Bio
b. 1979, Atlanta, GA
Education
2006
MFA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2003
BFA University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2002
National Student Exchange, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
The Maine Photographic Workshop, Rockport, ME
Academic Posts
2010 - Present
Visiting Faculty, Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2017
Littoral Drift Nearshore, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
Littoral Drift, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Littoral Drift, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
2015
Littoral Drift, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2012
Surface Disruptions, University of Missouri Craft Studio Gallery, Columbia, MO
2011
Eluvium, Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009
Instar, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
Some Humanly Visible Part of Shapelessness in Endlessness, Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico
2008
Floating+Falling, IDEAL, Calgary, Canada
2007
Planetary Confinement, The Other Gallery, Banff, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
New Territory: Landscape Photography Today, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2017
Women in Color, The Rubber Factory, New York, NY
Women in Photography, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
re:collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
Phenomenon, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
All Natural, San Diego State University Downtown Gallery, San Diego, CA
Low Fidelity: The Action of Light, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Spectral Hues: Artists + Color, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Insights: New Approaches to Photography Since 2000, PHOTOFAIRS, San Francisco, CA
2016
The Surface of Things, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Of Many Minds, Euqinom Projects, San Francisco, CA
Discoveries of the Meeting Place, FotoFest Biennial, Houston, TX
Photography Is Magic, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
Cyanotypes: Photography’s Blue Period, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Salt/Water, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
2015
Photography and the Scientific Spirit, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Photography Sees the Surface, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
Fields of Abstraction, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong
Landscapes with Juror Chantel Paul, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Imaging Now: Collected Visions, Hyde Gallery, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Femme Papel, Rayko Art Center, San Francisco, CA
2014
Everybody’s Ocean, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA
Constructed Image, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Up All Night, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
More Than One Way, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Center Forward 2014, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Secrets of Earth, Public Works Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Process, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA
Smoke and Mirrors, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2013
Cover to Cover, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
One-of-a-Kind, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
Take Me Away, San Francisco Arts Commission, City Hall Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
Who's Afraid of Color?, The McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Antarctica, Under the Bed Gallery, Elephant Island, Antarctica
Flip File, Regina Rex, New York, NY
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Madrid Photo, Madrid, Spain
Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009
Ersatz, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Civilization and Its Discontents, Conjunction Collective Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Making Pictures, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
Unconstrained Growth into the Void, Switchback, Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico
2008
Switchback, The Other Gallery, Banff, Canada
Elevator Intervention, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
2007
Landscape, Other, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
Home, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2006
Seen Through Glass, Conflux Festival for Contemporary Psychogeography, Brooklyn, NY
Grants and Awards
2018
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY
2015
Award, The Fleishhacker Foundation
2014
First Place Portfolio Award by Charlotte Cotton, Camera Club of New York, New York, NY
Critical Mass International Photography Competition (finalist)
John Clarence Laughlin Award (finalist)
2013
Baum Award, San Francisco, CA (nominated)
2012-2015
Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2010
Artist in Residence, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
2009
Artist in Residence, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2008
Darwall Scholarship, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
Cosmic Rays Research Artist in Residence, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
2007
Artist in Residence, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
2006
Anne Bremer Memorial Artists’ Book Award, San Francisco, CA
Paul Sack Photographic Award, San Francisco, CA (Honorable Mention)
Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA
Selected Bibliography
2018
Knoblauch, Loring, “Anna Atkins Refracted: Contemporary Works @New York Public Library.” Collector Daily 31 October 2018
Boyd, Kealey. “Charting New Territory in Landscape Photography.” Hyperallergic 5 September 2018
Delson, Susan. “In Denver, Landscapes Soaked, Digitized and Irradiated.” The Wall Street Journal 8 June 2018
“Guggenheim Foundation Announces 2018 Fellows.” Artforum 5 April 2018
2017
Jukić, Nina. “Littoral Drift Series.” Reset the Apparatus! May 2017
Knoblauch, Loring. “Meghann Riepenhoff, Littoral Drift.” Collector Daily 12 April 2017
Hatfield, Zack. “Photographs Made with the Ocean Capture Its Swirling Rhythms.” Hyperallergic 4 April 2017
Dykstra, Jean. “Portfolio: M. Riepenhoff.” Photograph Magazine March 2017
Goldberg, Melissa. “This Artist Uses Water to Create Stunning Works of Art.” Oprah Magazine February 2017
2016
Beil, Kim. “Of Many Minds.” Artforum September 2016
Mallonee, Laura. “The Ocean Made These Wild Photos. Yes, Really.” Wired 30 August 2016
Evans, McNair. “Meghann Riepenhoff: The States Project: California.” Lenscratch 14 August 2016
Risch, Conor. “Beyond the 2D Print: Meghann Junell Riepenhoff's Evolving Cyanotypes.” Photo District News 11 August 2016
Bresler, Edie. “Cyanotypes: Photography’s Blue Period at The Worcester Art Museum.” Photograph Magazine July/August 2016
Lowry, Rachel. “10 Things to See at FotoFest Houston.” TIME Lightbox 16 March 2016
“Q&A: Meghann Riepenhoff in conversation with Allie Haeusslein.” Strange Fire Collective 10 March 2016 [catalogue text]
Koeppel, Frederic. “Meghann Riepenhoff’s cyanotypes capture essence of ocean in ‘Littoral Drift’” The Commercial Appeal 1 March 2016
Margolis-Pineo, Sarah. “Salt/Water at the Photographic Center Northwest.” Daily Serving 17 February 2016
Loos, Ted. “Cyanotype, Photography’s Blue Period, Is Making a Comeback.” New York Times 5 February 2016
Hobbs, Jess. “Cyanotype Printing with Waves and Rain.” Makezine 15 January 2016
Zack, Jessica. “S.F. artist Meghann Riepenhoff works with waves on abstract works.” San Francisco Chronicle 4 January 2016
2015
Desmarais, Charles. “Meghann Riepenhoff’s grand (and pretty) experiments.” San Francisco Chronicle 18 December 2015
2014
James, Christopher. The Book of Alternative Photographic Process, 3rd Edition. Book. 2014
Upchurch, Michael. “Photo Center NW’s ‘Process’ is about more than images.” The Seattle Times 28 March 2014
2013
Aperture PhotoBook Review Summer 2013 [pull-out centerfold]
ZYZZYVA. Spring 2013 [cover, 8-page spread]
2012
“Meghann Riepenhoff’s homemade galaxies.” Phaidon News 19 December 2012
Colberg, Joerg. “Meghann Junell Riepenhoff.” Conscientious 8 February 2012
2011
Romano, Heidi. “Configurations of thought.” Unless You Will 6 November 2011
Harper’s Magazine December 2011
“Word Choice.” BOMB Magazine 16 December 2011
Best, David. “San Francisco Roundup Feature: Doug Rickard, Todd Hido, Meghann Riepenhoff, Janet Delaney.” Black & White’s ‘Color’ Magazine November 2011
Gratten, Nikki. “Meghann Riepenhoff.” In The Make: Studio Visits with West Coast Artists October 2011