Lori Hepner

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  Lori Hepner

Solo Exhibitions
2011
Status Symbols SRO Photo Gallery, Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, TX (forthcoming)

2009
Code Words Melwood Gallery, Pittsburgh Filmmakers,
Pittsburgh, PA

2008
Code Words Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Duke University,
Durham, NC

Commissions
2010
Status Symbols Pittsburgh Technology Council, Art and Technology, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA

2009
Status Symbols @1stfans Twitter Art Feed, December 2009, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

2008
Code Words: Mutations Contained: 2008 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA

Two-Person Exhibitions
2009
Code Words Two person juried exhibition with Jennifer Williams, New Works Gallery, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA

2008
Inventions/Interruptions Two-person juried exhibition with Ula Einstein, Craddock-Terry Gallery, Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA

Up Close Haggerty Gallery, Two-person juried exhibition with Donovon Widmer, University of Dallas, Irving, TX

Grants & Awards
2010
Carnegie Museum of Art Purchase Award Awarded by Daniel Byers, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, AAP 100th Annual Exhibition (forthcoming July 23- September 19, 2010)

Best Demonstration of Theme Interplay, Awarded by juror, Eric Shiner, Milton Fein Curator of Art at the Andy Warhol Museum for @cnnbrk, 6:27 AM May 17th from CNN (#2).

PhotoEspaña 2010: Descubrimientos PHE Juried Review,
Madrid, Spain

Artist Opportunity Grant Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. Awarded to attend PhotoEspaña 2010.

2009
Heinz Fellowship Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

Artist Grant Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Artist Opportunity Grant Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. Awarded for finishing costs associated with framing the installation of Fabricated:Edifice for exhibition in the Code Words exhibition at the Melwood Gallery at Pittsburgh Filmmakers.

2008
2008 Silver Eye Fellowship Honorable Mention Award Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA. Juried by Ariel Shanberg, Executive Director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock in Woodstock, NY.

2008 Critical Mass Finalist Juried Portfolio Review, Photolucida, Portland, OR

2008 Review Santa Fe Juried Portfolio Review Event, The Center, Santa Fe, NM

Heinz Fellowship Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

2007
Leon A. Arkus Memorial Award Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Ninety-Seventh Annual Exhibition Awarded by Juror Polly Apfelbaum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Summer Fellowship
Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY

Select Group Exhibitions
2010
100th Annual Exhibition Carnegie Museum of Art, juried exhibition by Donald Miller and Al Miner, Pittsburgh, PA

Interplay Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, juried exhibition by Eric Shiner, Milton Fine Curator of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Organic Prospective Artlink Gallery, 5 person exhibition,
Fort Wayne, IN

Auction Preview Exhibition Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA

PhotoSpiva 2010 George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, juried exhibition by Deborah Klochko, Joplin, MO


2009
IDEAS 09: Arts at the Digital Edge Ball State Museum of Art, Juried exhibition by Dena Eber, Muncie, IN

Censored GCSU Museum, Juried exhibition by Shannon Morris, Milledgeville, GA

99th Annual Exhibition Carnegie Museum of Art, Juried exhibition by Doryun Chong, Pittsburgh, PA

Self Portrait: Silver Eye at 30 Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA

27th Anniversary Juried Membership Exhibition Houston Center for Photography, Juried exhibition by Katherine Ware, Houston, TX

Ritual and Repetition CEPA Gallery, Juried exhibition, Buffalo, NY


2008
Fellowship 2008: A Map of Latin American Dreams Silver Eye Center for Photography, Juried by Ariel Shanberg, Pittsburgh, PA

Pittsburgh Photography Invitational RMU Media Arts Gallery, Robert Morris University, Invitational exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA

Wide Open: Pixel Pops 2008 Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Juried exhibition by Damon Loren Baker, Urbana, IL

Rewind, Remix, Fast Forward: Exploring Our Cultural Ecosystem Through Video Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Juried Screening, Pittsburgh, PA

Westmoreland Museum of American Art Biennial Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Juried exhibition, Greensburg, PA

In the Beginning: Exploring Origins in Contemporary Art Fox Art Gallery, Juried exhibition by Shayna V. McConville, Martha Lucy, & Sharka Hyland, in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania Graduate Humanities Forum, Philadelphia, PA


2007
97th Annual Exhibition Carnegie Museum of Art, Juried exhibition by Polly Apfelbaum, Pittsburgh, PA

III Muestra monográfica de Media Art. Redes: Sexto Festival Internacional de la Imagen,Museum of Art of Calda: Digital Scenes, Juried exhibition, Manizales, Colombia

Ritual and Repetition James W. and Lois I. Richmond Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Western Michigan University, Juried exhibition, Kalamazoo, MI

Artist Talks
2009
Status Symbols TEDx Leadership Pittsburgh, November 14, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA

Code Words: Deciphered AIGA Pittsburgh Pecha Kucha Night: Volume 2, April, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA


2008
Code Words: Dissolving a Practice of Photography in Technological Terms Society for Photographic Education Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, November, 2008, Pittsburgh, PA

Code Words: Exploring the Boundaries of Photography, Digital Imaging, and Conceptual Art in a Post-Medium Era Society for Photographic Education Midwest Regional Conference, November, 2008, Cleveland, OH

Code Words: An Obsession with Technology Recollection, Recognition, Reaction - The 3 "R's" of Studio Art Research: Chaired by Reni Gower, Southeastern College Art Association Conference, September 26, 2008, New Orleans, LA

Inventions/Interruptions: Gallery Talk Terry-Craddock Gallery, Riverviews Artspace, May 2, 2008, Lynchburg, VA

Up Close: Gallery Talk Haggerty Gallery, March 7, 2008, Irving, TX


2007
97th Annual Award Winner’s Talk Carnegie Museum of Art, December 2, 2007, Pittsburgh, PA

Unworkings & Code Words Dorkbot:Pittsburgh, October 18, 2007, Pittsburgh, PA

Nota Bene II: Unworkings of a Binary System 2007 College Art Association National Conference, February 15, 2007, New York, NY


Artist Residencies
2009
Heinz Fellow Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

Resident Artist Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2008
Heinz Fellow Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

2007
Summer Fellow Constance Saltonstall Arts Colony Ithaca, NY


Publications
2010
PQ#99, In Light, Photography Now, edition #99, Woodstock Center for Photography,
Summer 2010

Descubrimientos PHE10 Catalog PhotoEspaña, June 2010

Interplay Catalog Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, June 2010

2009
Exposure Magazine, edited by Carla Williams, Lori Hepner's Binary Code (interview with Collette Copeland) Fall 2009, 42:2

2007
Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus Bits, Bytes and the Rhetoric of Practice: New Media Artist Statements Fall 2007, v.03 n.01


Education
2005
Rhode Island School of Design M.F.A. in Digital Media

2003
Rochester Institute of Technology B.F.A. in Fine Art Photography


Professional Appointments
2007-present
Assistant Professor of Integrative Arts
Penn State University,
Greater Allegheny Campus, McKeesport, PA

2009-2010
Faculty Fellow
Rock Ethics Institute
Penn State University,
University Park Campus, State College, PA

2005-2007
Assistant Professor of New Media Design
SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY