Ginevra's profile

Ginevra Shay is an artist and curator living and working in Baltimore, Maryland.  Ginevra was the 2019 Mollie Ruprecht Visiting Artist at the University of Vermont and a 2018 Maryland Individual Artist Award Recipient for Photography. Their work has been featured and reviewed online in Artforum and Artnews and in print in Washington Post, GUP Magazine, DeStandaard Belgium, Baltimore Sun, Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore Magazine, and BmoreArt Magazine.

Ginevra exhibits extensively nationally and internationally, with 2018 and 2019 solo exhibitions in Belgium, Baltimore, and Vermont, a current two-person exhibition in Washington DC, and 2019 and 2018 group exhibitions at the Houston Annual at the Houston Center for Photography; Photobook Show in Brighton, UK; Phroom feature in Odessa, Ukraine; Implicit Dimensions at the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; ROTTURA DI SUPERFICIE, in Treviso, Italy; and The Sky Opens Twice in Turin, Italy. Ginevra has lectured and participated in panels at the Queens Museum, the Oakland Museum, American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, College Art Associate's National Conference, and the Society For Photographic Education National Conference. In 2019 Ginevra was selected to particpate in Home School a poetry intensive in Hudson, NY with faculty Fred Moten, CA Conrad, Dawn Lundy Martin, Jackie Wang, and Anne Boyer. In 2018 Ginevra was invited to be a photographer in residence at Full Circle gallery in Baltimore, and was selected to be part of the inaugural 2018 Ardesia Projects photography residency in Daverio, Italy. Ginevra was also invited to participate in Yale University Art Gallery’s 2017 intensive on photo book publishing, which featured Metropolitan Museum of Art Curator of Photography Maria Morris Hambourg, photographers Lee Friedlander, David Goldblatt, and Bill Burke.
Ginevra's work and publications are in the libraries of Yale University Art Gallery Library, The International Center for Photography, Indie Photobook Library, Houston Center for Photography, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and in private collections in the USA, Italy, Belgium, and UK.

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