Tatana Kellner
BORN Prague, Czechoslovakia EDUCATION MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1974 BA, School of Art & Design, University of Toledo, 1972 GRANTS 2001 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH 2000 Artist-in-Residence, Saltonstall Art Colony, Ithaca, NY Photographer's Fund Award, Center for Photography in Woodstock 1997 Artist-in-Residence, University of Southern Maine Catalog Project, to publish a catalog of my work, New York Foundation for the Arts 1996 Individual Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts 1995 Artist-in-Residence, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada 1994 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH 1992 Individual Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts Artist-in-Residence, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY Artist-in-Residence, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 1991 NYSCA Decentralization Grant, Dutchess County Arts Council 1989 Artist-in-Residence, Mid Atlantic States Foundation, School 33, Baltimore Fellowship, Empire State Crafts Alliance 1988 Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY 1987 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH Artist-in-Residence, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY Artist-in-Residence, Artpark, Lewiston, NY Artist-in-Residence, Ragdale Foundation 1985 Ruth Chenven Foundation Award for "Extended Family" Visiting Artist, Prints in Progress, Mid Atlantic States Foundation 1984 Photographer's Fund Award, Center for Photography in Woodstock 1980 New York State Council on the Arts, to publish "Intimations" AWARDS Purchase Award, Rochester Institute of Technology Purchase Award, Toledo Museum of Art Honorable Mention, New York University Competition Arax Award, Dutchess Community College 25th Anniversary Competition Centerford, Center Quarterly, Center for Photography in Woodstock Artists' Roster, New York Foundation For the Art SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2002 Assemblage and Ritual, Mid Career Retrospective, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2001 Retrospective, Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 2000 Eye Witness, Center for Photography in Woodstock, Woodstock, NY 1998 Transformations, Goldstrom Gallery, New York City New Work, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY Tenacious Memories, Kirkland Arts Center, Hamilton, NY 1997 Alterations, Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Re-visiting History, Gallerie Sans Nom, Moncton, Canada Alterations, Art Gallery, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY New Work, Art Gallery, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO Retrospective, Center For Visual Arts, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 1996 Retrospective, The Floating Gallery Centre for Photography, Winnipeg, Manitoba Retrospective, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO 1995 Art & the Holocaust, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA Retrospective, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 1994 Fifty Years of Silence, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY Retrospective, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY 1993 Fifty Years of Silence: Memory and Loss, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1991 Altered Images, The Queens Museum at the Bulova Corporate Center, New York, NY 1989 Permutations, Kleinert Arts Center, Woodstock, NY 1986 Extended Family II, Prints in Progress, Philadelphia, PA 1985 Extended Family I, Kingston Artist Group, Kingston, NY 1982 Intimations, Ulster County Council for the Arts Gallery, Kingston, NY SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2003 re/order, Houghton House Gallery, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY Frequencies, Art Gallery, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY 2002 Material Witness, Goldstein Gallery, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN Extraordinary Things, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 2001 Photography Regional, Albany Airport Gallelry, Albany, NY 2000 Book/Ends, Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY Black and White, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NYC Books Unbound, Henry Street Settlement, NYC 1999 Scrolling the Page, Tufts University, New Orleans, LA The Holocaust Exhibition, St. John's University, Jamaica, NY Artists' Books, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA 1998 The Next Word, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY cover to cover, Rice Gallery, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY 1997 Women of the Book, Finegold Art Gallery, West Valley, CA (traveling) 1996 A Woman's Place, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ 1995 PhotoNominal 95, Forman Gallery, Jamestown, NY Between Spectacle and Silence, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA Pride and Prejudice, 494 Gallery, New York, NY Art and the Holocaust, Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC Contemporary Photography, Warren Street Gallery, Hudson, NY The Book Unbound, Ormond Memorial Art Museum, Ormond, Fl 1994 Milliseconds to Millenia: The Art of Time, Virginia Center for the Crafts (traveling) The Art of the Book Exhibition, Ohio State University, Columbus