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EDUCATION

1981 Masters of Art, San Francisco State University, CA
1975 Bachelors of Art, San Francisco State University, CA (Honors—Cum Laude)
1973 College of Marin, Kentfield, CA
1971 San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1971 Instituto del Arte, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (Full Scholarship)

AWARDS

2017-present Inaugural Nancy Cook Endowed Chair, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2013–14 Fellowship, The Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2007–09 Artist-in-Residence, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
2007 Artadia Award: The Fund for Art & Dialogue
2005 Faculty Research Grant, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2002 Joan and Robert Danforth Distinguished Professorship in the Arts, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1998 Visual Arts Fellowship, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
1997 Visual Arts Fellowship, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1995 Visual Arts Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Foundation
1995 Fellowship for Art & Science Project, Research Corporation for Science Advancement
1994 Cypress Award, Center for Photographic Arts
1994 Visiting Artist Fellowship, Art and Science Project, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1994 Faculty Research Grant, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1993 Faculty Research Grant, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1990/91 Visual Artist Fellowship in Photography, National Endowment for the Arts
1987 Visual Arts Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1985 Faculty Research Grant, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1984 Ferguson Grant, Friends of Photography
1983 Faculty Research Grant, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1983 Mellon Foundation Grant
1982 Faculty Research Grant, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1981 Mellon Foundation Grant
1981 Visual Artist Fellowship in Photography, National Endowment for the Arts
1980 Faculty Research Grant, Mills College, Oakland, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 End Grain: The Displaced Shadow, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021 Clues to Civilization, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
2019 Paradox Observed, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2018 Archaeology in Reverse, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2018 Selections, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Near Abstraction, Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA
2017 In Situ: Traces of Morandi, Museo Morandi, Bologna, Italy
2017 In Situ: Traces of Morandi, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Archaeology In Reverse, 1275 Minnesota Street, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2015 Rome Works, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Rome Works, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
2014 Catherine Wagner, Lee Eugean Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2013 trans/literate, Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA
2013 trans/literate, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Reparations, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Morphology, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 A Narrative History of the Light Bulb, Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA
2007 A Narrative History of the Light Bulb, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Re-Classifying History, 101 California Street Lobby, San Francisco, CA
2005 Re-Classifying History, de Young Museum (inaugural exhibition), San Francisco, CA
2005 Catherine Wagner: Early Works 1975–1981: California Landscapes and Moscone Site, Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Trilogy: Reflections on Frankenstein, the Arctic Circle, and the History of Science, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
2003 Cross Sections: Catherine Wagner, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
2002 12 Areas of Concern and Crisis, Installation at Comme des Garçons, Kyoto, Japan
2001 Cross Sections: Catherine Wagner, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2001 Catherine Wagner: Selections 1980–2000, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks, Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
1999 Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Art & Science: Investigating Matter, Photographs by Catherine Wagner, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
1999 Catherine Wagner, Selections 1978–1998, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Catherine Wagner: Art & Science, Investigating Matter, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA; Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA; International Center Of Photography, New York, NY; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Armand Hammer, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Catherine Wagner Photographs: Investigating Matter, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1997 Art & Science: Investigating Matter and American Classroom, Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, MO
1996 Art & Science: Investigating Matter, Kemper Gallery of Art, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1994 American Classroom, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, at Amerika House, Frankfurt, Germany (Netwerk Kulture catalog)
1994 Home and Other Stories, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
1993 Home and Other Stories, Mills College, Oakland, CA; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
1993 American Classroom: Photographs by Catherine Wagner, University Gallery Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
1991 American Classrooms: The Photographs of Catherine Wagner, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA
1991 Catherine Wagner: Selections, Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 American Classroom: The Photographs of Catherine Wagner, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1989 American Classroom: The Photographs of Catherine Wagner, The Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA
1989 Photographs 1978–1988, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988 Catherine Wagner: Photographs from the American Classroom Project and the George Moscone Site, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1988 Changing Places, Photographs by Catherine Wagner, Farish School of Architecture, Rice University, Houston, TX (catalog)
1988 American Classroom: The Photographs of Catherine Wagner, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (catalog)
1987 Catherine Wagner: 1976–1986, Min Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (catalog)
1985 American Classroom: The Photographs of Catherine Wagner, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1983 New Image Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
1982 Equivalents Gallery, Seattle, WA
1982 Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1980 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
1978 Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 What are Words Worth?, McEvoy Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2022 Transparency/Opacity, Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2022 Morandi, Resonancia Infinata, Fundacion La Pedrera, Barcelona Spain & Fundacion MAPFRE, Madrid Spain
2022 Micrographia: Karen Lofgren & Catherine Wagner, Gallery Luisotti & Royale Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2022 1962 - 2022: A Celebration of 60 Prints for 60 Years, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021 New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA.
2021 California Girls II, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA. Curated by Tom Marioni
2019 Academic Bodies, American Academy in Rome, Rome IT
2019 Making It Up, Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA
2019 The Aesthetics of Learning, Mishkin Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Way Bay, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2018 Permanent Collection Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2017 Lumen, Cohen Gallery, Granoff Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
2017 Recollected, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2016 Strange Oscillations and Vibrations of Sympathy, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2016 Chain Reaction, San Francisco Arts Commision Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2016 Flowers, Fruits, Books, Bones: Still Life, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
2015 Missing Persons, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2015 Tongues Untied, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Cinque Mostre: Time & Again, Lumen, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2014 Cinque Mostre: Time & Again, History Recast, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2014 Cinque Mostre: Time & Again, Concrete Ghost, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2013 Art on Paper, Datz Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea
2013 Tradition of Mayhem, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
2012 Yale University Art Gallery Reopening, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2012 Recent Acquisitions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2012 Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2012 Silver Curtain, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 The Altered Landscape, The Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2011 Polaroid [Im]possible, The WestLicht Collection, Museum of Photography, Vienna, Austria
2011 HERE, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
2010 Know the Rules – Then Break Them, di Rosa Collection, Napa, CA
2010 The Gallery of California Art, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2010 State of Mind: A California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2010 Masterworks of American Photography: Popular Culture, Amon Carter Museum, Forth Worth, TX
2010 Real and HyperReal, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2010 The View from Here, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2009 75 Years of Looking Forward: The Anniversary Show, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2009 An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area Part One: San Francisco Plays Itself, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2008 Selections from the Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2008 New Work: Photography and Sculpture, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 CCA Alumni & Faculty Show, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Home Sweet Home, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2007 Rembrandt to Thiebaud: A Decade of Collecting Works on Paper, Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
2007 Bios 4, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC ), Seville, Spain
2007 Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2006 The Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2006 Middle Ground: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Wallarch Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2005 150 Works of Art, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2005 Worth a Thousand Words: The Book as Image, University Library Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
2005 The Altered Landscape, National Academies of Science, Washington D.C.
2005 New Work: Squeak Carnwath, Mildred Howard, Catherine Wagner, di Rosa Preserve Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, CA
2005 AxS: At the Intersection of Art and Science, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2005 Recent Acquisitions, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2005 Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (catalog)
2005 Boxed Sets: Portfolios of the Seventies, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2005 Tree, Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Kurzdavordanach, SK Stiftungkultur, Koln, Germany
2004 Inside Out: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2004 Ditto: Multiples from the Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2004 The Altered Landscape, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
2004 What’s Doin,’ Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Visions of Passage, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
2004 The Altered Landscape, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2003 How Human: Life in the Post-Genome Era, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2003 Public Record, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2003 The Altered Landscape, Norsk Museum of Fotografi Preus Fotomuseum, Horten, Norway
2003 The Altered Landscape, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
2003 Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2002 Constructing the 1930s, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2002 Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2002 Parallels And Intersections: Art/Women/California 1950–2000, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2002 Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2002 National Millennium Survey, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2002 New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions 3, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002 The Altered Landscape, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand
2001 A Love Affair with Pictures: 25 Years of Collecting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
2001 Depicting Absence/Implying Presence, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
2001 Architecture in Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2001 The Altered Landscape, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2000 Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900–2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Foreign Bodies, Untitled (Space) 13, New Haven, CT
2000 Paradise Now: Creating the Genetic Revolution, Exit Art, New York, NY
2000 American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Our Quarter Century: The University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography Turns Twenty-Five, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2000 Into Our Prime: Acquisitions Since 1996, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2000 Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2000 Neural Notations, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Noise, The Wellcome Trust's Two10 Gallery, London, England (catalog); Kettle's Yard, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England (catalog)
1999 Historically Speaking, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
1999 Body as Commodity, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1999 Outside the Box: Photography Portfolios from the Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
1999 Museum Pieces: Bay Area Artists Envisioning the de Young, de Young Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (brochure)
1999 The Altered Landscape, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
1999 Bay Area Now, II, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
1999 Into the Next Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (catalog)
1998 Home Sweet Home, Transamerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 Inside These Walls, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1998 American Vernacular, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Interface: Art & Tech in the Bay Area, Duke Univ. Museum of Art, Durham, NC
1998 Prime Focus, University Galleries, Normal, IL
1997 Absolute Landscape: Between Illusion and Reality, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (catalog)
1997 Scientia Artifex, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
1995 Assembled Photographs, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1995 Selections From the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1995 Landscape: A Concept, Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1995 Facing Eden:100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1994 Family Lives, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.
1994 Old Glory, New Story, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
1994 Discards, Secession Gallery at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 Shrines, Symbols & Cherished Objects, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
1992 Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures VI, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 Passages, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1992 To Collect the Art of Women: The Jane Reese Williams Collection of Photography, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM (catalog)
1991 Past / Present: Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Upper Jones Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1991 SITE WORK: Architecture in Photography since Early Modernism, The Photographers' Gallery, London, England
1991 Silent Interiors, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA (catalog)
1991 California Cityscapes, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (catalog)
1990 Natural History Recreated, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
1990 Perspectives on Place: Attitudes Toward the Built Environment, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
1989 Picturing California, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (catalog)
1989 Theme and Variations: The Photographic Still Life, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1988 Cross Currents/Cross Country, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA; The Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA (catalog)
1988 Evocative Presence: Twentieth-Century Photographs in the Permanent Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (catalog)
1987 A Look at Photography Books of 1987, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
1987 New American Photography, Fogg Art Museum Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
1986 Midtown Review: A Look at Photography Books of 1986, International Center of Photography/Midtown, New York, NY (Publication: San Francisco Observed)
1986 Bay Area Biennial, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalogue)
1986 Mills College Faculty Retrospective, Mills College, Oakland, CA (catalog)
1986 New American Photography, Min Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (catalog)
1985 20 x 24 Polaroid Exhibition, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
1985 Photography from the Permanent Collection, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1985 Settings - The Civic Center Project, A.P. Giannini Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
1985 La Photographie Creative, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
1983 California Sharp School, facets of the collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1983 Landscape Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 University Memorial Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (two-person exhibition)
1982 Slices of Time - California Landscape, 1860–1880, 1960–1980, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (catalog)
1981 University of California at Santa Cruz (two-person exhibition with Gail Skoff)
1981 Landscape Photography, 1850–1980, Sacramento, CA (catalog)
1980 Faculty Exhibition, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
1980 Contemporary California Photography, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
1978 Memorial Union Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA (two-person exhibit with brochure)
1978 Equivalents Gallery, Seattle, WA (two-person exhibition with Walker Evans)
1977 Cityscapes, Downtown Center Invitational Group Show, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
1977 Atholl McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

COMMISSIONS

In process Blue Curbside Expansion Wall, Tampa International Airport, Tampa FL.
In process Mercer West Corridor Project, Seattle, WA, Atmospheric Flurry (working title)
2021 Moscone Central Subway Station, San Francisco, CA, Arc Cycle
2016 Comme des Garçon, Dover Street Market, London, UK, Frankenstein
2014 Wave Echo, The Village, Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA
2013 Nature / Culture, Education Park Branch Library, The City of San Jose, San Jose, CA
2011 Vitreous Bench, 301 Mission Millennium Tower, Millennium Partners, San Francisco, CA
2009 Ghost Grove, LAPD Headquarters, The Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Sava Pool, San Francisco Public Art Commission, San Francisco, CA
2005 Re-Classifying History, de Young Museum Inaugural Exhibition
2004 Flux Density, Frisson Restaurant, San Francisco, CA
2003 Cell Wall II, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
1986 Settings - Civic Center Plaza, A.I.A., San Francisco, CA
1987 Parnassus Foundation in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, commission to photograph bank architecture.
