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Home > People > Photographers > Amy Stein

Dates:  1970, 31 August - 3108
Born:  US, Washington DC
Active:  US
Gender:  Female
Website:  www.amysteinphoto.com
 
  
Contemporary American photographer. 
  
Artist statement: 
  
My photographs serve as modern dioramas of our new natural history. Within these scenes I explore our paradoxical relationship with the "wild" and how our conflicting impulses continue to evolve and alter the behavior of both humans and animals. We at once seek connection with the mystery and freedom of the natural world, yet we continually strive to tame the wild around us and compulsively control the wild within our own nature. Within my work I examine the primal issues of comfort and fear, dependence and determination, submission and dominance that play out in the physical and psychological encounters between man and the natural world. Increasingly, these encounters take place within the artificial ecotones we have constructed that act as both passage and barrier between domestic space and the wild.
 
The photographs in this series are constructed based on real stories from local newspapers and oral histories of intentional and random interactions between humans and animals. The narratives are set in and around Matamoras, a small town in Northeast Pennsylvania that borders a state forest.
 
(Amy Stein, Domesticated, February 2008)

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Education
 
2006 MFA in Photography, School of Visual Arts, New York City
1995 MSc in Political Science, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
1992 BSc in Political Science, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
 
2008-present Faculty, The School of Visual Arts, New York City
2007-present Faculty, Parsons/The New School, New York City
2006-2007 Executive Director, Do You Know What it Means, New Orleans, Louisiana
2002-2004 Teaching Assistant, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
2002 Teaching Assistant, Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockland, Maine
 
Exhibitions
 
2008 Domesticated, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 Car Culture, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2007 The Interactive Landscape, Mt. Tremper Arts, Mt. Tremper, NY
2007 Two Person Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2007 Road Trip, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Discovery 2007, Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain
2007 VersionFest Photographic Invitational, Chicago, IL
2007 Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
2007 AIPAD, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Photo LA, Santa Monica, CA
2007 3 x 5, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 No Fancy Titles, Randall Scott Gallery, Washington, DC
2006 ARTWALK NY, New York, NY
2006 Saatchi Your Gallery @ The Guardian, London, England
2006 SVA Alumni Auction, Visual Arts Gallery, New York City
2006 Resonance, The Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington
2006 ASMP Image ’06, Thomas Werner Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Affordable Art Fair, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY
2006 Early Work, MFA Thesis Show, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Person in Place, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2006 Bearing In Mind, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Fall Benefit Auction, Positive Focus Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2005 Uniformity, Westside Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2004 American Images, BBC Gallery, London, England
2004 Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington
2004 Contemporary Work, Texas Artist’s Museum, Port Arthur, Texas
2004 Annual Juried Show, South Arkansas Arts Center, El Dorado, Arkansas
 
Awards
 
2007 Critical Mass Book Award
2007 Discovery 2007, Photo Espana, Finalist
2006 American Society of Media Photographers Image ’06, First Place
2006 International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention
2006 Photo District News Photo Annual
2005 Photo District News Photo Annual
2004 Photo District News Photo Annual
SAAC/Timberland Bank Annual Arts Competition, Second Place
The Washington Post Travel Photography Award, First Place
 
Collections
 
The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
The West Collection, Pennsylvania  
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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