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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Larson Gallery, Columbia College, Columbia, MO
2013 Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Blue Streak Gallery, Wilmington, DE
2008 Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Donaldson Gallery, Farmington, CT
2007 Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2002 City of Philadelphia, International Airport, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Keystone College, La Plume, PA
1998 Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1997 Sloan Gallery, Lockhaven University, Lock Haven, PA
1996 Aronsen Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1994 Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1993 Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1992 Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Penn State University, Harrisburg, PA
1990 Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Centre Gallery, Jamestown Community College, Olean, NY
Gallery 913, University of Delaware, Wilmington, DE
1988 Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Robert May Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
1987 Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1986 Perkins Center Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
1985 Delaware State Arts Council Gallery, Wilmington, DE
1984 University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
1982 Project Arts, Cambridge, MA
Lightfantastic Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
1981 Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX
E. J. Bellocq Gallery, Louisiana Tech. Univ., Ruston, LA
1979 Portland School of Art, Portland, ME
1977 University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
1976 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
1973 Bermuda Arts Society, Hamilton, Bermuda
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 “This is a Photograph,” Penland Gallery, Penland, NC
“In Place,” Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT
AIPAD Photography Fair with Alan Klotz Gallery, NYC
Schmidt-Dean, Summer Gallery Group Show, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Delaware Art Museum, Dream Streets, Wilmington, DE
Blue Streak Gallery, Love and Romance, Wilmington, DE
Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Winter Group Show, Philadelphia, PA
AIPAD Photography Fair with Alan Klotz Gallery, NYC
2014 Wilson Museum, Hollins Univ., Contemporary Photographers, Vision and
Method, Roanoke, VA
Museum of Contemporary History, Past Imperfect Time, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
SBFA Gallery, Philadelphia Photographers: 1975-1985, Bethlehem, PA
2013 Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington, DE
2012 Delaware Art Museum, Centennial Exhibition, Wilmington, DE
Lightroom Gallery, Local Alternatives, Philadelphia, PA
2011 George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye, Rochester, NY
2010 Mobile Museum of Art, Shoot’n Southern, Mobile, AL
2009 Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Natura, Rochester, NY
2008 Biggs Museum, Award Winners, Dover, DE
Cummings Art Center, Light and Image, Connecticut College, New London, CT
2007 Alan Klotz Gallery, Gallery Artists, New York, NY
Moore College of Art, Women to Watch, Philadelphia, PA
FOAM, Dog-Eye: Photographs from Collection Dancing Bear, Amsterdam, Holland
Philadelphia Free Library, Philadelphia Past, Present, and Future, Philadelphia, PA
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Natura, Buffalo, NY
2006 Musee de l’Eysee, Sans Regard, Lausanne, Switzerland
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Old Media/New Visions, Wilmington, DE
Towson State Univ., Four Women Photographers, Towson, MD
2005 Rencontres d’Arles, Sans Regard, France
The Biggs Museum, Delaware Women, Dover, DE
Rutgers University, Contemporary Landscape Photography, Newark, NJ
Arlington Arts Center, State of the Art, Arlington, VA
2004 Mint Museum, The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, Charlotte, NC
Penland Gallery, Alchemy: Transforming Material, Technique & Idea, Penland, NC
2002 Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Defining Women, Wilmington, DE
Delaware Art Museum, Divas From the Museum Collection, Wilmington, DE
2001 Maryland Art Place, Invented Objects/Imagined Spaces, Baltimore, MD
Delaware Art Museum, Art in Progress, Wilmington, DE
Maine Art Gallery, Art and Technology, Wiscasset, ME
2000 D.C. Moore Gallery, The Likeness of Being, New York, NY
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Work from the collection: Philadelphia Area
Photographers
Delaware Art Museum, Biennial ’00, Wilmington, DE
Art in City Hall, Wild Life, Philadelphia, PA
1999 Susquehana Art Museum, Selected Contemporary Photography, Harrisburgh, PA
Penland Gallery, Alida to Zach, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
1998 Borowsky Gallery, Neoclassicism Revisited, Philadelphia, PA
Objects of Personal significance, traveling exhibition: Wichita Center for the
Arts, Wichita, KS
Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, FL
Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO
1997 Photography Museum of Thessaloniki, Viewpoints of Four, Thessaloniki, Greece
1708 Gallery, New Realities/Digital Transformations, Richmond, VA
1996 Delaware Art Museum, Biennial ’96, Wilmington, DE (Exhibition Award)
The Paley Design Center, Postmodernism in Philadelphia Photography, Philadelphia
College of Textiles & Science, Philadelphia, PA
Nexus Foundation For Today’s Art, Photoworks, Philadelphia, PA
Objects of Personal Significance, traveling exhibition:
Tarble Art Center, Charleston, IL
Texas Tech., Lubbock, TX
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
1995 Creiger-Dane Gallery, Digital Dialects, New Paradigm, Boston, MA
Adamson Gallery, Beyond The Looking Glass: Contemporary Women Photographers,
Washington, DC
1994 Woodmere Art Museum, The Camera Rediscovered, Philadelphia, PA
Bryn Mawr College, Selections from The Scott Collection, PA
"Relatively Speaking: Mothers and Daughters In Art,” traveling exhibition:
Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Sweet Briar, VA
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
Rockford Museum of Art, Rockford, IL
Rahr West Museum, Manitowock, WI
Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO
Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, AL
1993 Stedman Gallery, Undercurrents, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
1991 Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE (3 artists)
Hicks Art Center, Endangered Landscape, Bucks County Comm. College, PA
1990 The Booktrader Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1989 Pennsylvania School of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA (3 artists)
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Surface Appearances: The Painted Photograph,
Sheboygan, WI
1988 John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Hothouse, Sheboygan, WI
1987 Delaware Art Museum, 69th Delaware Exhibition, Wilmington, DE
1986 School 33 Art Center, 9 at 33, Baltimore, MD
1985 Tianjin Fine Art College, Works on Paper, Tianjin, China
1984 Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1983 Jeffrey Fuller Fine Art, Photographic Portraits, Philadelphia, PA
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Alternative Photographic Imagery, Sheboygan, WI
and Toledo Museum, Toledo, OH
1982 Roanoke College, Garments as Image,” Salem, VA (Guest Curator)
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Contemporary Photography as Phantasy, CA:
Traveling exhibition: Malone Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount Univ., Los Angeles, CA
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Columbia Museums of Art and Science, Columbia, SC
Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona Beach, FL
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
1981 Cameravision Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Murray State College, The Magic Silver Show, Murray, KY (Award)
1980 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1979 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Capen Gallery, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
1978 Moming Art Center, Chicago, IL (Award)
Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA (Award)
1977 Humboldt State Univ., Light II, Arcata, CA and College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
1976 Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Central Washington State College, New Photographics/78, Ellensburg, WA
Association of Humanist Artists, Art From Dreams, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts
Delaware Art Museum
The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
The Free Library of Philadelphia
George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY
Women In Photography International, Arcata, CA
Standard Oil of Indiana
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Murray State University, Murray, KY
GRANTS - AWARDS
Delaware State Arts Council, Masters Fellowship, 2008
American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist, 2004-2005
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Fellowship, Photography, 1994-95
Delaware State Arts Council, Individual Artist Grant (Established Professional) l985-86
Von Hess Award, The University of the Arts, 2007
The Lindbach Award, The University of the Arts, 2000
TEACHING EXPERIENCE: WORKSHOPS
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Photo Transfer 2014
Penland School, Penland, NC: 17 summer workshops, 2 Concentration sessions 1975-2014
Arrowmont School of Art, Gatlinburg, TN, 2010, 2005, 1999, l988
Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, 1995
Peters Valley Craftsmen, Layton, NJ, 2000, 1997, '96, '77, '78, '79
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO, 1991
Roanoke College, Salem, VA, l982
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, l98l
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deere Isl., ME, l979
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 1977
Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, 1977
Naples Mill School, Naples, NY, summer workshops 1974-77
LECTURES – PANELS - VISITING ARTIST
2014 Penland School of Crafts, Core Retreat, Penland, NC
2013 University of the Arts, Von Hess Print Residency, Philadelphia, PA
2011 F295 Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA
Penland School of Crafts, Artist/Educator Retreat, Penland, NC
2009 Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA
F295 Seminar on 21st Century Photography, B&H Photo, New York, NY
Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA – Distinguished Visiting Artist
Art Educators of New Jersey Annual Conference, Somerset, NJ
2008 Art Educators of Delaware, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Connecticut College, New London, CT
2006 Haverford College, Haverford, PA, “A Life of Photographic Experimentation”
Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington, DE
2005 Society for Photographic Education Annual Conference, Portland, OR
2004 International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art (SOFA), Chicago, IL
2003 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
2001 Michner Museum, Doylestown, PA
Philadelphia Art Alliance, sponsored by Creative Artists Network, Philadelphia, PA
“Issuesin Contemporary Photography”
Maryland Art Institute, Baltimore, MD (Society for Photographic Education,
“Honored Educator”)
Keystone College, La Plume, PA
2000 Maryland Art Institute, Baltimore, MD
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
1999 Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
The University of Delaware, Newark, DE
The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, moderator for panel discussion: “The Digital Press”
1997 Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA, "The Fish Family: Three Women Artists"
1996 Murray State University, Murray, KY
"Photo Session," The Learning Tree, Mt. Airy, PA
1994 Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA
1990 Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Panel: "Pushing the Limits of Media.”
