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 / PODCASTS


EYESHOT, Spirituality #13, September 2024, Edited by Marco Savarese, pages 58, 203, and back cover


STREET PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE PODCAST, July 19, 2024. "Two Way Street with Gretchen Grace", with Bob Patterson


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


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 Hinderaker, editor John Leland


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


HUMBLE ARTS FOUNDATION, December 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


Rituals Exhibition

Broad Magazine & Gallery 881, Vancouver, Canada

December 9, 2023 - January 12, 2024


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, 2018

Curated 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