Jeff Whetstone Photographs   //  About

Education


B.S. Zoology, Duke University 1990, Certificate in Film Studies
M.F.A. Photography, Yale University 2001

Honors


Factor Prize for Southern Art, 2008
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2007
North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, 2006
George Sakier Prize for Excellence in Photography, Yale University 2001
Al Smith Fellowship, Kentucky Arts Council 1994
Lyndhurst Foundation Fellowship 1991, 1992

Selected Exhibitions   //   Solo

2008

Post-Pleistocene
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Karyn Lovegrove Gallery Los Angeles
Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina

   

2007

Introducing Jeff Whetstone
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
River of Earth
Center for the Study of the American South, Chapel Hill, NC
Pioneer Species
Branch Gallery, Durham, NC

   
2006

Jeff Whetstone: as curated by Catherine Opie
Karyn Lovegrove Galley, Los Angeles, CA
New Wilderness
University of Virginia Art Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia

   

2005

Road in Site
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Jeff Whetstone
West Virginia Museum of Art, Hunnington, West Virginia

   
2003

Zoolatry
Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY

   

2002

Lay of the Land
One Front Gallery, New York, NY

   

2001

River of Earth
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
MFA Thesis Exhibition
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

   
1999

The Life and Times of City High
AVA Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee

   
1996

Here and Far
Chattanooga State Art Gallery, Tennessee

   
1994

The Photographs of Jeff Whetstone
Appalshop Gallery, Whitesburg, Kentucky
Before the Flood, Watauga Recollection
National Folk Festival, Chattanooga, Tennessee

   
1993

View from the Mountain
Appalachian Festival, Cincinnati, Ohio

   
1991

A Few Fields in Prospect Hill
Perkins Library Gallery, Duke University, NC

   
   

Selected Exhibitions   //   Group

2008

Pulse Art Fair, New York
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Photography
University of North Carolina at Asheville

   
2007

Photo Grids
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Glimpse,
Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy
Life is but a Dream
Space 301, Mobile, Alabama
Rural Vernacular
Space 538, Portland, Maine

   
2006

Now!
Gibbes Museum, Charleston, South Carolina
Arcadia
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Forest Primeval
Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia
CrossCurrents
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina

   
2005

Bunker than Thou
Bemis Art Center, Omaha, Nebraska
The Photographers
Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia           
International Artists
Sujiacun Art Village, Beijing, China
CrossCurrents
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
Daylight
Branch Gallery, Carrboro, North Carolina

   
2004

New American Talent (juried by Jerry Saltz)
Arthouse, Austin, Texas
Los Americanos
Arcuate Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico
New York University-Lynne Cohen Foundation Art Auction
Sotheby’s, New York, NY
Fact/Fiction
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut
Critical Mass (juried by Peter Scheldahl)
1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Loom /Labeller
Chattam Label Mill, Pittsboro, North Carolina

   
2003

Holiday Shopping ii
Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
NADA Art Fair
Art Basel, Miami, Florida (through Wallspace gallery)
Violent Violence
Maatschappij Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sylva
Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, NY
Faculty Biennial
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

   
2002

Holiday Shopping
Wallspace Gallery,  New York, NY
Seduire/Seduce
Sotheby’s New York, NY
Indivisible (audio component)
- touring: Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago Center for Creative
Photography, Phoenix
N.C. Museum of Art, North Carolina
Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Philadelphia Museum of Art

   
2001

Photowork (juried by Jeffrey Rosenheim, curator of photographs,  
Metropolitain Museum of Art), Poughkeepsie, NY

   
2000

First Year Exhibition
Yale University, New Haven, CT

   
1997

Juried Exhibition
Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile AL

   
1996

The South By Its Photographers
Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
Columbia Museum of Art, SC

   
1994

Al Smith Fellowship Awards
Kentucky Arts Council, Louisville, KY

Public Lectures


University of Virginia, Charlottesville 11/06
Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta 10/06
Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy 7/06
North Carolina Art Museum, Raleigh 10/05
Yale University School of Art, New Haven 2/05
Duke University-Center for Interdisciplinary Studies 4/05
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago 2/01

Collections


Sir Elton John
Birmingham Museum of Art
Center for Documentary Studies At Duke University
Yale University Art Gallery
North Carolina Museum of Art
Gibbes Museum