Jamestown Community College, Olean, NY
Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA "Contemporary Still-life Photography."
The University of Delaware, Wilmington, DE, "Still-Life Considerations."
1989 Pennsylvania School of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA
1988 Nesbitt College, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
1987 Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE.
1983 Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Beaver College, Glenside, PA
1982 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Roanoke College, Salem, VA, "Garments as Image."
Smith College, Northampton, MA. Panel: "Careers in the Arts."
1980 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
CEPA, Buffalo, NY
1979 Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
1977 Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
CONSULTING
Delaware College of Art and Design, Photography Program Review, 2011
McGonigal Trust, Projects Director 1987-2013 (supports hand painted/hand made photography)
Ithaca College, Roy H. Park School of communications, Photography Program Review, NY
Towson University, Fine Arts Dept, Departmental Review, Towson, MD, 2003
Gallaudet University, Photography and Film Program Review, Washington, D.C., 1997-'98
N. Y. State College of Ceramics at Alfred Univ., Photography Program Review, 1994
Connecticut College, Fine Arts Department Review, New London, CT, 1993
JUROR - REVIEWER
2015 South Carolina Commission on the Arts, Fellowship Panel (Chair)
2014 “Paper in Particular,” Columbia College, MO
2008 Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2008, The State Museum of Pennsylvania
2004 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, MD (Individual Artists Fellowships)
2001 Fulbright Senior Specialist Advisory Panel, CIES, Washington, DC (U. S. Studies /Art)
1999 Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards, CIES, Washington, DC; Chair, Southern Europe
1997 Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards, Southern Europe Committee, CIES, Washington, DC
Exhibition Review Panel, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
Maryland Individual Artists Fellowships, Baltimore, MD
1995 Magic Silver Show, Murray State University, Murray, KY
1994 12th Annual Juried Photographic Exhibition, Lancaster Summer Arts Festival
1989 Challenge Grants, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
1987 “Faces of the City,” Art In City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
1982 Southwest Regional, Albuquerque, NM
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, Board of Trustees 2007- present
The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, Board of Governors, 1997-2001
Society for Photographic Education, Board of Trustees, 1992-1998
The Photographic Arts Center of Philadelphia, Board of Trustees, 1993-96
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Schmidt-Dean Gallery Alan Klotz Gallery
1719 Chestnut Street 740 West End Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19103 NY, NY 10025
215-569-9433 212-222-7381
www.SchmidtDean.com www.klotzgallery.com
EDUCATION
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, M.F.A.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (Photo)
Smith College, Northampton, MA, B.A.
University of Florence, Florence, Italy (Art History)
EMPLOYMENT
1992 - present President, Fish Studios LLC
1981- 2014 Professor Emerita
College of Art, Media, and Design
The University of the Arts
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Dean, College of Art, Media, and Design 2010-2011
Chair, Media Arts Dept. 1987-1997
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Inspired: Life in Penland’s Resident Artist and Core Fellowship Programs, ed. Jean McLaughlin,
Penland
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Dream Streets, Art in Wilmington 1970-1990, ed. Margaret Winslow, Delaware Art Museum, 2015
The Female Gaze, Women Artists Making Their World, ed. R. Cozzolino, Hudson Hills
Press, 2015
Centennial Exhibition 2012, Delaware Art Museum, catalogue, reproduction, 2012
The Unseen Eye, Photographs from the Unconscious, W. M. Hunt, Thames & Hudson, 2012
The Elements of Photography, 2nd edition, Angela Faris Belt, Focal Press, 2012
Artline, “Imaginative Invention, Alida Fish - Delaware’s 2008 Masters Fellow in Visual
Arts,” J. B. Gregory, Delaware Div. of the Arts and The News Journal, 2008 Wilmington News
Journal, “Curiosity Drives Photographer’s Unique Vision,” Christopher Yasiejko, Wilmington, DE,
March 16,
F1 and 2, 2008
The Elements of Photography, Angela Faris Belt, Focal Press, 2008
Artvoice, “The Nature of Nature,” Gerald Mead, Jan. 10 – 16, Buffalo, NY, *
Women to Watch: Photography in Philadelphia, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, 2007
Broad Street Review, “Sideshow of the Mind,” Andrew Mangravite, March 2, 2007
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Photographers Coaxing Meaning from the Garden,” E. J.
