Education

 

M.A. - Photography and Graphic Design, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1979

 

B.A. - Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1976

 

 

Recent Selected Exhibitions

 

The Middle, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, January, 2014 (Curated by Daniel Coburn)

 

Currents 2013, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, December, 2013 (Gordon Stettinius, juror)

 

About Face: Contemporary Portraiture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, August, 2013 (Curated by Jane Aspinwall and April Watson)

 

Can You See Me Now? A Mid-Career Retrospective, The Bohemian Gallery, Overland Park, Kansas, May/June, 2013 (One woman show)

 

Looking at Ourselves: Portraits featured on Lenscratch, Guate Photo Festival, Guatamala City, Guatamala. November, 2012 (Aline Smithson, juror) 

 

Uganda: New Color Work, Mayson Gallery, New York, NY, May, 2012 (One woman show)

 

4xAfrica, Rayko Center for Photography, San Francisco, California, February, 2011

 

Uganda, Newspace Gallery, Portland, Oregon, January, 2011

 

100 Portraits/100 Photographers, FotoWeek DC 2010 Festival, Washington DC, November, 2010 (Curated by Andy Adams and Larissa Leclair)

 

Familiar: Portraits of Proximity, The Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas, November, 2010

 

The Curve: Choice Award Winners, Newspace Gallery, Portland, Oregon, September, 2010

 

The Sea Series, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, April, 2010

 

Hide and Seek: Picturing Childhood, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, September, 2009 (Curated by Jane Aspinwall and April Watson)

 

Small Works Portfolio Exhibition, Susan Maasch Gallery, Portland, Maine, April, 2009

 

Uganda, White Sturgeon Art Gallery, Water Resources Education Center, Vancouver, Washington, March, 2009 (One woman show)

 

Collectible, Wallspace Gallery, Seattle, Washington, December, 2008

 

Texas Photographic Society 17: The National Competition, to travel throughout 2008 (Lisa Sutcliffe, juror)

 

Uganda, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, April, 2007 (One woman show)

 

Portrait 2000, Truman Presidential Library, Independence, Missouri, February, 2008 (Two person show)

 

Convergence, Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, Colorado, February, 2008 (One woman show)

 

The Art of Photography, Lyceum Theatre Gallery, San Diego, California, April, 2007 (Tim Wride, Juror)

 

PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, April, 2007 (John Paul Caponigro, Juror)

 

100 Women in Photography, Women in Photography International, 2006 (Online exhibition)

 

Selections from the Contemporary’s Flat Files, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, July, 2006

 

Summer Show, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, July, 2006

 

PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, May, 2006 (Keith Carter, Juror)

 

Women Artists: Selections from the A.G. Edwards Corporate Collection, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, May, 2006

 

Among the Ashes, Silver Eye Center for Photography Member’s Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

August, 2005

 

The Children’s Hour, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, Michigan, May, 2005

 

PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, April, 2005 (Robert ParkeHarrison, Juror)

 

ID = ♀, The Photography Room, Grand Rapids, Michigan, March, 2005

 

Round Trip: From Beijing to Kansas City, H & R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute,

Kansas City, Missouri, November, 2004

 

Faces of Breast Cancer, Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, October, 2004

(One woman show)

 

Contemporary Art from the Hometown of Edgar Snow, Museum of History, Beijing, China, October, 2004

 

Among the Ashes, David Posnack Jewish Community Center, Boca Raton, Florida, October, 2004

(One woman show)

 

L’Chaim: Excellence in Aging, The Jewish Museum, Overland Park, Kansas, September, 2004

(One woman show)

 

Art at the Center, Overland Park Arts Commission, Overland Park, Kansas, April 2004

(Preston Jackson, Juror)

 

Among the Ashes, Image Point Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, April, 2004 (One woman show)

 

Forwarding Address, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri, February, 2004

(Kathy Aron Dowell, Curator)

 

Photos @ LulaMac, Lula Mac Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, February, 2004

 

Among the Ashes, The Photography Room, Grand Rapids, Michigan, January, 2004 (One woman show)

 

 

Center Awards Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California, 2003 (Karen Sinsheimer,

Tim Wride, Jurors)

 

 

Selected Awards/Honors

 

First Place Award, PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, 2013 (Natasha Egan, Juror)

 

Runner Up, The Robert Cornelius Award (Stephen Perloff, Juror), 2011

 

Honorable Mention, The Julia Margaret Cameron Award, 2010

 

Director’s Choice Award, Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2010 (Christ Bennett and Laura Valenti, Jurors)

 

2^nd Place Award, PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, 2010 (Deborah Klochko, Juror)

 

Juror’s First Prize Award, State of the Arts Exhibition, Prairie Village, Kansas, 2009 (Mark English, Juror)

 

Dr. Phyliss and Robert A. Bernstein Humanitarian Award, Jewish Family Services, Overland Park, Kansas, 2009

 

Bodhisattva Award, Rime Buddhist Center/ Tibetan Institute of Studies, Kansas City, Missouri, 2008

 

Nominated for UNICEF Photographer of the Year Award, 2007

 

3^rd Place Award, PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, 2007 (John Paul Caponigro, Juror)

 

Juror’s Award, Art at the Center 2007, Overland Park, Kansas (Dean Mitchell, Juror)

