Linda Connor
Artist Works
24 x 30 inches Archival pigment photograph
Artist Bio
Linda Connor has spent more than twenty-five years exploring and investigating exotic and spiritual places. A frequent visitor to India, Mexico, Thailand, Ireland, Peru, Nepal, Egypt, Hawaii and the American Southwest, Connor takes her 8 x 10" view camera on a pilgrimage into our history. What she reveals is a past filled with presence; a past which informs and molds our world today.
Connor"s photographs have appeared in numerous books: most recently Odyssey. Other books include: Spiral Journey, published for her mid-career retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in 1990. She is the recipient of many awards including a 1988 & 1976 NEA and a 1979 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work is part of numerous collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art (NYC), The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
Featured speaker at MassArt's Photography Lecture Series
BORN, 1944, New York, NY
2002 Founder and President of Photo Alliance
1985 – 1999, Board member, Friends of Photography
EDUCATION
1969 Professor, Photography Department, San Francisco Art Institute
1967 B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1969 M.S. (Photography), Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
“Linda Connor”, Department of Design Gallery, Mariposa Hall, Sacramento State, Sacramento, CA
“Olson House Photographs”, an exhibit within Andrew Wyeth Watercolors and Drawings, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, February – May
“Linda Connor Photographs”, Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA May
2006
“Linda Connor Photographs”, Sun Valley Art Museum, Ketchum, ID
2005
“Linda Connor”, EFTI, Valencia and Madrid, Spain (workshop: La Casa Encendida, Madrid)
“A Clear Vision” by Linda Connor, An Exhibition of fine-art photography, The Creative Center for Photography
Freestyle, Los Angeles, CA, January 27 –April 4
2004
“Linda Connor: Starfields & Constellations,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2003-2004
“Linda Connor: Photographs,” Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan
“Time, Place, Sequences,” Sonoma Museum of Visual Art at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts,
Santa Rosa, CA
2003
“Linda Connor: Continuum,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001
“Towards Light,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
“Recent Photographs”, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“The Heavens”, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Linda Connor”, Glen Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY
1997
"Linda Connor', Spectrum Gallery, Fresno, CA
"Linda Connor', PARTS Photographic Arts, Minneapolis, MN
"Linda Connor, Life Work Award', Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
1996
"The Heavens', Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Stones of Faith, Stones of Peace', The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
"Linda Connor, Diptychs', Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
"Visits', Light Works, Syracuse, NY
"On the Music of Spheres', Glenn Horowitz Booksellers, East Hampton, NY
1995
"Linda Connor', Finch Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
"Linda Connor', Spectrum Gallery, Fresno, CA
"Linda Connor', Glenn Horowitz Booksellers, East Hampton, NY
1994
Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA
Jones Troyer Fitzpatrick, Washington, DC
"Linda Connor, Ancient Vistas, Modern Times', Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993
"Sacred Places from Around the World," Cuesta College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
"Earthly Constellations," International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (catalogue)
"Tibet: A Land of Light and Shadow," Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Earthly Constellations," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA traveled to Museum of
Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA; Contemporary Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI; National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C and Joseylan Museum, Omaha, NB
"Linda Connor and Harry Callahan', Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
“Linda Connor”, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
"Linda Connor," The Living Masters Series, Manchester Craftsmen"s Guild, Pittsburgh, PA
Inge De Bisschop Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium
1990
"Linda Connor," Selected Photographs, Graham Gallery, Houston, TX
"Spiral Journey," Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL (traveling)
Bakersfield Community College, Bakersfield, CA
The American Cultural Center, Jerusalem, Israel
1988
Light Impressions, Spectrum Gallery, Rochester, NY
"Linda Connor," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Gallery Min, Tokyo, Japan
1987
Colorado Gallery of the Arts, Arapahoe Community College, CO
1986
Falkirk Cultural Center, San Raphael, CA
Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI
1985
"Linda Connor," Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Coral Gables, FL
1984
"Foreign View," Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
1983
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
“Linda Connor”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1981
Light Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
1979
Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Deluth, MN
1978
Light Gallery, New York, NY
1977
M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1973
Light Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2007
