| Born, Greenville, SC 1972 Education San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA MFA, Photography, May 2002 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO BA, Anthropology, May 1995 School for International Training, Kathmandu, Nepal Nepal Semester, Jan - June 1994 Professional Experience Freelance Photographer New York, New York, 2003- Present Photographs have appeared in the following publications: The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, ESPN, Fortune, New York Magazine, W Magazine, and others. Fellowships / Awards 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 Exhibitions 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) Fourth National Photography Juried Exhibition, Stepping Stone Gallery, Huntington, NY. Juror: Andrea Modica, 2004 In Nepal, Angie Newman Johnson Gallery, Ainslie Art Center, Alexandria, VA 2003 (solo) In Nepal, Siddhartha Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kathmandu, Nepal 2003 (solo) MFA Thesis Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA 2002 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) Continuing MFA Candidates Exhibition, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2001 Vivid, 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 SFAI at Microsoft, Microsoft Corporate Offices, San Francisco, CA, 2001 (invitational) Recent Work, Artists’ Television Access Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2001 Artist Lectures / Visiting Artist Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY, Artist Lecture, 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, “Color Photography.” Instructor: Lyle Ashton Harris. Visiting Artist, 2006 International Center of Photography, “Graduate Critique Seminar.” Instructor: Lyle Ashton Harris. Visiting Artist, 2005 Simon’s Rock College of Bard College, Great Barrington, MA. Artist Lecture, 2005 University Art Gallery, The Richard Stockton College, Pomona, NJ. Artist Lecture, 2004 San Francisco Art Institute, “Sacred and Profane.” Instructor: Linda Connor. Visiting Artist, 2004 San Francisco Art Institute, “Architecture and Place.” Instructor: Muffy Kibbey. Visiting Artist, 2004 Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. Artist Lecture, 2004 University of Charleston, WV, Greater Kanawha Valley Rotary. Artist Lecture, 2003 Ainslie Art Center, Episcopal High School, Alexandria, VA. Artist Lecture, 2003 Selected Publications Out Here in Kathamandu, Martin Chautari Press, 2010 Various Photographs, TV Books, 2008 The New York Times Magazine, 2008 - 2009 ESPN, The Magazine, 2008 New York Magazine, 2006, 2007, 2008 Fast Company 2006, 2007 O, The Oprah Magazine, 2007 Real Simple, 2007 Fortune, 2006 The American Lawyer, 2006, 2007, 2008 John A. Hartford Foundation Annual Report 2006, 2007, 2008 Bibliography Ken Johnson, “New York Photo Festival,” The New York Times, 16 May, 2008. Mark Liechty, “Conditions of Modernity,” Stranger in Nepal Exhibition Catalogue, 7 November 2003. John C. Stephenson, “Emerging Nepal”, Greenville (South Carolina) News, 3 August 2003, final edition. Yuyutsu RD Sharma, “Saddhu with his Jeep, near Mugling,” Kathmandu (Nepal) Post, 22 June 2003, 9. Wayne Amtzis, “Being Seen,” Nepali Times, 13-19 June 2003, Number 149, 17. “Nepal’s Changing Mores,” Kathmandu (Nepal) Post, 14 June 2003, 12. Will Shank, “Truth and Illusion,” Bay Area Reporter, 9 February 2001. “Best Baltimore Exhibitions, Don’t Ever Change, Picturing High School” www.peekreview.net, 10 October 2001. Exhibitions Curated Boundaries: Photographs by Eirik Johnson and Joe Johnson, Angie Newman Johnson Gallery, Ainslie Art Center, Alexandria, VA, 2005 Professional Service Juror, Open House New York, Architectural Festival Photography Competition. New York City, NY. 2008 Instructor Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal 2003 Science and Photography: Documentation and Accuracy in the Medical Record. Science and Photography: Documentation and Accuracy in the Medical Record. Websites www.williammebane.com www.hyersandmebane.com www.love-pictures.org |