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contact name: Dona Schwartz
phone: 612 825 5900
fax: 612 825 5904
email: dona@donaschwartz.com

location address:
3024 Irving Avenue South
Minneapolis MN 55408

open to public: no

mailing address:
3024 Irving Avenue South
Minneapolis MN 55408

Dona Schwartz earned her PhD at the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, 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 internationally and is included in the collections of the George Eastman House, Harry Ransom Center, Portland Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. She is a faculty member at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota where she teaches visual communication and documentary photography.

Griffin Award, Griffin Museum of Photography, 2006
Semifinalist, The Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, 2006
Photo Review Best of Show, Sixth Prize, 2006
Honorable Mention, HCP Photography Fellowship, Houston Center for Photography
Finalist, Santa Fe Prize for Photography, 2006
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

SOLO
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, Project Space, Minneapolis, MN, 2004

GROUP
Regarding Intimacy, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, NY, NY, 2007
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
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
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, 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

George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Midwest Photographers Project, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

Stephen Bulger Gallery
1026 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON
M6J 1H6
CANADA

TEL: 416.504.0575
FAX: 416.504.8929

info@bulgergallery.com
www.bulgergallery.com

"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

Country of Citizenship:
United States

Birth Place:
Philadelphia, PA

Gender:
Female

Active Place:
Minneapolis

Minnesota County:
Hennepin

Photographer

http://www.donaschwartz.com 

Five Artistic Lives: Minnesota Women in the Arts
MASHUP a+E Issue 16.2: Guest Curator Ken Bloom, Director of the Tweed Museum of Art
ZOOM IN: Photographer Dona Schwartz