“Landscape & Memory II,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“SFAI NOW works from the San Francisco Art Institute Community, Red Ink Studios, SF
“Photogravure”, Gottheiner Ltd. Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, on-line exhibition
“Faith Placed: The Intersection of Location and Spirituality in Contemporary Photography,” de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
“Among Trees: Six Artists, Six Perspectives”, Aperture F/64 Gallery, San Anselmo, CA, May– June
“Branching Out”, SEPIA International/Alkasi Collection, New York, NY, May - June
“Truth and Beauty”, Point Light Gallery, Surry Hills, Australia, February
“Far From Home: Photography, Travel and Inspiration”, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL,
January- May
“Landscape; Fact and Fiction”, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT, January - March
“Art Within," Manchester Craftsman Guild, Pittsburgh, PA, January – April
2006
“Multiple Exposures: Highlights from CSULB Special Collections, University Art Museum, California State
University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, Summer 2006
“Sepia at Seven: A Celebratory Group Show”, Sepia International and The Alkazi Collection of Photography,
New York, NY Feb.- May, 2006
American Photographers: Fine Print Exhibition, Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 11 – Feb. 10, 2006
2005
“Director’s Choice: Contemporary Art with Objects from Asia,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“150 Works of Art," Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, November 1 – February 26, 2005
“Rarefied Light”, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage Alaska
“Women’s Work”, Photographs by Women from the Scott Nichols Gallery, Viewpoint Photographic Art Center,
Sacramento, CA, July 1 – August 13
“Romancing the Shadows”, The Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, September 25– December 23
“Point Light in Melbourne”, 80 Gold Street, Melbourne, Australia, October 26-November 6
“Natural Selection”, Point Light Gallery, Surry Hills, Australia
“Woman," curated by Lyndell Undy, Point Light Gallery, Surry Hills, Australia, February 3 – March
2004
“temporalscape,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, November 20-January 25, 2004
“Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell”, The Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C., October 23, 2004-January 31, 2005.
“Photography and Place: Contemporary Work from the Museum’s Collection”, The RISD Museum, Providence RI, January 23-April 4, 2004
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi, March 2-April 27, 2004
“In the Center of Things: A Tribute to Harold Jones”, Light Gallery, University of Arizona
Stewart Gallery, Boise Idaho, March 16-April 23, 2004
“Wanderers, Travelers and Adventurers: Images of Exploration from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of
Photographic Arts”, San Diego, CA April 9, 2004-Aug. 1, 2004
Louisiana Arts and Science Center, Baton Rouge, LA, June 2-August 1, 2004
Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois, September 18-December 26, 2004
“In Nepal: Linda Connor and Will Mebane”, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, New Jersey, October 2004
“Frames of Reference: New Works by Photo Alliance Founders,” Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
“Temporalscape,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, June 10-July 24, 2004
“Handmade Photographs,” Plum Gallery, Williamstown, MA (Summer, 2004)
2003-2004
“Time, Place, Sequences,” Sonoma Museum of Visual Art at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA
2003
“Reflecting Buddha: Images by Contemporary Photographers,” curated by Linda Connor, Pasadena Museum of
California Art, Pasadena, CA
“The New World’s Old World: Photographic Views of Ancient America,” AXA Gallery, New York, NY (book)
“Enchanted Evening”, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY, July 10 – August 22
“Maker’s Marks in the Landscape," Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, TX January 25 – July 27
“The Female Aim,” G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA, January 2-March 1, 2003
“Landscape: Real or Imagined,” BAPC Group Show, Focus Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Linda Connor
"New to View: Recent Acquisitions in Photography,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, February 8-
June 8, 2003
“The Curatorial Eye: Fifteen Perspectives”, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Sonoma, CA, March
“Veneration,” Wake Forest University, North Carolina, February 7-March 23, 2003
“The Northwest Eye: A Regional Fine Art Photography Competition and Exhibition,” Humboldt Arts Council,”
Eureka, CA, April 2003
“The Land Through a Lens: Highlights of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,” The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida, September 5-October 31, 2003
“What were you thinking,?" 15 year Anniversary Exhibition and book, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago,
November 15 – January 4, 2003
2002
“MicroCosmic: from the Stellar to the Cellular,” Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, March-April
“Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art,” Whitney Museum of Art,
New York, NY, June-September
“Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California, 1950-2000,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (book,
published by University of California Press)
“Taken By Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971,” Traveling to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, December-March
“Idea Photographic: After Modernism,” Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 11-
January 19, 2003.
