ABOUT

 BIO 

Photo by Robert Schmieg

Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin studied philosophy, mathematics, and music at Mount Holyoke College and earned a master’s degree from Bryn Mawr College. In 2001, she was among several individuals selected to participate in a cultural exchange to work with artists in Israel. Ginsburgh Hofkin has had eight solo exhibitions of her photography in Israel, as well as one-person shows at other venues such as the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in South Hadley, Massachusetts; A.I.R. Gallery in New York City; Weill Art Gallery at the 92nd Street Y in New York City; Sande Webster Gallery in Philadelphia; Nina Bliese Gallery in Minneapolis; Quarter Gallery, Regis Center at the University of Minnesota; the Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, WI; and the Bloomington Art Center in Bloomington, MN. She was also named a finalist for the Adi Prize for Jewish Expression in Art and Design and was featured in its exhibition at the Israel Museum in 2005. In 2013, she had two one person shows in Israel: one at the Jerusalem Center for the Performing Arts and the other at Bet Gabriel Cultural Center on the Sea of Galilee. In April of 2014, her work was featured and purchased as part of the Sacred Arts Festival at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. In the summer of 2018, Ginsburgh Hofkin was awarded an artist residency at NES in Skagastrond, Iceland, and in the fall of 2019, she was an independent resident at the Grand Marais Art Colony, in Grand Marais, MN. In 2021, she participated in a summer artist residency at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Oregon. In the fall of 2022, she was an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT.

Ginsburgh Hofkin is represented by A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. Her photographs are part of numerous private and corporate collections, including those of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, 3M Company, Medtronic Corporation, University of South Dakota, University of Colorado (Boulder), College of Saint Benedict (MN), Savannah College of Art and Design (GA), St. Mary’s College (MN), Wynnchurch Capital (IL), Hennepin History Museum, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Woodstock Center for Photography, University of St. Thomas, Arthur Andersen, Jerusalem Theater (Israel), Poriya Hospital (Israel), Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, Massachusetts General Hospital, Adath Jeshurun Congregation (MN), Park Nicollet Women’s Center (MN), and Fidelity Investments.

 ARTIST STATEMENT

When I fell in love with photography, I embarked on a wonderful journey of discovery. Photographs are distillations of perception and experience, and they frequently make use of metaphor. Imagination and reality operate together. It is this union that directs my work. What we know-or what we think we know-will most likely evolve over time in much the same fashion that a kaleidoscope shifts its design when the eyepiece is rotated. Colors and shapes may change, positions of pieces may vary, but the same essential rudiments are there all the time. And, since each of us has a series of "holes" in our respective existences, we seek to fill these in our own way. How we do so is one thing that makes each of us an individual. My photographs of dramatic cloud formations, sinuous bodies of water, voluptuous land formations, or sensuous trees and foliage articulate my appreciation for the mystery inherent in our world.

 RESUME 

ANN GINSBURGH HOFKIN

2205 California St NE, Ste 505
Minneapolis, MN 55418
(763) 473-1991

EDUCATION & RELATED TRAINING

Photography Workshops - Ansel Adams, Frank Gohlke, Linda Connor, Dan Burkholder
Bryn Mawr College - M.S.S., Community Organization, 1967
Mount Holyoke College - B.A., Philosophy, 1965

GALLERY AFFILIATIONS & WEBSITES

Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin - Personal Website
A.I.R. Gallery
American Photography Archives Group
NES Artist Residency
O’Hanlon Center For the Arts
Professional Women Photographers
Women In Photography
The Jewish Artists’ Laboratory
California Building Galleries
Woman Made Gallery

SELECTED SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS, past 10 years

Artistry, Bloomington, MN - 2018
Quarter Gallery, U of MN - 2015
Phipps Ctr. for the Arts, WI - 2015
Bet Gabriel, Israel - 2013
Jerusalem Theatre, Israel - 2013
SABES JCC, MN - 2013

