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Whitten Sabbatini
2020-2023
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Education

2017  MFA in Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

2013  BFA in Photography, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS


Solo Exhibitions

2021  Another Day in Paradise, Visual Arts Center, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

2014  Brooks Introduces: Whitten Sabbatini, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN


Group Exhibitions

2022  Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from The Do Good Fund, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA

2019  Photography In Memphis, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

         The Universal, Filter Space, Chicago, IL  

         Go Down Moses, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

         Labs New Artist III, Red Hook Labs, Brooklyn, NY

2018  New Southern Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA

         Mississippi State University Department of Art 50th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery, Starkville, MS

         Adolescence, Photographs from the Do Good Fund, Spartanburg County Public Library, Spartanburg, SC

2017  Portraits of Southerners: Photographs from The Do Good Fund, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS

         Animals, Bozarts Gallery, Water Valley, MS

         Unwrapped! 100 Gifts for 100 Years, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

         Persist, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Chicago, IL 

         The Cure, Weinberg / Newton Gallery & Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Chicago, IL

2016  A Directory of Southern Culture, Slow Exposures Festival, Concord, GA

         Unbound 5, Candela Books, Richmond, VA

         Growing Up In The South, University of Georgia's Willson Center for Humanities and the Arts, Athens, GA

2015  Independent Photography Festival, Mossless: The United States, China Heights, Sydney, Australia

         Independent Photography Festival, Mossless: The United States, Lamington Drive, Melbourne, Australia

         Independent Photography Festival, Mossless: The United States, Ludlow Studios, New York City, NY

         Eternal Moments: Photographs of the South, The Smith Building, Marion, AL

         Mossless In America, One Eye'd Jacks Gallery, Brighton, England

         Coming Into Focus: Emerging Southeastern Photographers, Blue Spiral I Gallery, Asheville, NC

2014  Southern Exposures: The Do Good Fund Photographs, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA

         Aint-Bad at Art Now, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA

         Portrait: A Picture Show, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR

         9/50 Summit, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

         Fresh, Association for Visual Arts, Chattanooga, TN

         Lilts & Drawls: A Narrative of the South, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA

         Exhibition Momentum, South Main, Memphis, TN

         Figures, Contexts, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT

2013  Faces, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Jct, VT

         Identity, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

         Spirit of Place, Maine Media Gallery, Rockport, ME

         Picture This, What We Photograph, MPLS Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN

2012  People Together, New York Center for Photographic Art, New York, NY

         Portraits, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO


Awards & Honors

2019  Magenta Flash Forward

2018  MACK First Book Award Nominee

         PDN 30 Nominee

2014  Follett Graduate Merit Award, Columbia College Chicago

2013  Undergraduate Student Research Award, College of Architecture, Art & Design, Mississippi State University

         National Conference Scholarship & Travel Stipend, Society for Photographic Education


Publications

2022  Reckonings & Reconstructions, University of Georgia Press

2021  Baby Faces & Heels: Art on Wrestling

2019  Go Down Moses, Museum of Contemporary Photography

2018  New Southern Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art

         And Light Followed the Flight of Sound, One Day Projects

         Another Day in Paradise, Self Published

2017  VUU Studio, Super Special, Vol. 02 Issue No. 05

2016  Splash and Grab: Issue 03

2015  Aint-Bad Magazine Vol. 03 Issue No. 01: From Here On

         The Indies, Self Published

2014  Halfling Zine: Issue 03

         PDN Magazine - August 2014: The Photobook & Self Publishing Issue

         Aint-Bad Magazine Issue No. 08: The American South

         Mossless Magazine: The United States 2003-2013


Online

2021  Metal

         Mississippi State University CAAD

2019  Booooooom  

         Aperture 

         New City

         The Guardian 

         AnOther

         The Oxford American  

2018  The Heavy Collective


Collections

2018  The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

         Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago, IL

2016  Candela Books, Richmond, VA

2015  Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

2013  The Do Good Fund, Columbus, GA


Lectures & Artist Visits

2019  Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

2017  Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL

2016  Columbia College, Chicago, IL

         Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL

2015  Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

2014  Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN


Professional Experience

2020  Assistant, Jim Goldberg, The High Museum of Art: Picturing the South

2019  Spring, Instructor, ARTD 313 Beginning Photography, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL

2017  Studio Manager, Larry K. Snider

         Teaching Artist, SkyARTS

         Teaching Assistant, Foundations of Photography, Jay Wolke

2015  Teaching Assistant, History of Photography I, 1839-1940, David Travis

2014 - 2017  Curatorial Assistant, Museum of Contemporary Photography