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  Lori Hepner


     Solo Exhibitions

     2012
Nothing for Any Purpose Orange Coast College Photography Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA

     2011
Status Symbols SRO Photo Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

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

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


      Projects & Commissions

     2011
Lishui 14th International Photography Festival: American Life Exhibition Curated into exhibition by Ellen Fleurov, with Amy Stevens as co-exhibitor, Lishui, China

Status Symbols for Spin 7
Houston Center for Photography, August 28, 2011, Houston, TX

     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


      Select Group Exhibitions
      2012-2013
American Life  Traveling Exhibition of 34 American Photographers selected by 10 invited
curators.
     China National Fine Art Academy Gallery, Beijing, China
     Luxun Fine Art Academy, Shenyang, China
     Hangzhou Fine Art Muesum, Hangzhou, China
     Liu Hai Su Fine Art Museum, Shanghai, China
     Guangdong Modern Museum, Guangzho, China
     He Xiangning Fine Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
     Wuhan Fine Art Museum, Wuhan, China
     Chengdu Modern Museum, Chengdu, China

      2012
PWP’s International Women’s Juried Exhibition  .No Gallery, juried by Deborah Klomp Ching, New York, NY *Second Place Award for People (Forthcoming 5/2012)

COLLISION17:transformer  Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, Curated by William Tremblay and Georgina Lewis, Jamaica Plain, MA

2012 Print Auction Exhibition
Houston Center for Photography, curated by
Bevin Bering Dubrowski, Houston, TX

      2011

Keystone.1
, Pennsylvania Photography Biennial, Silver Eye Center for Photography, curated by Ellen Fleurov, Pittsburgh, PA

29th Anniversary Juried Membership Exhibition Houston Center for Photography, Juried exhibition by Ariel Shanberg, Houston, TX

Taking Part  Athica, curated exhibition by Brigette Thomas, Athens, GA

De la realidad al deaseo.  Descubrimientos PHE10  (From Reality to Desire.  Discoveries PHE10).  BilbaoArte, curated exhibition of 12 photographers from PHE10 by Francisco Carpio, Bilbao, Spain

      2010
De la realidad al deaseo.  Descubrimientos PHE10  El Punto Del Carmen, curated exhibition of 12 photographers from PHE10 by Francisco Carpio, Valencia, Spain 

De la realidad al deaseo.  Descubrimientos PHE10  Centro de las artes de Sevilla (caS), curated exhibition of 12 photographers from PHE10 by Francisco Carpio, Seville, Spain

InLight Richmond  1708 Gallery, site-specific exhibition juried by _Amanda McDonald Crowley, Richmond, VA

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

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


      Grants & Awards
      2012
Flight School Fellow  Creative Capital and Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Competitive Professional Development Program for artists in South West Pennsylvania

      2011
Artist Opportunity Grant Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. Awarded to attend the Lishui 14th International Photography Festival, Lishui, China

People, Second Place  Awarded by Deborah Klomp Ching, Curator and Director of Klomp
Ching Gallery, for the piece, @joejonas 30 Jul via Echofon, PWP’s International Women’s Juried Exhibition

Merit Award Awarded by Julie Sasse, Chief Curator at the Tucson Museum of Art, for the
piece, @cnnbrk, 10 May via web, # Memphis and New Orleans brace for historic flooding
http://on.cnn.com/ljkON2. 20 x 20 x 20 Exhibition, LSU Union Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA

      2010
Carnegie Museum of Art Purchase Award Awarded by Daniel Byers, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, AAP 100th Annual Exhibition

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
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 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


      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
      2011
Time Magazine: Lightbox Data Visualization: Twitter Portraits by Lori Hepner
by Neil Harris, August 2011 (here)

      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

      2010-present
Arts & Advocacy Committee, Member
Arts Research Committee,  Member
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
Pittsburgh, PA

      2011-present
Board of Directors, Member
Silver Eye Center for Photography
Pittsburgh, PA