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photo © 1984 Anne Turyn
from 'Illustrated Memories', 1984

photo © 1984 Anne Turyn 

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.