“Ritual & Religion”, Robert B. Menschell Photography Gallery, Syracuse University, NY, August 27, 2001 –
February 15, 2002., Reauttu Museum, December 2002 – March 2003.
“Embody: Influence in Figurative Photography”, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA, July 11- August 17, 2002
“Oceans”, New York, NY.
“Nature Remains”, Off The Preserve, Napa, CA, October 4-November 24, 2002
“Banaras: The Luminous City”, Asia Society, New York, NY, June 11 – August 18
“Fifteen – 15th Anniversary Exhibition,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Night Skies and Imaginary Coordinates: The Artist as Navigator,” Palo Alto Art Center, CA
2001
“Photographic Odysseys”, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, June 2001
“The Universe, A Convergence of Art, Music, and Science,” Armory Center, Pasadena, CA Winter-Spring, (Catalog)
“Wild West”, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj, Denmark, September 2001-January 2002
“Beyond Boundaries, Contemporary Photography in California,” Ansel Adams Center for Photography, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA, January – March
“Between Light and Shadow: Photographs from the Gary Beth’s Collection”, Boise Art Museum, Idaho,
April 21 – July 1
“The Members 50:50 Show and Sell,” pARTs Photographic Arts, Minneapolis, MN
“Gallery Collections”, Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA, July 7-September 8, 2001
“Many Moons, Artists Celebrate the Moon”, The Hammond Museum and Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY, August 4-October 20, 2001
Roger Mertin, 9 December 1942-7 May 2001: A Collective Tribute to Vision,” pARTs Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, December-January
“Ritual and Religion,” Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Schine Student Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
“Galley Collections,” Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA, July-September
“The Sand Show”, Point Light Gallery, Australia, May 31 – July 8, 2001.
2000
"Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California," University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Museum, CA; Ansel Adams/Friends of Photography Center, San Francisco, CA
"Visual Dialogue foundation Revisited, 1968-2000', J.J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“The Persistence of Photography in American Portraiture, Yale University Gallery, New Haven, CT,
August 22-November 26
“From the Collection of Light Work”, Tyler Art Gallery, Syracuse University, SUNY, Oswego, NY.
“Linda Connor, Pentti Sammallahit, Kevin O’Connell,” Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM,
“Giza, 19th and 20th Century Photographic Views,” The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
“Six to See,” pARTs Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, March-April, catalog
“The Millennium Exhibit,” Atrium Art Gallery, Marin General Hospital, Kentfield, CA,
“The Sea and The Sky,” Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, February-April, (Catalog) and The
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland, June – August
“Moment and Momentum: Seeing Time in 19th Century Photography,” California Historical Society,
San Francisco, CA, Summer
“Cambodia x 3,” Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, June – August
“Intimate Landscapes: Photographs from the Collection of Carolyn and Edward Hoffman,” Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, June – September
“Vessels, an Interpretive Celebration of OpSail 2000,” Alva Gallery, New London, CT, July – August
“Journal of Influences: Friends and Mentors,” Whiting and Woolley galleries at Eastern Shore Art
Center, Fairhope, AL, July and Evans Memorial Library, September 11 – October 15
“Earth Sky,” Jane Jackson Gallery, Atlanta, GA, September - November
“The Persistence of Photography in American Portraiture”, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CN, 2000
“By the Light of Butterlamps: Himalayan Devotional Painting”, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX, 2000.
1999-2000
“Ancient History: Photographs of the Ancient World, 1851-1997”, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
1999
“India”, SEPIA International Inc. and The Alkazi Collection of Photography, New York, NY
“SF Camerawork’s 1999 Portrait Party”, SF Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Photographie in Una Collezione Privata,” Galleria Gottardo, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Italy, 1999
“What Is Art For,” Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, March 6- July 25
1998
"Landscape & Memory', Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“peFORMative Acts”, Faculty Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
“Constellations,” University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art, UMKC, Kansas City, MO, March-April
“Measure of Nature: Landscape Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL, May-September
“Israel Through American Eyes: A Century of Photography,” Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA,
May- January 1999
“Four Bay Area Photographers,” Shasta College, Shasta-Tehama-Trinity Joint Community College District, Shasta, CA, August-September
“Degrees of Stillness: Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection,” August Sander Archive, Cologne, Germany, October-December
“Photography’s Multiple Roles: Art, Document, Market, Science,” The Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Chicago, IL, November-January 1999
"Scientia Artifex', The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1997
"Photographs from the Collection of the University Art Gallery', New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
"Under the Dark Cloth: The View Camera in Contemporary Photography', Museum of Photographic Arts,
San Diego, CA
"Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Avon Collection', International Center of Photography, New York, NY
“Face in Focus, Photos from the Barry S. Ramer Collection,” California Museum of Art, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA, March-April
“Selections from the Permanent Collection: Depth of Field,” Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, April-July
1996
“Granted,” Marin Community Foundation, Larkspur, CA, August-October
"Blue Sky 20th Anniversary Exhibit', Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, OR
"The Enduring Illusion', Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford, CA
"Gallery Artists Exhibition IX', Alinder Gallery, Gualala, CA
"Women in the Visual Arts', Hollins College, Roanoke, VA
"Black and White: Six Photographers in Mid-Career', Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
"Perpetual Mirage: Photographic Narratives of the Desert West', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Addison Gallery: 65 Years', Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
"Just Passing Through', National Wildlife Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, WY
"Picturing the West, Four Photographic Artists and Their Western Landscapes', Amador County Arts Council Gallery, Sutter Creek, CA
"When Aaron met Harry: Chicago Photograph 1946 - 1971', The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
"Eternal Dialogue, Photographing Jerusalem', Tower of David Museum of the History of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
"San Francisco Art Institute Faculty Exhibition 1996', Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Refiguring Nature: Women in the Landscape', SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
"San Francisco Art Institute: Fifty Years of Photography', TransAmerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, CA
"15th Annual Anniversary', Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
"Holiday Exhibit', Sk Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR
"A Celebration of 25 Years of Light Gallery', International Center of Photography-Midtown, New York, NY
"Astronomy, Optics and Outer Space', Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA
1995
"Women in Photography', Spectrum Gallery, Light Impressions, Rochester, NY
"Making Faces: American Portraits', The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY
"Scratching the Surface', The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
"An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital', The Hallmark Photographic Collection,
International Center of Photography Midtown, New York, NY
"Old Glory, New Story: Flagging of the 21st Century" Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA (traveling)
"Authentic Identities? Photography and Ethnicity', Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA
"Gallery Artists VIII, Implications', Alinder Gallery, Gualala, CA
"Up/Down: Varied Viewpoints', Seagram"s Collection, New York, NY
"Pleasures and Possibilities: A Selection from the Permanent Collection', International Center of Photography,
New York, NY
"But It Doesn"t Match the Couch', Alinda Gallery, Gualala, CA
"Seldom Seen Photographs', Museum of the Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
1994
"California Photography from a Seventies Perspective', Seagrams & Sons Inc., New York, NY
"Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection: Tradition and the Unpredictable', The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
"Selections form the Permanent Collection: Image and Text', Center for Creative Photography, The University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ
"World Heritage Rock Art Photography Exhibition', Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
"Nature / Culture', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"Focus "94', Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA "After Art: Rethinking 150
Years of Photography, The Monsen Collection," Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"Targeting Images: Objects Ideas', The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
"Beauty in the Beast," National Wildlife Art Museum, Jackson Hole, WY
Armand Hammer Museum of Art & Cultural Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 1994
1993
"Women in Photography," Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., Santa Fe, NM
"Mexico Through Foreign Eyes," International Center for Photography, New York, NY
"Foreign Affairs," Photography from Abroad, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Recent Acquisitions in the Siskind Center', Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
"Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography," The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY
“Women in Photography,” Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd,. Santa Fe, NM, May-June
1992
"Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography," National Museum of American Art Washington D.C.
"Selections from the Permanent Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"Representatives: Women Photographers from the Permanent Collection," Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
"The Country Between Us: Contemporary American Landscape Photographs," Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
"Parents," DAI Museum of Contemporary Art at Wright State University, Creative Arts Center, Dayton, OH
"Charles Pratt Memorial Award Exhibition," Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
“Mexico through Foreign Eyes,” Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, December traveled to International Center for Photography, NY, NY, September
1991
"To Collect the Art of Women: The Jane Reese Williams Collection of Photography," Museum of New Mexico,
Santa Fe, NM
"The RISD Eye," Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
“The Kiss of Apollo,” Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, February (Book)
“Different Perspectives: 11 Photographers from San Francisco,” Academy of Performing Arts, Dept. of Photography, USSR, October
1990
"The Indomitable Spirit - Photographers and Artists Respond in the Time of AIDS," International Center of
Photography, Midtown, New York, NY
The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Photographs by American Women Artists,” California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside, April
“20th Century Landscape,” Scheinbaum & Russek Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, May
1989
"Photography"s Sesquicentennial - Masterpieces from the Collections," Stanford Museum, Stanford, CA
"Faculty Selection III," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
"Symbol and Surrogate: The Picture Within," University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
"Selected Photographs," 17 American Embassies in Europe through U.S.I.A.
"Photographs from Private Twin Cities Collection," Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
"Decade by Decade,” Twentieth Century American Photography from the Collection of the Center for Creative
Photography, Tucson, AZ
“The Friends Focus: On Photography,” Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York, December (Catalogue)
“The Romance of the Taj Mahal,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Nature and Culture,” Ansel Adams Center, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA
1988
"Landscapes from the Permanent Collection," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
"Dine"tah Hajiinei: Navajo Place of Emergence," Navajo Community College, Tsaile, AZ
1987
"Reclaiming Paradise - American Women Photograph the Land," Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
1986
"Artists in Mid-Career," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"The Sacred and the Sacrilegious: Iconographic Images in Photography," Photographic Resources Center, Boston University, Boston, MA
"New Landscapes," Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
1985
"American Images, Photography 1945-80," Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
“Aaron Siskind and Linda Connor,” The Houston Center of Photography, Houston, TX
1984
"The Lay of the Land," 20th Century Landscapes Photographs from the Hallmark Photographic Collection, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
1982
"The Contact Print," Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA (catalogue)
"Form, Freud and Feeling," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1981
“American Photographers and the National Parks,” 1981-83 (Book)
"Landscape Images - Recent Photographs by Connor, Fisken, and Thorne-Thompson,"
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
1979
"American Photography in the "70"s," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"American Images - New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers," 1979-81, Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C. and The International Center for Photography, New York, NY
“Mirrors and Windows - American Photography Since 1960," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
1975
"Fourteen American Photographers," Baltimore Museum of Art," MD
1973
"Private Realities," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (catalogue)
"Figure in Landscape," International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (catalogue)
BIBLIOGRAPHY & PUBLICATIONS
2007
The Nature of Photographs, A Primer, Stephen Shore, Phaidon Press, Ltd. New York, NY 2007
2006
The Art of Collecting Photography, AVA Publishing SA, England, 2006
2005
The Inner Journey Views from the Buddhist Tradition, edited by Philip Novak, Parabola Anthology Series, Morning Light Press, 2005
Horenstein, Henry, Black & White Photography, A Basic Manual, Third Edition, Revised, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2005
Nortada, The North Wind Poems, Michelle Yasmine Valladares, Global City Press, New York City, 2005
"Linda Connor: Interview by Lonnie Graham', Exposure Vol. 38:1,The Society of Photographic Education, “Linda Connor: Past & Present”, APC News, News Magazine of the Alaska Photographic Center, Vol.22, Issue
1, Winter 2005
2004
Kasson, Jim. “Interview: Linda Connor,” Center for Photographic Art Newsletter, no. 22, Spring 2004, pp. 4-6.
