Degrees MFA, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois 1970 BFA, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 1968 Selected Solo Exhibitions 2009 Life's Lessons Harn Museum, Gainesville, Florida 2007 Return Trips 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon 2005 Return Trips Gallery 210, University of Missouri-St Louis, St Louis, Missouri 2002 Return Trips Mednik Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2001 Return Trips Photography Gallery, Notre Dame, Indiana 2000 Return Trips Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1996 Turning 50 I-space Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1995 Life's Lessons: A Mother's Journal Media Gallery, Port Washington, New York 1992 Life's Lessons: A Mother's Journal Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Ilinois 1991 Life's Lessons: A Mother's Journal State of Illinois Art Center, Chicago, Illinois 1990 Life's Lessons: A Mother's Journal The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia 1986 Retrospective The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois 1983 Gifts: A Retrospective Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Close to Home Robert Samuel Gallery, Ltd, NYC, New York 1978 Moonbeams and Dreams Witkin Gallery, NYC, New York 1977 Moonbeams and Dreams Focus Gallery, San Francisco, California 1972 Heart Attacks and Photo Fantasies Light Gallery, NYC, New York 1970 Swamp Dreams International Museum of Photography, Rochester, New York Selected Group Exhibitions 2008 University of Florida's Photographic Legacy Harn Museum, Gainesville, Florida 2007 The Target Collection of American Photography Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Action/Interaction Columbia College Book & Paper Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois 2005 Merge: Bea Nettles and Fern Logan Art Gallery, UIS, Springfield, Illinois Biennial Artists' Book Exhibition Cambridge Artists Cooperative, Cambridge, Massachusetts Boxed Sets Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 2004 Six from the Seventies Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, New York 2002 Sun Works: Contemporary Alternative Photography Art Institute of Boston, Massachusetts 2000 The Exquisite Corpse Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Pages Columbia College Book & Paper Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois Snapshot Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland 1999 Experimental Narrative and Artist's Books LSU, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1998 Eye of the Beholder International Center for Photography, New York City, New York 1997 25 Years of Light Gallery International Center for Photography, New York City, New York From the Polaroid Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Eye of the Beholder: From the Avon Collection International Center for Photography, New York City, New York 1996 World History of Women Photographers NY Public Library, New York City, New York Traveled to: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and the Toledo Museum of Art Refiguring Nature: Women in the Landscape Camerawork, San Francisco, California 1994 Flesh and Blood Friends of Photography, San Francisco, California 1993 III International Studio of Image Technology SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1992 Photographic Book Art in the USA Traveled to: Center for Creative Photography in Tucson; Houston Center for Photography; San Francisco Camerawork; and others 1991 Self Portraits of Contemporary Women Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan 1990 Flesh and Blood The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts 1989 Selections 4: from International Polaroid Collection Traveled to: Foto Fest, Houston, Texas; Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Camerawork, San Francisco, California 1988 Selections 4: from International Polaroid Collection Photokina, Cologne, Germany True Stories & Photofictions Camerawork, London, England Fabrications Harvard University Carpenter Center, Boston, Massachusetts Through a Pinhole Darkly Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, New York 1987 True Stories & Photofictions Fotogallery Cardiff, Wales Mothers & Daughters Burden Gallery, Aperture, New York City, New York (traveled three years) 1984 Alternative Image II J M Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin Gwen Widmer & Bea Nettles J M Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 1982 Photo Collage Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Alternative Image J M Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin Contemporary Photography as Phantasy Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, California Evocations Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, California Photo Start The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York 1981 The Photographer as Printmaker Arts Council of Great Britain, Ferens Art Gallery, London 120 Years of Color Photokina, Joseph Haubracht Museum, Cologne, Germany Altered Image Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona 1980 The Thin Line Flaviana Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland (traveled three years: Europe & South America) Some Aspects of the 70's DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts 1979 Art for the Vice President Mondale's House from Northeast Museums Washington, DC In/Sights Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York City, New York 1978 Fantastic Photography USA Canon Gallery, Amsterdam (traveled two years internationally) VSW Book Show Franklin Furnace, New York City, New York Art and the Alphabet Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1976 Photographie: Rochester, NY United States Cultural Center, Paris, France 1974 10 American Photographers Photographer's Gallery, London, England 1973 Multiple Sculptures/Unique Photographs Members Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York Historical Processes by Contemporary Photographers Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Maryland 1972 PhotoMedia Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York City, New York 60's Continuum International Museum of Photography at Eastman House, Rochester, New York 1971 Thirteen Photographers Light Gallery, New York City, New York Figure in Landscape International Museum of Photography at Eastman House, Rochester, New York 1970 Photography Into Sculpture Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York Selected Collections Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York International Museum of Photography at Eastman House, Rochester, New York National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona The International Polaroid Collection, Offenbach, Germany The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC The Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Grants & Awards 2009 Free Library of Philadelphia Purchase Award, Hybrid Book Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2007 Visiting Artist, Hafnarborg Institute of Culture & Fine Art, Hafnarfjӧrður, Iceland (two months) 2005 Von Hess Visiting Artist, Borowsky Center, U of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2000 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship 1997 Honored Educator, Society for Photographic Education, Midwest Region 1990 University Scholar, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois 1988 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1986 Polaroid Corporation Artists Program 1986 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship 1979 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1976 New York State Council for the Arts CAPS Grant Published Work 500 Handmade Books Steve Miller, ed., Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina, January 2008 The Book of Alternative Processes Christopher James, Delmar, 2001 Photography from 1839 to Today: George Eastman House Mulligan & Wooters, Taschen, Cologne, 1999 The Art of Enhanced Photography: From Cyanotype to Digital Luciana & Watts, Rockport, 1998 Collection Guide to the International Museum of Photography Eastman House, Rochester, NY, 1998 Strategies of Being: Art Since 1940 Jonathan Fineberg, Prentice Hall, 1995 History of Women in Photography Naomi Rosenblum, Abbeville, Press, New York, 1994 Exploring Color Photography Robert Hirsch, Wm Brown and Co., 1988 Mothers and Daughters That Special Quality, Diane Lyon, Aperture, New York City 1987 (cover) Fabrications: Staged, Altered, & Appropriated Photographs Anne Hoy, Abbeville Press, New York, 1987 The Visionary Pinhole Lauren Smith, Peregrine Smith Books, Utah, 1985 World History of Photography Naomi Rosenblum, Abbeville Press, New York, 1984 Vision: American Photographers Today Tokyo Photography College, Tokyo, Japan, 1981 Photography Between Covers Interviews with Photo Bookmakers, Tom Dugan, Rochester, New York, 1979 In/Sights: Self Portraits by Women Joyce Cohen, Godine Publishers, Boston, 1978 The Woman's Eye Anne Tucker, Knopf, New York, 1973 (ten American women photographers featured)