Christine Laptuta
Born: Toronto, Canada, lives in Victoria,B.C. Canada
Education: studied painting, etching and photography,Toronto & Paris, BFA, honours, York University, Toronto, Canada
Permanent Collections:
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens and Private Collections
Exhibitions:
2024:Photo Review Competition, Prizewinner Gallery,Curator,Joel Smith,Morgan Library & Museum,New York
Athens Photo Festival,Photo Reviews
2018-2023: Sabbatical
2017: Galerie Lichtblick,Cologne,Germany,Space Veggies and Earth Plants
2016: Space Veggies & Earth Plants,curated by Tina Shelhorn, Tseretelli Museum of Modern Art,Tbilisi,Georgia Blue Sky's Pacific NW Photography Viewing Drawers, Portland, Or,Photo Review,2016, competition issue
2015: Portland Art Museum, Callahan to Warhol, New Photography Acquisitions,
Place: Framing the Oregon Landscape, Oregon Historical Society,
Blue Sky’s Pacific NW Photography Viewing Drawers, Portland, Or, juried selection
2016: Pictured Past, Future, Perfect, Project collaborated by Susan Dobson and Allison Nordstrom
Blue Sky’s Pacific NW Photography Viewing Drawers, Portland, Or, juried selection,
2012: Julia Cameron Award Exhibition, Palais du Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Blue Sky’s Pacific NW Photography Viewing Drawers, Portland, Or, juried selection,
2011: Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, Fotografias Colecao Joaquim Paiva,
Cleveland Museum Of Art, “ Landscapes from the Collection “, 2011
Solo Exhibition, De Santos Gallery, Houston, TX, 2011
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Photoforum Exhibition, 2011
Blue Sky’s Pacific NW Photography Viewing Drawers, Portland, Or, juried selection, 2011
2010: Julia Margaret Cameron Exhibition, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rayko Photo Center, Sight Unseen, San Francisco, Ca
Michael Mazzeo Gallery, RSVP: Arbor Show, New York, N.Y.
Tucson Saguaro Photography Invitational, curated by Terry Etherton
2009: Foto Fest International Discoveries Show, Houston, TX
Verve Gallery, Online Emerging Artist, Santa Fe, NM
Gallery 339, 8 x10 and Under, Group Show, Philadelphia, Pa
Newspace Gallery, Five Person Show juried by Chris Pichler, Publisher, Nazraeli Press
Newspace Gallery, Two-Person Show, Portland, Oregon
2008: Chambers Gallery, The New Antiquarians Group Show, Portland, Oregon
Newspace Gallery, Altered Landscape Show, Portland, Oregon
2007: Solo Exhibition, Camerawork Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Silver Eye Center for Photography, New Works Online Gallery, Pittsburg, PA
1974 - 1980: Explored areas of creativity in a business environment.
Produced multi-screen slide shows for National Film Board of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
1975 - 1981: Society of Four Arts Contemporary Exhibition, juried show by Louise Nevelson, Palm Beach
Exposure, Canadian Contemporary Photographers, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
National Film Board of Canada, Kent Street Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Publications, Awards, Distinctions
2016: The Photo Review 2016, Competition Issue
2015: Harpers Magazine, Findings, Cactus Garden at Huntington Gardens, October 2015 issue
Western Landscape Photography, Then and Now, by Rachel McLean Sailor,
Article for Oregon Historical Society.vol.16.no 1, 2015,for Place,Framing the Oregon Landscape
Critical Mass,Finalist, Photolucida
2010: Participating Spaces / Discoveries of the Meeting Place, Fotofest 2010 Biennial, Schilt Publishing
“PHOTONEWS” Hamburg, Germany, July / August issue
Julia Margaret Cameron Award, categories winner, nature, 2nd place,and book publication
2009: Santa Fe Photo Reviews acceptance
2008: Lens Work Extended # 77 (July- August, 2008)
Critical Mass,Finalist,Photolucida
2000: Peter E.Palmquist, Women in Photography, International Archive
Beinicke Rare Book Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Ct
1975: Photography 1975, National Film Board of Canada, International Women’s Year
Produced by National Film Board
Female Eye, Clarke, Irwin Publisher, Toronto, produced by National Film Board of Canada
Exposure, Canadian Contemporary Photographers, Art Gallery of Ontario, Gage Publishing