Artist. Curator. Gallery Owner.
After 32 years of teaching and administrative service at the University of Oregon, Terri Warpinski is now a Professor Emerita of Art dedicated to a full-time practice as a studio artist, curator and art activist. Her creative and scholarly career is distinguished by a Fulbright Fellowship (Israel 2000-2001) and most recently as a recipient of a DAAD Research Grant (2016) to Berlin working with the Stiftung Berliner Mauer as her host institution. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship (2014), and two Career Opportunity Grants (2015, 2013) from the Ford Family Foundation and the Oregon Art Commission. She has been awarded artist residencies at Ucross (2000), Playa (2011, 2014) and Caldera (2016). Her work reflects her long-term interest in the traces of human activity embedded in the landscape. Recently completed projects include Surface Tension: three landscapes of division; Liminal Matter: Fences a collaboration with Portland poet Laura Winter, and Death|s|trip.  She has been a member of SPE since 1980. She served two terms as the regional chair of the Northwest Region (1986-1990), served two terms on the national board of SPE (2000-2008), and served two terms as the Chair of the board of directors (2002-2006). Warpinski received the award of highest distinction conferred by the Society for Photographic Education at their international conference in Philadelphia as their Honored Educator of 2018. 

She is a member of the Environmental Photography Collective (www.environmentalphotographers.com).

Warpinski received a B.A. in Humanistic Studies with an emphasis in Studio Art from the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay; an M.A. in Drawing and Photography, and M.F.A. in Photography from the University of Iowa. A native of Northeastern Wisconsin, Terri once again resides along the Fox River in the glacially carved landscape that is the ancestral home of the Ho-Chunk (Hoocak) & Menominee (Kaeyas maceqtawak) Nations in De Pere with her husband, David Graham. Together they created newARTSpace (www.newartspace124.com), a non-commercial artist-driven exhibition and event space revitalizing an old storefront and adding excitment and creative energy to downtown De Pere.

 

Selected Resume   

TERRI WARPINSKI
   
De Pere, Wisconsin  

SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS 
2024 Carol Crow Award, Houston Center for Photography

2024 Critical Mass Top 50, Photolucida.

2023 Fish/Pearce Award, 89th Annual International Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia. 

2023  Artist Residency, Samband Islenskra Mydnlistarmanna (SIM), Reykjavik, Iceland
2018 Honored Educator, Society for Photographic Education   
2017 Research Visit Grant, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) to Berlin
2016 Golden Spot Invitational Residency, Caldera, Sister, OR
2016 Director's Award, Landscapes, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

2016 Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Art Commission and Ford Family Foundation
2015 Artist Residency, ANNEX;art, Berlin, Germany

2015 Artist in Residence, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy  
2014 Individual Artst Fellowship, Oregon Art Commission.
2014 Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Art Commission and Ford Family Foundation
2014 Invited Residency, Playa Residence Program, Summer Lake, Oregon
2014 Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY. Alternate, 2014
2010 Artist Residency Fellowship, Playa Resdiency Program, Summer Lake, Oregon.
2001 Fulbright Senior Scholar, Israel. Artist-in-Residence, Arava Institute for Environmental Studies
2000 Ucross Foundation Residency, Clearmont, Wyoming.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (last decade):

2026 Death|s|trip, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR (Scheduled March 2026)

2025 Death |s|trip, Vincennes University, Indiana (Scheduled October 2025)

2025 Restless Earth, Photographer's Eye Collective, Escondido, CA (Scheduled July 2025)

2024 Restless Earth, HCP Carol Craw Award Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography. Selected by Liz Wells.

2022 Selections from Surface Tension, EUU Gallery, Ephraim, WI

2019 Surface Tension, Besse Gallery, Bay College, Escanaba, MI

2018 Surface Tension, Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, VT

2018 Toward's Reconciliation, Away at Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2018 From Here to There, Governor's Office, Oregon State Capital, Salem, OR

2018 Surface Tension, Gershman Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 

2016 Surface Tension, Sam Hill Gallery, Prescott College, Prescott, AZ
2015 Surface Tension, Haas Gallery, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
2015 Surface Tension, Rochester Institute of Technology

2015 Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 

2014 Surface Tension (solo exhibition) Lincoln Center for the Arts, Fort Collins, CO

2014 Surface Tensions, University of Nebraska Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE

2014 Surface Tension, Workspace Gallery, Lincoln, NE 

2012 Photography NOW 2012, Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York.Natasha Egan, Curator, MOCA, Chicago


SELECTED INVITATIONAL TWO-PERSON AND SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS (last decade): 

2024 60 Years, 60 Artists. The Hardy Gallery, Ephraim, WI

2023 As Above So Below,FOMA, Santa Fe, NM, curated by Toby Jurovics, Barry Lopez Foundation

2023 Rendering Intent[ions], Three Person Exhibition, with David Graham & Dan Cross, Hardy Gallery, Ephraim, WI

2023 Storied Lives, Two-Person Exhibition with David Graham at Baer Gallery, St. Norbert College,De Pere, WI 

2023 [un]Certain Futures, The Environmental Photographers Collective (Marion Belanger, Dana Fritz, Margaret LeJeune, Judy Natal, Martina Shenal and Terri Warpinski), newARTSpace, De Pere, WI 

2023 From the Vault: Alone Together & Liminal Matter/Traces, David Graham & Terri Warpinski, Door County 

Community Foundation Gallery, Sturgeon Bay, WI 

2023 Ad Infinitum: Artists Against War and Imperialism, curated by Dr. Joanna Matuszak, Bunny Conlo Modern & 

Contemporary Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces 

2022 From the Vault, David Graham & Terri Warpinski, Sidedoor Gallery, newARTSpace, De Pere, WI

2022 A Sense of Place: New work on the Land Trust of Door County, Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor, WI 2023

2022 NEW/ART II, newARTSpace, DePere, WI 

2020 Trust the Story, Middle Tennessee State University, curated by Melanie McWhorter

Ossuary, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI curated by Laurie Beth Clark

2019 Museum of Natural Inspiration, guest curated by Dan Cross, Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor, WI

2019 Museum of Natural Inspiration, curated by Emma Hinsom and Dr. Daniel Meinhardt, Lawton Gallery, 

University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.

