Next up at Camera Club of New York, the group exhibition, Drawing Pictures with Jowhara AlSaud, Cynthia Greig, Ashley Reid, and Athena Waligore. Curated by Joelle Jensen, the exhibition features four contemporary photographers who employ drawing to push the boundaries of both media. The exhibition opens Thursday, March 4 with a reception from 6-8 pm and runs through May 1, 2010. CCNY is located at 336 West 37th Street in Suite 206 between 9th and 8th Aves. During that same week and just down the street, Clark Gallery will be showing my work at Booth 145 (right at the entrance) at the Red Dot Art Fair which runs from Thursday, March 4 through Sunday, March 7. The fair is located at the Skyline NYC, 500 W. 36th St. and 10th Ave.

If you're going to Photo LA this week please stop by DNJ Gallery located at Booth C-1. The gallery will be featuring my photographs along with work by Eileen Cowin, Darryl Curran, Helen K. Garber, Jane O'Neal, and Chris Verene. Open from January 14-17, 2010, the 19th Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition is held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, located at 1855 Main St. in Santa Monica, CA. If you have time be sure to see the Maria Luisa Morando and Annie Seaton exhibitions before they close at DNJ Gallery on La Brea Ave.

Next up is the group show, The Trace of Archive and Memory, which opens on December 5 at The Butcher's Daughter in Ferndale's gallery district. Referencing Jacques Derrida's Archive Fever and the 2008 ICP exhibition curated by Okwui Enwezor, curator and gallery director Monica Bowman focuses on the trace of archive and memory as it pertains to the creation of an artist's work. The show includes some of my new photographs from Intimate/Intimate, along with work by Kyohei Abe, Kristina Bilonick, Mira Burack, Michelle McAuliffe and Alison Wong. Please join us for the first Salon discussion on Saturday, December 19 from 4-6pm. The exhibition runs through December 23, 2009. An online catalogue for the exhibition is available at the link above.

Some recent good news, several museum, corporate and public collections have acquired my work this year. Among these are the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Mew Mexico Art in Public Places in Santa Fe, Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, MA and the Wellington Management Collection in Boston. In addition, planning is underway for 2010 exhibitions which will feature my new photographs and video. Be sure to check back for updates!

Some of my work is included in the upcoming exhibition The Vitreous: Of Eyes and Optics, opening on Friday, July 24 at Esther Klein Art Gallery in Philadelphia. The show features 22 artists whose work explores themes of eyesight, visual perception and optical phenomena through contemporary art practices. Klein Art Gallery is a branch of the University City Science Center and is dedicated to examining contemporary art and artists that engage emergent trends in science and technology. Its exhibitions are used as a vehicle to promote innovative partnerships with peer organizations in the art, science and technology community. Vitreous runs through September 5, 2009. Check out Roberta Fallon's review in the Philadelphia Weekly, and the artblog (August 12, 2009), as well as Robin Rice's review, "Use Your Illusion" in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

This winter San Francisco Camerawork invited me to create an image specifically for their 2009 Fine Print Limited Edition Program. I'm honored to have my photograph included among this year's roster of artists: Dave Anderson, Julie Blackmon, John Chiara, Lukas Felzman, Shana & Robert Parke Harrison, Mark Klett, Lisa Robinson, Brian Ulrich and Melanie Willhide. Coffee and Cigarettes is a 14 x 11 inch Type C-print produced in an edition of 20. The proceeds of these sales support SFC's programming. If you'd like to purchase one of these photographs check out their collector's program at the link above or click here.

More good news to report, some of my photographs are included in the upcoming exhibition, Complicity: Contemporary Photography and the Matter of Sculpture, curated by Leigh Markopoulos for Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco. The show also features work by Ginny Cook, Igor Eskinja, Daniel Gordon, Chris Jones, and Vik Muniz. If you're in the Bay area next week please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, January 15 from 5:30-7:30 pm. The exhibit runs through February 21, 2009.

If you read German and are interested in the press reviews we've received for my exhibit at UNO ART SPACE in Stuttgart, you can check them out here: Stuttgarter Zeitung and SUR.