1984 Construction of the New Orleans World Exposition, Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
1984 Post Modern Architecture at the Vieux-Port in Quebec City, Canada, Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, Canada

COLLECTIONS (PARTIAL LISTING)

Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California
The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky
Bibliotheque National de Paris
CCA Montreal
Center of Creative Photography
Chase - Manhattan Bank
de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
First National Bank of Chicago, IL
Hewlitt Packard Corporation
International Center of Photography, New York
La Salle Bank
Levi Strauss Corporation
The Library of Congress
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Museum of American Art - Smithsonian Institution, NY
E. L. Wiegand Gallery, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
The Oakland Museum, CA
Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, MA
Progressive Corporation
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Sprint Corporation
Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Whitney Museum of Art, NY

REVIEWS

2013 Artnet, Karen Vanegas, "Gallery Hopping on Thursdays - Luminous," July 18
2013 LA Times, Susan Brenneman, "Literature's Greatest Hits," April, E9
2013 Photograph, Glen Helfand, "Catherine Wagner: trans/literate," March/April, pg. 52
2013 Photograph Magazine, Glen Helfand, "Catherine Wagner: trans/literate," January 18
2013 San Francisco Chronicle, Jesse Hamlin, "Works of Braille in 2-d," January 8
2012 California Style Magazine, Melissa Goldstein, "Morphology"
2012 Art Practical, Pactricia Maloney, "Stage Presence"
2012 Lexus Magazine, Darrell Hartman, "Cross Sections"
2011 Spot Magazine, Lisa Sutcliffe, "Catherine Wagner speaks with Lisa Sutcliffe on Reparations and its connection to war, identity, and spirituality" Fall
2011 Artillery Magazine, Scarlet Cheng, "Catherine Wagner," May/June
2011 Art News, Lea Feinstein, "Catherine Wagner," April
2010 Visual Art Source, "Catherine Wagner's Reparations at Stephen Wirtz Gallery," Dec.
2010 The Huffington Post, "Catheter Wagner's Reparations at Stephne Wirtz Gallery" Dec.
2010 Art Ltd. Magazine, Hearne Pardee, "Catherine Wagner: "Morphology" at Steven [sic] Wirtz Gallery."
2010 Art Practical Blog, Jessica Brier, "Morphology," Jan.
2009 Los Angeles Times: Culture Monster blog. Yvonne Villarreal, “Artistic visions for LAPD’s new headquarters.” Oct 21st.
2008 San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, “Artworks that make a lasting impression: Wagner’s ‘Reparations’,” August 9th.
2008 Los Angeles Times. Pauline O’Connor, “At these exhibitions, everything is illuminated.” April 24th.
2007 San Francisco Chronicle. Kenneth Baker, “Everything is illuminated in show of lights,” April 7th.
2007 Los Angeles Times. Colin Westerbeck, “Photo Synthesis,” March 25th.
2007 SFGate, Kenneth Baker, “Review: Women’ artworks at Mills ask questions about gender, authority, and tradition,” February 8th.
2007 San Francisco Bay Guardian, Stacy Martin, “Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History,” February 14th.
2007 Art Info, Laura Richard Janku, “Regional Roundup: San Francisco,” February 14th.
2006 Exposure, Cicely Sweed, “Re-Classifying History: Catherine Wagner,” Spring, p. 53.
2005 LA Weekly, Peter Frank, “A X S: At the Intersection of Art and Science,” August 19-25.
2005 Los Angeles Times Calendar, Cynthia Dea, “One scaffolding at a time,” April 7.
2004 ArtForum.com, Glen Helfand, “Critics Picks, Catherine Wagner,” April.
2004 San Francisco Chronicle/Datebook, Kenneth Baker “Art Grapples with Science and Politics,” March 27th
2003 Los Angeles Times Calendar, Scarlett Cheng “Catherine Wagner: Cross Sections,” March 9th.
2002 Art New Magazine of India, Roobina Karode “The Poetry of Science,” January Vol. VII Issue II.
2002 New York Times Science, “Inside, Up Close: Medical Scans as Art,” July 2nd.
2002 Art in America, “Report from San Francisco,” November
2002 San Francisco Chronicle/Datebook, David Bonetti “The Best of 2001,” December 31.
2001 San Jose Mercury News, Jack Fischer “The Art of Science,” November 11.
2001 Daily Review, Laura Casey “Recognition Skyrockets for Oakland Photographer,” November 11.
2001 San Francisco Chronicle, David Bonetti “Celebrating Life From the Inside Out,” November 7.
2001 San Francisco Chronicle, David Bonetti “Art Notes,” October 30.
2001 SF Weekly, Lisa Hom “She Blinded Me With Science,” October 24.
2001 TIME Magazine, James Poniewozik “Innovators: The Next Wave,” October 15.
2001 The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, David Bonetti “Bay City Best: Art,” April 8.
2001 The San Francisco Chronicle, David Bonetti “Humans Absent from, but Central to, Wagner Photos,” March 29.
2000 The New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl "DNART: A Show Embraces Biomania," October 2.
2000 The New York Times, Eric Lander "In the Wake of Genetic Revolution, Questions About Its Meaning," September 12.
2000 The Kansas City Star, Alice Thorson "Disneyphile or Disneyphobe? Context is Crucial," August 13.
2000 Die Zeit, Von Jorg Albrecht "Der Perfekte Keim des Lebens," May 25.
2000 Art Papers Magazine, Terri Cohn "Room of Wonders: Linking Art and Life Through the Museum," July–August.
1999 San Francisco Examiner, David Bonetti "Genial Deconstruction of de Young Museum," November 26.
1999 The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Q &A with Susan Gerhard "The New 'Now'," November 17–23, Vol.34, No.7.
1999 Asian Art News, Reena Jana "Unfolding Identities," March–April.
1998 Art in America, Micheal Amy "Catherine Wagner at Jack Shainman," March.
1998 Artnews, Katie Clifford "Catherine Wagner," June 1998, Vol. 97, No. 6.
1998 Neune Kunst, Michael Macinnis "Catherine Wagner's Art and Science: Investigating Matter," May, Vol.1, No.6.
1997 Los Angeles Times, William Wilson "The Artful Science of Photography," December 2.
1997 So California Live, Shirie Gottlleb "Artfully Capturing the World of Science," November 19.
1997 Art Scene, "Previews of Exhibitions," November, Vol.17, No.3.
1997 Grunion Gazette, Lisa Buck "Big Questions Pictured in 'Art and Science'," November 27, page 13.
1997 Doubletake, Alan Lightman, Fall, Vol. 3, No. 4, page 136.
1997 The Los Angeles Times, Susan Kandel "Art Review," September 19, page F26.
1997 The New York Times, Vicki Goldberg "Art and Science, the Yin and Yang of Culture," April 27, page 37.
1997 Artweek, Lane Barden "A Conversation with Catherine Wagner," February, Vol. 28, No. 2, page 17-18.
1997 M.I.T.'s Technology Review, Cornelia Homburg "An Artist Explores the Lab," April, pages 47-55.
1997 The Kansas City Star, Alice Thorson "The Miracle, Madness of Catherine Wagner," February 14-20.
1997 New Times, Roberta Lord "The Private Life of Science," Kansas City, MO, February 20-26.
1997 Artnews, Kenneth Baker "Catherine Wagner," January.
1996 New Art Examiner, Debra Parr "Catherine Wagner, Art and Science," November.
1996 San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker " Catherine Wagner: Images of Science," November 8.
1996 The River Times, Alexandra Bellos "Laboratory of the Mind," September 25–October 1.
1996 San Francisco Examiner, David Bonetti "Catherine Wagner, Art & Science: Investigating Matter," November 15.
1996 St. Louis Dispatch, Robert Duffy "Art and Science," September 1.
1993 San Francisco Examiner, David Bonetti "Homing in on Private Spaces, Personal Lives," December 10.
1993 Photographer's Forum, James Kaufman "Home & Other Stories: Photographs by Catherine Wagner," November.
1993 Artforum, Maria Porges "Catherine Wagner: Los Angeles County Museum of Art," October, Vol. XXXII, No. 2.
1993 San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker "Wagner's Photos Take Measure of Domestic Interiors," September 7.
1993 Review: Newsletter of the Friends of Photography, Nadine Lemmon "Home and Other Stories: Photographs by Catherine Wagner," September/October.
1993 San Francisco Chronicle, Sam Whiting "Illuminated Windows into Private Lives," August 25.
1993 San Francisco Chronicle, Connie Ballard "A Peek Into the Domestic Self," August 24.
1993 Artweek, Pat Leddy "How We Become the Some of Our Stuff," July 22, Vol. 24, No. 14.
1993 Los Angeles Times Calendar, Nancy Kapitanoff "Photo Exhibit Opens Door to Families' Homes and Lives," July 4.
1993 Los Angeles Times, Susan Kandel "For Catherine Wagner, Every Home Tells a Story," June 11.
1992 Artweek, Leigh Ann Clifton "A Dialogue between Lewis Baltz, Andy Grundberg, Sandra Phillips and Catherine Wagner," July 23, Vol. 23, No. 20.
1991 Artweek, Hal Fischer "A Conversation with Catherine Wagner," December 12, Vol. 22, No. 42.
1991 Artweek, Collette Chattopadhyay "A Passionate Objectivity," December 12, Vol. 22, No. 42.
1990 Center For Photography at Woodstock Quarterly, "Natural History Re-Created," Vol. 11, No. 4, pages 4-11.
1990 Women Photographers (Anthology of Women in History), Constance Sullivan, Harry Abrams, Inc., NY, pages 177-178.
1990 Chelsea Clinton News, Hilda Bijur "Bodies and Classrooms," March 22–28, Vol. LI, No. 12.
1989 Artweek, Jeanette Ross "Organizing Meaning," December 21, Vol. 20, No. 43.
1989 San Francisco Examiner, David Bonnetti "A Classification of Classrooms."
1989 Artforum, Bill Berkson, Review, November.
1989 The Daily Review, Mike McAuliffe "A Place for Photography," November 8.
1989 San Francisco Chronicle, Liz Lufkin "Catherine Wagner; Selections from 1979–1989," August 20.
1989 Afterimage, Anne McCauley "Catherine Wagner and Photographs of Urban Change," January, Vol. 16, No. 6.
1988 Arete, A Forum For Thought, "American Classroom," December, pages 62-63.
1988 Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday Book Review, December 11.
1988 St. Petersburg Times, Alida Becker, December 4.
1988 New York Times, Andy Grundberg, December 4.
1988 Chicago Tribune, Catherine Reeves, October 28.
1988 Houston Chronicle, September 25.
1988 Houston Chronicle, September 18.
1987 Los Angeles Times, Suzanne Muchnic "American Photography As Seen From Japan," December 20.
1987 Artweek, Joan Murray, review of publication: "Catherine Wagner, 1976–1986," December 12.
1986 Oakland Tribune, Charles Schere "Mills College Faculty Retrospective."
1986 San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker "A Bay Area Biennial," November 9.
1986 Los Angeles Times, William Wilson "The Bay Is On View," October 26.
1986 Artweek, Leah Goldman, November 8.
1985 Artforum, Hal Fischer, Review, October.
1985 Artweek, March 30.
1985 Photo Metro, John Bloom, April.
1985 Los Angeles Times.
1985 Oakland Tribune, Harriet Swift, January 29.
1982 Artweek, Ron Glower, October 23.
1982 Artforum, Hal Fischer, Review, October.
1982 Northwest Photography, James W. Thomas "What Is Not Art?," October.
1982 Artweek, "Slices of Time," February 27.
1978 Afterimage, "Contemporary California Exhibition at Camerawork," November.
1978 Artforum, Hal Fischer, Review, September.
1978 San Francisco Chronicle, Thomas Albright, May 6.
1977 Washington Post, Paul Richards, June 18.
1977 Artweek, Joan Murray, May 20.
1977 Washington Art Market Newsletter, "What's Up In Art?," June.
1977 San Francisco Chronicle, Thomas Albright, February 11.
1977 Artweek, Hal Fischer, February 10.

MONOGRAPHS

2018 Place, History and the Archive, Damiani
2017 Vecchi, Benson Miller, Wagner, In Situ: Traces of Morandi. Edizione MAMbo.
2001 Butler, Helfand, Peat, Catherine Wagner: Cross Sections. Twin Palms Publishers.
1996 Homburg, Gass, Longino. Art &Science: Investigating Matter. Nazraeli Press and Washington University Gallery of Art.
1993 Conkelton, Sheryl. Home and Other Stories, Photographs by Catherine Wagner. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The University of New Mexico Press.
1990 Changing Places: Photographs by Catherine Wagner. Houston: Farish Gallery, Rice University
1998 Tucker, Anne Wilkes. American Classroom, The Photographs of Catherine Wagner. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts.
1987 Catherine Wagner, 1976–1986. Tokyo: Min Gallery.

PUBLICATIONS

2019 Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe, Aperture, UMBC, pg. 100-101
