Bio
Sally Chapman is a photographer living in Lowell, MA. After earning a BFA in ceramics and photography from Michigan State University, she worked for over twenty years as a ceramic artist exhibiting widely. When she returned to photography ten years ago, she gravitated towards tactile methods of printing. In her current work, Mythic Nature, she uses the 19th century photographic process, cyanotype.
She has been published in The Hand magazine and has had solo shows at the MIT Rotch Architectural Library, Cambridge, MA; Gallery 93, Brookline, MA; and The Sanctuary in Medford, MA. She won the Excellence in Photography Award at the Rockport Art Association and Museum National Show. She has been included in many group shows including at the Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA; Image Flow Gallery, Mill Valley, CA; Soho Gallery, New York, NY; Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT; and the Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA.
In addition to her BFA in ceramics and photography from Michigan State University, Chapman has studied photography in workshops offered by the New England School of Photography, Griffin Museum, MIT, and Harvard University.
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Awards
Living Image, Grand Prize Winner, Halide Project, Philadelphia, PA, 2023
By Hand: Alternative Processes, Honorable Mention, Texas Photographic Society, Abilene, TX, 2023, juror: Christina Z. Anderson, online
National Competition 2023, Honorable Mention, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, 2023
Size Matters, Honorable Mention, Medium Festival of Photography, San Diego, CA 2023
All Creatures Great and Small, Honorable Mention, Whistler House: Lowell MA 2023
18th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Alternative Processes, Honorable Mention in both the single and series categories, 2022.
Common Objects, Director’s Award, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, 2021.
Rockport Art Association and Museum National, Excellence in Photography Award, Rockport, MA, 2019.
Solo Shows
Constructing Mythologies, Halide Project, Philadelphia, PA, 2023
Mythic Nature and Artist Books and Boxes, Concord Library, Concord, MA, 2023
Mythic Nature, Soho Gallery Portfolio Exhibit, New York, NY, 2022
Building Mythos, Three Stones Gallery, Concord, MA, 2022
Mythic Nature, Greenwald Gallery, Arts League of Lowell, Lowell, MA, 2022
Yards of Faith/Shrines and Altars, Art Church, The Sanctuary, Medford, MA, Nov. 26 - Jan. 31, 2019
Night Becomes Us, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, 2017
Gallery 93: Yards of Faith/ Heritage, Brookline, MA, Nov. 2- Dec. 29, 2017
Yards of Faith, MIT Rotch Architectural Library, Cambridge, MA, April 5 - May 2, 2016
Group Shows
2024
Book as Sculpture, Brush Gallery, Lowell, MA
Fantasy and Allegory, Arts League of Lowell, Lowell, MA
Lift of Blue, AVA Gallery, New Lebanon, NH
National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Living Image, Halide Project, Philadelphia, PA
Cape Bound - New England Book Artists, Higgins Art Gallery, West Barnstable, MA
2023
Art Intersection: Little by Little, Gilbert AZ online
Concord Art Association: 24th Annual Frances N. Roddy Exhibition, Concord, MA
Whistler House: All Creatures Great and Small, Lowell MA
Image Flow: 7th Annual Alternative Processes, San Anselmo, CA, juror: Brenton Hamilton, online
LightBox Photographic Gallery: Analog Forever Exhibit, Astoria, OR, online
Light Art Space. The Still(ed) Life: Celebrating Handmade Photographic Art, Silver City, NM, juror: Diana Bloomfield
The LightBox Photographic Gallery, The Analog Forever Exhibit, Astoria, OR
23 Sandy, Dreams, Tacoma, WA online
Abecedarian Artists’ Books, Westward Bound, at Sparks Gallery, Denver, CO, online
Decatur Arts Alliance, The Book as Art V.11: Myth & Magic, Decatur, GA, online
National Competition 2023, Honorable Mention, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, online
Vermont Center for Photography, The Art of Handmade Photography, Brattleboro, VT
Rhode Island Center for Photography Ninth International, Providence, RI. online
juror: Paula Tognarelli
Size Matters, Medium Photo, San Diego, CA
Open Call, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC., online
2022
Living Image, The Halide Project, Philadelphia, PA.
2022 Alternative Processes, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY, online
Telling Tales, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, online
The Hand at Fenix Arts, Fenix Arts, Fayetteville, AR.
6th Annual Alternative Process Photography Exhibition, Image Flow, , San Anselmo, CA, online
“story” Online Exhibit, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX online
Light Sensative, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ.
Danforth Annual Juried Exhibition 2022, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA.
Lowell: My Hometown, Whistler House, Lowell, MA.
A Frenzy and a Dream, “Interpreting Kerouac’s Writing”, Arts League of Lowell, Lowell, MA.
Connecting to the Divine, Analog Forever, Online Group Exhibition, online
SE Center Open, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC. selections
2021
RAA&M National 2021, Rockport Art Association and Museum, Rockport, MA.
Alternative Processes 2021, Soho Gallery, New York, NY. juror: Paula Tognarelli
Unique Alternative Processes 2021, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, NM Juror: Michael Kirchoff. online
Once Upon a Time, Griffin Museum, Lafayette Passage Way, Boston, MA.
New Directions 2021 37th Annual National Contemporary Art Exhibition, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. Juror: Vivian Li
Light Sensitive, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ. Juror: Brian Taylor
Regeneration, Analog Forever Magazine, curated by Laura Wzorek Pressley, online
Experimental Photography, Artdoc Photography Magazine, online
Visions of Nature: Contemporary Views in Alternative Photographic Techniques, Silver City, NM. Juror: Diane Bloomfield
Common Objects, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX. Director’s Award, online
Blue Skies, Don’t Take Pictures, online
Flora, Gallery 263, Somerville, MA. juror: Mark Dion
Blue, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA. online
85th Regional Exhibition, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA.
Virtual Exhibition 27th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA. online
Soho Photo Gallery's 16th Intl Alt Processes Competition, Soho Gallery, New York, NY. juror: Aline Smithson online
Davis Orton Gallery, 7th Annual Group Show, Hudson, NY. juror: Paula Tognarelli online
Image Flow Gallery, 5th Annual Alternative Process Photography Exhibition, Mill Valley, CA.
Botanical, Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT. juror: Lee Ann White, online
2020
Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Somerville, MA. juror: Bill Franson online
Online Exhibition 26th Juried Show, Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA. online
Corona: It's All About the Light, Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA. online
Primary Source, Griffin Museum Satellite Gallery-Lafayette City Center Passageway, Boston MA. online
2019
Rockport Art Association and Museum National 2019, Rockport, MA. Excellence in Photography Award
Annual Open Arts Juried Exhibition 2019, Amazing Things Arts Center, Framingham, MA.
In God We Trust: Reflections of Religion in America, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI.
Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA.
2018
Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Washington St. Gallery, Somerville, MA.
Personal Perspective, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, VT.
2017
The Curated Fridge Winter 2017, Somerville, MA- curator Elin Spring
2016
Danforth Art Annual: 2016 Juried Exhibition, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA.
2016 National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge MA. Juror: Paul Ha
2016 Annual Contemporary Art Survey (ACAS), Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia, Fort Collins, CO.
Sacred and Liturgical Art 2016, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL.
The Fine Art of Photography - 2016, Plymouth Center for the Arts, Plymouth, MA.
Photowork 2016, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. Juror: Karen Irvine
Atelier 23, Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA.
Blue, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA.
2015
Reclamation II: Emerging Female Artists, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA,
14th National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association: Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
Bibliography
The Hand Magazine, issue #39, Feburary 2023, pg. 20.
One Twelve website, Poignant Portfolio no. 35: Sally Chapman, https://onetwelvepublishing.com/blog/sally-chapman
The Hand Magazine, Issue #34, November 2021
ArtAscent Magazine, Issue #39, June 2021, pg. 88-89
The Hand Magazine, Issue #30, November 2020, pg. 42
The Hand Magazine, Issue #29, July 2020, pg. 22
The Hand Magazine, Issue 25, July 2019, pg. 35
PRINTWORKS print sales newsletter- July issue, 2019, (https://www.laphotocurator.com/printworks-print-sales-july-2019-page-2-artists/6)
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
Photography Workshops: New England School of Photography, Griffin Museum, MIT, and Harvard.