Janelle Lynch

Janelle Lynch is a large-format (8x10) photographic artist and writer based in New York City whose work has been widely exhibited and published. She teaches at the International Center of Photography and is the 2013 Artist-in-Residence at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, N.Y.
Barcelona, Lynch’s second monograph, was published by Radius Books in November 2013. It features Lynch’s writing as well as her photography and was a finalist for The Cord Prize 2013, an international contemporary art award juried by Charlotte Cotton and Diana Edkins. Los Jardines de México, her first monograph, was published, also by Radius, in 2011.
Lynch’s River photographs are currently on view in the Major Contemporary Galleries of the Newark Museum in Newark, N.J., which acquired the complete series in 2010. River is also on view now with her Los Jardines de México series at Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin, Germany. Her work is in several international private and public collections, including George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.; New York Public Library, New York, N.Y.; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, Calif.; Fundación AMYC, Madrid, Spain; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Salta, Argentina.
Lynch received her MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts and among her many honors are three grants from Kodak. She writes about photography for photo-eye, The Photo Review, Loupe, and Afterimage and was a 2012-2013 Fellow at The Writers' Institute, CUNY Graduate Center.
November 2013