Education
M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.
B.A., Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Selected Exhibitions
"Digital Sequences: Chris Jordan and Gail Rebhan," Montpelier Art Center, Laurel, Maryland 2008.
"Art of Sacrifice,” Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2007.
“Aging” Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, Maryland, 2006.
“Time’s Body of Evidence,” Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 2006.
“Art Endures,” Annenberg Conference Center for Medical Education, 100 Lancaster Avenue, Wynnewood, PA (organized by Main Line Art Center) 2005.
“Maternal Metaphors,” Rochester Contemporary (RoCo), Rochester, N.Y. 2004, Ohio University, Athens Ohio 2006 (catalog).
“Women of the Book: Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes,” Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey 2004; JCC Futernick Family Art Gallery, Miami, Florida 2004; Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana 2003; Starr Gallery, Newton Center, Massachusetts 2003; Sierra College, Riverside, California, 2002; Gotthelf Art Gallery, Jewish Community Center, La Jolla, California, 2001; Jewish Community Center of Greater Minneapolis and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota 2001; Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri 2000; Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, Vermont 2000; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ 2000; Boca Raton and Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida 2000; Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania 1999; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1999; Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit , West Bloomfield, MI 1999, and Finegood Gallery, West Valley, California 1997. (catalog).
“Arresting Images,” Luther Brady Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 2003.
“Kings, Hummingbirds, and Monsters” Evergreen House, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 2002 (catalog).
“Light2 : Images from the Photography Collections,” University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, Catonsville, Maryland, 2001.
“From the Collection: Photography, Inside/Outside - Personal Expressions,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 1995.
“ArtSites 6,” Emerson Gallery, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, Virginia 1994.
“Spring Show,” juried by Thelma Golden, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland, 1993.
“Baby Pictures,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, 1986.
“The Animal in Photography 1843-1985,” The Photographers Gallery, London, England 1986.
Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, 1984.
“Documentary Photography in the United States: Sekula, Meiselas, Rebhan,” Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany, 1984 (catalog).
Selected Collections
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California.
Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Selected Publications
Included in Feminist Art and the Maternal, 2009, University of Minnesota Press.
Photograph included in Pregnant Pictures, 2000, Routledge Press.
Photograph included in Our Grandmothers: Loving Portraits by 74 Granddaughters, 1998, Stewart, Tabori and Chang Publishers.
Artist’s book, Mother - Son Talk produced during a residency at Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY with grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and Mount Vernon College, 1996.
Included in the anthology Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies 1996, Temple University Press.
Selected Lectures
Reconciling Art and Motherhood panel, Mid-America College Art Association Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2008
Guest Lecturer, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC, 2007.
Artist Talk, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, Maryland 2007
“Mother - Son Relations Through Image and Text,” panel presentation at the Mother -Son Conference sponsored by the York Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Toronto, Canada, September, 1998.
“She Makes the Picture: Inside and Around the Family (Not an Album),” panel presentation at the National Society for Photographic Education Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March, 1998.
“42 cups of coffee: panel discussions with area artists and writers,” WPA/Corcoran, Washington, DC, March, 1998.
Selected Reviews
Washington Post, January 25, 2008, "Digital Sequences: Chris Jordan and Gail Rebhan," Montpelier Art Center, Laurel, Maryland, review by Michael O'Sullivan
Afterimage, March/April 2007, “A Caregivers Journal,” review of “Aging” Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Philadelphia Inquirer, April 17, 2005, review of “Women of the Book” Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey.
n. paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal, Volume 14, 2004, discussed in the article, “Maternal Rites: Feminist Strategies” by Andrea Liss.
New Art Examiner, October, 1999 discussed in the article, “Test Family: Children in Contemporary Art.”
On Paper, Nov/Dec, 1996, review of artist’s book “Mother - Son Talk.”
Employment
Professor of Photography, Northern Virginia Community College - Woodbridge Campus, Woodbridge, Virginia, 2000- Present.