Carolyn Benedict Fraser is a large format photographer and educator. Her work utilizes the constraints of the camera, the frame, and vision to address the ways in which we orient ourselves to mental and physical limitations. She studied psychology and photography at Mills College and received an MFA in Visual Art from Cornell University. She presented her work at the 2017 SPE North Eastern Conference, Is Photography Enough?: Interdisciplinary Approaches Beyond the Still Image. Recently her work has been exhibited in New York City, San Francisco, and Rome, Italy.
For print inquiries, please contact carolynbfraser [at] gmail.com
b. 1984, Nashville, Tennessee
Education
2016 MFA, Visual Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2012 BA, Psychology and Studio Art, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Exhibitions
2019 Aim Less, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Jurors: Ashley Quast and June T. Sanders
2018 The Essential, Loosen Art Exhibition, Millipeani Gallery, Rome, Italy
2017 Is Photography Enough?, SPE Northeast Chapter Conference Juried Exhibition, Brattleboro, VT
Juror: Joshua Farr
2017 On Beauty: Group Show #53, Humble Arts Foundation of New York
Jurors: Jon Feinstein and Roula Seikaly
2017 Slow Eyes, Solace and Site, Umbrella Arts, Concord, MA
Juror: Jen Houle
2017 100 Days of Action, Bay Area Society for Arts and Activism, San Francisco, CA
2016 Goodbye and Good Luck, Standard Art Supply and Souvenir, Ithaca, NY
2016 Something Came Over Me, Caelum Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Failures, Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2015 Open Season No. 5, Standard Art Supply and Souvenir, Ithaca, NY
2015 this (not that), Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2015 In a Certain Way, Site/109, New York, NY
2014 Perspective, Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2012 Matter of Opinion: Senior Thesis Show, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Commissioned Work
2017 Bitter Banquet, Promotional Artwork for Powerdove/Annie Lewandowski
2016 Site-specific Commission, Private Home, Nashville, TN
2012 As the Crow Flies, Private Home, Portola Valley, CA
Guest Lectures | Presentations
2017 Imagemaker Presentation, SPE Northeast Chapter Conference, Is Photography Enough?
2017 Fitchburg State University, Contemporary Art Practice
2017 Ithaca College, Intermediate Photography [Visiting Critic]
2016 Cornell University, Introduction to Photography: Making it Real
2015 Cornell University, Art as Experience: Drawing and New Media
2012 San Francisco State University, Documen(tary) Photography
2012 Mills College, Contemporary Photography I
2011 Mills College, Contemporary Photography I
Online Publications
2019 Light Leaked, Photography Magazine, Private / Public, February 2019
Juror: June T. Sanders
2018 The Foundry, Poetry and Visual Journal, Issue Seven: March 2018
2017 On Beauty: Group Show #53 - Essay by Roula Seikaly, Humble Arts Foundation NY
Print Publications
2015 Cornell MFA Catalog, "Living in Moments" written by Lauren van Haaften-Schick
Awards | Grants
2018 Pendleton Professional Development Grant, Ithaca College
2016 Charles Baskerville Award in Visual Art, Cornell University
2012 Herringer Prize for Excellence in Studio Art, Mills College
2009 Evans Harrington Creative Writing Award, University of Mississippi
Teaching Experience
Spring 2018 - 2019 Lecturer in Photography, Ithaca College
Courses: Introduction to Photography
Intermediate Photography
History of Photography
Photography in Exhibition
Workshops
2018 Instructor, Photography & Painting, Nature & Abstraction, Arrowmont School for Arts and Crafts
2017 Instructor, Photography & Painting, Nature & Abstraction, Smoky Mountain Institute at Tremont
Related Experience
2015 Art Handler, Pepón Osorio, 'Side by Side'
2012 Studio Assistant, Catherine Wagner Studio, San Francisco, CA