Cynthia Greig

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2011

Oakland University Art Gallery. Rochester, MI Cynthia Greig: Subverting the (un)Conventional

2010

Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Clark Gallery, Lincon, MA

DNJ Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2008

UNO Art Space, Stuttgart GERMANY

Wall Space Gallery, Seattle WA

2007

Museo de la Fotografia, Santa Fe, ARGENTINA

Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

FOTO ARTE, Brasilia, BRAZIL

Casa de la Cultura, Salta ARGENTINA

2006

Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA

Cabildo de la Ciudad, NIU Festival, Córdoba, ARGENTINA

2005

San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco

2003

Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea ENGLAND

Margaret Harvey Gallery, St. Albans ENGLAND

Weitman Gallery of Photographic Arts, St. Louis, MO

Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario CANADA

2002

Moreau Art Galleries, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN

Museum of Art, SUNY-Potsdam, NY

2001

Gallery 44, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto CANADA

Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI

1998

The Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI Looking Twice: Cynthia Greig & Michael Hernandez de Luna/Michael Thompson

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011

Fred Torres Collaborations, NY, NY, Live from Detroit

The Butcher's Daughter, Ferndale, MI Me/We

2010

Camera Club of New York, NY, Drawing Pictures: Jowhara AlSaud, Cynthia Greig, Ashley Reid & Athena Waligore

Concord Art Association, Concord MA Seeing is Believing

SpringBox Gallery Portland, OR, Diffusion: Unconventional Photogrpahy

2009

The Butcher’s Daughter, Ferndale, MI The Trace of Archive and Memory

Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, COMPLICITY: Contemporary Photography and the Matter of Sculpture (with Ginny Cook, Igor Eskinja, Daniel Gordon, Cynthia Greig, Chris Jones and Vik Muniz)

Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, University Science Center, Philadellphia PA The Vitreous: Of Eyes and Optics

Eastern Michigan University Art Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI The Elements of Photography

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA Works on Paper

2008

Clark Gallery, Lincoln MA Staged

Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington DE Philadelphia Collects Works on Paper

John Jellico Gallery, Denver CO Elements of Photography

2007

Forest City Gallery, London Ontario CANADA, Stranger than Fiction - The Delicate Art of Faking History

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL Relative Closeness: Portraits of Family & Friends

Catalyst Arts, Belfast IRELAND Trauma Interrupted: The Felt Experience Project

Tower Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Brockport, NY, Not Right: Artists Alter Natural Schemes

2006

The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI Humor and Art

Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA  After

OPENSOURCE ART, Champaign, IL, Spectacles of the Real

2005

South Bend Regional Art Museum, South Bend, IN. Biennial 23

The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY Reality Show

2004

Harvestworks, NY, NY Whiz Bang: Videos by Emerging Artists

RedCat Theater, Disney Hall, Los Angeles, CA, LA Freewaves How Can You Resist? Inheritance

Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris FRANCE, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

Gallery 44, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto Of Kith and Kin

Houston Center for Photography, Houston TX Truth Matters: The Meaning of Objects

2003

International Center for Photography, New York, NY Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self ONLINE EXHIBITION

Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY Managing Eden

Warren Robbins Gallery, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The Playground Show

SPACES, Cleveland, OH Selections:  John Benevuto, Peter Dudek, Cynthia Greig, Cathy Smith, Lorraine Tady

2002

Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH The Photographic Edge

Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI Black or White

Institute of Contemporary Art, London, ENGLAND After Dolly: Art, Science and Ethics
ORGANIZED BY THE COMPASSION FOR WORLD FARMING TRUST AND LITTORAL ARTS

2001

University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI The Truth of Appearances: Cynthia Greig, Michael Hernandez de Luna & Peter Patchen

Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ ArtCultureNature

Penelec Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA Apocalypse Noir

2000

Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI Bounded Intervals: Michele Brody, Cynthia Greig, Sheila Moss & John Roloff

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL Curator's Choice

1999

The Clement Gallery,Toledo, OH Embellished Truths

Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI The New Millennium

1998

The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN Ten

1997

Gallery Northwest. Indiana University, Gary, IN Reversing the Gaze: Women Looking at the Male Nude

Institute for the Humanities, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Images & the Imaginary

1996

Matrix Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI Group Consequences

1995

SFCamerawork, San Francisco, CA Bodies of Evidence: Julie Blankenship, Christine Dallas, Cynthia Greig, Jin Lee

1994

The Alternative Museum, New York, NY National Showcase Exhibition

The Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX The Visual Diary

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2011

Dick Goody. Cynthia Greig: Subverting the (un)Conventional (exhibition catalogue), Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery.

Michael Hodges. "Cynthia Greig Retrospective Jiggles Lens on Reality, Detroit News, Feb. 17, 17M.
2010

Robert De Valle, “Subversive Clause,” Real Detroit Weekly, Jan. 4, 14.

Herbert Ascherman. As We See Them: Exotic and Erotic Images from Contemporary Alternative Process Photographers

(exhibition catalogue), Bloomington, IN: The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction.

2010

Leah Ollman. “These Rich Textures of Life,” Los Angeles Times, June 25, D15.

Michael Van der Tol. "Interview with Cynthia Greig" Diffusion Magazine, v. II, 26-32.

Aram Kim, “Cynthia Greig” Photo+ (Seoul, Korea) October, 88-95.

2009

Roberta Fallon. “What You See isn’t Always What You Get at Klein Art Gallery,” Philadelphia Weekly, Aug.12.

Edith Newhall. “Eye-centric Exhibition Provoking Looks and Laughs, Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug. 2.

Kenneth Baker. “Review of Complicity,” San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 14.

Petra Mostbacher-Dix. “Faszinierende Perspektiven,” SUR, Dec/Jan 2009

2008

Susan Shifrin, ed. Re-Framing Representations of Women, Hampshire England: Ashgate Publishing, 2008, 129, 247-249.

Georg Leisten. “Milchige Dinggespenster,” Stuttgarter Zeitung, December 5.

Joshua Lynch. “Review of Wallspace exhibit,” Seattle Weekly, September 24.

Mauricio Alejo. “What a Wonderful World,” Fahrenheit (Mexico City, MEXICO) April, 30-31.

Cate McQuaid.  “Photographers Add New Dimensions to Still Life,” Boston Globe, June 25.

Angela Faris-Belt. The Elements of Photography. Focal Press, 152-155, 280-283

2007

Susan Ciccotti. “Aperture Prize Runner-Up” (online editorial essay www.aperture.org) New York, NY

Mareesa Nicosia. “Visit dogs, frogs and other ‘not right’ creatures in Tower
” The Stylus, Jan. 30, v. 101, no.12.

Slavka Sverakova. “Felt Experience” Circa Art Magazine, Belfast IRELAND Spring, no.119, 92-94.

Dan Ehrenworth. Stranger than Fiction: The Delicate Art of Faking History” (essay)             
http://www.danielehrenworth.com/str...

2006

Silvia Mangialardi. “Sobre las apariencias,” Fotomundo Buenos Aires ARGENTINA September, 58-62.

Elda Harrington and Alejandro Montes de Oca, XIV Encuentros Abiertos/Festival de la Luz:: Realidad(i)realidad (exhibition catalogue), 48-49.

Cate McQuaid, “Among the Missing” Boston Globe, March 2.

Laura Donaldson. After (exhibition catalogue) Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA, 21-22.

2005

Amber Whiteside. "Solos” San Francisco, CA. October, 14.

Kate Menconeri and Ariel Shanberg. “Managing Eden” Photography Quarterly. Woodstock NY: CPW, no. 91, 4-15.

Gina Occhiogrosso. Reality Show. Exhibition brochure. Troy, NY: Arts Center of the Capital Region.

2004

Ute Nöll, “Fokus,” Frankfurter Rundschau Magazin, Frankfurt GERMANY, Oct. 16, 7.

Alison Kenzie, Of Kith and Kin. Exhibition brochure essay. Toronto CANADA: Gallery 44.

2003

Jessica Lack. “Belonging” The Guardian Guide, London UK Sept. 13-19, 34.

Hannah Shuckburgh. “Preview:Belonging” ArtPreview London UK, April, 43.

