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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 |
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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 |
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| GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2008 |
Teen City:
The Adventure of Adolescence, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland |
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The Photographic Portrait Prize 2007, Lowry Art Gallery, Manchester, UK |
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Benefit Auction, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2007 |
The Photographic Portrait Prize 2007, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
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Spectra '07 National Photography Triennial, Silvermine Guild Art Center |
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Kinsey Confidential, Kinsey Institute Gallery, Indiana University |
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Expressive Bodies: Contemporary Art Photography from the Kinsey Institute, Herron Gallery,
Indianapolis, IN |
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Photographers:Network,
Studio Thomas Kellner,
Siegen, Germany |
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Suburban/Domestic, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS |
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Interactions, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO |
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Photocentric, Minnesota Center for Photography
Juried Member’s Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN |
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Regarding Intimacy, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY |
| 2006 |
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China |
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Domestic Diaries, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL |
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Selbstsicht—der Schritt ins Bild, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstädt, Germany |
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Aus Amerika, Galerie Lichtblick, Köln, Germany |
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12th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA |
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Center Awards Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA |
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Photo Review Best of Show, University of the Arts Gallery 1401, Philadelphia, PA |
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New Works Gallery Online, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2005 |
Artists Interrogate: Race and Identity, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
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Contemporary American Photography, 7th Internationale Fototage, Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany |
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Photocentric, Minnesota Center for Photography Juried Member’s Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN |
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15th Annual Center Awards Juried Competition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA |
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Focused, Photographic Center Northwest 10th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition, Seattle, WA |
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Members’ Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA |
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11th Annual Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA |
| 2004 |
14th Annual Center Awards Juried Competition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA |
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Visual Proof! Photographic Center Northwest, 9th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition, Seattle, WA |
| 2003 |
The Humor Show, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN |
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| COLLECTIONS |
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Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland |
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George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY |
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Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX |
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Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR |
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Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL |
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Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
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| HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS |
| 2007 |
Honorable Mention, "Photography Now '07", Center for Photography at Woodstock |
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Jurors' Selection, "Transformations", Fotofest 2008 |
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Juror's Selection, "Interactions", Center for Fine Art Photography |
| 2006 |
Griffin Award, Griffin Museum of Photography |
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Semifinalist, The Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography |
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Sixth Prize, Photo Review Best of Show |
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Honorable Mention, HCP Photography Fellowship, Houston Center for Photography |
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Critical Mass Top 50 Photographer |
| 2005 |
Finalist, Santa Fe Prize for Photography |
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Finalist, MCAD/Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists |
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Nominee, No Strings Foundation Grant |
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Critical Mass Top 50 Photographer |
| 2004 |
Honorable Mention, Visual Proof! Photographic Center Northwest, 9th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition |
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| 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 |
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| BOOKS |
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Contesting the Super Bowl. New York and London: Routledge, 1997 |
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Waucoma Twilight: Generations of the Farm. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992 |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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“I Want to be Happy” OjodePez, forthcoming, December 2008 |
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"Artists Showcase" Camera Arts,
July/August, 2007 |
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"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 |
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"How I Shot This,"
Interview by Debbie Grossman. Popular Photography, January 2007 |
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“In the Kitchen” Magenta Magazine, Vol 1(1) Spring 2006 |
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“In the Kitchen: Words and Work by Dona Schwartz.” Hotshoe, October/November 2005 |
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“Fokus auf Dona Schwartz: Das Zentrum des Lebens.” Frankfurter Rundschau Magazin, October 22, 2005 |
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“Discoveries of the Meeting Place: Photographers and photographic projects that caught our attention at the Fotofest 2004,” Hans-Michael Koetzle, Leica World 2/2004 |
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| CURRENT EMPLOYMENT |
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Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
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