ANNE LEIGHTON MASSONI www.anneleightonmassoni.com EDUCATION 2000 Masters of Fine Arts in Photography - Ohio University, Athens, OH 1995 Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology - Connecticut College, New London, CT Bachelor of Arts in Photography - Connecticut College, New London, CT HONORS 1995 Graduated with Distinction in Photography, Connecticut College, CT 1995 Recipient – Claire Garber Goodman Award: Excellence in Anthropology, Connecticut College, CT ADDITIONAL EDUCATION 2005 Washington College, Chestertown, MD – Italian 1993 Salt Center for Field Documentary Studies, Portland, ME – semester long documentary photography program TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2016 The University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy (summer) – Invited Professor – photography Invited: Nov 2014 (deferred one year), Start Date: Jun 5th 2016, End Date: Aug 2nd 2016 2013 - present The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA – Program Director/Assistant Professor – photography, Hired: May 2013, Start Date: Aug 2013 2008 - 2013 Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ –Specialist Professor – photography, Hired: May 2008, Start Date: Aug 2008, End Date: Jun 2013 2006-2008 Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN – Area Head / Assistant Professor – photography Hired: May 2006, Start Date: Aug 2006, End Date: Jul 2008 2005-2006 Washington College, Chestertown, MD – Visiting Assistant Professor / Area Head – photography, visual design and digital imaging; sole full-time professor of visual arts Hired: May 2005, Start Date: Aug 2005, End Date: Jun 2006 2005 Tyler School of Art, Temple, Elkins Park, PA – Adjunct Assistant Professor – digital imaging Hired: Dec 2004, Start Date: Jan 2005, End Date: May 2005 2002-2004 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY – Visiting Assistant Professor – photography and digital media Hired: May 2002, Start Date: Aug 2002, End Date: Dec 2004 2000-2002 Marshall University, Huntington, WV – Area Head / Assistant Professor – photography Hired: Dec 2000, Start Date: Dec 2000, End Date: Jun 2002 1 ANNE LEIGHTON MASSONI TEACHING EXPERIENCE CONTINUED 1998-2000 Ohio University, Athens, OH – Graduate Assistant & Graduate Instructor – Graduate Assistant: intermediate and advanced photography courses; Graduate Instructor: black & white and digital photography courses (instructor of records), foundation course in photography (team taught) Taught Quarter Terms: Winter 1999, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Winter 2000, Spring 2000 1997 Washington College Academy of Life-Long Learning, Chestertown, MD – Instructor – History of Photography Taught: Fall Term EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS/INSTALLATIONS (JURIED & INVITATIONAL NOTED) 2017 Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO: “Remember Me” - invited – scheduled 2017 Dodd Galleries, Lamar Dodd School of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA: “La Mostra: Cortona 2016” 2017 The Shircliff Gallery, Vincennes University, Vincennes, IN: “Internet Inspired: Ireland, Larson + Shindelman and Massoni” - invited 2017 Hamilton and Arronson Galleries, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA: “The Perpetual Subject” - invited – scheduled 2016 Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA: “CAMD Faculty Exhibition” 2016 Palazzo Vagnotti, Cortona, Italy: “Mostra: Opere di Studenti e Artisti dell’ Universitá della Georgia” 2016 Philadelphia International Airport - Terminal F, Philadelphia, PA: “Greater Philly Photo Day 2016 Box 13 ArtSpace, Houston, TX: “Framing Ourselves” - invited 2016 Democrat National Convention Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA: UArts Faculty, Alumni, and Student Works 2015 University of Toronto, Ryerson University, York University, Toronto, Canada: “Visible Evidence XXII Screening” - invited 2015 Hamilton and Arronson Galleries, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA: “Spinning Yarns” 2015 Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA: “Early Works” Jurors: Laura Valenti Jelen and Laura Moya - juried 2014 Sol Mednick Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA: “Holding Pepina” 2014 VASA Project, www.vasa-project.com: “VASA-SPE Exhibition” - juried 2014 The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA: “Pressed & Bound” - invited indicates solo exhibition indicates two person exhibition indicates Spinning Yarns exhibition indicates Tricycle Shop exhibition/event 2 ANNE LEIGHTON MASSONI EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS/INSTALLATIONS (JURIED & INVITATIONAL NOTED) CONTINUED 2014 Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ: “Observing Connections: Photographs from the Teaching Collection & Invited Photographers” - invited 2014 Museum of Contemporary History, Plovdiv, Bulgaria: “Past Imperfect Time” 2014 Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand: “MINA International Mobile Innovation Screening 2014” - juried Also at: Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua Me Ngā Taonga Kōrero, Wellington, New Zealand 2014 Hamilton and Arronson Galleries, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA: “School of Art Faculty Exhibition” 2014 Center for Fine Art Photography Fort Collins, CO: Early Works” Jurors: Laura Valenti Jelen and Laura Moya - juried Also at: Sol Mednick, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2014 The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA: “Well Hung” - invited 2014 Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX: “Spinning Yarns” Also at: Delaware County Community College Art Gallery, Media, PA 2013 The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA: “Holding / Anne Leighton Massoni” awarded solo show 86th Annual International Competition: Photography Finalist, (Juror: Jennifer Blessing, Curator of Photography, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY) 2013 WORKSPACE GALLERY, Lincoln, NE: “Holding” 2013 The New Zealand Film Archive, Wellington New Zealand: “2013 International Mobile Innovation Screening and Symposium” curated by the Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa Screening Committee and Max Schleser in collaboration with MINA’s partner film festivals: iPhoneFF (USA), SEISFF (Korea), Cinephone (Spain), Mobile Film Festival (Macedonia), Mobil Film Festival (USA), Ohrenblick Mal and Mobile Streifen (Germany) - juried Also at: Auckland University of Technology City Campus, Auckland, New Zealand The Digital Ethnography Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia 2013 Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR: “Early Works” Jurors: Laura Valenti Jelen and Laura Moya - juried Also at: Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA indicates solo exhibition indicates two person exhibition indicates Spinning Yarns exhibition 3 indicates Tricycle Shop exhibition/event ANNE LEIGHTON MASSONI EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS/INSTALLATIONS (JURIED & INVITATIONAL NOTED) CONTINUED 2013 The Photo Center Northwest, Seattle, WA: “Spinning Yarns” Also at: Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR Baylor University’s Martin Museum of Art, Waco, TX 2013 The POWERHOUSE ARENA, Brooklyn, NY: “SANDY: Devastation, Document, Drive” a NYFA, AdoramaPix, and New York Photo Festival sponsored exhibition raising awareness and support for artists affected by super storm Sandy - juried 2013 Wabash College’s Eric Dean Gallery, Crawfordsville, IN: “New Media – Millennial Art” – invited (exhibition was postponed) 2013 Monmouth University’s Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall Gallery, West Long Branch, NJ: “Faculty and Friends – Inaugural Exhibition” 2012/2013 University of Texas at San Antonio Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX: “Borrowed People | Constructed Places: Anne Leighton Massoni, Libby Rowe, Kris Sanford” - invited Also at: Wynwood Project Space, University of Miami, Miami, FL 2012 West Virginia Wesleyan College’s Sleeth Gallery, Buckhannon, WV: “Spinning Yarns” 2012 Texas Woman’s University Fine Art Galleries, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX: “10th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition”, Juror: Anne Lyden, Associate Curator, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA - juried 2012 Ice House Gallery, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ: “Faculty Exhibition” 2011 Kendall Art Gallery and Gallery 114, Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, MI: “They Remember Us” 2011 Film Archive, curated by MINA [Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa], Wellington, New Zealand: “International Mobile Innovation Screening 2011” - juried 2011 Kendall Art Gallery and Gallery 114, Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, MI: “Spinning Yarns” Also at: Lupke Gallery, University of St. Francis, Fort Wayne, IN 2010 Galleria ilCAntinonearte, Montepulciano, Italy: “SpostaMenti”, exhibition and collaborative installation with Davor Ciglar 2010 Blue Star Complex, University of Texas San Antonio Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX: “Long Range Collaborations, Made Across Miles: Anne Leighton Massoni/Chelsy Usher, Nate Larson/Marni Shindelman” indicates solo exhibition indicates two person exhibition indicates Spinning Yarns exhibition indicates Tricycle Shop exhibition/event 4 ANNE LEIGHTON MASSONI EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS/INSTALLATIONS (JURIED & INVITATIONAL NOTED) CONTINUED 2010 Gallery 130, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS: “Lo-Fi, Hi-Fi: Contemporary Video Art” - invited 2009 Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ: “Digital Capture: Mark Ludak & Anne Leighton Massoni” 2009 Bodega Shoppe, Asbury Park, NJ: “A little this… a little that” 2009 Soho Fine Art, Lincoln, NE: “PhotoFest Lincoln” 2009 Power House Gallery, Memphis, TN: “Power Up pARTy” 2009 Zecora Ura Theatre, London, England, “Non Oltrepassare la Linea Gialla” directed by Claudio Borgoni, sections of “Yours & Mine” used as performance/set backdrop and catalog covers Also at: Bollywood Pictures,