EDUCATION
1980 MFA, Photography. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 1994 - Present: Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
August 1995-97, 2004-05, 2006-09: Chair, Photography Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
August 2001 - August 2003: Chair, Faculty Senate, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
August 1997-1998; August 2005-2006: Sabbatical (New York, San Francisco, London, Chicago)
August 1989 - August 1994: Associate Professor, California State University, San Jose, CA
January-May 1990-1994: Visiting Artist, San Francisco Art Institute and California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
August 1980 - August 1989: Assistant/Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
January 1985 - August 1986: Visiting Artist, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
August 1983 - July 1984: Interim Chair, Photography Department, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Roger Brown Residency, New Buffalo, MI, 2003 and 2005
Travel grant and 2 week residency, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, 2004
Illinois Art Council Artists Fellowship, 1987 (Photography), 1996 (Photography), 2000 (Media Arts)
Villa Montalvo Artist Residency Saratoga, CA, May-August 1998
Compton Fellowship for Visual Art, 1998
Chicago Artists International Travel Fellowship, Barcelona, Spain, November, 1997
Art Matters Foundation Fellowship, 1996
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship, 1994 (Revoked by the National Council on the Arts)
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship, 1988
William and Flora Hewlett Summer International Research Grant, 1987
MEDIA APPEARANCES
2006 The Art Disk, DVD magazine, Issue: 01, Winter
2005 "Censorious," documentary video by Carol Jacobsen about women in the arts who have been censored. Multiple national/international screenings.
2004 "The Undergrad," film by Michele Mahoney, role: Mrs. Robinson; plot: remake of "The Graduate" with an all female cast, 38 national/international screenings.
2003 "Pornography in Academia," interview, SexTV, Toronto, Canada (multiple airings)
"Art That Offends," interview, Art Chicago, Channel 11. (multiple airings)
2002 "Odyssey" with Gretchen Helfrich. Film Forum: Women in the Director's Chair Festival, March 17, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio
SELECTED SOLO, TWO PERSON, AND COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
2006 Fresh - Benefit 2006, Renaissance Society, Chicago. IL
"Objectifying the Abject: Exploitation, Political (In)Correctness and Ethical Dilemmas," solo exhibition, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
1997 "My Words In Your Mouth," Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
"Fucking and Thinking," web page exhibition, @art Gallery, University of Illinois, Champaign, Ihttp://gertrude.art.uiuc.edu/@art]
1996 "Pleasured Spaces," a collaborative performance/installation, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 "My Words In Your Mouth," solo exhibition, Red Eye Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
"Between Thumb and Forefinger," solo exhibition, Heistand Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH
"My Words In Your Mouth," solo exhibition, Ezell Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 "Between Thumb and Forefinger," solo exhibition, Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Solo Exhibition, University of Colorado, Denver, CO
1992 Solo Exhibition, Etherton/Stern Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1991 Two person exhibition with Beaumont Newhall, Northlight Gallery, Tempe, AZ
1990 "Labyrinths," two person exhibition with Meridel Rubenstein, Institute for Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas, Arlington, TX
"No More Prayers," solo exhibition, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
"No More Prayers," solo exhibition, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, SCREENINGS
2004 "Freud: The Creative Analysis of Analysis," University of Connecticut, Contemporary Art Gallery, Storrs, CT
2003 Tranny Fest, Screening of "Butch Fire" from Full Load: Scenes from ssspread.com, Roxie Theater, San Francisco, CA
Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Screening of "Mass Transit" from Full Load: Scenes from ssspread.com,
2002 "Steven X and Barbara C," various screenings New York City, Brooklyn, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Tuscon, AZ, London, UK
2001 "Eye Confess," screening "Steven X and Barbara C," Screening Room, Los Angeles, CA
"Power Play," Performance with Sheelah Murthy, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
"From Steel to Flesh," Indiana University Northwest, IUN Galleru for Contemporary Art, Gary, IN
Expat Café, Chicago CAN TV, screening and panel discussion of "Steven X and Barbara C"
2000 Women in the Director's Chair Film and Video Festival, screening of "Steven X and Barbara C, "Chicago, IL
"Postcards From the Edge: Visual AIDS Benefit Show," Andrew Kreps Gallery, NY, NY
(((FROM_W/IN)))))))))), Performance with Taro Hatori, M5 Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 "The Grotesqueness of Desire," insideART, Chicago, IL E-Poets Performance, NeoFuturarium, Chicago, IL (Live internet feed between Chicago and Montreal, Canada)
1998 Sabbatical Exhibition, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Who Do You Think You Are?", Tom Blackman Fine Arts, TBA Space, Chicago, IL
1997 "Discomfort: Contemporary Women Photographers," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
"Pink," Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 "Art in Chicago, 1945-1995," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
"Illinois Photography in the 90s," Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
1995 "The Cultural Body," Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
"SEXART 4," Mark Chester Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Face Forward: Contemprary Self Portraits," Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
"Monitors: Re-viewing Cultural Expression," Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
"Art About Life: Contemporary American Culture," Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1994 "As We Like It," Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA
"Mirror, Mirror," San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
"What She Wants," touring exhibition, London and other cities in the U.K.
1993 "Flesh, Fetish, Fragment: A Romance," Film in the Cities, Minneapolis, MN
1992 "In Progress," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
"Photobiographers," Atlanta Gallery of Photography, Atlanta GA
"Parents", Museum of Contemporary Art, Dayton, OH
1991 "Spirit of the Self: Five Women Photographers", Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
"Critically Situated", San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
"Self Portraits of Contemporary Women", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
1990 "Personal/Political: Sexuality Self Defined", Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
"Photography: Inventions and Innovations", Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
SELECTED LECTURES AND PANELS
2006 "The Panhandler Project: Exploitation, Political Correctness and Ethical Dilemmas," Artist lecture and panel, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
2005 "Ethics, Legality and Art," roundtable discussion, Multicultural Affairs Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
"The Panhandler Project: Exploitation, Political Correctness and Ethical Dilemmas," International Visual Sociology Association Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
"The Hot Bods of Queer Porn," The Art and Politics of Netporn International Conference, Amsterdam, NL
"Objectifying the Abject: Exploitation, Political Correctness and Ethical Dilemmas," Artist Lecture, University of Memphis.
"Uncomfortability," panel discussion, Performing Arts Chicago, PAC/edge Performance Festival, Chicago, IL
"Economies of Touch," panel discussion, Performing Arts Chicago, PAC/edge Performance Festival, Chicago, IL
"The Politics of Porn," Gender Studies Colloquium, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
2004 "Debatable: An Evening of Performance and Video," Insight Arts, Chicago, IL
"The Artist as Curator," panel presentation, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
2002 "Under the Radar: Pornography in Academia," lecture and screening, Sex Workers Arts Festival, Tucson, AZ
"Under the Radar: Pornography in Academia," lecture, panel and screening, National Conference, Society for Photographic Education, Las Vegas, NV
2000 "Small Lies, Big Truths," Panel and screening, Women in the Director's Chair Film and Video Festival, Chicago
LadyFest 2000, "Feminist Perspectives on Pornography," panel, Chicago, IL
"Risky Business: Fessing up to Perversion," conference on voyeurism, Society for Photographic Education Western
Regional Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara
1999 "The Pornographic Sublime," Performative Lecture, National Conference, Society for Photographic Education, Tucson,AZ
"Fucking and Thinking: Pornography as Theory," Artist Lecture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
"Fucking and Thinking: Pornography as Theory," Artist Lecture, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1998 "Fucking and Thinking: Pornography as Theory," Artist Lecture, Royal College of Art, London
Artist Lecture, New York University, NY, NY
1997 Artist Lecture, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN
"Aesthetic Cleansing: Sex, Kitsch, Censorship and the Recuperation of Pornography," Ball State University, Muncie IN
Artist Lecture, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1996 "Aesthetic Cleansing: Sex, Kitsch, Censorship and the Recuperation of Pornography," University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
"Fucking and Thinking: Pornography as Theory," Artist Lecture, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY
"Fucking and Thinking: Pornography as Theory," Artist Lecture, Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Los Angeles, CA
"Transpositions: The Art of Transsexuality," Presentation with Susan Stryker and Loren Cameron, Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Lecture, for the "Dialogues of Irony: Humor and Terror in Contemporary Art" Visiting Artist Series, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Artist Lecture, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1995 Artist Lecture, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Artist Lecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
"Aesthetic Cleansing: Sex, Porn, Censorship and the Ideology of Kitsch," Featured Speaker, Society for Photographic Education, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Artist Lecture, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Artist lecture and Panel on Censorship, National Graduate Seminar, Photography Department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Artist Lecture, University of Illinois, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
"Fear of Art, Fear of the Real," Gallery Lecture, Ezell Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Artist Lecture and two day residency for graduate tutorials, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
"Sexual Subject/Sexual Object: Rethinking the Female Body or How I Relaxed and Learned From Madonna," National SPE Conference, Chicago,
"Talking Dirty: The Politics of Female Pleasure," panel moderator, The Illustrated Woman, Second Annual Conference on Feminist Activism and Art
1993 Artist Lecture and Graduate Seminar, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Artist Lecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (lecture and three day residency)
1992 "Sexual Object/Sexual Subject: Rethinking the Female Body," Women in Photography Conference, Tuscon, AZ
Artist Lecture, School of the Visual Arts, New York, NY
"Is Nothing Sacred? Images, Representation, and Accountability," National SPE Conference, Washington, D.C.
"It's a Dick Thing: Watching Men Watching Men Watch," Panel, National SPE Conference, Washington, D.C.
"What the Bleep's Going On: Censorship and the Arts", Panel, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1991 "Boys Will Be Boys: Male Sexuality and Representation," Panel Discussion with the exhibition
"No More Heroes: Unveiling Masculinity" at SF Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Masculinity and Its Discontents," Curator's Lecture, SF Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA with the exhibition "No More Heroes: Unveiling Masculinity"
"Private Vision/Public Eye: Sally Mann and Barbara DeGenevieve", co-sponsored by Friends of Photography and Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Artist Lecture for the "Labyrinths" exhibition, University of Texas, Arlington, TX
"A History of Gender Representation", Sheffield Polytechnic, Sheffield, England
"A History of Gender Representation" and Artist Lecture, Nottingham Polytechnic, Nottingham, England
Artist Lecture, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2005 The Brilliance of Simple, one day video and photography workshop, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
2004 Critique Seminar with students from China, Korea, and Japan, Pingyao Int'l Photography Festival, Pingyao, China.
2001 Panel on Voyeurism, National Photography Institute Gradaute Seminar, Tisch, New York University, NY
1999 Artist in Residence, one week residency and seminar, University of Colorado at Boulder.
1997 "The Body and It's Excesses," three day workshop, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1996 "The Body and It's Excesses," one week workshop, Oxbow Summer Program, Saugatuck, MI
"The Body and It's Excesses," two weekend workshop, International Center for Photography, NY, NY
1995 "The Body and It's Excesses," one week workshop, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
One week residency with the graduate photography seminar, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
"The Body and It's Excesses," one week workshop, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
National Graduate Seminar, Photography Department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, artist lecture, panel on recent censorship issues
1994 National Graduate Seminar, Photography Department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, two week residency.
1992 "At the Margins: Sexuality, Gender, and Representation," three day workshop, University of Colorado, Denver,CO
1993 1992 "The Body Double: Gender, Sexuality, Self and Image," two week residency, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass,CO
"Gender and Sexuality" (two day performance workshop, artist lecture) Mississippi State University, Starksville, MS
"Gender and Sexuality" (two day performance workshop, artist lecture) Memphis State University, Memphis TN
1991 "New Directions: Influences in the 90's", Friends of Photography Summer workshop with Anne Tucker, Deborah Willis, and Holly Roberts, San Francisco, CA
1990 "The Self in Context", Summer Workshop, two week residency, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO
Five day tutorial residency, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Gender Workshop and five day tutorial residency, Nottingham Polytechnic, Nottingham, England
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
Curator, Student work from the School of the Art Institute, Pingyao Int'l Photography Festival, Pingyao, China 2004
Curator, "Looped," Festival of Video Shorts, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2002
Juror, Women in the Directors Chair Film and Video Festival, 2001, 2003
Co-Curator, "Plain Brown Wrapper: Artists Make Porn," Video Screening, G2 Gallery, SAIC, Chicago, IL 2000
Editor, "No More Heroes" issue of the SF Camerawork Quarterly, Summer/Fall 1991
Curator, "No More Heroes: Unveiling Masculinity", SF Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA (October 18-November 23, 1991)
Curator, "Articulated Disparities: Renegotiating Masculinity", Gallery 1, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA (September 10-October 10, 1991)
Curator, "Reimaging Masculinity", WORKS Gallery, San Jose CA (September, 1991)
PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS
Censorship in the U.S. or Fear and Loathing of the Arts, Social Identities, Routledge Press, Winter 2006.
"No Fisting, No Squirting, No Coffins," Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, pp.18-21, Fall/Winter 2003
"The Pornographic Sublime," exposure, vol.35:1,2002, pp.13-20.
"Aesthetic Cleansing: Sex, Kitsch, Censorship, and the Recuperation of Pornography," 1998 (unpublished)
"Interview with Ron Athey," Hyphen #11, January, 1996
"My Mother's Body," Herotica 4, Cleis Press, 1996
"Fucking and Thinking: Theorizing my 40 Something Body," P-Form, January 1995
"Letting Us Look: Scandolous Genders," 20th Anniversary SF Camerawork Magazine, San Francisco, CA
"Sexual Subject/Sexual Object: Rethinking the Female Body" 1992 (unpublished)
"Is Nothing Sacred? Images, Representation and Accountablility" 1992 (unpublished)
"Masculinity and Its Discontents," No More Heroes issue of the SF Camerawork Quarterly, Summer/Fall 1991, pp.3-5.
Introductory essay, Anne Noggle, (catalog for the exhibition), 1988, pp. 3-5, Photographers' Gallery, London, UK.
"Teaching Theory in an Undergraduate Photography Program," Exposure, 26:2/3, The Journal for the Society for Photographic Education, Fall, 1988.
"Silver Lining: The Photographs of Anne Noggle," exposure, 22:4, The Journal for the Society for Photographic Education, (book review) 1984, pp. 25-27.
"An Essay on Photography and Gender," Gender Construction: An Inquiry into Gender and Photographic Representation, (catalog for the exhibition "Gender Construction"), 1984, pp.11-12.
"Sex As Subject," exposure, 20:4, The Journal of the Society for Photographic Education, 1982, pp. 6-20.
SELECTED ARTICLES AND CRITICAL REVIEWS
"Objectifying the Abject: Exploitation, Politcal (In)Correctness and Ethical Dilemmas," Time Out Chicago, review by Jason Mojica, February 23-March 2, 2006, p.59.
"Don't Miss," Time Out Chicago, February 23-March 2, 2006, p.60.
Gallery 400 at UIC (recommended), New City, review by Michael Workman, February 16, 2006, p.17.
"Exposed," Chicago Reader, review by Deanna Isaacs, February 24, 2006, sec.2. p. 2.
"Objectifying the Abject: Exploitation, Politcal (In)Correctness and Ethical Dilemmas," catalogue essay by Michael Weinstein for at the edge (innovative art in chicago), Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago. February 2006
"What Is Really on the Mind of an Artist? New York Times, April 4, 2004
"A wide-ranging exhibit makes art of Freudian analysis." Hartford Courant, April 8. 2004
"Analyze This," Hartford Advocate, April 8, 2004
"Under Surveillance," Chicago Reader, April 23, 1999
"Going Public," Chicago Sun Times, January 1, 1999
"Pink at Jean Albano Gallery," Chicago Reader, April 11, 1997
"Show puts pink in a new Light," Chicago Tribune, April 11, 1997
Gallery Watch: "Pink," Chicago Tribune, April 11, 1997
"Bad girl slachtoffer van censuur," Opzij (Netherlands), June 1995
"Ask Me Anything, I Have Nothing To Hide: An interview with Barbara DeGenevieve," New Art Examiner, March 1995
Review, "Monitors: Reviewing Cultural Expression," New City, April 20, 1995
"Photo Show Reveals Much About the Artist," Chicago Sun Times, March 17, 1995, p.19.
Review, "My Words in Your Mouth," New City, March 16, 1995
"Sex, Fear and the NEA: An interview with Barbara DeGenevieve," F Newsmagazine SAIC, October 1994
"Area native's carnal art too risque for fund's taste" The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA, August 26, 1994
"On Art's Edge: Barbara DeGenevieve at odds with the NEA," Chicago Tribune, August 18, 1994
"Fashions of Address," Camerawork Journal, Spring/Summer 1994, pp.30-33.
"The Illustrated Woman," Camerawork Journal, Spring/Summer 1994, pp.34-36.
"Spirit of the Self: Four Women Photographers," New Art Examiner, Feb,/March 1992
"A Little Sexist," Afterimage, September 1992, p. 2.
"Dumb Luck at SPE," Afterimage, May 1992, p. 3.
"Parents," New Art Examiner, September 1992, p. 34.
"Photobiographers," Art Papers, May/June 1992, Vol. 16, No. 6, p. 9.
"Spirit of the Self: Four Women Photographers," New Art Examiner, February/March 1992, p. 45.
"Unveiling Masculinity at SF Camerawork," Art Issues, January, 1992.
"Issues and Comment," (interview by David Pace and Diane Jonte-Pace), review: Newsletter of the Friends of Photography, Nov/Dec, 1991, pp. 8-9.
"Brave Nude World," The San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 27, 1991, pp. 30, 36.
"Masculinity Unveiled," San Francisco Examiner, November 14, 1991, p. D3.
"Feminism focus of show," Sunday Herald Times (Bloomington, IN) October 27, 1991, pp. D1, D4.
"Turning the Tables," Artweek, September 19, 1991, pp. 1,11.
"Man As Art," San Jose Metro, September 5-11, 1991, pp. 22, 24.
"Inappropriate Appropriations", Artweek, July 4, 1991, p. 11.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA
Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, AZ
Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
University of New Mexico Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque,NM
Independent Press Archive, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
Erie Art Center, Erie, PA
California Institute of the Arts, Presidential Collection, Valencia, CA
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Southern Connecticut State College, New Haven, CT
State of Illinois Art Acquisition Collection, Chicago, IL
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Illinois Photographers Project, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL (1995-2001, 2006-)
Sur Rodney (Sur) Archives