Julie Saul Gallery

Education

B.S. Zoology, Duke University 1990
Certificate in Film Studies M.F.A. Photography, Yale University 2001

Honors

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2007
North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, 2006
George Sakier Prize for Excellence in Photography, Yale University 2001
Al Smith Fellowship, Kentucky Arts Council 1994 Lyndhurst Foundation Fellowship 1991, 1992

Solo Exhibitions

2011 Seducing Birds, Snakes, Men, Julie Saul Gallery, NY

2010 Outliers, John C. Smith University, Chapel Hill, NC

2009 Post-Pleistocene, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC

2008
Post-Pleistocene, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Post-Pleistocene, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Post-Pleistocene, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2007
Introducing Jeff Whetstone, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
River of Earth Center for the Study of the American South, Chapel Hill, NC
Pioneer Species Branch Gallery, Durham, NC

2006
Jeff Whetstone: as curated by Catherine Opie, Karyn Lovegrove Galley, Los Angeles, CA
New Wilderness, University of Virginia Art Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia

2005
Road in Site, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Jeff Whetstone, West Virginia Museum of Art, Hunnington, West Virginia

2003 Zoolatry, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY

2002 Lay of the Land, One Front Gallery, New York, NY

2001
River of Earth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
MFA Thesis Exhibition Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1999 The Life and Times of City High, AVA Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee

1996 Here and Far, Chattanooga State Art Gallery, Tennessee

1994
The Photographs of Jeff Whetstone, Appalshop Gallery, Whitesburg, Kentucky
Before the Flood, Watauga Recollection National Folk Festival, Chattanooga, Tennessee

1993 View from the Mountain, Appalachian Festival, Cincinnati, Ohio

1991 A Few Fields in Prospect Hill, Perkins Library Gallery, Duke University, NC

Group Exhibitions

2011
25 Years/25 Artists, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Moving Image Art Fair of Contemporary Video Art, Waterfront New York Tunnel, New York, NY
Southern Views, University of Virginia Art Museum

2010 Open Season, Flanders Art Gallery, Raleigh North Carolina Counterlives, Ackland Art Museum, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC

2009 Photo 50, Goldsmiths University, London Art Fair, London, UK
(super)natural, New York Photo Festival, Brooklyn, NY

2008
Pulse Art Fair, New York Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Photography, University of North Carolina at Asheville

2007
Photo Grids, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Glimpse, Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy
Life is but a Dream, Space 301, Mobile, Alabama
Rural Vernacular Space 538, Portland, Maine

2006
Now!, Gibbes Museum, Charleston, South Carolina
Arcadia, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Forest Primeval, Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia
CrossCurrents, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina

2005
Bunker than Thou, Bemis Art Center, Omaha, Nebraska
The Photographers Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia
International Artists Sujiacun Art Village, Beijing, China
CrossCurrents, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
Daylight, Branch Gallery, Carrboro, North Carolina

2004
New American Talent (juried by Jerry Saltz) Arthouse, Austin, Texas
Los Americanos Arcuate Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico
New York University-Lynne Cohen Foundation Art Auction Sotheby's, New York, NY
Fact/Fiction Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut
Critical Mass (juried by Peter Scheldahl) 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Loom /Labeller Chattam Label Mill, Pittsboro, North Carolina

2003
Holiday Shopping ii Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
NADA Art Fair Art Basel, Miami, Florida (through Wallspace gallery)
Violent Violence Maatschappij Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sylva Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, NY
Faculty Biennial Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

2002
Holiday Shopping Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
Seduire/Seduce Sotheby's New York, NY
Indivisible (audio component) - touring:
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago
Center for Creative Photography, Phoenix,
N.C. Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of Art,
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Philadelphia Museum of Art

2001 Photowork (juried by Jeffrey Rosenheim, curator of photographs, Metropolitain Museum of Art), Poughkeepsie, NY

2000 First Year Exhibition Yale University, New Haven, CT

1997 Juried Exhibition Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile AL

1996 The South By Its Photographers Birmingham Museum of Art, AL Columbia Museum of Art, SC

1994 Al Smith Fellowship Awards Kentucky Arts Council, Louisville, KY

Publications / Reviews
Lee, Sasha, Beautiful Decay, Issue X, September 2008
Yale University Art Bulletin 2006, New Haven: Acquisitions: Prints and Photographs, p.177
Parsons, Laura; "Whetstone's Masculine Nature" Art feature, The Hook, November 16, 2006
Cullum, Jerry "Tree as Testament," Atlanta Journal Constitution, 9/10/06
Arcadia, The New Yorker, Goings on About Town, 8/14/06
Nature and Beyond, New York Sun, 8/11/06
Feaster, Felicia "Deep in the Forest," Atlanta Creative Loafing, 8/9/06
Meyers, Holly, Around the Galleries: The Meshing of Man and Nature, Los Angeles Times, 3/31/06
Meyers, Holly, LA Times Critics Choice Los Angeles Times, 3/29/06
Artinfo.com April 5, 2006/ Los Angeles Roundup http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=13632
Feaster, Felicia "Year in Culture: Top Ten Art Shows" Atlanta Creative Loafing, December 29, 2005 - January 4, 2006
"Up and Coming," Living In Style - News and Observer, Summer 2006
Gimme Shelter, Bunker than Thou Omaha City Weekly, January 2006
Millet, Ann, Crosscurents…, Art Papers Magazine 30:01 January 2006
Fox, Cathy, Photography at MOCA, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Aug. 21, 2005
Beijing International Art Camp, Beijing, China Miller, Lauren Road In Sight: Constructing Individual, Duke University Press. 2005
Whetstone, Jeff. River Of Earth: Photographs and Essay, Daylight Magazine 10/04
Saltz, Jerry. New American Talent. Arthouse Texas Press
Aletti, Vince. Jeff Whetstone, Zoolatry. Shortlist: Photo VillageVoice 6/18/03
Johnson, Ken. Jeff Whetstone at Wallspace Gallery, New York Times, 6/6/03
Aletti, Vince. Sylva at Ariel Meyerowitz. Shortlist: Photo Village Voice 5/14/03
Jeff Whetstone, The New Yorker, Goings on About Town, 4/8/02
Nelson, William. Tension in a Circle of Serenity, The Photographs of Jeff Whetstone, Endeavors v.19 no.3 Spring 2003
The Human Cost of Food, University of Texas, 2002
Seduire/Seduce, Coromandel Press, 2002
slavic, elin. Jeff Whetstone at the Alcott. Independent Weekly Aug 22, 2001
Local Heroes Changing America, W.W. Norton, New York, 2000
Southern Exposure, Summer 1995, 1999
Southern Changes, January 1998
Southern Accents, September 1996
DoubleTake, Fall 1996
The South By Its Photographers, The University Press of Mississippi, 1996
Mademoiselle, March 1994
Migrant summer, Center for Documentary Studies, 1991
Public Lectures University of Virginia, Charlottesville 11/06
Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta 10/06
Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy 7/06
North Carolina Art Museum, Raleigh 10/05
Yale University School of Art, New Haven 2/05
Duke University-Center for Interdisciplinary Studies 4/05
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago 2/01

Collections
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Center for Documentary Studies At Duke University, NC
Gibbes Museum , Charleston, SC
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Sir Elton John Photography Collection, Atlanta, GA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT