CAROL INEZ CHARNEY

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Imprint of Silence is a photographic meditation on censorship and erasure. Smoke drifts through the work like memory made visible—an echo of voices pressed into silence, of books burned or buried for daring to imagine too freely. In many pieces, the forms of the smoke mirror the storylines of banned and challenged books, their narratives briefly reassembled in air before fading away.

CV

Born United States, 1959

EDUCATION

San Jose State University, San Jose, CA – M.F.A. in Photography 2000
University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA – B.A. in Painting 1985

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Slate Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2014 George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Couture Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 Slate Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2013 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 Slate Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2010 George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2010 George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Slate Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2008 USC Hillel Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Caffe Museo, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 MFA Thesis Exhibit, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2000 Marked For Life, Porter College Faculty Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Ten Photographs, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024 Spring Collection 2024, Slate Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2023 History & Romanticism, Slate Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2020 Color Fields, Slate Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2019 Fall Selections from the Artist’s Gallery, SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Resolution, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016 In_Sight On_Site: Beyond Function, AIASF Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 A Straight Shot: New Photography, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015 Urban Abstraction, Slate Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2013 Summer Show, George Billis Gallery, LA, CA
2012 Media Matters, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 Urban Information, Slate Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2009 Remembering Yom Hashoah, Platt Gallery, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA 2009 Introductions 2009, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 City Light, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2005 New Photography, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Hung Jury, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Face to Face, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Contemporary Perspectives, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA
2002 Introductions 2002, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Vivid, SFCamerawork, San Francisco, CA
2001 Out of State, WORKS Gallery, San Jose, CA
2001 Belief, WORKS Gallery, San Jose, CA
1999 Nagler Jewish Photography Competition, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA
1999 National Photography Graduate Seminar Exhibit, NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY

SELECTED AWARDS

2000 Fellowship Grant, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture,
1999 Juror’s Award, Nagler Jewish Photography Competition, Judah L. Magnes Museum 1999 Artist Project Sponsorship for Marked For Life, SFCamerawork
1999 Catherine Urban Scholarship, San Jose State University, School of Art & Design
1999 National Photography Graduate Seminar Fellowship, NYU, American Photography Institute
1998 Catherine Urban Scholarship, San Jose State University, School of Art & Design,

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

2014 U.S. Department of State, Art Bank, Washington, DC, 2014
2013 Morgan Stanley Art Collection, NY, NY, 2013
2013 Stanford University Medical Center Art Collection, Palo Alto, CA, 2013
2011 AT&T Corporate Art Collection, Dallas, TX, 2011
2010 Microsoft Corporate Art Collection, Bellevue, WA, 2010
2010 American Capitol Art Collection, New York, NY, 2010
2010 Jerry Ganz Collection, San Francisco, CA, 2010
2008 Reese Witherspoon Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA, 2008
2006 Chapman University Permanent Collection of Art, Orange, CA, 2006
2006 IndyMac Bank Corporate Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA, 2006

PUBLICATIONS

LAB-zine Issue 23, http://lab-zine.com/media/pdf/issues/lab-23a.pdf (Published 10/18)
thebosco.com, http://magazine.thebosco.com/carol-charney/ Published 5/2017)
Fahrenheit Magazine, http://fahrenheitmagazine.com/arte/carol-inez-charney-con-su-serie-fotografica-after-painting/, Published 8/2017)
Fahrenheit Magazine, Interior Landscape, cuando el agua da vida al arte, (Issue no. 79 Obsession, Published 9/2016)
San Francisco Chronicle, Carol Inez Charney: Photographer Has a Painter's Eye (Published November 2013)
AdBusters, The Epic Human Journey Part 5: Winter. January/February 2014. #111. Volume 21 Number 6 (Published 2014)
Art Ltd., Focus Oakland: Oakland's Gallery Scene Boasts a Growing Murmur (Published January 2012)
Oakland Tribune, Photographic Abstraction (Published January 2011)
eastbayexpress.com, Ripple Effects: Carol Inez Charney finds beauty in hydrodynamics (Published January 2011)
lipsticktracez.com, Carol Inez Charney and the Art of Natural Distortion (Published January 2010)
California Home & Design, Water World (Published April 2006)
AdBusters, No.56 (Published 2004)
San Francisco Chronicle, Belief Systems Come Into Focus At San Jose Art Gallery (Published 2001)