Nanci Kahn

Cell 04998 (2020)

Cell 04998 (2020)

Nanci Kahn is a photographer and sculptor based in Falmouth, Maine. She has exhibited in galleries and museums in Maine, New York, San Francisco and Ethiopia.

Her work can be found in the permanent collections at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, The Kroch Library at Cornell University, the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, the Stephen K Halpert Photography Collection at the University of New England, Portland, Maine., and the Judy Ellis Glickman Collection, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  •   2018 Just a Moment in Time, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland ME

  •   2014 Solo Exhibition, Museum of African Culture, Portland, ME

  • 1995 New Lives on Old Land, Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca NY

GROUP EXHIBTIONS

  •  2020 Portland 2020, Cove Street Arts, Portland ME

  •   2018 Everyday Maine, Holocaust and Human Rights Center, August ME

  • 2013 Beings (Two Person Exhibition), Maine Jewish Museum, Portland ME

  •   2013 Seven Contemporary Photographers, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland ME

  •   2011 Critters, Art Gallery at University of New England, Portland ME

  • 2010 Something From Nothing-Birds Series, June FitzPatrick Gallery, Portland, ME

  • 2010 Photographing Maine: 10 Years Later, 2000-2009.

  • 2007 The Judy Glickman Collection, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

  • 2005 Modern Feats Dance Festival (dance with underwater photography projections entitled “The Underwater Dance”

  • 2001 Two Photographers, Art Gallery at University of New England

  • 1999 Reflections: Three Photo-Portfolios, Brownson Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase NY

  • 1994 Faculty Exhibit, Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

  • 1993 Lobby Installation, Apple, Inc., Cupertino CA

  • 1992 Collaborations ‘92, Sonoma Art Center, Sonoma CA

  • 1992 GEOWALK: Looking Through a Different End of the Microscope, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco CA

  • 1990 Reverence/Refuse: The Contradictions of Being a Photographer in the Age of Eco-Disaster, Capp Street Project/ATV, San Francisco CA

  • 1990 Beyond Black & White: Contemporary Hand-Painted Black & White Photography, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland ME

  • 1989 Photography Invitational, Maine Coast Artist, Rockland ME

  • 1987-88 NY Group Show, Bridgewater Lustberg Gallery, New York NY

  • 1986 Two-Person Show, Art Gallery at University of New England, Portland ME

  • 1984 Juried Show, Ledel Gallery, New York NY

  • 1984 Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca NY

EDUCATION

  •   MFA in Photography with Distinction, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA 1992

  •   BFA in Photography, Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Ithaca NY 1981

  •   North East London Polytechnic, London, England, Fine Arts College 1979-1980

GRANTS, RESIDENCIES

  •   Maine Craft Association weekend at Haystack, Deer Isle, Maine, May 2019

  •   Artist-in-Residence, PlummerMotz School, Falmouth, Maine, 2008, 2009, 2010

  •   Saltonstall Foundation Residency Grant, Ithaca NY, 1995

PHOTO CREDITS

  •   In Search of Human Origins, Villard Books, 1994

  •   The Human Odyssey: Four Million Years of Human Evolution, Prentice Hall, 1993

  • Skin and Bones: Photography and Public Art in the City, Photo Metro, August 1991.

  • Beyond Black and White, Maine Times, October 1990

TEACHING

  •  “Photo Voice” Grant in conjunction with Wabanaki Public Health to teach photography to Maine Native Youth, 2019-2020


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