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Curriculum Vitae
Education
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, MFA, Photography, May 2002
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, BA, Anthropology, May 1995
Fellowships / Awards
Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers, Finalist Nominee, 2011
Photo District News, 30 Emerging Photographers Award, 2005
Santa Fe Center For Photography, Project Competition Finalist, 2005
J. William Fulbright Fellowship, Kathmandu, Nepal 2002-2003
San Francisco Art Institute, Merit Fellowship for Graduate Studies, 2000-2002
Selected Exhibitions
EMPIRE, May Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO, 2013 (Forthcoming Solo)
The Insides: Artists and the Home, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL, 2013 (Forthcoming Group)
Looking at the Land, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence Rhode Island, 2012 (Group)
Peripheral View: States of America, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, Curator: Karen Irvine 2012 (Group)
Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, China. Curator: Karen Irvine, 2011 (Invitational)
New York Photography Festival, The City Made Me Do It, Brooklyn, NY 2010, Curator: Sophie Morner, 2011 (invitational)
Humble Arts Foundation New Art Photography Vol. 2, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, 2011
TINYVICES: NEW WORK, NEW YORK, Levi’s Photo Workshop, New York, NY, Curator: Tim Barber, 2010 (invitational)
Scope, Humble Arts, Basel, Switzerland, Curator: Amani Olu, 2010 (invitational)
Between the Bricks and the Blood: Transgressive Typologies, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY 2010 (invitational)
‘Tis of Thee, Los Angeles Month of Photography Festival, Los Angeles, CA, Curator: Jessie Cowan, 2009 (Invitational)
What Makes You So Special, Capricious Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY Curator: Mark Jacobsen, 2008 (Invitational)
New York Photography Festival, Various Photographs, Brooklyn, NY
Curator: Tim Barber, 2008 (Invitational)
In Nepal, Jackson Center for the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY, 2008 (Solo)
Photo New York, SFAI Alumni Show, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY, 2005 (Invitational)
In Nepal, Atrium Gallery, Simon’s Rock College of Bard College, Great Barrington, MA 2005 (Solo)
Nepal: Photographs by William Mebane and Linda Connor, University Art Gallery, The Richard Stockton College, Pomona, NJ 2004 (two person)
In Nepal, Angie Newman Johnson Gallery, Ainslie Art Center, Alexandria, VA 2003 (solo)
In Nepal, Siddhartha Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kathmandu, Nepal 2003 (solo)
Interior Spaces: Public and Private, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002 (solo)
Crossing Bridges, recent work by San Francisco Art Institute faculty and graduate students, CBS Marketwatch, San Francisco, CA. Curator: Richard Berger, 2002 (invitational)
Portraits: Boarding School, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2001 (solo)
Don’t Ever Change, Picturing High School, Tuttle Gallery, McDonough School, MD. Curator: Susan Hayman, 2001 (invitational)
Young Photographers United, Capco International Exhibition, Capco. Tokyo, Japan, 2001 (invitational)
Vivid: Juried Exhibition, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA. Jurors: Kevin Chen, Marnie Gillett, Michael Shapiro, Rose Shashana, 2001
Beneath the Surface, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA. Juror: Chien-Chi Chang. Honorable mention. 2001
Recent Work, Artists’ Television Access Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2001
Collections
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Il
Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Photography Collection, Akron, OH
Fulbright Commission, Kathmandu, Nepal
San Francisco Art Institute Library, Special Collections
Artist Lectures / Visiting Artist
Webster University, St. Louis, MO. Visiting Artist, September 2013
Parsons, New York, NY. Visiting Artist, October 2012
Museum of Contemporary Photography, September 2012
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Visiting Lecturer, Spring Semester 2012
Parsons, New York, NY. Visiting Artist, October, 2011
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. Visiting Artist, January 2011
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Visiting Lecturer, Fall Semester 2010
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. Visiting Artist, November 2010
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. Artist Lecture, November 2010
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. Artist Lecture, March 2010
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Artist Lecture, March 2009
Bowling Green State University, Columbus, Ohio. Artist Lecture, February 2008
Jackson Center for the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY. Artist Lecture, February 2008
New York University, New York, NY. Visiting Artist, September 2006
International Center of Photography, New York, NY. Visiting Artist, October 2005
Simon’s Rock College of Bard College, Great Barrington, MA. Artist Lecture, February 2005
University Art Gallery, The Richard Stockton College, Pomona, NJ. Artist Lecture, October 2004
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Visiting Artist, October 2004
Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. Artist Lecture, August 2004
University of Charleston, WV. Artist Lecture, September 2003
Ainslie Art Center, Episcopal High School, Alexandria, VA. Artist Lecture, October 2003
Selected Publications
Adbusters, America, Volume 20, Number 2, Issue #100, 2012
The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY, 2011
Capricious Magazine, Issue #12, 2011
Dear Dave, The Swimsuit Issue, Volume 3, Issue 9, 2011
Adbusters, American Autumn, Volume 19, Number 6, Issue # 98, November 2011
Out Here in Kathmandu, essays by Mark Liechty, photographs by William Mebane; Martin Chautari Press, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2010
The New York Times Magazine, “More Than One Way to Take Over a Bank,” David Leonhart, 2 February 2009.