Miami Basel opens this week along with many other art fairs in the area. Please stop by Richard Levy Gallery's booth at ART MIAMI in The Miami Midtown Arts District, Midtown Blvd (NE 1st Avenue) between NE 32nd & NE 31st Street. Saturday Dec. 6, 11-7pm and Sunday Dec. 7, 11-5pm.

I just returned from Europe after attending the opening of my first solo exhibition in Germany at UNO ART SPACE in Stuttgart, where Ute N�ll is showing both my Representations and Life-Size work until February 8, 2009. The show looks great and we enjoyed a fantastic opening night on November 8 which included longtime friends, Laurilla and Barbara, and new friends�among them, Matthias and Gisela from Bild Kultur, Martin Reinwarth, Hannalore Kober, Martina, Andrea, Frank et al. The gallery is located in a really lovely part of the city with unique shops, cafes and restaurants housed in very attractive Jugenstijl buildings that survived the war. Thanks Ute and Richard! After Stuttgart we travelled to Brussels to visit our dear friends and very talented artists Christine Wilmes and Patrick Mascaux. Check out their new work Chaotic System. After a good visit and healthy sampling of Belgian frites and beer we had the opportunity to travel to Paris. A very generous photography friend gave us passes to attend the opening night party for Paris Photo and I also had a promising review at Mois de la Photo. Thanks everyone for making our trip so memorable! More pix HERE. Photos by Richard H. Smith.

Earlier this month photographer, photoblogger and all around great guy, Robert Wade, interviewed me about my exhibition, Objectivity, now on view at Wall Space in Seattle and kindly posted it along with some images on his blog Belltown Pictures. In addition to Robert's interview, last week Joshua Lynch of the Seattle Weekly wrote a small review of the show as well. The exhibit runs through October 4, 2008. More good news to come.... Photo credit � Robert Wade, 2008.

Photographs from my series, From the Garden of Natural and Not So Wonders, appear in the recently released catalogue for Foto Arte Brasilia. In the Fall of 2007 the festival organized 120 exhibitions around the theme of Natureza, Meio Ambiente e Sustentabilidade (Nature, Environment and Sustainability), and the beautifully produced catalogue documents the exhibitions and activities sponsored by Brazil's main photography festival. To purchase the catalogue and learn more about Foto Arte Brasilia click here.

Saturday, July 19 is the last day of Staged at Clark Gallery in Lincoln, MA. Featuring photographs by John Chervinsky and myself, and paintings by Nancy Hill and Kathleen Volp, the exhibition "considers the still life as subject matter, pushing the meaning and history of the popular form of artistic expression." Click here to read Cate McQuaid's review of the exhibit for the Boston Globe.

The exhibition, Philadelphia Collects: Works on Paper, opens next Friday, June 6 at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts in Wilmington, DE. The exhibition "provides an intriguing look into the world of collecting" and reflects a range of perspectives and interests, featuring work by modern masters Chuck Close, Richard Diebenkorn, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, Edith Neff, Lisa Yuskavage, as well images by emerging artists. The exhibition runs through September 21, 2008.

Angela Faris Belt's new book,The Elements of Photography has been published and is available at your local and cyber book stores. A wonderful photographer and dedicated educator, Angela uses examples of work by 40 photographers to explore the technial and creative applications of both historical and contemporary photography, providing "visual inspiration as well as a gorgeous collection of artwork for photography enthusiasts." I'm delighted to have my photographs included in this publication along with work by Orion Alexandre, Angie Buckley, Carol Golemboski,Thomas Kellner, Mark Klett, Tony Mendoza, Sylvia de Swan, Masao Yamamoto and other great talents.

Later this week Stephen Bulger Gallery from Toronto will be showing my work at the AIPAD Photography Show in New York. The fair opens Thursday April 10 at the Park Avenue Armory, located at 67th St. and Park Ave., and runs through Sunday April 13, 2008. If you're in the area, please stop by!

