Education:
1987 Master of Fine Arts: Photography, University of Illinois at Chicago
1976 Bachelor of Arts: Film Making, Columbia College Chicago
1962 Bachelor of Science: English, Loyola University, Chicago
1959-61 Bachelor of Fine Arts Program: Art Institute of Chicago
Work Experience
1991-2008 Adjunct Faculty, Photography Columbia College Chicago
1987-1990 Adjunct Lecturer, Photography University of Illinois at Chicago
Exhibitions:
2025
Center for Photographic Art, Juried Members' Exhibit, Juror: Ailee Haeusien, Carmel, CA
Daniel Miller Gallery, "Your Daily Photograph", Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA
2024
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, The Paula Tognarelli Collection, Curator: Denise Froelich, Director
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards Honorable Mention.
Daniel Miller Gallery. "Your Daily Photograph," Santa Monica, California
2023 "Your Favorite Photograph" online.
2023
Members Juried Exhibition, The Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA Juror: Hamidah Glasgow
Griffin Museum of Photography Annual Member's Winter Solstice exhibit
The Big Picture, Month of Photography Denver, Colorado, Juror: Mark Sink
Duncan Miller Gallery. "Your Daily Photograph," Santa Monica, California
2022
The Blurred Moment, Praxis Gallery, St.Paul, Minnesota
Enlighten, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Mass. Juror, Crista Dix
Ukraine Pinhole Festival Panel Fundraising Event, Realphotographycompany.co.uk
The Big Picture, Month of Photography Denver, Colorado, Juror: Mark Sink
Photo Place Gallery: Dreams and Imaginings, Middlebury, Vermont, Juror: Susan Burnstine
Duncan Miller Gallery, "Your Daily Photograph," Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2021
Tokyo International Foto Awards; Honorable Mention.
Duncan Miller Gallery, "Your Daily Photograph" , Santa Monica, California.
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts, Winter Solstice, Members' Exhibit, Juror: Paula Tognarelli
Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota Air/Liquid exhibit, Ellen Janzten, Juror
Center for Photographic Art , Carmel, California, Members's' Exhibit online, Susan Burstine, Juror
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts, Virtural Exhibit in Accompaniment with Juried 27th Member's
Exhibit. Juror: Paula Tognarelli.
2020
Duncan Miller Gallery "Your Daily Photograph" Santa Monica, California.
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts, Winter Solstice, Members' Exhibit
A. Smith Gallery, Cyanotype Exhibit, September 30, November 8, 2020, Johnson City, Texas.
Tate Collective, Tate Museum, London, UK. Visual display accompanying Dora Maar exhibit. February, 2020
Griffin Museum of Photography Lafayette Civic Center Passageway. Primary Source, October, 2019- August 23, 2020 Juror: Paula Tognarelli.
2019
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts, Winter Solstice, Members' Exhibit
Wichita Falls Museum of Art Texas, Diversity, Alternative Methods in Photography, Wichita Falls, Texas
The Big Picture, Month of Photography, Denver, Colorado. Juror: Mark Sink
Kenosha Public Museum, Digital Transitions exhibit, Kenosha, Wisconsin
2018
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winter Soltice Exhibit, Winchester, MA
A. Smith Gallery, Light Exhibit, Johnson City, Texas, Juror: Geoffrey Koslov.
PhotoNOLA, Cyanotype Exhibit, The Healing Center, New Orleans, LA
2017
PhotoNOLA, Hands Around the World, New Orleans
Light Box Gallery, Fairy Tales and Nuclear Bombs, Astoria, Oregon
Poetics of Light, Survey of Pinhole Photography, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK
Toyko International Awards: Cyanotypes, Silver Award and Honorable Mention, Tokyo, Japan
What is Nature? Group exhibition, Shootapalooza. Tilt Gallery, Scottdale, AZ
Cyanotype Installation, Shootapalooza, Art Intersection Art Center, Gilbert, AZ
2016
Pinhole Photography, A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas
Alternative Processes, Light Box Gallery, Astoria, Oregon
Cyanotype Exhibit, A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas
Reflections on Nature, Heller Nature Center, Highland Park, Illinois
2014
Alumni Exhibit, Columbia College Chicago
2013
3rd Annual Photography Show, Art Association of Northern Colorado, Ft. Collins,CO
A Sense of Place, Schaumburg Center for the Arts, Schaumburg, IL
2012
"22", Northwest Corporate Art Center, Arlington Heights, Illinois
Games, Wars and Summits, Columbia College Chicago
Medium, Alumni in the Library, Columbia College, Chicago
2011
Necessary Fictions, Alumni in the Library, Columbia College Chicago
Revolution of the Self, Alumni in the Library, Columbia College, Chicago
2010
Greater Than 16x20; Less Than 4x5, Alumni in the Library, Columbia College, Chicago
Mentors, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
2009
Shall We Dance? The Cache Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado
Three Pinholists, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
Outside the Box, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
2008
Art of the Library, Columbia College Chicago
2007
Focus 5, Illinois State Museum, Chicago Gallery, Chicago
22, Northwest Area Arts Council Gallery, Rolling Meadows, Illinois
2005
