About
EDUCATION
- Vermont College of Fine Art, MFA (Visual Arts)
- Parsons The New School for Design, Communication Arts (studied with George Tice, Lisette Model, Bernice Abbot)
REPRESENTATION
Contact Press Images, New York City
Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York City
Frank Meo, The Photo Closer, New York City
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Arthur L Carter Journalism Institute, Graduate program, New York University, 2013-Present Adjunct Faculty
Current Course: Photographing New York (documentary-photojournalism class combing camera and editing skills training with project development and story telling. (Fall and Spring terms)
International Center for Photography (ICP), New York City, 2004-Present Faculty
All programs, General Studies, Documentary-Visual Journalism, Continuing Ed Track)
Current Courses:
- Seminar (Continuing Ed track Certificate Program) combing photo history with a view of contemporary artists and approaches to specific subject matter.
- The Book Project: class for all levels on editing, designing and producing a book dummy or artist book.
- Documentary Storytelling Re-reinvented: Looking at the history and changing landscape and language of storytelling. Students work on existing or new projects exploring multiple access points to their subject matter
Lecturer at Yale, New Haven, CT, 2010-2014
Seminar: Photographing New Haven (documentary class combing skills and theory)
AWARDS/GRANTS/HONORS (selected)
2013-15 Merit Scholarship, Vermont College of Fine Arts
2008 Open Society Institute Project Distribution Grant
American Photography 24
2007 The Puffin Foundation
2005 Dart Society, Ochberg Fellowship
2004 The Herbert Bearman Foundation
2002 Puffin Foundation
2000 Florence and John Schumann Foundation
1999 Hasselblad Foundation
New York Foundation for the Arts
Mosaïque Programme Grant – Luxembourg
1998 W. Eugene Smith Grant, Fellowship Award
1997 The Ernst Haas Award
Santa Fe Center, Project Grant
1996 World Press Foundation, First Prize, The Arts
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Mike Tyson, Photographs, (text by Mike Tyson and Lori Grinker)
Powerhouse Books (forthcoming)
- AFTERWAR; Veterans from a World in Conflict, de.MO Publisher (Introduction by Chris Hedges)
- The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women, The Jewish Publication Society (coauthor, writer, Diana Bletter)
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Akron Art Museum, Ohio
Centre National de l'audiovisuel, Dudelange, Luxembourg
International Center of Photography, NYC
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Jewish Museum, NYC
City; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
New York Historical Society, NYC
Museum of Modern Art
Portland Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam
US Embassy to Kenya, Nairobi
EXHIBITIONS (selected)
Solo
2016 Mike Tyson, Nailya Alexander Gallery, NYC
2015 Thesis exhibit, Moore Gallery, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT
2015 Making Up Dreams, The Ark, Vermont College of Fine Arts
2014 Dear Grinkers, The Ark, Vermont College of Fine Arts
2012 Distant Relations, Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, The JCC, NYC
2011 Distant Relations, Nailya Alexander Gallery, NYC
2011 Iraq, Scars & Exile, Fovea Gallery, Beacon, New York
2009-11 Nothing Like My Home, USA tour (NYC, New Haven, Madison, Minneapolis, San Francisco)
2008 Iraq, Scars & Exile, Nailya Alexander Gallery, NYC
2008 AFTERWAR, Botero Museum, Medellin, Colombia
2008 AFTERWAR, RA Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
2008 AFTERWAR, Look 3, Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, VA
2007 AFTERWAR, Fovea Gallery, Beacon, New York
2006 AFTERWAR, Minnesota Center for Photography
2006 AFTERWAR, Indiana State University Art Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
2006 AFTERWAR, Project 4 Gallery, Washington DC
