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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