Janelle Lynch Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1969 -

Janelle Lynch is an American large-format (8-x-10-inch) landscape photographer.[1][2][3][4][5][6] She teaches at the International Center of Photography and was the 2013 Artist-in-Residence at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY.[7][8] In 1999, she received an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, where she studied with Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld. In 2003, she completed the Master Class in Photography, a one-on-one tutorial, with Shore at Bard College.

For nearly twenty years, Lynch has been actively engaged with the medium, creating long-term projects in the United States, Mexico, and Spain. She has two monographs published by Radius Books: Los Jardines de México (2010) and Barcelona (2013).[9][10][11]

Lynch’s photographs are in several international private and public collections, including, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, New York Public Library, New York, NY, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, Fundación AMYC, Madrid, Spain and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Salta, Argentina.

In 2008, juror Charlotte Cotton named Los Jardines de México a finalist for the Santa Fe Prize for Photography. Los Jardines de México has been internationally exhibited, including one-person shows at the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL and the Museo Archivo de la Fotografía, Mexico City, Mexico. In 2013, it was featured at the Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise Festival, Nantes, France.

In 2013, jurors Charlotte Cotton and Diana Edkins named Lynch’s Walls series (from Barcelona) a finalist for The Cord Prize. [12]Also in 2013, Lynch was named the first Artist-in-Residence at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY. The resulting project, Presence, was acquired by the museum and exhibited there in 2014. A catalog accompanied the exhibition and includes an essay by Burchfield scholar Nancy Weekly, who is the Head of Collections and Charles Cary Rumsey Curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. [13]

Lynch’s practice has been supported by substantial 8-x-10 film grants from Kodak in 2007, 2008, and 2011. Lynch lectures widely and is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography. She writes about contemporary issues in photography, reviews books and exhibitions for Afterimage, The Photo Review, and photo-eye. She was a 2012-2013 Fellow at The Writers’ Institute, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.[14]

During 2016-2018, Lynch will be an artist-in-residence at The Hermitage Artist Retreat.[15]