Awards:
2017-2018 MN State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant for Photography
2015-2016 MN State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant for Photography
2010-2011 MN State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant for Photography
2009 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Photographers
Experience:
2008-present
Carrie Elizabeth Thompson, Artist, Minneapolis, MN.
Skills: Photography, writing, pottery and installation.
2008-2018
Studio Manager for Alec Soth, St Paul, MN.
Duties: Digital and c-print printing for exhibition and sales. Planning exhibitions; including printing, mounting, framing and shipping . Handle all packing and shipping requests from books to prints. Editioning all work. Photo assisting. Coordinating lectures. Worked with all galleries US and abroad and Magnum Photos plus all editorial jobs. Backup and archive all negatives and digital files using Media Pro. Maintain storage, print inventory database, crashplan, dropbox, digital & neg archives. Coordinate materials for grant proposals. Supervise intern projects & schedule (new intern every semester). Run payroll, pay payroll tax / MN and federal and simple IRA biweekly along with quarterly taxes, UIMN, 941, 940, sales/use tax. Yearly preparation 1099s and W2s.
2006-2008
Shop Assistant at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Duties: Customer service, money handling, and attend monthly training of new exhibitions.
2006
Teaching Assistant for Art in the park at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Duties: Helping with lessons, teaching children, and set up of classrooms.
Exhibitions:
2018: Wide Open Studio, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St.Paul, MN
2017: From This Day Forward: Marriage and Miscarriage, TruckStop Gallery, MPLS, MN
Notes From My Therapist, Niche Gallery, White Bear, MN, March
Blue Library Vol 2: Conversations, Antenna, New Orleans, LA
2016: Winter, group show, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2015: Waiting Room, Minneapolis, MN, October
Rochester Brainery, The Feeling You Get, Rochester, New York, March
Burnet Gallery, I AM KINDNESS, Minneapolis, MN, Feb
Camden Image Gallery, The Ones we Love, London, January
2014: Minnesota State fair, St. Paul
2013: Familia, If you lived here you’d be home now, Minneapolis, MN, May
2012: University of South Dakota, New Work, Vermillion, SD, Oct-Nov
Winter, group show, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Feb-March
2011: McKnight Exhibition, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN, June-July
Art Center of Saint Peter, I hope we go together, St Peter, MN, Aug-Sept
2010: Summer 2010, group show, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN. May-July
I hope we go together, XY&Z, Minneapolis, MN. July-August
2009: The Minnesota Eye: Contemporary Photography, CVA gallery, St. Paul, MN. Oct 09
Passing/Hanging on, IFP, St. Paul, MN, Sept 09
Minnesota State fair, St. Paul, Sept 09
Midwest Biennial, Wausau, WI, Sept 09
2008: Black Dog Café, St. Paul, MN
Northern National Art Competition, Nicolet college art gallery, Rhinelander, WI
Standing Room, AZ gallery, St. Paul, MN
Lectures:
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Century College, Minnesota
BYU, Utah
Perpich Center for Arts Education, Minnesota
St. Olaf college, Minnesota
Bethel University, Minnesota
University of Wisconsin - River Falls
MPLS Photo Center
The Minnesota Eye: Contemporary Photography, Moderated by Leslie Hammons, Weinstein Gallery
Publications:
Andy Sturdevant, “photographs in Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow”, Coffee House Press, 2013
Blue Library Vol 2: Conversations, 2017
Self-published books:
I hope we go together
GOMA
Notes From My Therapist