Amanda MARCHAND

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024 This Earthen Door, Sachs Museum, Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, MO

2023 This Earthen Door, Photofairs NYC with Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2022 Lumen Notebook, Foto Relevance, Houston, TX

Traywick Contemporary 25th Anniversary Fundraiser: Artist Folio edition, August

2020-21 The World is Astonishing, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA

2018 True North, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA

2017 Commission, MUHC Glen Hospital C8, Permanent Installation, Montreal, Canada

2015 Night Garden, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA

2012 Night Garden: The Summer Project, http://amandamarchand.com/blog/

2005 The Density of Air, Bolinas Art Gallery, Bolinas, CA

2004 415/514, San Francisco City Hall, Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003 Amanda Marchand, Traywick Contemporary, San Francisco, CA

2002 You Came So Close, The Project Space, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Invincible Summer, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2023 The Performing Photobook, Format23 International Photography Festival, Derby UK,

Cameraless Photography Now, Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, Curated by Lauren Richmond, Bloomington

PhotoBookWorks 2023, Abecedarian Artists Books, Denver CO

What’s Up? Pop Up, Rick Wester Fine Art, Chelsea NY

2022 Codex Art Book Fair, Richmond, CA, April 10-14

2021 New. Recent. (25th Anniversary Show) Traywick Contemporary

HUMAN/NATURE, Lishui Art Museum, Lishui, China

2021 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

Love Devotion, Surrender Dedication, Rick Wester Fine Art, Chelsea

Reclamation: Artist Books on the Environment, San Francisco Center for the Book and the SF Public Library

Parallax Geography, Institute for Contemporary Art at MECA, Portland, ME

2020 Bay Area Currently, online exhibition curated by Bhin Danh, Ann Jastrab, Chris Johnson

Art Off-Screen, curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch

2019 10000 Hours, Speedwell Gallery, Portland, Maine

Synesthesia: The Space Between, Datz Museum of Art, South Korea

Lensculture Award Show, Gallerie Joseph, Paris, France

Material Matters, Outside Gallery, North Adams, MA

Book of Lights, D’Ark Room + D’Front Gallery, Seoul

She was moving even when she stood still, Summer Show, Traywick Contemporary, CA

Photobook Showcase, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

Negative Space iV – Pop up Show, Brooklyn Grain, Curated by Kristen Bartley, NY

2018 9th Annual Self-published Photobooks Show, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY

Process and Attitude, D’Ark Room, Seoul, Korea

At the Violet Hour, curated by Chiara Williams, in conjunction with Turner Contemporary TS Eliot’s Journeys with The Waste Land, Margate, England

Here, Now. Datz Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.

2017 Cultivated Nature, The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA

PULSE, Miami Beach Art Fair, Fl

Neverending Summer 2017, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA

American Beauty, Speedwell Gallery, Portland Maine

2016 Plus One, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA

SFAI Alumni Exhibition, curator Katya Min (Yerba Buena), Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2015 Front Yard/ Backstreet, Palo Alto Art Center, CA

Center Forward 2015, curated by Hamidah Glasgow, The Center for fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO Mindscape, (exhibition and book launch), Datz Museum, Seoul, Korea

The Curve, Munos Waxman Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2012 Materials plus Process, Traywick Contemporary, San Francisco CA

2011 Tomorrow’s Stars: Verge Art Brooklyn, Dumbo, NY

Manipulated, Castell Photography, Asheville, NC

2008 Three Ways to Say I Love You, 64th Scripps Ceramic National, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery Claremont, CA. (Catalogue).

2005 Photo-Based. Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA.

2004 415/514, SF City Hall, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Beyond Tradition. San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.

78th Annual International Print Competition: Photography. The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA.

2003 Visions. Reed Whipple Cultural Center, Las Vegas, NV.

2002 Emerge. Society for Photographic Education, San Francisco, CA.

New Drawing and Photography – Part II. Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA.

So Exquisite. Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA.

2001 Shadow Boxes. Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA.

Bodies of Water, Master of Fine Art Exhibition. Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA.

2000 Fuzzy Logic. Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA.

Crossroads: Art of Revolution/Rescue. Walter & McBean Galleries, San Francisco, CA.

COLLECTIONS

 Bowdoin College Library, George J. Michael Dept. Special Collections, Brunswick, ME

Cleveland Museum of Art, Library

BTL Law Firm, South Korea

Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

The New York Public Library, Special Collections, NYC

Glen Hospital, Montreal, Canada

Stanford University Library, Special Collections, CA

Detroit Center for Creative Photography, Birmingham, MI

Aaron Siskind Library, Photographic Resource Center, Boston University Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Beinecke Rare Book Library, Yale, New Haven, CT

Bolinas Art Gallery, Bolinas, CA

Datz Museum, Seoul, Korea

Griffin Museum of Photography, Winston, MA

Brooklyn Botanical Gardens Library, Brooklyn, NY

Rempart Asset Management, Montreal Canada

Cavallo Point Lodge, Marin, CA

Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

Borden, Ladner, Gervais, Montreal, QC

BIBLIOGRAPHY & PRESS

2024 Codex Papers, Press On: Datz, article, March

2022 PhotoBook Journal, The World is Astonishing Book Review, by Douglas Stockdale, August

2021 Marchand, Amanda, The World is Astonishing with You in it: A 21st Century Field Guide to the Birds, Ferns and Wildflowers, (Pocket book version)

Fraction Magazine, Issue 144, April

Book of the Week: photoeye Blog, Nothing Will Ever be the Same Again, March

2020 Ain’t Bad Magazine, “What We’ve Found: Inktober,” October

PhotoAlliance SF – featured photographer, July

2019 Marchand, Amanda, Nothing Will Ever be the Same Again, Datz Press

Interview with Amanda Marchand, Ain’t Bad Magazine, by Kyra Schmidt, Spring

2018 Marchand, Amanda, The Book of Hours, artist book, printed by Datz Press, Korea

Process and Attitude, Gitz Magazine #10

Lenscratch, The Book of Hours and True North, Julia Bennett, July 2

d’Art International, Picking Cherries in Miami: Top 10 at Miami Art Fairs, Gae Savannah, Spring/Summer

Magazine Gitz, Vol 10, Process and Attitude, Seoul, Korea, October

2017 Marchand, Amanda, Because the Sky, artist book

2015 Marchand, Amanda, Night Garden, Datz Press, Seoul, Korea, monograph (afterword by Anthony Bannon)

The East Bay Monthly, Northern Light Caught in Finnish Landscape Photos, DeWitt Chang, April

The Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography’s online venue, Pages, featured, Night Garden

SF Chronicle/ SF Gate, Night Garden at Berkeley Show Shows Life Amidst Darkness, Jessica Zack, Dec 12 Lenscratch, April 21, 2015

2010 Wall Done Mag. Four one Five/ Five One Four, June 12, 2010.

2009 Marchand, Amanda, 415/514, Edition One Studios, San Francisco, CA, book

2008 Arm’s Length in: Ceramics and the Treachery of Objects in the Digital Age. (Catalogue)

2006 Carte Blanche, (anthology of Canadian photographers) Magenta Foundation, Toronto, ON

2003 Marchand, Amanda, without cease the earth faintly trembles, DC Books, Montreal, Q.C., novel

2001 Marchand, Amanda, This Tastiness Cannot be Carried Even by Both Hands, Glass Eye Press, San Francisco, C.A., chapbook

PODCASTS/TALKS

2023 Conference talk - Emily Dickinson International Society, Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium, with Leah Sobsey, Marta MacDowell, Peter Grima, Amhurst, July

Conference talk - Society for Textual Scholarship, NYU, Emily Dickinson and This Earthen Door, with Leah Sobsey, Marta Werner, Jen Bervin, NYC, June 1-3

2022 The World is Astonishing: Upending Photography, interview with Kevin Miller, Medium Photo for San Diego Design Week, Sept 23

Keep the Chanel Open Podcast with Mike Sakasagawa, August 31

The Wise Fool Podcast - Retrospective, 10-part series, with Matthew Dols, summer 2022

Second Sight Award Lecture, Medium Photo, San Diego 9:30 am, May 7

PhotoAlliance Eco Symposium, Featured artist, “This Earthen Door” video presentation, April 23

2021 Griffin Photo Book Week: Guest speaker - Datz Press, Sangyon Joo book talk

photoeye Gallery, Interview with Anne Kelly, May

Vulnerability in Life and Art Podcast, with Sarah Sniderman, Episode 1

2020 Art Watch Radio Interview, with Amie Potsic, December 23

The Wise Fool Podcast, with Matthew Dols, Episode 85, July

Walkthrough Wednesday with Traywick Contemporary, virtual studio talk, July

2019 From South Korea to NYPL – lecture at the NY Public Library, Sept 25

REPRESENTATION

Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA

Foto Relevance Gallery, Houston, Texas

Photo Eye Gallery: Photographer’s Showcase, Santa Fe, NM

EDUCATION

1999-01 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, C.A. M.F.A., Photography

1991-92 Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Vancouver, B.C. Multi-Media studies

1986-90 Queen’s University, Kingston, O.N. B.A. honors, English Literature

Leah SOBSEY

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024 This Earthen Door, Sachs Museum, Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, MO

2023 This Earthen Door, Photofairs NYC with Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

whose eyes I have, GPS, with Linda Belans and Adam Sobsey, Greensboro, NC

2022 In search of Thoreau’s Flowers; An Exploration of Change and Loss, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University

2021 Swarm, exhibition and installation acquired by Duke Raleigh Hospital for permanent installation, Raleigh, NC

Tintypes: A Community Portrait, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL 21C Museum Hotel Instagram takeover digital artist check in, April 23rd 2019 Pink Dog Gallery, Asheville, NC

The Swarm, Raleigh Convention Center

2018 Community Foundation of Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, Curated by Elizabeth Harry (Greenhill Gallery)

Tintypes: A Community Portrait, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO Curated by Hamidah Glasgow, Triangle Community Foundation, Durham, NC 2017 Praxis Gallery, The Portrait, Minneapolis, MN

Tintypes A Community Portrait, Anchorlight, Raleigh, NC *The photography Show, AIPAD, New York, NY https://www.artsy.net/aipad-2017/browse/artist/leah-sobsey

2016 Collections, 21C Museum Hotel, Durham, NC

Collections, Rayko Photo Gallery, San Francisco, CA

The Accidental Self, Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Forthcoming exhibition, Storm Cloud, Huntington Art Museum, CA

Invincible Summer, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2023 Frank Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

8x10 Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

Unbound12, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA

UpstART Gallery, Pop Box Gallery, Durham, NC

2022 8x10 Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

Visage: Face with a View, Cassilhaus, curated by Frank Konhaus from the Cassilhaus collection, Chapel Hill, NC

2021 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC curated by Emily Stamey

Primary Colors, New York Center for Photography, NYC, NY, Ann Jastrab juror

Branching Out, The Umstead Gallery, Cary, NC curated by Artsuite

The Committee, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC

2020 Threshold, Oneoneone Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

Winter Blues: Contemporary Cyanotypes, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, curated by Ann Jastrab

The Lawn Sign Project in partnership with For Freedoms, MLK Memorial Park, Raleigh, NC (postponed due to COVID)

2019 The Lawn Sign Project in partnership with For Freedoms, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY

Kitab Book festival/exhibition, Delhi, India

Faculty Biennial, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

New Collections, Credit Suisse, Raleigh, NC

2018 Abstraction, Lafayette Gallery and the Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, MA, curated by Artsuite/Margorie Hodges

Paula Tognarelli, Griffin Museum of Photography

Swarm, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, VA, curated by Meggin Hicklin

Across County Lines, Contemporary Photography from the Piedmont, The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC, curated by Marshall Price

Anti-Nostalgia, The Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC, curated by Elin O’Hara Slavick

The Fence Project, Public Art Installation, Durham North Carolina

The Wild, Bloc2, Raleigh NC Curated by Stacy Bloom Rexrode

BIBLIOGRAPHY

This Earthen Door, with Amanda Marchand, Datz Books

Nest, Terms of Surrender, His Golden Messenger CD cover, Cover art for internationally distributed CD, 2019

Collections, The Royal Society Publishing, Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the Anthropocene, Volume 374, Issue 1763, London, UK, November 19, 2018

Collections, Leah Sobsey. Daylight Books, 2016, 128-page monograph of photographs and installations created from specimens from the collections of the US National Park Service museums, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and North Carolina State University Insect Museum

Bull City Summer, Daylight Books, 2014, Collaborative photography and writing project documenting a season at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Artists include: Alex Harris, Frank Hunter, Kate Joyce, Elizabeth Matheson, Alec Soth, Hiroshi Watanabe, Jeff Whetstone, and Hank Willis Thomas

PRESS

Artnews, September 2023, https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/interview-photofairs-founder-scott-gray-1234678515/

Fine Books and Collections Magazine, Autumn 2023, https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/autumn-2023

White Hot Magazine, September 2023, https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/triumphant-debut-in-new-york/5963

NC Literary Review, 2023

The Boston Globe, June 2022 https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/29/arts/search-thoreaus-flowers-examines-famous-author-citizen-scientist/

Harvard Gazette, May 24th , 2022, https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/05/thoreau-floral-collection-inspires-new-exhibition/

Duke Raleigh Hospital, August 16, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4TQQxJL6j0

Duke Forest journal, September 13, 2021, https://dukeforest.duke.edu/2021/09/13/artist-leah-sobsey-finds-inspiration-and-creates-natural-history-in-the-forest/

Walter Magazine, Branching Out, June, 2021, Don’t Take Pictures, March 25, 2020, https://www.donttakepictures.com/

Lenscratch, March 14, 2020, http://lenscratch.com/2020/03/winter-blues-contemporary-cyanotypes-at-the-center-for-photographic-art/

Carmel Pine Cone, March 13, 2020, http://pineconearchive.fileburstcdn.com/200313PCA.pdf

The Phoblographer, October 23, 2018, https://www.thephoblographer.com/2018/10/23/leah-sobsey-and-tim-telkamp-on-creating-tintype-community-portraits/

The Roanoke Star, October 18, 2018, http://theroanokestar.com/2018/10/17/from-insects-to-birds-planes-to-drones-swarms-are-the-subject-of-moss-arts-centers-newest-exhibitions/

Virginia Tech Daily, October 15, 2018, https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2018/10/mac-swarmexhibition.htmlfbclid=IwAR0fmT8B8dmQYCTvNfcipIOvp5eA_k-oJ3fWaoLk-29mqXsNKr8PEcji9b8

Lenscratch, November, 17, 2017, http://lenscratch.com/2017/11/leah-sobsey-the-states-project-north-carolina/

The Carolinian, October 4, 2017, https://carolinianuncg.com/2017/10/04/professor-spotlight-leah-sobsey/

Audubon, August 3, 2016, http://www.audubon.org/news/why-national-parks-are-actually-secret-museums

Crave Online, August 21, 2016, http://www.craveonline.com/art/1022853-photographer-leah-sob- sey-discovers-life-death

Slate.com, September 16, 2016, http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/09/16/leah_sobsey_photographs_the_collections_of_n

ational_park_museums_in_her.html

All about Photo.com, January 10, 2016, http://www.all-about-photo.com/article.php?title=leah-sobsey&id=147

Art Fix Daily, March 29, 2016, http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/6986-leah-sobsey-photographs-collections-of-americas-national-park-mus

Hyperallergic, July 13, 2016 http://hyperallergic.com/304776/photographs-of-the-birds-and-bones-in-us-national-park-collections/

Musee Magazine, June 16, 2016 http://museemagazine.com/culture/2016/6/16/book-review-leah-sobsey-collections-birds-bones-and-butterflies

PDN blog, March 22, 2016, http://potd.pdnonline.com/2016/03/37427/

Daylight Publishing, July 2016, http://stories.daylight.co/leah-sobsey-collections/

Mandatory Magazine, August 21, 2016 by Miss Rosen, https://www.waltermagazine.com/art-and-culture/striking-bull-city-summer-comes-to-raleigh/

Photo Booth (blog), New Yorker, August 13, 2014, http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/sam-stephensons-bull-city-summer

Mother Jones, August 31, 2014, http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/08/bull-city-summer-minor-league-baseball

Slate.com, March 4, 2014, http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/03/04/bull_city_summer_documents_a_season_at_the_ballpark_with_the_durham_bulls.html

Paris Review Daily (blog), Paris Review, July 24, 2013, http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/07/24/when-winning-is-everything/http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/tag/leah-sobsey/

COLLECTIONS

Duke Raleigh Hospital, North Carolina Museum of Art, City of Raleigh-Convention Center,

Credit Suisse, Cassilhaus Collection, Duke University Hospital, Durham, Fidelity Investments,

Rose Community Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, Durham, NC, Town of Chapel Hill. Bill

Gates- Microsoft Collection, Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport College Collection, San

Francisco Art Institute, Duke University Medical Archives, Grand Canyon National Park.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2022 UNCG CVPA Dean’s Research/Creative Initiative Funds Award

UNCG URSCO Funding for CVPA Pollinator Garden/Lab/Eco Research

2021 UNCG Faculty First Award

UNCG CVPA Dean’s Research/Creative Initiative Funds Award

Nominated for University Research Excellence Award

2020 UNCG Early Career Undergraduate Research Mentor College of Visual and Performing Arts.

UNCG CVPA Dean’s Research/Creative Initiative Funds Award

2019 Melon Fund Award

UNCG CVPA Dean’s Research/Creative Initiative Funds Award

2018 UNC-Greensboro Diversity Initiatives Grant, Greensboro, NC

Kohler Award, UNC-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

Globally Engaged Undergraduate Research and Creativity Award, UNC- Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

UNC-Greensboro Dean’s Research/Creative Initiative Funds Award, Greensboro, NC

Triangle Community jury award with honoraria, Durham, NC

Society for Photographic Education Conference presenter, Penland, NC

UNCG New Faculty Research Grant, Greensboro, NC

EDUCATION

MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

BA, Anthropology; Minor, Studio Art, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC