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Amy Theiss Giese is an artist living in Boston, MA. Giese’s practice is grounded in photography but often is out at the edges of the medium, critiquing the materials of production and consumption, as well as searching for points of intersection with other mediums. Her work is also an ongoing attempt to location the self within distinct places and spaces, whether physical, psychological or virtual. Her work has been exhibited in the US, China, New Zealand, Czechia, and Scotland. She received her BA in Fine Arts from Amherst College (Amherst, MA) and an MFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design (New York, NY).
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Select Solo Exhibitions
2021 The Absence of Light Within These Walls, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
2018 Concealed at first, at last I appear, Granary Art Center, Ephraim, UT
2016 The Migration of Silver, Flanagan Campus Art Gallery, CCRI, Lincoln, RI
2014 Concealed at first at last I appear: Chemicals + Light, Northeast Exposure Online, PRC, Boston, MA
2012 Concealed at first at last I appear, The Photography Gallery, University of Notre Dame, IN
2012 Open Atlier, MeetFactory International Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ
2011 Concealed at first at last I appear, The Garner Center for Photographic Exhibitions at NESOP, Boston, MA
2011 Light in Sound: Concealed at first at last I appear, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2007 Ipseity Series, Northeastern Exposure Online, PRC, Boston, MA.
Select 2/3 Person Exhibitions
2019 Amy Giese, Sandi Haber Fifield & Christopher Russell, Photography Program Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Traces, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
2017 Varied Perceptions: Andrew Beckham, Marcus DeSieno, & Amy Theiss Giese, Colorado Photographic Arts Center @ the Art Gym, Denver, CO
Select Exhibition Record
2025 Pedagogy of Tears, Duckworth Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Movement/s, Emerson Contemporary, Boston, MA
2025 their dasein, Habitat Art, Qinhuangdao, CN
2024 Exposure, PRC, VanDernoot Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2024 Home Sweet Home, PRC, VanDernoot Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2023 Temporal Shift, OVERLAP Gallery, Newport, RI
2023 we like small things v.6, Filter Space, Chicago, IL
2023 Speculative Futurisms, MassArt x SoWa Gallery, Boston, MA
2023 Bittersweet, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2022 Five Years of Aspect Initiative, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
2021 Star/Start, Rear Window Gallery, Hangzhou, CN
2020 Call and Response, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2020 Image for Concept: Exploring alternative approaches to photography, Hand Art Center, Stetson University, DeLand, FL
2019 Image for Concept: Indirect Representation in Photography, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL
2019 Emergence, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 Sound Thought Signal, Festival of Music and Sound, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
2018 Endless Days, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, CN
2017 photography + science, Lishui International Photography Festival, Lishui, CN
2017 photography + science, Yixian International Photography Festival, Yixian, CN
2017 Behind the Lens: Women in Photography, Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
2016 Bringing the Outdoors In, Governor Ames Estate, The Trustees of Reservations, Easton, MA
2016 space between | seen, Middle Gray Gallery, Brookline, MA
2015 On Photography, Hynes Convention Center, in collaboration with the PRC, Boston, MA
2014 Shadows of the Invisible, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI
2014 Image : Constructed :: Constructed : Image, Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
2014 Fall Back, Spring Forward: Photography in New England, PRC, Boston, MA
2013 New England Photography Biennial, The Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
2013 Re:Conceptualizing Vision, Elam Projectspace Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2011 Languor / Temperance | Repose, Ice House Gallery, Monmouth University, NJ
2010 Low Tech, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2009 Material is Language, 119 Gallery, Lowell, MA
2009 Graduate Works in Photography, Arnold & Sheila Aronson Gallery, Parsons, New York, NY
2009 I Don’t Believe in Miracles, SpaceWomb, Long Island City, NY
2008 Exquisite Corpse, Arnold & Sheila Aronson Gallery, Parsons, New York, NY
2008 Exquisite Corpse, Galleries One and Two, Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), University of Sydney, Australia.
2007 New England Photography Biennial, The Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
Residencies
2020 The Studios at Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
2019 Signal Culture, Owego, NY
2017 The Studios at Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
2012 MeetFactory International Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ
Curatorial Projects
2019 Person, Place or Thing: New Ideas in Photography, Sharon Arts Center Gallery, Peterborough, NH
2016 space between | seen, Middle Gray Gallery, Brookline, MA
Select Awards/Publications/Lectures
2025 Publication: Six page spread of My Head is Too Heavy in Cope Magazine vol. 1 part 1
2024 Award: Selected as one of the 200 top finalists for Photolucida’s Critical Mass
2023 Award: Special Mention in Re:Touch smartphone photography contest, part of European Month of Photography, Freie Universität Berlin
2021 Artist Talk: (Zoom) Invited to host “Nights at the PRC” on the theme Cameraless Photography
2020 Donation: A piece to the Hal Gould Print Auction at Colorado Photographic Art Center
2019 Article: Wilson, Cerys. “Photography +: Melding the Image with the Object.” Art New England, November/December 2019, pp. 35-37.