2003
“Connor visits Haines,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 19, 2003, p. D10.
2000
Disappearing Witness: Change in the Practice of 20th Century Photography, Hudson Hills Press, NY, NY
Photography: An Introduction to Photographic Images, 1st Ed., Horenstein/Hart, Prentice Hall, NJ, 2000, illus.
1999
Degrees of Stillness, Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection, Susanne Lange, ed., Die
Photographische Sammlung/ SK Stiftung Kultur, Koln, Germany, pub. 1999, illus. pp. 60, 61
1998
Orion, Winter, 1998, illus. back cover
pARTs Journal, v4.1, Spring, 1998, “Linda Connor: Student/Teacher,” illus. pp. 13, 14, 16
Parabola, Volume XXIII, Number 2, May 1998, illus. p. 51
Gendreau, Raymond, Art Access-Seattle, Vol. 7, June 1998, “The Light at the End of the Tunnel, The Great Outdoors,” p.12 review, illus.
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1997
Bemis, Ursula, "Tibet in the Shadow of Our Imagination', Parabola, Fall issue, pp. 86
Klausner, Betty, "Linda Connor at Haines', Art in America, Issue # 127, April
Lord, M.G., The Sunday New York Times, June 29, 1997, review
Lippard, Lucy, The Lure of the Local, The New Press, pub., New York, NY, 1997, illus. P. 18
Hyde, Lewis, Trickster Makes This Workd, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997, illus.
Public Art Review, #16, October 1997, cover illus.
The Photography Book, Phaidon Press Ltd., London, ENG, 1997, illus.
The Boston College Magazine, Boston, Mass., Winter 1997, cover illus.
Zaleski, Philip & Kaufman, Paul, Gifts of the Spirit, Harper San Francisco, pub, 1997, illus. pp. 1, 42, 118, 126, 227
Olinsky, Frank, Buddha Book, Chronicle Books, pub., 1997, illus. p. 75
1996
Perpetual Mirage, Photographic Narratives of the Desert West, May Castleberry, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Vest, Joe, The Open Road, Walt Whitman on Death & Dying, Four Corners Editions, Mesa, AZ, Plates 18 & 19.
Baker, Kenneth, "It Might be Art but it"s also Science', San Francisco Chronicle, Nov.8
Exhibiting Photography, Twenty Years at the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, p. 56
1996
Jerusalem, Limited Edition, Artist Book, San Francisco, CA
On the Music of the Spheres, Limited Edition with Charles Simic, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Visits: Linda Connor, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
1995
Contemporary American Photographers, 3rd Edition
All Smiles, Gruce Velick editor, published by Chronicle Books, plate #12
An American Century of Photography, The Hallmark Photographic Collection, Keith F. Davis editor, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.
Photography in the 1990"s, CD-Rom editor Ron Geibert, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Hagen, Charles, "From Here There and Everywhere', The New York Times, September 1, P. C20
Braff, Phyllis, "Eugene Atget / Linda Connor', The New York Times, November 5
1994
Luminance, published by Woodrose / Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA
Read, Michael, "Absorbing Light', View Camera, July - August, pp. 30-34
Kyoto Journal, The Sacred Mountains of Asia, "Himalaya', pp. 43-50
Dialogues with Photography: The Monsen Collection, published by the University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Photographer Linda Connor: Realms of Mystery, 40 minute video by John Stewart
Manoa Journal, Summer, Vol. 6 #1, cover illus.
Native North America: Portrait of a People, editor Duane Champagne, published by Gayle Research Inc
1993
Bomb, New York, Illustration
Creative Camera, London, England, illus. pp. 16-17, December
Stories of Adoption, Eric Blau essay, pp. 9-11
Maribel, Darwin, The World and I, Vol. 8 No. #6, pp. 146-151
Rapko, John, "Journeys to the East - Linda Connor at SFMOMA', Artweek, December 17
1992
Parents, Ronald Geibert - editor, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Bonetti, David, "Capturing the Spirit of Places and People', San Francisco Examiner, December 15
More Reflections on the Meaning of Life, Daniel Friend and the editors of Life, The Time Inc.
Baker, James, "Landscape with Company', Outside, August , pp. 85-87
Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography, National Museum of
American Art, Smithsonian Institute and the University of New Mexico Press
Mexico Through Foreign Eyes, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Rufino Tamayo,
The Kiss of Apollo: Photography and Sculpture 1845 to the Present, Fraenkel Gallery and Bedford Arts Published by Pilar Perez and Associates
1991
Grand Street, Vol 38 No. #10, pp. 167 - 171
1990
Spiral Journey, (with an introduction by Denise Miller-Clark and essay by Rebecca Solnit), Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago.
Women in Photography, Constance Sullivan - editor, Abrams, New York 1990
Solos: Photographs by Linda Connor, Millerton, New York, Apeiron Workshops, Inc.
1989
Decade by Decade: Twentieth Century American Photography, from the Collection of the Center for Creative
Photography, Tucson, AZ
Romance of the Taj Mahal, Thames and Hudson / Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1987
Marks in Place, University of New Mexico Press
The New American Landscape, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Symbol and Surrogate: The Picture Within, Diana Schoenfeld- author, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, (cover image pp.33, 149, 158.)
1982
Linda Connor, (catalogue), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers, Danese, Renato, ed. McGraw-Hill,
1979, pp. 50-59.
Solos: Photographs by Linda Connor, Millerton, New York, published by Apeiron Workshops Inc. (monograph)
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2005 Honored Educator, Society of Photographic Educators
2002 Flintridge Foundation Awards for Visual Artists
2001 Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Artists
1998 Best Book of the Year, 21st- A Contemporary Photography Journal, for On the Music of Spheres
1997 Best Exhibition Catalog of 1997- Runner-up from Photo Eye, Visits
Best Contemporary Monography of 1997 from Photo Eye, On the Music of Spheres, 1996
1996 Life Time Achievement Award, Marin Arts Council
1994 National Endowment for the Arts, Travel Grant
Cypress Award, Center for Photographic Art
1988 The Charles Pratt Memorial Award
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Grant
1986 Individual Artist Grants, Marin Arts Council
"Photographer of the Year Award," Peer Awards, Friends of Photography
1979 Guggenheim Fellowship
1976 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Grant
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
Canadian Center for Photography, Canada
David C. & Sara Jean Ruttenberg
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Canada
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Stanford Art Museum, Stanford, California
Vassar College Art Gallery, New York
Victoria and Albert Museum, England
Yale Art Museum, New Haven, Connecticut
Yildiz University, Istanbul, Turkey
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
New Mexico State University Art Gallery
San Jose Museum of Art
Seattle Art Museum
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