Education
M.F.A., Yale University School of Art, New Haven CT. 1986.
B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA. 1984.
B.A. cum laude, Boston University, Boston MA. 1977.
Professional Experience
Associate Professor, School of Art, Bowling Green State University. Photography Area Head. 1992-2020.
Associate Director, School of Art, Bowling Green State University. Photography Area Head. 2017-2020.
Chair, Studio Division, School of Art, Bowling Green State University. 2006-2017.
Assistant Professor, School of Art, Bowling Green State University. Photography Area Head. 1987-1992.
Visiting Lecturer, Yale University School of Art. Instructor. 1986-1987.
Commissions, Grants and Awards
Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. 2019.
College of Arts and Sciences, Faculty Research Grant, Bowling Green State University. 2012, 2018.
Community Partner Award, Wood County Board of Developmental Disabilities, Bowling Green, Ohio. 2018.
College of Arts and Sciences, Glanz Family Research Award for Interdisciplinary Faculty Innovation and Collaboration, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green Ohio. 2016.
College of Arts and Sciences, “Distinguished Faculty Award” Lecture, Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio. 2015.
School of Art “Faculty Legends” Lecture, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. 2014.
Ohio Humanities Council, New Deal in Ohio Re-Photographic Project, Columbus, Ohio. 2010.
George Gund Foundation Grant, Cleveland, Ohio. 2009.
College of Arts and Sciences, Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, Research Lecture,
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. 2008.
College of Arts and Sciences, Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, Research Fellowship,
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. 2005.
Toledo Museum of Art, Commission, Veterans Glass City Skyway Construction, Toledo Ohio. 2003-2007.
Selected Exhibitions Louisville PhotoBiennial, Louisville Public Library Southwest Branch, Louisville,KY. 2023 Lakeside Chautauqua, solo exhibition, Marblehead OH. 2023 PhotOH: Photographers in the Heartland, Miami Art Museum, Oxford OH. 2022
Aurelia Gallery, Solo exhibition, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 2022.
Toledo Museum of Art, “Life is a Highway; Art and American Car Culture”, Toledo, Ohio. 2019.
Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery, 2019 Biennial Exhibition, Columbus, Ohio. 2019.
Center Gallery, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, Kansas. 2019.
Texas Photographic Society 27, Dallas Texas. 2018.
31st Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, Lake Charles , Louisiana. 2018.
Perspective Gallery LENS 2017, Evanston, Illinois. 2017.
Ohio Arts Council ‘s Riffe Gallery, 2017 Biennial Exhibition, Columbus, Ohio. 2017.
Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky. 2017.
Carnegie Gallery, Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio. 2017.
Conservatorio de Musica de Puerto Rico, collaboration with College of Musical Arts Faculty.
San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2016
Yesier Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky. 2016.
Center Gallery for the Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, Kansas. 2016.
White Stone Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2016.
Snapshot Gallery, Kansas City, Kansas. 2015.
Emily Davis Gallery, “Contemporary Views”, University of Akron. Akron, Ohio. 2013
Gallery Project, “First Contact”, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 2014.
Arsenal for the Arts, Watertown, Massachusetts. 2012.
Urban Arts Space, “Tracing Lines”, Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio. 2012.
New Deal in Ohio Re-photographic Project, Ohio Humanities Council. Columbus, Ohio. 2011-2012.
Insight Photography Project, Annual Exhibition and Auction/at- risk youth, Brattleboro, Vermont. 2010-2018.
Riffe Gallery, “Deep Space”, Columbus, Ohio. 2010.
Lea Gallery, “On the Water: Photographs from Toledo and Cleveland”, University of Findlay, Findlay, Ohio. 2010.
Toledo Museum of Art “Look What’s New”, Recent Acquisitions, Toledo, Ohio. 2009.
Craft Studio Gallery “Recession and Recovery,” University of Missouri, Columbia MO. 2009.
Toledo Museum of Art, “Above Water, Bridges from the Collection”, Toledo Ohio. 2008.
Toledo Museum of Art, “From Start to Finish”, Solo Exhibition, Toledo Ohio. 2007.
Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville North Carolina. 2007.
Cleveland Clinic, Selections from “Growing Pains”, Cleveland, Ohio. 2007.
Stubnitz Gallery, Adrian College, Adrian Michigan. 2006.
Riffe Gallery, “Growing Pains”, Columbus, Ohio. 2006.
Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. 2006.
The Photo Review, Langhorne, Pennsylvania. 2004.
Toledo Museum of Art, “Modern American Photography”, Toledo, Ohio. 2003.
University Gallery, “2-D by Five”, Tiffin University, Tiffin, Ohio. 2003.
Nancy Lincoln Gallery, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. 2003.
Curated Exhibitions
Frank Gohlke and Lynn Whitney, Lake Erie George Gund Foundation Commissions 1997and 2009, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, School of Art, BGSU, Bowling Green, Ohio. 2019.
Heart Gallery, Partnership with Wood County Board of Developmental Disabilities and School of Art Photography students, Toledo, Ohio. 2019.
Newton Rd Gallery, Partnership with Wood County Board of Developmental Disabilities and School of Art Photography students, Bowling Green Ohio. 2018.
Toledo Museum of Art, Community Gallery, Partnership with Wood County Board of Developmental Disabilities and School of Art Photography students, Toledo, Ohio. 2016, 2017.
BGSU Fine Arts Center, Bowling Green, Ohio.“Face It: Reimagining Contemporary Portraits” , curated by Lynn Whitney, Andrew Hershberger & Jacqueline S. Nathan. Featuring works by Elizabeth Bick, Barbara Bosworth, Jess T. Dugan, Anne Fishbein, Nancy Hellebrand, David Hilliard, Daniel McInnis, Andrea Modica, Nicholas Nixon, Thomas Roma, Sage Sohier, Mark Steinmetz and Jo Ann Walters. 2016.
Media BG Independent News, Lynn Whitney’s photographs meditate on life and death along the lake Erie shoreline” [link] The Guardian, “ShoreThing: the unique landscape of Lake Erie” [link]
LensCulture, Face It: Reimagining Contemporary Portraits. [link]
Time Magazine, Off the Radar: Mark Steinmetz on Nine Woman Photographers of the Northeast. May 7, 2014. [link]
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Midwest Photographers Project: Lynn Whitney. [link]
Collections
George Gund Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
The Midwest Photographers Project, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago Illinois.
University of Findlay, Lea Gallery, Findlay, Ohio.
The Southeast Center for Photographic Studies, Daytona Beach, Florida.
Toledo Museum of Art, Photographs and Prints Collection, Toledo Ohio.
Ohio Humanities Council, New Deal in Ohio Re-photographic Project, Columbus, Ohio.
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Monroe Community College Monroe, Michigan.
Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library, New Haven Connecticut.