Sozanski, July 15, 2007
American Photography Magazine, “Photo 101,” Henry Horenstein, reproduction, 2007
Introduction to Digital Photography, 2nd ed., Joseph Cinaglia, Prentice Hall, 2005
The Nature of Craft and The Penland Experience, Lark Books, 2004
The Bulletin of Miss Porter’s School, “Idea Driven Photography,” L. R. White, vol. 29, 2004
Photographic Possibilities, 2nd ed., Robert Hirsch & John Valentino, Focal Press, 2001
Introduction to
Digital Photography, Joseph Ciaglia, Pearson Pres, 2001 s
Inquirer Magazine, “An artists’ utopia continues,” Edward Sozanski, August 13, 2000 Inquirer
Magazine,
“The View from Here,” Tanya Barrientos, June 25, pp 7-9, 2000
NY Arts, “The Likeness of Being,” Rachel Youens, January, 2000
The New York Times, “Art in Review,” Grace Glueck, Jan. 21, p E42, 2000
The New York Art World, “The Likeness of Being,” Joyce B. Korotkin, Fabruary, 2000
Art in America, Review of Exhibitions, Bill Scott, Feb., p.116 article, reproduction, 1999
The Art of Enhanced Photography, J.Luciana & J. Watts, Rockport Publishers, 1999
Camera Arts, February/March, Sacramento, article, reproduction, 1999
Philadelphia Weekly, “Art: Naughty and Nice,” Miriam Seidel, March 11, 1998
Delaware Today Magazine, “Family Picture,” Marsha Mah, April, 1998
The Philadelphia Inquirer, “Two Different Routes to Photographic Magic,” E. J.
Sozanski, March 20, article, reproduction, 1998
Daughters and Mothers, Lauren Cowen & Jayne Wexler, Running Press, Philadelphia, 1997
Art Matters, “Photographic Experimentation at City Hall,” H. Ryesky, Philadelphia, 1997
Objects of Personal Significance, Janet Marquardt-Cherry, Exhibits U.S.A, 1996
Philadelphia Inquirer, "Stretching Notions of Still Life," Edward J. Sozanski, March 15, 1996
Photo Works, Sandy Sorlien, Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia, 1995
Seven Arts, Sarah M. Jordan, February, A. C. Publishers, Inc., Philadelphia, 1995
Relatively Speaking: Mothers and Daughters in Art, C. Kotik, J. Swirsky, Brooklyn
Museum, 1994
Undercurrents, Nancy Maguire, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Feb., 1993
Photographic Possibilities, Robert C. Hirsch, Focal Press, 1991
The Photo Review, "Photography In and Around Philadelphia" A.D. Coleman, 1990
Olean Times Herald, "Sometimes the Camera Does Lie," John T. Eberth, October 2, 1990
The News Journal, Wilmington, DE, "Off the Wall: Lush, bizarre imagery," P. Bass
Cope, March 9, 1990
Chicago Tribune, "Alida Fish," Alan G. Artner, April 28, 1988
Searching out the Best, ed. Jacolyn A. Mott, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, Philadelphia, 1988
Exploring Color Photography, Robert C. Hirsch, Wm C. Brown Publishers, 1988
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, "Hothouse," cover and p. 2, July-August, 1988
American Photographer, "Gumming Up Their Works," H. Horenstein, CBS Inc., Aug., 1985
Quiver, "Artists Stamps," No. l0, Vol. 2, No. 5, Temple Univ., Philadelphia, 1985
Delaware Artline, "The Artists Register - Alida Fish," S. T. Saunders, March-April, 1985
Philadelphia Inquirer, "Art: Statements through a lens," Edward J. Sozanski, March 14, 1984
In This Academy, "Contemporary Philadelphia Photographers," Judith Stein, 1984
The Alternative Image, An Aesthetic and Technical Exploration of Nonconventional
Photographic Printing Processes, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 1983
Roanoke Times & World News, "These clothes aren't put-ons," A. Weinstein, Oct. 10, 1982
The Boston Sunday Globe, "Waking Dreams," Kelly Wise, November 2, 1982
Camera, No. 2, C. J. Boucher Ltd., Lucerne, Switzerland, 1979
Women See Woman, Thomas Y. Crowell Publishers, 1976
Ms., "The Family of Woman," August, Ms. Magazine Corp., article, reproductions, 1976
Modern Photography Magazine, May. Reproductions, 1976
Camera 35 Magazine, N.Y.C., July, reproductions, 1974