SANDRA MATTHEWS
Sandra Matthews is a photographic artist, founding editor of the international online journal Trans Asia Photography Review, and Associate Professor Emerita at Hampshire College.
EDUCATION
M.F.A. State University of New York at Buffalo
B. A. Harvard University, magna cum laude
COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts.
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Burchfield Penney Center, Buffalo, New York.
John Burroughs School, St. Louis, Missouri.
Danforth Art Museum/School, Framingham, Massachusetts.
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon.
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts.
University of California, Santa Cruz, Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.
Women in Photography International Archive, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo and Two-person Exhibitions
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA, Unearthing: A Retrospective, February-June 2024.
Massachusetts State House, Boston, Occupying Massachusetts, April-May 2023.
Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Local, October-November 2019.
Amy H. Carberry Gallery of Fine Art, Springfield Technical Community College, Present Moments, March-April 2019.
Rhodes Art Center, Northfield Mt. Hermon, Making Oneself at Home, September-October 2018.
Leo Model Gallery, Hampshire College, In Time: Hampshire Family Portraits 1989-2016 (with David Rosten’s Reclassification: Portraits of Hampshire Staff), March 2016.
Northeastern Exposure Online, web-based showcase of regional photography hosted by the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, www.prcneo.org, Timelines, September 2013.
Becket Arts Center, Becket, MA, Coming of Age: Photographic Works by Sandra Matthews, July 2013.
Bonsack Gallery, John Burroughs School, St. Louis, MO., Untold Stories: Photo-collages by Sandra Matthews, April 2011.
Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Timelines: Photographic Works by Sandra Matthews, February/March 2011.
Cypress College Photography Gallery, Cypress, CA, Photographic Composites/ Sandra Matthews, January 2008.
Concordia University Art Gallery, Irvine, CA., Homeland Scrolls, November 2007.
Oresman Gallery, Hillyer Hall/Brown Fine Arts Center, Smith College, Northampton, MA, Homeland Scrolls: Photographic Works by Sandra Matthews, November 2005.
Chatham College Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, Sandra Matthews: Recent Works, October/November 2003.
Group Exhibitions
Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury, Inheritance, Remembrance and Resilience: Works by Eileen Claveloux, Sandra Matthews and Delilah Montoya, October-December 2023.
Leo Model Gallery, Hampshire College, More Eyes on Western Massachusetts, April-September 2018.
SPE National Conference Caucus Exhibition, Philadelphia, March 2018.
SPE Northeast Region exhibition, Is Photography Enough?, Brattleboro, VT, November 2017.
Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Self-Indulgence, September 2017.
125SF Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, Small Photos/ Big Buildings, May 2017.
Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Array, May 2017.
Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Eye Witness, September 2015.
AIR Gallery, New York City, Who’s Afraid of Feminism? September 2015. Juror: Catherine Morris, Curator, Elizabeth Sackler Center at the Brooklyn Museum.
Danforth Art Museum/School, Framingham, MA, Community of Artists, June-August 2015.
Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Symbiosis, May 2015.
Baekryun Gallery (Gwangju Art Association Building), S. Korea, Through the Eyes of the Mother, December 2014
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, Portraits, Expanded, November 2014 - March 2015.
Leo Model Gallery, Hampshire College, The Other Half, September – October 2014.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, “Halcyon Days: The Camera in the Garden”, April - August 2014.
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, New Arrivals: Modern and Contemporary Additions to the Collection, February - June 2014.
PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Black and White, March 2014. Juror: Karen E. Haas, Lane Curator of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Korean Cultural Center of Chicago, Through the Eyes of the Mother, February 2014.
Danforth Art Museum/School, Framingham, MA, Off the Wall, July 2013. Juror: Dina Deitsch, Curator of Contemporary Art, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.
Hosmer Art Gallery, Forbes Library, Northampton, MA, Lineage: Three Generations of Women Artists, November 2012.
Stan Ries Architectural Photography Collection, New York City, Twins, April 2012.
Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Science, Poetry and the Photographic Image, September 2011.
Trois Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA, Science, Poetry and the Photographic Image, March 2011.
Hampshire College Faculty Exhibitions, October 2010, October 2007, October 2005, October 2004, October 2002, Marche 1999, March 1994.
Gallery A3, Amherst, MA., In Dialogue #2, August 2010.
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA., New England Photography Biennial, Fall 2009. Juror: Philip Prodger, Curator of Photography, Peabody Essex Museum.
Visual Arts Center, Tidewater Community College at Old Towne, Portsmouth, VA., Pictures of People: Contemporary Portrait Photography, July 2009.
Neilson Library Book Arts Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, MA, Fact, Construction and Interpretation: Photographs by Sandra Matthews, Chester Michalik and Stan Sherer, January-March 2009.
Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA., SAFE, August 2008. Juror: Laura McPhee.
Vermont Center of Photography, Brattleboro, Juried Portrait Show, December 2008-February 2009.
80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York, Small Works, February/March 2008. Juror: Richard Witter, OK Harris Works of Art.
Hosmer Art Gallery, Forbes Library, Northampton, MA, Self Reflection: A Juried Exhibition of Self-portraits, October 2007. Juror: Loretta Yarlow, Director, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts.
Liebling Center for Film, Photography and Video, Hampshire College, Landscape/History/Photography : Works by Suzanne Flynt, Sandra Matthews, and Janet Pritchard, March 2007.
Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, Eighth Annual In-Sight Photography Project Exhibition, October 2006.
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, Members’ Exhibition, May 2005. Juror: Alison Devine Nordstrom, Curator, George Eastman House.
Crane Studio Building, New York, Emergency Art Exhibition, December 2001.
Pivot Gallery, Florence, MA, Art from the Mechanism, November 2001.
CURATORIAL/EDITORIAL PROJECTS
Founding Editor, Trans Asia Photography Review, 2008-2020.
Exhibition Consultant, Dislocation/Negotiating Identity: Contemporary Photographs from South and Southeast Asia, Smith College Museum of Art, 2015-2016.
Curator, “Visits to the Homeland: Photographs of China”, exhibition traveled by the Visual Studies Workshop Traveling Exhibition Program, 1991-1999.
PUBLICATIONS
As Artist:
Occupying Massachusetts: Layers of History on Indigenous Land, photobook published by George F. Thompson Publishing, 2022. Texts by David Brule and Suzanne Gardinier.
Present Moments, self-published photobook with texts by Ruth Ozeki and Polina Barskova, 2020.
Who’s Afraid of Feminism?, catalog published by the Women’s Caucus for Art, fall 2015.
Stories We Tell, catalog published by the Women’s Caucus for Art, fall 2013.
"Peoples’ Daily", Beijing, China, fall 2013.
"Maternal Timelines", in Reconciling Art and Mothering, ed. Rachel Epp Buller, Ashgate, 2012.
As Writer:
Contributor to Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography, Thames and Hudson, 2024.
“From Cell Phone Camera to Satellite Sensor” (with Olivier Krischer), in Trans Asia Photography Review, Spring 2015.
"Maternal Timelines", in Reconciling Art and Mothering, ed. Rachel Epp Buller, Ashgate, 2012.
“Courage in the Face of History: Cross-Cultural Portraits” in Masquerade: Contemporary Portrait Photography by Women, ed. Kate Newton and Christine Rolph, Cornerstone Press, UK, 2003.
“In Defense of Civil Rights: The Paradoxical Power of Family Photographs”, Afterimage, winter 2003.
Pregnant Pictures, a cultural history of photographs of pregnant women co-authored with Laura Wexler, Routledge, 2000.
PRESENTATIONS
“Occupying Massachusetts”, book presentations with David Brule (president, Nolumbeka Project) on September 18 and 22, 2022, October 2, 2022, February 21, 2023, April 12 and 28, 2023, May 30, 2023, November 21, 2023, in various locations.
“The Role and Responsibility of the Arts in Today’s Culture”, panelist at Harvard University Reunion, June 2023.
“Your Meaning and My Meaning”, Hanoi Doclab, October 2017.
“Photographic Portraits and History”, Historic Northampton, September 2017.
Gallery talks for the exhibition Dislocation/Negotiating Identity: Contemporary Photographs from South and Southeast Asia, Smith College Museum of Art, February and May 2016.
“Why South Asian Photography?” panel presentation, Whitney Center for the Humanities, Yale University, February 2015.
“The View from the TAP Review”, Singapore International Photography Festival, November 2014.
“Making Portraits Over Time”, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, June 2014.
“Photography from Asia and the TAP Review”, Tel Aviv University, Israel, January 2014.
“Photographs of and by Women”, Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, October 2013.
“Constituting the Feminine in Asian Photographies”, panel discussant, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, March 2012.
TAP Symposium; organized and introduced a one-day symposium on photography from Asia, held at Hampshire College, October 2011.
“Photographic Journals and Cultural Debate”, panel presentation organized for the National Conference of the Society for Photographic Education, Dallas, March 2009.
“Photography, Landscape and History”, lecture given at Concordia University, Irvine, CA, November 2007.
Gallery talk (with Shona MacDonald) for the exhibition Impossible Landscapes, University of Massachusetts, February 2007.
“The Residue of History: Works by Sandra Matthews and Eileen Claveloux”, presentation at the Northeast regional conference of the Society for Photographic Education, Boston, December 2006.
“Making Photographic History: Art, Culture and Nation in Chinese Photography” paper presentation at the Thinking Photography (Again) Conference, University of Durham, England, July 2005.
“Pregnant Pictures: Photographing Pregnancy in the 20th Century”, Medicine and Humanities Lecture Series, Yale University Medical School, November 2003.
“Family Photographs and Fascination”, gallery talk for the exhibition Diane Arbus: Family Albums, Mt. Holyoke College Museum of Art, October 2003.
“American Portraits”, lecture given at the Photography House, Poprad, Slovakia, and the Buryzone Art Center, Bratislava, Slovakia, June 2002.
“History and Photography: Three Asian Projects”, panel organized and moderated for the Northeast regional conference of the Society for Photographic Education, Syracuse, October 2001.
“Picturing Pregnancy in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, lecture given at Lancaster University and London Guildhall University, November 2000.
“Double Takes: A Dialogue on Women’s Photographs”, gallery talk (with Judith Davidov) for the exhibition Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, October 1998.
“Pregnant Pictures”, panel presentation at the National Conference of the American Studies Association. Washington D.C., October 1997, and lecture given at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, Mt. Holyoke College, October 1996.
“Contemporary American Photography and Cultural Identity”, lecture given at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Fuzhou University and Xiamen University (China), November 1996.
“Foreign Objects: Understanding Photography Cross-Culturally”, panel organized and moderated for the National Conference of the Society for Photographic Education, New Orleans, 1991.