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About
Joanne Dugan is a New York City-based photographer and visual artist who explores the intersections between analog photography, painting, sculpture and mindfulness. She is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography. Her work focuses on photography as a physical medium and on seeing as a dynamic, cognitive process that connects people through shared, contemplative viewing experiences. Dugan’s one-of-a-kind images, collages and sculptures are made from Cyanotype, Silver Gelatin and other traditional light-sensitive photographic materials and are Informed by Buddhist principles and ongoing mindfulness meditation practices.
Bio
Joanne Dugan is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography. Her work has been exhibited in the US, UK, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and Japan. Publications include The New York Times T Magazine, the Harvard Review, Unseen and Photograph magazines, among others. She was recently awarded residencies at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Peaked Hill Trust and the Abbott Watts Residency for Photography and was a finalist for the Meijberg Art Prize at Unseen Amsterdam.
Dugan’s writing and images are published in seven books. The limited-edition monograph Mostly True is in the permanent library collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New York Public Library and the George Eastman House. She has been editor and creative director for many artists’ published books and is the founder of The Creative Current, an ongoing lecture series that explores artistic mindfulness. She is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography in New York City, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA and the Los Angeles Center of Photography, and has lectured at institutions throughout the US and abroad. Dugan lives and works in New York City.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Black Box Projects, Persistent Awakening, London, England, 2022
Black Box Projects, Seclusion Meditations, London, England, 2020
Kopeikin Gallery, Multiples, Los Angeles, CA, 2018
Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 2016
Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 2015
Ernden Fine Art Gallery, Provincetown, MA, annual shows 2002-13
SUNY Visual Arts Gallery, Queensbury, NY, 2010
University of Dayton Rike Gallery, Dayton, OH, 2010
Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York NY, 2008
New York Public Library, Donnell Gallery, New York, NY, 2006
Robin Rice Gallery, New York, NY, 1997
Cape May Photo Workshop Gallery, Cape May, NJ, 1996
Galerie DIE BRUCKE, Braunschweig, Germany, 1995
Galerie-Theater, Wolfsburg, Germany, 1995
Galerie KUNST FUR HAMBURG, Hamburg, Germany, 1995
Galerie der NORD, Hannover, Germany, 1995
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Flinn Gallery, Camera-less, Greenwich, CT, 2025
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, The Paula Tognarelli Collection, Portland, ME, 2024
The Commons, Outer Cape Artists in Residence Consortium, Provincetown, MA, 2023
The Gascoine Gallery, Made, Not Taken, Monson, ME, 2022
Photo London, Black Box Projects, London, England, 2021
Royal Academy of Art, 252nd Annual Summer (Winter) Exhibition, London, England, 2020
Photo London, Black Box Projects, London, England, 2020
Fotofestiwal Łódź, oo’s and ii’s, Łódź, Poland, 2020
DYKWTCA/The Corner at Whitman-Walker, When We First Arrived, Washington, DC, 2020
Black Box Projects, Into the Blue, London, England, 2020
Photofairs, Cyanotype, Shanghai, China, 2020
Black Box Projects, Fundamentals, London, England, 2019
Photo London, Photography on a Postcard, London, England, 2019
Unseen Amsterdam, Kopeikin Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2018
Jason McCoy Gallery, Black and White: Modern and Contemporary Positions, New York, NY 2016
Fine Arts Work Center Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 2016
International Center of Photography, Rita K. Hillman Gallery, Stories in the Social Landscape, NYC, 2014
Fine Arts Work Center Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 2013
Robin Rice Gallery, Summertime, New York, NY, 2013
Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA, 2011
Robin Rice Gallery, Summertime, New York, NY, 2006
G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Wedding Days, Los Angeles, CA, 1999
Osaka Takashimaya Gallery, Wedding Days, Osaka, Japan, 1999
Laforet Harajuku Gallery, Wedding Days, Tokyo, Japan, 1999
Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Gallery, Wedding Days, Tokyo, Japan, 1999
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The J. Paul Getty Museum library collection
The International Center of Photography library collection
George Eastman House library collection
Los Angeles County Museum of Art library collection
The New York Public Library collection
Banana Republic corporate art collection
Alliance Capital collection
Numerous private collections in the US and abroad
SELECTED AWARDS/HONORS/RESIDENCIES/EVENTS
John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in Photography, 2024
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), returning artist residency, 2025
Outer Cape Artists in Residency Consortium, Provincetown, MA, 2024
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), artist residency, 2022
Abbott Watts Residency for Photography, Monson Arts, Monson, ME, 2021
Peaked Hill Trust, Arts and Science Residency, Provincetown, MA, 2019
Meijburg Art Commission Finalist, Unseen Amsterdam, 2018
MoMA Design Store, Destination NYC Collection, juried project, 2013
Art Directors Club (ADC), The Undiscovered Letter, 2011
International Reading Association (IRA), Notable Book, 2006
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Design Award, 2002
PUBLISHED BOOKS
