Jeanne Dunning
Jeanne Dunning (born 1960) is an American photographer whose work is centered around corporeality and human physicality in abstract forms.
Jeanne Dunning
- Born
- 1960 · Hartford.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer
- Education
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago · Oberlin College
- Honours
- Anonymous Was A Woman Award
- Languages
- English
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Jeanne Dunning (born 1960) is an American photographer whose work is centered around corporeality and human physicality in abstract forms.
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Jeanne Dunning (born 1960) is a photographer, of American nationality. The photographer was born in Hartford.
Jeanne Dunning was educated at Oberlin College and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The photographer worked in Chicago.
Languages used include English. Works are held at Art Institute of Chicago, Hessel Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, among others.
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Education and early career
Jeanne Dunning studied at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Oberlin College. The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are Chicago. Work by Jeanne Dunning is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Hessel Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art. Distinctions recorded are Anonymous Was A Woman Award.
Dunning earned her Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College and her Masters of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From there, she opened her first exhibit at the Feature Gallery in Chicago in 1987. In the early 1990s, Dunning created a series of photographs for an exhibit titled "Directions" which was meant to blur the lines of fact and fiction. The exhibit was displayed at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington.
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1960
Jeanne Dunning was born on 1 January 1960.
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Dunning's work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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- 1.Cotton, Charlotte. The photograph as contemporary art. Thames & Hudson. 2014. 978-0-500-20418-4.
- 2.Dunning, Jeanne. mocp.org.
- 3.Schecter, Ann. Artistic object may be too crude for the viewer. Lowell Sun. 451. August 21, 1994.
- 4.Burchard, Hank. Fruits of artist's labors. Cedar Rapids Gazette. 165. July 31, 1994.
- 5.DIRECTIONS: JEANNE DUNNING. hirshhorn.si.edu.
- 6.Icing. The Art Institute of Chicago. 1996.
- 7.Jeanne Dunning. www.whitney.org.
- 8.Jeanne Dunning, The Pink, 1996. MCA.
- 9.Museum of Contemporary Photography. www.mocp.org.
- 10.Jeanne Dunning. Untitled Hole. 1988 - MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art.
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Recognition and collections. Dunning received Anonymous Was A Woman Award.
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