Alison Carey • Chicago, IL • alisonjcarey@gmail.com • www.alisoncarey.com
2005 New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Albuquerque, NM. Organic Remains of a Formal World.
2017 RAIR at 50: Beyond the Gift of Time, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
ULTRA Real, Clark College, Archer Gallery, Vancouver, WA
2016 MoCP at 40, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2015 Environment of Concern, The Mary-Frances and Bill Veeck Gallery in Chicago, IL
2014 Art and Deep Time, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. catalog
Intersecting Editions, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
Yuma Arts Symposium Presenters, Yuma Fine Arts Museum, Yuma, AZ
Poetics of Light, Herzstein Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2013 Realms, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL
2012 Terra Cognita: Into the Unknown, Museum Belvedere, 19th Noorderlicht International Photofestival,
Netherlands
Not Kansas: photographers explore their own worlds, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
Reconsidering the Photographic Masterpiece, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2011 Pingyou Photography Festival, Pingyou, China
Our Origins, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2010 Fantastic Landscape, 310 ConTemporary, Chicago, IL
ArtLoop Open 2010, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
2009 Light Festival Kaunas Photo 09, Kaunas, Lithuania
Reflections on Darwin, Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Art! Fair, Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York, NY
Hyper-Nature, SPACES Gallery, Cleaveland, OH
Wonder Lands, Crossroads School Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Other Worlds, Jupiter Arts Center, Centralia, WA
2008 Resurrections: A New Look at Old Photographic Processes, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR. catalog
Photo Vision Award Auction, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA.
Topography of Nature, Arcade Gallery, New York, NY.
2007 The Art and Artifice of Science, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM. catalog.
Locations of Elsewhere, Peer Gallery, New York, NY.
Beyond a Gift of Time, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM. catalog
Artist-In-Residence Exhibition, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR.
2014 Poetics of Light: Contemporary Pinhole Photography, Selections from the Pinhole Resource Collection,
published by New Mexico History Museum, authors Nancy Spencer and Joanna Turek
A Short Course in Photography: Film and Darkroom (9th Edition), Barbara London and Jim Stone
2013 Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular, Historical and Contemporary
Techniques. Enfield, Jill. p.189, photographs
Composite Arts Magazine, No.13 Corporeal, pgs. 90-105, photographs (web publication)
Reid, Kerry. “Surgical Science Museum features tools alongside artist in residence,” Chicago Tribune.
February 2013, review, photograph
Plates to Pixels. Featured Artist Portfolio, (web publication)
2012 Weinstein, Michael. “Review: Alison Carey / International Museum of Surgical Science,” Newcity Art.
December 2012, review, photograph
Harper’s Magazine. “Findings,” January 2012, p.80, photograph
International Photography Annual 1. pgs. 50-53, photographs
19th Noorderlicht International Photofestival exhibition catalog, Terra Cognita: Into the Unknown,
Museum Belvedere, pgs. 150,151, 273
Leeuwarder Courant. “Noorderlicht. Weefsel Zonder Lichaam” 4th September 2012, review, photograph
2011 Feeney, Mark. “Seeking Otherworldly Worlds,” Boston Sunday Globe, (October 30th)
p.N3, review & photograph
Conversation Pieces, catalog page, statement and photograph, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2010 Photography, tenth edition, London/Upton/Stone, Prentice Hall, photograph
2009 Kuanas Photo Recycled 2009, Nine Lessons of Photography, Mindaugas Kavaliauskas.
pgs. 50-53, 112 (4 photographs) and essay
Beyond a Gift of Time, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM. p.11, catalog
Fellowships, Grants & Awards
2017 Individual Artist’s Grant, City of Chicago DCASE, Chicago, IL
2014 Faculty Development Grant, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2009 Faculty Development Grant, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2007 Junior Artist-in-Residence, Oregon School of Art & Craft, January – May 2007, Portland, OR.
2005 Roswell Artist-in-Residence fellowship recipient, October 2005 – October 2006, Roswell, NM.
Lectures
2014 “Biotechnology, Hybrids & Human Evolution”, Guest Speaker, Yuma Art Symposium, Yuma, AZ
“Biotechnology, Hybrids & Human Evolution”, Guest Speaker, Arizona Western College, Yuma, AZ
2011 “Organic Remains of a Former World”, Public Talk, Our Origins exhibition, MoCP, Chicago, IL
“New Kingdoms”, Public Talk, New Kingdoms solo exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography,
Winchester, MA
2010 “Alison Carey,” Visiting Artist Lecture, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
2007 “Alison Carey,” Junior Artist in Residence, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
Collections
Kuanas Light Festival Lithuania
Archive of the Palace of the Governor’s, New Mexico History Museum
2001 M.S. in Art, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT.
1988 B.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
Updated 2018
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL. New Kingdoms.2012 International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL. New Kingdoms.
2011 Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA. New Kingdoms.
2007 Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York, NY. Organic Remains of a Former World.
2006 Roswell Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM. Ghost Craters.2005 New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Albuquerque, NM. Organic Remains of a Formal World.
Group Exhibitions
2018 Experimental Approaches: Part II, Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL2017 RAIR at 50: Beyond the Gift of Time, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
ULTRA Real, Clark College, Archer Gallery, Vancouver, WA
2016 MoCP at 40, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2015 Environment of Concern, The Mary-Frances and Bill Veeck Gallery in Chicago, IL
2014 Art and Deep Time, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. catalog
Intersecting Editions, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
Yuma Arts Symposium Presenters, Yuma Fine Arts Museum, Yuma, AZ
Poetics of Light, Herzstein Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2013 Realms, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL
2012 Terra Cognita: Into the Unknown, Museum Belvedere, 19th Noorderlicht International Photofestival,
Netherlands
Not Kansas: photographers explore their own worlds, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
Reconsidering the Photographic Masterpiece, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2011 Pingyou Photography Festival, Pingyou, China
Our Origins, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2010 Fantastic Landscape, 310 ConTemporary, Chicago, IL
ArtLoop Open 2010, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
2009 Light Festival Kaunas Photo 09, Kaunas, Lithuania
Reflections on Darwin, Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Art! Fair, Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York, NY
Hyper-Nature, SPACES Gallery, Cleaveland, OH
Wonder Lands, Crossroads School Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Other Worlds, Jupiter Arts Center, Centralia, WA
2008 Resurrections: A New Look at Old Photographic Processes, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR. catalog
Photo Vision Award Auction, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA.
Topography of Nature, Arcade Gallery, New York, NY.
2007 The Art and Artifice of Science, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM. catalog.
Locations of Elsewhere, Peer Gallery, New York, NY.
Beyond a Gift of Time, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM. catalog
Artist-In-Residence Exhibition, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR.
Bibliography
2016 Lemniscate of Diffusion | Volume VIII, One Twelve Publishing, pg. 63, photographs2014 Poetics of Light: Contemporary Pinhole Photography, Selections from the Pinhole Resource Collection,
published by New Mexico History Museum, authors Nancy Spencer and Joanna Turek
A Short Course in Photography: Film and Darkroom (9th Edition), Barbara London and Jim Stone
2013 Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular, Historical and Contemporary
Techniques. Enfield, Jill. p.189, photographs
Composite Arts Magazine, No.13 Corporeal, pgs. 90-105, photographs (web publication)
Reid, Kerry. “Surgical Science Museum features tools alongside artist in residence,” Chicago Tribune.
February 2013, review, photograph
Plates to Pixels. Featured Artist Portfolio, (web publication)
2012 Weinstein, Michael. “Review: Alison Carey / International Museum of Surgical Science,” Newcity Art.
December 2012, review, photograph
Harper’s Magazine. “Findings,” January 2012, p.80, photograph
International Photography Annual 1. pgs. 50-53, photographs
19th Noorderlicht International Photofestival exhibition catalog, Terra Cognita: Into the Unknown,
Museum Belvedere, pgs. 150,151, 273
Leeuwarder Courant. “Noorderlicht. Weefsel Zonder Lichaam” 4th September 2012, review, photograph
2011 Feeney, Mark. “Seeking Otherworldly Worlds,” Boston Sunday Globe, (October 30th)
p.N3, review & photograph
Conversation Pieces, catalog page, statement and photograph, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2010 Photography, tenth edition, London/Upton/Stone, Prentice Hall, photograph
2009 Kuanas Photo Recycled 2009, Nine Lessons of Photography, Mindaugas Kavaliauskas.
pgs. 50-53, 112 (4 photographs) and essay
2007 The Art & Artifice of Science, Laura M. Addison and Arif Khan, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe.
Part One / Unnatural Histories: Science’s Fictions, Art’s Wonders. pgs. 12-41, photographs & essay
Schneider, Wolf. “516 ARTS Gives Albuquerque a New Hub,” New Mexico Magazine, (March, 2007)
pgs.28-31, photograph
Photography, ninth edition, London/Upton/Kobre/Brill, Prentice Hall. p.241, photographBeyond a Gift of Time, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM. p.11, catalog
Fellowships, Grants & Awards
2017 Individual Artist’s Grant, City of Chicago DCASE, Chicago, IL
2014 Faculty Development Grant, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2009 Faculty Development Grant, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2007 Junior Artist-in-Residence, Oregon School of Art & Craft, January – May 2007, Portland, OR.
2005 Roswell Artist-in-Residence fellowship recipient, October 2005 – October 2006, Roswell, NM.
Lectures
2014 “Biotechnology, Hybrids & Human Evolution”, Guest Speaker, Yuma Art Symposium, Yuma, AZ
“Biotechnology, Hybrids & Human Evolution”, Guest Speaker, Arizona Western College, Yuma, AZ
2011 “Organic Remains of a Former World”, Public Talk, Our Origins exhibition, MoCP, Chicago, IL
“New Kingdoms”, Public Talk, New Kingdoms solo exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography,
Winchester, MA
2010 “Alison Carey,” Visiting Artist Lecture, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
2007 “Alison Carey,” Junior Artist in Residence, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
Collections
University of New Mexico Art Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary PhotographyKuanas Light Festival Lithuania
Archive of the Palace of the Governor’s, New Mexico History Museum
Education
2005 M.F.A., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.2001 M.S. in Art, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT.
1988 B.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.