Summertime, hardcover book, edited by and with original text by Joanne Dugan, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA. Features the work of 50 emerging and established photographers, including Martin Parr, Joel Meyerowitz and Julie Blackmon, 2014
123 NYC: A Counting Book of New York City, hardcover book, photographs and original text by Joanne Dugan, Abrams Books, New York, NY, 2007
Beauty Parlor Wisdom, hardcover book, photographs by Joanne Dugan, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 2007
ABC NYC: A Book About Seeing New York City, hardcover book, photographs and original text by Joanne Dugan, Abrams Books, New York, NY, 2005
Mostly True, hardcover book, photographs and original text by Joanne Dugan, Limited edition private press, New York, NY, 2000
Taxi Driver Wisdom, hardcover book, photographs by Joanne Dugan, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 1996
To Music and Other Short Stories, softcover monograph, photographs and original text by Joanne Dugan, RDH, Hannover, Germany, 1992
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Melanie Gerlis, Financial Times, London Gallery Weekend Returns to Galvanise a City, 2022
W.M. Hunt, Catalog Essay: Dancing in the Dark, 2022
Galina Kurlat, Lenscratch, Luminous Visions: Joanne Dugan Persistent Awakening, 2022
London Gallery Weekend, artist profile, 2022
Jean Dykstra, Photograph Magazine, Focus On: Joanne Dugan, 2020
Photofairs, Shanghai, artist case study, 2020
Martin Barnes, Victoria and Albert Museum, Exhibition Catalog, Black Box Projects, 2019
Aline Smithson, Lenscratch, Multiples and Meditations, 2019
George H. King, Unseen Magazine, Issue 5, September 2018
De Kunstmeisjes, SPECIALS, review, Unseen Amsterdam, 2018
Jody Zellen, Visual Arts Source, 2018
Judith Larsen, Harvard Review 47, feature including five images, 2015
Betsy Horan, New York Times T Magazine, Photos That Make Light a Subject, 2015
Marcus Leatherdale, The Omen Mag, Summertime, feature, Vol. 14, 2015
Jamie Wilson, Nylon Magazine, Read It: Summertime, feature, 2014
Sam Haddad, Cooler Magazine, Summertime Photo Book by Joanne Dugan, feature, 2014
Alyssa Coppelman, Feature Shoot, feature, 2014
Huffington Post, These Stunning Photos Will Definitely Get You in the Mood for Summer, 2014
Art Directors Club, Joanne Dugan: Summertime, feature, 2014
Steven Heller, Print Magazine, Coastertypography, feature, 2013
Wesley Yiin, Untapped Cities, Preserving New York City Street Photography with The Alphabet City, feature, 2013
Ben Fractenberg, DNA Info, MoMA’s ‘Destination NYC’ Features 200 Products Designed in City, feature, 2013
Steven Heller, Print Magazine, Chips Off the Old Block, feature, 2011
Marcus Leatherdale, The Omen Mag, Joanne Dugan, artist profile, 2011
Maria Popova, Brainpickings, ABC NYC: The Language of New York’s Found Typography, feature, 2010
Christopher Busa, Provincetown Arts, The Photographer as Abecedarian, 2008
Andre Van Der Wende, Cape Cod Times, Photos Frame Similarities Between Different Worlds, review, 2007
Barbara Aria, New York Magazine, ABC 123: Seeing NYC, An exhibit of Photographs by Joanne Dugan, (critics’ pick), 2005
Barbara Aria, Time Out New York Kids, H is for Hat Trick, cover and feature story, 2005
Photo Design, From Taxi Driver Wisdom, Photography by Joanne Dugan, feature story, 1998
SELECTED LECTURES/PANELS
Photo London, London, UK, artist talk, ‘Deep Diving,’ with curator W.M. Hunt, 2022
Black Box Projects, London, UK, artist talk for accompanying solo exhibition, 2022
The Ground Glass, Rye, New York, artist talk, 2022
Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), presentation with Broadsided Press, 2022
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, artist presentation and panel discussion with poet Major Jackson and writer Paul Lisicky, 2022
Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA, artist talk, 2020
Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, artist talk, 2018
Type Director’s Club, New York, NY, lecture to Marywood University MFA students, 2018
International Center of Photography, New York, NY, co-presentation with Matthew Leifheit for New York Film Academy, 2018
Columbia University, New York, NY, panel discussion, Photography for Educators, Contemporary Inspirations Panel, 2014
New York Public Library, Main Branch, New York, NY, panel discussion, Photography and Children’s Books: A Complex Pairing, moderated by Betsy Bird, Youth Materials Specialist, 2014
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, artist presentation to summer program students annually, 2008-2019
United Nations International School, New York, NY, visiting author, 2013
Type Director’s Club, New York, NY, lecture to Marywood University MFA students, 2013
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, lecture to undergraduate visual arts students, 2010
Montessori Teachers Association, Chestnut Hill College, Joanne Dugan on Daily Practice: The Art of Nurturing Personal Creativity, Keynote Address, 2008
American Montessori Society National Conference, New York, NY, On Seeing What’s Right in Front of You, Keynote Address, 2007
First Book, New York City, Visiting Author, 2007
University of Delaware, Wilmington, DE, Joanne Dugan @ 2:53, lecture to undergraduate Visual Communications students, 2006
Barnes and Noble, Times Square, NYC, visiting author, 2006
The School at Columbia University, visiting author, 2005
The Strand Bookstore, visiting author, 2005
TEACHING
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
24Pearl Street, Provincetown, MA
Los Angeles Center for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
Leave Out Violence, New York, NY
University of Minnesota, Split Rock Arts Center, Minneapolis
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Penumbra Foundation
Art Directors Club (ADC)
EDUCATION
University of Delaware, BA/Communications
International Center of Photography
The New School
Parson’s School of Design