AMY THOMPSON AVISHAI
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Exhibitions
Critical Mass Top 50 group show; Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, Oregon, and RaKyo Photo Center, San Francisco, California, 2011
Alliance Française, solo show: Behind Walls, Boston, March 2011
Remis Gallery, solo show, The Governor’s Academy, Byfield, Massachusetts,
October–November 2010
Griffin Museum of Photography, 15th Juried Group Exhibition, juror: Catherine Edelman, Winchester, Massachusetts, 2009
Panopticon Gallery of Photography, four-person group show, Boston, May 2009
International Museum of Women, San Francisco, featured museum pick, online exhibition of Behind Walls, March/April 2009
Photo Resource Center, Northeast Exposure, Emerging Artist of the Month, online exhibition, Boston, Massachusetts, September 2006
First in the Nation, juried group show of four decades of New Hampshire presidential elections, New Hampshire Historical Society’s Tuck Library, 2001
Washington Center for Photography, Your Shot, Our Show, juried group show, Washington, D.C. 1995
Awards/Honors
Winner, Prix de la Photographie, Paris, 2011, Young Mennonites, Ohio, and Bok Choy, Cambodia
Critical Mass Top 50 Photographers 2010, Young Mennonites series
Critical Mass Finalist 2009, Faith, Violence and Visitors
Nomination to Women to Watch 2007 biennial exhibition, National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
Critical Mass Top 50 Photographers 2006, Behind Walls series
Recipient, Fulbright fellowship, Morocco, 2003–2004
Recipient, Paul Schutzer Memorial Award for advanced documentary work, Ohio University, 2003
Featured photographer, National Geographic, “ZipUSA: Athens, Ohio 45701”, January 2003
Recipient, Grant from the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at Ohio University, Cambodia, 2003
Guest Presentations and Benefit Auctions
Guest Presentation, Alliance Française, Boston, Massachusetts, scheduled March 2011
Benefiting Underprivileged Schoolgirls in Morocco, Fifth Annual Anniversary Gala, The Moroccan Society of Houston, Texas, 2010
Guest Presentation, Colloquium, Visual Journalists Reporting in Asia, Center for Asian Studies and Center for African Studies, Michigan State University, October 2010
Guest Presentations, Visual Journalism, Michigan State University, October 2010
Guest Presentation, The Governor’s Academy, Byfield, Massachusetts, 2009
Guest Presentation, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts, 2009
Photo Resource Center Benefit Auction, juried selection, Boston, Massachusetts, 2009
GIRLS’ LEAP Benefit Auction, Boston, Massachusetts, 2009
Selected Publications
Women’s Review of Books, Within these Walls, Morocco, series featured, published by Wellesley College, 2011
SocialDocumentary.net, SPOTLIGHT: Girls’ Education and Daily Life in Rural Morocco, 2010
Tuesday; An Art Project, letter-pressed journal of poems, photographs and prints, published biannually, Cambodia series featured, Fall 2009
Verve: The New Breed of Documentary Photographers (blog), Cambodia series featured, 2008
Professional Experience
Photography instructor, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 2007–present
Staff photographer, The Valley News, West Lebanon, New Hampshire, 1998–2001
Freelance photographer, The New York Times, Washington, D.C. bureau, 1996–1997
Also published in The Detroit Free Press and The Grand Rapids Press, Michigan, 1992–1995
Education
Master of Arts in photography, School of Visual Communication, Ohio University, Athens,
Ohio, November 2007
Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Humanities, Michigan State University, 1992