I N F O
Contact Info:
Phone: 1-415-235-1457**
** THIS IS NOT WORKING FROM JANUARY 2010 UNTIL JULY 2010
You can reach me during that time at: +962 79 893 6068.
Email: ejg2@yahoo.com
75 Richdale Ave., #17
Cambridge, MA 02140
USA
Artist Info:
EXHIBITS
Solo/Collective (work shown alone or with work of collaborators):
“We Cheat Each Other.” Duke University Center for Documentary Studies, August 2009; transcontinental public performance to be held in October 2009.
“Innu Banner Project.” Public installation of photographs and video installation throughout Goose Bay and Sheshatshiu, Labrador, Canada (with artist Wendy Ewald).
“My Story to Tell.” Participatory art exhibition and potluck supper at the abandoned Post Office in Whitesburg, Kentucky (with Willa Johnson and Brittany Hunsaker).
“39 Years Later.” Interactive Photographic Exhibition (with artist Wendy Ewald) at the Labrador Interpretation Center, Labrador, Canada. August-December 2008.
Fighting with Father. Film—Executive Producer, directed by Daniel Negatu and Yonas Endale, Addis Ababa International Documentary Film Festival, 2008; Harvard University, Weiner Auditorium, March 2008.
“If I Could See Your Face,” Yale Medical School, 2007.
“Edited.” 2-channel video installation, Bard College, 2006.
Time Out. Film—Director. Alem Cinema (Addis Ababa), 2006.
“Abul, Thona, Baraka.” A public installation in various Ethiopian cities and towns, 2006.
“Image=Cloth.” Gallery Wedat (Addis Ababa), 2006.
“She is Health.” University of Queensland, Australia. 2005.
“I Was Not A Child When I Was a Child.” Addis Ababa City Hall, 2004.
“Ka Fitfitu Feetu.” Addis Ababa City Hall, 2000; British Council (Addis Ababa), 2000.
Group (work shown with work of other artists):
"39 Years Later." Labrador Interpretation Center, with Wendy Ewald, Zak Hajjaoui, Philip Nuna and Dakotah Free Snow, September-December 2008.
“Framing and Being Framed” Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, with work by Alfredo Jaar, Emily Jacir, Susan Meiselas, Wendy Ewald, curated by Nina Felshin, September – December 2008.
"Everyone is Friends With Paulo Freire!" PS122 Gallery (New York), with work by Lin + Lam, Carlos Motta, curated by HOMEWORK, June 2007.
“Picture Mourning.” Duke Center for International Studies with Fazal Shiekh, Susan Meiselas, Bruce Davidson, 2006.
“If I Could See Your Face…” Columbia School of Social Work, with Regina Monfort, 2005.
“25 Under 25.” NYU Tisch School of the Arts, curated by Iris Tillman Hill and Alexa Dilworth, 2004.
“Moving Walls International.” Curated by Susan Meiselas and Stuart Alexander. Contemporary Image Collective (Cairo), 2007; Mustafa Ali Gallery and Art Foundation (Damascus), 2007; ESpace SD (Beirut) with Randa Mirza and Rania Matar, 2007; Al-Hussein Park (Amman, Jordan) with Tanya Habjouqa; Third Line (Dubai, UAE), 2006; Al-Riwaq Gallery (Manama, Bahrain), with Aleksandr Glyadyelov, Lori Grinker, and Ed Grazda, 2006.
“Moving Walls 7.” Curated by Susan Meiselas and Stuart Alexander. Open Society Institute (with Thomas Dworzak and others), New York, 2003; Washington, DC, 2004.
“Visions and Voices,” The Annual Conference of the European Foundation Centre (Brussels), 2001.
Collections: Harvard University Library; Amherst College; Wesleyan University; Boston College; Duke University's Center for International Studies; Save the Children, USA.
PUBLICATIONS
Academic Journals: Callaloo (forthcoming); ArteEast; Art Journal; International Studies Quarterly.
Media: CNN; Foto8; The Brooklyn Rail; The Daily Star (Beirut); The International Herald-Tribune; The Wall Street Journal; Shifter; Digital Journalist; artwurl.org; PixelPress.org; LensonLebanon.org; and various United Nations’ materials.
Books: May the Finest in the World Always Accompany You! (forthcoming). Also, my work was published in the following books): 25 Under 25 (powerHouse) ed. by Iris Tillman Hill; Black: A Celebration of a Culture (Hylas) ed. by Deborah Willis; AIDS Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice and Unfulfilled Expectations (UNC Press) by Laurence Gostin; I Wanna Take Me A Picture (Norton) by Wendy Ewald.
AWARDS
2009 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship
2009 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowship
2009 Fulbright Fellowship
2008 Echoing Green semi-finalist; Open Society Institute, grant jury member (with Rick Lowe, Susan Meiselas and Melissa Harris)
2007 Cadre Art Grant; Now Art Grant; Subject of an article in International Studies Quarterly.
2006 Nominated for the 2007 Reebok Human Rights Award
2005 Opportunity Fund Grant; Open Society Institute Distribution Grant
2004 Jacob Javits Scholarship Finalist in Art
2003 25Under25 – Chosen as one of 25 emerging American Photographers
1998 Supreme Court Historical Society Scholarship
LECTURES
2008 International Center of Photography
2007 Parsons School of Design; Yale University Graduate School of Art; Duke University Center for International Studies; University of California, Berkeley; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Boston University; New York University; Amherst College
2006 Serviço Nacional de Aprendigazem Comercial (Sao Paulo); Cornell University; Maryland Institute of the Arts; New York University (with Deborah Willis); Johns Hopkins University
2003 California College of the Arts
2000 Howard University Medical School
Panels:
2009 Bard College (with Carlos Motta)
2008 Wesleyan University (“Photography and Historical Interpretation,” with Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas and David Levi Strauss)
2007 Harvard University (“Visible Rights”) Center for Documentary Studies at Duke (with Diego Cortez, Phillip Brookman and Richard Powell)
2006
Columbia University (with Yewoinshet Masresha, founder/director of Hope for Children)
2004 Open Society Institute (with Phillip Brookman, Brenda Ann Kenneally)
2003 25 Under 25 (with Laurel Nakadate, Kambui Olujimi, Jessica Ingram, Hank Thomas; moderated by Deborah Willis)
Organizations:
Makan House (Amman, Jordan); John Snow International (Boston); Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts (Beirut); AIDS2006 (Toronto); Art Metropole (Toronto); Bridgespan Group (Boston)
EDUCATION
Bard College. M.F.A. 2006.
Duke University. B.A., 1998.
TEACHING
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, 2008-2009
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2008.
Lens on Lebanon, 2007 (Participatory photography in southern Lebanon).
Harriet Tubman Learning Center P.S. 154M, New York City. 2006-2007.
Makan House, Fall 2006, Amman, Jordan.
Sudden Flowers Productions, 1999-2008 (Community Art Program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia).
Visiting Artist:
Amherst College, Spring 2007.
Facing History and Ourselves, Brookline, MA, February 2005.
International Studies Academy, San Francisco, CA, Spring 2002/2003.