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, past 11 years

The Interchurch Center: “GENESIS: The Beginning of Creativity, An Interfaith and Intercultural Art Exhibition," New York, NY - May and June, 2023
Phipps Center for the Arts: “Ruby Red,” juried exhibition. Hudson, WI, February-April, 2023
SE Center for Photography: “Black, White and Monochrome,” juried exhibition, Greenville, SC, February, 2023
Walanka Jewish Art.org/Karen Walanka Exhibit-”Tikvah/Hope,” American Guild of Judaic Art, 2022-2023
Praxis Gallery, “Black and White,” international juried exhibition, Minneapolis, MN, November-December, 2022
Praxis Gallery, “The Shape of Things,” international juried exhibition, Minneapolis, MN, Sept - Oct, 2022
The Jewish Artists’ Laboratory: A Retrospective, JCC Sabes Center, MN, August - Sept, 2022
”Out of Darkness Into the Light, “Chattanooga, TN, Summer-Fall, 2022
Praxis Gallery, “The Streets,“, international exhibition, Minneapolis, MN, April 2022
O’Hanlon Online Gallery Show – O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA, Winter, 2022
A.I.R. Gallery, “artists@HOME,” artists in the A.I.R. collective, Brooklyn, NY, Fall, 2021
Praxis Gallery, “The Shape Of Things,” Minneapolis, MN, Sept - Oct, 2021
Midwest Jewish Artists’ Laboratory, Virtual Exhibition, Brokenness and Wholeness - 2021
American-Siberian Edu. Foundation., “Sustainable Acts Revisited,” Eurasia Vision, Novosibirsk, Museum of Russian Art, + U of MN Libraries, 2021
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, “Artist Quests, Natural World,” Mill Valley, CA - 2021
Photographic Resource Center, MA, “Your Work Here” - 2020, 2021
PhotoPlace Gallery, VT - 2020, 2017, 2016
Black Box Gallery, OR - 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016
Gordon Parks Gallery, MN, “Topographic Traces,” Metropolitan State University - 2019
Sabes JCC, MN, Judaism, Art and Science Interwoven - 2019
Evanston Art Center, IL, “Phases of Matter,” Invitational group show - 2018
Minnetonka Center for the Arts, “Phases of Matter,” Invitational group show - 2018
Center for Photographic Art, CA - 2016, 2015
Collection WM, MN - 2016
Instinct Gallery, MN - 2015
Institute on the Environment (U of MN) - 2015-2016, 2013-2014
University of St. Thomas, “Sacred Arts Festival,” (all invitational) - 2016, 2015, 2014
Circa Gallery, MN - 2013
Nina Bliese Gallery, MN - 2012

SELECTED PRESS, RECENT

Black & White (2017)
Lens Culture (2016)
Minnesota Daily (2015)
Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Quarterly (The Female Gaze – 2014)
Minneapolis StarTribune (Mary Abbe – 2011)

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Women in Photography International (Yale University, Beinecke Library), Minneapolis Institute of Art, Medtronic Corporation, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Fidelity Investments, Massachusetts General Hospital, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Jerusalem Theatre (Israel), Poriya Hospital (Israel), Arthur Andersen, St. Mary's College (MN), 3M, University of South Dakota, University of Colorado (Boulder), Woodstock Center for Photography, Hennepin History Museum, Savannah College of Art & Design, College of St. Benedict (MN), Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, Wynnchurch Capital (Chicago), Valley Hospital (MA), Adath Jeshurun Congregation, (MN), University of St. Thomas, Park Nicollet Women’s Health Center, Nevada Museum of Art - Center for Art + Environment and many individual collectors.

SELECTED AWARDS, HONORS AND COMPETITIONS

Adi Prize for Jewish Expression in Art and Design (Israel Museum) finalist, Wellington B. Gray Gallery - Qualex Award, Rimon Cultural Arts Exchange in Israel - fellowship recipient, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Savannah College of Art & Design, Texas Fine Arts Association, Rochester (NY) Area Foundation, Arthur Griffin Center, University of South Dakota at Vermillion, Jerome Foundation - finalist, Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Minnesota State Fair, Sierra Club, WARM Land Mark Print Project - finalist, Northfield Arts Guild, Hilton Head Art League, Women in Photography International-HM, Professional Women Photographers (CONTRASTS)-HM, 2012 Living Green Art Expo-1st Place.

RESIDENCIES

2022 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2021 Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
2019 Independent Residency in Grand Marais, MN
2018 NES Artist Residency in Iceland

SELECTED BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

Black and White Magazine, LensCulture, Photographic Possibilities (Second Edition) by Robert Hirsch and John Valentino, Photographic Possibilities (Third Edition) by Robert Hirsch, Camera Arts, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Parts Journal, Sierra, Exposure, Milkweed Chronicle, Twin Cities Magazine, WARM Journal, Shots, Anemone, Sing Heavenly Muse, Michigan Photography Journal, Alligator Juniper, Berlin Journal, Photographer’s Forum, The Hand Magazine, www.theravensperch.com, American Jewish World

SELECTED TEACHING AND LECTURING EXPERIENCE

University of Minnesota, Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA), St. Mary’s College (Winona, MN), Minnesota Center for Photography, The Blake School - Highcroft (Wayzata, MN), Bethany Lutheran College (Mankato, MN), College of St. Catherine (St. Paul, MN), Camp Ramah in Wisconsin (Conover, WI), Poriya Government Hospital (Israel), Concordia University (St. Paul, MN), Oral History Association invited panelist (roundtable discussion – “Pathways to Mixed Reality”) - October, 2019, P’Chotchka (Minnesota Jewish Arts Council) - June, 2022.