Resume
(brief version) John B. Ganis
Professor, Photography Department
College for Creative Studies
Detroit, MI 48202
E Mail: jganis@johnganisphotography.com
http://johnganisphotography.com/
- Selected One Person Exhibitions
2007 U Cen Fine Art Gallery, “Honored Educator” University of Michigan, Flint, MI
2006 FotoFest International Biennial of Photography, Houston, TX
2004 Spazio DellaVolta, “Il Paesaggio Americano in via di Sparizione” Genoa, Italy
2004 Galerie Lichtblick, “Consuming the American Landscape” Cologne, Germany
2003 Revolution Gallery, Consuming the American Landscape, Detroit, MI
2002 Blue Sky Gallery, "Consuming the American Landscape", Portland, OR
1996 Cranbrook Museum of Art, "Danger Zone: Reichhold Chemical Plant," Bloomfield Hills, MI
1991 The Union Square Gallery, "American Soil," New York, NY
- Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Artcite Gallery, “Check out this Sprawl”, Windsor, Ontario
2007 The New York Public Library, “Making the Scene: The Midtown Y Gallery…”
2007 Cranbrook Art Museum, “Shrinking Cities” Cranbrook Art Academy, MI
2006 “Imaging a Shattering Earth” Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
2004 Photokina, “Images Against War” Cologne, Germany
1996 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "Crossing the Frontier…" San Francisco, CA
- Selected Publications
Photography Now: One Hundred Portfolios CD-Rom Publication, Wright State University 2007
Imaging a Shattering Earth, Exhibition Catalog, Oakland University/CONTACT Toronto 2005/6
Kwartlnik Fotografia, “John Ganis, The American Landscape” Poland, #21 2006
FotoFest 2006, International Biennial of Photography, Exhibition Catalog, 2006
Schrumpfende Stadte (Shrinking Cities), Exhibition Catalog, Hatje Cantz, Berlin, Germany 2004
Consuming the American Landscape, (monograph) Dewi Lewis Publishing, October 2003
Camera Austria #85, September 2003
Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West,…, SFMOMA, 1996
Beyond Wilderness, Aperture Magazine, no.120, Fall 1990
Swimmers¸ Aperture Book and Aperture Magazine, Issue 111, New York, NY, 1988
- Awards
2008 Harold Jones Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Arizona, College of Art
2007 Honored Educator, Society for Photographic Education, Midwest Region
2003 Fifty Crows International Documentary Photography Awards (Finalist)
1990 Creative Artist Grant, Michigan Council for the Arts
- Collections
Houston Museum of Fine Arts
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Detroit Institute of Arts
Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art