CURRICULUM VITAE | Christine Hinz Lenzen


EDUCATION

2012  MFA Photography | College of Arts and Letters | University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame, IN

2008  BFA Photography | College of Liberal Arts | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023

LoosenArt | Millepiani Exhibition Space | Rome, Italy | The Family Exhibition

Center for Fine Art Photography | Fort Collins, CO | Revisiting the Family Album: Stories that Bind Us

Lucie Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | The Portrait Project: Take Two

2022

International Photography Hall of Fame | St. Louis, MO | Fall 2022 IPHF Juried Photography Exhibition

Myers Gallery | University of North Dakota | Grand Forks, ND | Visions in Photography: Stories of Now

Gormley Gallery | Notre Dame of Maryland University | Baltimore, MD | Parallax: Women’s Photography Exhibition

Marquette Arts & Culture Center | Marquette, MI | Solo Exhibition | Forever A Wilderness

2021

Refraction Gallery | Milwaukee, WI | Curated Group Exhibition |The Document is Personal

Oliver Arts Center | Frankfurt, MI | Juried Group Exhibition | Professors of NMU Visual Arts Program: Taimir Cleary, Brian Kakas, Christine Lenzen, Michael Letts

Bonifas Arts Center | Escanaba, MI | NMU Faculty Arts Show

2020

Brazosport College | Lake Jackson, TX | Solo Exhibition | Forever a Wilderness

Minneapolis College of Art & Design | Minneapolis, MI Midwest Midwinter: An Exhibition of Midwest Undergraduate Photography Professors’ Work

The Gallery | Marquette, MI | Two-Person Exhibition with Pasqua Warstler | Birch and Stone

Besse Gallery | Bay de Noc Community College | Escanaba, MI | Solo Exhibition | Forever a Wilderness

FotoNostrum | Barcelona, Spain | 14th JMCA and Pollux Exhibition

2019

Midwest SPE Conference | Milwaukee, WI | Juried by Andy Adams | Handheld Exhibition

Chamber | Milwaukee, WI | Three-Person Exhibition with Peter Happel Christian and Guanyu Xu | Presently, At Rest

Cleveland Print Room | Cleveland, OH | Peer Show

Southeast Center for Photography | Greenville, SC | Women by Women

Downtown Art Place | Ironwood, MI | Birch

Texas Photographic Society | Houston, TX | Alternative Processes and Integrated Media

DeVos Art Museum | Marquette, MI | North of the 45th

2018

Blue Spiral 1 Gallery | Asheville, NC | Group Exhibition | From Sea to Shining Sea: The Decay of America

Bolivar Art Gallery | University of Kentucky | Midwest SPE Conference | Medium

Bath House Cultural Center | Dallas, TX | Revived with Light

The Image Flow | Mill Valley, CA | 3rd Annual Alternative Process Photography Exhibition

Southeast Center for Photography | Greenville, SC | Home

DeVos Art Museum | Marquette, MI | North of the 45th

2017

Ore Dock Brewing Company | Marquette, MI | Culture of Cult: Get Lost

Marquette Arts and Culture Center | Marquette, MI | Collaborative Exhibition with Taimur Cleary | Untitled (Unearthed)

Muskegon Museum of Art | Muskegon, MI | 89th Regional Exhibition

DeVos Art Museum | Marquette, MI | North of the 45th

The Photography Gallery at Riley Hall | University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame, IN | Solo Exhibition | Morning Light

2016

Southeast Center for Photography | Greenville, SC | Portals

Low Gallery | Medium Festival of Photography | San Diego, CA | Size Matters

The Center for Fine Art Photography | Fort Collins, CO | Home

Cloyde Snook Gallery | Adams State University | Alamosa, CO | Atypical Landscapes

A Smith Gallery | Johnson City, TX | Emotions

K Space Contemporary | Corpus Christi, TX | Third Coast National

Marquette Arts and Culture Center | Marquette, MI | Collaborative Exhibition | Repeated: Again

2015     

Center for Fine Art Photography | Fort Collins, CO | Memories, Stories, Histories 2015

Minneapolis Photo Center | Minneapolis, MN | Portraits

The University of Central Oklahoma | Edmond, OK | The State of Being Human

The DeVos Art Museum | Marquette, MI | North of the 45th

Louisiana Tech University School of Design | Ruston, LA | Louisiana Biennial

Viewpoint Gallery | Halifax, Nova Scotia | International Feature Photographer

Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge | Greenville, NC | Schwa Show

Darkroom Gallery | Essex Junction, VT | Con(text)

2014                

Nemeth Art Center | Park Rapids, MN | Midwest Multiples

Rayko Photo Center | San Francisco, CA | The Perimeter of the World

Tehama County Photo Club | Red Bluff, CA | Images from a Glass Eye

PH12 Gallery | Budapest, Hungary | Harmony

Marquette Arts and Culture Center | Marquette, MI | Solo Exhibition | Re:Collections

Oasis Gallery | Marquette, MI | Two Person with Walter Early | Coloring Book

2013                

Regis Center for the Arts | Minneapolis, MN | 10th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition

The Sculpture Center | Cleveland, OH | Made in Mourning

Huron Mountain Club Gallery | Marquette, MI | Two Person with Walter Early | (Untitled, 1970s)

The DeVos Art Museum | Marquette, MI | North of the 45th

Center for Fine Art Photography | Fort Collins, CO | Stories, Memories + Histories

2012                

The Kiernan Gallery | Lexington, VA | The Unreal

Center for Fine Art Photography | Fort Collins, CO | Illusion

Snite Musuem of Art | Notre Dame, IN | MFA Exhibition | Re:Collections

2011                   

Black Box Gallery | Portland, OR | Narrative: The Photographic Image

Minneapolis Photo Center | Minneapolis, MN | Urban Spaces, Rural Places

Isis Gallery | Notre Dame, IN | Reunion Tour 


AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

2022 Honorable Mention | Lucie Foundation | Fine Art Scholarship

2022 Purchase Award | University of North Dakota | Visions in Photography: Stories of Now

2022 First Place | Notre Dame of Maryland University | Parallax: Women’s Photography Exhibition

2019 Honorable Mention: Fine Art | 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers

2019 Top 200 | Photolucida | Critical Mass

2019 Shortlist | Lucie Foundation | Chromaluxe X Fine Art Scholarship

2019 Award of Excellence | Downtown Art Place | Ironwood, MI | Birch

2018 Finalist: Alternative Processes | 11th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers

2016  Director's Honorable Mention | Center for Fine Art Photography | Fort Collins, CO | Home

2016  Director's Honorable Mention | A Smith Gallery | Johnson City, TX | Emotions

2015 Juror's Award | Center for Fine Art Photography | Fort Collins, CO | Memories, Stories, Histories 2015

2015  Grand Prize | Viewpoint Gallery | Halifax, Nova Scotia | International Photographer Competition

2014  Second PlaceTehama County Photo Club | Red Bluff, CA | Images from a Glass Eye 

2012  Best in Show | Snite Museum of Art | Notre Dame, IN | Walter R Beardsley Award


ARTICLES 

2020 Forever A Wilderness by Christine Lenzen | Fraction Magazine; Issue 131 | Link

2019 Christine Lenzen: Forever A Wilderness | Lenscratch Feature | Link

2018 Christine Lenzen: In the Woods | Photo-Emphasis Educator Feature | Link


TEACHING

2018 - Present Associate Professor of Photography | Northern Michigan University | Marquette, MI

2012 - 2018 Assistant Professor of Photography | Northern Michigan University | Marquette, MI

2010 - 2012 Instructor of Record | University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame, IN