Dona Schwartz is an American photographer living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned her PhD at the Annenberg School for Communications and is professionally engaged with photography as an artist, scholar, and educator. Amongst her many academic publications are two photographic ethnographies, Waucoma Twilight: Generations of the Farm (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992) and Contesting the Super Bowl (Routledge, 1997).

Her work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Blue Sky Gallery, the Milwaukee Art Museum, The Stephen Bulger Gallery, the Pingyao International Photography Festival, and in numerous juried exhibitions in the United States. Her work is included in the collections of the George Eastman House, the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, the Harry Ransom Center, the Portland Art Museum, the Kinsey Institute, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 In the Kitchen, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
  In the Kitchen, Stephen Bulger Gallery (Project Wall), Toronto, ON, Canada
2004 In the Kitchen, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN
1993 Waucoma Twilight: Generations of the Farm, Paul Whitney Larson Gallery, St. Paul, MN
1987 Photographs from the Waucoma Project, Film In The Cities, St. Paul, MN
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Teen City: The Adventure of Adolescence, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
  The Photographic Portrait Prize 2007, Lowry Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
  Benefit Auction, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
2007 The Photographic Portrait Prize 2007, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
  Spectra '07 National Photography Triennial, Silvermine Guild Art Center
  Kinsey Confidential, Kinsey Institute Gallery, Indiana University
  Expressive Bodies: Contemporary Art Photography from the Kinsey Institute, Herron Gallery,
Indianapolis, IN
  Photographers:Network, Studio Thomas Kellner, Siegen, Germany
  Suburban/Domestic, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
  Interactions, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
  Photocentric, Minnesota Center for Photography Juried Member’s Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN
  Regarding Intimacy, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY
2006 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
  Domestic Diaries, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
  Selbstsicht—der Schritt ins Bild, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstädt, Germany
  Aus Amerika, Galerie Lichtblick, Köln, Germany
  12th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
  Center Awards Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
  Photo Review Best of Show, University of the Arts Gallery 1401, Philadelphia, PA
  New Works Gallery Online, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
2005 Artists Interrogate: Race and Identity, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
  Contemporary American Photography, 7th Internationale Fototage, Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany
  Photocentric, Minnesota Center for Photography Juried Member’s Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN
  15th Annual Center Awards Juried Competition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
  Focused, Photographic Center Northwest 10th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition, Seattle, WA
  Members’ Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA
  11th Annual Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2004 14th Annual Center Awards Juried Competition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
  Visual Proof! Photographic Center Northwest, 9th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition, Seattle, WA
2003 The Humor Show, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN
 
COLLECTIONS
  Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
  George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY
  Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
  Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
  Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
  Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
 
HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
2007 Honorable Mention, "Photography Now '07", Center for Photography at Woodstock
  Jurors' Selection, "Transformations", Fotofest 2008
  Juror's Selection, "Interactions", Center for Fine Art Photography
2006 Griffin Award, Griffin Museum of Photography
  Semifinalist, The Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
  Sixth Prize, Photo Review Best of Show
  Honorable Mention, HCP Photography Fellowship, Houston Center for Photography
  Critical Mass Top 50 Photographer
2005 Finalist, Santa Fe Prize for Photography
  Finalist, MCAD/Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists
  Nominee, No Strings Foundation Grant
  Critical Mass Top 50 Photographer
2004 Honorable Mention, Visual Proof! Photographic Center Northwest, 9th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition
 
ONLINE EXHIBTIONS
2008 Photographer’s Showcase: In the Kitchen and On the Nest. Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Teen City: L’aventure adolescente, The Forward Thinking Museum, Joy of Giving Something Foundation
 
BOOKS
  Contesting the Super Bowl. New York and London: Routledge, 1997
  Waucoma Twilight: Generations of the Farm. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
  “I Want to be Happy” OjodePez, forthcoming, 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
 
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
  Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN