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
Broad Magazine & Gallery 881, Vancouver, Canada
December 9, 2023 - January 12, 2024
“Friend of a Friend”
Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY
Humble Arts Foundation & Flak Photo
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
September 15 – October 21, 2017.
Curated by Jennifer Keats
“#LightDarkMatters”, curated 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
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
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