CURRICULUM VITAE

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Exhibitions

*2026 - Next solo show July, 2026, at CORE Gallery, Seattle

2024 - Asmith Gallery, “light”, Online Exhibit and selected catalog, (Juror Laurie Klein), July - August

*2023 - METHOD GALLERY, Seattle, Solo Show, The Shape of Light, September - October

2022 - Asmith Gallery, “light”, Online Exhibit, (Juror Aline Smithson), February - March

*2022 - Returning MASS MoCA Artist Residency, Open Studio Installation, “Pray for Rain”, November 12th

*2021 - AWARDED MASS MoCA Artist Residency, pop-up show, “MASSPOP”, October 30 - 31

*2021 - MICA THESIS GRAD SHOW, Transformation, Online Exhibit

*2021 - MFAST Mica Grad Show, Challenging Assumptions, Online Exhibit/August launch

2021- GRAD SHOW REVIEW ESSAY, Dr. Jeannine Tang, Interim program Director of Visual Studies and Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, The New School

2021 - Mica 2nd-3rd Year Grad Show, Despite the Distance, Online Exhibit, February - June

2019 - Mica 2nd-3rd Year Grad Show, Maryland Institute College of Arts, January-July

*2018 - Month of Photography Los Angeles, Photo Book Exhibition, Lucie Foundation, Venice Arts, April

*2018 - 8th Annual Self Published Photobook Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts (Curated by Karen Davis and Paula Tognarelli), March

*2017 - 8th Annual Self-Published Photobook Show, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, New York (Curated by Karen Davis and Paula Tognarelli), April

*2017 - FRESH: Fifteen Photographers, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Personal Projects from the Aline Smithson Workshop

2016 - Night Photography: Dusk to Dawn, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont (Juror Lance Keimig)

2016 - Out of the Woods: Fairy Tales Re-Imagined, Wood Sentries Gallery, Somerville, Massachusetts (Curated by Boriana Kantcheva and Micah Eglinton-Woods)

*2016 - Griffin Museum, 22 Juried Show Blog Exhibition, Winchester, Massachusetts (Curated by Paula Tognarelli)

2016 - PH21 Gallery, Juried Competition - Honorable Mention, Budapest, Hungary (Juror Zsolt Batori)

2016 - Women's Works Show, Nave Gallery, Woodstock, Illinois 

2015 - Friday Night Dinners, Solo Show, Studio J, Seattle, Washington

*2015 - 2nd Photographic Competition, Peter Miller Fine Art, Providence, Rhode Island (Juror Paula Tognarelli) 

2007 - Oxacan Portraits, Solo Show, Arosa Cafe, Seattle, Washington 

*2005 - Photography 4th Image Biennial Exhibition, Wellington Gray Gallery, North Carolina (Juror Maggie Taylor)

*2004 - Visual Proof, Photographic Center Northwest 9th Annual Competition - Honorable Mention, Seattle, Washington (Juror Roy Flukinger)

2002 - Time, Space and the Image, Group Exhibition, Side Show Gallery, Seattle, Washington

*2001 - Pacific Northwest Annual Exhibition, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington (Juror Sue Spaid)



Residencies

*2023 - October, Artist Residency, by invitation to join the Boiler House Poets’ annual MASS MoCA residency, North Adams, Massachusetts

*2022 -October/November, Invited to return for an Alumni Residency at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts

*2021 - October, AWARDED full Artist Residency at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, sponsored by MICA



Collections

2023 - Swarthmore College Libraries, Friday Night Dinners, artist book, PA.

Bailey-Boushay House Collection, Seattle, Washington  



Press

2019 - Musee Magazine Feature: Woman Crush Wednesday: Nancy Edelstein, http://museemagazine.com/culture/2019/2/13/woman-crush-wednesday-nancy-edelstein

2018 - Lenscratch: Nancy Edelstein: First Year, http://lenscratch.com/2018/11/nancy-edelstein-first-year/



Professional Experience

2011 - 2016 Principal, Biographica Custom Book Design 

1979 - 1995 Principal, Edelstein Associates Advertising



Education

MFA - Maryland Institute College of Art, MICA, 2018-2021

BFA - University of Michigan - 1973

Photographic Center Northwest, 1999 - 2006

Travel Workshops

    Lucas Samaras, Marie Cosindas, ICP New York, Venezia '79

    Mary Ellen Mark, Oaxaca, Mexico - 2005 / 2006

    Sean Justice, ICP New York, Bejing - 2009

Santa Fe Photographic Workshops

    Cig Harvey - The Personal Photographic Image - 2012

    Aline Smithson - Photographing with Intention - 2014

Los Angeles Photographic Center Workshops

   Aline Smithson - The Personal Project - 2017