Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. May 18, 2024–April 2025
“Schools for the Colored,” SFO Museum, San Francisco, CA. July 2024
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List Gallery and McCabe Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. Mar 6 – Apr 7, 2024
First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, Houston, TX, March 9–April 21, 2024
Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI. Sept 8 – Nov 26, 2023
“Schools for the Colored” The Alice Wilds Gallery, Milwaukee, WI. Aug 27 – Oct 8, 2022
“Wendel White: History in Black and White” Gallatin Galleries, New York University, NY. Sept-Oct 2021
Blue Sky Gallery, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, OR. Feb—Mar 2021
“Red Summer” National Center for Civil and Human Rights. Atlanta, GA. Jul—Aug 2019
Pingyao International Photography Festival. “Schools for the Colored” Pingyao, China. Sept 19-25, 2018
Texas State University, Sabinal Photography Building Gallery, Aug. 27–Dec 6, 2018
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver. “Segregated Influences: Wendel White & Tya Alisa Anthony” Apr-Jun 2018
Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX Feb–May 2018
Rubenstein Photography Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC Feb–June 2018
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC Feb–June 2018
Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ Oct–Nov 2017
Perspectives Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI Nov–Dec 2017
Heuser Art Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL Aug–Oct 2017
Mercer County College, JKC Gallery, Trenton, NJ. April–May 2017
Lycoming College Art Gallery, Williamsport, PA. Feb–April 2017
Photo-eye Bookstore, Santa Fe, NM Oct–Nov 2016
The Lipani Gallery, Fordham University, New York, NY, May-Sept 2016
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ–Jan – May 2015
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE. Nov. 2013–Jan 2014
Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ. 2013
Drumthwacket Foundation, Official Residence of the Governor of New Jersey, Princeton, NJ 2013
Eatonville Embodied: John Pinderhughes and Wendel White, Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Art, Eatonville, FL 2012
Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts and Humanities, Cape May, NJ 2012
Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University, NJ, 2011
California Institute for Integrative Study, San Francisco, CA 2011
New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, NJ, 2009
Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts, Cape May, NJ 2007
Stockton College, Pomona, NJ 2006
Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ, 2006
Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, 2005
Atwater Kent Museum, Philadelphia, PA. 2005
The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ 2003
Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ 2003
Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ. 2003
Stedman Gallery, Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts, Camden, NJ. 2002
Atlantic City Arts Center, Atlantic City, NJ, 2002
Manchester Craftsman Guild, Pittsburgh, PA 2001
Hopkins House Gallery, Haddon, NJ, 2001 Monmouth University, NJ, 2000
The Photography Gallery, Florida International University, Miami, FL 1988
Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ, 1987 to 1989
Gallery Polynero II, Belgium, 1986
Rose Gallery, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX 1986
Midtown Y Gallery, New York, NY 1984
Group Exhibitions (selected)
After Archives, Alexis Callender, Sarah Stefana Smith, Wendel White. curated by Amy S. Halliday. A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA. Mar 3 – 30, 2023
Of the Body. Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ. Jan 20-Feb 18, 2023
Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory. Curated by Deborah Willis and Cheryl Finley, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH. Sept 30 to Mar 5, 2023 (Fotofocus Biennial)
I Hear America Singing: Contemporary Photography From America. Pizzuti Collection, Columbus Art Museum. Columbus, OH. (Artists: Matthew Brandt, Mercedes Dorame, Lucas Foglia, Wen-Hang Lin, Michael Lundgren, Alex Maclean, Griselda San Martin, Pamela Pecchio, David Benjamin Sherry, Xaviera Simmons, For Freedoms, Greg Stimac, Millee Tibbs, Wendel White, William Wilson). Jun 17, 2022 – Jan 22, 2023
Posing Beauty. Curated by Deborah Willis. New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ. Jan 29 – May 22, 2022
Pained Vistas. Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA. Jan 13 – Mar 17, 2022
I Hear America Singing: Contemporary Photography from America. Curated by Ashley Lumb.Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts – Amman, Jordan. Oct 20–Nov 25, 2021
Visions 1020, Curated by Beauford Smith. Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York, NY. Mar 8—Jun 27, 2020
Posing Beauty. Curated by Deborah Willis. Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE. Oct 19, 2019—Jan 26, 2020
The Red Summer Remembered, Curated by Arlene Keizer, Casey Ruble, and Wendel White. Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, NY. Aug—Sept 2019
Closets: Reimagining Identities while Embracing Memories, Curated by Deborah Willis. New York University, Department of Photography and Imaging. Oct 2019—Dec 2019
Red Summer. The FENCE, United Photo Industries, outdoor installation, SOWA Boston, MA. Mar 26—Nov 3, 2019
Red Summer. The FENCE, United Photo Industries, outdoor installation, Memorial Park, Houston, TX. Apr 27—Dec 15, 2019
Red Summer. The FENCE, United Photo Industries, outdoor installation, Cherry Creek Park, Denver, CO. Aug 24—Oct 16, 2019
Posing Beauty. Curated by Deborah Willis. David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD. Feb 16 – Apr 27, 2019.
From Durer to Digital: The Metamorphosis of the Printed Image. Curated by Judith K. Brodsky. The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie. Mar 8 – Apr 28, 2019.
Seeing the Unseen. Curated by Greg Leshe. Morris Arts Gallery 14, Morristown, NJ. March 14 – Aug 21, 2019.
Cit.i.zen.ship: Reflections on Rights, New York University, Department of Photography and Imaging, Oct. 4, 2018 – Jan 18, 2019
The FENCE 2018, United Photo Industries, Brooklyn, NY (with traveling sites in Durham, NC; Denver, CO; Santa Fe, NM; Boston, MA; Sarasota, FL; Calgary, Canada; and Atlanta, GA) 2018
Posing Beauty, Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris France Spring 2018
Schools for the Colored, Thematic Exhibition, Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou China. Dec 2, 2017 – Jan 2, 2018
Posing Beauty, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Oct 2017-Jan 2018
Reconstructed History, (Annie Hogan, Casey Ruble, Leslie Sheryl, Ann LePore, and Wendel White). Taplin Gallery, Arts Council of Princeton, NJ Oct 14 – Nov 25, 2017
Lightfield, Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY. Aug 20 – Sept 25, 2016
NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, DiMattio Gallery, Monmouth University, W, Long Branch, NJ Jan 19 – Mar 11, 2016
Forget Me Not: Photography Between Poetry and Politics, Mechanical Hall Gallery, University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark, DE Feb – May 2015
Observing Connections: Photographs from the Teaching Collection and Invited Photographers, CVA Gallery, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ Oct-Dec 2014
Landscape: Social, Political, Traditional, Rider University Art Gallery, Lawrenceville, NJ Sept-Oct 2014
Posing Beauty, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA May-Aug 2014
On Photography: Culture, History, and the Narrative. Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Sept. 2013
En Foco/In Focus: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, The Arts at CIIS, San Francisco, CA. 2013
The Fogel Collection: A Collection Within a Collection, Marshall Fine Arts Center Atrium Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA May 31 through October 6, 2013
Posing Beauty, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster OH Jan-March 2013
En Foco: New Works/Crossing Boundaries, BRIC Arts, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2013
Visualizing Emancipation, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL, New York, NY Oct 2012 – March 2013
Posing Beauty, Figge Museum of Art, Davenport, Iowa, Sept-Nov 2012
En Foco/In Focus: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ 2012
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ 2012
Posing Beauty, Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA Feb – April 2012
En Foco/In Focus: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC 2012
Posing Beauty, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2011
Posing Beauty Newark Museum, Newark, NJ 2011
En Foco/In Focus: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY 2011
New Works #13 Fellowships. Curated by Marisol Diaz. HP Gallery, Calumet Photographic, New York, NY, 2010
Art Chicago 2010. Dean Jensen Gallery (Milwaukee, WI). Chicago, IL. 2010
Endurance at Hopkins House Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Jersey, 2010
Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2009-2010
Posing Beauty, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY 2009
Arbor Michael Mazzeo Gallery (curated online exhibition), New York, NY 2009
“6th Photographic Image Biennial Exhibition”, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, NC 2009
“Prospect: Art that Renegotiates Standardized Locations in Our Environment”, CRL Gallery, Austin, TX 2008
Online and Print Portfolio, Center for Fine Art Photograph, Colorado, 2008
“Saturday Night, Sunday Morning” Delta Blues Museum, Clarksdale, MS 2007
“Saturday Night, Sunday Morning” 40 Acres Gallery, Sacramento, CA 2006
“Saturday Night, Sunday Morning” City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA 2005
“Saturday Night, Sunday Morning” African American Museum of Philadelphia, PA 2005
“Looking South” 70NW Gallery, Milford PA. June 2004
“Love Now” Nordstrom Department Stores (15 stores nationwide). February 2004
“20 Years of Graduate Photography” Creative Research Laboratory, the University of Texas at Austin.
March 2003
Take Five: The American Landscape (James Abbott, Rita Bernstein, David Graham, Jerry Lodriguss, Wendel White) Center for the Photographic Image at Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA, November 2001
“Reflections in Black” Smithsonian Institution Arts and Industries, Washington DC 2000
Center for the Arts (three-artists), Marlton, NJ 2000
Millennium Salon Exhibition, Mary Gearhart Gallery, New York, NY 1999 – 2000
“Distinguished Artists of Southern New Jersey” Long Beach Island Art Foundation, NJ 1999
Salon Exhibition, Mary Gearhart Gallery, New York, NY 1999
Camden County Cultural and Heritage Center, Haddon Twp., NJ 1999
Atlantic City Art Center, Atlantic City, NJ 1998
Afro-American Museum, Philadelphia, PA 1996 -1997
City Museum, Trenton, NJ 1996
“Southern New Jersey Artist’s IX” Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ 1995
“Convergence: 8 Photographers,” Clarkson Gallery Potsdam, NY 1995; the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO 1995; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL 1994; Olin Gallery Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 1993; Georgia Museum of Art, Atlanta GA, 1993; Penn. School of Art and Design, Lancaster PA, 1992; University of Albany, NY, 1992; Hammonds House Gallery, Atlanta GA, 1992; the University of California at Irvine, 1992; Houston Center for Photography, 1991; Film in the Cities, St. Paul, 1991; Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester NY, 1991; Photographic Resource Center at Boston Univ., 1990.
“1993 NJ Arts Council Fellowships” Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ 1993
“Hands Off,” New School for Social Research, New York, 1991
“Park and Ride,” Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ 1991
“Stated as Fact: Photographic Documents of New Jersey” New Jersey State Museum,
Trenton, New Jersey, 1989
“New Expressions” Noyes Museum, New Jersey, 1989
US. Biennial, Museum of Art, Oklahoma University, 1988
Infinity Gallery, Governors State University, Illinois, 1988
New Jersey State College Board, New Jersey, 1988
“Contemporary Black Art,” Kennesaw College, Georgia, 1987
Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson College, New Jersey, 1987
The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC, 1986
“24 Exposures,” Union Square Gallery, New York, 1986
Atlanta Life Insurance Co., Atlanta, Georgia, 1985
“1984: Social Commentary and the Photograph,” Moody Atrium Gallery, Austin, Texas, 1984
“Mental Block,” Danceteria, New York, 1984
Atlanta Life Insurance Co., Atlanta, Georgia, 1984
“14 Photographers,” Schomburg Center for Black Culture, New York, 1983
The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC, 1983
“Photoworks II,” A.U.A., New Mexico, 1983
Patrick Gallery, Austin, Texas, 1982
Gallery 104, Austin, Texas, 1982
Awards, Grants, Fellowships, and Residencies
Doctor of Arts (h.c.), Oakland University, Rochester, MI, Dec 2023.
Insight Award, Society for Photographic Education, March 2022
Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography, Peabody Museum of Archeology & Ethnography, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 2021
Revolution NJ: Artistic Research Residency (Salem, NJ), Monuments Lab, Philadelphia, PA Summer 2020
Bunn Lectureship in Photography, Bradley University, Peoria IL. Oct 13, 2017
Anne Reeves Artist-In-Residence, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ. Fall 2017
Project Launch Grant (Juror’s Choice – Alison Nordstrom), Center, Santa Fe, NM 2016
Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, 2015
Artist-in-Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, NE, 2011
New Works Fellowship, En Foco, NY, 2010
Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, 2009
Grant, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, IL, 2005
Walt Whitman Preservation Award for Community Partnership, Heritage Collaborative, Camden, NJ. May 3, 2005
Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. NY, 2003
Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, 1993
Web Projects
Small Towns, Black Lives; African American communities in Southern New Jersey. https://blacktowns.org
Public Collections
Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver CO
Archive of Documentary Art, Duke University’s David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Durham, NC
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Graham Foundation for the Advancement of Fine Arts, Chicago, IL
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Salem County Department of Tourism, Salem NJ
The Arts at CIIS, San Francisco, CA
En Foco Inc, Bronx, New York
Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
Johnson and Johnson, New Jersey
Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Wisconsin
The Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art, University of Delaware
The Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art, University of Alabama
George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, Texas
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
The Chase Manhattan Bank NA, New York, NY
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL, New York, NY
Austin History Center, Austin, Texas
Public Lectures (selected)
Kenya Tyson and Wendel White, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI, Sept 7, 2023.
Kenneth Montague, Samantha Nöel, and Wendel White, panel discussion, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI, Oct 12, 2023
White, Wendel. Making History Manifest: Photography in the Archives and conversation with Ousmane Power-Greene. Historic Northampton, Northampton, MA. (zoom) March 12, 2023
White, Wendel. Artist lecture and conversation with Linda Shockley. Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ. Feb 23, 2023
White, Wendel. Artist Lecture. Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ. Feb 17, 2023
White, Wendel. Artist Lecture (via Zoom) Monroe Township Library, Monroe Township, NJ. Feb 10, 2023
White, Wendel. Artist Lecture Series. Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA. Feb 7, 2023
White, Wendel. Artist lecture. Distinguished Artist’s Talk, The College of New Jersey. Oct 4, 2022
Cheryl Finley, Deborah Willis, Adama Delphine, Daesha Devon Harris, Wendel White. Panel presentation “Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory” National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Cincinnati, OH Oct 2, 2022
Third Thursday: Monthly Photo Presentations, Arron Turner and Wendel White. JKC Gallery, Mercer County Community College. Trenton, NJ. May 19, 2022.