2016 Photographs Reporduced, American Classroom, Missing Persons exhibition catalogue, Stanford University Press.
2016 Profile and Photographs Reproduced, Rome Works, San Francisco Cottages and Gardens Feb/Mar
2014 Photographs Reproduced, Various bodies, Photodot Korea, pg. 58-61, October
2014 Photograph Reproduced, Utopic, Blind Spot 47, Vik Muniz and Barney Kulok, April.
2014 Multiple Exhibition Reproductions, Cinque Mostre, Cinue Mostre: Time & Again, Posa Edizioni, Feb.
2013 Photographic Series and Interview, Catherine Wagner, Magazine Gitz
2013 Photograph Reproduced, Northern Vista, George Moscone Site, San Francisco, CA, Arts for the City: San Francisco: Civic Art and Urban Change, Susan Wels, pg. 117
2012 Introduction, My San Francisco, San Francisco City Guide, 2012, Louis Vuitton, pg. 10-11
2012 Photographs Reproduced, Early California Landscape, HERE, Pier 24 Photography, Section 16
2010 Profile and Photograph Reproduced, -86 Degree Dreezers, Twelve Areas of Concern and Crisis, American Art & Philanthropy, Peter C. Marzio, pg. 351
2010 Photograph Reproduced, Green Energy, Le Monde Diplomatique, Cedric Gossart, "Quand les technologies vertes poussent a la consommation." July
2010 Photograph Reproduced, Emerson College, Southwick Hall, The New York Times Magazine, David Leonhardt, "Half a Degree." May 9
2009 Photographs Reproduced, Portrait Wall, Blind Spot, Issue 39.
2008 Profile, California Home + Design, Dorka Keehn, “Frame of Reference”. June. Pg 135
2008 Profile, Bay Area News Group Sunday A&E, “The arts of motherhood”, May 11th.
2008 Preview, Flavorpill, Ashley Tibbits, “A Narrative History of the Light Bulb”, March
2008 Photograph Reproduced, The New York Times Style Magazine, Alice Rawsthorn, “Lights Out: An Ode to the dimming incandescent bulb.” Design & Living Spring. Pg 52.
2007 Profile, Mills Quarterly, Glen Helfand, “Illuminating Culture”, Fall. Pg 14-15.
2006 Photograph Reproduced, Diagnosis [Art]: Contemporary Art Reflecting Medicine, pg. 139
2006 Photograph Reproduced, Exploring the Bancroft Library, pg. 80
2006 Photograph Reproduced, Exposure, Spring 2006, pg. 1, pg. 51.
2006 Photograph Reproduced, New York Times Magazine, January 15. pg. 18.
2005 de Jesus, Melinda, Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory, Theorizing the Filipina/American Experience, pg. 302-303
2005 “Object Lessons,” Mickey Rapkin, New York Times Style Magazine, Fall, p. 48.
2005 “San Francisco’s New Heights,” Lynne Yaeger, Travel and Leisure, September, p. 204.
2005 “Sitting or Standing, an Ovation,” Zahid Sardar, San Francisco Chronicle, November 12.
2005 Photograph Reproduced, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 27, pg. 19
2005 Re-Classifying History: Catherine Wagner, de Young Museum (museum brochure)
2005 Crist, Steve, The Polaroid Book: Selections from the Polaroid Collection of Photography, Taschen, p.241
2004 Kurzdavordanach: Gegenwart als Zwischenraum, Revolver & Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Koln, Germany
2004 Susan Anker, Dorothy Nelkin, The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age, pg 145-146, 175, 179
2004 Selections: The San Jose Museum of Art Permanent Collection (catalog)
2004 Art & Biotechnologies (CD-Rom), Groupe de Recherche en Arts Médiatiques (GRAM), Université du Québec à Montreal (Anthology)
2004 Camera Arts, “Curators as Collectors: Notes on Recent Museum Acquisitions and Gifts,” by Erin O’Toole, August/September 2004, pages 30-35.
2004 SEED, Portfolio, “Cross Sections,” Summer 2004, pages 70-79.
2004 San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, “Time Passages: Artists Catherine Wagner and Loretta Gargan’s Changing World,” by Zahid Sardar, February 15, pages 20-25.
2004 Trilogy: Reflections on Frankenstein, the Arctic Circle, and the History of Science, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
2003 How Human: Life in the Post-Genome Era, International Center of Photography (catalog)
2003 Epicenter: San Francisco Bay Area Art Now, by Mark Johnstone and Leslie Aboud Holzman
2003 SEED, Portfolio, “-86 Degree Freezers,” Jan/Feb 2003, pages 74-83.
2002 Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, by Sylvia Wolf and Andy Grundberg
