Christine Back

Selected Exhibitions

Selected Group Shows

Anaphora, Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, Feb 2025, awarded Best in Show

Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition, Texax Women's University, Denton, TX, Feb-Mar, 2025

Portraits: Beyond the Exterior, Analog Forever Magazine,  December 2024 (online)

Dwelling in Hope, Studio Montclair, November 1, 2024

Hold On: Love and Loss, Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ, September 2024-January 2025

Tangled Up in Blue, JCAST Art & Studio Tour, Newport Center, Jersey City, NJ, October 1-6, 2024

2024 New Jersey Arts Annual: Exploring Our Connections, Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ, September 2024-January 2025

Imminent Existence: Critical Mass Top 50, Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW), Seattle, WA, March - June 2023

Fifty Years of Inspiration & Impact: The Photographic Legacy of Klaus Schnitzer and his Students, Montclair State University , Montclair, NJ, February 2020

Humor in Art, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ, September 2011

Destination New Jersey: People and Places, Clifton Arts Center, Clifton, NJ, September 2011

13th Annual International Krappy Kamera Show, Soho Photo Gallery, juried by Phillip S. Block & Steve Rooney, New York, NY, March 2011

Small Works, Soho Photo Gallery, juried by Richard Klein, 3rd place, New York, NY, February 2011

In Habitation, Booksmart Studio, Rochester, NY, January 2011

PQ: 100, Center for Photography at Woodstock, March-May 2010

Bed, Umbrella Arts, juried by Harvey Stein, New York, NY, June 2009

13th Juried Exhibition, The Griffin Museum, juried by Brian Paul Clamp, Winchester, MA, August 2007

Montclair State University Group Show, The Paterson Museum, Patterson, NJ, 2006

When We Were Young, Foley Gallery, New York, NY, July, 2005

Small Matters of Great Importance, Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY, 2004

Photography 2004, Edward Hopper House Art Center, Award of Excellence, Nyack, NY, 2004

24 American Photographers, Graz Tourismus, Graz, Austria, 2003

The Precious Image: Contemporary Platinum Photography, Montclair State University Gallery, Upper Montclair, NJ, 1998

Love and Technology, Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria, 1997

Christine Back & David Anderson, Maxwell’s, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1995

Montclair Meets Manhattan, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY, 1992 & 1994

On Common Ground, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY, 1993

Ellis Island: Documentation/Interpretation, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, Ellis Island, New York City, NY, 1990

Selected Publications

PV Revisited, LenScratch, interview by Daniel George, September 19, 2023. 

Critical Mass Special Issue, fraction Magazine (on-line), October 31, 2022.

Relations, F-Stop Magazine (on-line), Issue #48, August 2011.

Loose Marbles: Images from the Jersey Shore, Vision Magazine, Beijing, China,

editor, Lina Wang, June 2010.

The Photo Review National Competition, juried by Katherine Ware, Curator of Photographs,

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Photo Review, volume 27, number 2.

Center for Photography at Woodstock, Photography Quarterly, cover, PQ# 83, 2002.

Summer Fling: The Timeless Lure of the Surf, Sand, and Seashells, The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, cover story, August 13,1995.

Awards

New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, 2023

Critical MassTop 50, Photolucida,2022.

Recipientof Geraldine R. Dodge Summer Initiative Grant, 2005.

Education


Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ, Master of Arts in Teaching, 1998.

Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1988.

Festivals


CapeMay New Jersey State Film Festival, work shown in conjunction with film

Suzanne Muldowney:My Life as an Underdog(work also featured in film).

Experience


Teacher of Photography, Pascack Valley RegionalHigh School, Hillsdale, NJ, 1998-present.

Photographer’s Assistant, various commercialphotographers in New York & New Jersey, 1990-1996.

Freelance Editorial Photographer, clients includedNew Jersey Monthly Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, 1992-1998.

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