Biography
Walker Pickering (born 1980, Odessa, Texas, USA) is an American artist. Pickering was a finalist for the 2018 Prix HSBC pour la Photography, and winner of the 2013 Clarence John Laughlin Award. His photography and video work is widely exhibited in the US and abroad, and included in private and public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is Associate Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska.
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Location: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Telephone: +1 (512) 576-7460
Email: walkerpickering@gmail.com
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Curriculum Vitae (selections)
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Nearly West, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2017 Esprit de Corps, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
2016 Nearly West & Southern Kingdom, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
2016 Esprit de Corps, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
2014 Nearly West, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Nearly West, B. Hollyman Gallery, Austin, TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 The Censored Exhibition, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 Prix HSBC pour la Photographie Finalist Exhibition, HSBC France Headquarters, Paris, France
2017 Meitar Award Finalist Exhibition, Photo Is:rael 2017, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2017 Southern People, Southern Places, Gammill Gallery, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Oxford, MS
2017 Now: Southern Photography Today, Gallery 130, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
2017 Coda, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Land Inhabited, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, Annette Cone-Skelton, curator
2016 New Americana: National Play, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN, Mia Dalglish & Lisa Woodward, curators
2016 Still Moving, Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Min Kim Park & Joseph Mougel, curators
2016 Ciné Selects: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection, Ciné, Athens, GA
2016 No Strangers Here, The Dodd Galleries, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2015 Seeing Connection, GuatePhoto International Photography Festival, Antigua, Guatemala Rebecca Senf, curator
2015 Violence, Resilience, and the Human Spirit, Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, Zhejiang, China Laura Valenti, curator
2015 Tracing the American South, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC, Tom Rankin & Rachel Boillot, curators
2015 A Changing Nature: Photography of the South, 1963 – 2014, 1118 Main St. Gallery, Greensboro, AL
2015 Art Seen: A Juried Exhibition of Artists from Omaha to Lincoln, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, Karin Campbell & Bill Arning, jurors
2015 Southern Landscape: Bearing the Mark, University of New Orleans St. Claude Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2015 Context 2015, Filter Photo Festival Gallery, Chicago, IL, Michal Raz-Russo, juror
AWARDS
2019 Hixson-Lied Junior Faculty Achievement Award in Teaching, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
2018 Semifinalist, 34th International Festival of Fashion and Photography Competition, Hyères, France
2018 Finalist, Prix HSBC pour la Photographie, Paris, France
2018 Shortlist, Meitar Award, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013 Second Place, PhotoNOLA Review Prize, PhotoNOLA, New Orleans, LA
2013 Nominee, Godowsky Color Photography Awards, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
2013 First Place, Canteen Magazine: The 2012 Canteen Awards in Photography, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Semifinalist, New Art in Austin Triennial, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
PUBLICATIONS
Bloomberg Businessweek
Canteen Magazine
GEO (Germany)
Le Monde (France)
The New York Times
The Oxford American
Parents.com
Sportsnet Magazine (Canada)
TIME Magazine
Reader’s Digest
Refinery29
The Wall Street Journal
LECTURES & VISITS
Columbia University
Harvard University
Indiana University Bloomington
Louisiana Tech University
Memphis College of Art
Metropolitan Community College (Nebraska)
Nebraska Wesleyan University
Texas State University
University of Dayton
University of South Carolina
West Virginia Wesleyan College