Donald E. Camp, Ron Tarver, Wendel A. White, William E. Williams, moderated by Stephen Perloff. “Berman Conversation with Guggenheim Fellows” Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College. Mar 18, 2022.
White, Wendel. “Manifest: Thirteen Colonies” Robert Gardner Lecture, Peabody Museum, Harvard University. In conversation with Brenda Tindal. April 7, 2022. Zoom event.
White, Wendel. 2021 Peter Kenner ’66 Resident in Photography, Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY. Dec 13, 2021
White, Wendel. Artist Lecture. i3 Lecture Series, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. Nov 9, 2021 (Zoom)
White, Wendel. Artist Lecture. “Red Summer” Black Massacres Seminar, New School, New, NY. Oct 25, 2021 (Zoom)
White, Wendel. Artist Lecture. “African American History in the American Landscape & Archives” Harrison Historical Society, Mullica Hill, NJ. Oct 17, 2021
White, Wendel and Keith Miller. Conversation with artist and curator, “Wendel White: History in Black and White” Gallatin Galleries, New York University, NY. Zoom event, Sept 21, 2021.
White, Wendel. Visiting Artist and Artist Lecture, MFA Photography Program, Parsons/New School, New York, NY. July 2021
White, Wendel. Artist Lecture, Newburgh Community Photography Project, Newburgh, NY. July 2021
Wendel White. “Manifest” Artist lecture. Blue Sky Gallery, Portland OR. March 2021 (Zoom)
Casey Ruble and Wendel White. “The Question that the Answer Hides” artist conversation for exhibition. Stockton University, Galloway, NJ. Feb 2021 (Zoom)
Glynnis Reed and Wendel White. “Wheaton Conversations: Artists Wendel White and Glynnis Reed” Wheaton Arts, Millville, NJ. Sept 24, 2020
Arlene Keizer and Wendel White. “Red Summer: Racial Violence in the American Landscape, 1917 – 1923” Stockton University, School of Arts and Humanities. Oct 22, 2020
Arlene Keizer, Casey Ruble, and Wendel White. “Red Summer Remembered.” Presented at Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, NY Oct 3, 2019
Arlene Keizer, Casey Ruble, and Wendel White. “The Red Summer of 1919 in Art and Literature” Presented at the International Symposium of the Modern Language Association. Lisbon, Portugal. Jul 25, 2019
Cameron McWhirter and Wendel White. “Racial Conflict in the American Landscape: 1917 to 1923” Presented as a conversation with the artist. The National Center for Civil and Human Rights. Atlanta, GA. July 31, 2019
Arlene Keizer, Casey Ruble, and Wendel White. “Red Summer Remembered” Presented at the 2019 Fall Forum: Frameworks for Equity and Inclusion. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Sept 20, 2019.
White, Wendel. “Red Summer” image-maker presentation at the national conference of the Society for Photographic Education, Cleveland, OH, March 8, 2019
White, Wendel. Gallery Lecture, “Schools for the Colored” Colorado Photographic Art Center. Apr 20, 2018
White, Wendel. Gallery Lecture. “Manifest” Blue Star Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX. Apr 13, 2018
White, Wendel. Artist Lecture, “Manifest and Red Summer” Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC. Feb 2018
White, Wendel. Artist Lecture, Anne Reeves Artist-in-Residence Lecture, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ. Nov 9, 2017
White, Wendel. Gallery Lecture, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ. Apr 12, 2017
White, Wendel. Artist Lecture, PhotoAlliance, San Francisco, CA. Apr 7, 2017
White, Wendel. Artist Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Mar 6, 2017
White, Wendel. Artist Lecture, University of Delaware, Wilmington DE. Feb 22, 2017
White, Wendel. Artist Lecture, Review Santa Fe, Center. Santa Fe, NM Nov 5, 2016
Rebecca Carroll, Deborah Willis Marta Gutman, Wendel White. Panel Discussion. “Mine, Yours, Ours: A Conversation on Segregation in America, Past and Present” Lipani Gallery, Fordham University, New York, NY. Sept 19, 2016
White, Wendel. Lecture. “Manifest” California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA Feb 5, 2016
White, Wendel. Lecture. Al Gold Memorial Lecture Series, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ Nov 10, 2015
White, Wendel. Lecture. Watchung Arts Council, Watchung, NJ Nov 15, 2015
Wendel White, Panel Discussion, Leland Ware, Melva Ware. Panel Presentation. “Schools for the Colored” University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark, DE Apr 16, 2015
Sharon Louden, Kenneth Leap, Julie Langsam Wendel White, Cesar Viveros. Panel Presentation. “Living and Sustaining a Creative Life” Cumberland County Cultural and Heritage Commission and New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Cumberland County College, Vineland, NJ. Apr. 25, 2015
White, Wendel. Artist Lecture. “Manifest” New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ May 8, 2015
Kelly Baum, Rafi Segal, Robert Hillier, Wendel White. Panel Presentation. “Learning from New Jersey Urbanism” (Panel as part of the symposium “The State Between”), Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, Princeton School of Architecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. May 1, 2015
Honored Educator Lecture, Society for Photographic Education, Mid-Atlantic Regional Conf., Oct. 19, 2013
Lecture / Panelist, Panel Presentation, Aljira Center of Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ Sept 7, 2013
Lecture, Young Audiences Teacher Workshops, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton Twp, NJ 2012
Visiting Artist, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ April 2012
Artist Conversation Alan Cohen and Wendel White, moderated by Christine Carr, The Photograph and the Power of Place, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA. Feb 11, 2012
Lecture, “Schools for the Colored: The Landscape and Architecture of Segregation” The Princeton Prize Symposium on Race, Princeton University, NJ May 6, 2011
Artist Conversation: Wendel White and Leigh Raiford. Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, Jan 21, 2011
Artist Gallery Presentation. En Foco New Works #13 Exhibition. HP Gallery, Calumet Photographic, New York, NY July 2010
Wendel A. White. “Schools for the Colored” Society for Photographic Education. Philadelphia, PA. March 7, 2010
Wendel A. White. “6th Annual John Rock Lecture in Black History” Salem County Historical Society, Salem, NJ. Oct. 2009
Lecture, Recent Works, Jersey City Afro-American Historical Museum, 2007
Lecture, Recent Works, Hopkins House Gallery, NJ. 2007
Panel Presentation, Small Towns Black Lives, Mid Atlantic Center for the Arts, NJ 2007
Lecture, Small Towns, Black Lives, Schools for the Colored and Pictures from the New World. College of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, NJ. February 2006.
Lecture, Seton Hall University, S. Orange, NJ September 15, 2005
Lecture/Discussion Working as an Artist and with a Job, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ September 14, 2005
Presentation, The African American Experience in Photography. Discussion with Deborah Willis. Pennsylvania Black History Conference, Philadelphia, PA. April 24, 2005
Panel Moderator, Screenings: Public and Private. The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ. March 6, 2004
Presentation, Schools for the Colored. Southern Region, Dept. of Education, New Jersey. May 11, 2004
Lecture, Schools for the Colored, Parsons, New School University, New York. March 1, 2004
Panel Presentation, Small Towns Black Lives. Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey. Oct 19, 2003.
Imagemaker Presentation, Small Towns, Black Lives. Society for Photographic Education, national conference, Austin, TX. March 2003
Lecture Presentation, Small Towns Black Lives. Noyes Museum of Art. Feb 6, 2003
Panel Presentation. Small Towns, Black Lives. Artist Conversation Series. Amistad Foundation, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT. October 2002
Lecture/presentation, Small Towns, Black Lives. PhotoSession 2001, The Print Center, Philadelphia PA, 2001
Panelist, “The Problematics of Teaching Photography in a Digital Context” with Blaise Tobia and Jeannie Pearce, Society for Photographic Education, regional conference, Baltimore MD, 2001
Lecture Presentation, Small Towns, Black Lives. Cape May County Library, NJ 2001
Lecture Presentation, Small Towns, Black Lives. Manchester Craftsman Guild, Pittsburgh, PA 2001
Lecture Presentation, Small Towns, Black Lives. Lawnside Historical Society and Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Lawnside NJ, 2001
Panelist, Technology in Photography, James A Porter Colloquium on African American Art, Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture and Howard University, April 2000
Panelist, “Education and Technology” College Arts Association, National Conference, 1995
Panelist, “Photography New Forms” College Arts Association National Conference, New York, 1990
Panelist, Autobiographical Issues and Concerns: The Contemporary Black Photographer Society of Photographic Educators National Conference, 1988
Arts and Culture Public Service
The Print Center, Board of Governors, Philadelphia, PA. 2023 to present
Atlantic City Library Foundation, Board Member, Atlantic City, NJ. 2022 to present
State of the Arts NJ, Advisory Board, 2011 to present
New Jersey Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Commission, Commissioner, 2014 to 2018
New Jersey Council for the Humanities, board chair. Trenton, NJ 2010 to 2013
New Jersey Council for the Humanities. board of trustees, Trenton, NJ. 2000 to 2006, 2007 to 2013
New Jersey Black Culture and Heritage Foundation. Board Director. 2007 to 2009
Society for Photographic Education. Board Chair 1996 to 1999
Society for Photographic Education. Board Director. 1993 to 1999
Society for Photographic Education. National Conference Chair. Atlanta, 1995
Kodak Educational Advisory Council, 1991 to 1994
Co-Chair, Society for Photographic Education, Multicultural Caucus, 1992 to 1993
Atlantic City Historical Museum, Board of Directors. 1989 to 2013
Publications
Claude Baillargeon and Kenya Tyson, Wendel A. White: Remains • Remnants • Reliquaries, exhibition catalog, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI. 60p Sept 2023.
White, Wendel A., Schools for the Colored. Push Pull Editions, Corvallis, OR. 112p 2022
White, Wendel. “Manifest” Southern Cultures Vol 23, No. 3: Things. (Fall 2017): 14-29 Center for the Study of the American South, UNC Press.
White, Wendel A. “Objects of Power” Smithsonian Magazine Vol 47, No. 5 (September 2016): 3, 50-67
Zora Murff, Aaron Turner, Hannah Price, Sonsoree Gibson, Edward Cushenberry, Emma Uwejoma, Wendel White. “Photographers of Color” Strange Fire Collective. http://www.strangefirecollective.com/photographers-of-color Sept 1, 2016
White, Wendel A. “Schools for the Colored: Places, Words, Pictures” Buildings & Landscapes Vol. 22.1 (2015): 63-89
White, Wendel. Manifest. Ed. Carla Williams. 1st ed. San Francisco: Chroma, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2014.
White, Wendel A. Small Towns, Black Lives: African American Communities in Southern New Jersey. Oceanville, NJ. Noyes Museum of Art, 2003
Wendel A. White “Story of daily lives” Philadelphia Inquirer. February 23, 2003
Wendel A. White “Enter the City: Photographs by Louis Draper” Exhibition catalog, Richard Stockton College, 1989
International Center of Photography, Encyclopedia of Photography, Crown Pub., 1984, contributing editor, (William Broecker, chief editor et. al.)
Reviewer/Evaluator/Juror (selected)
Reviewer. Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. Delaware Artist Fellowship. Aug 2019
Reviewer. Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. New Jersey and Maryland Artist Fellowships. Nov 2017
Panelist Reviewer, Artist in Residency Program, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE. April 19, 2013
External Reviewer, Department of Art and Art History, Providence College, Providence, RI. April 2013
External Reviewer, Department of Art, Keene College, Keene, VT. 2005
Reviewer, Artist Fellowships, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, OH 2000
Selected Bibliography
Colin Bossen and Howard Bossen, Red Summer: Representation and Racial Violence, Katalog – Journal of Photography and Video, Denmark, 2023, vol 34.2, pg 88-96
Robert Hirsch and Edward Bateman. Light and Lens. 4th ed. Routledge, Focal Press, New York & London. 2022 pg 352 (Red Summer)
Cheryl Finley and Deborah Willis. Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory Published by Damiani. 2022 pg 116-131 (images from Manifest)
Regensburger, Jeff. “Art Review: I Hear America Singing – Contemporary Photography from America” Columbus Underground Sept 24, 2022. https://columbusunderground.com/art-review-i-hear-america-singing-contemporary-photography-from-america-jr1/
Phillips, Sandra S., Sally Martin Katz, American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present. Radius Books pp 78-80, 154-155, 309 330. Santa Fe, NM. 2021
Willis, Deborah. The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship. New York University Press. pp. 205. New York, NY 2021
White, Wendel. “Manifest” six images. Harper’s Magazine, Vol 342, No 2053 pp. 81. June 2021.
Smithson, Aline. “Raymond Thompson Jr. and Wendel White in Conversation” Lenscratch Fine Art Photography Daily. Feb 23, 2021
Lerman, Macauley. “Wendel White: Storytellers” Lenscratch Fine Art Photography Daily. Jan 18, 2021
White, Wendel. “Mirrored Casket (Ferguson, MO), Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC” cover photograph, American Ethnologist Vol 47 Num 2, May 2020
McCarty, Lisa. 2020. Photography and Culture. “Creating Change from within: Building and Discovering a Diverse Archive of Documentary Arts” Taylor and Francis
Levak, Julie. Winter 2019/Spring 2020. Mission at Tenth, Volume 8: The Best of Mission at Tenth. “Schools for the Colored” California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA. pg. 82-86
Brooks, Kalia and Willis, Deborah. Fall 2019, exhibition catalog. “Closets: Reimagining Identities while Embracing Memories” NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Institute of Emerging Media Photography and Imaging, New York University, New York. pg 8, 36
Meng, Sara. September 2018 Issue. “Wendel White: Connecting History and the Present” Photoworld China, pg 40-47
Rinaldi, Mark. April 27, 2018. “Colorado Photographic Arts Center Explores the Complicated History of Segregation with Two-Artist Exhibition” The Denver Post
Smithson, Aline. April 20, 2018. “Segregated Influences: Wendel White & Tya Alisa Anthony at The Colorado Photographic Arts Center” Lenscratch http://lenscratch.com/2018/04/107927/
Stacke, Sarah. April 19, 2018. ” Two Artists Explore History of Race in America” PDN Online
Acosta, Christina. Feb 11, 2018. “BSC Unveils’Manifest’ Exhibit” La Prensa, San Antonio, TX.
Duane Yuting, chief editor. Your Selfie Stick (and You): Lianzhoufoto 2017. “Schools for the Colored” Lianzhoufoto, Lianzhou, China. 2017 pg 64-67.
Stoeckert, Anthony. Oct 19, 2017 “Historic Sites: Wendel White’s photographs of black schools are on view at the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts. centraljersey.com http://www.centraljersey.com/time_off/historic-sites-wendel-white-s-photographs-of-black-schools-are/article_1ee864d2-b44c-11e7-9d9a-cf70d974d66b.html
Russ, Madison. Feb 19, 2017. “Wendel White’s ‘Manifest’ brings the past to the forefront in on-going photography project” The Press of Atlantic City
Hill, Zahara. Feb 27, 2017 “This Chilling Photo Collection Captures Fascinating Black History Artifacts” Huffington Post, Black Voices
Graham, Regina F. Jan 29, 2017 “Artist photographs historical objects including a slave bill of sale, shackles and a lock of Frederick Douglass’ hair to tell a story of oppression faced by African-Americans” Daily Mail UK
Malloy, Judy ed. Social Media Archeology and Poetics. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 2016 p. 342-343
Abatemarco, Michael. Oct 28, 2016 “More than meets the eye: The Review Santa Fe Photo Festival” Santa Fe New Mexican
Meyers, William. Sept. 2, 2016 “Three Photography Shows for Labor Day Weekend” Wall Street Journal (Online)
Durant, Mark Alice. May 18, 2016 “Wendel White: Schools for the Colored” Saint Lucy:The Sevens Blog http://saint-lucy.com/the-sevens/wendel-white/
Dude, Ilene, “Photographer Wendel A. White Finds Beauty in a Haunted Past” U S 1 Newspaper, May 6, 2015, Preview of the Arts Section.
Albright, Matthew, “Exhibition examines history of segregation in schools” Sunday News Journal (Delaware), Apr 19, 2015, Education Section, Page 9A.
Miller, Michael. ‘Wendel White’s Photo Project “Manifest” Tracks Artifacts from Slavery, Abolition, Segregation Eras’. Press of Atlantic City 6 Feb. 2015: C1, C4 Print.
Wendel White “Interview” State of the Arts. PCK Media. Trenton, NJ 15 Mar. 2015. Television.
White, Wendel. “Schools for the Colored” portfolio. Afterimage; The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism Vol 40, no1. [inside cover front and rear], July/August 2012. Rochester, NY
Tucker, Anne W. “Intercambio: New Works #13” Nueva Luz. (vol.14:3) Summer 2010, pg 35-38
Wendel A. White. “Wendel White: Historical Markings” exposure (vol 43:1). Spring 2010, pg 27-32
Mary Louise Schumacher. “Art City” Journal Sentinel. Jan 30, 2010. Blog Post, Entertainment Blogs
Mazzeo, Michael Paris. RSVP: Arbor. New York. Michael Mazzeo Gallery, pp24
Willis, Deborah.Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present. New York. W.W. Norton & Co., 2009. pp XXIV and 48.
Keyser, Lynn. “Interview: Wendel A. White” The Photo Review, Volume 28, Number 3. pg 10-13. Langhorne PA. March 2009.
Robert Faires. “Creative Research Laboratory: Prospective Revisions” The Austin Chronicle November 21, 2008.
Hinks, Peter P. John R. McKivigan, R. Owen Williams. Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition: Greenwood Milestones in African American History. Pg 28. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2007
Raboteau, Emily. “Searching for Zion” Transition. Vol.#97. New York, NY; Soft Skull Press (an official publication of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University), 2007. Pg 52-89 (photographs by Wendel A. White)
White, Wendel Interview, “Click: George Tice, Wendel A. White, Ken Ross, and Edward Weston. NJN “State of the Arts”. March 30, 2007.
Dennis Trinkle. The History Highway: A 21st Century Guide to Internet Resources. Pg 509.M.E. Sharpe Publisher, 2006
Watson, Rob. Pictures from a New World: An African American Village in Israel. Philadelphia Inquirer. Pg W2. September 15, 2006
White, Wendel A. Interview. Visions, ABC Channel 6 Philadelphia. Saturday, September 23, 2006
Clapp, Kevin. “Return to Israel” Press of Atlantic City. “Pictures from a New World” pg D1-D2. Sept. 24, 2006
Price, Clement. “Echoes of the Past” New Jersey Monthly. Feb 2006
Crisman, Alexis. “Where We Live” New Jersey Monthly. May 2005, page 78
Darrow, Chuck. “Focus on Life: A photography exhibit captures everyday happenings in South Jersey’s all-black communities” Courier-Post. March 15, 2005
Giordano, Rita. “Exploring Town’s Minority Heritage.” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 24, 2005
Williams, Donna Vance. “Photo Exhibit Showcases Historic Black Towns.”Philadelphia Daily News.
January 18, 2005
Willis Deborah. Family, History, Memory: Recording African American Life. Hylas Publishing, Irvington, NY 2005
Alkalimat, Abdul. Gerald A. McWorter. The African American Experience in Cyberspace: A Resource Guide to the Best Websites on Black Culture and History. Pluto Publishing, 2004
Wills, Deborah. Black: A Celebration of Culture. St. Martin’s Press, New York. December 2003
Crager, Jack. ”Journey in Black and White”. American Photo On Campus, New York. November 2003. P 32-33.
Irizarry, Lisa. “A haven of their own: Photo exhibit chronicles South Jersey’s African-American communities” Newark Star-Ledger. March 21, 2003.
Brummer, Amy. “Ordinary Lives” Princeton Packet. May 21, 2003
White, April. “Small Towns, Black Lives at the Noyes Museum of Art” Philadelphia Magazine. April 2003.
DeWolf, Rose. “Exhibit Showcases NJ’s Black Towns” Philadelphia Daily News. February 21. 2003
Alcamo, John. “Small Towns…Black Lives: An artist’s journal of travel and discovery” New Jersey Lifestyle. Winter 2003
White, Wendel. Interview. CN8 News. February 21, 2003
White, Wendel. Interview. “State of the Arts”. WNJN Feb 2, 2003.
White, Wendel. Interview. “Spotlight: Delaware Valley” WWAC Jan 31, 2003
White, Wendel. Interview. Another View, “Jim Crow Then and Now” Series on the effects and legacy of Jim Crow in America. WNJN Jan 26, 2003
Mirapaul, Matt. “Photographer Captures Towns Where Blacks Found Peace.” New York Times, Arts Online – Jan 20, 2003
Cronin, Steve. “Photo Exhibit Tells Story of African American Towns”. Atlantic City Press. Jan 12, 2003
Crisman, Alexis. “Small Towns, Black Lives” New Jersey Monthly Magazine. January 2003.
Baxter, Robert. “A Picture of Black Lives in South Jersey Communities” The Courier-Post. Jan 19, 2003
Sozanski, Edward. “Photos uncover hidden black history in S. Jersey” Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan 19, 2003
Ridenhour, Christopher. “Philly Live” Interview WYBE Philadelphia. Jan 2, 2003.
Bischoff, Dan. “Small Towns Project” ArtNotes, The Star-Ledger. Newark, NJ. December 18, 2003. p.33
Cronin, Steve. “Unfamiliar Landscapes / Using A Camera And Computer, Wendel White Crosses Artistic Boundaries” Press of Atlantic City. February 23, 2002.
Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. Leon F. Litwack, Darlene Clark Hine. The Harvard Guide to African-American History. Pg 41. Harvard University Press, 2001
Snodergren, Rebecca, “Camera captures texture of small-town black life” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 21, 2001
Sullivan, Eileen, “An Artist’s View” The Courier-Post, NJ. February 20, 2001
McCoy, Bett, “Area Artist captures charm of everyday life in exhibit,” Atlantic City Press, February 8, 2001
Willis, Deborah. Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to present. WW Norton and Company. June 2000
White, Wendel, Interview, New Jersey Network News, NJN, February 22, 2000
Consultant, Photography lab Renovation and Redesign, Monmouth University, NJ 2000
Co-Curated and fabricated – “Charles K. Doble’s Atlantic City Photographs 1930 – 1953” and “Images of African Americans in Atlantic City: 1900 to 1965” as part of the opening exhibition “Playground of the Nation.”
Reviewer, “Exploring Black and White Photography,” second edition, 1993, Review, and recommendations for the publisher, Wm. C Brown Publishers 1990
Guest Curator, “Survey of Photographic Expressions” School of Visual Arts, 1984