BIO

Lori Grinker, born in New York, is an award-winning documentary photographer. Internationally exhibited and published, her work has garnered many awards, including a W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fellowship, an Ernst Hass Grant, and a Hasselblad Foundation Grant. Known for long-term, intimate projects that blend humanistic photography and fine art, she has published two books: The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women, and Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict. Her photographs are held in the collections of the Israeli Museum, Jerusalem; the ICP, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and San Francisco MOMA. A lecturer at Yale since 2010, and a faculty member at ICP, she teaches workshops around the world. Her current project, Distant Relations, explores through landscapes, portraits, and interiors her family’s diaspora. She is represented by Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York, Meo Represents, and has been a member of Contact Press Images since 1988.

2005  AFTERWAR; Veterans from a World in Conflict, de.MO Publisher
1989-2006  The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women, The Jewish Publication Society (text by Diana Bletter)


EXHIBITIONS (SOLO, selected venues)

Dear Grinkers: A Family History (Distant Relations)
2011   Nailya Alexander Gallery, NY (September)
2011   Jewish Community Center of Manhattan, Laurie Tisch Gallery (December)

IRAQ: Scars and Exile
2011   FOVEA Gallery, Beacon, New York
2009-11   USA high school tour (New York, New Haven, Madison, Minneapolis, San Francisco)
2008   Nailya Alexander Gallery, NY
2008   Botero Museum, Medellin, Colombia

AFTERWAR: Veterans from a World in Conflict
2008   RA Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
2008   Look 3, Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, VA
2007   FOVEA Gallery, Beacon, New York
2006   Minnesota Center for Photography
2006   Indiana State University Art Gallery
2006   Project 4 Gallery, Washington DC
2005   Internationale Fotoage, Manheim, Germany
2005   Nailya Alexander Gallery, NY
2005   United Nations, NY
2004   Maryland Art Place (MAP), Baltimore
2003   Pingyao International Photography Festival, China

The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women
1990-1993 US tour (selected venues):
Memorial Union Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison
National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia
Spertus Museum, Chicago
The City College, University of New York, New York City
1985 The Invisible Thread, Soho Photo Gallery, New York City

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (GROUP)

2012  The Razor's Edge, The Razor’s Edge, Between Documentary and Fine Art Photography. Powerhouse Arena, New York Photo Festival - NYPH, (May)
2011  Lishui Museum of Photography, China (November)
2010   AIPAD, Nailya Alexander Gallery, NY, March
2009   Iraqi Voices, FotoWeek DC, Washington, November
2007   Apocalypse, Candace Dwan and Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York City (June-July)
2007   l'Europe, Centre national de l'audiovisuel, Luxembourg (May)
2006-07   Moving Walls International UAE, Jordan, Bahrain, Lebanon
2006   About Love, Candace Dwan and Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York City
2005-06   The Body at Risk, International Center for Photography, New York City
2003   Killer Shots: A Photographic Response to War, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
2002-03   Moving Walls, Open Society Institute, New York City & Washington D.C., Baltimore, MD
2002   Eleven, Witnessing the World Trade Center 1974-2001, Contact Press Images, world tour
2001-02   Here is New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
2000   The Art of Documentary Photography, Portland Museum of Art, Maine
2000   Conceptual Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2000   The War We Forgot, First Photography Festival in Asia, Chobi Mela
2000   Spatial Relations, Rosenberg & Kaufman Gallery, New York City
1998   Keep the Light on Human Rights, Fujita Vente Museum, Tokyo, Japan


GRANTS & AWARDS

Contributed Books (include)
2006   The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing, U. of California Press
2005   A Day in the Life of the American Woman, Bullfinch
2003   Pandemic Facing AIDS, Umbrage Editions
2003   America 24/7, DK Publishers
2003   A Day in the Life of the U.S. Armed Forces, HarperCollins
2002   Eleven, Witnessing the World Trade Center, Rizzoli/Universe
2002   Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs, Scalo
2002   A Day in the Life of Africa, Tides Foundation
2002   The Spirit of Family – Al and Tipper Gore, Henry Holt
1999   Descubrir España, National Geographic Society, RBA Publications (Spain)
1998   Women in the Material World, Sierra Club Books
1998   One Digital Day, How the Microchip is Changing Our World, Crown
1996   Jerusalem: In the Shadow of Heaven, Collins Publishers
1995   The Mission: Inside the Church of the Latter-Day Saints, Epicenter
1995   A Day in the Life of Thailand, Collins Publishers
1994   Truth Needs No Ally; Inside Photojournalism
1993   The Wall, A Day at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, St. Martins
1993   The Face of Mercy: A Photographic History of Medicine at War, Random House

Select magazines & Web publications
[Work has been featured in numerous publications around the world, including: American Photo, Corriere della Sera, Der Spiegel, El País, Esquire, Geo, Independent, Libération, Life, London Sunday Times, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Newsweek, New York Times Magazine, Photo (France), Photo District News Rolling Stone, Stern, Time, Village Voice, Vogue]

2011   Loupe (Photographic Resource Center, Boston)
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 review, February 4
2008   Men’s Journal, “A.W.O.L”, February
2008   The New Yorker, Fiction, December 3
2008   American Photo/Pop Photo, “Lori Grinker: 15 Years Documenting War” March (online)
2007   PicturaPixel, Electronic Photo Magazine: www.picturapixel.com/english/capa.html
2006   The Los Angeles Times Book Review, By Lori Grinker: "The Other Side of War, Women's Stories of Survival & Hope",
           December 24
2006   The Minneapolis Star Tribune, review by art critic Mary Abbe, November 9
2006   Time Magazine, www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/war_veterans/
2006   Time Out Dubai, Battle Scarred,” August 31
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
2005   The New York Times, “Picturing Some Shocks That Flesh Is Heir To” Dec. 26
2005   lens culture: www.lensculture.com/afterwar.html
2005   Photo-Eye, Survey of Best New Photography Books 2005
2005   Chronogram, Cover and review of Afterwar exhibition
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   Time Out New York, Afterwar exhibition, “Don’t Miss” March 10
2005   The New York Sun, “A Photojournalist Focuses on the Lives of Veterans” May 25
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 Digital Journalist, “War Without End” May
2005   The Los Angeles Times Book Review, “Maimed, betrayed, forgotten” January 30
2005   The Globalist, www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=5010
2005   The Financial Times, “When the battle is over” January 3
2002   Rolling Stone, “That Was Then This is Now” September
2000   Marie Claire, "Sisters in Arms” May
1998   Stern, “Für Sie Hört Kreig Niemals Auf” October
1998   Photo District News, “AfterWar” September
1998   Culturefront (magazine & on-line), “Heroes” Summer
1998   La Revista (Spain), “Guerras de Verdad y de Mentira” September
1997   Geo (France), “Combattants d'Afrique” November
1996   Atlas, “Blind Women’s Orchestra” www.atlasmagazine.com/photo/grinker_blind/
1995   Natural History, “Sounds of Light and Hope”
1993   The New York Times op-ed page, “Disaster in the Sudan” February 12
1991   The New York Times op-ed page, “Different Wars, Same Sadness” November 11
1991   American Photo, “How Photojournalism Can Change the World” September
1989   Photo magazine (France), “The Invisible Thread” November