Corinne May Botz


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EDUCATION


2006

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


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


2010

Awake Are Only Their Spririts: 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 Spririts: 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


2005    

“Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology, and the Paranormal,” D.A.P, Mark Durant


2004    

“The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death," The Monacelli Press, Photographs and Essays by Corinne Botz



BIBLIOGRAPHY


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.

Genocchio, Benjamin. Art Section; “Everything To Fear, Especially Fear Itself,” The New York Times, November 20.

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.



SELECTED APREARENCES & READINGS


Accompanied Library, National Arts Club, New York, NY

Galapagos, “The Little Gray Book Lecture Series”, Brooklyn, NY

Community Bookshop, Brooklyn, NY

Barnes and Noble, Paramus, NJ and Baltimore, MD

Granville Book Company, Vancouver, BC

Court TV, The Saturday Night Solution 

BBC, Woman’s Hour

NPR, The Front Porch

Maryland Public Television, Artworks This Week



TEACHING


2010

Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Visiting Artist and Critic


2009 – Present

Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, Nonresident Studio Instructor in the MFA program


2008 - Present

International Center of Photography, Photography Instructor


2003-Present

Cooper Union, New York, NY, Photography Instructor in Continuing Education Program


2006 – 07

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Adjunct Photography Instructor

Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Adjunct Photography Instructor

New School, New York, NY, Visiting Artist and Critic


2003 - Present 

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Visiting Artist and Critic


2003

The Jewish Community Center, New York, NY, Photography Instructor