JOHN SUMNER
Photographer
2966 Grandview Avenue Atlanta, Georgia 30305
404-237-2708 Website: www.jsumnersart.com E-Mail: johnsumner@bellsouth.net
Selected Exhibitions and Awards
2005
Honored Accomplishments
Amsterdam Whitney International Fine Art
Chelsea, New York City
One year representation with web site
Group exhibit: November 4-29, 2005
The High Museum of Art Atlanta
Permanent collection – nine images
The Museum of Contemporary Art
Of Georgia –One image
Exhibits
2005
Associated Artist, Winston Salem
“Face Value” cash prize
Juror: Marc Pachter
Director, National Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2004
Nassau Community College, New York
Juror: Tina Kukielski
Curator, Contemporary Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Image used for brochure
2003
The Stage Gallery International
Curator: E. Lynn Moss
Senior Editor, American Artist
2001 - 2005
Atlanta Celebrates Photography
Juror: Fay Gold
Juror: Jane Jackson
Gallery 214, Montclair, NJ
Juror: Sid Sacks,
University of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1999
Atlanta Photography Group Gallery, Virginia Ave., Atlanta, Ga.: The Nexus Photographers
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee; Art Extravaganza
Juror: Dr. J. Richard Gruber, Director of Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, La.
Savannah College of Art Merit Award
Juror: Holly Solomon, N. Y. Gallery
1998 and 2005 Triennial Exhibition
Huntsville Museum of Art, The Red Clay Survey
Juror: Ruth Weisberg
Juror: Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz
1993
First Annual Juried Photography Exhibition
Title: Images of the South
Jurors: Jane Jackson and Dr. Irving Finkelstein,
1992
The Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
Juror: Sandra S. Phillips, Curator of Photography,
San Francisco Museum of Art
1983
Schatten Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
Title: With Liberty and Justice for All
Exhibit included works by Walker Evans, Lewis Hine and James Van der Zee
Paneled Jury: Dr. Ann Abrams
1981
Erie Art Center, Erie Pennsylvania
Juror: Duane Michals and Bea Nettles
Southeastern Photography Exhibit, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Juror: George Tice
1979
Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
Two-person exhibit with Kiyoako Kato
Review from W. C. Burnett of the ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION
"…he operates from a very sympathetic viewpoint…an interesting attribute for a photographer."
1977
Nexus Gallery, Virginia Ave., Atlanta, Ga.
Two-person exhibit with Mary Anstadt
Review by Geoffrey Perrin, GAZETTE MAGAZINE "His photographs are pure intensity of mood by simplification of form."
2004
Art and Sciences National Juried photography
Juror: Katherine Ware
Reviewed: Pat Johnson
“Because I’m a writer, I have a prejudice for photographs with a narrative, so I loved Grandpa at the Fair by John Sumner.”
18th Annual National Juried Art Exhibition
Douglas County Georgia Art Guild
Juror: Ben Apfelbaum
Second place “The best southern photographs I’ve seen in the region.”
Permanent Collections:
Shite Museum of Art
University of Notre Dame – seven images
Purchased three images from New York exhibit
Mayor's Corridor, Atlanta City Hall, Atlanta, Ga.
Title: Neil Ray and the Spirit
Selected by Mayor Maynard Jackson
Corporate Sales
American Security Insurance
Title: The Southern Series of 87 Images
Greenberg Trawris, LLC
Purchased 3 Images
John & Sue Wieland Collection
Published Works:
AMERICAN PHOTO INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE Contest 1996
PARADE MAGAZINE
We the People
Jurors: Alex Haley, Eddie Adams, Dr Joyce Brothers
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