2005 AFTERWAR, Internationale Fotoage, Manheim, Germany
2005 AFTERWAR, Nailya Alexander Gallery, NYC
2005 AFTERWAR, United Nations main gallery, NY
2004 AFTERWAR, Maryland Art Place (MAP), Baltimore
2003 AFTERWAR, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China
1990-93 The Invisible Thread, USA tour (Selected venues):
Memorial Union Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison;
National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia;
Spertus Museum, Chicago; City College, University of New York, NYC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Eyes on Main Street 2, Outdoor Photo Festival, Wilson, NC
2015 Eyes on Main Street, Outdoor Photo Festival, Wilson, NC
2014 War/Photography:
Brooklyn Museum, NY; Houston Museum of Fine Art,
The Annenberg Space for Photography; Corcoran Gallery of Art
2014 Stories In the Social Landscape, International Center of Photography
2013 Intersections: Art & Community, Laurie M Tisch Illumination Fund, NYC
2012 Through Our Lens: Photographers Reflect on Empowerment, 25CPW Gallery, NYC
2011 AFTERWAR, Lishui Museum of Photography, China
2010 AIPAD, Nailya Alexander Gallery, NYC
2009 Iraqi Voices, FotoWeek DC, Washington
2007 Apocalypse, Candace Dwan and Nailya Alexander Gallery, NYC
2007 l'Europe, Centre national de l'audiovisuel, Luxembourg
2007 Moving Walls International UAE, Jordan, Bahrain, Lebanon
2006 About Love, Candace Dwan and Nailya Alexander Gallery, NYC
2006 The Body at Risk, International Center for Photography Museum, NYC
2003 Killer Shots: A Photographic Response to War, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
2002 Eleven, Witnessing the World Trade Center 1974-2001, Contact Press Images, world tour
2001 Here is New York, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
2000 The Art of Documentary Photography, Portland Museum of Art, Maine
2000 Conceptual Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2000 Spatial Relations, Rosenberg & Kaufman Gallery, NYC
TALKS & GUEST LECTURES (selected)
2016 Mike Tyson, Powerhouse Arena, NYC (October)
2015 The Power of Narrative, Boston University conference, (http://www.bu.edu/com/narrative/)
2015 Making Up Dreams, Foundational Sharing, Torn Page House, NYC (March 26)
2012 On the Razor's Edge: Form and Content in Documentary, Bruce Davidson, Lori Grinker, Platon, Reza
Eugene Richards, Powerhouse Arena, NYC
2012 The New Documentary, Photoville, NYC
2011 Documenting Diasporas, Fordham University, NYC
2011 Picturing Soldiers, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
2010 Morgan Library & Museum, NYC, Illustrated Lecture by Lori Grinker
2010 World Fellows Program, Guest Lecturer Lori Grinker, Yale, New Haven, CT
2010 Bearing Witness, New York Institute for the Humanities, NYC”
2010 Time Stands Still, After Words panel Samuel Friedman Theatre, NYC, panel, NYC
2010 Columbia University, Dart Academic Fellows Program, NYC
Previous Talks Guest Critiques & Lectures (selected locations)
Botero Museum, Medellin, Colombia
Columbia University School of Journalism, NYC
Indiana State University, Terre Haute
Kiev Foto, Ukraine
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Parsons The New School for Design
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
Royal Photographic Society, London, UK
Santa Fe Center for Photography (now Center), NM
School of Visual Arts, NYC
Tufts University, Boston
WRITING
2006 Los Angeles Times Book Review,
The Other Side of War, Women's Stories of. Survival & Hope, December 24
FILM & MULITMEDIA:
2014-15 Making Up Dreams, MFA thesis film in progress
2013 The Wilderness of War, PBS News Hour
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/01/the-wilderness-after-war.html
2012 The Little Freedom Church: Saint James AME Zion Black Heritage Network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8XldOl_X4Y&feature=plcp
2008 Iraq: Scars & Exile Open Society Foundations
http://www.morningsidecenter.org/nothing-my-home
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education-jan-june11-refugees_06-20/
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (Print, Film, Web, Theatre, Books since 2000)
2014: 40 Years of Photojournalism: Generating Agencies (Editions de la Martinière)
2014: Champs: Documentary film (premiered at Tribeca Film Festival)
2013: War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, (Yale University Press)
2013: Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, Directed by Spike Lee
Broadway, Longacre Theatre, NYC, & HBO Films
2013 CNN Films: The Flag, Co-directed by Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein
2011 New York Times, Lens (online), Piecing Together an Ancestral Puzzle, September 20
2011 Loupe (Photographic Resource Center, Boston), Lori Grinker, Distant Relations
2010 ARTE, Lori Grinker (profile)
France: http://www.arte.tv/fr/Comprendre-le-monde/arte-journal/3514108.html
Germany: http://videos.arte.tv/de/videos/literatur_lori_grinker-3513258.html
2009 Nieman Reports, When War Ends: The Trauma That Remains, Winter
2009 Australian Photojournalist, Afterwar by Lori Grinker, Summer
2008 Monthly Photography Magazine, Korea, Lori Grinker, October
2008 Nieman Reports, Iraqis: Making Visible The Scars of Exile, Summer
2008 The New Yorker, ART, Exhibition: Lori Grinker at Nailya Alexander, February 4
2008 The New Yorker, Fiction, December 3
2008 American Photo/Pop Photo, Lori Grinker: 15 Years Documenting War, March
2008 Spin, Fury, Fear, Philosophy: Understanding Mike Tyson, September
2008 Huffington Post, Reading the Pictures: The Forgotten Iraqi Exiles, January
2008 James Toback's Tyson (documentary film)
2008 Bill Moyers Journal, Lori Grinker on Displaced Iraqis
2006 The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing, U. of California Press
2006 The Minneapolis Star Tribune, War & Weirdness (review of Lori Grinker & Roger Ballen)
by art critic Mary Abbe, November 9
2006 Time Magazine, www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/war_veterans/
2006 Chinese Photography magazine, Lori Grinker and Don McCullin, July
2006 Photographer’s Companion Magazine, China, Lori Grinker, Afterwar, March
2006 The Washington Post, review, Afterwar exhibition, March 4
2006 Photography Books Index III, (Scarecrow Press)
2006 Minnesota Public Radio, November 13, Midmorning with Kerri Miller, interview about Afterwar
2006 KFAI Minnesota, Radio Catalyst: Politics & Culture with Lydia Howell, Afterwar
2006 Photo World, SXRTV China (television documentary), Lori Grinker, Afterwar
2005 The New York Times, Grace Gleuck: Picturing Some Shocks That Flesh Is Heir To, December 26
2005 lens culture: www.lensculture.com/afterwar.html
2005 Photo-Eye, Survey of the Best New Photography Books 2005, Afterwar
2005 Chronogram, Cover and review of Afterwar exhibition, April
2005 Sacramento Bee, A poignant look at what happens to the injured, Afterwar, April 24
2005 The New Yorker, Afterwar exhibition, “Goings on About Town” March 28
2005 BBC RADIO, Night Waves with Paul Allen, Lori Grinker, Afterwar
2005 Revista Lateral (Spain), “Speaking for the Wounded” www.lateral-ed.es
2005 The British Journal of Photography, After the Fighting, Surviving, May 25
2005 The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Maimed, betrayed, forgotten, January 30
2005 The Financial Times, When the battle is over, January 3
2003 Pandemic Facing AIDS, (Umbrage Editions)
2003 NOW (with Bill Moyers) - USA Public Television, Afterwar
2003 NOW (with Bill Moyers) - USA Public Television, Aboard the USNS Comfort
2002 Eleven, Witnessing the World Trade Center, (Rizzoli/Universe)
2002 Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs, (Scalo)
2002 The Spirit of Family – Al and Tipper Gore, (Henry Holt)
2002 Rolling Stone, 9/11: That was then, This is now, September
2001 Time, A Year to Remember, December (cover)
2001 Life Magazine, Focus on September 11, October
2000 Marie Claire, Sisters in Arms, May