Nanci Kahn
EDUCATION
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. MFA in Photography with Distinction, 1992
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. College of Architecture, Art and Planning. BFA Photography 1981
North East London Polytechnic, London, England. Fine Arts College. 1979-1980
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, Maine. “Just a Moment in Time” Solo Exhibit 2018.
Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, Maine. Menorah Show Invitational 2014. 2015.
Museum of African Culture, Portland, Maine. Solo Exhibit 2014.
Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, Maine. Beings, Two Person Show “Beings”,2013.
Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, Maine. Seven Contemporary Photographers, 2013.
Art Gallery at University of New England, Portland, Maine. Critters 2011
June FitzPatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine. Something from Nothing-Birds Series, 2010.
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine. Photographing Maine:
10 Years Later, 2000-2009. 2010.
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine. The Judy Ellis Glickman Collection. 2007.
Portland Performing Arts Center, Portland, Maine. “Modern Feats” Dance Festival.
Dance with underwater photography projections entitled “The Underwater Dance” 2005
Art Gallery at University of New England, Two Photographers. 2001
Brownson Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York. Reflections: Three Photo-Portfolios.1999.
Dead Space Gallery, Portland, Maine. Solo Show, New Lives on Old Land. 1996
Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Solo Exhibit, New Lives on Old Land. 1995.
Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Faculty Exhibit. 1994.
Apple, Inc., Cupertino, CA. Lobby Installation. 1993.
Sonoma Art Center, Sonoma, CA. Collaborations’92. 1992.
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA. Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition.
GEOWALK: Looking Through a Different End of the Microscope. 1992.
Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA. MFA Candidates. 1991,1990.
Capp Street Project/ATV, San Francisco, CA. Reverence/Refuse: The Contradictions
of being a Photographer in the Age of Eco-Disaster. 1990.
Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine. Beyond Black & White: Contemporary
Hand-Painted Black & White Photography. 1990.
Maine Coast Artists, Rockland, Maine. Photography Invitational. 1989.
Bridgewater Lustberg Gallery, New York, N.Y. Group Show. 1987, 1988.
Art Gallery at University of New England, Portland Maine. Two-person Show. 1986.
Portland Performing Arts Center, Portland, Maine. Solo Show. 19985
Ledel Gallery, New York, N.Y. Juried Show. 1984.
Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Grant Recipient Exhibition. 1984
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Judy Ellis Glickman Collection: Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine.
Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Yosemite Photographic Survey, Yosemite National Park, California.
Art Gallery at University of New England, Portland, Maine.
Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
Bruce Brown Collection, Portland, Maine.
GRANTS, RESIDENCES & PHOTO CREDITS
Artist-in-Residence, Children’s Museum of Maine, Paper Mache Project. 2014.
Visiting Artist, Deering Highschool, Portland Maine, The Henna Project, 2014.
Artist-in-Residence, PlummerMotz School, Falmouth, Maine. 2008, 2009, 2010.
Saltonstall Foundation Residency Grant, Ithaca, N.Y. 1995.
In Search of Human Origins. Villard Books. 1994
The Human Odyssey: Four Million Years of Human Evolution. Prentice Hall. 1993.
“Skin and Bones: Photography and Public Art in the City”. Photo Metro, August 1991.
“Beyond Black and White”. Maine Times, October 1990.