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BIO

Kristin Capp is a visual artist from Seattle, working between Namibia and New York. Over a decade of living and working in Namibia deepened her engagement with postcolonial discourse and led her to explore photography as a tactile, material process shaped by social and ecological histories. Capp works with historic and experimental techniques—phytograms, anthotypes, and lumen prints—often using expired darkroom papers sourced from defunct labs active during Namibia’s apartheid era.

Her work has been supported by fellowships and residencies from the American Academy in Rome as Visiting Artist, a Fulbright Fellowship in Photography in Namibia, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Bellagio, Italy, and a Sacatar Foundation Fellowship in Bahia, Brazil. She has published three photography books, including "Hutterite: A World of Grace", "Americana" (Stemmle, Switzerland), and "Brasil" (Damiani, Italy), reflecting her long-standing interest in social histories and storytelling across the U.S., Brazil, and Sub-Saharan Africa. 

Capp’s recent projects, developed along the Pacific and Atlantic coastlines and most recently during her time in Rome, address environmental themes and continue her exploration of sustainable photography practices and their relationship to ecology and cultural memory. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in both public and private collections.

RESUME

Born:      Portland, Oregon, USA

Reside:   Windhoek, Namibia & Brooklyn, NY

Education

MFA Studies in Photography, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

BA Degree, Joint Honours in French & Russian Languages & Literature, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Awards

2024   American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist

2024   Willapa Bay Artist-In-Residence, Oysterville, Washington, USA

2018   National Arts Council of Namibia Grant, “Okomboni: Photography Project,” Windhoek

2016   Lucie Photo book Award Finalist for Brasil book, USA

2015   Tulipamwe Artist Residency, Gobabeb, Namibia

2014   Blue Mountain Center Artist Residency, New York

2012   Fulbright Scholar Fellowship in Photography, Namibia

2011   Fulbright Scholar Fellowship in Photography, Namibia

2007   Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy

2007   Valparaiso Foundation Fellowship, Mojacar, Spain

2007   Met Life Grant for Educational Programs, “Reservation Views: Student Photography Project,”  

            Colville Reservation, Spokane, Washington

2005   Olympus Europa Foundation Award in Photography, Germany

2004   Sacatar Foundation Fellowship, Bahia, Brazil

2003   Blue Mountain Center Artist Residency, New York

2001   Aaron Siskind Foundation Award in Photography, New York

1998   Kodak Book Award of Excellence for “Hutterite: A World of Grace,  Edition Stemmle, Zürich

Books

Brasil.    (Damiani, Italy, 2016)

Americana.    (Edition Stemmle, Switzerland, 2000)

Hutterite: A World of Grace.    (Edition Stemmle, Switzerland, 1998)

Solo Exhibitions 

2024    Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa, USA

2022    Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Desolate Beauty, Seattle, Washington

2021    New Media Gallery, “Okomboni”: A Living Archive, Windhoek, Namibia

2017    OpenART Public Art Biennale, “Bondelswart,” Orebro, Sweden

2014    RTR1 Kunsthalle, “Holding Cohesion,” Backlight Photo Festival, Tampere, Finland

2013    Goethe Institute, “Namibia and Brazil,” Salvador, Brazil 

2012    Bursa Fotofest, “The Horse Latitudes,” Bursa, Turkey 

2012    Franco-Namibian Cultural Center, “The Horse Latitudes,” Namibia 

2011    National Art Gallery of Namibia, “Soap Lake to Sao Paulo,” Namibia

2007    Galeria Eduardo Fernandes, “Cotidiano,” Sao Paulo, Brazil 

2007    Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, “Reservation Views,” WA 

2004    US-Brazil Cultural Association Art Gallery, “Views from Itaparica,” , Salvador, Brazil 

2004    Albuquerque Museum of Art, “A Zimbabwe Album,” NM

2002    Carleton College Art Gallery, “Soap Lake,” Northfield, MN

2002    Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, “Hutterite: A World of Grace,” Spokane, WA

2000    Charles Hartman Gallery, “Americana,” San Francisco, CA

1999    Frye Art Museum, “Hutterite: A World of Grace,” Seattle, WA

1999    Charles Hartman Gallery, “Hutterite: A World of Grace,” San Francisco, CA

1999    Galerie Photo Forum, “Soap Lake Environs,” Bolzano, Italy

1998    Kunsthaus Zürich, “Hutterite: A World of Grace,” Switzerland

1997    Museum of Photography, “Hutterite: A World of Grace,” Charleroi, Belgium

Selected Group Exhibitions 

2023    Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Bleak Beauty, Seattle, Washington

2021    University of Kentucky Art Museum, “Near and Far: Recent Gifts of Photography”

2021    Oklahoma City Museum of Art, “Shared Lives, Distant Places: Recent Acquisitions in Photography”

2020    Koplin Del Rio Gallery, “Photographs 2020”, Seattle, WA

2020    Maison Européenne de la Photographie, “Paris Plein Soleil”, Paris, France

2020    Muscarelle Museum of Art, “In Focus: Recent Acquisitions in Photography”, William & Mary University, Williamstown, VA

2019    Zimmerli Art Museum, “Recent Acquisitions,” Rutgers, NJ

2018    Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, “Faces and Places: Photographs from the Kellerman Family,” Stony Brook University, NY

2018    Zimmerli Art Museum, “Subjective Objective: A Century of Social Photography,” Rutgers, NJ

2018    Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, “Depth of Field”, University of Maryland

2017    Blue Sky Gallery, “The Eclipse Show,” Portland, OR

2017    Month of Photography, “Brasil: Photo Book,” Los Angeles, CA 

2017    Palm Beach Photographic Centre, “Photography of Place,” West Palm Beach, FL

2016    George Segal Gallery, “Between Here and Then,” Montclair State University, NJ

2016    Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, “Close Readings: American Abstract Art,” Nashville, TN  

2016    Athens Photo Festival, “Photobook Exhibition,” Athens, Greece 

2015    S + 7 Gallery. “Absence + Evidence,” New York, NY

2015    National Art Gallery of Namibia, “International Tulipamwe Artists Exhibition,” Windhoek, Namibia

2015    National Art Gallery of Namibia, “Re-Presenting Photography in Namibia,” Windhoek, Namibia

2015    New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, “Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photography,” NY

2014    Bates College Museum of Art, “Photographs by Women: Additions to the Permanent Collection,” ME

2014    Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, “Women Photographers,” University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

2014    National Art Gallery of Namibia, “Art Inside,” Windhoek, Namibia

2010    Galerie Photo 4, "Gallery Artist's Exhibition,” Paris, France

2009    Trout Gallery, “Through the Lens: Studies in Photography,” Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

2009    Galeria Eduardo Fernandes,"Group Exhibition,” Sao Paulo, Brazil

2008    Galerie Photo 4, “Group Exhibition,” Paris, France

2007    Whitney Museum of American Art, “Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75 Years,” NY

2006    Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, “Middle Ground: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art,”  

            Columbia University, NY

2006    Centre Culturel de Marchin, “Hutterite,” Belgium  

2005    Galeria Eduardo Fernandes, “Brasil,” Sao Paulo, Brazil

2005    Rochester Art Center, “Visions of America: Photographs from The Whitney Collection,” MN

2004    Williams College Museum of Art, “Three Visions: Kara Walker, Kristin Capp, Thomas Hart Benton,” Williamstown, MA

2004    University of Kentucky Art Museum, “Visions from America, Photographs from the Whitney Collection, 1940-2002,”

             Lexington, KY

2004    IMAGES ‘04’, “Sélection du Grand Prix de la Ville de Vevey,” Switzerland

2004    Norton Museum of Art, "In America: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” West Palm Beach, FL

2003    Whitney Museum of American Art, “Visions from America, Photographs from the Whitney Collection, 1940-2002,” NY

2002    Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, “Others Among Us,” Cedar Rapids, IA 

2002    Houston Center for Photography, “Made in America,” TX

2002    Catherine Edelman Gallery, “Others Among Us,” Chicago, IL 

2001    Whitney Museum of American Art, “What’s New: Recent Acquisitions In Photography,” New York, NY

2000    High Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions,” Atlanta, GA

2000    Seattle Art Museum, “Hereabouts: Northwest Pictures by Seven Washington Photographers,” WA

2000    Albin O. Kuhn Gallery, “Multiple Constructions,” University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

2000    Candace Perich Gallery, “Utopia,” Katonah, NY 

1999    Albin O. Kuhn Gallery, “Multiple Constructions,” University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

1999    City Hall of Polizzi Generosa, “Mediterranean Symposium Group Exhibition,” Palermo, Italy

1999    Photographic Resource Center, “Group Exhibition,” Boston University, MA

1999    Houston Center for Photography, “Picturing Communities,” TX 

1996    Backdrop Gallery, “Group Exhibition," Atlanta, GA

1996    National Museum of Prague, “America at the Turn of the Century,” Czech Republic

1996    Center for Photography at Woodstock, "Primary Subject,” NY 

1996    The Print Center, “Primary Subject,” Philadelphia, PA

1994    Photographic Center Northwest, “New Views of Northwest Photographers,” Seattle, WA

1992    Silver Image Gallery, “An Historical Preview: 40 Women Photographers,” Seattle, WA

Collections

Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY

International Center of Photography, NY

New York Public Library, NY

Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

Seattle Art Museum, WA

McMullen Art Museum, Boston College, MA

Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Denver Art Museum, Colorado

Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

Museum of Photography, Charleroi, Belgium

Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee 

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington

University of Texas at Austin

Carleton College, Minnesota

Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio

Albin O. Kuhn Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa

Albuquerque Museum of Art, New Mexico

Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Foster Art Gallery, Noble & Greenough School, Dedham, Massachusetts

Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine

Pierre Verger Foundation, Salvador, Brazil

Colby College Museum of Art, Maine

Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut

George Segal Gallery at Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey

Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Indiana

Walsh Family Library, Fordham University, New York

University Collection, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina

Lauinger Library, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Lehigh University Art Galleries, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania

University Collection, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana

Villanova University Art Gallery, Villanova University, Pennsylvania

Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University, New York

Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania

Hanes Forest University, Wake Forest University, North Carolina

Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Georgia

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma

William and Mary University, Williamsburg, Virginia

Collaborations + Publications

• Reservation Views: Evolution of a Photography Project on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, Washington. June 2009.
• Keeping the Embers Alive: Musicians of Zimbabwe. Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ & Asmara, Eritrea. May 2008.
• Namibian Soundscapes: Music of the People and the Land. Trafford Publishing (USA). October 2013.

Teaching

2024-2025       Photography Lecturer, University of Namibia, Windhoek

2012- 2023      Photography Lecturer & Head, New Media Design Program, College of the Arts, Windhoek, Namibia

2011- 2012      Fulbright Scholar, Photography Lecturer, University of Namibia, Windhoek

2009-2011       Adjunct Faculty in Photography, Humanities & Art Department, Essex County College, Newark, NJ. 

2007                Photography Instructor & Project Coordinator: Spokane Nation Project, Spokane Reservation, Washington State