Ann Mansolino
Education
Master of Fine Arts (Ohio State University: June, 2001)
Bachelor of Arts in English (University of California-Riverside: June, 1993)
Graduated summa cum laude
Additional study at: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Madison Area Technical College
(Wisconsin), and Penland School of Crafts (North Carolina).
Current
Position
Associate Professor of Photography (August, 2008 – present)
Department of Art, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, California
Art
Exhibition
History
Solo Exhibitions
Thresholds
Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St Louis, Missouri; November – December, 2010.
Signs From God
Orange Coast College, Photography Gallery, Costa Mesa, California; August – October, 2009.
Ann Mansolino
Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan; January – February, 2008.
Thresholds
Holley Hall Art Gallery, Albany State University, Albany, Georgia; February, 2007.
Signs From God
Sean Christopher Gallery, Columbus, Ohio; April, 2004.
Portal Spaces Exhibition
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan; March – July, 2004.
Thresholds
Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio; June, 2003.
Exhibition held at CPT in conjunction with performances of “courage of i.”
Echoes of a Broken Conversation
Site-specific installation at SpaceLab, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio; February, 2003.
Thresholds
Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; May, 2001.
Group Exhibitions
Fall Group Exhibition
Bruce Lurie Gallery, Culver City, California: Fall 2012.
How To Read A Book
Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay: October – November, 2012.
Right Here Over There
Loudoun House Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky: March – April 2012.
Emotional Responses
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona: March 2012.
Elsewhere
Project Space One, Iowa City, Iowa: December, 2011.
Mirror, Myself
The Gallery at Industria Studios, Tuscon, Arizona; November – December, 2011.
Istoria: Exploration in Contemporary Narrative
Satellite Space, University of Texas at San Antonio; September – October, 2011.
Cyberfeast
Gallery 2, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington; August - September, 2011.
Kitchen Gallery Exhibit, Clermont College Art Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Batavia,
Ohio; May, 2012.
Folded Metaphors
College of the Sequoias Art Gallery, Visalia, California; August – September, 2011.
Deep
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California; May – June, 2011.
Close Encounters
Gallery 51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, Massachusetts;
March – April, 2011.
The Interconnected World
Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; March – April, 2011.
Exhibition was part of the TransCultural Exchange Conference on International Opportunities
in the Arts.
Counter Rejection
Ronald Williams Library, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois; November –
December, 2010.
U+2
The Gallery, Brea, California; May – June, 2010.
MOPLA (Month of Photography Los Angeles) group show
Smashbox Studios, Culver City, California; April – May, 2010.
Rivers & Bridges
Laredo Community College, Laredo, Texas; March – April, 2010.
Rio Hondo College Faculty Art Exhibition
RHC Art Gallery, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, California; December 2009 – Feburary 2010.
Bee Here Now
The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, California; January, 2010.
Self
Ovenden Contemporary, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England; June – July, 2009.
Group Show
The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, California; May - June, 2009.
Retractions
Root Division, San Francisco, California; January, 2009.
Rites of Passage: The Mortality of Time
The Nave Gallery, Somerville, Massachusetts; March – April, 2008.
FAB07 International Exchange Exhibition
Atrium Gallery, Calder Art Center, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan;
February – March, 2008. Exhibition traveled to Kingston University, London, England and
JCFL, Tokyo, Japan.
Remembery
Rererato, Portland, Oregon; September – October, 2007.
Stories To Be Looked At, Pictures To Be Read
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; July – August, 2007.
As They Were Passing By
LittleBird Gallery, Los Angeles, California; June, 2007.
Roots and Branches
Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, Virginia; March – April, 2007.
Visual AIDS / Postcards From the Edge
Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, New York; December, 2006.
Exhibition and benefit organized by Visual AIDS for World AIDS Day
52 Singapore International Salon of Creative Photography 2005
Loke Wan Tho Gallery, Selegie Arts Centre, Singapore; September - October, 2005.
Snap to Grid
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, California; September – October, 2005.
Square Foot
AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; August, 2005.
HYPE
The Arts House, Singapore; July – August, 2005.
The National Library of Singapore; August, 2005.
The Last Hurrah
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, New York; June, 2005.
Exhibition organized by The Photography Institute.
ambush!
VanBrunt Gallery, New York, New York; August – September, 2004.
Fighting Back
Motoazabu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; March, 2004.
Exhibition organized by Amnesty International Japan in support of Amnesty’s campaign to stop
violence against women.
Invading Spaces
The Phillips Museum of Art, Curriculum Gallery, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster,
Pennsylvania; March – April, 2004.
Toledo Friends of Photography 2004 National Juried Photographic Exhibition
Center for Visual Arts Gallery, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio; January, 2004.
Visiting Artist/New Faculty Exhibition
Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; January, 2004.
Miraculous: Contemporary Exvotos Paintings
chezTGN, Brooklyn, New York; December, 2003 – January, 2004.
Pause… The Bookmark Project
Koffler Gallery at the Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
November, 2003.
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Gray Scale
Art Works Gallery at The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art, and Technology,
Newark, Ohio; November, 2003.
Apartment Show
Various simultaneous locations throughout Columbus, Ohio; October, 2003.
Pray By Wire
Part of the Plug-n-Pray project, based in Padova, Italy, which addresses the relationship
between religion and technology.
Online exhibition at www.plug-pray.org/wired.htm; September, 2003 – 2006.
Acme Art Company Members’ Exhibition
Acme Art Company, Columbus, Ohio; August, 2003.
The Power of Woman
ArtMetro, Cleveland, Ohio; March, 2003.
Exhibition was held in conjunction with an auction to benefit Planned Parenthood of Greater
Cleveland.
Just Color
Artforms Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; January – February, 2003.
Paper or Plastic
MPX Gallery, Columbus, Ohio; February, 2002.
Little Pieces
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois; September – October, 2001.
Online exhibition at: http://www.siue.edu/ART/littlepieces/online
American Photography Institute National Graduate Seminar Exhibition
Tribeca Art Club, New York, New York.
Held in conjunction with online auction at Sothebys.com; June, 2001.
Photoplay
Wayne and Geraldine Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery, Ohio State University at Marion, Marion, Ohio;
March – May, 2001.
Edith Fergus Gilmore Memorial Award Exhibition
Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; February, 2001.
Un-Identified
Selby Gallery and Orbit Gallery, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota;
January – February, 2001.
Inconclusive Evidence
Exposures Gallery at the Ohio Union, Columbus, Ohio; December, 2000 – January, 2001.
Shadows & Dreams
Rosenthal Art Gallery, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina;
November, 2000 – January, 2001.
Dear Diary… Voyeurism, Confession, and Other Lies
Cesar Chavez Student Center Art Gallery, San Francisco State University,
San Francisco, California; September – October, 2000.
Autobiography
Appleton Art Center, Appleton, Wisconsin; June – July, 2000.
American Photography Institute National Graduate Seminar Invitational Exhibition
Photo Center Gallery, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York; June, 2000.
Remembrance, RE: Women
Multicultural Center of Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania;
March – April, 2000.
The Essence of Sisterhood: Women’s Month Art Exhibition
Exposures Gallery in the Ohio Union, Columbus, Ohio; March, 2000.
Satellite
Silver Image Gallery, Columbus, Ohio; February, 2000.
Post Card Exhibition
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; February, 2000.
Old Mail 1999 / New Mail 2000
621 Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida; February, 2000.
Art Books
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan; January – March, 2000.
M****F*****A******: the Annual Exhibition of Work by Graduate Students
Hopkins Hall Gallery of the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio;
January – February, 2000.
BLD Group Show
BLD Gallery, Columbus, Ohio; December, 1999.
Images From the Edge
Park of Roses Gallery, Columbus, Ohio; November – December, 1999.
American Photography Institute National Graduate Seminar Fellows Exhibition
Photo Center Gallery, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York; June, 1999.
The Sanctity of the Family
The Hunger Artist Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico; May, 1999.
Computer Generated Art
Appleton Art Center, Appleton, Wisconsin; May - June, 1999.
The Bennett Project: an Exhibition of Installation Art
Bennett Building, Urbana, Illinois; April - May, 1999.
In Progress 1999
Weitman Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; March 1999.
The Razor's Edge: An Impossible Landscape
Mary Condon Hodgson Art Gallery, Frederick Community College, Frederick, Maryland;
October - November, 1998.
Second Annual Taste of the Arts
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana, Illinois; October, 1998.
Rhythm & Rhyme: Artwork Inspired by Music and Poetry
Gallery Ten, Rockford, Illinois; July - September, 1997.
What I Once Was, What I Am Now, What I Had to Become
Stillights Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California;
November, 1996.
Professional
Experience
Associate Professor of Photography (August, 2008 – present)
Department of Art, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, California
Photographer (December, 2010 – January, 2011)
Documentary photography of humanitarian aid work with Tibetan refugees in Mainpat, India.
I photographed for three humanitarian groups: HERO (rural medical care), SenesTech (rabies
control), and YTDR Foundation (education and monastic training for Tibetan children).
Assistant Professor (August, 2006 – May, 2008)
School of Communications, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan
Volunteer Teacher (December, 2005 and May, 2006)
Ngwe Pyi Tun Speaking Center and FGL Free Education Center, Mandalay, Burma
Visiting Lecturer (May, 2005 – May, 2006)
School of Film and Media Studies, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore
Teacher (August, 2004 - March, 2005)
Serendipity Russia, Vladimir, Russia
Visiting Lecturer (January, 2004 – June, 2004)
Ohio State University, Department of Art
Photographer (January, 2003 – June, 2004)
Ohio State University, Department of Theatre
Arts Writer and Associate Editor (July, 2003 – June, 2004)
dialogue magazine, Columbus, Ohio
Studio Intern (November, 2002 – March, 2003)
George C. Anderson Photography, Columbus, Ohio
Photography Intern (Summer, 1990)
The National Zoological Park of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Publications
Published Writing
dialogue magazine
I researched, compiled, and wrote the News and “Best of the Midwest” sections in all issues from
December, 2003, to the magazine’s final issue in June, 2004.
I researched and wrote articles about art exhibitions in Ohio from July, 2003, to June, 2004.
Articles include:
“21st Century Ceramics in the United States and Canada” September/October, 2003.
“The View From Here: Recent Pictures from Central Europe and the American Midwest,”
November/December, 2003.
“Appalachians: A Contemporary Cultural Perspective,” January/February, 2004.
“Preserving a Legacy: Twenty Years of the Cleveland Artists Foundation,”
May/June, 2004.
Published Photography
The History of Dying Stars
Photo illustration for The History of Dying Stars, a book of poetry by Oscar Cisneros, 2011.
SHOTS Magazine
SHOTS no. 111, Spring 2011, p 8 and back cover.
Serendipity Russia
My photographs from Russia are used in the Serendipity Russia Teacher Training Manual and
Russian Vocabulary lessons.
SHOTS Magazine
SHOTS no. 108, Summer 2010, p 32.
River’s Voice
River’s Voice, Spring 2010, Vol. 11, front and back cover images.
Self
Kerrecoe, Craig, ed. Self: Self-Portraits from Around the World, an Ovenden Contemporary Project,
Westgate-on-Sea, United Kingdom: Beautiful Cariad Publishing, 2009, p 18.
Grand Valley Review
Grand Valley Review, Spring 2008, Vol. 33, p 33-44 (plus front and back cover images).
TDR/The Drama Review
TDR/The Drama Review Fall 2005, Vol. 49, No. 3 (T187), 157-186.
My photographs appear on pages 168 and 169.
Frakcija magazine (Croatian performing arts magazine)
The 2004 edition of the magazine includes my photographs of the performance group Goat Island.
Online at http://www.laboratorium.hr/work.php (click on publications, then Goat Island)
Cleveland Public Theatre
Photograph used for flyers, postcards, programs, and the website of Cleveland Public Theatre to
promote theatre piece “courage of I,” May and June, 2003.
Ohio State University Department of Theatre
Photographs used in Ohio State University publications, as well as onCampus , The Lantern, the
Columbus Dispatch, and Columbus Alive throughout 2003 and 2004.
Applied Arts Magazine
Applied Arts, July/August 2001, Vol 16, No 4, 116.
Published Reviews of my Artwork
The Journal
Alex King, “Hunt Artist Sculpts Solely for Snapshots,” The Journal, Volume 64, Issue 11, p 5.
Webster University, St Louis, Missouri: November 11-17, 2010.
Article published online on November 9, 2010, at http://www.webujournal.com
The article reviewed my solo exhibition in the Hunt Gallery at Webster University.
Columbus Alive
Columbus, Ohio: April 21, 2004.
Solo show entitled Signs From God was reviewed in the article “Church Chat.”
Buzz
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois., May 6, 1999.
The article, “Charting New Waters,” discussed a site-specific photographic installation I created in
Urbana, Illinois.
Awards
Residency
Summer artist residency at the HomesteadAK in Alaska. July – August, 2011.
Professional Development Grant
Rio Hondo College, Summer 2009.
Faculty Research Grant-In-Aid
Research and Development, Grand Valley State University; May – August, 2007.
Faculty Research Summer Stipend
Research and Development, Grand Valley State University; May – August, 2007.
Honorable Mention Award
“Roots and Branches” exhibition in the Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center,
Alexandria, Virginia; March – April, 2007.
Applied Arts Magazine Photography & Illustration Contest
Photography contest winner, 2001. Image published in Applied Arts.
American Photography Institute National Graduate Seminar Fellowship
American Photography Institute, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University,
New York, NY; June, 1999 and June, 2000.
University Fellowship
Graduate Fellowship in Photography, the Ohio State University; 1999 - 2000.
Honorable Mention Award for Photography
For the exhibition “In Progress 1999,” at the Weitman Gallery, Washington University,
St. Louis, Missouri; March 1999.
Smithsonian Institution Internship
Department of Photography, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.; July – August, 1990.
Lectures
Imagemaker Presentation
and
Society for Photographic Education West Regional Conference, San Diego City College,
Presentations
San Diego, California; November 12, 2010.
Visiting artist Lecture
Department of Art, Webster University, St Louis, Missouri; November, 2010.
“How to Document Your Artwork”
Guest lecture and photography demonstration in Art 180:Art Gallery Display Design, Rio
Hondo College, October 8, 2010.
Lecture covered basic digital camera use, and effective ways to light artwork and gallery
exhibitions for quality photographic documentation.
“Censorship in SE Asia: The Examples of Singapore and Burma”
Invited guest lecture in Communications 371: Media and Society, School of Communications,
GrandValley State University; March 20, 2008.
“Writing About Photography”
Invited guest lecture in Journalism 366: Arts Reporting and Criticism, Journalism Program, School
of Communications, Grand Valley State University; November 8, 2007.
“Photography, Education, and Mass-Marketed Christianity”
School of Visual Arts National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of
Artists, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York; October, 2007.
Visiting Artist Presentations
Four presentations to art and art history classes of various levels;
Fine Arts Department, Albany State University, Albany, Georgia; February, 2007.
“Ethics and Ideas”
Invited guest lectures on ethics and story ideas in online journalism; Online Journalism
Module, School of Film and Media Studies, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore; February,
2006.
Collections
Franklin Furnace Artists Book Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Lincoln National Corporation, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Elisabeth Andreason, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Walnut Creek, California.
Kingston University, London, England.
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay.
The Photography Institute Archive at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California.
Various private collections