Four, Dreambox Foto Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Icons and Altars, Bloomingdale Park District Museum, Bloomingdale, Illinois
2004
Slow Vision, Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvaer, Norway
2002__
Valerie Burke, Pinhole Photography, Chicago Cultural Center
2001
Stare: Photographic Survey, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona
2000
Her Asia, Three Arts Club, Chicago
First Works, Columbia College Faculty Fine Arts Exhibition, Chicago
1999
Uturn Issue 2, Virtual Gallery Exhibit: www.uturn.org
1998
Third Occasional Survey of Abstract Art in Chicago, Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois
Midwest Photographers' Project, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
Sixth Annual New York Digital Salon, Visual Arts Museum, New York, New York
1997
Scan, Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Camera Obscured, FotoCircle Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Gleaning Light, Survey of Pinhole Photography, Washington Center for Photography
1996
Gleaning Light, Survey of Pinhole Photography, Photo Archives Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1995
Global Focus Art Exhibit, Beijing, China, National Museum of Women in the Arts
1994
10,000 Plus, Alumni Board Exhibit, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
Personal Visions II, An Art Place, Inc. Chicago, Illinois
1992
20th Annual Hyde Park Art Center Members' Show, Chicago, Illinois (First Place)
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Mail Art Exhibit, Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, California
Mixed Media, Countryside Art Center, Arlington Heights, Illinois (Best of Show)
The Feminine Mystique, Countryside Art Center, Arlington Heights, Illinois (First Place) Juror: Catherine Edelman
Publications:
2020 Book:
Autumn Passage, Blurb publication (print)
Adventures in Cyanotypes, Blurb publication (print)
2019
Issue, 26 The Hand Magazine, October, 2019
Issue, 23 The Hand Magazine, January, 2019
2018
"Issue, 22" The Hand Magazine, October, 2018
"Issue,19", The Hand Magazine, January, 2018
Book: Shell Photography, Pinhole Images, April, 2018, Blurb Publication (print)
2017
Issue,18, The Hand Magazine, October 2017
Issue, 17, The Hand Magazine, October, 2017
2015
Book: The Thinman, Pinhole Photography, Blurb Publication
2014
Poetics of Light, Survey of Pinhole Photography, New Mexico Museum Press, April, 2014
Pinhole Photography Exhibition,
Don't Take Pictures, Online Survey, May-August, 2014
2009
"A Pinprick View Opens a Big World", The Denver Post, April 26, 2009.
2007
"Focus Five", Time Out, December, 2006.
2004
"Contemporary Images", Pinhole Journal, August, 2004.
2002
"Art Center Summer", North Shore, July, 2002.
2000
"Contemporary Images 5", Pinhole Journal, August, 2000.
1998
"Sixth Annual New York Digital Salon", Leonardo, October, 1998.
1997
"Contemporary Images 4", Pinhole Journal, December, 1997.
1994
"Photography Workshops", Chicago Tribune, August 19, 1994.
1993
"Self Portrait", Pinhole Journal, December, 1993.
1991
"Two Artists Change the Ordinary into the Extraordinary", Chicago Tribune, April, 1991
1989
"Multiples", Pinhole Journal, December, 1993
"Backyard Objects Become Exotic Through Pinhole Camera", Valerie Burke's Pinhole Photography", Chicago Tribune, October
1988
Portfolio of Photographs 1984, University of Illinois. Held in collection of:
The Art Institute of Chicago,
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona,
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Illinois
Additional:
2025
Shootapalooza workshop, Wood Photo Transfers, De Moines, Iowa
2013
Pinhole Photography Presentation, Art Association of Northern Colorado, Fort Collins, Colorado
2011
Workshop Presentation: Pinhole Photography Colorado Cultural Society, Fort Collins, Colorado
2010
Workshop Presentation: Image Transfer, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
2009
Workshop Presentation: Pinhole Photography, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
2001
Workshop Presentation: Pinhole Photography, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois
1997
Juror: Photography Exhibit, Bloomingdale Art Museum, Bloomingdale, Illinois
1992
Colloquium Guest Speaker Pinhole Photography, University of Illinois at Chicago
1990
Moderator: Panel Discussion, Current Trends in Photography with James Hugunin, Catherine Edelman, Mark Alice Durant and Shashi Caudill, Arlington Heights Library, Arlington Heights, Illinois
1988-90
Juror: Chicago International Film Festival, American Film and Video Festival.
1989-90
Reviewer: The New Art Examiner, Chicago, Illinois
Professional Affiliations:
Center for Photographic Art
Shootapalooza
Griffin Museum of Photography
Public Collections:
California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California
Graham Nash Collection of Photography, Encino, California
Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1984 Portfolio, Chicago, Illinois
Illinois State Museum, Chicago, Illinois
National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Private Collections:
Ellen Roth Deutsch Mundelein, Illinois
Eugene and Sara Jean Gray Taos, New Mexico
Sara Silks Overland Park, Kansas
David and Diane Mecham Windsor, Colorado
Sam Lieurance Fort Collins, Colorado
Website: valerieburke.artspan.com