Sarah Van Keuren
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Martino Gallery — Alternative Process Journey — Annapolis, Maryland · 2017
Sol Mednick Gallery, The University of the Arts — I Began with Painting — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 2014
Printmaking Gallery, The University of the Arts — Final Critique · 2014
The Philadelphia International Airport — Rooted Protagonists · 2008
Schmidt Dean Gallery — Photographs — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 2006
Hollins University — Subjective Appearances — Roanoke, Virginia · 2003
Rantagalleria, Oulu, Finland · 2001 · 1996
List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania · 1999
Pendle Hill Quaker Study Center, Wallingford, Pennsylvania · 1999
Search Hall, Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science · 1998
The Philadelphia Art Alliance · 1994 · 1981
Iisalmen Kamera summerfestival, Iisalmi, Finland · 1992
The Book Trader Gallery, Philadelphia ·1991 · 1988
Fleisher Art Memorial — Challenge Exhibition — Philadelphia · 1986
Florence Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College · 1966
Selected Group Exhibitions
The University of the Arts — Making Contact: Handmade Photographs — Phila., PA · 2018
PhotoCentral Gallery — Made by Hand — Hayward, CA · 2017
Schmidt Dean Gallery — Philadelphia Photographers — Philadelphia, PA · 2016
Palace of the Governors at New Mexico History Museum — The Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography — Santa Fe, New Mexico · April 26, 2014 – March 29, 2015
Museum of Contemporary History — Past Imperfect Time: Work by Faculty at the University of the Arts— curated by Nikolay Laouiliev & Harris Fogel, Plovdiv, Bulgaria · 2014
The Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University — Contemporary Photographers, Traditional Practices: Vision and Method in the 21st Century — curated by Christopher Schmidt of Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia, Roanoke, Virginia · 2014
Schmidt Dean Gallery — Philadelphia Women Photographers · 2013; Drawing on Nature · 2014; Summer Exhibition · 2015
Travelling Pinhole Exhibition in Poland — American Metaphor · 2009-2010
Woodmere Art Museum —Third Woodmere Triennial of Contemporary Photography — Philadelphia, PA · 2009
Woodmere Art Museum — Fifth Biennial of the Senior Artists Initiative · 2009
Abington Art Center — Forever Young — 20th Anniversary — PA · 200
Free Library — When Printmaking & Photography Collide — Philadelphia, PA · 2008
John Stevenson Gallery — Summer Group Shows — NYC · 2006, 2005, 2004
Penland School of Crafts — Faculty Exhibition — Penland, NC · 2006
Upstairs Gallery — The Lensless View — Tryon, NC · 2005
FotoFest, Kinzelman Art Consulting, Houston, Texas · 2004
Alternative Processes Traveling Exhibition, Texas Photographic Society · 2004
Emerge Gallery — Lightstruck — curated by Scott McMahon, Greenville, NC · 2002
The Art Institute of Boston — Sun Works— Contemporary Alternative Photography · 2002 Nexus Foundation for Today's Art — Invited Artist, Phila., PA · 2001 · 1996 · 1995 · 1991
Berman Museum of Art — In Her Voice — Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA · 1998-9
Pie Gallery — PhotoSession — Philadelphia, PA · 1998-9
Department of Art Gallery Jurors Exhibition University of Delaware, Newark, DE · 1997
Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, University City Science Center — Parallel Paths — with Harry Kalish, Philadelphia, PA · 1996
The Paley Design Center — Complexity and Contradiction — Philadelphia Univ. · 1996
Woodmere Art Museum — The Camera Rediscovered — Philadelphia, PA · 1994
Historic Yellow Springs — Photography: Contemporary Prospect — PA · 1996
Allentown Art Museum — Pennsylvania Photographers 8 — Allentown, PA · 1993
Rider College Gallery — snapshot: philadelphia photography — Lawrenceville, NJ · 1993
Locks Gallery — Aspects in Contemporary Photography I — Philadelphia, PA · 1993
Traveling Pinhole Exhibition: Kuopio, Oulu & Turku, Finland · 1992
Robin Rice Gallery — Safe Place — New York, NY · 1992
Abington Art Center — Figurative Bodies (3-person show) — Abington, PA · 1991
Contemporary Arts Museum — International Pinhole Photography — Houston TX ·1990
Beaver College — Works on Paper — Glenside, PA · 1990
Centre Saidye Bronfman —Pinhole Photographs — Montreal, Canada · 1989
Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe — International Pinhole Photography · 1988
Fine Arts Museum of Long Island — Through a Pinhole Darkly —Hempstead, NY (also shown in Amsterdam and Paris) · 1988
Perkins Center for the Arts — Photography 6, 8, 9 & 11—3-time prize winner — Moorestown, NJ · 1989 - 1992
The Print Club 62nd Annual International Competition—The Ann and Donald W. McPhail Award in Photography & Print Club Selection Prize, Phila. · 1986
Abington Art Center — Photography: 8th Annual Juried Exhibit —1st prize, Emmet Gowin, juror — Jenkintown, Pennsylvania · 1986, also showed 1989 · 1990
Education
University of Delaware — M.F.A. in Photography · 1988
Philadelphia College of Art — took classes in Printmaking · 1972 - 75
Swarthmore College — B.A. in Art History · 1966
Teaching Career
The University of the Arts —Adjunct Professor, Fine Arts/Printmaking · 1980 - 2014
University of Delaware — Graduate Teaching Assistant: Photo I & Photo II · 1986 - 88
Tyler School of Art, Temple University — Non-Silver · Summer '87 · Fall '88 · Spring '89
Summer Workshops: Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego & Penland School of Crafts · 2006; The Art Institute of Chicago & Peters Valley Craft Center · 1998; Pinhole Resource, NM · 1997; Paper & Book Intensive at Penland · 1995 & in Bucks County, PA · 1994; Iisalmen Kamera summerfestival, Iisalmi, Finland · 1992.
One Day Workshops or Lectures: Tyler School of Art, PhotoSession, Society for Photographic Education,Hand Coloring Society, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston Museum School,The University of the Arts, Bryn Mawr College, Swarthmore College, MillersvilleUniversity, Bucks CountyCommunity College, Woodmere Art Museum, Abington Art Center, Wallingford Community Art Center, Moravian College.
Grants and Awards
Senior Artist Initiative via UArts to catalog life’s work & videotape oral history · 2007
Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of the Arts · 2003
Honored Educator, Society for Photographic Education Mid-Atlantic Region · 2002
The University of the Arts — Venture Fund Awards · 1984 · 1990 · 1993 · 2001
Brandywine Offset Institute — Artist Fellowships · 1985 · 1989
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts — Fellowship in Photography · 1986
Publications
Memories of Christy and Helene Chakos 2011; Framed by Laundry 2012; Views of Herford Place 2012; Visits with Thelma 2012: 4 small books of images by Sarah Van Keuren, self-published
A Non-Silver Manual written & published by Sarah Van Keuren · 1993 · 3rd Edition · 2002, 8th Revision 2010, available online, free download: http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/negatives/non-silver-manual
Pinhole Journal ‘Sarah Van Keuren’ Volume 13 #1, · 1997 (monograph on pinhole work)
Images and/or Writings included in Publications
Made by Hand, Catalog — edited & designed by Geir & Kate Jordahl, True North Editions, 2017
Artblog interview by Jennifer Zarro: http://www.theartblog.org/2014/04/to-work-as-the-spirit-moves-me-an-interview-with-sarah-van-keuren/
Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography by Eric Renner & Nancy Spencer, Museum of New Mexico Press, 2014
Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes by Jill Enfield, 2013
Gum Printing and other Amazing Contact Printing Processes by Christina Z. Anderson. 2013
Anthotypes by Malin Fabbri, alternativephotography.com, Sweden, 2012
The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes by Christopher James, 1st & 2nd editions, Delmar Cengage Learning, 2009
Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic Technique by Eric Renner, Focal Press, all 4 editions – 4th Edition 2008
Le Sténopé de la Photographie sans Objectif by Jean-Michel Galley & Elisabeth Towns, Photo Poche · Actes Sud · 2007
Photography 1, Chinese photography magazine produced by Decentmate Image Communication Co., Ltd. · 2006
Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde by Lyle Rexer, Harry N. Abrams · 2002
The World Journal of Post-Factory Photography edited by Judy Seigel Issue #4 ‘Mike Ware’s
Cyanotype’ review by Sarah Van Keuren December · 1999
The World Journal of Post-Factory Photography edited by Judy Seigel Issue #3 ‘Not By Gum Alone’ by Sarah Van Keuren May · 1999
View Camera magazine ‘Learning Patience: Pinhole Imagery, Cyanotype & Gum Bichromate Printing’ by Sarah Van Keuren · July/August issue · 1998
Pinhole Journal Vol. 22, #1 ‘International Pinhole Photography Gallery’ · April 1997; Vol. 10 #2‘David Lebe’ · August 1994; Vol. 9, #3 ‘Figure Studies 3’ · December 1993; Vol 6 #1 ‘Figure Studies 2’ · April 1990; Vol. 5 #1 ‘Portraiture’ · April 1989; Vol. 3 #1 ‘Images by Women’ · December 1987; Vol. 3 #3 ‘Figure Studies’ · April 1987
Philadelphia Weekly and later reprinted in The Photo Review ‘Environmental Images’ on Sarah Van Keuren & Harry Kalish by Jeanne Nugent · 1996
Art Matters ‘Couple's contrasting takes on nature’ by Helene Ryesky · November 1996 International Pinhole Exhibtion catalog. — Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe · 1989 Popular Photography magazine — ‘Pinhole Revival’ by Michelle Bogre · 1988
The Photo Review Vol. 9, No. 4 — ‘Sarah Van Keuren’ by Brian Peterson · 1986
The Philadelphia Inquirer — ‘On Galleries’ by Edward J. Sozanski · Oct. 30, 1986 · May 12, 1988 · April 19, 1990
Public Collections
Philadelphia Museum of Art · 1986, 2017
The Free Library of Philadelphia · 2001
The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg · 1993
Bryn Mawr College Library · 1991
National Museum of American Art — Smithsonian Institution · 1987