Biography and Resume from BeaNettlesdotcom:
Bea Nettles has been exhibiting and publishing her autobiographical works since 1970.
Since that time, she has had over fifty one-person exhibitions including the International Museum of Photography at the Eastman House, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Light Gallery and Witkin Gallery in NYC. Her works have also been shown internationally in major group exhibitions.
Her images are in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Polaroid International Collection, the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the International Museum of Photography at the Eastman House, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona. Her artists’ books can be found in special collections libraries at universities including Yale (Beinecke), Washington, and Virginia.
She taught photography and artists’ books from 1970-2007 at Rochester Institute of Technology, Tyler School of Art, and the University of Illinois where she is currently Professor Emerita.
Nettles continues to lecture and teach workshops internationally.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fall 2009 University of Georgia Study Abroad, Cortona, Italy. Teaching Book Arts.
1984-2008 University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Currently Professor Emerita.
1970-1984 Rochester Institute of Technology, Temple University and numerous workshops.
GRANTS and AWARDS
2005 Visiting Artist, Borowsky Center, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennslvania.
2000 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship
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
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.
Beinecke Library,Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
The Harn Museum, Gainesville, Florida.
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia.
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois.
International Museum of Photography, Rochester, New York.
State of Illinois Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
Light Gallery, New York, New York.
Lee Witkin Gallery, New York, New York.
Focus Gallery, San Francisco, California.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
“Six from the Seventies,” Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, New York.
“25 Years of Light Gallery,” International Center for Photography, Midtown, NYC, NY.
“From the Polaroid Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.
“World History of Women Photographers,” NY Public Library, NYC, New York.
“Refiguring Nature: Women in the Landscape,” Camerawork, San Francisco, California.
“Flesh and Blood,” Friends of Photography, San Francisco, California.
“Self Portraits of Contemporary Women,” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
“Flesh and Blood,” The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC.
“The Hand that Rocks the Cradle,” Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts.
“Selections 4: from International Polaroid Collection,” Photokina, Cologne, Germany.
“True Stories & Photofictions,” Ffotogallery Cardiff, Wales; Camerawork, London.
“Through a Pinhole Darkly,” Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, New York.
“Mothers & Daughters,” Burden Gallery, Aperture, NYC, New York.
“Alternative Image II,” J M Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
“Alternative Image,” J M Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
“Contemporary Photography as Phantasy,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
“Evocations,” Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, California.
“Photo Start,” The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York.
“The Photographer as Printmaker,” Ferens Art Gallery, London.
“120 Years of Color,” Photokina, Joseph Haubracht Museum, Cologne, Germany.
“Altered Image,” Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona.
“The Thin Line,” Flaviana Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland.
“Some Aspects of the 70’s,” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts.
“Art for the Vice President Mondale’s House from NE Museums,” Washington, DC.
“Fantastic Photography USA,” Canon Gallery, Amsterdam.
“VSW Book Show,” Franklin Furnace, NYC, New York.
“Art and the Alphabet,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
“Photographie: Rochester, NY,” United States Cultural Center, Paris, France.
“10 American Photographers,” Photographer’s Gallery, London, England.
“Multiple Sculptures/Unique Photographs,” Members Gallery, MOMA, NYC.
“Historical Processes by Contemporary Photographers,” Baltimore Museum.
“PhotoMedia,” Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC, New York.
“60’s Continuum,” International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY.
“Photography Into Sculpture,” Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
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