Myra Greene’s practice exposes the ways in which Black women’s bodies have been repeatedly appropriated, violated, abused, exoticized, stereotyped, misinterpreted and erased through Western imagery. Challenging the parameters of portraiture, Greene creates photographs and textile assemblages that draw narratives from “the taxonomy of looking.” Greene
conscientiously politicizes her media, including techniques of late 19th and early 20th century photography, as well as fabric interventions, exerting authority over strategies of self-presentation and reimaging.

CURRICULUM VITAE
Born 1975, New York City, NY
Lives and works in Atlanta, GA

EDUCATION
MFA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
BFA, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
A New Pattern, Corvi Mora, London, UK

2023
Kept, PATRON, Chicago, IL

2021
Myra Greene: Spectrum, The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY

2020
Myra Greene:TONE, Indianapolis Contemporary, Indianapolis, IN
Complementary, Corvi Mora, London, UK

2019
INTERVAL, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Minor Chord, PATRON, Chicago IL

2018
Undertones, Corvi Mora Gallery, London, UK

2016
VOLTA NY, Pier 90, New York, NY
MYRA GREENE, PATRON, Chicago, IL

2015
Sketches for Something Bigger/ Brighter/ Wider Higher, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL

2014
My White Friends, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC

2013
Selections: My White Friends, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
My White Friends, Weitman Gallery, St. Louis, MO

2012
My White Friends, Rayko Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010
Character Recognition, FAB Gallery, South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC

2009
Character Recognition, Center of Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Looking Both Ways, Harnett Gallery, Rochester, NY

2008
Character Recognition, Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

2006
Conversations Most Intimate: The Lens of Myra Greene, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

2002
The Beautiful Ones, John Summers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2001
Deep Rooted, The American Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Nineteenth-Century Photography Now, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA

2022
These Things are Connected, The Carnegie, Covington, KY
Reimagining Likeness and Landscape, Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY
Silver Linings, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
South Arts 2021, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC; Travels to: Harvey B. Gantt Center of African American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, SC; University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL.

2021
Collective Identity A Selection of Photographic Portraits from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Paris Photo, Paris, FR
Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Thinking about History with The Block’s Collection, The Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Of Care and Destruction, Atlanta Biennial, Curated by Jordan Amirkhani, Atlanta, GA

2020
Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Selections from the Rose Collection, 1933–2018, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2019
Go Down Moses, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago IL
I Sing The Body, Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH
Glimmers Through Dark Matter, PATRON, New York, NY
Presences — Meditations on The Spelman College Collection, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

2018
Measured in Moments, Atlanta Contemporary, In Collaboration with The Safe House, Greensboro, AL

2016
Say It Loud, Opa-Locka Art, Opa Locka FL
Reframing Beauty: Intimate Moments, guest curated by Deborah Willis, Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
MOCP at 40, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
The Surface of Things, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

2015
The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs, the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

2014
Preview 4, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL

2013
About Face: Contemporary Portraiture, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Histories/Photographies, DePaul Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Framed: Identity and the Photographic Portrait, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
Constructed, curated by Sabina Ott, Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, Chicago, IL

2012
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Industry of the Ordinary, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Installed, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
En Foco/In Focus: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
Ways of Making: Photography, Visual Art Gallery, University Park, IL

2011
Self Portraits, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Black Gossamer, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL
AIPAD: Catherine Edelman, Gallery Booth, New York, NY
Armory Show: Catherine Edelman, Gallery Booth, New York, NY

2010
Road to Nowhere? FotoFest at Winter Street Studios, Houston, TX

2009
Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Hall of Mirrors, North light Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Cataloging Attitudes: Contemporary Photography and the Archive, CSI Gallery, Staten Island, NY

2008
United in Art, DeVos Museum of Art, Marquette, MI
En Foco presents Myra Greene and Sama Alshaibi, Umbrella Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
New Works #11 – En Foco Exhibition, El Taller Boricua Gallery, Bronx, NY
The Elements of Photography, The Art Institute of Colorado, Denver, CO
Yuma Symposium Exhibition, Louis LeRoy Yuma Art Center Museum, Yuma, AZ

2007
Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection, Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery, New York, NY
Interstice, CAS Gallery, Miami, FL

2006
Personal Visions: U.S. Professors of Photography, Pingyao International Photography Festival
Made in NY 2006, Schwenifurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
Digital Transitions, Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse, NY
MWIII, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera, Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT

2005
Photographic Constructions, Synapse Gallery and Center for Photography, Benton Harbor, MI

2004
Upstate Invitational: 4, Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
Marked – New Topographies, Center of Photography, Woodstock, NY
Untitled SRO Gallery, Texas Tech University, Denton, TX
Lucky Draw, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
Identity, Northlight Gallery, Tempe, AZ

2003
In Practice, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
Introducing… Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Images as Projection, Warren Robbins Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Young Photography; Multiple Expressions, Traveling Exhibition: Anderson Gallery University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2002
Subjective Histories, Art Department Gallery, Concordia University, St. Paul, MN
Projected Image: Visual to Political,Traveling Exhibition: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Columbia University, New York, NY
Regarding Beauty, East and West Galleries, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
76th Annual International Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Polaroid: The New Mexico Connection, The University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM

2001
Memory’s Trace (two-person show), AC2 Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
William Meyers, “Photography’s Past and Present at the Getty Center,” The Wall Street Journal, May

2023
Annette LePique, “Memory as Devotion,” Chicago Reader, March

2020

Charlotte Cotton, “The Photography as Contemporary Art,” Thames and Hudson
Gilda Williams, “Myra Greene”, ArtForum, May

2019
TK Smith, “Review: Myra Greene racializes the body in beautiful, profound textiles at MOCA GA”, Arts ATL, September
Pia Singh, “Fade to Brown: A Review of Myra Greene at Patron Gallery”, Newcity Art, June
Zora J Murff, “ Interview with Myra Greene”, Strange Fire, June

2018
Andrew Alexander and Karley Sullivan,“In the Studio with Artist and Spelman College professor Myra Greene,” ArtsATL, May

2016
Erin Toale, “Breakout Artists Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers,” Newcity Art, May

2014
Jordan G. Teicher, “Exploring Race with Photos of White Friends” Behold, The Photo Blog, Slate, May
Victoria Fleischer, “Photographer Examines What Being White Looks Like,” PBS, May

2013
Victoria Fleischer, “Photographer Examines What Being White Looks Like,” Art Beat Blog, PBS NewsHour, May
“My White Friends,” Myra Greene, Kerher Verlag

2012
Nora Uitterlinden, “Seeing a Room Full of White People,” GUP, December
David Gonzalez, “Some of Her Best Friends are White,” New York Times Lens Blog, May

2010
Myra Greene, “European Photography No. 87,” edited by Andreas Muller-Pohle and Wendy Watriss, Summer
“FotoFest 2010 Biennial: Contemporary U.S. Photography,” Schilt Publishing
Barbara London and Jim Stone, “Photography” 10th ed. Prentice Hall
Meyers, William, “A Place for Snap Judgment,” Wall Street Journal, March

2009
Stuart Low, “Bringing Features into Focus,” Democrat and Chronicle,January

2008
Angela Faris Belt, “The Elements of Photography: Understanding and Creating Sophisticated Images,” Focal Press
Jeffren Hayes, “The View from Now: Trends in the Idiom of Young African American Artists,” The International Review of African American Art: Volume 22 no 2.
Robert Hirsch, “Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes,” Third Edition. Focal Press: Boston
Sabina Ott, “Work, ” Prompt, October, Issue 1

2007
Editor, “Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age by Robert Hirsch.” Focal Press
“Myra Greene and Tom Barrow: A Conversation.” Exposure. Volume 40 no. 1

2006
Deborah McLeod, “Here’s the Thing: Twinned Photography Exhibits Reconsider Objects’ Thingness,” Baltimore City Paper. October
Benjamin Genoccio, “Art Review: Double Exposure,” The New York Times. April

2005
“Review of Masumi Shibata’s book Karaoke,” Exposure. Vol.38 no. 2

2004
Myra Greene, “2003 Woodstock A-I-R”. Photography Quarterly, Volume 89. Center for
Photography at Woodstock
Alex Miokovic, “We’re not quite in Arcadia anymore,”Philadelphia Citypaper, October

