Joni Sternbach
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Rick Wester Fine Art, SurfLand
Southeast Museum of Photography SurfLand
2010
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2009
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA SurfLand
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR SurfLand
Lishui Photo Festival, Lishui, China curated by Carol McCusker
New York Photo Festival, Brooklyn, NY All Over The Place curated by William Ewing
String Room Gallery. Wells College. Aurora, NY
2007
Edward Cella Art + Architecture. Santa Barbara, CA
2006
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2005
Galerie BMG. Woodstock, NY
2004
East Gallery. Brooklyn, NY
2000
Kenise Barnes Fine Art. Larchmont, NY
1995
Bergdorf Goodman, NY
1992
Julie Saul Gallery, NY
1988
Dittmar Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986
Stokker Stikker Gallery, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, SB, CA Portrayal/Betrayal
AIPAD Photography Show. NYC Rick Wester Fine Art Space 15-Twenty Gallery, LA, CA
Hellawood Photographic Center NW, Seattle, WA
surFACE: Contemporary Wet Plate Collodion Portraiture
2011
Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, GA Wet Plate and Mirrors
Joslyn Art Museum. Omaha, NE American Landscape: Contemporary Photographs of the West
Museum of Ventura County. Ventura, CA
Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA Sea Creatures
Splash: Celebrating Ventura County Beach Culture and Ocean-Inspired Art
The Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA Surf Inspired
Maison Européenne de la Photographie. Paris, France L’Objet Photographique
Bric Rotunda Gallery. Brooklyn, NY Water Water Every Where
Houston Center for Photography. Benefit Auction
2010
Aperture Benefit Auction NYC
Gallery 1500. NYC SP Arte Sao Paulo, Brazil
Edward Cella Art + Architecture, LA, CA Surf
Randall Scott Gallery. Art Hamptons
Space 15 Twenty Gallery, LA, CA Stoked on Summer CLIC Gallery, NYC Surf/Skate
AIPAD Photography Show. Joseph Bellows Gallery
2009
Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC Hot Fun in the Summertime
Joseph Bellows Gallery. La Jolla, CA Summer Selections
Scheinbaum Russek Gallery. Santa Fe, NM Summer’s Almost Gone
Sue Scott Gallery, NYC Were All Gonna Die
Art Strand Gallery. Provincetown, MA It’s All About Photography
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA Float
Edward Cella Art+Architecture, Los Angeles, CA Transforming Photography
2008
RAYKO Gallery, San Francisco, CA Into The Ether Pulse Art Fair. Artware editions at the VIP lounge 23 Sandy Gallery. Portland, OR Resurrection
2007
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. Santa Barbara, CA Glass Love: Contemporary Art and Surf
Art Bar Gallery. Ithaca, NY ARTBAR Artists
Silvermine Arts Guild. New Canaan, CT Spectra ’07
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY Surf and Turf
Kinz, Tillou + Feigen. NYC By Invitation Only
Edward Cella Art + Architecture. Santa Barbara, CA Welcome to Our Neighborhood
2006
Lennon, Weinberg Gallery NYC Wallpaper LAB
Chicago Art Source. Chicago, IL Nostalgic Noir
St Louis Art Museum. St Louis, MO
Recent Landscape Photography: The Intimate and the Sublime
2005
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NYC Inaugural Exhibition Slow Exposures 2005. Concord, GA
Foley Gallery. NYC "When We Were Young" Photo Eye Gallery. Santa Fe, NM OnLine/OnSite
2004
Senior and Shopmaker Gallery. NYC Permutations on the Picturesque 2004 Hofstra University. Hempstead, NY Where the Island Begins Catalogue DFN Gallery. NYC Skies and Scapes
Silver Eye Center for Photography. Pittsburgh, PA Fellowship 2004 Lehman College Art Gallery. Bronx, NY Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape online catalogue
2003
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY Two Person Show
White Room Gallery. Los Angeles, CA Inspirations and Interpretations
2002
Islip Art Museum. Islip, NY Body Language
Akus Gallery. Eastern Connecticut State University. Willimantic, CT
Permeable Borders
2000
Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA Fellowship 2000
1999
Kenise Barnes Fine Art. Larchmont, NY 5 Contemporary Photographers
Workspace Gallery. NY Anonymous
1996
Robert Menschel Gallery. Syracuse, NY Circumstances Over Design
1994
Paul Kopeikin Gallery. LA, CA Hidden Faces
Art In General. NYC Little Things
1993
University Of Texas At Austin
A Second Look: Women Photographers at the HRHRC Catalogue
1992
New Works Gallery. Chicago, IL Primer Catalogue
1991
Museum Of Modern Art. NY Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort Book
Public Collections
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Maison Européenne de la Photographie. Paris, France
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
The Cleveland Museum of Art
St. Louis Art Museum
University of Texas at Austin. Harry Ransom Center
Polaroid International Collection
Bibliotheque Nationale. Paris, France
International Center of Photography
Center for Photography at Woodstock
Light Work
Grants, Residencies & Prizes
2012
Ucross Foundation Artist in Residence
2011
Art Park/Atlantic Artist in Residence Byron Bay, AU
Clarence John Laughlin Award
2010
Santo Foundation Individual Artist Grant
2007
Critical Mass Hardbound Monograph (published 2009)
Center For Land Use Interpretation. Wendover, Utah Artist In Residence 2008, 2010
Silvermine Arts Guild. New Canaan, CT. Spectra ’07 Best in Show, juried by Peter MacGill
2004
Honorable Mention. Silver Eye Center for Photography
1992
Polaroid Artists Support Grant
1987
Light Work. Syracuse, NY Artist In Residence
1986
New York Foundation For The Arts
1986
Artists Space. NY Exhibition Grant
1982
Creative Artists Public Service
Artist Lectures
Center for Alternative Photography
University of the Arts
Southeast Museum of Photography
Luz Gallery
International Center of Photography
Blue Sky Gallery
Griffin Museum of Art
New York Photo Festival
St. Louis Art Museum
New York Photo Festival
Amherst College
New York University
Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
University of California at Berkeley Extension.
San Francisco School of Visual Arts
Center for Photography. Woodstock, NY
Selected Publications & Press
Outdoor Minded Magazine March 14, 2012
Rangefinder Magazine March 2012 Cover
Magnus Magazin, Noblesse Oblige Vol 1
Fuzion Magazine September 2011
Art Nation ABC Video
Four Eyes Magazine Netherlands 2010
The Penguin Press Summer 2011 cover
Monster Children, 2010
SurfNews Magazine. Italy 2010
Photo District News. October 2009 cover
Surfers Journal October 2009
Surfing Ventura Sisters are Featured in New Photo Book by Alicia Doyle
Ventura County Star Sept. 9, 2009
The New Yorker Magazine Review of Hot Fun in the Summertme. August 4, 2009
London Sunday Times. Spectrum Magazine. Sunday July 26, 2009
Surfers and the Sands of Time by Mark Feeney. The Boston Globe. May 27, 2009
Peabody Essex Museum tries to Catch a Wave in Time by Joel Brown Hubarts.com May 15, 2009
Surfing Magazine. Surf Portraits of an Artist May 2009 Photography-A New Wave at the PEM by Alan Burke May 14, 2009
Art For the Masses by Jon Coen ESPN May 13, 2009
Visura Magazine. In conjunction with the NY Photo Festival. May 2009
Photo District News Photo of the Day May 15, 2009 Foto and Video Magazine Russia September 2008
The Salt Effect. View Camera Magazine August 2008 Into The Ether review. SF Weekly July 18, 2008 Water Magazine: No.26 Summer 2008
Montauk’s Ditch Plains View Camera Magazine. July/August 2007
West Coast Art + Design, March 2008
Review: "Glass Love: Contemporary Art and Surf" by Kim Biel, page 18 Shots Portrait Issue, Spring 2008, page 31
Wahine East "Refocusing the Past" by Nick McGregor, page 62 Eastern Surf Magazine Vol.17, Issue 127, March 2008
New Photographs of Paintings by David Florimbi and SurfLand by Joni Sternbach.
Review by Ethan Stewart The Santa Barbara Independent, November 29, 2007
Catching Conceptual Waves by Josef Woodard Santa Barbara News-Press November 2007
Incoming Swell, Glass Love Honors the Art of Surf. Review by Ethan Stewart The Santa Barbara Independent, October 25, 2007
Bibliography
Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort by Peter Galassi – published by MOMA 1991
SurfLand 2009 Monograph
Face to Face: Ocean Portraits by Huw Lewis-Jones 2010
The Photograph Not Taken by Will Steacy 2012
Teaching
Wet-Plate Workshops:
International Center of Photography, Faculty 2003-present
Center for Alternative Photography, Faculty 2010-present
Houston Center for Photography, 2011
Luz Gallery, BC 2011
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA 2009
Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA 2004
Adjunct Instructor in Art. New York University 1986-2007
Adjunct Professor of Art. Queensborough Community College. Bayside, NY 2001-2002
Adjunct Faculty. Bergen Community College. Paramus, NJ. 1999-2000
Films
The Women and the Waves by Heather Hudson and Peck Ewer 2009.
Still tintype portraits of surfers.
Education
Master of Arts 1987 New York University/International Center of Photography. NYC
Bachelor of Fine Arts 1977 School of Visual Arts. NYC
Camp Tintype. 2000 Dundee, NY Wet-plate workshop with John Coffer
Scully and Osterman Studio. Rochester, NY 2002
Joni Sternbach was born in the Bronx, New York. She graduated from New York University/International Center of Photography (ICP) with an M.A. in Photography in 1987. She was part of the adjunct faculty at NYU for over 20 years, and is currently a faculty member at ICP and the Center for Alternative Photography in NYC teaching wet plate collodion.
Sternbach uses early photographic processes to create contemporary landscapes and seascapes. Her photography has taken her to some of the most desolate deserts in the American West to some of the most prized surf beaches on both coasts.
Sternbach’s solo exhibition, SurfLand, which captures portraits of surfers in tintype, opened at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, in May 2009. SurfLand traveled to the Southeast Museum of Photography in 2012. Her monograph, SurfLand, was published in May 2009 by Photolucida. Recently Sternbach traveled to Byron Bay, Australia as part of Art Park/Atlantic’s new Artist-in-Residence program.
Her work is part of many public collections including the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, CA and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She is the recipient of several grants including NYFA and CAPS.
