EDUCATION
2007
Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College, M.F.A. in Photography
1999
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD, B.F.A. in Photography
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2008–9
Workspace Artist Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, Stuttgart, Germany, Jurors: Allan Sekula and Teresa Hubbard
2008
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, Florida. Juror and Master Artist: Mark Dion
Scholarship, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, Florida
2007
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
2005
Alumni/ae Scholarship, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College
1999
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Alumni Award
1997
Maryland Institute, College of Art Achievement Award
1995
United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Awarded by President Clinton
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Level 1 Photography Award
National Scholastic Art Competition, Photography Portfolio Award
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Haunted Houses, Alice Austen House, Staten Island, NY
Domestic Incidents, RedLine Gallery, Denver, CO
2011
Interior Objects, RMZ Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Haunted Houses, California State University in Sacramento, Design Gallery
2009
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY
2005
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, Glessner House Museum, Chicago, IL
2004
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, Bellwether, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Zeitgespenster, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
2011
Crime Unseen, Museum of Contemporary Photography
Remnants, Werkhaus, Brooklyn, NY
Phantoms, Shadows and Phenomena, The Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, Ohio
Taking a Closer Look, The Park School, Baltimore, MD
2010
Awake Are Only Their Spirits: On Ghosts and Their Media, Center for Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland
2009
The Mansion Project, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, NJ
Awake Are Only Their Spirits: On Ghosts and Their Media, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany
2008
Wild Signals, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Stay, Stay, Stay, Central Bathhouse, Sofia, Bulgaria
Fetish and Consumption, Curated by Catherine Perret. Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2007
Fear and Hope in Fragile Times, Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation, Stuttgart, Germany
Death Bizarre, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
2006
The Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition, Red Hook, NY
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, Two-person exhibition, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Oh, You Beautiful Doll, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
Once More… With Feeling, Millais Gallery, Southampton Solent University, UK, The Changing Room, Stirling, Scotland
With Shuddering Horror Pale, and Eyes Aghast, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology, and the Paranormal, The Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD
Epilogue, Jackson Fine Arts, Atlanta, GA
Staging The Real, Clifford Chance, New York, NY
In Passing: A Show About Death, The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
Hello Chelsea, Bellwether, New York, NY.
25 Artists Create Fashion Images, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2002
The Holiday Shopping Show, Wallspace, New York, NY.
Friends and Family, Lombard Fried Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Anti-Squat Aula, Superfantastic Invitational Exhibition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Blumen, Superfantastic Invitational Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
1999
Beautiful Grotesque, Juried Exhibition, Workhorse Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Hot Stuff 99’, Dirt Gallery, Kansas City, NB
1998
Valentine, New York Studio Program Exhibition, New York, NY
New Art LA, Invitational Exhibition, Hollywood, CA
Superfantastic Rootbeerfest, Invitational Exhibition, Austin, TX
PUBLICATIONS
2011
Microworlds, Laurence King Publishing, Edited by Marc Valli and Margherita Dessany, pp. 18 - 23.
2010
Haunted Houses, The Monacelli Press/Random House, Photographs and Essays by Corinne Botz
2009
Decadence & Decay: The Mansion Project, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, NJ. Text by Anonda Bell
Awake Are Only Their Spirits: On Ghosts and Their Media, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany. Text by
Thibaut de Ruyter
2005
“Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology, and the Paranormal,” D.A.P, Text by Mark Durant and Jane D. Marshing
2004
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, The Monacelli Press, Photographs and Essays by Corinne Botz
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012
Irvine, Karen, “Corinne May Botz,” 16-page spread, Foam Magazine, Spring Issue.
The Paris Review Daily, Abandoned House, Corinne Botz, June 19.
Anderson, Thersa, “Corinne May Botz at Redline Denver,” Invisible Museum, July 28.
“Interview: Corinne May Botz,” Veine Magazine, March.
2011
Whitman, Hatti, “Interview: Corinne May Botz,” December, Don’t Panic.
Thompson, Courtney, “Crime Unseen,” Artslant, November 8.
Moakley, Paul, “Haunted Histories,” Time: LightBox, October 31.
Worley, Sam, “The Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Crime Unseen,” The Chicago Reader, October 27.
Stauffer, Tema, “Traces,” Culturehall, Feature Issue 74.
Nural, Yetkin, “Interview: Corinne May Botz,” Bant Magazine.
“Alumna as Haunted House Sleuth,” Juxtapositions, September – October.
Cerri, Di Manuela, “Bambole Crimini E Misfatti,” Velvet, July.
Botz, Corinne, “Da war doch was,” Der Freitag, July 28.
“Caca-Fantasmas,” Gloss, July.
Durant, Mark, “Interview: Corinne May Botz,” Saint Lucy.
Line: A Journal, Feast, Spring Issue.
Janes, Andrea, “Corinne May Botz’s Haunted Houses,” The Rumpus, February 9.
2010
Green, Penelope, “Documenting Accumulation and Its Discontents,” New York Times, November 4.
Yarnall, Kolby, “Book Review: Haunted Houses,” Bookforum, December/January 2011.
“Things That Go Bump in the Night,” Reader’s Digest, November.
“Great Finds,” Martha Stewart Living, October.
Stein, Sadie, “Haunted Houses Don’t Care If You Believe in Ghosts” Jezebel, October 28.
2006
“Disturbing Views, Tiny and Vast,” The Washington Post, Saturday, April 15.
Jacobson, Louis, “Corinne May Botz,” Washington DC City Paper, April 17.
Parsons, Adrian, “Corinne May Botz at Hemphill,” Dcist, March 31.
2005
“The Best Photography Books of 2005,” Photo-eye.
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Birke, Judy, “Exhibit about fear is creepy, daring and most compelling,” The New Haven Register, November 26.
“Don't Miss,” Time Out, June.
Baker, Courtney. “Shooting the Angel in the House: Corinne May Botz' Photographs,” Art Papers, May.
Shapiro, Gary. “Of Murder Large and Small,” The New York Sun, February 4.
Polito, Robert. “Mind Over Murder,” BookForum, March.
Book Review: “The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death,” Modern Painters, February.
Peerless, Andrew. “Nothing is as Cool as Very, Very Small Dead People,” Chicagoist: Museums, February 25.
Walker, Lauren. “Crimes of Passion,” Dollhouse Miniatures, February 2005.
Putre, Laura. “Death in a Dollhouse,” Chicago Journal, February 24.
“Critic’s Choices,” Chicago Reader, February 25.
Sara, Bir. “Mayhem in Miniature,” Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper, January 19-25
“Just in and Recommended,” Photo-eye, January.
“Welcome to the Dollhouse of Death,” National Examiner, January 24.
Gottlieb, Robert. “Book Review,” The New York Observer, January 24.
2004
Kahn, Eve. “Murder Downsized.” The New York Times, House and Home, October.
Schuessler, Jennifer. “Murder in the Dollhouse.” The Boston Globe, October.
Rosenberg, Karen. “Shooting Stars: Young Women Photographers Storm the Galleries.” New York Magazine,
September 2004.
Aletti, Vince. “CSI in a Doll's House and the Contagion of Obsessiveness,” The Village Voice, November 5.
Callahan, Maureen. “Hot List: What We're Obsessed With This Week.” New York Post, November.
“Don't Miss,” Time Out, November.
Jordan, Tina. “Toying With Death,” Entertainment Weekly, November.
“Last-Minute Gifts: Art Books and Literature,” New York Magazine, December 13, 2004.
Shulman, Polly. “Shrinking the World to Picture-Book Size,” Newsday, December.
Danford, Natalie. “A Quirky Gift Book Season,” Publishers Weekly, December.
Vanderbilt, Tom. “Best of 2004,” Artforum, December.
Tartt, Donna. “The Doll Did It,” The Sunday Telegraph, December 26.
LECTURES & APPEARANCES
2012
Amherst College, Amherst, MA, Visiting Artist and Critic
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, Visiting Artist and Critic
2011
Glessner House Museum, Chicago, IL, Artist Lecture
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, Visiting Artist and Critic (Upcoming)
Institute for Challenging Disorganization Annual Conference, Raleigh, NC, Artist Lecture
Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, Visiting Artist and Critic
California State University in Sacramento, Visiting Artist Lecture
Herberger Institute School of Art, MFA Program, Arizona State University, Visiting Artist and Critic
PEN World Voices Festival, And At Night She Summoned Ghosts, Artist/Author talk, New York, NY
2010
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C. Artist Lecture
International Center of Photography, Photography Lecture Series, New York, NY
Observatory, Brooklyn, NY, Artist Lecture
Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Visiting Artist and Critic
Parsons, New York, NY, Visiting Artist and Critic
New York University, New York, NY, Visiting Artist and Critic
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Visiting Artist and Critic
2007
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, Visiting Artist and Critic
Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, Visiting Artist and Critic
2003 – 2010
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Visiting Artist and Critic
2010, 2005
New School, New York, NY, Visiting Artist and Critic
2004 - 2010
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Visiting Artist and Critic
2005
Galapagos Art Space, “The Little Gray Book Lecture Series,” Brooklyn, NY
2004
Accompanied Library, National Arts Club, New York, NY, Joint book reading with Jean Nathan
Community Bookshop, Brooklyn, NY, Book Reading and Signing
Barnes and Noble, Paramus, NJ and Baltimore, MD, Book Reading and Signing
Granville Book Company, Vancouver, BC, Book Reading and Signing
Court TV, The Saturday Night Solution
BBC, Woman’s Hour, Author Interview
NPR, The Front Porch, Author Interview
Maryland Public Television, Artworks This Week, Artist Interview
TEACHING
2011 - Present
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, Adjunct Professor
2011 - 2012
Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, Nonresident Studio Instructor in the MFA program
2008 – Present
International Center of Photography, New York, NY, Photography Instructor in General Studies Program
2010 - Present
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Faculty for Summer Residency Photography Program
2010 - 2011
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Undergraduate Photography Faculty
2009 – 2010
Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, Nonresident Studio Instructor in the MFA program
2003 - Present
Cooper Union, New York, NY, Photography Instructor
2006 - 2007
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Adjunct Photography Instructor
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Adjunct Photography Instructor
Harriet Tubman Learning Center PS 154, Photography Instructor for Think and Create After school Program
2003 - 2004
The Jewish Community Center, New York, NY, Photography Instructor
2000
Glen Rock High School, Glen Rock, New Jersey, Long Term Photography Substitute