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EDUCATION

2005                MFA, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY

1984                 BFA University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

PUBLICATIONS: MONOGRAPHS

2020                Nineteen Lincolns (New York, NY: Peanut Press)

2014                 The Wavers (Portland, OR: Blue Sky Books)

2005                Using History (Gottingen, Germany: Steidl)

1995                 In Search of the Corn Queen (Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of American Art)

EXHIBITIONS (SOLO)

2025     Chrysler Museum of Art, Jamestown is Sinking, Norfolk, VA

2024      Freight Gallery, The Interpreters, Washington, DC

2021                 Andrews Gallery, William and Mary, University, Williamsburg, VA: Greta Pratt,

                       The History of the United States (condensed and abridged)

2018                 Palmetto Center for the Arts, San Antonio, TX: A Cloud of Dust

2015                 Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA: Greta Pratt, Nineteen Lincolns

                        Chroma, Charlottesville, VA: American Character

2012                 Candela Gallery, Richmond VA: Taking Liberties

2011                 Blue Sky Gallery, Seattle WA: Liberty Wavers

2008               Baron & Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, Norfolk VA: Greta Pratt–American Identity

2007                Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta GA: Nineteen Lincolns

                        Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston MA: Greta Pratt

2006               Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago IL: Greta Pratt–Using History

                        Gallery 13, Minneapolis MN: Greta Pratt–History

2000               OK Harris, New York, NY: In Search of the Corn Queen

1997                 Arista Gallery, New York, NY: New Years Eve, Times Square

1996                Camera Club, New York, NY: In Search of the Corn Queen

1995                St Thomas University Gallery, St Paul, MN: In Search of the Corn Queen

1994                Minneapolis Photographers Gallery, Mpls, MN: In Search of the Corn Queen

EXHIBITIONS (GROUP)

2024     FotoNostrom, Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition, Barcelona,     

2023     South East Center for Photography, Forgotten, Greenville, SC

             Barry Art Museum, Message in a Bottle, Norfolk, VA

2022               Exposure Photography Festival, International Call, Alberta, Canada

Chrysler Museum, Water Rising, Norfolk, VA

                        Chrysler Museum, Building a Legacy: Chrysler Collects for the Future, Norfolk,

2021                Boston University, A Yellow Rose Project, Boston, VA (Virtual Exhibition)

                        Barry Art Museum, Waxing & Waning, Norfolk, VA

                        Gordon Galleries, ODU Faculty Exhibition, Norfolk, VA

2020               Colorado Photographic Arts Center, A Yellow Rose Project, Denver, Virtual

                        Texas Women’s University, A Yellow Rose Project, Denton, TX, Virtual

                        The Front, A Yellow Rose Project, New Orleans, LA (Virtual Exhibition)

                        Cleveland Print Room, The Peer Show, Cleveland, OH (Virtual Exhibition)

2019                Chrysler Museum, New to the Collection, Norfolk, VA

                        The Fine Arts Center, Spectacle and Scaffolding, Greenville, SC

                        Portsmouth Art and Cultural Center, Location/Narration, Portsmouth, VA

                        Julia Margaret Cameron Collective, Barcelona, Spain

2019                SFAC Art at City Hall, Westward, San Francisco, CA, curated by Ann Jastrab

2018                Candela Gallery, And light followed the flight of sound, Richmond, VA

                        GAMU Gallery, American Identities, Prague, Czech Republic

                        Gordon Galleries, ODU Faculty Exhibition, Norfolk, VA

2017                Turchin Center for Fine Arts, Spectacle and Scaffolding, Boone, NC

                        Tweed Museum of Art, University of MN, One Thousand Words, Duluth, MN

                        Neil Britton Art Gallery at Virginia Wesleyan University, Other Than Real, Norfolk, VA

University of Virginia, Law School, We the People, Charlottesville, VA

Neighborhood Climate Change, Public Buses, Minneapolis, MN

2016                Living Arts, Tulsa, OK, Society of Photographic Education, Juried Exhibition

Pictura Gallery, New Americana: National Play, Bloomington, IN

Red Rock Resort, Las Vegas, NV, SPE Virtual Exhibition Juried by Aline Smithson

2015                Gordon Galleries, Norfolk, VA, New Visions: ODU Art Faculty

2014                Minneapolis Institute of Art, Mpls, MN, Making It New Again: Collecting History

                               Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Callahan to Warhol, New Photography Acquisitions

Mayer Fine Art, Norfolk, VA, Incognito

                        Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA: From the Archive

2013                Gordon Galleries, Norfolk, VA Kindred Spirits: ODU Art Faculty with the Chrysler

Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Space, Long Island City, NY: Art Imitates Life

RedLine, Denver, CO: The Reality of Fiction

Madison Museum of Art, Madison, WI: Focal Points: American Photography Since 1950

2012                Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York NY: Party Headquarters: Art in the Age of Political Absurdity curator Eleanor Heartney

                      Baron and Ellin Gordon Gallery, Norfolk, VA: Photographs with Teeth

                        Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX: Snail Mail

2011                 Nicolaysan Art Museum, Casper WY: Living History, Curator: Lisa Hatchadorian

                        Baron & Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, Norfolk VA: ODU Art Faculty Exhibition

                        Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN: Nineteen Lincolns

2010                Plains Art Museum, Fargo ND: Individual to Icon, Curator: Colleen Sheehy

                        FotoFest, Houston TX: Road to Nowhere, Curator: Natasha Egan

                        Galerie SAW, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Bodies in Trouble

                        Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI: Apple Pie: Symbols of Americana

                        The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh PA: Likeness/Portraits: After the Legacy of Warhol,

2009               Beirut Art Center, Beirut Lebanon: America

                        Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA: The Old Weird America

                        DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln MA: The Old Weird America

                        The Historical Society of Washington D.C.: Portraying Lincoln

                        Baron & Ellin Gordon Art Galleries: ODU Art Faculty Exhibition

2008               Park Avenue Armory, Creative Time, New York, NY: Democracy in America,

                        Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC: selections permanent collection

                        Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX: The Old Weird America

                        Madden Arts Center, Decatur, IL: Portraying Lincoln: Man of Many Faces

2007               University Art Museum, University at Albany, NY: Mr. President

                        Baron & Ellin Gordon Art Galleries: ODU Art Faculty Exhibition

2006               MASS MoCA, North Adams MA: Ahistoric Occasion, Curator: Nato Thompson

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC.

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago IL

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

Nicolaysan Art Museum, Casper, WY

Madison Art Center, Madison WI

Tweed Museum or Art, Duluth, MM

PRESS: REVIEWS AND OTHER WRITINGS

2022              National Geographic, Abes Across America, photo essay, Pratt, April

The Guardian, It’s a slow catastrophe: Artists tackle the dangers of rising sea levels

2021               New York Times, Climate Exhibitions Look Beyond Declarations of Calamity, Thackara,

2019               Medium, Exposure, Performing American Identity: the work of Greta Pratt, Seikaly

2018               KQED Arts, In Their Versions of the West, the Landscapes Are Never Empty, Tedford, Mathew Harrison, April, 31

San Antonio Currant, First Impressions: San Antonio Artists, Curators and Gallerists Weigh In on the Best of Fotoseptiembre, Rindfuss, Sept 12

2017               It’s Nice That, “Greta Pratt historical reenactments inform America’s identity”

Strange Fire, “Q&A with Greta Pratt”, May

2016              The Baffler, “Exhibit D Greta Pratt”, Issue #30 Feb,

                      San Gabriel Valley Tribune, “Thinkin’ Lincoln,” Mills, Feb

2015              Hyper Allergic, “The Many Faces of Abraham Lincoln Impersonators” Mallonee, April

Chrysler Magazine, “Interview with Greta Pratt” Winter

2013              Oxford American, “Points South”, Borne, Eliza, June

ARTnews, “Contemporary Artists and the Civil War,” Pollack, Barbara, May

Esquire Russia, “Lincoln,” April

2012              Photo Booth: “Beautiful Tourists,” The New Yorker.com, April

Richmond Arts Review, “Her Truth is Ours,” White,” David, Nov

                      The New York Time Lens Blog, “Lots of Lincolns,” Leland, John, Nov

                      The Huffington Post, “Thirteen Amazing Abe Lincoln Impersonators,” Coppelman, Nov

Little Brown Mushroom.com, “On Being an Artist and a Mother”

                      Walker Art Center.com, “On Being an Artist and a Mother”

2011               Portland Monthly, CULTUREPHILE: Portland Arts, “Greta Pratt, The Wavers” Adams, July   

                      Alt Daily “Friday Featured Artist: ODU Photography Professor Greta Pratt,” Alvarado,

2010             Art in America, “Dispatches From the Brink,” Dykstra, Jean, June

                    PhotoNews Zeitung Fur Fotografie, “Greta Pratt,” A.G., May

History as Art, Art as History; Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education, Routledge

2009            Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, ‘‘Likeness Looks at the Evolution of the Portrait,” Shaw,

                     Lebanon Now, “Exploring America; How We See America, How America Sees Itself,”

                     Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Mattress Factories Likeness On Artist Visions,” Thomas,

Kultura.aktualne.cz, “Greta Pratt: Jakmile vidím vlajku, dělá se mi zle”, Turek, Pavel

The New York Times, “Playing President”, February 16

2008            The Virginia Pilot, “Flag A Day,” Annas, June

                     The Virginia Pilot, “Greta Pratt, American Identity,” Annas, February

2007             The New York Times, “At Mass MoCA, A Carnival of Lost Souls and Masquer,” Glueck,

Hype, issue 23, “Greta Pratt,” Turek, Pavel

2006            Washington Post.com, “Ten Lords-a-Leaping...Nine Abraham Lincolns,” July 5

2006            The Boston Globe, “Blast from the Past”, McQuaid, Kate, June 9

                     London Times, “Using History,” April

                     Photo Eye, “Using History,” March

Reuters, “Photographer Snaps America’s Past in Today’s Scenes,” Speigelman, Art, June

                     Life Magazine, “Only In America,” May 28

                     Minneapolis Star and Tribune, “On the Road, with Camera–and Irony” April 13

                     Minnesota Public Radio, “Is it Right to Call a Lincoln Impersonator ‘Honest Abe’?” March

                     Popular Photography, ”Greta Pratt”, Grossman, Debbie, February

2002            After Image, “Specters of the Ordinary,” Grabner, M., March, 2002.

2001             Photo District News, “In Search of Innocence,” Weaver, Jennifer, May 1

1999             Mother Jones, “History Matters,” Klinkenborg, Verlyn, September

COMMISSIONS

2022            National Geographic, Proof, Nineteen Lincolns, April

2019             National Geographic.com, Why pose as Abraham Lincoln? It’s Personal, Pratt,     

2015             Smithsonian Magazine, What Changed, and What Hasn’t, In the Town that Inspired “To Kill a Mocking

Bird” Theroux, July, photographs Mark Peterson and Greta Pratt

2014              New York Times Magazine, Larry Ellison bought an Island in Hawaii. Now What? Mooallem, Sept. 23,

photographs Mark Peterson and Greta Pratt