Education:


1971-73 Studied photography privately with Bill Brandt, London, England
1971 B.A., Columbia University, New York, NY
1965 Photography classes with Alexey Brodovitch, New York, NY
1963-64 Boston University, Boston, MA
1962-63 University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA
   

Selected Exhibitions:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN
2007 Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX
2005 Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
2004 Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art,
Sarasota, FL
Richard Rosenfeld Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA
2002 Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1989 Pace/MacGill, New York, NY
1986

Tartt Gallery, Washington DC

1985  Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1984

Pace/MacGill, New York, NY

1981 Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1975 Light Gallery, New York, NY
 

831 Gallery (Halsted Gallery),
Detroit, MI

1974

Londoners at Home, Photographs by
Nancy Hellebrand,
The National Portrait Gallery, London, England



GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 How We Are, Photographing Britain, Tate Britain, London, England
2005 A way of seeing, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
2000 Works from the Collection by Philadelphia Area Photographers,
Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia, PA
Treasure Island, Late 20th Century Works by Eight Philadelphia Artists, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Complexity and Contradiction, curated by Sid Sachs, Paley Design Center, Philadelphia, PA
1995 Large Bodies, Pace/MacGill, New York, NY
1991 Philadelphia Art Now: Artists Chose Artists, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1990 Group exhibition, Pace/MacGill,
New York, NY
  Contemporary Artists, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1989 The Indomitable Spirit, curated by Marvin Heiferman, International Center for Photography, Midtown, New York, NY
 

The Photography of Invention, curated by Merry Foresta and Joshua Smith,
National Museum of American Art
, Washington, DC

1988

Family Pictures, Pace/MacGill Gallery,
New York, NY

 

Life Like, curated by Marvin Heiferman, Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, NY

 

Pennsylvania Photographers IV,
curated by Anne Tucker, The Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA

 

John Coplans and Nancy Hellebrand, Beaver College, Glenside, PA

1987 National Endowment for the Arts
Anniversary Exhibition
, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
 

Legacy of Light, curated by Charles Stainback, International Center for Photography, New York, NY

 

Portraits: Faces of the ‘80s, Virginia Museum of First Arts, Richmond, VA

 

Mothers and Daughters, curated by Aperture Foundation, New York, Field Museum, Chicago, IL

1984  Investigations: Face to Face, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1983 BIG Pictures by Contemporary Photographers, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
 

Photography in America, curated by Julie Saul, The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

  Pennsylvania Photographers III,
curated by Weston Naef,The Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA
  Women’s Caucus of the Arts National Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
 

Six Women Photographers, The Photography Place, Philadelphia, PA

1981 Summer Light, Light Gallery,
New York, NY
 

Street Sights, II, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

1979

Pennsylvania Photographers I, curated by Stephen Perloff and Judith Ross,
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

 

Photographs from the Lehigh University Collection, Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, PA

1973

Women Photographers, The National Film Theatre, London, England

   

Fellowships:

1984 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  National Endowment for the Arts
   

Lectures/Visiting Artist
:
   
1989 Society for Photographic Education,
Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
1988 Yale Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk, Conn.
  Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY
  University of Deleware, Newark, DE
1985 Yale University, New Haven, CT
1983 The Museum of Modern Art,
New York, N.Y. Artists’ Talks.
 

Bibliography:

BOOKS AND CATALOGS
1990 Women Photographers, edited by Constance Sullivan, essay by Eugenia Parry Janis.
1989

Nancy Hellebrand "writing." (catalogue) Introduction by Charles Hagen,
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY

 

The Photography of Invention,
edited by Joshua Smith. The National Museum of American Art and MIT Press.

1988 Searching Out the Best, A Tribute to the Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1987

Legacy of Light, edited by Constance Sullivan, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY

1983

New Trends, edited by Weston Naef. Shueisha Publishing Co. Tokyo, Japan.

1981

Voices of Kensington, by Jean Seder, Photographs by Nancy Hellebrand. Whitmore Publishing Co. Ardmore, PA

1974 Londoners at Home, Photographs by
Nancy Hellebrand, Lund Humphries, London, England. Distributed in the United States by Light Impressions.
1971 Theatre in My Head, by Dan Cheifetz. Photographs by Nancy Hellebrand. Little Brown and Co, Boston, MA

PERIODICALS
1987 McEvelley, Thomas. "Who Told Thee That Thou Wasn't Naked?" Artform, February.
1985 Edwards, Owen. "Multiple Personalities." American Photographers, December.
  Sweetman, Alex. "The New Portrait." Quiver, Number 11.
1983 "Nancy Hellebrand: More than a Face." Aperture, Issue 91.
1974 "Nancy Hellebrand." Creative Camera, London, England, October.

REVIEWS
  
2004 Costello, Kevin "World Class, Artist Morphs Nature Through Photographs." The Herald Tribune, November 21.
2004 Sozanski, Edward J. "Photographer Distills Water to its Essence." The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 24.
2002 Sozanski, Edward J. "By Process, Photographs Turn Painterly." The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 21.
2000 Sozanski, Edward J. "Exhibit Plucks Treasures from a Timeless Place." The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 16.
1996 Sozanski, Edward J. "Postmodern Path of Philadelphia Photography."
The Philadelphia Inquirer
, July 12.
1995 Hagen, Charles "Large Bodies."
The New York Times
, July 28.
1989 Donahoe, Victoria. "Photography." The Philadelphia Inquirer,
December 17.
  Grundberg, Andy "The Year’s Best: Photography." The New York Times, December 24.
  The Print Collector’s Newsletter, September/October, Book Reviews.
  Smith, Roberta "Charting Traditions of Nontraditional Photography."
The New York Times, June 11..
  "Photography." The New Yorker, July 10
  "Photography." The Village Voice,
August 8.
1987 Aletti, Vince "Face Off." The Village Voice, July 7.
  Grundberg, Andy "Critics Choice, Photography" The New York Times, Sunday, July 5.
1985 Sozanski, Edward J. "Photographic Portraits Close to the Subject."
The Philadelphia Inquirer
, July 11.
1983 Grundberg, Andy "About Face."
Modern Photography
, November.
   

Public Collections:
  Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
  Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
  The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  National Portrait Gallery, London, England
  Princeton University Museum, Princeton, NJ
  Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
 

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