AVERY DANZIGER

AVERY DANZIGER



About The Artist


COLLECTIONS, EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS, REPRESENTATION Photographs In Museum Collections Houston Museum of Fine Art Museum of Modern Art, New York City National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography Daum Museum of Art, Sedalia, MO Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts (SECCA) Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, N.C. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam Photographs In Private Collections Agnes Gund Melva Bucksbaum & Ray Learsy Photographs In Corporate Collections American Telephone and Telegraph R.J. Reynolds Industries Security Pacific National Bank Shriner's Children Hospital Wachovia Bank Wells Fargo Bank World Savings Bank Fellowships: National Endowment To The Arts - Visiting Artist Workshop stipend awarded by the Light Factory Gallery in Charlotte, N.C. — 1978 National Endowment To the Arts - Photographers Fellowship — 1979 juried by: Leland Rice, Eve Sonnabend, Bart Parker, Evon Streetman and Carol Kismaric Awards: Px3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris International Juried Group show - Honorable Mention — 2007 Missouri 50 State Fair Exhibition Juried group show – Ist Place — $1,000 cash award — 2006 Spectra 04 National Photography Triennial –Silvermine Gallery New Canaan, CT Group show - 2nd place - 2004 Juror - Barbara Hitchcock – Collection Committee – Harvard University Art Museum North Carolina Museum Of Art – 39th Annual Artist’s Exhibition Juried group show – Purchase award ; curated by: John Bullard, director, New Orleans Museum ; Gudmond Vigtel, Director High Museum of Art ; Tracy Atkinson, Director Milwaukee Art Center Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts (SECCA) 46th Annual Southeastern Artists Competition Juried group show – Purchase Award ; curated by: Gene Thornton, photographic editor, New York Times R.J. Reynolds Industries, Photography Competition Juried group show – Purchase Award - $1,000 cash award – curated by: John Szarkowski, Director of Photography – MoMA- NYC James Alinder, Director – Friends of Photography Gallery, Carmel, Ca. Robert Doherty, Director – George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y. Gallery Representation: White Gallery — Lakeville, CT Sherry Leedy Fine Art — Kansas City, MO Atrium Gallery — St Louis , MO Donna Rogers Fine Art – Houston, TX Selected Exhibitions: 2015 "The Gate To Hell" Photographs from the Derweza Gas Crater in Turkmenistan The Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT One Person Show - April.2015 "Seeking Permanence" selections from The Harlem Valley / Wingdale Project Sherry Leedy Fine Arts – Kansas City, MO One person show – June 2015 "Seeking Permanence" selections from The Harlem Valley / Wingdale Project 5 Points Gallery – Torrington, CT One person show – Nov. 2015 2014 "The Gate To Hell" Photographs from the Derweza Gas Crater in Turkmenistan The White Gallery, Lakeville, CT One Person Show - Nov.2014 2013 “Harlem Valley / Wingdale Project — One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” Tremaine Gallery – The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville CT — One Person Show – May 2013 2012 "Seeking Permanence" selections from The Harlem Valley / Wingdale Project The White Gallery, Lakeville, CT One Person Show — Nov. 2012 “Harlem Valley / Wingdale Project”, Angkor Wat International Photography Festival, Cambodia - juried group show – Nov. 2012 “Transformations - Harlem Valley / Wingdale Project” Atrium Gallery, St Louis, MO, One Person Show – June 2012 “PHOTOWORKS 2012” (Harlem Valley / Wingdale Project) - Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie-NY - Juried group show – May 2012 Susan Thompson – Guggenheim Museum, curator 2011 “Lucha Spirit – The Photographs of Mil Mascaras”, Angkor Wat International Photography Festival, Cambodia juried group show – Nov. 2011 “Washington Art Association Faculty Exhibition”, Washington Depot, CT group show – Nov. 2011 “The Value of Water”, The Cathedral Church of St John the Devine, New York City juried group show – Sept. 2011 - March 2012 2010 "A 24th Anniversary Exhibition," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO "Art Chicago 2010," Atrium Gallery, Chicago, IL 2009 "Art Chicago 2009," Atrium Gallery, Chicago, IL "Photography Installation," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2008 "People and Places," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2007 2007 Px3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris International Juried Group show-Honorable Mention Museo Francisco Cossio – World Exposition of Surrealism, San Luis Potosi, Mexico One person show – Nov. 2007 Sherry Leedy Fine Arts – Kansas City, MO One person show – Nov. 2007 Missouri 50 State Fair Exhibition juried group show – Aug. 2007 Photo Spiva 2007 – SPIVA Center for the Arts, Sedalia, MO Group juried show – Honorable Mention — April 2007 Atrium Gallery - St. Louis MO One person show — April 2007 2006 Missouri 50 State Fair Exhibition juried group show — Cash Award $1000 – Aug. 2006 Daum Museum Of Art – Sedalia, MO One person show — Feb. 2006 2005 Atrium Gallery - St. Louis MO One person show - Oct. 2005 Dallas Cultural Center - Dallas, Texas juried group show - Aug. 2005 Museum Of Contemporary Art — Washington, DC juried group show - July 20052004 Spectra 04 Triennial - Silvermine Galleries - New Canaan, CT juried Group show - Cash Award (2nd place) - Nov. 2004 Stevens College, Davis Gallery - Columbia, Missouri One person show – 30 year retrospective - Sept. 2004 FotoFest — H20 2004, Houston, Texas One person show – March 2004 2000 Clan Destino gallery - San Miguel de Allende, Mexico One person show – Feb. 2000 1998 Duo Duo Gallery - San Miguel de Allende, Mexico One person show - Sept. 1998 1994 Casa de Cultura, Centro de Bellas Artes - San Luis Potosi, Mexico One person show - Sept. 1994 1988 Braunstein / Quay Gallery, San Francisco "Dog Days" - juried group show - August 1988 1984 Museum of Modern Art, New York City, N.Y. "Color Photographs: Recent Acquisitions" - group show - Sept. 1984 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Ca. Olympic Arts Festival Exhibition - group show - Aug. 1984 1983 Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico One person show - Sept. 1983 Arco Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, Ca. One person show - March 1983 Seibu Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan "20th Century Contemporary Photography" from the permanent collection of MoMA, N.Y.C. - group show - Jan. 1983 1982 The Photographer's Gallery, London, England "Floods Of Light," group show - Dec. 1982 International Museum of Photography, Rochester, N.Y. "Color as Form: A History of Color Photography," - group show - July 1982 Friends of Photography gallery, Carmel, Ca. four person show - April, 1982 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. "Color as Form," group show - April 1982 1981 The Photographer's Gallery, London, England "Californian Colour," group show - July, 1981 Il Diaframma/Canon gallery, Milan, Italy one person show - April 1981 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. "New Acquisitions," group show - Feb. 1981