image from "Illustrated Memories"
ANNE TURYN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 La Salles de Bains, Lyon, France, Anne Turyn, New York City in 1979/1981 (Sophie T. Lvoff, curator)
2022 Giselle's Books, Marseille, France, Top Stories: New York City in 1979 (Sophie T. Lvoff, curator)
2021 Kunstverein, Amsterdam, NL, Anne Turyn, Top Stories
2020 Weiss Berlin, DE Anne Turyn/ Top Stories (curated by Kirsten Weiss and Elena Cheprakova, catalogue with texts by Constance DeJong, Douglas Eklund, Chris Kraus, Adam Weinberg, Angharad Williams)
2020 Kunstverein, Amsterdam, NL Messages to the Public
2017 Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY Anne Turyn: Top Stories Archive & selected Flashbulb Memories, 1979-1991 (Maika Pollack, curator)
1993 Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY from 'Illustrated Memories ' (Leslie Tonkonow, curator)
1990 The Other Gallery, New York, NY Illustrated Memories
1989 Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (Leslie Tonkonow, curator)
1988 Spectacolor Billboard, Times Square, Messages to the Public : What if the Sky Were Orange The Public Art Fund, New York, NY (Jane Dickson, curator)
1987 International Center for Photography/Midtown Bookstore, New York, NY
1986 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX Anne Turyn: Work from Five Series (Linda Cathcart, curator) (catalogue)
1986 Art City, New York, NY (Leslie Tonkonow, curator)
1986 Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts, PA
1985 Windows: Printed Matter, Inc., New York, NY (Lucy Lippard, curator)
1983 Tin Pan Alley, New York, NY
1982 Windows on Fourteenth Street, The New Museum, New York, NY (Robin Dodds, curator) (catalogue)
1982 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1982 C.E.P.A., Buffalo, NY
1979 Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
1977 The Pittsburgh Filmmakers' Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1976 The Grey Gallery, Yellow Springs, OH In Context
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Musée des Beaux Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland Le Plaisir du Texte
2023 George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY Selections from the Collection
2021 Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards
2020 Delpire & Co., Paris, Shortlisted Books, Paris Photo-Aperture Photobook Awards
2019 Kunsthalle Schweinfurt, Germany, Gunther Sachs Kamerakunst
2019 Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Reading Room
2018 Photography Gallery, Pratt Institute, Grass of Memory, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, Section Littéraire (Valérie Knoll and Geraldine Tedder, curators)
2017 Burchfield Penney Art Center, SUNY Buffalo State, 50 in 50: Fifty Works for Fifty Years
2017 Green Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT Picturing Family (Danna Singer and Anna Shimshak, curators)
2017 Photography Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Faculty Exhibit
2016 ARENA at Suite 806, New York, NY, Wrap Around 10, Chuck Hagen, Anne Turyn, Paul Loughney, (Renée Riccardo , curator)
2014 Trinity College, Hartford, CT Artists’ Books & Prints in the Watkinson Library (catalogue)
2013 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Unreal: Conceptual Photographs from the 1970s and 80s
2012 Albright Knox, Buffalo, N.Y. Wish You Were Here
2012 Central Square Theater, Cambridge, MA Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M.
2012 Photography Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Faculty Exhibit
2010 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography (Sarah Meister, Eva Respini and Roxana Marcoci, curators)
2010 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography (Douglas Ekland, curator)
2010 Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO. Exposure (Eric Paddock, curator)
2010 Sotheby’s, New York, NY George Eastman House benefit auction
2009 Mary Brogan Museum, Tallahasee, FL Appetite (George Blakely, curator)
2006 George Eastman House, Rochester, NY Why Look at Animals? (traveling)
2005 Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahasee, FL Heartfelt (catalogue)
2005 Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Media Arts Faculty
2004 Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island Excess
2003 Cooper Union, New York, NY Small Works
2000 Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY Air-Conditioned Interiors
1998 Omni Gallery, Garden City, NY in conjunction with the Long Island Center of Photography The Photographic Baroque
1998 DeChiara/Stewart Gallery, New York, NY, Back to Back
1997 Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Selections from the Permanent Collection: Depth of Field
1997 Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA Matters of a Fine Wall
1996 University Art Gallery, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Faculty/Alumni Exhibition
1996 Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario Multiple Exposure: The Group Portrait in Photography
1995 Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY The Cultured Tourist (catalogue) (Leslie Tonkonow, curator)
1995 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY Stand Up Straight
1995 Independent Curators, Inc. Multiple Exposure: The Group Portrait in Photography (traveled, catalogue), (Leslie Tonkonow, curator)
1995 Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY Hallwalls, 20 Years
1994 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX The Allan Chasanoff Collection: Tradition and the Unpredictable (catalogue)
1994 Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY Summer Salon Pictures We Like
1994 Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Faculty Show
1993 Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Selections from the Permanent Collection: Image and Text
1993 The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO First Sightings: Recent Modern & Contemporary Acquisitions,
1993 The Newton Arts Center, Newton, MA Fragile Power: Explorations of Memory (catalogue)
1992 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions
1992 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA The Magic Object
1992 Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Representatives: Women Photographers from the Permanent Collection
1991 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort (Peter Galassi, curator) (traveled, catalogue)
1990 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Antwerp, Belgium Fantasies, Fables & Fabrications (Michael Koblyn, curator)(traveled, catalogue)
1990 Museum of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy Fantasies, Fables & Fabrications
1990 University of Missouri, Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO Fantasies, Fables & Fabrication
1990 Art 21’90, Basel, Switzerland Photography:1980s Discovery and Invention
1990 Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL Re:Memory (Trudy Wilner Stack, curator)
1990 The High Museum, Atlanta, GA Vanishing Presence (Adam Weinberg, curator)
1990 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Vanishing Presence (Adam Weinberg, curator)
1990 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Vanishing Presence (Adam Weinberg, curator)
1990 City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ As Seen on TV
1990 Pratt Institute, Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Photography Faculty
1989 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Invention and Continuity in Contemporary Photography
1989 The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Vanishing Presence (traveled, catalogue) (Adam Weinberg, curator)
1989 Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba Vanishing Presence (Adam Weinberg, curator)
1989 Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY Literacy on the Table: Cultural Fluency and the Act of Reading (traveled)
1989 The Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI Vanishing Presence (Adam Weinberg, curator)
1989 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Themes and Variations
1989 Franklin Furnace, New York, NY Literacy on the Table: Cultural Fluency and the Act of Reading (traveled)
1989 Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Fantasies, Fables & Fabrications (Michael Koblyn, curator)(traveled, catalogue)
1989 Charles Scott Gallery, Granville Is, British Columbia Acceptable Entertainment
1989 Independent Curators, Inc. Acceptable Entertainment (traveled)
1988 Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta Acceptable Entertainment
1988 Otis Parsons, Los Angeles, CA A Visible Order (traveled)
1988 S.U.N.Y. Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Alumni Invitational
1988 Stux Gallery, New York, NY Fatal Strategies (Leslie Tonkonow and Klaus Ottmann, curators)
1987 The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Arrangements for the Camera
1987 San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA A Sense of Humor
1987 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Women at Pratt
1987 Gallery 400, University of Chicago, Signs of the Real, (Paul Laster and Renee Riccardo, curators)
1986 White Columns, New York, NY Signs of the Real (Paul Laster and Renee Riccardo, curators)
1986 Bruno Facchetti Gallery, New York, NY Acceptable Entertainment (Paul Laster and Renee Riccardo, curators)
1986 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Remembrances of Things Past (catalogue)
1986 International Center for Photography, New York, NY Midtown Review
1986 Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Chicago Transit Authority, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL Critical Messages
1985 University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA Verbally Charged Images (Nina Felshin, curator)
1985 Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. The Family as Subject Matter in Contemporary Art (Jock Reynolds and Don Russell, curators)
1985 The New Museum, New York, NY Group Material: MASS
1985 Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY Light Work-10 Years
1984 Queens Museum, Queens, NY (Independent Curators, Inc.) Verbally Charged Images (traveled)
1984 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Color Photographs: Recent Acquisitions
1984 Vision Gallery, Boston, MA Words & Pictures
1983 Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA Photography 1983: An Invitational
1983 Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY Wit on Wry: Humor in Photography
1983 The New Museum, New York, NY Language, Drama, Source and Vision (curated by Marcia Tucker, Lynn Gumpert, Ned Rifkin)
1982 Center for Book Arts, New York, NY Stories Your Mother Never Told You (traveled)
1982 Nikon House, New York, NY CAPS Awards, Photography, 1981-82 (traveled)
1982 10 on 8, Windows on Eighth Avenue, New York, NY Through the Looking Glass (Claudia Gould, curator)
1981 Inroads, New York, NY Anne Turyn/Laurie Neaman
1981 Alternative Museum, New York, NY Ikon/Logos (catalogue)
1981 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY Narratives
1980 The New Museum, New York, NY Hallwalls-5 Years (traveled, catalogue)
1979 MOMA P.S.1, Long Island City, NY The Altered Photograph
1979 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY In Western New York
PUBLICATIONS BY THE ARTIST
Top Stories, Primary Information, Brooklyn, N.Y., 2022
TENSE, Lucy Lippard and Jerry Kearns, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, 2021, edited by Yana Foqué and Anne Turyn
Anne Turyn: Top Stories, catalogue, Weiss Berlin, DE, with texts by Constance DeJong, Douglas Eklund, Chris Kraus, Adam Weinberg, Angharad Williams, 2020
Top Top Stories, Anne Turyn, editor, City Lights Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 1991
Missives: Dear Pen Pal, Dear John, Lessons & Notes, Flashbulb Memories, Photographs by Anne Turyn, Essay by Andy Grundberg, Alfred van der Marck Editions, New York, NY, 1986
Real Family Stories, Anne Turyn, Top Stories #13, , New York, NY, 1982
Volunteer, A Photo Novel, Anne Turyn, C.E.P.A. Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1982
Photos Included
Starship-magazine #17, Winter 2018, New York City in 1979, shot in 1981, Chris Kraus interviews Anne Turyn
New York City in 1979 by Kathy Acker, photographs by Anne Turyn, Penguin Random House UK, 2018
Aperture Magazine #186, New York, N.Y, Spring, 2007
The Nature of Photographs, by Stephen Shore, Phaidon, London, England, 2007
The Artful Dog: Canines from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art in conjunction with Chronicle Books, New York, 2006
Up is Up but so is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene: 1974-1992, Brandon Stosuy, editor, New York University Press, New York, NY, 2006
A Thousand Hounds; edited by Raymond W. Merritt and Miles Barth; The Cygnet Foundation and Taschen America, 2000
Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne, 1999
The Nature of Photographs, by Stephen Shore, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1998
Memory Revealed: The Mind's Fragile Power, by Daniel Schacter, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA., 1996
