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Susana Raab

American fine art and documentary photographer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Susana Raab is an American fine art and documentary photographer[1] based in Washington, D.C. She was born in Lima, Peru.[2]

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Education

Raab studied and earned a MA in Visual Communications from Ohio University,[3] and also holds a BA in English Literature from James Madison University.[3]

Photography

Raab's photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain, the Pingyao Photo Festival, Noorderlicht Fotofestival[4] in the Netherlands, and the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C.[5]

For the last decade,[6][7] Raab has been pursuing the long-term documentation of the East of the Anacostia River communities[7] in Washington, D.C. She also works as the photographer of the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum.[8] In 2018, Politico Magazine described her photo essay[9] about recent changes in demographics in Washington, DC as "a striking photo essay."[10]

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Awards and recognition

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She has been twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize,[11] and has been the recipient of the White House News Photographers' Project Grant,[11] four DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowships.[12]

  • 1998 Nominee, Pulitzer Prize, The New York Times[11]
  • 2004 Finalist, Pulitzer Prize, The Palm Beach Post[11]
  • 2005 White House News Photographers' Association Project Grant[11]
  • 2008 Critical Mass Top 50, Portland, Oregon[13]
  • 2008 American Photography 24[14]
  • 2009 Finalist, GrandPrize, Fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland[15]
  • 2009 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities[11]
  • 2010 American Photography 26[14]
  • 2010 Photo District News Annual[16]
  • 2012 Forward Thinking Museum, New York, New York[17]
  • 2013 Nominee Prix Pictet[18]
  • 2014 American Photography 30[19]
  • 2015 American Photography 31
  • 2015 Critical Mass Top 50[20]
  • 2016 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities[21]
  • 2017 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities[22]
  • 2018 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities[23]
  • 2018 American Photography 34[24]
  • 2018 Peter S. Reed Foundation Award[25]
  • UMass Dartmouth Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections[26]
  • Puffin Grant[27][28]

Collections

Raab's photographic work is held in the following permanent public collections:

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 2010 Super-America, Kunstlicht Gallery, Shanghai, China[34]
  • 2010 American Vernacular, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC[35]
  • 2012 Consumed, SALT Gallery, Portland, ME[36]
  • 2015 The Invisible Wall, Spagnuolo Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC[2]
  • 2016 East of the River, Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC[37]

Group exhibitions

  • 2002 Eyes of History, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC[38]
  • 2009 Consumed, Shots, Look3 Festival of Photography, Charlottesville, VA[39]
  • 2010 Etc., Pingyao Photo festival, Pingyao, China[citation needed]
  • 2011 En Foco Fellowship Show, Blue Sky Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2011 Corridor, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC[5]
  • 2011 A Sense of Place, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA[citation needed]
  • 2012 Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else, Rayko Photo, San Francisco, CA[40]
  • 2012 Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else, Newspace, Portland, OR[40]
  • 2012 Looking at the Land 21st-Century American Views, FotoDC, Washington, DC[41]
  • 2012 Looking at the Land 21st-Century American Views, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI[41]
  • 2012 Kaunas Photo Festival, Latvia[42]
  • 2013 Converging Cultures: Works by Latino Artists, UMW Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA[43]
  • 2013 Cotidiano USA, Embassy of Spain, Washington, DC[44]
  • 2013 Selections from Time Machine #2: Spectacle: Consumed, Belfast Photo Festival, BBC Screen[45][46]
  • 2013 FotoNovela, III Forum on Latin American Photography, São Paulo, Brazil[47]
  • 2014 LATINO/US Cotidiano, Instituto Cervantes, Chicago, IL[48]
  • 2014 Select 2014, WPA Project for the Arts, Washington, DC[49]
  • 2014 LATINO/US Cotidiano, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NY, NY[48]
  • 2014 Photo/Diary, Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC[50]
  • 2015 Select, Washington Project for the Arts, Artisphere, Arlington, VA[51]
  • 2016 The Invisible Wall, The Fence, Boston, MA;[52] Brooklyn, NY;[52] Atlanta, GA;[52] Houston, TX;[52] Albuquerque, NM[52]
  • 2016 Hickock Cole Art Night, Washington Project for the Arts, DC[53]
  • 2016 Unbound, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA[54]
  • 2016 Women Photojournalists of Washington 10-Year Anniversary Show, National Geographic Museum, Washington, DC[55]
  • 2017 Performing the Border, American University Art Museum at the Katzen, Washington, DC[56]
  • 2017 Hickock Cole Art Night, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC[57]
  • 2018 Southbound: Photographs about the New South, Halsey Institute of Art, Charleston, SC.[18][58]
  • 2018 Not an Ostrich and Other Powerful Images from America's Library, Annenberg Center for Photography, Los Angeles, CA[59]
  • 2019 Faces of the Planet, Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum[60]
  • 2020 Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN[61]
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