CV

 

Education

Photography

M.F.A. in Photography
Maine Media College
Rockport, ME
November, 2018

Graduate Schools

Education
Shady Hill Teacher Training Program
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1992

M.A. in History of American Civilization
Brandeis University
Waltham, Massachusetts
1987

Law School

J.D., cum laude
Editor, Harvard Law Review
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1971

College

A.B. cum laude
Barnard College, Columbia University
New York, New York
Phi Beta Kappa
1968


Post-Graduate Fellowships and Positions

First Post-Graduate Fellow:  Maine Media College
2019-21

National Research Associate: The Living New Deal
2018–ongoing

Affiliate Member: Optics Lab @ MIT Museum
2018-ongoing


Photography Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

Animate, Beacon Gallery; Boston, MA; September 2022.

Focus Wall Featured Artist, Midwest Center for Photography; Wichita, KS;  October – December, 2021.

“All Here, All Now” solo show, Through This Lens Gallery; Durham, NC;  October 15 – November 13, 2021.

“Click! Fair” Photography Festival; Durham, NC; October 17, 2021.

“All Here, All Now” featured portfolio, Midwest Center for Photography; Wichita, KS;  April – September 2021.

“The Mind of God” solo show, Beacon Gallery; Boston, MA; June 2021.

“All Here, All Now” video installation, Griffin Museum of Photography; Winchester, MA;  March 2020.

“Abstraction/Perception” Beacon Gallery; Boston, MA;  March 2020.

“Windows” solo exhibition on Artsy.net;  April 2020.

“Downtown in My Mind” solo exhibition, Auburn Gallery; Los Angeles, CA;  April 2020.

“E=mc²” solo exhibition, Voies Off Festival; Arles, France; July 2019.

“E=mc²” video installation, Meta Lab Gallery at Harvard; Cambridge, MA;  October 1 – 31, 2019.

“La Vérité Créatrice d’Illusions” video installation, MIT Museum Studio and Gallery; Cambridge, MA;  September 2019 – November 2020.

“Silence” curated international exhibition, PH21; Budapest, Hungary;  April 7 – 27, 2022.

Group Exhibitions

“The Shape of Things” Praxis Arts Center; St. Paul, MN; September 24 – October 8, 2022.

“–scapes” PH21 Gallery; Budapest, Hungary; September 22 – October 15, 2022.

“URBAN, SUBURBAN, RURAL” Honorable Mention, New York Center for Photographic Art; New York, NY; Dates TBD.

“Significant Colour” PH21 Gallery; Budapest, Hungary; August 25 – September 17, 2022.

“Americana” Midwest Center for Photography; Wichita, KA; July 8 – 29, 2022.

“The Ephemeral and The Evanescence Perception” LoosenArt; Rome, Italy; June 27 – July 5, 2022.

“A/Symmetrical” Juror’s Choice Award, PH21 Gallery; Rome, Italy; June 10 – 20, 2022.

“The art of photography – Barcelona” PH21; Barcelona, Spain; May 9 – 15, 2022.

“Transience” Praxis Photo Arts Center; Minniapolis, Minnisota;
April 16 – 30, 2022.

“Silence” PH21; Budapest, Hungary; April 7 – 27, 2022. 

“2022 MWCP Juried Exhibition” Midwest Center for Photography; Wichita, KA;  March 4 – 25, 2022.

“LENS 2022” international juried exhibition, Perspective Gallery; Evanstown, IL; March 3 – 27, 2022.

“Empty Places, Abandoned Spaces” Praxis Gallery; Minneapolis, MN; February 19 – March 5, 2022.

“Photographic Visions” PH21; Budapest, Hungary;  February 10 – March 5, 2022.

“Feminine/Masculine” Curator’s Choice Award, PH21; Budapest, Hungary; February 10 – March 5, 2022.

“12th Annual Photobook Show” Davis-Orton Gallery; Hudson, NY;  Novermber 19 – December 20, 2021
and Griffin Museum of Photography; Winchester, MA; January 6 – February 27, 2022.

“Black and White” Auburn Gallery; Los Angeles, CA; December 27, 2021 – January 14, 2022.

“Dis/harmony” PH21; Budapest, Hungary; December 16, 2021 – January 8, 2022.

“Don’t Make Me Laugh” Praxis Photo Arts Center; Minneapolis, MN;  December 18, 2021 – January 3, 2022.

“Scapes” PH21; Budapest, Hungary; November – December 2021.

“Developed Work” Midwest Center for Photography; Wichita, KS;  November 5 – 26, 2021.

“Shapes”  Millepiani Gallery; Rome, Italy; October – November 2021.

“Gesture” Midwest Center for Photography; Wichita, KS;  October 1 – 24, 2021.

“Shape” Centro Sperimentale di Fotografia; Rome, Italy;  October 15 – 24, 2021.

“Open Call” Photoplace Gallery; Middlebury VT;  August 2021.

“Travel” Auburn Gallery; Los Angeles, CA; July 30 – August 17, 2021.

Photo Dock: Filter Photo’s Community Celebration, Filter Photo; Chicago, IL;  July 23, 2021.

“Language” Millepiani Gallery; Rome, Italy;  May–June 2021.

“Abstract” Midwest Center for Photography; Wichita, KS;  
April – May 2021.

“Silence” PH21 Gallery; Budapest, Hungary;  April 2021.

“Black and White” Auburn Gallery; Los Angeles, CA;  April 2021.

“Hometown” Auburn Gallery; Los Angeles, CA;  February 2021.

“Imagination is Freedom” Upstream Gallery; Hastings, NY; February 2021.

“2021 Juried Exhibition” Midwest Center for Photography; Wichita, KA;  February 2021.

“Music” Auburn Gallery; Los Angeles, CA.  

“Abstract” Auburn Gallery; Los Angeles, CA;  February 2021.  

“Downtown” Auburn Gallery; Los Angeles, CA;  March 2020 (director’s award).

“Words, Words, Words” Praxis Gallery; Minneapolis, MN;  March 2020.

“Books and Readers” Davis/Orton Gallery; Hudson, NY;  December 2020.

“The Golden Hour” Auburn Gallery; Los Angeles, CA;  August 2020.

“National Parks” Auburn Gallery; Los Angeles, CA; September 2020.

“Black and White” Auburn Gallery; Los Angeles, CA; October 2020.

“Abstract” Auburn Gallery; Los Angeles, CA; November 2020 (director’s award).

“Portals” Photo Place Gallery; Middlebury, VT;  December 2020 (juror: Elizabeth Avedon).

“Nostalgia” Midwest Center for Photography; Wichita, KS;  
December 2020.

“Signet of Eternity” 10th Annual Photographic Books Awards 
Exhibit, Griffin Museum of Photography; Winchester, MA; March 2020.

“Books and Readers” Davis-Orton Gallery; Hudson, NY;  2020. 

“Signet of Eternity”  photobooks show Davis-Orton Gallery; 
Hudson, NY;  November 2019

Temporality: The Process of Time
Center for Maine Contemporary Art
Rockland, Maine
November 2, 2019 – February 23, 2020

E= mc²
MIT Museum Studio and Gallery
Cambridge, MA
September 2019- November 2020

E=mc²
Solo Exhibition
Galerie Eclectique
Arles, France
July, 2019

Be Living
Solo Exhibition
Pascal Hall
Rockport, ME
November, 2018

Harvard Law School 200th Arts Celebration
September, 2018

"Provincetown Lights"
Solo Exhibition
Salon R
Cambridge, MA
February- March, 2017

"Light Lines"
Solo Exhibition
Panopticon Imaging Gallery
Rockland, MA
April, 2016

The Golden Hour
Juried Group Exhibition
Tim Whelan Photo Book Store and Gallery
162 Russell Street Gallery
Rockport, ME
June–July, 2019


Photographs in Collections

Harvard Law School

Maine Media Workshops + College

Commonwealth School

Private Collections:

Theodore and Susan Stebbins
Paul Pape
Michael Boudin
Jamie Gorelick and Richard Waldhorn
David Zelman
Carol and David Hatch 
Eve Goodman and Jonathan Hatch
Rachel Borson
Lincoln Caplan and Susan Carney
Sarah Hatch and Matt Crowley
Willis Emmons and Zach Emmons-Durant 
Jonathan and Laura Zittrain
R.L. and Jane Stine
Rebecca Nesson and Wayne Marshall
Jason and Alison Marshall
Tricia Moran and Skip Rose
Leila and Sebastian Wolfrum
Molly Caplan
Dana and Christopher Thomas


Photographic Publications

2021 books:

Borne Back
E=mc² 
I’ll Fly Away
Incomparable Beauty
The Mind of God 
Tickled 
Les Consolations de la Poèsie
Surprising Beauty 
The Heart Sutra 
All Here, All Now
The Shape of Content 
Jasper Johns and Me 
WORD *winner 2021 Davis-Orton Photographic Books Award

2020 books:

Downtown In My Mind
Poetry in Motion 
Nefertari’s Prayer 
The Observant Eye 
50 Things I Miss About Paris 
Correspondances 
La Mort Des Amants 
Tao Te Ching 
Reflections (with Seymour Leicher) 

2019 books:

O Allah
POWW

2018 and earlier books:

Envoi (with Seymour Leicher, 2018)
The Signet of Eternity (2017) *winner 2019 Davis-Orton Photographic Books Award
Color (2016)
I Am Awake (2012)

Articles

For a full list of articles by Fern L. Nesson, click here.

“Travels with The American Guide Series” on The Living New Deal.org (a monthly series of photo-essays by Fern L. Nesson)
June, 2019 – Present


Artist’s Residencies

Visiting Fellow, MIT Museum Lab, August 2019 – June 2020.

Post-Graduate Fellow, Maine Media College + Workshops, 2019 – 2020.

Penland School for Arts and Crafts, Residency in Photography, January 2016.


 

Fern L. Nesson | 617.230.2616 | fernlnesson@gmail.com