The New York Times Magazine , “Don’t Look Back: Why Obama is not FDR or Kennedy or Lincoln or History,” Matt Bai, 1 February 2009.
The New York Times Magazine, “First Nation; McCain and Obama Both Say America Should Lead the World,” Christopher Caldwell, 1 June, 2008.
The New York Times Magazine , “Marriage Partners: What Heterosexuals Can Do on Behalf of Gays Who Want to Marry,” Kenji Yoshino, 1 June, 2008.
Various Photographs, Photographs by Various Photographers, edited by Tim Barber; TV Books, New York, NY, 2008
Bibliography
Feature Shoot, Villeburg: A Carefully Arranged Photographic Collection of Randomness,” Matthew Leifheit, 1 May 2013
Time Magazine Lightbox, “A Major Case of ‘the Mondays’: Photographs of Office Life,” Myles Little, 24 April 2013
Chicago Tribune, “Other Visions of Home at Elmhurst Art Museum,” Lori Waxman, 06 March 2013
THE NPR PICTURE SHOW, What's The Landscape Of Modern Landscape Photography? Claire O’Neill, 13, November 2012
Fototazo, "Looking at the Land," Kevin Thrasher, 11 November 2012
American Photo, “ ‘Looking at the Land,’ a Digital Survey of 21st Century Landscape Photography,” John Mahoney, 2 October 2012.
Time Magazine Lightbox, “Looking at the Land from the Comfort of Home,” Paul Moakley, 26 September 2012.
PHOTO/arts Magazine, “Looking at the Land: 21st Century American Views,” Christopher H. Paquette, September 2012
Chicago Reader “United, divided, or indefinable? ‘Peripheral Views: States of America’ at the MOCP,” Allegra Kirkland, July 24, 2012.
Time Out Chicago, “MoCP Journeys Through the Landscape of the American Psyche,” Franck Mercurio, July 2012.
La Lettre de la Photographie, “Hyers + Mebane Empire, “ Severine Morel, 21 June, 2012.
Fototazo, “Martin Hyers and William Mebane,” Kevin Thrasher, 2 March, 2012.
Lenscratch, “William Mebane,” Aline Smithson, 4 May, 2011.
The New Yorker, Goings on About Town, Between The Bricks and the Blood, 3 May 2010
The New York Times, “New York Photo Festival,” Ken Johnson, 16 May, 2008.
Exhibition Catalogue, “Conditions of Modernity,” Stranger in Nepal, Mark Liechty, 7 November 2003.
The Greenville News, “Emerging Nepal”, John C. Stephenson, 3 August 2003
Kathmandu Post,“Saddhu with his Jeep, near Mugling,” Yuyutsu RD Sharma, 22 June 2003
Nepali Times, “Being Seen,” 13-19, Wayne Amtzis, June 2003, Number 149, 17.
Kathmandu Post, “Nepal’s Changing Mores,” Yuyutsu RD Sharma, 4 June 2003, 12.
Bay Area Reporter, “Truth and Illusion,” Will Shank, 9 February 2001.
Peekreview, “Best Baltimore Exhibitions, Don’t Ever Change, Picturing High School” 10 October 2001.