Photographer Biography

Walter Crump Biography

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Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, March 18, 1941 EDUCATION Boston University School for the Arts, 1967-1970, BFA TEACHING AFFILIATIONS Commonwealth School, Boston, Ma. 1972-1991, 1993 to present. National College of Art, Lahore, Pakistan 1991-1993 ONE & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS ALTERED CITIES, Pinhole & Double Exposure Photographs, Iranian Artists Forum, Teheran, Iran 2009 MEDITECH GALLERY,Meditech Canton Ma. Two Person Exhibition, 2006 THROUGH A HOLE, Belan Gallery, Essex Art Center, Lawrence Ma 2003 BENT & TARNISHED, One Person Show, SAS Gallery, St. Andrews – Sewanee School, Sewanee, TN, 2002 TARNISHED & BLEACHED, Two Person Show, University Gallery, Two Person Show, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI University, 2001 GATHERINGS (paintings and photographs), Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, La. November, 1999, 1995 ALTERED CAMERAS, ALTERED IMAGES, Photographic Resource Center, Project Room, Boston, MA 1998 (Two Person Exh.) BENT CITIES, Urban Pinhole Photographs, Photography Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, 1998 AN EXHIBITION OF PINHOLE CAMERAS AND PHOTOGRAPHS, Carpenter Center, Harvard University,Cambridge, Ma., 1997 SELECTED GROUP, INVITATIONAL AND JURIED EXHIBITIONS THE LENSLESS IMAGE, Castell Gallery, Ashville NC, May 2010 GOING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK – PRACTICING HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES IN THE 21ST CENTURY”. University of New England Gallery, Portland, Maine: November 17- January 31, 2010, Simmons College, Trustman Art Gallery, Boston, MA: April 20 – May 28, 2010, UMASS/Dartmouth, University Art Gallery, New Bedford, MA: June – Sept., 2010, Maine Media Workshop, Rockport, ME: October – November, 2010 AMERICAN METAPHOR An Exhibition of American Pinhole Photographers, Katowice, Poland, November 2009, Warsaw, March 2010, Wroclaw, May 2010 POWER STRUCTURES”, Group Photography Exhibition, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, March 24 –September 7 2009 HERE THERE EVERY WHERE, group exhibition in collaboration with Turkish Artist, Gulay Appley, Trans Cultural Alliance, Distillery Gallery , Boston Ma 3/2009 AN EXHIBITION OF PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY: Four Pinhole Photographers, Museum of the History of Photography, Krakow, Poland, Jan 14 – February 27, 2005 TREE IN LANDSCAPE: Panopticon Gallery, Waltham MA, May – July 2005 THE PROSPECT OF LIGHT: Images from Plastic & Pinhole Cameras, The University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor. Bangor ME, Jan 23 – March 27 2004 PHOTOPLAY: THREE ALTERNATIVE PHOTOGRAPHERS; Art Complex at Duxbury, Duxbury, MA; August 31 – November 2 2003 MILLENNIAL BOSTON: 15 ARTISTS VIEW THE CITY, The Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA , September 9 – November 29, 2003 GRANTS HUGHES GRANT 2005.2007, 2009 FULBRIGHT FELLOW 1991-1993 INGRAM MERRILL FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP, 1975-1976 COLLECTIONS DECORDOVA MUSEUM, Lincoln Ma MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Krakow, Poland, THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MUSEUM OF ART IN BANGOR. Bangor ME, THE ART COMPLEX AT DUXBURY, Duxbury, Ma. BOSTON ATHENAEUM, Boston, MA PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, Philadelphia, PA NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, (Smithsonian), Washington, DC FOGG ART MUSEUM, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART, Raleigh, NC IRANIAN ARTISTS FORUM, Tehran, Iran DANFORTH MUSEUM, Fitchburg, MA NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FINE ART, HANOI, Socialist Republic of Vietnam BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, Print, Drawing & Photography Collection, Boston, MA HARVARD UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA PURDUE UNIVERSITY, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette IN PINHOLE RESOURCE CENTER, San Larenzo, NM. Public and Private Collections throughout the US, Europe, Pakistan, the Middle East and Australia.

Walter Crump