Elisabeth Sunday
Abbreviated Resume
UPCOMING GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009: Portraiture: American Photography, 1960 to the present, Cleveland Museum of Art, June 27- Sept 20th
2009: “Desert Light” Throckmorton Fine Art, New York, June 25th – September 12th
2009: "Au féminin" curated by Jorge Calado, Centre culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France, June 23rd-Sept. 29th
UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011: Mid Career Retrospective at the California African American Museum, Los Angeles
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Gallery 291, San Francisco, California, (Tuareg)
2008 Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California (Tuareg)
2008 International Photography Biennial, Brecsia, Italy, June- August (Mystics and Healers)
2008 International Airport Museum, San Francisco, CA (Tuareg)
2006 International Photography Biennial, 150 Years of Women in Photography, Brescia, Italy (Tuareg and African)
2003 Oakland Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA (African and Mystics)
1999 The UC Berkeley Art Museum (Mystics and Healers)
1999 Salle d’ Exposition, Arles, France (Selected)
1997 Le Maison de la Photographie, Aosta, Italy (African)
1994 The Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, CN (African)
1991 Les Peuples du Monde, Rencontres Photographic a L'Orient, France (African)
1990 Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA (African)
1990 Metropolitan Craftsman Guild, Pittsburgh (African)
1989 Union Bank of Finland, Helsinki, Finland (African)
1989 Rencontres Internationale de la Photographie, France (African)
1987 Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA (African)
1987 Nikon Photo Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (Transitions Portfolio; Botanicals and Figures)
1985 Canon Gallerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Transitions Portfolio; Botanicals and Figures)
1984 Focus Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Transitions Portfolio; Botanicals and Figures)
1984 Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH (Flowers)
1982 Galerie Texbraun, Paris, France (other media) 1976 The Berkeley Creators Association, Berkeley, CA (first exhibition)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Box Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium (Tuareg)
2006 International Photography Biennial, Brescia, Italy (Selected Botanicals and African)
1999 The Diggs Gallery, University of Winston Salem, NC (African)
1999 Smithsonian Anakostia Museum, Center for African American History and Culture, Washington D.C. (African)
1998 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (African) 1997 The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (African)
1997 The Armand Hammer Museum Rental and Sales Gallery, LA, CA (African)
1996 University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, (Efe)
1996 Center for the Arts Museum, Yerba Buena Gardens, SF (Africa III Portfolio; Efe)
1994 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (selected collection)
1993 “Flora Photographica: The Flower in Photography, from 1835 to the Present,” tour, Curator Bill Ewing 1993-1994 (Flowers)
1991 Jane Jackson Gallery, Atlanta, GA (African)
1991 “Convergence,” tour, Curator; Deb Willis, 1991-1995 (African)
1991 Galerie Verneuil Saints Peres, Paris, France (selected) 1990 “Constructed Images,” tour Curator; Deb Willis, 1990-1993 (African)
1989 Photo Center Gallery, New York University, NY (African)
1987 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (Sonora Desert)
1986 Journees Internationale de la Photographie, Montpelier, France (selected)
1985 Muchener Stradtmuseum, Munich, Germany (Flowers and Figures)
1985 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit MI (Flowers)
1985 Zur Stockeregg Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (Botanicals)
GUEST LECTURES
2008 Palm Spring Photo Festival
2008 San Francisco City College
1998 The Dominican College of San Rafael, CA
1994 University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
1993 San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco CA
1992 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
1991 San Francisco Arts Institute, San Francisco, CA
1991 The Oakland Public Library, Oakland, CA
1991 Healdsburg Public Library, Healdsburg, CA
1990 Metropolitan Craftsman Guild, Pittsburg. PN
1990 Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA
1989 Union Bank of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
1989 California College of the Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1989 Women in Photography Conference, Philadelphia, PN
1989 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1987 Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington DC
The University Art Museum at Berkeley, CA
The Cantor Art Center at Stanford University CA
The Los Angeles Museum of Art, CA
The Museum of Fine Art-Houston, TX
Le Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, France
The San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA;
The Schomburg Center, NY
The Saint Louis Museum of Art, MI
The Polaroid Collection, MA
The Fotografiska Museum, Finland
The Eastman Kodak Collection, NY
The Bank of America Collection
The FRAC Foundation, Lyons, France
The San Francisco Civic Arts Collection, CA
he De Rossa Museum, Napa, CA
The Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
The Cleveland Art Museum, OH
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
The Albuquerque Art Museum, NM
Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy
The California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Sponsors for the African I-VI and the Mystics and Healers portfolios include;
Ginny Bosher and Phil Upton; Marc Winkelman; Linda Grey and Ken Heitz; John Bogart; John Weiss; Dennis Riordan; Pierre Miramount; Bill Cosby; Bonnie Raitt; Alice Walker; Eastman Kodak Company; The Vernon Collection; Gloria Steinem; Graham Nash; Quincy Jones; The FRAC Foundations, Lyon, France; Le Bibliothèque National de Paris.