If you're in NYC this week and headed to PULSE, please drop by Richard Levy Gallery's booth, # B-2, to view new artworks by yours truly, as well as William Betts, Jennifer Burkley Vasher, Sabine Dehnel, Constance DeJong, Jacob Goble, Teo Gonz�lez, Anna Hepler, In Sook Kim, Per M�rtensson, Andrew Millner, Matt Mullican, Julian Opie, Thomas Ruff, Lisa Solomon, William Steiger and others PULSE is located at Pier 40, West Side Highway at West Houston Street, and runs from Thursday, March 27 - Sunday, March 30, 2008.

The February issue of the Mexican magazine Fahrenheit features my Life-Size series in What a Wonderful World, an exhibition curated by the very talented Mauricio Alejo for the magazine's "Museo de papel." The exhibition also includes the work of Daniela Edburg, Alejandra Laviada, Sarah Madsen, Brenda Anayatzin Ortiz, Linda Platas, Katiuska Saavedra and Sandrasan.

My good friend and amazing artist, Suzy Lake (on the left with Barbara Hammer, right), invited me to attend the opening of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at P.S. 1 MOMA this past week. Suzy is one of the 120 artists represented in "the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art" curated by Connie Butler. Some other trailblazers in the show include: Marina Abramovic, Eleanor Antin, Camille Billops, Louise Bourgeois, Mary Beth Edelson, Barbara Hammer, Margaret Harrison, Eva Hesse, Kirsten Justesen, Ana Mendieta, Annette Messager, Alice Neel, Lorraine O'Grady, Yoko Ono, Howardena Pindel, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, Betye Saar, Carolee Schneemann, Cindy Sherman, Miriam Shapiro, Sylvia Sleigh, Nancy Spero, Hannah Wilke, Nicole Croiset & Nil Yalter, and many others. The dinner and festivities Wednesday night were a blast, ending with everyone dancing to live entertainment by the vivacious Shirelles.

If you're going to be in the Los Angeles area this month check out Photo LA and the Los Angeles Art Show. From January 10 through 13, Wallspace Gallery will be showing some of my Representations series at Photo LA 2008 and from January 23-27 you can see my work at Richard Levy Gallery (Booth P107) during the Los Angeles Art Show, also at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.

Aperture recently announced the selections for this year's Aperture Portfolio Prize. My Representations series was among the 4 runners up which included portfolios by Ian Baguskas, Shai Kremer and Tomoyuki Sakaguchi. Jessamyn Lovell was awarded first prize. To read Sussan Ciccotti's essay which accompanies several examples of my work click here.

We enjoyed a great time in Miami this past weekend (the warm sunny weather certainly was a bonus). I'm pleased to report that Stephen Bulger Gallery also showed some of my Representations photographs during AIPAD Miami (next door to Photo Miami) in Booth #318. If I missed you there, please drop me a note via email. More art fair news to come...

We enjoyed a great opening at Forest City Gallery in London (Ontario) for the opening of Stranger than Fiction-The Delicate Art of Faking History. Curated by Heather Diack & Daniel Ehrenworth the exhibition includes some of my New Eden photos with some fantastic photo-based work by Daniel Ehrenworth, Davida Nemeroff, and Carl Zimmerman and screenings of faux-documentaries The BlairWitch Project and Alien Autopsy. To read Heather Diack's exhibition essay click here. The show opened on September 13 and runs through Oct. 20, 2007.
Forest City Gallery

The exhibition, Altered States: Michal Bachi and Cynthia Greig. featuring new images from Representations, opened at Nicole Fiacco Gallery in Hudson, NY, on Saturday June 9, 2007. For more info:
Nicole Fiacco Gallery

Cynthia and Richard's video, Black Box: This is not my father, will be included in the upcoming group exhibition Relative Closeness: Portraits of Family and Friends curated by Karen Irvine of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. The exhibition also includes work by Harry Callahan, Todd Deutch, KayLynn Deveney, Deanna Dikeman, Vince Leo, Sally Mann and Aleksandra Vaja and runs from June 15 - August 8, 2007.
Museum of Contemporary Photography

Elda Harrington curated the exhibition, Representaciones, featuring Cynthia's recent photographs at Casa de la Cultura in Salta, Argentina in April 2007.