2019 Panel Discussion: Artists from the exhibition Image for Concept discuss their work, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL
2019 Artist Talk: Discussion of Infra Certum at University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Lecture Presentation: “What Does it Mean to Be a Mentor Right Now?” SPE Northeast Conference, Providence, RI
2019 Lecture Presentation: “The Function of Photography in the 21st Century.” SPE Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH
2018 Article: “Amy Giese.” E-Squared Magazine | Art + Science, issue #4 Aestivus, 2018, pp. 75-78.
2018 Floor Talk: “Endless Days” exhibition, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao CH
2018 Artist Talk: Discussion of Concealed at first at last I appear at Granary Arts, Ephraim, UT
2018 Article: Giese, Amy. “Light and Sound.” Precog Magazine, vol. 3 Transformation, 2018, pp. 90-94.
2017 Article: Hopkins, Christopher Snow. “A Long Look at Time: The Rise of Camera-Less Photography.” Art New England, November/December 2017, pp. 32-35.
2017 Lecture Presentation: “The Function of Photography in the Hypermedia Age” at the Lishui International Photography Festival, Lishui CN
2017 Artist Talk: In conjunction with exhibition Traces at University of Maine Museum of Art
2017 Award: Selected as one of the 200 top finalists for Photolucida’s Critical Mass
2017 Artist Talk: Simmons College, Advanced Black and White Photography class
2014 Catalog: Baillargeon, Claude. Shadows of the Invisible, exhibition catalog. Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 2014.
2011 Article: Ou, Arthur. Shadows Written. Hartford, CT: Real Art Ways, 2011.
Education
2009 M.F.A. Photography Honors, Parsons School of Design, NYC
2006 Certificate New England School of Photography, Boston, MA
1999 B.A. Fine Art Magna cum laude, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Academic Experience
2021-2023 Program Director, MFA Fine Arts, Low residency, MassArt, Boston, MA
2017-2020 Director,Low-residency MFA Program in Photography, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
2015-2017 Adjunct Faculty, Low-residency MFA Program in Photography, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
2014-2017 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Fine Arts, Community College of Rhode Island, Lincoln, RI
2009-2013 Faculty, Professional Photography Certificate, NESOP, Boston, MA
2013 Instructor, New Media Program for Teens, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2012 Instructor, Adult Ed and Teen Art Classes, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
2021 The Absence of Light Within These Walls, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
2018 Concealed at first, at last I appear, Granary Art Center, Ephraim, UT
2016 The Migration of Silver, Flanagan Campus Art Gallery, CCRI, Lincoln, RI
2014 Concealed at first at last I appear: Chemicals + Light, Northeast Exposure Online, PRC, Boston, MA
2012 Concealed at first at last I appear, The Photography Gallery, University of Notre Dame, IN
2012 Open Atlier, MeetFactory International Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ
2011 Concealed at first at last I appear, The Garner Center for Photographic Exhibitions at NESOP, Boston, MA
2011 Light in Sound: Concealed at first at last I appear, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2007 Ipseity Series, Northeastern Exposure Online, PRC, Boston, MA.
Select 2/3 Person Exhibitions
2019 Amy Giese, Sandi Haber Fifield & Christopher Russell, Photography Program Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Traces, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
2017 Varied Perceptions: Andrew Beckham, Marcus DeSieno, & Amy Theiss Giese, Colorado Photographic Arts Center @ the Art Gym, Denver, CO
Select Exhibition Record
2025 Pedagogy of Tears, Duckworth Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Movement/s, Emerson Contemporary, Boston, MA
2025 their dasein, Habitat Art, Qinhuangdao, CN
2024 Exposure, PRC, VanDernoot Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2024 Home Sweet Home, PRC, VanDernoot Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2023 Temporal Shift, OVERLAP Gallery, Newport, RI
2023 we like small things v.6, Filter Space, Chicago, IL
2023 Speculative Futurisms, MassArt x SoWa Gallery, Boston, MA
2023 Bittersweet, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2022 Five Years of Aspect Initiative, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
2021 Star/Start, Rear Window Gallery, Hangzhou, CN
2020 Call and Response, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2020 Image for Concept: Exploring alternative approaches to photography, Hand Art Center, Stetson University, DeLand, FL
2019 Image for Concept: Indirect Representation in Photography, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL
2019 Emergence, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 Sound Thought Signal, Festival of Music and Sound, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
2018 Endless Days, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, CN
2017 photography + science, Lishui International Photography Festival, Lishui, CN
2017 photography + science, Yixian International Photography Festival, Yixian, CN
2017 Behind the Lens: Women in Photography, Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
2016 Bringing the Outdoors In, Governor Ames Estate, The Trustees of Reservations, Easton, MA
2016 space between | seen, Middle Gray Gallery, Brookline, MA
2015 On Photography, Hynes Convention Center, in collaboration with the PRC, Boston, MA
2014 Shadows of the Invisible, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI
2014 Image : Constructed :: Constructed : Image, Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
2014 Fall Back, Spring Forward: Photography in New England, PRC, Boston, MA
2013 New England Photography Biennial, The Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
2013 Re:Conceptualizing Vision, Elam Projectspace Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2011 Languor / Temperance | Repose, Ice House Gallery, Monmouth University, NJ
2010 Low Tech, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2009 Material is Language, 119 Gallery, Lowell, MA
2009 Graduate Works in Photography, Arnold & Sheila Aronson Gallery, Parsons, New York, NY
2009 I Don’t Believe in Miracles, SpaceWomb, Long Island City, NY
2008 Exquisite Corpse, Arnold & Sheila Aronson Gallery, Parsons, New York, NY
2008 Exquisite Corpse, Galleries One and Two, Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), University of Sydney, Australia.
2007 New England Photography Biennial, The Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
Residencies
2020 The Studios at Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
2019 Signal Culture, Owego, NY
2017 The Studios at Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
2012 MeetFactory International Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ
Curatorial Projects
2019 Person, Place or Thing: New Ideas in Photography, Sharon Arts Center Gallery, Peterborough, NH
2016 space between | seen, Middle Gray Gallery, Brookline, MA
Select Awards/Publications/Lectures
2025 Publication: Six page spread of My Head is Too Heavy in Cope Magazine vol. 1 part 1
2024 Award: Selected as one of the 200 top finalists for Photolucida’s Critical Mass
2023 Award: Special Mention in Re:Touch smartphone photography contest, part of European Month of Photography, Freie Universität Berlin
2021 Artist Talk: (Zoom) Invited to host “Nights at the PRC” on the theme Cameraless Photography
2020 Donation: A piece to the Hal Gould Print Auction at Colorado Photographic Art Center
2019 Article: Wilson, Cerys. “Photography +: Melding the Image with the Object.” Art New England, November/December 2019, pp. 35-37.
2019 Panel Discussion: Artists from the exhibition Image for Concept discuss their work, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL
2019 Artist Talk: Discussion of Infra Certum at University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Lecture Presentation: “What Does it Mean to Be a Mentor Right Now?” SPE Northeast Conference, Providence, RI
2019 Lecture Presentation: “The Function of Photography in the 21st Century.” SPE Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH
2018 Article: “Amy Giese.” E-Squared Magazine | Art + Science, issue #4 Aestivus, 2018, pp. 75-78.
2018 Floor Talk: “Endless Days” exhibition, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao CH
2018 Artist Talk: Discussion of Concealed at first at last I appear at Granary Arts, Ephraim, UT
2018 Article: Giese, Amy. “Light and Sound.” Precog Magazine, vol. 3 Transformation, 2018, pp. 90-94.
2017 Article: Hopkins, Christopher Snow. “A Long Look at Time: The Rise of Camera-Less Photography.” Art New England, November/December 2017, pp. 32-35.
2017 Lecture Presentation: “The Function of Photography in the Hypermedia Age” at the Lishui International Photography Festival, Lishui CN
2017 Artist Talk: In conjunction with exhibition Traces at University of Maine Museum of Art
2017 Award: Selected as one of the 200 top finalists for Photolucida’s Critical Mass
2017 Artist Talk: Simmons College, Advanced Black and White Photography class
2014 Catalog: Baillargeon, Claude. Shadows of the Invisible, exhibition catalog. Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 2014.
2011 Article: Ou, Arthur. Shadows Written. Hartford, CT: Real Art Ways, 2011.
Education
2009 M.F.A. Photography Honors, Parsons School of Design, NYC
2006 Certificate New England School of Photography, Boston, MA
1999 B.A. Fine Art Magna cum laude, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Academic Experience
2021-2023 Program Director, MFA Fine Arts, Low residency, MassArt, Boston, MA
2017-2020 Director,Low-residency MFA Program in Photography, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
2015-2017 Adjunct Faculty, Low-residency MFA Program in Photography, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
2014-2017 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Fine Arts, Community College of Rhode Island, Lincoln, RI
2009-2013 Faculty, Professional Photography Certificate, NESOP, Boston, MA
2013 Instructor, New Media Program for Teens, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2012 Instructor, Adult Ed and Teen Art Classes, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