 

Honorable Mention, PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, 2006 (Keith Carter, Juror)

 

Juror’s Choice Award, Art at the Center 2006, Overland Park, Kansas (Sangram Majumdar, Juror)

 

Juror’s Choice Award, Art at the Center 2004, Overland Park, Kansas (Preston Jackson, Juror)

 

Named one of Top Fifty Photographers, The 2003 Golden Light Awards,

Maine Photographic Workshops (Sue Brisk, Joyce Tenneson, Dan Westergren, Jurors)

 

Nominated for the John Guttman Photography Fellowship, 2003

 

Honorable Mention, Fellowship 2002, Silver Eye Center for Photography (William Williams, Juror)

 

Juror’s Award, Missouri 50 Exhibition, Missouri State Fair, Sedalia, Missouri, 2001 (Steven Zevitas, Juror)

 

Honorable Mention, Fellowship 2001, Silver Eye Center for Photography  (Jean Caslin, Juror)

 

2nd Place Award, 18^th Annual PhotoMetro Contest, San Francisco, California

PhotoMetro Magazine (Duane Michals, Juror)

 

Juror’s Choice Award, Kansas/ KC Camera 2000, (Earl Iverson, Juror)

 

First Place Award, Assignment Earth 2000, Black and White Professional Category,

Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts (Kathy Ryan, James Crump, Kathleen Howe, Jurors)

 

 

Juror’s Award, 17^th Annual PhotoMetro Contest, San Francisco, California

PhotoMetro Magazine (Diana Gaston, Bill Hunt, Paul Kopeikin, Jurors)

 

Named one of Top One Hundred Photographers, The 1998 Golden Light Awards,

Maine Photographic Workshops (Michael Sand, Sarah Harbutt, Jack Crager, Sylvia Plachy, Jurors)

 

Third Place Award, Assignment Earth 1998, Black and White Amateur Category

Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts (Steve Yates, Wendy Walsh, Betty Hahn, Jurors)

 

 

Recent Publications

 

Lenscratch Online Magazine, May, 2013

 

Black + White Photography (“60 Second Exposure” feature), Issue 144, December, 2012

 

New Letters Magazine (cover included), Volume 78 Nos. 3 & 4, 2012

 

Photo District News Online Magazine, July 12, 2012

 

New York Times Lens Blog, June 29, 2012

 

Ode Magazine (The Online Community for Intelligent Optimists) September, 2010

 

Fraction Magazine, Issue 18

 

New Letters Magazine (cover included), Volume 76 No. 3, 2010

 

Kutuuka, Yellow Bird Press, June, 2009

 

The Sun Magazine, February, 2009 (cover)

 

New Letters Magazine, Volume 74, Number 4, 2008

 

Shots Magazine, Summer, 2008

 

Talking With The Wheel: The Ceramics of Ken Ferguson, contributing photographer, Silver Gate Publications, 2007

 

The Sun Magazine, May, 2007

 

Present Magazine, (online magazine) Spring, 2007

 

Ensemble Jourine, (online magazine) March, 2007

 

New Letters Magazine (cover and portfolio), Volume 73, Number 1, December, 2006

 

F-Stop Magazine, (online magazine) September, 2006

 

Present Magazine, (online magazine) Spring, 2006

 

The Sun Magazine, (cover), October, 2005

 

The Studio Potter, (“Remembering Ken Ferguson”) Volume 33, Number 2, June, 2005

 

The Sun Magazine, April, 2005

 

Ceramics Monthly, (“Ken Ferguson: A Remembrance”) March, 2005

 

New Letters Magazine, Volume 70, Number 2, April, 2004

 

Among the Ashes, Yellow Bird Press, January, 2004

 

The Sun Magazine, Issue 329, May, 2003

 

B&W Magazine, April, 2003, Issue 24 (Photographer Spotlight)

 

Convergence, Yellow Bird Press, July, 2002

 

New Letters Magazine, Volume 68, Numbers 3 & 4, July, 2002

 

The Sun Magazine (cover, essay, and portfolio), July, 2002 

 

Shots Magazine, (interview and portfolio), February, 2002, No. 75

 

Shots Magazine, December, 2001, No. 74

 

Shots Magazine, June, 2001, No. 72

 

PhotoMetro Magazine, Volume 18, Issue 162, 2001

 

From The Heart; Life Before and After the Holocaust- A Mosaic of Memories,

Kansas City Star Books, March, 2001

 

Shots Magazine (cover), September, 2000, No. 69

 

The Sun Magazine (cover), Issue 295, July, 2000

 

New Letters Magazine, Volume 66, Number 3, 2000

 

PhotoMetro Magazine, Volume 18, Issue 158, 2000

 

 

Selected Collections

 

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

 

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

 

Sprint Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri

 

Devos Children’s Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

The Heartland Clinic, Overland Park, Kansas

 

The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona

 

The University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky

 

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

 

Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan

 

Nerman Contemporary Gallery of Art, Overland Park, Kansas

 

University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas

 

H & R Block World Headquarters, Kansas City, Missouri

 

 

Gallery Representation

 

Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, Colorado

 

Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas

 

Mayson Gallery, New York

 

CONTACT: gbfeinstein@gmail.com