2002 Trajekte, “Catherine Wagner’s Laboratories,” Nr. 4 April 2002
2001 Calendar live, “A Master’s Long Shadow,” August 26, 2001
2000 Paris Photo, "Catherine Wagner: Cross-Sections + Annotations," Issue 10.
2000 Blind Spot, "Catherine Wagner: Cross-Sections + Annotations," Issue 15.
2000 Limn, "Catherine Wagner: Miracles and Madness," Issue 5, Page 15.
2000 Noise, The Wellcome Trust's Two10 Gallery, London, England. (catalog)
2000 Noise, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England. (catalog)
2000 Foreign Bodies, Untitled (Space) 13, New Haven, CT. (catalog)
2000 Wired Magazine, Heather Sparks, “The Essential James Watson,” issue 8.09
1999 The Altered Landscape, Peter E. Pool, University of Nevada Press,
1999 Bay Area Now 2, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. (catalog)
1999 Museum Pieces, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA. (brochure)
1999 Into the Next Century, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA. (catalog)
1999 Phenotypology, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY. (brochure)
1997 The New Yorker, photograph, May 19, page 28.
1997 The Village Voice, Critics Choice, photograph, April 1, page 13.
1996 SEE: A Journal of Visual Culture, Issue 2:2, pages 32-41.
1996 Zyzzyva, Vol. XII, No. 2, pages 74-79.
1995 Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA. (catalog)
1994 Family Lives, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1994 Kunst in Frankfurt, "Ein Dialog Europa-Amerika," Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany.
1993 House & Garden, "Portraits Without People," June, page 52.
1993 Los Angeles Times Magazine, "Interiors," May 23, page 18.
1992 To Collect the Art of Women: The Jane Reese Williams Collection of Photography, Essay by Eugenia Parry Janis, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM.
1991 California Cityscapes, Mary Stofflet, Curator, Essay by James A. Clapp, San Diego, CA.
1991 SITE WORK: Architecture in Photography since Early Modernism, by Martin Caiger-Smith, The Photographers' Gallery, London, England.
1991 The Science of Words, George A. Miller, Scientific American Library, New York, NY, page 3.
1990 Changing Places: Photographs by Catherine Wagner, Farish Gallery Rice University (catalog)
1990 Metropolis, Richard Gehr "Insights & Reviews," May, page 35.
1990 The New Yorker, "Goings On About Town," April 16, page 19.
1990 Details, "I Left My Art in San Francisco," April, pages 149-153.
1989 SF Magazine, Vicki Bates "Profile of Catherine Wagner," November.
1989 Harpers Magazine, "Who Needs the Great Work?," September, pages 47-51.
1989 The Sciences, "The Stage is Set - Photographs by Catherine Wagner," July/August, pages 30-33.
1989 Metropolitan Home, Andy Grundberg "The New Hot Shots," July.
1988 Connecting Conversations, Edited by Moira Roth "Interviews with 28 Bay Area Women Artists," Eucalyptus Press.
1987 Aperture, "Technology and Transformation," No. 106.
1987 Athletes, Ruth Silverman, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA.
1986 Zyzzyva Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 3.
1986 Bay Area Biennial, Newport Harbor Art Museum. (catalog)
1986 Mills College Faculty Retrospective, Mills College, Oakland, CA. (catalog)
1986 New American Photography, Min Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. (catalog)
1986 San Francisco Observed, Chronicle Books.
1985 The American Classroom, essays by Therese Heyman and Lewis Baltz, Oakland Museum, CA. (brochure)
1983 Picture Magazine, No. 20.
1982 Slices of time, Oakland Museum, CA. (brochure)
1981 Archetype, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. (brochure)
1980 Large Spaces in Small Places, "Survey of Western Landscape Photography 1850–1980," Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA. (catalog)
1979 35mm Photography, Winter.
1979 Picture Magazine, No. 11.
1979 Latent Image, No. 2.
1979 Latent Image, No. 3.
1978 New West Magazine, Peter Plagens and Carol Field "Eye The Collector," Nov. 6.
1978 Untitled, essay by Marla Katz Westover, Guest Curator, University of California, Davis, CA. (brochure)
1978 Untitled, essay by Jack Welpott, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, No. 14.
1978 Contemporary California Photography, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA. (catalog)
1978 Arts Contemporary, essay by Hal Fisher "Contemporary Bay Area Photography," LaMamelle, exhibition page.
1977 College of Marin Times, interview.
1977 Pacific Sun, exhibition page.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - TEACHING

2017-present Nancy Cook Endowed Chair in Photography, Mills College, Oakland CA
2000-present Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2007 Visiting Professor of Art, California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA
2007 Visiting Professor of Art, University of California Los Angeles, Graduate Art Program, Los Angeles, CA
2004–2006 Chair, Art Department, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2003–present Joan & Robert Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Arts, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1995–2003 Full-time Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1994 Vi siting Distinguished Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1992–94Chair, Art Department, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1979–94 Associate Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1979–85 Lecturer of Art, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1978 Part-time Lecturer of Fine Arts, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA
1978 Lecturer of Art, University of California-Berkeley Extension
1978 Part-time Lecturer of Fine Arts, College of San Mateo, CA
1977 Full-time Lecturer of Fine Arts, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA
1975 Part-time Lecturer, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA