J E F F R E Y  A.  W O L I N                                                                                                                                     

School of Fine Arts/Indiana University 

Bloomington, IN 47405               

Phone: Studio (812) 855-9261/ Fax 812-855-7498

e-mail: wolin@indiana.edu    website: www.jeffreywolin.com

 

Gallery Affiliation       

Catherine Edelman Gallery                                                                                                     

300 West Superior Street                                       

Chicago, IL 60610                                                                                   

Phone: (312) 266-2350/Fax 312-266-1967            www.edelmangallery.com  

 

Grants

1994     US/France Fellowship for residency at Cit Internationale des Arts in Paris

1994     ArtsLink Fellowship for travel to Czechoslovakia

1992     National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship

1991     John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

1989     Indiana Arts Commission Master Artist Fellowship

1988     National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship

 

Selected Permanent Collections     

Agfa Corporation Collection, NJ

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Bibliotque Nationale de France, Paris, France

Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada

Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

Ecole Nationale de la Photographie, Arles, France

Graham Nash Collection, Los Angeles, CA

Hallmark Corporation Art Collection, Kansas City, MO

Imperial War Museum, London, England

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN

International Center of Photography, New York, NY

International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Jewish Museum, New York, NY

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY

Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI

LightWork, Syracuse, NY

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

New York Public Library, New York, NY

Northlight Gallery, Tempe, AZ

Regis Foundation, Minneapolis, MN

SAFECO Art Collection, Chicago, IL

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL

University of Louisville Photographic Archives, Louisville, KY

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Selected Exhibitions

(* denotes solo exhibition)

2007 *Inconvenient Stories: Vietnam War Veterans Curated by Rod Slemmons (Book)

            Travels to Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN

 

            Aura: Photography/Memory/Place

            Cressman Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Hite Art Museum, Louisville , KY

 

            "The Inland See: Contemporary Art Around Lake Michigan" Curated by James Yood

            Richmond Center, Kalamazoo, MI

 

2006     Group Show, Curated by Catherine Edelman

            Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

            For Better or For Worse: Couples Making Art Together Separately

            Rena Sternberg Gallery, Glencoe, IL

 

2005 *Inconvenient Stories: Vietnam War Veterans Curated by Rod Slemmons (Book)

            Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

 

            Artful Giving: The Wallis Foundation

            Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA

 

            Selections from Inconvenient Stories

            Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

            Once Upon a Time

Greenlease Gallery, Kansas City, MO

 

2004    Common Ground, Curated by Phillip Brookman and Jackie Serwer (Book)

            Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC

 

Conversations: Photographs and Text Curated by Rod Slemmons

            Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

          

*Selections from Written in Memory Curated by Wayne Lempka

            Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY

 

2003     *Ancient Provence Photographs by Jeffrey Wolin (Catalog)

            Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

            *Ancient Provence & Written in Memory Photographs by Jeffrey Wolin (Catalog)

            June Bateman Gallery, New York, NY

           

            A Plea to Somewhere Else Curated by Katherine McClung-Oakes

            Bury Art Gallery & Museum, Greater Manchester, UK

 

            *La Provence Antique Photographs by Jeffrey Wolin (Catalog)

            Paysages Mediterranne curated by Anne Matheron

            La Galerie de lAbbaye de Montmajour, Arles, France

 

2002     Whats New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography Curated by Sylvia Wolf

            Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

 

            What Were You Thinking? Curated by Catherine Edelman (Catalog)

            Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

           

            Through the Looking Glass, Curated by Catherine Edelman

       Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

     

      Prison Terms

      Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ

 

2001     Mmoire des Camps (Book) Curated by Pierre Bonhomme,

            Patrimoine Photographique, Hotel de Sully, Paris, France

Travels to Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2001); Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2002); Museo Nacional dArte de Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain (2002)

 

2000     *Telling Stories: Fifteen Years of Photo/Text Photographs by Jeffrey Wolin

            Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL (Catalog)

           

            Crossing the Line: Photography Reconsidered, Curated by David Travis

            Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

 

            Personae: Portraits from the Collection curated by Dawoud Bey

            Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

 

            The Gaze in Photography, Curated by Catherine Edelman

            Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

1999     *Life at the Millennium: Family Photographs Photographs by Jeffrey A. Wolin

            Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas

            Sight Unseen, Curated by Catherine Edelman

            Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

           

*Selections from Written in Memory

            Warsaw University Museum, Warsaw, Poland

 

1998 Waterproof, International photography exhibition in conjunction with Expo 98 (Book)

            Belem Cultural Centre, Lisbon, Portugal

 

            Falling Toward Grace (Book)

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

           

            Recent Acquisitions, Curated by Susan Chevlowe

            Jewish Museum, New York, NY

 

            Celebrating 10 Years

            Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

1997     Family and Friends, Curated by Denise Miller

            Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

 

            Portraits from the Collection

            Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

 

            *Written in Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust/Photographs by Jeffrey Wolin

            Curated by Charles Stainback, International Center of Photography, New York, NY (Book)

            Travels to: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (1998); Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (1998); Indiana University School of Fine Arts, Bloomington, IN (1998); Haus Bill, Zurich, Switzerland (1999)

 

            Backyard

            Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY

 

1996     *Written in Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust/ Photographs by Jeffrey Wolin

            Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

           

            Group Show

            Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Portraits: An Examination of Identity, Curated by Ed Paschke

            Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

           

*Portraits of the Holocaust,

            Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN

 

1995     Witness and Legacy: Contemporary Art about the Holocaust, Curated by Paul Spencer,            Minneapolis Museum of American Art, Saint Paul   (Catalog)

Traveled to: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Albany State Museum, Albany, NY; Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX; et al.

           

The Photographic Body, Curated by Lew Thomas,

            Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA  (Catalog)

 

1994     An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, Curated by Keith Davis,

            Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO  (Book)

Travels to: Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; International Center of Photography, New York, NY; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA; Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; et al.

           

            The New Face of the Portrait, Curated by Burton Elliott

            Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA

           

            *Portraits of the Holocaust

            Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 

 

            Jeffrey A. Wolin and Roman Vishniac

            Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA

           

            *Portraits of the Holocaust

            Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, IN

Travels to: City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA; Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

 

1993     Images and Text

            Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ

 

            Gallery Artists

            Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

1992     Selections from the Permanent Collection, Curated by Peter Galassi

            Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY

           

            Recent Acquisitions

            Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

 

            Opsis Pairs: Jeffrey A. Wolin and Elise Sanford

            Opsis Gallery, New York City, NY

 

            New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions, Curated by Robert Sobieszek

            Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

 

            Persona, Curated by Arthur Ollman

            Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA  (Catalog)

 

Recent Acquisitions, Curated by Anne Tucker

            Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

           

Gallery Artists

            Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

            Parents, Curated by Ron Geibert

             Museum of Contemporary Art, Dayton, OH (catalog)

 

            Jeffrey Norman, John Burris & Jeffrey Wolin

            Blue Sky Gallery, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, OR (Catalog)

 

The Invention of Childhood, Curated by Nancy BlessJohn Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

           

            *Photographs: Jeffrey A. Wolin

            University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR

 

1991     A Portrait is Not a Likeness

            Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ (Catalog)

           

            Vertical Axis, Curated by Denise Miller Clark

            Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

           

            Collected Memory: Photographs by Pamela Bannos and Jeffrey Wolin

            Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

1990     Word and Image

            University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR

           

            Stories, Curated by Rupert Jenkins

            San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

 

1989     Choices

            Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

            Ron Leax and Jeffrey Wolin, Curated by Connie Weinzapfel

            New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN

 

            Forest Avenue Farewell

            Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

 

            Contemporary Visions: Indiana, Curated by Nancy Koehler

            Images Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

 

1988     Use Only as Directed, Curated by Dan Talley

            Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

 

Mixed Signals: Photographs with Text, Curated by Rod Slemmons and Tamarra Kaida   

            Northlight Gallery, Tempe, AZ (Catalog)

 

            Swimmers, Exhibition by Aperture (Book)

            Burden Gallery, New York, NY

Travelled to: Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL; Salina Art Center, Kansas City, KS, et al.

 

Ken Shorr, Mac Adams and Jeffrey Wolin

            Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

Eye of the Mind. Mind of the Eye. Photographs with Text, Curated by Rod Slemmons            Presentation House, Vancouver, Canada (Catalog)

 

1987            Illuminated Manuscripts, Curated by Rod Slemmons

            Cornish School of Art, Seattle, WA

 

Urgent Messages, Curated by Don Baum and Ken Burkhart

            Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (Catalog)

 

1986            *Photographs: Jeffrey A. Wolin

            Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI

 

*Stone Country: Photographs by Jeffrey A. Wolin

            Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

 

            Recent Acquisitions Curated by Rod Slemmons

            Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

 

1985     *Stone Country: Photographs by Jeffrey A. Wolin

            Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN

 

1982            Contemporary Photographers IX, Curated by Marianne Fulton

            International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

            Traveled to: Nagase Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC

 

1981            *Photographs: Jeffrey A. Wolin

            International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

 

Visiting Artist/Lecturer

2006            Imagemaker, SPE National Conference, Chicago, IL

            Honored Educator, Midwest SPE Conference, Omaha, NB

2005     Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

2004     Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY

2003     McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA

2002     Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern U., Evanston, IL

            Hallmark Corporation, Kansas City, MO

University of Missouri Kansas City, MO

Imagemaker, SPE National Conference, Las Vegas, NV

2000     InSight, Indianapolis, IN

1999     Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

            Haus Bill, Zurich, Switzerland

            Warsaw University Museum, Warsaw, Poland

1998     Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

            University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

1997     Arnold Lecturer, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

            Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

            Gallery 312, Chicago, IL

            International Center of Photography, New York, NY

            Imagemaker, SPE National Conference, Dallas, TX

1996     Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

            Illinois State University, Normal, IL

            National Graduate Photography Seminar at NYU, New York, NY

1995     Kenyon College, Gambier,OH

Art Gallery of Chastain, Atlanta, GA

            Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, IN

            Miami University, Oxford, OH

1994     FAMU, School of Film & Photography, Prague, Czech Republic

1992     University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV

            University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

            Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

            University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

1991     Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN

            Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

            Words and Photographs, Panel member, SPE National Conference, New Orleans, LA

1990     University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

1989     Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

            Imagemakers Forum, Panel of NEA Fellows, SPE National Conference, Rochester, NY

1988     Artist in Residence, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY

1987     Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

            Imagemakers Track, SPE Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, IL

            Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

1986     Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

1981     Creative Photography Gallery, Dayton, OH

1980     Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

 

Publications (Selected)

Books

2006            Inconvenient Stories, photographs by Jeffrey A. Wolin, Umbrage Editions, New York

            La Storia della Shoah, vol. 4, UTET, Torino, Italy (7 of my photographs in volume on artistic representations of the Holocaust)

            Rhetorical Visions, Hesford and Bruggeman, Prentice Hall, NJ (3 of my photographs reproduced w/ essay)

2004     Common Ground, Brookman, Serwer, et al., Merrell, London, England

2002     Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew, Susan Gubar, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN (essay about my work w/ photograph)

Extremities: Trauma, Testimony and Community, University of Illinois Press, Urbana & Chicago, IL (essay about my work by Marianne Hirsch w/ photographs)

Memory Effects, Dora Apel, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ (essay about my work w/ photographs)

2001     Mmoire des Camps, Pierre Bonhomme, et al., Editions Marval, Paris, France (essay about my work w/ photographs)

Holocaust Reader, Michael Morgan, ed., Oxford University Press, New York, NY (cover photograph)

Light Writing & Life Writing, by Timothy Dow Adams, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill (essay about my work w/ photograph)

1998            Waterproof, edited by Jorge Calado, Edition Stemmle, Zurich (photograph published)

Trespassing Through Shadows: Memory, Photography and the Holocaust, Andrea Liss, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN (essay about my work w/ photograph)   

