Education
Masters of Fine Art, Photography
Cranbrook Academy of Art; Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Bachelor of Arts, Photography
Indiana University Northwest; Gary, Indiana
Bachelor of Arts, Theatre
Indiana University Northwest; Gary, Indiana
Experience
Chair, Assistant Professor, Photography Department, Full-time
Cleveland Institute of Art; Cleveland, Ohio
Collections
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky TIAA-CREFF, New York, New York Speak Magazine, San Francisco, California The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Private Collections in California, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Wisconsin
Awards
2011 Cleveland Arts Prize: Mid-Career Award for the Visual Arts
2011 Focus Project Monthly Award Winner
2008 Individual Excellence Award grant from the Ohio Arts Council
Select Exhibitions
2011 Johansson Projects at ArtPad SF; Oakland, California
2011 Land of Magic: Artists Explore Make Believe, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts; Walnut Creek, California
2010 Unearthed, Johansson Projects; Oakland, California
2010 Deep Space: Ohio Photographers, Riffe Gallery; Columbus, Ohio
2010 Johansson Projects at San Francisco Art Fair, San Francisco, California
2010 Summer Nights: Solo Exhibition Skew Gallery; Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2010 Skew Gallery at NEXT, The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging; Chicago, Illinois
2010 Landscape: Unfeigned or Illusory, Mpls Photo Center; Minneapolis, Minnesota
2010 Staged, Skew Gallery; Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2009 Earth Engines, Johannson Projects; Oakland, California
2009 Skew Gallery at Art Basel; Miami Beach, Florida
2009 Skew Gallery at NEXT, The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art; Chicago, Illinois
2009 Night Light, Heights Arts Gallery, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
2008 (Re)Imaging Photography, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland Institute of Art; Cleveland, Ohio
2008 Altered Landscape Summit Gallery; Banff, Alberta
2008 Skew Gallery at The 17th Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition; Santa Monica, California
2007 Skew Gallery at Photo Miami; Miami, Florida
2007 Light, Solo Exhibition, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Race Street Gallery; Grand Rapids, Michigan
2007 Side by Side, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; Cleveland, Ohio
2007 The Ends of Photography: Modeling the Photographic, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University; Youngstown, Ohio
Residencies
Macdowell Colony
Artist in Residence, Summer 2011
Headlands Center for the Arts
Alumni Residency, July 2010
Sausalito, California
The Center for Land Use Interpretation
Wendover Residency Program, July 2010
Wendover, Nevada
Headlands Center for the Arts
May–August, 2009
Sausalito, California
I-Park
Video–Artist in Residence, July–August 2008
East Haddam, Connecticut
Banff Center for the Arts
Imaginary Places, May–June 2007
Banff, Alberta, Canada
Interviews
Feature: A Conversation with Barry Underwood
Juxtapoz
Dreaming Lights and Photography
Nocturne & Chocolate
Metamorphoses
Photographers Speak
l'appareil photo, le poête et la nature...
Cultcrusher
Publications
Real Simple Magazine
Features Section
March 2011
New York, New York
Pinic Magazine
December 2010
Tel Aviv, Isreal
Photo +
Summer Nights
Fall 2010
Seoul, Korea
Color
Spotlight
March 2010
Novato, California
London Times, Spectrum Magazine
The Shape of Things to Come: Images to Colour the New Decade
January 3 2010
London, England