Annandale, Volume 133, Number 1/December 1993, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Aperture Magazine, Issue #130, Explorations, New York, N.Y., 1993, pp 42-47
Collier's Encyclopedia, Macmillan Publishers, New York, 1992, Photography
Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Peter Galassi, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1991
Art Paper, Minneapolis, MN, excerpt from "Snapshots from the Future Passed", 1989
Vanishing Presence, essays by Adam Weinberg, Max Kozloff, Rizzoli Editions, New York, NY, 1989 pp.140-146
Past Lives, Amy Gerstler and Alexis Smith, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, 1989
What the Songs Look Like, Talking Heads and Frank Olinsky, Harper & Row, , New York, NY, 1987
Just Another Asshole #7: Thought Objects, Barbara Ess and Glenn Branca, editors, New York, NY, 1986
Contact Sheet #49, Light Work, Syracuse, NY, 1985, excerpts from “Illustrated Memories”
White Walls #10, “Dear John,” Chicago, Ill., 1984
Impulse, “Lessons & Notes,” Toronto, Ontario, 1983
Contact Sheet # 34, 1983 and Contact Sheet #12, 1980, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Benzene #7, Excerpts from "Dear Pen Pal," New York, NY, 1982
N.Y.C. in 1979 , Top Stories #9, Kathy Acker, photographs by Anne Turyn, New York, NY, 1981
Writings Included
Pissing Women 1995, Sophy Rickett, Climax Books, London, U.K., 2023, edited by Isabella Burley, forward by Anne Turyn
Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Photograph, by Jason Fulford, Aperture, New York, N.Y., 2021
Octopus Notes 9, Paris, 2019
Just Another Asshole #6: The Book, Barbara Ess and Glenn Branca, editors, New York, NY, 1983, “Keep Talking” , reprinted by Primary Information, 2018
Writing as Practice, Michi Jigarjian and Libby Pratt, editors, Secretary Press, New York N.Y., 2012 , "Conversation: Ethan Swan and Anne Turyn,"
Up is Up but so is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene: 1974-1992, Brandon Stosuy, editor, New York University Press, New York, NY, 2006
Art Paper, TV issue, Minneapolis, MN, 1988
Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists, Brian Wallis, editor, M.I.T. Press and the New Museum, New York, NY, 1987
Remembrances of Things Past, Lane Relyea and Connie Fitzsimmons, editors, 1986, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, “If Only,” by Anne Turyn and Bob Fiengo
Wild History, Richard Prince, editor, Tanam Press, New York, NY, 1984, “Idioglossia”
Only Paper Today, Sports and Games issue, Toronto, Ontario, 1979, “Lie”
Imprint, Volume 3, No. 3, Peterborough, Ontario, 1979, “Voices from Kinswomen”
Tiding over till Tomorrow, performance by Tony Conrad, 1977, dual 35mm slide projection with images by Conrad, music by Tony Conrad, text by Anne Turyn
SELECTED ONLINE ARTICLES
Know-wave.com
Magic Hour Podcast, episode 44
Independent Curators International ,with Mirene Arsanios https://curatorsintl.org/posts/and-then-sport-said
COLLECTIONS
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
La Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
LightWork, Syracuse, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New Museum, New York, NY
NYC Percent for Art
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2021 Pratt Institute Faculty Development Fund Award
2020 The Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Shortlist: Catalogue
2012 Pratt Institute Faculty Development Fund Award
2003 Pratt Institute Faculty Development Fund Award
1998 Pratt Institute Faculty Development Fund Award
1994 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1991 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship
1990 Art Matters, Inc. Grant
1988 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1986 New Face in Fine Art Photography Award,
American Photographer magazine
1985 Washington Project for the Arts,
Writer-in-Residence Grant
1983-4 LINE II Grant, New York
1983 Light Work Artist-in-Residence Grant, Syracuse, N.Y.
1981-2 C.A.P.S. Fellowship
1979 Z.B.S. Foundation Artist-in-Residence Grant
1978-9 S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo, Graduate Fellowship
EDUCATION
BFA, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
MFA, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo
MA (Linguistics), The Graduate Center of C.U.N.Y.
TEACHING POSITIONS, past and present
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Bard High School Early College Queens, N.Y.
School of Visual Arts, New York, N.Y.
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudosn, N.Y.
Milton Avery Graduate School on the Arts,
Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Cooper Union, New York, N.Y.
California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita, CA.
SUNY Purchase, Purchase, N.Y.
Philadelphia College of the Arts , PA.
S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y.