About the artist:

Anne Turyn is a fine art photographer and educator living in New York City. She is currently on the faculty of Pratt Institute and Bard High School Early College Queens. Her work has been widely exhibited including at the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Denver Art Museum, The Center for Creative Photgraphy, the Walker Art Center, George Eastman House, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A book of her photographs, Missives, was published by Alfred van der Marck Editions. She has been included in many publications including The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Vanishing Presence, Aperture #130, The Nature of Photographs, A Thousand Hounds, among others. Turyn founded and edited the artists' chapbook series, Top Stories, which most often featured one artist per issue. Turyn edited a volume entitled Top Top Stories, published by City Lights. ANNE TURYN SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012 Albright Knox, Buffalo, N.Y. Wish You Were Here 2012 Central Square Theater, Cambridge, MA Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M. 2012 Photography Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Faculty Exhibit 2010 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography 2010 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography 2010 Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO. Exposure 2010 Sotheby’s, New York, NY George Eastman House benefit auction 2009 Mary Brogan Museum, Tallahasee, FL Appetite 2006 George Eastman House, Rochester, NY Why Look at Animals? (traveling) 2005 Florida State University, Tallahasee, FL Heartfelt (catalogue) 2005 Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Media Arts Faculty 2004 Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island Excess 2003 Cooper Union, New York, NY Small Works 2000 Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY Air-Conditioned Interiors 1998 Omni Gallery, Garden City, NY in conjunction with the Long Island Center of Photography The Photographic Baroque 1998 DeChiara/Stewart Gallery, New York, NY, Back to Back 1997 Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Selections from the Permanent Collection: Depth of Field 1997 Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA Matters of a Fine Wall 1996 University Art Gallery, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo, Buffalo, NYFaculty/Alumni Exhibition 1996 Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario Multiple Exposure: The Group Portrait in Photography 1995 Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY The Cultured Tourist (catalogue) 1995 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY Stand Up Straight 1995 Independent Curators, Inc.Multiple Exposure: The Group Portrait in Photography (traveled, catalogue) 1995 Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY Hallwalls, 20 Years 1994 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX The Allan Chasanoff Collection: Tradition and the Unpredictable (catalogue) 1994 Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY Summer Salon (Pictures We Like) 1994 Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Faculty Show 1993 Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Selections from the Permanent Collection: Image and Text 1993 The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO First Sightings: Recent Modern & Contemporary Acquisitions 1993 The Newton Arts Center, Newton, MA Fragile Power: Explorations of Memory (catalogue) 1992 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions 1992 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CAThe Magic Object 1992 Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Representatives: Women Photographers from the Permanent Collection 1991 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort (traveled, catalogue) 1990 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Antwerp, Belgium Fantasies, Fables & Fabrications (traveled, catalogue) 1990 Museum of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy Fantasies, Fables & Fabrications 1990 University of Missouri, Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO Fantasies, Fables & Fabrication 1990 Art 21’90, Basel, SwitzerlandPhotography:1980s Discovery and Invention 1990 Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL Re:Memory 1990 The High Museum, Atlanta, GA Vanishing Presence 1990 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Vanishing Presence 1990 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Vanishing Presence 1990 City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ As Seen on TV 1990 Pratt Institute, Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Photography Faculty 1989 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Invention and Continuity in Contemporary Photography 1989 The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Vanishing Presence (traveled, catalogue) 1989 Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba Vanishing Presence 1989 Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY Literacy on the Table: Cultural Fluency and the Act of Reading 1989 The Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI Vanishing Presence 1989 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Themes and Variations 1989 Franklin Furnace, New York, NY Literacy on the Table (traveled) 1989 Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Fantasies, Fables & Fabrications (traveled, catalogue) 1989 Charles Scott Gallery, Granville Is, British Columbia Acceptable Entertainment 1989 Independent Curators, Inc. Acceptable Entertainment (traveled) 1988 Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta Acceptable Entertainment 1988 Otis Parsons, Los Angeles, CA A Visible Order (traveled) 1988 S.U.N.Y. Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Alumni Invitational 1988 Stux Gallery, New York, NY Fatal Strategies 1987 The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Arrangements for the Camera 1987 San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA A Sense of Humor 1987 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Women at Pratt 1986 White Columns, New York, NY Signs of the Real 1986 Bruno Facchetti Gallery, New York, NY Acceptable Entertainment 1986 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Remembrances of Things Past (catalogue) 1986 International Center for Photography, New York, NY Midtown Review 1986 Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA 1985 Chicago Transit Authority, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL Critical Messages 1985 University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA Verbally Charged Images 1985 Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. The Family as Subject Matter in Contemporary Art 1985 The New Museum, New York, NY Group Material: MASS 1985 Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY Light Work-10 Years 1984 Queens Museum, Queens, NY (Independent Curators, Inc.) Verbally Charged Images (traveled) 1984 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Color Photographs: Recent Acquisitions 1984 Vision Gallery, Boston, MA Words & Pictures 1983 Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA Photography 1983: An Invitational 1983 Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY Wit on Wry: Humor in Photography 1983 The New Museum, New York, NY Language, Drama, Source and Vision 1982 Center for Book Arts, New York, NY Stories Your Mother Never Told You (traveled) 1982 Nikon House, New York, NY CAPS Awards, Photography, 1981-82 (traveled) 1982 10 on 8, Windows on Eighth Avenue, New York, NY Through the Looking Glass 1981 Inroads, New York, NY Anne Turyn/Laurie Neaman 1981 Alternative Museum, New York, NY Ikon/Logos 1981 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY Narratives 1980 The New Museum, New York, NY Hallwalls-5 Years (traveled, catalogue) 1979 P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY Altered Photographs 1979 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY In Western New York SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1993 Center for Photography, Woodstock, NYfrom "Illustrated Memories" 1990 The Other Gallery, New York, NY Illustrated Memories 1989 Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT 1988 Spectacolor Billboard, Times Square, Messages to the Public The Public Art Fund, New York, NY 1987 International Center for Photography/Midtown Bookstore, New York, NY 1986 Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1986 Art City, New York, NY 1986 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalogue) 1985 Windows: Printed Matter, Inc., New York, NY 1983 Tin Pan Alley, New York, NY 1982 Windows on Fourteenth Street, The New Museum, New York, NY (catalogue) 1982 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY 1982 C.E.P.A., Buffalo, NY 1979 Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY PUBLICATIONS BY THE ARTIST Missives: Dear Pen Pal, Dear John, Lessons & Notes, Flashbulb Memories, Photographs by Anne Turyn, Essay by Andy Grundberg, Alfred van der Marck Editions, New York, NY, 1986 Top Top Stories, Anne Turyn, editor, City Lights Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 1991 Real Family Stories, Anne Turyn, Top Stories #13, , New York, NY, 1982 Volunteer, A Photo Novel, Anne Turyn, C.E.P.A. Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1982 Photos Included Aperture Magazine #186, New York, N.Y, Spring, 2007 The Nature of Photographs, by Stephen Shore, Phaidon, London, England, 2007 The Artful Dog: Canines from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art in conjunction with Chronicle Books, New York, 2006 Up is Up but so is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene: 1974-1992, Brandon Stosuy, editor, New York University Press, New York, NY, 2006 A Thousand Hounds; edited by Raymond W. Merritt and Miles Barth; The Cygnet Foundation and Taschen America, 2000 Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne, 1999 The Nature of Photographs, by Stephen Shore, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1998 Memory Revealed: The Mind's Fragile Power, by Daniel Schacter, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA., 1996 Annandale, Volume 133, Number 1/December 1993, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Aperture Magazine, Issue #130, Explorations, New York, N.Y., 1993, pp 42-47 Collier’s Encyclopedia, Macmillan Publishers, New York, 1992 Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Peter Galassi, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1991 Art Paper, Minneapolis, MN, excerpt from "Snapshots from the Future Passed", 1989 Vanishing Presence, essays by Adam Weinberg, Max Kozloff, Rizzoli Editions, New York, NY, 1989 pp.140-146 Past Lives, Amy Gerstler and Alexis Smith, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, 1989 What the Songs Look Like, Talking Heads and Frank Olinsky, Harper & Row, , New York, NY, 1987 Thought Objects/ Just Another Asshole #7, Barbara Ess, editor, New York, NY, 1986 Contact Sheet #49, Light Work, Syracuse, NY, 1985, excerpts from “Illustrated Memories” White Walls #10, “Dear John,” Chicago, Ill., 1984 Impulse, “Lessons & Notes,” Toronto, Ontario, 1983 Contact Sheet # 34, 1983 and Contact Sheet #12, 1980, Light Work, Syracuse, NY Benzene #7, Excerpts from "Dear Pen Pal," New York, NY, 1982 N.Y.C. in 1979, Kathy Acker, photographs by Anne Turyn, Top Stories #9, New York, NY, 1981 Writings Included Writing as Practice, Secretary Press, New York N.Y. 2012 Up is Up but so is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene: 1974-1992, Brandon Stosuy, editor, New York University Press, New York, NY, 2006 Art Paper, TV issue, Minneapolis, MN, 1988 Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists, Brian Wallis, editor, M.I.T. Press and the New Museum, New York, NY, 1987 Remembrances of Things Past, Lane Relyea and Connie Fitzsimmons, editors, 1986, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, “If Only,” by Anne Turyn and Bob Fiengo Wild History, Richard Prince, editor, Tanam Press, New York, NY, 1984, “Idioglossia” Just Another Asshole #6, Barbara Ess and Glenn Branca, editors, New York, NY, 1983, “Keep Talking” Only Paper Today, Sports and Games issue, Toronto, Ontario, 1979, “Lie” Imprint, Volume 3, No. 3, Peterborough, Ontario, 1979, “Voices from Kinswomen” COLLECTIONS Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL Center for Creative Photography, Tucson Denver Art Museum International Museum of Photography/George Eastman House, Rochester, NY La Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris LightWork, Syracuse, NY Los Angeles County Museum of Art the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Modern Art, New York City the New Museum, NY NYC Percent for Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Virginia Commonwealth Museum, Richmond, VA Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT GRANTS AND AWARDS 2012Pratt Institute Faculty Development Fund Award 2003Pratt Institute Faculty Development Fund Award 1998Pratt Institute Faculty Development Fund Award 1994New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship 1991Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship 1990Art Matters, Inc. Grant 1988New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship 1986New Face in Fine Art Photography Award, American Photographer magazine 1985Washington Project for the Arts, Writer-in-Residence Grant 1983-4 LINE II Grant, New York 1983Light Work Artist-in-Residence Grant, Syracuse, N.Y. 1981-2 C.A.P.S. Fellowship 1979Z.B.S. Foundation Artist-in-Residence Grant 1978-9 S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo, Graduate Fellowship EDUCATION BFA, Antioch College MFA, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo MA (Linguistics), The Graduate Center of C.U.N.Y. TEACHING POSITIONS, past and present Pratt Institute Bard High School Early College Queens School of Visual Arts Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School on the Arts Cooper Union California Institute of the Arts SUNY Purchase Philadelphia College of the Arts