tim Dowling, The Guardian, January 23, 2016

“Picturing Parenthood: A Conversation with Calgary Photographer Dona Schwartz,” Leah Sandals, Canadian Art, January 21, 2016

“Photos: Parents waiting for their children,from expectant moms and dads to empty nesters,” Loubna Mrie, Quartz, November 19, 2015

“Familienalbum ohne Kind,” Suddeutsche Zeitung, August 3, 2015

“An Empty Nest: Dona Schwartz takes a closer look at a turning point in the life of any parent,” Click, March/April 2014

“Dona Schwartz: Preserving Montage of Life,” PhotoWorld, February 2014

“Empty Nesters Photo Series Proves Kids Grow Up, But Their Bedrooms Are Forever,” Priscilla Frank, Huffington Post, January 13, 2014

“A room full of memories: Poignant photo series reveals how empty nesters struggle to adapt unoccupied space - up to five years on,” Sadie Whitelocks, Daily Mail, January 10, 2014

“Empty Nesters in the Rooms Their Kids Left Behind,” Jordan G. Teicher, Slate, January 8, 2014

“La cameretta del figlio, il nido dei genitori,” Pier Luigi Pisa, La Repubblica, December 20, 2013

“Portraits of Couples in the Nursery Awaiting the Birth of Their Baby,” Sahara Borja, Feature Shoot, December 9, 2013

“On the Nest,” LensCulture, October 30, 2013

“Picture Show #Fieldwork: Dona Schwartz's Empty Nest Portraits and the Aftermath of Your Thanksgiving Meal,” Jon Feinstein, Good Magazine, November 20, 2012.

“From Unbridled Optimism to Empty Nests,” James Estrin, The New York Times, Lens, July 24, 2012

Local Artist Interviews (http://www.local-artist-interviews.com), June 21, 2012

Éditions J'ai VUE: Rebelles. Photographie Actuelle et Considérations Insoumises sur l'Adolescence. Ève Cadieux, dir., May 2012

“On the Nest,” Marie Claire (China), May 2012

“On the Nest,” Esquire (Russia), online, February 13, 2012

“On the Nest,” Elle Men (China), pp. 128-135, January 2012

“Extraordinary Photographer Dona Schwartz's Portrayals of Day-to-Day Life are Anything But Average,” David Jarnstrom, METRO Magazine, pp. 40-41, January, 2012

“In the Kitchen,” Artvas, Autumn, 2011, Vol. 4

“In the Kitchen,” Lynne Christy Anderson, Gastronomica, pp 117-118, Spring 2011

“A view with a room,” Bill Ward, Star Tribune, December 22, 2010

“In the Kitchen,” Jay Ruby, American Anthropologist, Vol. 112, No. 4, December 2010

“Pairings,” Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 4, December 2010

“On, and Off, the Nest,” C.C. Strom, Good Age: The Journal of Active Living, December 2010

“When the Nest Empties,” Southwest Journal, October 18-31, 2010

“Readying the Nest and Empty-Nesters: Parents at the Opposite Ends of Childhood,” Melanie Rosen, Parenting.com, October 13, 2010

“Leaving a Childhood Room Behind, and Much More,” Alina Tugend, The New York Times, September 25, 2010

“In the Kitchen by Dona Schwartz,” Natalie Zelt, Spot, Fall 2010

“Dona Schwartz In the Kitchen,” Peter Lindhorst, PHOTONEWS, June 2010

“Review: In the Kitchen by Dona Schwartz,” Caroline Grant, Learning to eat, May 27, 2010

“In the Kitchen,” Aline Smithson, Photo-Eye Magazine, May 12, 2010

“What the family kitchen is really like,” Sheryl Julian, Boston.com, February 26, 2010

“Home is where the Kitchen Is,” Amanda Benson, Smithsonian.com, April 1, 2010

“Photographing Family,” Aline Smithson, too much chocolate, October 17, 2009

“In the Kitchen: Wo Sich die Familie trifft,” Stern.de, September 25, 2009

“Wo gekocht wird und gegessen und gelebt,” PHOTO International, 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), January 2009

“I Want to be Happy,” OjodePez, 15, December 2008

“Artists Showcase” Camera Arts, July/August, 2007

“Zoom In: Photographer Dona Schwartz” access+ENGAGE, Issue #15.1, mnartists.org; reprinted in 10,000 Arts, Minnesota's Creative Quarterly, August 2007

“Photographers:Network Selection 2007: Patience,” Profifoto, June 2007

“How I Shot This,” Interview by Debbie Grossman. Popular Photography, January 2007

“In the Kitchen,” Magenta Magazine, Vol 1(1) Spring 2006

“In the Kitchen: Words and Work by Dona Schwartz.” Hotshoe, October/November 2005

“Fokus auf Dona Schwartz: Das Zentrum des Lebens.” Frankfurter Rundschau Magazin,October 22, 2005

“Discoveries of the Meeting Place: Photographers and photographic projects that caught our attention at the Fotofest 2004,” Hans-Michael Koetzle, Leica World 2/2004

“Behind the Bowl,” Russell Scott Smith, Minnesota Monthly, January 1998

“Staying Close to Home: A Changing Vision of Documentary Photography,” Photo District News, Frank Jossi, June 1992

Finalist, Salt Spring National Art Prize, 2021

Nominee, Prix Pictet, 2019

Established Researcher Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary, 2016

Artist Initiative Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, 2013

Honorable Mention, 2011 Santa Fe Prize for Photography for the series, On the Nest

Third Prize, 2011 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, awarded by the National Portrait Gallery, London, for Christina and Mark, 14 months, from On the Nest

Discoveries of the Meeting Place, Fotofest 2010, selected by William A. Ewing

Jurors' Selection, "Transformations", Fotofest 2008

Honorable Mention, "Photography Now '07", Center for Photography at Woodstock, 2007

Juror's Selection, "Interactions", Center for Fine Art Photography, 2007

Griffin Award, Griffin Museum of Photography, 2006

Semifinalist, The Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, 2006

Sixth Prize, Photo Review Best of Show, 2006

Honorable Mention, HCP Photography Fellowship, Houston Center for Photography, 2006

Critical Mass Top 50 Photographer, 2006

Finalist, Santa Fe Prize for Photography, 2005

Finalist, MCAD/Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists, 2005

Nominee, No Strings Foundation Grant, 2005

Critical Mass Top 50 Photographer, 2005

Honorable Mention, Visual Proof! Photographic Center Northwest, 9th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition, 2004