Vocal Expressions/Visual Experiences, Marywood College, Slatedale, PA 1993 Memories, Facts and Lies, Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY Artists' Books & Art about Books, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY (traveling) Artists' Books - A Selection, Harper Collins Publishers, New York, NY 1992 Making War, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI Four Artists, Rensselaer County Council for the Arts,Troy, NY Art-Eco: Contemporary Art & Environment, State University College at New Paltz, NY 1991 Fragments, Art In General, New York, NY Boundless Vision, San Antonio Art Institute, an Antonio, TX Scarlet Letters, Kleinert Arts Center, Woodstock, NY 1990 Empire State Biennial, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY The Altered Image, Hartwick College, traveling Painted, Marked and Torn, Multimedia Arts Center, New York, NY 1989 New Configurations, Art Awareness, Lexington, NY, invitational Hand Manipulated Photography, Buckham Fine Arts Project, Flint, MI A Celebration of Creativity, Visual Museum, School of Visual Arts, New York 1988 Sequenced Imagery, Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY Bound in the USA, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL. An Eclectic Library, Glen Echo Gallery, MD Holy Smokes, Florida State University, invitational For the Wall, Gallery RBF, Mamaroneck, NY 1987 Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, two person show KAKE Bookworks, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY National Museum of Women in The Arts, Washington, DC Selected American Bookworks, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA 1986 Taking Liberty, New York State Museum, Albany, NY, traveling Coming of Age, Mid Hudson Arts and Science Center Hands on Books, Toronto, Canada, traveling Between Covers, University of Southern California, traveling Talent '86, Alan Stone Gallery, New York Galleria Comunale D'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy 1985 Facelift, multimedia installation, Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY 1984 Offset: A Survey of Artists' Books, New England Foundation for the Arts Installation: Art Off Track, Arkville, NY Reflections: Women in Their Own Image, Feminist Art Institute, New York, NY Award Recipient, Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY 1983 Alternatives 1983, Ohio State University, Athens, Ohio Artists' Books/Booked Art, Swedish Archive of Artists' Books 1982 Artists' Books: From the Traditional to the Avantgarde, Rutgers University Views by Women Artists, Women's Caucus for Art, New York CURATOR 1994 WSW XX Years - A Retrospective, SUNY New Paltz Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY (traveling) 1990 Inserts, monthly artist pages inserted in the Woodstock Times newspaper 1984 1984: Big Brother is Watching: 5 Women's Art Organizations Make Art Crime, traveling exhibit with a catalogue 1982 Collected Visions: Women Artists Working In Rural New York State, traveling exhibition of work by 39 artists / catalogue 1981 American Rag, Kleinert Arts Center, Woodstock ,NY 1980 Hands on Rag, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY ARTISTS' BOOKS Portrait of a Town, 2001 - series of 10 postcards Madam Anna's Palm Faxts, 1999 Pistol/Pistil: Botanical Ballistics, 1997 Shoot, 1997 Presidential Quiz, 1997 Lexicographer's View, 1997 71125: Fifty Years of Silence, 1992 B-11226: Fifty Years of Silence, 1992 My 9 Migraine Cures, 1987 Your Co-Worker Could Be a Space Alien,1985 For Mimi,1984 Headdress, 1983 Scene Around Rosendale, 1982 Me?, 1982 Intimations, 1981 4 x 4, 1981 Great Gams, Jeez knees, Nice Knees, 1981 Suspender Saga, 1979 COLLECTIONS Museum of Modern Art Library Visual Studies Workshop University of Toledo Metropolitan Museum Library Toledo Museum of Art Pepsico Wallace Memorial Library University of Michigan Franklin Furnace Archive University of Rochester Library Albright Knox Art Gallery Sackner Archives Swedish Archive of Artists Books Brooklyn Museum Virginia Commonwealth University Library USC Santa Barbara Pennsylvania State University Library State University of Iowa Cleveland Institute of Art Library Tate Gallery Library, London Massachusetts College of Art Library National Gallery Art Library Walker Arts Center Library Tennessee Eastman Corporation University of Pittsburgh Library Mobil Corporation National Holocaust Museum Library Yale University Library Rochester Institute of Technology New York Public Library Durango Art Center Wellesley College Library Maryland Institute Library Bentley College Colgate University National Museum of Women In the Arts Library Getty Center Library LECTURES / WORKSHOPS Artist Lecture, Yale University Family Histories, Minnesota Center for the Book Arts Panelist, American Photography Institute, Graduate Seminar Altered Photographs, School 33 Arts Center, Baltimore, MD Western Papermaking, Peters Valley, Layton, New Jersey Artists' Books, State University College at New Paltz Artists' Books and Handmade Paper, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY Publishing Artists' Books, State University College, Oswego Altered Photographs, Rochester Institute of Technology Publishing Artists' Books, State University College at Brockport Artist Lecture, Skidmore College Artist Lecture, CEPA Gallery Artist Lecture, State University College, Oswego Artist Lecture, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY Artists' Books, University of Santa Cruz, CA Artist Lecture, Reed College, Portland, OR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1974-present: Artistic Director, Women's Studio Workshop, Inc. Developing and implementing traditional and experimental programs in the printmaking arts, papermaking, photography and artists' books. 