2018 Towards Reconciliation, Away, Surface Tension, Northlight Gallery, University State University, Tempe, AZ

2017 American Domain curated by Erin Elder, for the Museum of Capitalism, organized by Fictilis, funded by the 

Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and the Jack London Improvement District, Oakland, CA        

2016 Can a Line Define? The Gallery of the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, New York, 

curated by Beatrix Reinhardt 

2016 Exposure 2016, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA (Selected by past PRC directors and curators: 

Anita Douthat, John Jacob, Leslie K. Brown, George Slade, and Francine Weiss

2015 Between Here and There | Paul Turounet | Terri Warpinski, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, 

2014 Ecotone: Boundaries, Tensions, Integrations. Venice Arts Gallery, Venice, CA

2014 Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography, Andrews Hall, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

2014 Portfolio Showcase 7, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. Curated by Alexa Becher and Hamidah Glasgow


SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS (last decade):

2024 Wisconsin Photography 2024, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI

2024 The 2024 Photo Review Competition, juried by Joel Smith, Richard L. Menschel Curator at the Morgan Library & Museum of New York.

2024  Kolga Tibilsi Photo International Awards, Documentary Projects, I [in collaboration with David Graham], Shortlisted Jurors: Tina Schelhorn (Cologne, Germany), Dina Oganova (Georgia), Steven Benson, Jeffrey Wolin, Saul  Robbins, and Jessica Hines (USA).

2024 Wisconsin Artists Biennial, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend. Juried by Sandra Jo Martinez, Robert Cozzolino,  and William Hernandez Luege.

2024 89th Annual International Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia. Juried by Dr. Kimberli Grant, Curator, Brooklyn Museum, and Diana Gaston, Executive Director of Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM. Semi-Finalist, and The Fish/Pearce Award winnter

2023  78th Art Annual, Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI. Juried by Emily Schlemowitz, Sr. Curator, Wisconsin Museum  of Fiber Arts. 1st Place Award

2023 TMA Contemporary, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI

2023 Perspectives 2023, Wisconsin Visual Artists, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, WI. Juried by Debra  Brehmer & Leslie Iwai.

2022  77th Art Annual, Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI. Juried by Jan Mirenda Smith. Awarded Honorable Mention.

2020  40th Annual Secura Fine Arts Exhibition, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI

2017  Joyce Elaine Grant Exhibition 2017, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX. Juried by Dr. Julia Dolan, Curator of Photography Portland Art Museum

2016  Altered Landscapes, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. Juried by Natasha Egan, Executive Director Museum of Contemporary Photography.  Director’s Award.


RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2024 Ally Wilbur, Editor, “Artist Spotlight: Terri Warpinski” Wisconsin Visual Artists Magazine, January 2024, pp.10-13

2023 Carol Emmons, “Exhibition Review: [un]Certain Futures at newARTS, April 14-May 20, 2023”, fsm. a journal for the arts and culture, Volume 3|Issue 4, Late April, 2023

2022 Ben A. Minteer, Mark Klett and Stephen J. Pyne, Wild Visions: Wilderness as Image and Idea, (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2022) photograph p.163. ISBN 978-0-300-260724


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS:
Stanford University Library Special Collecitons, Stanford, CA (Liminal Matter, 2015)
Texas State University - San Marcos Library, Special Collections (Liminal Matter, 2015)
University of California-Berkeley Library, Special Collections, Berkeley CA 

    (Sagebrush, 2015; Liminal Matter, 2015).
University of Washington Library, Special Collections, Seattle, WA 

     (Sagebrush, 1997; Liminal Matter, 2015)
Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. 2014
Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York. 2012
PacificSource Insurance National Headquarters, Eugene, Oregon. 2005
Port of Portland Port Authority Headquarters, Portland, Oregon. 2000
Lane Community College Library, Eugene, Oregon. 1999
Central Oregon Community College, Bend, Oregon. 1999
College of Saint Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota. 1996
State of Oregon, Percent for Art Program.
Ford Alumni Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. 2011.
Law Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 1999.
Oregon State University Valley Library, Corvallis, Oregon 1998.
Lawrence Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 1991.
Loso Hall, Eastern Oregon State College, LaGrande, Oregon, 1990.
Science Complex, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 1989.
Washington State Art Commission Purchase for Art in Public Places.
Klickitat School District, Klickitat, Washington, 1992.
Selkirk School District. Ione, Washington, 1991.
Erie Art Center, Erie, Pennsylvania. 1982
University of Iowa, School of Art & Art History, Iowa City, Iowa. 1983
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Alumni Association Purchase Award. 1984
Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 1980

EDUCATION:
Master of Fine Arts, University of Iowa, School of Art and Art History, Photography
Master of Arts, University of Iowa, School of Art and Art History, Photography and Drawing
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, post-baccalauraete work in Printmaking
Bachelor of Arts, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Humanistic Studies