2002
Robin Rice, “Lens Crafters,” Philadelphia Citypaper, April/ May
Nikita Storm, “Portrait of Beauty: The Beautiful Ones at John Summers Gallery,” The Alibi. April
Dorothy Cole, “Picture This,” The Alibi. February

2001
Steven Robert Allen, “Don’t You Remember,” The Alibi. September
Robert Garriot–Stejskal, “Gallery Show Brings Back Traces of Memory,” Crosswinds Weekly. August/ September Walter Greene, “A Deep-Rooted Hair Experience at The American Gallery,” The Caribbean News, April

AWARDS/ RESIDENCIES/ GRANTS
2023
Officina Stamperia del Notaio, Tusa, Italy 

2022

Stove Works Residency, Chattanooga, TN

2021
South Arts Fellowship, Atlanta, GA

2018
Working Artist Project Fellowship, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Award for Distinction, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO


2017

Studio Artist Program, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

2014
Artist Residency Bolt, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL

2013
Prairie Center of Arts Residency, Peoria, IL

2012
Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) Grant, City of Chicago, IL

2009
Illinois Arts Council Photography Fellowship, Chicago, IL

2007
Honorable Mention, New Work #11, En Foco

2004
Artist Residency, Light Work, Syracuse, NY

2003
Artist Residency, The Center of Photography, Woodstock, NY

2002
Journal of Contemporary Photography Award,The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Academic Fellowship,The Photography Institute, New York, NY

2001
Academic Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO

1999
Curatorial Fellowship, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

LECTURES/ PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2022

Open Art: Artist talk with Myra Greene, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC



2021

ArtsXActivism: Myra Greene and Bill Gaskins, Gordon Parks Foundation

Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Featuring Myra Greene, Meghann Riepenhoff, and Joni Sternbach, High Museum, Atlanta, GA

2020

Panelist: Handmade Photography Today, Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA

Panelist: Arching Identity & Preserving Our Image, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

2019
“Changing the Lens: Lessons from Spelman’s Award Winning Artists,” Chicago Ideas, Chicago IL
J.P. Morgan Private Bank Artist Talk with Myra Greene, Buckhead, GA

2018
Visiting Artist, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston MA
Panelist: The Artist at Work, Black Portraiture IV: The Color of Silence, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2017

Moderator: Black Portraiture III: Johannesburg, South Africa
Artist Talk: My White Friends, Scene on Radio

2016
Artist Talk: Comfort Station Presents, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL

2015
Visiting Artist, Parsons, The New School, New York, NY

2014
Interlink Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC
Visiting Artist, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Invited Speaker, Creative Imperatives, University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, WI

2013
Visiting Artist, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Panelist, Histories/Photographies Symposium, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Hogue-Sponenburgh Lecturer, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Gallery Conversation with Harry Gilbert, Williams College of Art, Williamstown, MA

2012
Panelist: “One Out of Many: The Contemporary Portrait,” Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Industry of the Ordinary, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

2011
“She was so Excited…” Bucknell University, Lewisberg, PA
“She was so Excited….” The University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

2010
Panelist, “Visualizing Mixed Race: Art and Ambiguity,” Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

2008
Keynote Speaker, United Conference, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI
Artist Panel Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
“Character Recognition” Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
“Character Recognition” Peer Gallery, New York, NY
“Character Recognition” Yuma Symposium, Yuma, AZ

2007
Panelist, “Artists and Educators I: Trends in Art” Here and Now: The Second African American Art Conference, New York University, New York, NY
“Understanding Self,” New York University, New York, NY
“Understanding Self,” Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2004
“Understanding Self,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
“Understanding Self” Massachusetts College of Art Boston, MA

2003
“Materiality,” Mesaros Visiting Lecture Series, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
“Images of Woman,” Guest Lecturer, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
“Young Photography,” Panel Discussion School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2002
“Alternative Processes in Photography,” Panel Discussion, University Museum of Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Harvard Art Museums,Cambridge, MA
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
The Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
TD Bank Art Collection
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY