K I M  E L L E N  K A U F F M A N

712 TERMINAL ROAD * LANSING * MI * 48906 * V&F 517-321-2815 * kim@synecdochestudio.com
EDUCATION
B.A. - MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 1974

WORKING ARTIST
1975 to present

APPLIED PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT-LANSING COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Adjunct faculty Instructor for courses including Photo Chemistry, BW Printing, Introduction to Photography, Fine Art Majors Class. 7/1978 - 6/1998
Currently provide portfolio advising to students.
Lansing Community College Photographic Imaging Technology Advisory Board. 1994-Present

CONTINUING EDUCATION
Workshops and Classes including Paper making, Bookbinding, Hybrid Photo Technologies, Digital Imaging.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH - 2008
University of Louisville Photographic Archives, Louisville, KY
Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI
Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
Dennos Museum, Traverse City, MI - 2008
Bowling Green Sate University Firelands, Huron, OH
University Hospitals Art Collection, Cleveland, OH
Chelsea Community Hospital, Chelsea, MI
McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
Cleveland Clinic, Weston, FL
Lansing Community College, Lansing, MI
Duke Center for Integrative Medicine, Durham, NC
North Ottawa Community Hospital, Grand Haven, MI
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, Milwaukee, WI
Sparrow Foundation, Lansing, MI
North Ottawa Community Hospital, Grand Haven, MI
Chelsea Community Hospital, Chelsea, MI
American Board of Emergency Medicine, East Lansing, MI
SAS Institute, Cary, NC

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jensen, Brooks “Illumitones” LensWork no. 84 September-October 2009, pages 70-93
Patzer, Maureen "Seeing Life Through Unique Lens." Greater Lansing Woman November 2006, p38
Cusack, Mary ". . . film a thing of the past." City Pulse October 25, 2006, p13
Rossman, Alex "Putting Down the Camera" HomeWorks June 17, 2006, p15
"Plants as Art, Architecture." Marshfield News-Herald January 19, 2006
Rossman, Alex "A Vision Realized." Whisper in the Woods Autumn 2005, pages 15-20
Graphis, Flora - A Contemporary Collection of Floral Photography p25, New York, NY 2002
"Portfolio." Photo Design January/February 1992, Pages 49-51



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HONORS

Crooked Tree Art Center, Petosky, MI Annual Photography Exhibition, Honorable Mention, Juror: Tom Halsted, Halsted Gallery
FCCA, Fredericksburg, VA "Patterns of Life", Second Place National All-Media
Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX Texas National 2006 All Media, Honorable Mention, Juror: Paul Brach
The Pen & Brush, New York, NY National Juried Photography Exhibition, Second Place, Juror: Candace Perich
Larson Gallery, Yakima, WA 32nd Annual Photography National Competition, Honorable Mention
BBAC, Birmingham, MI All Media Juried Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Saphire Award
NAC, Minot State University, Minot, ND "Americas 2000 All Media Exhibition", Cash Award
McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, Lake Charles, LA National Exhibition, Purchase Award
NAAC, Crystal Lake, IL "Women's Works" All Media National Exhibition, Honorable Mention
PDN-PIX International Photography Competition, New York, NY 1st place Digital Capture-Personal Work
Lansing Art Gallery Lansing, MI Michigan Annual All Media Botanical Art Competition, Second Place
Lansing Art Gallery Lansing, MI Michigan All Media Botanical Competition, Honorable Mention
Lansing Art Gallery Lansing, MI Michigan Photography Competition, Honorable Mention

EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
Galerie BMG, Woodstock, NY "Florilegium" 10/22 - 11/29/2010
Mackerel Sky Gallery East Lansing, MI 10/3/- 11/28/2010
Dennos Museum, Traverse City, MI “Beyond the Lense: Cameraless Photo Collage” 4/10 - 6/13/2010
Michigan Womens Historical Museum, Lansing, MI “30 Years of Botanical Images: Lessons from the Garden” 11/8/09 - 1/29/2010
Rackham Graduate Studies, University of MIchigan Ann Arbor, MI “Synecdoche: Camerless Photo Collage 10/6 - 11/30/09
Mackerel Sky Gallery, East Lansing, MI "Elaborations", 10/1 - 11/30/08
University Gallery, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg KS "Florilegium", 11/29/07 - 1/24/08
Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, MI "Natural Affinity" 8/3/07-9/24/07
Little Gallery at BGSU Firelands, Huron, OH "Florilegium", 2/26 - 4/4/07
Umstead Gallery, Cary, NC "Florilegium", 1/15 - 6/1/07
Mackerel Sky Gallery, East Lansing, MI "Elaborations",10/1 - 11/30/08
University Gallery, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg KS 11/29/07 - 1/24/08
Saugatuk Center for the Arts, Saugatuk, MI "Natural Affinity" 8/3/07 - 9/24/07
Little Gallery at BGSU Firelands, Huron, OH "Florilegium", 2/26 - 4/4/07
Umstead Gallery, Cary, NC "Florilegium", 1/15 - 6/1/07
Mackerel Sky Gallery, East Lansing, MI "Collaborations", 10/1 - 11/30/06
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI "Florilegium", 8/4 - 9/11/05
SRO Photo Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX "Florilegium", 8/23 - 9/18/04
Mackerel Sky Gallery, East Lansing, MI "Equipoise: Creating a Balance", 10/3 - 11/29/04
Walden Country Inn, Aurora, OH Curated by the Cleveland Institute of Art, 11/01 - 1/12/04
Mixed Media Gallery, Douglas, MI "Lush Life", 7/03 - 7/25/03
Peoples Church, East Lansing, MI "Florilegium", 4/1 - 6/30/03
Flatfile Photography Gallery, Chicago, IL "Florilegium", 4/4 - 4/5/03
Mackerel Sky Gallery, East Lansing, MI "PlantForms", 10/6 - 11/30/02
Mackerel Sky Gallery, East Lansing, MI "Floriligeum", 10/3 - 11/26/00
Mackerel Sky Gallery, East Lansing, MI "Excerpts", 10/1 - 10/27/98
Mackerel Sky Gallery, East Lansing, MI "From the Garden", 10/ 6 - 11/28/96
Mackerel Sky Gallery, East Lansing, MI "Fabricated Confluence", 10/2 - 10/30/94
Croswell Fine Art Association, Adrian, MI "Abstractions", 2/2 - 3/28/93
Mackerel Sky Gallery, East Lansing, MI 10/7 - 11/30/90
Deborah's Choice Gallery, Muskegon, MI 1/5 - 1/31/90

TWO PERSON
River Gallery, Chelsea, MI "Botanical Language", 3/3 - 3/31/07
North Carolina Museum of Natural Science, Raleigh, NC 6/02 - 7/30/06
New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI "Plants as Art, Architecture", 1/22 - 3/10/06 with Karl Blossfeldt
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI "Twilight in the Garden", 10/05
Deborah's Choice Gallery, Muskegon, MI 4/14 - 5/15/92

GROUP
Mackerel Sky Gallery East Lansing, MI "Leaping into the Third Decade" 8/1 - 9/15/2010
Buckham Galery Flint, MI "Light Reading" 7/9 - 7/31/2010
Adam Cave Fine Art, Raleigh, NC "Shaping Nature" 6/5 - 7/24/09
River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN "Natures Bounty" 4/1 - 4/30/09
Kresge Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, The Kresge Art Museum Collection:
Celebrating the 50th MI 1/12-3/15
Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA Halsted Gallery 1/9-11
Adam Cave Fine Art, Raleigh, NC "Four Photographers", 6/26 - 8/9/08
Creole Gallery, Lansing, MI "Whisper", 6/1 - 7/30/08
River Gallery, Chelsea, MI "Let"s All Gather at the River", 2/9 - 3/22/08
River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN 11/1 - 11/30/07
Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI "Art Alfresco - Garden Inspired Art", 5/10 - 6/30/07
Harris Magee, Jackson, MI "Spring Show", 3/2 - 5/25/07
River Gallery, Chelsea, MI "Group Show With a Spin", 1/20 - 2/24/07
Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI "The Artistic Pulse of Post Industrial Michigan Part II", 1/12 - 2/3/07
Harris Magee, Jackson, MI "Full Bloom: Flowers & Figures", 5/12 - 6/10/06
River Gallery, Chelsea, MI 6/11 - 7/17/05
Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 4/15 - 6/1/05
Flatfile Galleries, Chicago, IL "Fotowerk:Scanners", 10/15-11/24/04
Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing MI, Membership Exhibit, 4/1 - 4/25/03
Kane Marie Fine Arts Gallery, Virginia Beach, VA "Crystal Petal Painted Leaf", 4/16 - 6/2/02
Creole Gallery, Lansing, MI Group show "Botanica", 6/1 - 7/31/01
Michigan Womens Historical Museum, Lansing, MI Working Women Artist Group Show 4/1 - 4/28/92
Mackerel Sky Gallery, East Lansing, MI 12/1/1990 - 1/31/1991
Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, MI Group show featuring Working Women Artists 6/16 - 8/18/91
Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI Group show featuring Working Women Artists 3/5 - 3/31/91
Two Doors Down, Lansing, MI "YWCA Mid-Michigan Women Artists" 4/20 - 5/11/80

JURIED
BBAC, Birmingham MI, All Media Juried Michigan Fine Arts Competition 3/20 - 4/17/09
Cleveland Museum of Art Fine Print Fair, Cleveland OH, Curators Choice 9/26/08
Austin State University, Nacadoches TX, "Texas National All Media Exhibition", 4/5 - 5/18/08
BBAC, Birmingham MI, All Media Juried Michigan Fine Arts Competition 3/14 - 4/11/08
Crooked Tree Art Center, Petosky, MI 27th Annual Juried Photography Exhibition Juror: Tom Halsted, Halsted Gallery
FCCA, Fredericksburg, VA "Patterns of Life" National All-Media, 11/26 - 1/27/07
Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX "Texas National 2006", 4/8 - 4/30/06
BBAC, Birmingham, MI "All Media Michigan Fine Arts Competition", 3/10 - 4/7/06
Toledo Friends of Photography, Toledo, OH "2006 National Photographic Exhibition", 1/13 - 2/10/06
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA "15th Annual International Exhibition", 10/14 -1 2/2/05
                        Juror: Arthur Ollman, Director of The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Bella Perla Gallery, Portland, OR "Beauty Revisited an International Exhibition", 9/1 - 9/30/05
Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI "All Media Membership Exhibition", 5/27 - 6/23/04
Art Center of Northern New Jersey, New Milford, NJ "13th National All Media Exhibition", 5/5 - 5/30/04
                        Juror: Susan Cross, Associate Curator Guggenheim Museum
Assoc. Artists of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, NC "Dimensions-National All Media Show", 4/22 - 5/22/04
The Pen & Brush, New York, NY, "National Photography Exhibition", 4/16 - 5/4/04
                        Juror: Candace Perich, Candace Dwan Gallery
Austin State University, Nacadoches TX, "Texas National All Media Exhibition", 4/3 - 5/16/04
                        Juror: Ed Moses, Abstract Artist
Larson Gallery, Yakima, WA "32nd Annual Photography National Competition", 4/4-5/1/04
Lemon Street Gallery, Kenosha, WI "All Media Exhibition", 3/31 - 4/25/04
Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY "PHOTOWORK ?04", National Photography Exhibition 3/20 - 4/24/04
                        Juror: Jennifer Blessing, Curator of Photography for the Guggenheim Museum
BBAC, Birmingham MI, All Media Juried Michigan Fine Arts Competition 3/5 - 4/9/04
Artists' Museum, Washington, DC All Media Juried Show 1/4 - 1/25/04
Toledo Friends of Photography, Toledo, OH "2004 National Photographic Exhibition", 1/2 - 1/30/04
Matrix Arts, Sacramento, CA "International Global ARTlook 2003", 9/13 - 10/30/03
New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI "Mighty Midwest Biennial", 9/8 -10/18/03
Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI "Celebrate Michigan-All Media Exhibition", 9/2 - 9/30/03
Scarab Club, Detroit, MI "Annual Michigan Photography Exhibition", 8/27 - 9/27/03
NAC, Minot State University, Minot, ND "Americas 2000 All Media Competition", 8/18 - 9/26/03
The Muse Gallery, Prescott, AZ "National Digital Art Exhibition", 8/1 - 9/8/03
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY "Ninth Annual International Exhibition of Women"s Art", 7/15 - 8/9/03
Veridian Artists Gallery, New York, NY "National 14th Annual Mixed Media Exhibition", 6/1 - 7/8/03
LBI Foundation, Loveladies, NJ National Exhibition, "Photography & Digital Images", 7/9 - 7/30/03
                        Juror: Edward Earle, Curator of Digital Media for International Center for Photography
McNeese National Works on Paper, Lake Charles, LA "National Exhibition", 7/27 - 4/18/03
Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY "Photowork", 03/15 - 4/19/03
                        Juror: Carol Squires, Curator - International Center for Photography
Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX "Texas National 2003", 4/12 - 5/11/03
                        Jurors: Jerry Uelsmann & Maggie Taylor - Artists/Photographers
FCCA, Fredericksburg, VA "Photography - The Manipulated Image", 4/27 - 6/29/03
DCA Home Gallery, New York, NY Mixed Media Exhibition "Landscape/Mindscape", 6/8 - 8/24/02
Nexus Gallery, New York, NY "NY Photography 2002" National Juried Exhibition, 4/2 - 5/20/02
                        Juror: Sarah Hasted, Director Hasted Hunt Gallery
Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI "Statewide Annual All Media Botanical Art Exhibition", 4/5 - 5/4/99
NAAC, Crystal Lake, IL "Women's Works" All Media National Juried Competition, 3/5 - 4/26/98
Otherwise Gallery, Lansing, MI All Media Juried Exhibition, 12/7 - 2/2/97
Toledo Friends of Photography, Toledo, OH "National Photography Exhibition" 10/24 - 11/23/97
The Silverman Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT "Spectra 97" National All Media Exhibition 10/10 -11/16/97 Juror: Robert Sobieszek - Past Curator of Photography - Los Angeles County Museum of Art & George Eastman House
The Stage Gallery, Massapequa, NY "Of This Earth" National Juried Exhibition, 7/11 - 7/31/97
Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI "Michigan Annual All Media Botanical Art Exhibition", 4/5 - 5/4/97
Toledo Friends of Photography, Toledo, OH "National Photography Exhibition", 8/27 - 10/1/95
Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI "Michigan Annual All Media Botanical Art Exhibition" 4/4 - 5/7/95
Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI "Images" Michigan Photography Exhibition, 10/4 - 11/5/94
Gallery Ten, Rockford, IL "Botanics" All Media Midwest Botanical Competition, 6/18 - 723/93
Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI "Michigan All Media Botanical Competition", 5/92
Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI "Michigan Photography Competition", 6/91
Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI "Michigan All Media Botanical Competition", 9/91