Gretchen Grace is a photographer, artist, and designer based in New York City. For the last 30 years she has been photographing on the street, in the studio, and on location around the world. For Gretchen, photography is storytelling–narrative and poetic. Her work is primarily lens-based, still and video, real and abstract, and has appeared in the New York Times, Eyeshot, AintBad, Smithsonian Magazine, Noice, Broad, Women in Street, Strant, Daylight, Shots, and Japan Camera Hunter, among others. Gretchen's recently released book, Two Way Street, combines her early NYC black and white film work with her more recent color Street Abstractions, published by Daylight Books. You can find more of her work on Instagram @_gretchengrace_.


PUBLICATIONS / LECTURES


THE PHOBLOGRAPHER, July 26, 2023. "Street Photography with Intent. A question to Ask Yourself", by Chris Gampat

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SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS I3 PHOTO LECTURE, May 30, 2023.


THE PHOBLOGRAPHER, March 30, 2023. "19 Incredible Female Photographers We Talked to in 2023", by Chris Gampat


THE PHOBLOGRAPHER, March 24, 2023. "Why Street Photographer Gretchen Grace loves Black and White", by Chris Gampat


TWO WAY STREET, published by Daylight Books, releasing on November 1, 2022. A collection of my NYC street photography that combines black and white film work from the 1990s/early 2000s, and more recent street abstractions captured digitally.


SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, November 2020, 18TH ANNUAL SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE PHOTO CONTEST: CLOSE project (pandemic portraits)


LADDER AND KEY, August 2, 2020, 10 Point Profile: Gretchen Grace, Street Abstractions

1MILLIONDIAMONDS, December 15, 2019, Feature, Gretchen Grace, Motion Pictures & Street Work

EDGE OF HUMANITY MAGAZINE, September 14, 2019, Feature, Gretchen Grace, Street Photography, New York City 

AINT BAD MAGAZINE No. 14, 2019 Annual Issue, page 197

FAST FORWARD: WOMEN IN PHOTO, In conversation August 12-17, 2019

SURREAL ESTATE ZINE, July 2019, curated by Float Magazine and Casual Science 

JAPAN CAMERA HUNTER: VISUAL INTERVIEW, May 13, 2019, curated by Jesse Freeman 

HUMBLE ARTS FOUNDATION, March 11, 2019, 
Winter Pictures, curated by Jon Feinstein and Andy Adams 

NEW YORK TIMES ALBUM, March 10, 2019,

‘What Is That?’ Seeing the City as Abstract Art, photo editor Andrew Hinderakereditor John Leland


SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, March 9, 2019, Winter Pictures, curatorial takeover by Andy Adams 

 
HUMBLE ARTS FOUNDATIONDecember 2018,
Numerology, curated by Jon Feinstein and Roula Seikaly 

EYESHOT, November 28, 2018 
Street Xmas, curated by Marco Savarese

EYESHOT, June 14, 2018 
Feature of the day: Gretchen Grace, Black & white street work

NOICE, ISSUE 010, June 12, 2018
Images from Motion Pictures series

NOICE MAGAZINE, September 3, 2017
Feature – Axial Tilt 

BROAD MAGAZINE, July 2017
Friday Feature – Axial Tilt 

STRANT MAGAZINE, July 2017
Pictures Without Words VOL 001, ISS 002

BLENDED, June 2017
INTERVIEW WITH GRETCHEN GRACE, Axial Tilt

MESSY HAIR, December 2015
Available at Printed Matter/NYC, and Sock Monkey Press

DEEPSLEEP MAGAZINE, August 2013

SHOTS MAGAZINE; Summer 2013

POSI+TIVE MAGAZINE; July 2011
PORTFOLIO REVIEW: GRETCHEN GRACE

FILE MAGAZINE, August 2007

JPG MAGAZINE, March 2007


GROUP SHOWS

Friend of a Friend
Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY 
May 2-5, 2019
 
Winter Pictures
Humble Arts Foundation & Flak Photo, 
February 2019
Curated by Andy Adams and Jon Feintstein

Numerology
Humble Arts Foundation, December 2018
Curated by Roula Seikaly and Jon Feintstein

Water
PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT, May 30 – June 24, 2018Curated by Ann Jastrab

“we like small things”
Filter Photo, Chicago IL, September 15 – October 21, 2017. Curated by Jennifer Keats

#LightDarkMatterscurated by Oliver Lang at the TATE, November 2015
(@localstops; 
minute 1:33-1:43, minute 1:58-2:18, minute 10:12-10:22)

“Mobile Magic XIII”
Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Astoria OR, October 2014. Curated by Sita Mae

“After Dark III”
Greg Moon Art, Taos NM, June 2014

“Streetwise”
Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland OR, April 2014

“24 Hour Project”
March 22, 2014, Worldwide, Instagram: @24hourproject

“Mobile Magic IV”
Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Astoria OR, March 2014, Curated by Jody Miller

“7th Annual Juried Plastic Camera Show”
RayKo Gallery, San Francisco CA, March 2014

“Birds, Real or Imagined”
PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT, January 2013, Curated by S. Gayle Stevens

“Chain Letters Show”
Samson Gallery, Boston MA, July 2011

“LOOK::SEE”
Brooklyn Artist Guild Gallery, Brooklyn NY, February 2007


EDUCATION

International Center of Photography
Workshops with Mary Ellen Mark, and Richard Sandler

Rhode Island School of Design, BFA