about the artist

Throughout my photographic practice, the personal content of the imagery is connected to larger cultural contexts. My interest in representing particular individuals, scenarios, or objects is prompted by the proximity of relationships, experiences and external circumstances explored in numerous photo-based projects.

For more than 40 years, I have worked as an artist, teacher, curator and parent in the Twin Cities. I was a Hermitage Fellow for 2018-2020. Artist fellowships have been granted from the National Endowment for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board and the McKnight Foundation. My photographs have been included in more than 80 group exhibitions at sites including Pier 24, San Francisco, Aperture, NYC, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY and the 5th Vienna Biennale, Austria. More than a dozen venues including the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, the Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, and the Sabes Jewish Community Center, MN have installed solo exhibitions. Photographs are in the collections of The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Minnesota Historical Society, George Eastman House, and The Brooklyn Museum. Young Voices: photographs of/by girls/teens/women, and the Jerome Hill Centennial Photography Exhibition 2005 are among the many shows I have curated. A selection of images from between the birthdays is included in the anthology Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies. The monograph, PROXIMITIES art, education, activism was published by TC Photo in late 2020. A BFA (1973) and an MFA (1976) were earned from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Read my selected resume.