Dona Schwartz is an American photographer living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned her PhD at the Annenberg School for Communication 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 new photographic monograph, In the Kitchen, was published by Kehrer Verlag.
Her work has been internationally published and exhibited at venues including the National Portrait Gallery, London, 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 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 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's Midwest Photographers Project. Dona's portrait, Christina and Mark, 14 months is the Third Prize Winner in the 2011 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize competition, awarded by the National Portrait Gallery, London. |
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| SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS |
| 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 |
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| GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 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 |
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| COLLECTIONS |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
| 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 |
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| BOOKS |
| 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 |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY (partial list) |
| "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
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| "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 |
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| HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS (partial list) |
| 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 |
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| ONLINE EXHIBTIONS |
| 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, 2008 |
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| CURRENT EMPLOYMENT |
| Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
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