About
LORI GRINKER/
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Vermont College of Fine Arts (Visual Arts), Montpelier, 2015
Parson’s School of Design, New York City, 1977/1978
Windham College, Putney, VT, 1976
REPRESENTATION
Contact Press Images, New York City
CLAMP Gallery, New York City
TEACHING POSITIONS
2022 -2023: Assistant Professor of Journalism + Design, New School University, Eugene Lang College
COURSES: Transmedia Skills and Craft, Documentary Photography, Capstone
2013-Present: Faculty, Arthur L Carter Journalism Institute, Graduate program, New York University COURSES: Documentary photography-photojournalism
2017-2022: P/T Faculty, New School University, Eugene Lang College, Undergraduate program
COURSES: Transmedia Skills and Craft, Documentary Photography
2018: P/T Faculty, SUNY New Paltz, Undergraduate program
COURSES: The Document – documentary photo projects
2016: P/T Faculty, Monmouth University, Undergraduate program
COURSES: Digital Photography/Printmaking
2010-2014: Lecturer at Yale, New Haven, CT, Undergraduate program
COURSES: Documentary photography, multimedia)
2004-2020: P/T Faculty International Center for Photography (ICP), New York City, Undergraduate program
COURSES (include): Documentary Photography, Multi-media, Visualizing Ulysses, Bookmaking, Seminar
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mike Tyson Photographs Powerhouse Books (Fall 2022)
AFTERWAR; Veterans from a World in Conflict, de.MO Publisher 2005 (Introduction by Chris Hedges)
Making Up Dreams (self-published zine) 2015
The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women, 1989, Jewish Publication Society
MULITMEDIA + VIDEO:
2022 The Charlie Show (in progress, documentary film)
2019 Consider Me (multimedia)
2016 Six Days from Forty (multimedia)
2015 Making Up Dreams (experimental film and book)
2013 The Wilderness of War, PBS News Hour (documentary short)
2012 The Little Freedom Church: Saint James AME Zion Black Heritage Network (documentary film)
2008 Iraq: Scars & Exile Open Society Foundations, multimedia
AWARDS/GRANTS/HONORS (selected)
2019 Awesome Newburgh Foundation & Orange County Arts Grant 2013-15 Merit Scholarship, Vermont College of Fine Arts
2008 Open Society Institute Project Distribution Grant 2008 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
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
9-11 Museum, New York City Akron Art Museum, Ohio
Centre National de l'audiovisuel, Dudelange, Luxembourg International Center of Photography, NYC
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Jewish Museum, NYC Museum of Fine Arts, Houston New York Historical Society Museum of Modern Art Portland Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Sketchbook Project, NY
Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam US Embassy to Kenya, Nairobi
EXHIBITIONS (Solo, selected)
2022 Mike Tyson, CLAMP, NYC, Nov-Dec
2019 Consider Me, Newburgh Art, Newburgh, NY
2015 Six Days from Forty, Moore Gallery, 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, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 The Mill Group, Kingston, NY
2020 All the Little Things - AGC Gallery,
2018 The Village Voice, HOWL!
2018 Whose Streets? Our Streets! New York1980-2000,
RIT's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences - William Harris Gallery
2018 Photography from the Village Voice, HOWL! Arts, NYC, NY
2018 Sketchbook Project traveling exhibition
2017 Museum of the City of New York, Six Days from Forty (installation of video, stills and artifacts), May-September
2016 Whose Streets? Our Streets! New York 1980-2000, Bronx Documentary Center, NYC 2016 Flag Raised at Ground Zero, The 9-11 Museum, NYC
2016 Eyes on Main Street 2, Outdoor Photo Festival, Wilson, NC
2016 In-sight Photography Project, 18th Annual Exhibition, Brattleboro, VT 2016 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library - AFTERWAR 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) 2022 Mike Tyson, Powerhouse Arena, NYC
2015 The Power of Narrative, Boston University conference, (http://www.bu.edu/com/narrative/) (March 28)
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,
2010 Columbia University, Dart Academic Fellows Program, NYC
Previous Talks Guest Critiques & Lectures (1990-2009, selected) 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
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (Print, Film, Web, Theatre, Books since 1990) 2022: The Endless Fascination with Mike Tyson, August 15
2021: ABC Docuseries: Mike Tyson
2018: Chronogram 25th Anniversary Issue
2016: Home of the Brave, NY Daily News, 9-11 Firefighters Raise the Flag (cover) 2016: Unretiring, Ali’s Last Fight of Consequence, The New Yorker (June 20) 2016: The Meaning of Muhammad Ali, ESPN Magazine (June 13)
2016: Has Obama Upheld the Law? The New York Review of Books, (Guantanamo Bay) 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
1999 Descubrir España, National Geographic Society, (RBA Publications, Spain) 1999 German Public Television, Afterwar
1998 Stern, Für Sie Hört Kreig Niemals Auf, October 1998 Photo District News, AfterWar, September 1998 Culturefront, Heroes, Summer
1998 La Revista (Spain), Guerras de Verdad y de Mentira, September 1997 Geo (France), Combattants d'Afrique, November
1995 Natural History, Sounds of Light and Hope, Nov 1995 LIFE with Father, (Little Brown)
1994 Truth Needs No Ally; Inside Photojournalism (University of Missouri) 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) 1993 CNN-International Hour, Famine in the Sudan
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
1991 American Photo, How Photojournalism Can Change the World, September
1990 The New York Times Magazine (cover), Giap Remembers, June