1986-present: Artist/Instructor, Art in Education Initiative for gifted and talented students. Funded by NYSCA and WSW and Kingston Consolidated School District. 1978 - 1981: Mentor, Empire State College, SUNY New Paltz. Working with students in photography and printmaking in an independent degree program. 1979 - 1980: Instructor, Floating Foundation of Photography. Teaching silver and non-silver photographic processes at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. 1974 - 1975: Technical Consultant, Fine Arts Department, State University College at New Paltz. Established photo printmaking facility. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY : BOOKS & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES Shaping Losses: Cultural Memory & the Holocaust, Julia Epstein & Lori Hope Lerfkowitz, University of Illinois Press, 2001 Who's Who of American Women, 21st edition, published by Marquis Transformations, exhibition catalog with essay by Beth Haber, 1998 Our Grandmothers, Stewart, Tabori and Chang, Welcome Enterprises, 1998 A Woman's Place, Artists reflection of their culture, The Monmouth Museum, 1996 Destruction and Survival: Art and the Holocaust, Ori Z. Soltes, B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, 1995 Century of Artists' Books, Joanna Drucker, Granary Books, 1995 50 Years of Silence: Memories and Loss, Robert Hirsch, CEPA, Fall/Winter 1993 Contact Sheet 75/76, LightWork 1992 Intimations, with an essay by Eve Leoff, Women's Studio Workshop, 1981 REVIEWS & ARTICLES Personal History, Richard Huntington, The Buffalo News, December 6, 2002 Picturing Ourselves, Connie Gaasch, Artvoice, November 28, 2002 War Memorial, Richard Huntington, The Buffalo News, September 13, 2002 Requiem for September 11, Robert Hirsch, Forever Young, September 14, 2002, Vol. 14 / No. 9 Harpers, August 1998, published photo, p. 19 Artists' books at Rice Gallery a captivating hands-on exhibit, Peg Churchill Wright, The Daily Gazette, May 7, 1998 Memories of the Holocaust, Kate Jaimet, Telegraph Journal, October 20, 1997 Tatana Kellner revisite l'histoire, Acadie Nouvelle, October 17, 1997 Vernissage de "Revisiting History"; Temoin de l'Holocauste, Steve Hachey, Lefront, October 15, 1997 A colorful jumble, Sarah Stack, Taconic Newspapers, May 15 ,1997 Fading voices pay tribute to victims of Holocaust, Sally Vallongo, The The Toledo Blade, May 4, 1997 FLC photography show reflects Holocaust, Judith Reynolds, Fort Lewis Herald, March 20, 1997 Historic Mirrages, Karen Norklun, Woodstock Times, February 6, 1997 Defining a Woman's Place in the World as the Very Center of Life, Vivien Raynor, The New York Times, October 20, 1996 Revisiting History at Floating Gallery, Matt Bellan, The Jewish Post & News, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Vol.II, No. 13, October 13, 1996 Artists' Bookkeeping, Hank Burchard, The Washington Post, January 6, 1995 Intriguing reads, Charlie Langdon, The Durango Herald, May 11, 1995 A Provocative Photonominal, Karen Rene Merkle, Times Publishing, Feb 23, 1995 Women photographers exhibit captures life through the lens, Susan H. Hajec,Michigan Women's Times, Jan 22 - February 4, 1995 Havel in Babel, Martha McWilliams, Washington City Paper, February 3, 1995 Books Revised With Vision, Mary Mc Coy, The Washington Post, January 28, 1995 Exhibition contains images of Holocaust, Western Herald, January 17, 1995 Artists' works speak volumes, Sunday News-Journal, Daytona Beach, Florida, April 17, 1994 Show explores brief history of time, CeCe Bullard, Richmond Times Despatch, January 28, 1994 A Message About Intolerance, Scott Scanlon, The Post Standard, Oswego, March 5, 1994 Means of Transmission, Darkness and Light, and the Second Generation, Beth Haber, The Binnewater Tides vol no1, Fall1994 Envisioning the Word: Books as Works of Art, Alan Singer, The Bookpress, May 1993 Book fund helps SU library obtain Holocaust remembrance, Syracuse Herald American, Feb 14, 1993 University acquires Holocaust stories, Anne Roth, The Syracuse Record, Jan 19, 1993 Pages upstage installations, Bill Jaeger, Woodstock Times, July 30, 1992 Earth's reflections, Florence Schetzel, Poughkeepsie Journal, July 17, 1992 Art + Environment = SUNY exhibit, Daily Freeman, July 17, 1992 Review, Nancy Princenthal, The Print Collector's Newsletter, Vol XXII, No 3, July-Aug 1992 5 artists process information at RCCA gallery, The Times Union, May 21, 1992 Reaching out, Huguenot Herald, April 23, 1992 Choices, Village Voice, May 7, 1991 Mercurial murals, Stephen Kolpan, Woodstock Times, September 14, 1989 Lively hybrids in Lexington, Steven Kolpan, Woodstock Times, June 8, 1989 My 9 Migraine Cures, Judith Hoffberg, Umbrella, vol 1, number 1, April 1987 Artist's Space, Art Times, December 1984 The rural view, Tinker Twine, Woodstock Times, October 25, 1984 Statements, Ulster Culture, vol 1, number 2, winter 1981 Portfolio, Ulster Culture, vol 2, number 1, winter 1980
