Valerie Burke

Fine Art Photography

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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

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