RESUME

Grants and Awards

2007     Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award
2006     Photography Now: One Hundred Portfolios
1999     John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1997     LaSalle National Bank, Chicago Marathon Project Commission
1992     Chicago Women in Philanthropy, Mac Arthur Foundation
1989     Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award
1987     National Endowment for the Arts, Midwest Regional Fellowship Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award
             Community Arts Assistance Program, Chicago, IL
             Changing Chicago Documentary Project, Chicago, IL
1981     Illinois Arts Council Project Completion Grant
1980     Illinois Arts Council Project Completion Grant
1977     Artist in Residence, Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, IL

Selected Permanent Collections

The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL
George Eastman House; Rochester, New York
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
LaSalle National Bank, Chicago, IL
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Exhibitions

2009

Nashville Public Library Art Gallery, Nashville, TN. Solo exhibition.

2008

"Girls on the Verge" The Art Institute of Chicago. December 8, 2007- February 24, 2007
"ICON" International Center for Photography, Benefit Auction, New York. April 10, 2007

2007

"Recent Work" solo exhibition, Alan Klotz Gallery. New York, NY
"Suburban/Domestic" Salina Art Center, Salinas, Kansas. May 11 - August 19

2006

"Middle Ground: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art"
Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University NY

2005

"Paris Photo" Le Carrousel Du Louvre, Paris
"Melissa Ann Pinney: Regarding Emma" Blue Sky Gallery, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, Oregon
"Little Rascals: Images of Children in Contemporary Art," Linda Ross
Contemporary Art + Projects, Huntington Woods, MI

2004

"Inside Out: Portrait Photographs from the Permanent Collection," Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Regarding Emma," Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Women's Worlds," Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
"Innocence Exposed: Children in Modern Photography," Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
"Pool Party," Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY

2003

"By The Sea" Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY

2002

The View From Here: Pictures from Central Europe & The American Midwest, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary;
         The Stone Bell Gallery of Prague, In March 2003

2000

"Reconfiguring the Heroic" Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL
"The Wedding Show," Alan Klotz/PhotoCollect New York, NY 2000

1997

"Feminine Identity" Photographs by Melissa Ann Pinney, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
"Melissa Ann Pinney: Recent Work" Stuart B. Baum Photography, Chicago, IL
"Photo Forum," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

1993

"The Family Seen," SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
"My/Self: Your/Other," Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY

1993

"Summer Pleasures," Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY

1991

"Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1990

"Photographs by Melissa Ann Pinney," Midtown Y Photography Gallery, NewYork, NY

1989

"Changing Chicago-Up Close," Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

1988

"Sunshine & Other States-Photographs 1984-1987," Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL
     "Changing Chicago: The City Inside & Out," Art Institute of Chicago, IL
     "Mothers & Daughters," Aperture Traveling Show, Field Museum, Chicago, IL

1987

"Social Life," Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
"Road & Roadside: American Photography 1930-1986," Art Institute of Chicago, IL
"The Animal Show," PhotoCollect, New York, NY

1986

"New Work-Photographs by Melissa Pinney," Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL

1985

"Recent Work-Photographs by Melissa Pinney," Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Illinois Photographers '85," Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL

1984

"A Year in Chicago's Grant Park," Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

1983

"Remembrances," Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL

1982

"Remembrances," Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
"Illinois Photographers '82," Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL

1981

"The Contemporary Figure," Artists Guild, Chicago, IL

1978

"Melissa Pinney-Portraits of Evanston Artists," Evanston Art Center, IL
"Illinois Photographers '78," Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL

1975

"Breath of Vision: Portfolios of Women Photographers," Fashion Institute of Technology Galleries, New York, NY

1974

"Exposure '74," The Darkroom Gallery, Chicago, IL

Publications

2006

The New York Times Sunday Magazine, June 16; "The Way We Live Now"
The New York Times Sunday Magazine, July 23; "After the Bell Curve"

2004

"Illusions of Innocence: The Child in Modern Photography" Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN.
Essay by Rod Slemmons, Director, MOCP

2003

Regarding Emma: Photographs of American Women & Girls, Center for
American Places & Columbia College Chicago
The New York Times Sunday Magazine, October 19 10-19-03 Lives

2002

The Spirit of Family, by Al and Tipper Gore
The View From Here: Pictures from Central Europe & The American Midwest
Published by Arts Midwest, Minneapolis
The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Aug. 18 and Jan. 27

2001

"Regarding Emma," DoubleTake Magazine, Fall 2001

2000

"Works in Progress," DoubleTake Magazine Winter 2000
"Reconfiguring the Heroic," Exhibition Catalogue, Artemesia Gallery Chicago, Essay by Carol Becker

1997

"Feminine Identity," Exhibition Catalogue with essay by Barbara Michaels
Chicago Reader

1991

Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Naming the Daytime Moon: Stories & Poems by Chicago Women
US News and World Report
New York Times Book Review

1988

Changing Chicago: A Photo documentary, University of Illinois Press

1987

Chicago Magazine

1978

Chicago Reader

1975

Ms. Magazine
Popular Photography Annual

Selected Reviews

"Pinney Looks at Womanhood, Identity" by Lauren Viera. Chicago Tribune, January 23, 2004
Gallery Glance "Regarding Emma" Chicago Sun-Times January 23, 2004

"Twice Upon A Time" by Beth Kephart. Chicago Tribune, Book Section. Nov. 2, 2003
"Girls Will Be Girls" by Lisa Lenoir. Chicago Sun-Times November 23, 2003
"Midcontinental Spirit" The Prague Post, April 2, 2003

"Art People: Using a Feminist Lens," Chicago READER, November 21, 1997

"Photography," New York Times Book Review, December 1, 1991
"The Twilight Zone," New York Magazine, October 14, 1991

"Sins of Omission," After Image, December, 1989
"Chicago in Focus," Chicago Sunday Tribune, March 26, 1989

"Melissa Pinney-Photographs," New Art Examiner, September, 1986

"Melissa Pinney," New Art Examiner, November, 1978
"Broad Views, Fond Faces in Evanston," Chicago Sun Times, October 1, 1978

Education

1988      University of Illinois Circle Campus, Chicago, IL, Master of Fine Arts in Photography
1977      Columbia College Chicago, IL, Bachelor of Arts Degree in Photography
1971-1973      Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY. Liberal Arts Curriculum

Teaching Experience

Represented By

Catherine Edelman Gallery
300 West Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60610
312-266-2350
www.edelmangallery.com

Alan Klotz Gallery
511 West 25th Street, Suite 701
New York, NY 10001
212-741-4764
www.klotzgallery.com