1997     Written in Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust, photographs by Jeffrey A. Wolin, Introduction by Charles Stainback, Chronicle Books, San Francisco            

            Selected 1998 Books for the Teen Age New York Public Library, NY

Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust, Matthew Baigell, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ  (essay about my work w/ photograph)

Searching for Memory, by Daniel Schachter, Basic Books, New York (essay about my work      w/ photograph)

1996     The White T, HarperCollins, New York, NY (photograph published)

1994     An American Century of Photography, edited by Keith Davis, Abrams, New York, NY

(essay about my work w/ photograph) (2nd edition 1999)

1988     Swimmers, edited by Hans Christian Adam, Aperture, New York, NY (photograph published)

1985     Stone Country, photographs by Jeffrey A. Wolin, text by Scott Sanders, Indiana University Press,             Bloomington, IN    

Selected Honor Book, Chicago Book Clinic, 1986

 

 

Journals

2006     English Language Notes, Fall/Winter 2006, #44.2, portfolio of Photographs

1997     New Yorker, August 18, 1997

            The Chronicle of Higher Education,  May 23, 1997, Endpaper

1993            Indianapolis Monthly, April,1993, portfolio of photographs

1991     The Archive,  #29, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ

1990     San Francisco Camerawork, Vol. 17, #1, San Francisco, CA

1989     Images, Ink.,  Vol. 4, #1, Images Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

1988     Contact Sheet, #61, Light Work, Syracuse, NY

            Aperture #111, New York, NY

            Photo-Communique, Canada

1982     Light Impressions Review, #12, Rochester, NY

            Fotografie, #20, West Germany

1981     Image, Vol. 24, #1, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

1980     Artweek, CA

1979     Camera, #2, Lucern, Switzerland

 

 

Exhibition and Book Reviews

2005     Chicago Tribune, October 20, 2005, review of exhibition at MoCP

            Chicago Sun Times, November 18, 2005, review of exhibition at MoCP

2004     Aperture, Fall 2004 review of exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Photography

2003     ArtNews, September 2003, review of exhibition at June Bateman Gallery

            Art Journal, Summer 2003, review of Memory Effects

2001     New York Times, March 16, 2001, review of Mmoire des Camps at Hotel de Sully

2000     Chicago Sun Times, January 21, 2000, review of exhibition at Edelman Gallery

Chicago Reader, January 21, 2000, review of exhibition at Edelman Gallery

Art New England, March 2000, review of Witness & Legacy at DeCordova Museum

1999     Tages-Anzeiger, Zurcher Kultur, January 19, 1999, review of exhibition at Haus Bill

1998     Port Folio Weekly, October 1998, review of exhibition at Chrysler Museum of Art

1997     See Magazine, review of book

San Francisco Camerawork, Fall1997, review of book

            Indianapolis Star, December 1997, review of exhibition at IMA

            New Art Examiner, Dec/Jan 1997/98, review of exhibition at Gallery 312

            Washington Post, Book World, April 27, 1997, review of book    

            New Art Examiner, June 1997, review of book

            Indianapolis Star, April 12, 1997, review of book

            Forward, February 14, 1997, review of exhibition at ICP

1996     Chicago Tribune, September 29, 1996, review of exhibition at Art Institute of Chicago

1995     Atlanta Journal/Constitution, May 5, 1995, review of exhibition at City Gallery at Chastain

1994     Chicago Tribune, February 11, 1994, review of exhibition at Catherine Edelman Gallery

            Chicago Sun Times, February 1994, review of exhibition at Catherine Edelman Gallery

1993     Chicago Tribune, April 30,1993, review of exhibition at Catherine Edelman Gallery

            Indianapolis Star, January 27, 1993

1992     San Diego Reader, March 5, 1992, review of exhibition at Museum of Photographic Arts

            Artweek, March 26, 1992, review of exhibition at Museum of Photographic Arts

            Village Voice, February 25, 1992, review of exhibition at Opsis Gallery  

1991     Chicago Tribune, Sept. 13, 1991, review of ex