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Meghann Riepenhoff (born 1979) is an American photographer, living in

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, and San Francisco, California, who makes camera-less

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s. She has produced the books ''Littoral Drift + Ecotone'' (2018) and ''Ice'' (2022). Her work is held in the collections of the

High Museum of Art The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High) is the largest museum for visual art in the Southeastern United States. Located in Atlanta, Georgia (on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district), the High is 312,000 square feet (28, ...

and

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art, modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art ...

and in 2018 she received a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

Life and work

Riepenhoff is from

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, GA. She received a BFA in photography from the

University of Georgia The University of Georgia (UGA or Georgia) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia, United States. Chartered in 1785, it is the oldest public university in th ...

, and an MFA from

San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a Private college, private art school, college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mis ...

. She lives in

, and San Francisco, California. She makes camera-less

s in collaboration with the landscape and the ocean. "Riepenhoff utilises waves, rain, wind and sediment in her process, creating physical inscriptions through the direct contact of these natural phenomena with her photographic materials".

Publications

*''Littoral Drift + Ecotone''. Santa Fe, New Mexico:

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; New York City: Yossi Milo, 2018. . *''Ice''. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Radius; New York City: Yossi Milo, 2022. Photography by Riepenhoff, text by

Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is an American writer and activist. She has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art. Solnit is the author of seventeen books, including '' River of Shadows'', whi ...

. .

Group exhibitions

*''Cyanotypes: Photography's Blue Period'',

Worcester Art Museum The Worcester Art Museum houses over 38,000 works of art dating from antiquity to the present day and representing cultures from all over the world. The museum opened in 1898 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Its holdings include Roman mosaics, Europe ...

, Worcester, MA, 2016 *''New Territory: Landscape Photography Today'',

Denver Art Museum The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is an art museum located in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado. With an encyclopedic collection of more than 70,000 diverse works from across the centuries and world, the DAM is one of the largest art museums betwe ...

, Denver, CO, 2018

Awards

*2018:

from the

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation is a private foundation formed in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Gr ...

Collections

Riepenhoff's work is held in the following permanent collections: *

, New York: 2 prints (as of 14 March 2023) *

, San Francisco, CA: 1 print (as of 14 March 2023) *

, Worcester, MA: 1 print (as of 14 March 2023)

References

External links

* 21st-century American photographers American women photographers Photographers from Georgia (U.S. state) Artists from Atlanta San Francisco Art Institute alumni University of Georgia alumni Living people 1979 births {{US-photographer-stub