ARTIST BIOS:

Sharon Harper

Sharon Harper works at the intersection of technology, perception, and the living

environment. Her work is in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New

York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of

Art, New York, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in

Buffalo, the Harvard Art Museums, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in Santa Barbara,

California, the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, The New York Public

Library, and the Denver Art Museum among other collections. She is the recipient of a

Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, a Meredith S. Moody Residency Fellowship,

and an Elizabeth Ames Residency Fellowship at Yaddo, a Sam and Dusty Boynton

Residency Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, and residency fellowships at the

Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, the MacDowell Colony, the

Ucross Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Monastery of Halsnøy,

Norway, the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Kentucky, and the Marble

House Project in Dorset, Vermont. A monograph of her work, From Above and Below,

was published by Radius Books. She is the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Visual

Art, Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard University.

Amber Tourlentes

Amber Tourlentes’ solo and group exhibitions include the Museum of Fine Arts,

Boston, the MassArt Art Museum, Smith College, Lesley University, Amherst College,

APE Gallery, the Boston Public Library, and many more. She is also a recipient of the

Massachusetts Cultural Council Faculty Fellowship Grant. Amber earned her MFA and

her BFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in Photography and Art History.

She has also led interdisciplinary panels focused on the LGBTQ+ Family Movement

at the Kahn Institute, Smith College, Emerson College, the Museum of Fine Arts in

Boston, and the Family Equality Council at Disney World, Florida. Amber has been

involved with several activist and legal coalitions serving queer communities, including

GLAD (Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders), the Human Rights Campaign

(HRC), Family Pride, and COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere). Her

photography has been featured in numerous fundraiser exhibitions, targeting various

LGBTQ+ publications, as well as in major media outlets like Newsweek, CNN, Fox

News, and academic journals. Amber’s photographic archive presents a case study on

the economic mobility and continuous redefinition of political class territories.

Amber’s most recent projects examine the history of paper currency and the use of

precious metals, investigating how these elements helped develop photographic

printing processes and how photography functions within a capitalistic system.

Her larger body of work and research explores the possibilities for contemporary

American families to construct gender, sexual, racial, and class identities within the

normative nuclear family culture and institution and revisits the contested traditions of

photographic practices for both public and private archives.

Hannah Altman

Hannah Altman is a Jewish-American photographer whose work considers myth,

performance, memory, and lineage. She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth

University and is based in Boston, MA. Her photographs and books Kavana (Kris Graves

Projects, 2020) and We Will Return to You (Saint Lucy Books, 2025) are held in libraries

and collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art,

Getty Center, Block Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Harvard University, Princeton

University, Stanford University, and the Yale Slifka Center, where she was the 2022-2023

Blanksteen Artist in Residence.

Altman’s work has been exhibited worldwide at institutions including the Jewish

Museum (NYC), Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, MK&G Hamburg, Houston

Center for Photography, Koffler Arts (Toronto), Candela Photographic Arts (Richmond),

Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and Silver Eye Center for Photography (Pittsburgh).

Her photographs have been published in The New York Times, Artforum, Vanity Fair,

Harper’s Magazine, LensCulture, and British Journal of Photography, among others.

She was a finalist for the 2022 Hopper Prize and 2023 Aperture Portfolio Prize, received

the 2022 Portraits Hellerau Photography Award First Prize and a 2023 Innovate Grant,

was a 2025 Arnold Newman Prize honorable mention, and was nominated for the 2025

Cultured Magazine Young Photographers List.

Yorgos Efthymiadis

Yorgos Efthymiadis is a Greek-born visual artist and independent curator based

in Somerville, MA. He is a 2025 Foster Prize Winner (Institute of Contemporary

Art/Boston) and a recipient of Collective Futures Fund 2025 Grant (The Warhol

Foundation). Efthymiadis is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow (2025, 2017), and a

St. Botolph Club Foundation Fellow (2017).

Mary Kocol

Mary Kocol is a fine art photographer based in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her earlier

urban twilight photographs are among the permanent collections of the Museum of

Modern Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Victoria and Albert

Museum in London, and others. She’s a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and

several Massachusetts Local Cultural Council grants. In 2024, she received an LLC

Visual Art Fellowship Grant from the Somerville Arts Council.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Mary was educated at the University of Connecticut and

the Rhode Island School of Design, where she earned a Master of Fine Art degree in

Photography. She’s also a Massachusetts master gardener.

Her photographs are represented by Gallery NAGA in Boston.

Greer Muldowney

Greer Muldowney is an artist, photography professor, and independent curator

based in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her work often tackles the relationship of policy

making and how it affects landscape, housing, and community. She received an

undergraduate degree in Political Science concentrating in Urban Policy and Studio

Art from Clark University, and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

She has acted as the Curator for the Desotorow Gallery in Savannah, GA, and was

the Regional Coordinator for the Flash Forward Festival on behalf of the Magenta

Foundation in Boston, MA. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Midway

Artist Studios and the Griffin Museum of Photography and is the Founder and Director

of Undergraduate Photography Now, an arts organization bolstering the work and

professional development of photography students. She has juried and curated

exhibitions nationally and is currently an Associate Professor at Boston College.

Lucie March

Lucie March is an artist working with the still and moving image. Lucie’s work has

been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Rome, published by MATTE

Magazine, Saint Agnes Studio, and others, and is held in the collections of the

Somerville Public Library and the Museum of Modern Art Library. Lucie holds an MFA

in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and is affiliated faculty

at Emerson College. Lucie co-creates the zine cul de sac with Marie Igea and co-directs

Front Room, an experimental gallery space in Somerville, MA, with Lena Warnke.

Henry Cataldo

Henry Cataldo is an artist and photographer whose work explores light, form, and the

quiet poetry of the visual world. A longtime resident of Somerville, Massachusetts, he

focuses on place, history, landscape, and the evolving character of communities. As a

retired educator, he brings the discipline and curiosity of the classroom to his creative

practice, approaching photography as fine art with careful attention to composition,

tone, and craft. Deeply connected to Somerville, Cataldo has documented the

city’s streets, architecture, and neighborhoods, often using photography to create a

dialogue between the past and present. Particularly to his Somerville connection, he’s

participated in many group grants including Made in Somerville, Lost Theaters Project,

and A Portrait of an American City Through Its Gardeners.

In his most recent photographs, he’s tried to limit his camera’s frame to only the

canvases provided by a car’s windshield and hood area. His intent was to focus upon

the very temporary state that the light, weather, leaves, and reflections might provide.

His work has been exhibited at institutions including Tufts University, MIT, the University

of Michigan, and Galeria Mesa. He holds an MFA in Photography from Yale University,

as well as degrees from Stonehill College and Massachusetts College of Art and

Design. He taught photography for more than 40 years at several institutions including

College of the Holy Cross, Boston University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design,

and Concord-Carlisle High School.

Brian Truglio

Brian Truglio is a filmmaker, photographer, and professional editor. He is a 1998

graduate of the Visual Studies Workshop where he studied photography, sequencing,

and bookmaking with Nathan and Joan Lyons. His work has been exhibited at Bucknell

University, Gettysburg College, the Pyramid Arts Center, Ithaca College, and Texas

State University, among other galleries. He lived and worked in Ireland for five years

before moving to Somerville in 2007, where he now lives.

Brian has made two documentaries, Racing the Rez (2012) and Running Home

(2024). As a film and television editor, he’s worked on over two dozen PBS programs

for American Experience, Nova, and Frontline, including the Emmy winning Nova:

Manhunt: Boston Bombers (2013), the Emmy-nominated Frontline: Documenting

Police Use of Force (2024), and the independent PBS series Resolve to Solve with Miles

O’Brien (2026).

Tynan Byrne

Tynan Byrne is a visual artist living in Somerville, Massachusetts. His practice

predominantly incorporates photography into book arts, collages, and 3D work that

push the confines of the traditionally rendered photograph. Much of his work centers

around themes of romance and affection between men, prominently featuring those of

him and his partner as they navigate their life together. Byrne’s output is also impacted

by a studied appreciation for queer history and literature; he often adds elements of

magical realism to his black and white, color, and Polaroid-based imagery. He holds an

MFA in Visual Arts from Lesley University College of Art and Design, and has exhibited

at Golden Thread Gallery (Belfast, Ireland), Gallery Kayafas (Boston, MA), Anderson-

Yezerski Gallery (Boston, MA), Gravedigger’s Daughter (Waldoboro, ME), ViewPoint

Gallery (Nova Scotia, CAN), Tammy Cromer Gallery (Dallas, TX), and a number of

other galleries, pop-ups, and online exhibitions over the past decade. He is the

recipient of the 2026 Adjective Production Prize and currently works at the University of

Massachusetts Boston as the Instructional Media Technologist in the Art Department.

Ken Richardson

Ken Richardson is a Somerville, Massachusetts-based photographer with a focus on

portraiture, science, and wheels for commercial clients. He has photographed for

many editorial clients such as Technology Review, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Road

and Track, The New York Times, Bicycling Magazine, Science Magazine, and Boston

Magazine to name a few. He has lived in the Boston area most of his life, other than a brief

stint on the West Coast. When he’s not working for clients or shooting personal work, he is

either riding a bicycle, thinking about Vermont or hanging out with a little brown dog named Andie.

Sometimes doing all these things at the same time. He lives in the Union Square

neighborhood of Somerville, MA, with two amazing women, his wife and daughter.

Dana Mueller Robinson

Dana Mueller Robinson was born and raised in Thuringia, East Germany, before the

fall of the Berlin Wall. Working primarily in photography, her practice engages the

complex nature of the image as representation, interpretation, and speculation, with

research focused on social identities shaped by political upheaval, economic realities,

and shifting perceptions of belonging. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group

exhibitions at Rick Wester Fine Art (NY), the Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College

of Art and Design, the Houston Center for Photography (TX), and the Danforth Art

Museum (MA), among others. Publications include her first monograph, May Days

(Fraction Editions, 2018), artistic contributions to the issue of Der Greif: Tomorrow Is

Today (2025), and Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph

(Schilt Publishing, 2020). Her forthcoming book, Edge of the Village / Grenzland will

be published by Hartmann Books this fall. She is Associate Teaching Professor in

Media Arts at Northeastern University and holds an M.F.A. in photography from the

Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Steve Tourlentes

Stephen Tourlentes is a Boston based artist. His photographic practice investigates

the American landscape in the age of mass incarceration. His work is motivated by

his concern with the lack of social investment in communities that has contributed to

the systematic growth in the prison industry. His work has been widely exhibited both

nationally and internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chicago

Art Institute, the Aperture Foundation, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and

the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. He is the recipient of many awards for his work,

including a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, an Artadia Fellowship,

Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships, and is a McDowell Colony Fellow. He was

a finalist for the ICA Boston’s Foster Prize and is included in the upcoming DeCordova

Museum Biennial. He teaches and works in the Photography Department at the

Massachusetts College of Art & Design.

Iaritza Menjivar

Iaritza Menjivar is a Salvadoran Guatemalan American photographer whose work

explores memory, belonging, identity, and the complexities of home. Rooted in her

family’s immigrant experience and her own experience as a first-generation American,

she considers how history, place, and relationships shape what we remember and what

we carry. Moving between documentary and intuitive approaches, her work lingers in

the space between what is seen and what is felt. Menjivar is the recipient of numerous

grants and awards and has exhibited nationally and internationally. She holds a BFA in

Photography from Lesley University.

Charan Devereaux

Charan Devereaux collaborates with community members and organizations to tell

local stories. Her projects combine photography, oral history, archival research, music,

and live events to explore themes of work, faith, and home. Her work has been

supported by the Boston Foundation, Mass Humanities, and the Massachusetts Cultural

Council and received awards from the American Association for State and Local

History, the Massachusetts History Alliance, and the Massachusetts Commission on

the Status of Women. She has presented at conferences and nonprofit organizations.

Her photographs have been published in The Boston Globe and exhibited at local

galleries, museums, universities, and public spaces, including the Massachusetts State

House, Boston City Hall, and the Somerville Museum.