Rachel Garfield. Belonging. Exhibition catalogue essay. Focal Point Gallery, Essex UK.

Eileen Pollack. “Fiction Writers and Other Well-Intentioned Frauds,” The Writer’s Chronicle, March, 33-40.

J. Carlos Cantu. “Display Merges Sight, Sound with Wacky Sense of Humor,” Ann Arbor News, Aug. 3, C1.

2002

Jason Lahr. Cynthia Greig: Little Differences. Brochure essay. Moreau Art Galleries, Notre Dame, IN.

Jeff Hoone. Contact Sheet Annual 117, Syracuse, NY: Light Work, 22-27.

Roger Green. “Sept. 11 Collides with Art.” Ann Arbor News, September 10.

Carol Novak.”Review of solo exhibit UICA,” New Art Examiner, March/April, 83-84.

2001

Julie Johnson. "The Return of Beauty in Contemporary Art and Art History," Rendezvous, Vol. 36, No. 1, Fall, 1 - 21.

Katy McCormick. The Bride Wore Trousers. Brochure essay. Gallery 44, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto CANADA.

Behind the Lens. Featured in documentary on contemporary photography, CTV, Canadian Television

Peter Goddard. “Imaginary Artist,” The Toronto Star, June 7, G10.

2000

Dan Mills. American Identities. Exhibition catalogue. SUNY-Potsdam Museum of Art.

Joy Hakansan Colby. “Artists Market Eclectic Show Works,” Detroit News, 9D.

Jan Worth. "Buckham Exhibit is Passionate and Personal," The Flint Journal. March 19, F4.

1999

Cynthia Morgan. “Review of ‘Ten,’” New Art Examiner, March, 62-63.

1998

Patricia Briggs. Review of "Ten, ” City Pages, Minneapolis MN October 7, 27-28.

1997

Diane Kirkpatrick. Images and the Imaginary. Brochure. Institute for the Humanities, Ann Arbor MI

1996

J. Carlos Cantu. "Avant to be Loved," The Ann Arbor News, September 28, D1-2.

Carol Novak. "Art Moves into the Closet," Agenda, Ann Arbor MI,  January, 14.

1995

Cynthia Morgan. Review of Matrix Gallery exhibition. New Art Examiner, February, 46.

Carol Novak. "Reinventing One's Identity," Michigan Photography Journal, 14-15.

1994

Beth Goldberg. “Bodies of Evidence,” Camerawork, San Francisco CA Fall/Winter, 41-42.

Patricia Lee Yongue. "The Rite of Women's Autobiography, Spot, Houston TX, Spring, 13-14.

J. Carlos Cantu. “Photographs Challenge Gender Stereotypes,” Ann Arbor News, September 29, 8.

Whitley Setrakian . Review of Matrix Gallery exhibition. Ann Arbor Observer, October, 95.


SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

2009    SFCamerawork Fine Print Program, San Francisco CA

2007    Aperture Magazine, New York NY, Aperture Prize Runner-Up

2004     Santa Fe Center for Photography, Assignment Earth Award

2003     Houston Center for Photography, HCP Photography Fellowship

2001     Light Work, Syracuse, NY, Artist-in-Residence


SELECTED WRITINGS

2004     “Flying Under the Radar” catalogue essay for Peter Finnemore: Zen Gardener, Llandudno,

Wales: Oriel Mostyn

2003     Women in Pants: Manly Maidens, Cowgirls and Other Renegades New York, NY: Harry N.

Abrams,  (co-author)

2001    “The Bride Wore Trousers” in The Body Aesthetic, Tobin Siebers editor. Ann Arbor: University

of Michigan Press

2000    Sampler: Chris Caruso, Andrea Champlin, & John Richardson (exhibition catalogue essay),

Detroit: Detroit Artists Market

1999    Containers of Memory (curatorial catalogue essay), Detroit: Detroit Artists Market    

1998    Un-defining…Print (curatorial catalogue essay), Detroit: Detroit Artists Market


EDUCATION

1995     MFA The University of Michigan School of Art + Design, Ann Arbor, MI

1988     MA The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA