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Solo Exhibitions • The (Paving) Stones of Venice, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY, April 15 - 16, 2023 • After MOMO, Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY, September 12 - 15, 2013 • All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus, curated by Gordon Laurin, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook, NL, November 5 - December 31, 2009 • All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus, curated by Christina Parker and Gordon Laurin, The Christina Parker Gallery, St. John's, NL, August 9 - 25, 2007 • New Industries and Unsettled, Anna Leonowens Gallery, curated by Peter Dykhuis, Halifax, NS, June 7-18, 2005 • Memory and Entropy, The Phatory, New York, NY, January 14 - February 11, 2005 • Unsettled, Christopher Pratt Gallery, Bay Roberts, NL, Summer 2004 • Unsettled, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON, July 5 - August 30, 2003 • Unsettled, The Ryan Premises, Bonavista, NL, June 1 - October 15, 2002 • Unsettled, Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, NL, curated by Bruce Johnson, August 9 - October 28, 2001 Selected Group Exhibitions • Future Possible: Art of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1949 to Present, curated by Mireille Eagan, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland, May 18 - September 22, 2019 • Duntara Harbour and Unsettled Revisited as part of the multi-site Bonavista Biennale, curated by Catherine Beaudette and Patricia Grattan, Duntara and Elliston, NL, August 17 - September 17, 2017 • Changing Tides: Contemporary Art of Newfoundland and Labrador, curated by Patricia Grattan, The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON, January 25 - April 27, 2014 • THAW, curated by Jill Conner, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY, January 19 - April 6, 2014 • Fieldwork, curated by Bruce Johnson, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland, March 16 - April 28, 2013 • In The End A Good Story Is All That Remains, curated by Edward Rubin, The Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto, ON, January 12 - February 19, 2012 • Arcadia Now, curated by Tom McGlynn, Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College, Castleton, VT, April 11 - May 15, 2011; New Jersey City University Visual Art Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, September 10 - October 25, 2012 • In Retrospect: Fifteen Years of Pedagogical Photography at NSCAD, curated by Sue Earle and Susan McEachern, The Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS, October 21 - November 1, 2008 • Newtopia, curated by Bruce Johnson, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, NL, September 26, 2008 - January 25, 2009 • REcollections, curated by Bruce Johnson, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, NL, November 23, 2007 - May 28, 2008 • New Industries, The Christina Parker Gallery, St. John's, NL, August 7 - 31, 2005 • Exhibit A: Photography in Atlantic Canada, curated by Scott McLeod, touring: Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS, October 1 - November 21, 2004; Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook, NL, July 14 - September 15, 2005; Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON, September 29 - November 26, 2005 • Inside/Out, June Bateman Gallery, New York, NY, July 9 - September 7, 2002 • Images of Us, curated by Doreen McCarthy, Resource Centre for the Arts, St. John's, NL, July 4 - August 7, 1999 • Aspects of An Urban Environment, curated by Michael Spano, The Midtown Y Gallery, New York, NY, May 3 - June 29, 1994 Books • Editor, Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature (Amazon page), a collection of essays by philosophers on photography, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008 (paperback edition 2010; Polish edition 2013 • Places Lost: In Search of Newfoundland's Resettled Communities, a photo-text book based on Unsettled, chronicling the histories of various resettled communities visited, and introducing philosophical issues related to resettlement; Lynx Publishing, Toronto, ON, 2003 Peer-Review Publications • 'Sympathy for a Serial Killer: Malick's Badlands, Visual Metaphor, and Frankfurt's Concept of a Person', The British Journal of Aesthetics, volume 63, number 3 (2023) [pdf] • Entry for 'Analytic Philosophy of Photography' in Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy, ed. Duncan Pritchard, New York: Oxford University Press, July 29, 2020 • 'Costello on the New Theory of Photography', The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, volume 77, number 3 (2019) • 'Transparency and Two-Factor Photographic Appreciation', The British Journal of Aesthetics, volume 56, number 1 (2016) • 'Transparency and Photographic Contact', The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, volume 72, number 4 (2014) • 'Photography and Knowledge', The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Special Issue: The Media of Photography, volume 70, number 1 (2012) • 'Objectivity in Photography', The British Journal of Aesthetics, volume 45, number 3 (2005) • 'Kim's Causal Efficacy', The Southern Journal of Philosophy, volume 39, number 3 (2001) Grants, Awards and Other Funding • Michelis Fellowship for Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy and Social Studies of the University of Crete at Rethymnon, 2025-26 • The State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2016 • Nassau Community College Academic Affairs Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement, 2011 • Nominee for the Scotiabank Photography Award, 2011 • Research/Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2009 • Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography, Canada Council for the Arts, 2007 • Research/Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2007 • Research/Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2003 • Research/Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2001; Travel Grant, 2001 Artist Residencies • The Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, IT, September 28 - November 9, 2020 • Gunnarshús Writers' Residency, Reykjavík, IS, August 24 - September 1, 2020 • NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, IS, July 16 - August 22, 2020 • 2 Rooms Contemporary Art Projects, Duntara, NL, June 14 - 21, 2015 • Terra Nova National Park (juried by The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery), NL, August 1 - 25, 2006 • Landfall Cottage (juried by The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery), Brigus, NL, August 1 - 26, 2005 Book or Exhibition Reviews • Dominic Lopes, Four Arts of Photography: An Essay in Philosophy, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, volume 75, number 3 (2017) • Kendall L. Walton, Marvelous Images: On Values and the Arts, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, September 8, 2008 • Scott Sehon, Teleological Realism: Mind, Agency, Explanation, March 2006 [pdf] • Luis Mallo, Passengers, C Magazine, #58, May-August 1998 Reviews of Photographic Practice • María Jesús Hernáez Lerena, University of La Rioja, 'Industry and Memory': Scott Walden's Photographic Exhibition of Newfoundland's Economic Failure, BACS Conference, Crediting Canada: Canada as an Economic World Leader?, London, UK, April 3 - 5, 2013 • Review of In The End A Good Story Is All That Remains: Eight New York Artists Figuratively Speaking, at the Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto, ON, by Emese Krunak-Hajagos, artesmagazine.com, Feb. 28, 2012 • Review of In The End A Good Story Is All That Remains: Eight New York Artists Figuratively Speaking, at the Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto, ON, by Earl Miller, ArtToronto.ca, 2012 • Gallery Profile, by Stephanie Porter, The Newfoundland and Labrador Independent, Aug. 10, 2007, page 22 [pdf] • Club Life, by Joan Sullivan, The St. John's Telegram, Friday August 10, 2007, page B4 [pdf] • Unsettled, by Lisa Moore, Arts Atlantic, Spring 2002, Number 71 [pdf] Collections • The Art Bank, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, ON • The Alcan Collection, Montreal, PQ • The Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, NL • Numerous private collections Selected Essays, Photo-Essays and Interviews • 'Philosophy of Photography Naturalized', in Noël Carroll and Jonathan Gilmore, eds., The Routledge Companion to Fine Art, Routledge, 2023 [pdf] • 'Photography and Danto's Craft of the Mind', in Jonathan Gilmore and Lydia Goehr, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Arthur Danto, Wiley-Blackwell, 2022 [pdf] • Philosopher-Artist Interview with Alex King (SUNY Buffalo), Aesthetics for Birds website, Dec. 15, 2016 • All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus, a photo-essay with poetry by Mary Dalton, in Maisonneuve Magazine, Montreal, PQ, Issue 36, Summer 2010 • 'Truth in Photography', in Scott Walden, ed., Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008 • Unsettled, in Prefix Photo, Issue 10, November 2004 • Unsettled, photo-essay, including excerpts from Places Lost, in CVphoto, Issue 62, January 2004 • 'Ghost Ports', a photo-essay in Maclean's Magazine, August 13, 2001 • 'Newfoundland's Unsettled Communities', Painted Bride Quarterly, Spring 2000 • 'The Spire at Great Paradise', Newfoundland Quarterly, Summer 1999 • Reviews of Poetics of Place by Lynn Geesaman, C Magazine, #62, May-August 1999, and Passengers by Luis Mallo, C Magazine, #58, May-August 1998 Selected Lectures, Panel Discussions and Other Activities • 'On the Ethics of Photographic Portraiture', The Panayotis and Effie Michelis Foundation, Athens, Greece, March 12, 2026 • Co-director of Downtown Redux, SUNY Nassau, 2007 - 2020, a public-presentation series bringing to campus figures associated with the New York downtown, including: Taylor Mead, Barbara Moore, Sur Rodney Sur, Billy Name, Richard Hell, John Matturri, Yolanda Hawkins, William Niederkorn, Ken Jacobs, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Abigail Child, Jem Cohen, Lucy Sante, Mary Halvorson, Matt Freedman, Julia Robinson, Lynne Tillman, Steven Watson, Penny Arcade, Lea Bertucci and Susana Cook • Coordinator, Doctor Faustus Reading Group, a two-session exploration by philosophers, music theorists and classical performers into the themes raised in Thomas Mann's classic novel, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY, April 13 and 27, 2022 • Invited Speaker, 'New Media: Digital Photography', The American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Mount Holyoke College, Northampton, MA, November 6, 2008 • Invited Speaker, 'Kendall Walton and the Aesthetics of Photography and Film: A Two-Day Symposium', University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, November 30 - December 1, 2007 • 'Entropy and Memory', lecture at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, November 2004 • Panel Discussion: Traces of Human Presence in the Land, Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS, November, 2004 • 'Photography and the Ghost in the Machine', lecture at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, November 2004 • 'Objectivity in Photography', American Society for Aesthetics (Eastern Division) Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, April 2004 • 'Photography and Place', lecture at the Rhode Island School of Design, October, 2003 • Coordinator, Light Symposium, a conference on photography co-organized by the Philosophy Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, NL, September 28-30, 2002 • 'Hujar, Avedon, and Candy Darling: The Ethics of the Photographic Image', presentation as part of the M.Phil. Lecture Series at Memorial University of Newfoundland, July 2000 Selected Teaching Experience • Philosophy of Art, SUNY Nassau, 2008 - 2025, a course exploring the semantic powers of words and pictures, theories of art, ethical issues relating to photographic portraiture, photographic objectivity and truth, and how digital-imaging techniques change our trust in photographs • Intermediate Photo Workshop: Natural and Social Landscapes, NSCAD University, summer 2007, a studio course providing a theoretical backdrop against which students develop their own portfolios documenting aspects of the social or natural landscape • Philosophical Issues for Artists and Designers: Words and Images, NSCAD University, summer 2007, a seminar devoted to exploring the semantic powers of words, pictures and icons, and how these are incorporated into graphic design and artworks • Photo Issues Seminar: Philosophy and Photography, NSCAD University, summers 2005 and 2006, a seminar exploring the semantic powers of words and pictures, ethical issues relating to photographic portraiture, photographic objectivity and truth, and how digital-imaging techniques change our trust in photographs • Aesthetics, Department of Philosophy, New York University, spring 2003 and 2004, a course devoted to theories of depiction, art, word and picture meaning, and ethical issues pertaining to portraiture Education • Ph.D. (Philosophy), 1994, Graduate School of the City University of New York • M.A. (Philosophy), 1985, Dalhousie University • B.A. (Hons.) (Philosophy), 1984, University of Western Ontario Representation • Christina Parker Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland (709) 753-0580 • June Bateman Fine Art, New York, New York (212) 925-7951 Employment • Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, SUNY Nassau, Long Island, NY |