EDUCATION                      

• MFA, Photography; Maine Media College, Rockport, ME.
• (Studio Art), Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
• BS, Environental Science; Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA

AWARDS / GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS / RESIDENCIES

• 2024  College of Fine Arts Emerging Scholar Award, UTRGV                  
• 2024  FacultyResearch Travel Support Program Grant, Office of Faculty Success &Diversity UTRGV 
• 2023  Faculty Research Travel Support Program Grant, Office ofFaculty Success & Diversity, UTRGV 
• 2023  Seed Grant, Office of Faculty Success & Diversity, UTRGV
• 2022  Faculty Research Travel Support Program Grant, Office of Faculty Success & Diversity, UTRGV
• 2021  Faculty Research Travel Support Program Grant, Office of Faculty Success & Diversity, UTRGV
• 2021  MonsonArts, Residency, Monson, ME
• 2020 Ellis-BeauregardFoundation Residency, Rockland, Maine
• 2019  Puffin Foundation West, Grant Award, OH
• 2018  Critical Mass Top 200
• 2018-19 Unity College, Faculty Research Grant, ME
• 2018-19 Maine Arts Commission Project Grant, ME
• 2016-17 Unity College Faculty Research Grant, ME
• 2016  East Carolina University Residency, Greenville, NC
• 2016  How to Flatten A Mountain Residency, PhotoIreland, IR
• 2015  The Kindling Fund, Grant Award, SPACE Gallery, ME (Re-grantor for The Warhol Foundation)
• 2014  John Anson Kittredge Education Fund, Grant Award
• 2013 Honorable Mention, TPS 22, International Competition, TX
• 2012 Residency Fellowship Recipient, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

SOLO  EXHIBITIONS* / TWO-PERSON

• 2024     DanforthArt Museum, Framingham, Mass.*                  
• 2024     CICA Museum, South Korea*         
• 2023     Solastalgia Times, Red DoorGallery, Bradley University, Peoria, Ill.*
• 2022    Documents for an Imagined Future,Storefront Art Projects via Photographic Resource Center, Watertown, Mass.,                                                         Curator: SarahPollman 2020          
• 2020    DMWitman, Index, Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine (virtual)* 
• 2019     Icebergs And Wildfires, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY   
• 2017     Photo Biologique: Light + Life, Gallery 1/1, Seattle, WA
• 2016    Melt, Revela-T, Barcelona, SP*
• 2015    A Lensless Vision:  Contemporary Camera-less Works by DM Witman, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts,                                     University of Southern  Maine, Portland*
• 2015    Supercluster Arion & Other Phenomena, Unity College, Leonard Craig Gallery Unity, ME
• 2013    Pinhole Photographs, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
• 2013    Supercluster Arion and Other Phenomena, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA (catalog)*
• 2012    dm witman photographs, Uppsala Foto Festival, Uppsala, Sweden*
• 2012   dm witman photographs, Think Tank, Portland, Maine*
• 2010   dm witman, pinhole photographs, Sussex County Community College, New Jersey*
• 2009   Featured Artist, Lehigh Valley Arts Council, Allentown, PA, Sept/Oct*
• 2009   dm witman, photographs, Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA*

SCREENINGS

• 2022     TheHaircut…or Learning to Let Go, COP27, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
• 2022    Documents for an Imagined Future, Storefront Art Projects via Photographic Resource Center, Watertown, Mass.,                         Curator: SarahPollman 2020          
• 2021    TheHaircut…or Learning to Let Go, Reading Film Festival Reading, Penn.  
  

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

• Archive 192: Abstract Photographs by Women, University of Maryland, Baltimore Maryland

2024

• Silver Is Magic, Maine Media W + C, Haas Gallery, Rockport, Maine
• Transmissions, Canopy, Austin, Texas
• Making It,Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland, Maine

2023

• Contemporary Landscape, CICA Museum, South Korea
• Spiritual Ecology, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland Maine
• Salon of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, Penn.
• 5x5,Visual Arts Annex Gallery, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX
• Spring 2023, The Curated Fridge, Juror: Debra Klomp Ching and Darren Ching
• LA Art Fair, LACP, LA Convention Center, CA
• Botanicals, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont. Juror: Lee Ann White
  
• A History of Photography: Selections from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, Curator: Associate               Curator Lisa Volpe
  
• TwelfthNight, MaineMuseum of Photographic Arts, Portland, Maine

2022

• MorphingMedium,Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland, Maine
  
• Faculty Exhibition, UTRGV, Edinburg and Brownsville, Texas
•  Culture of Hair, ColoradoPhotographic Arts Center, Denver, CO. Curator: Samantha  Johnston
• MakingPictures from Plants: Contemporary Anthotypes, RI Center for PhotographicArts, Providence, R.I. Curators: JessecaFerguson and Mary Kocol                  
• Coming Down to Earth,Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA                  
• A History of Photography:Selections from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, Curator:        Associate Curator Lisa Volpe

2021

• Hair Stories, Newport art Museum, Newport, R.I.                  
• Extraction, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, Calif.
• Notes From the Back of Beyond, Roger Williams Gallery, NEC, Manchester, NH

2020

• Unbound9!, Candela Gallery, Richmond, Va. 
• ReimaginedLandscapes, Center for PhotographicArt, Carmel, Calif.

2019

• Scenery, Lishui Photo Festival, China
• FRESH 2019, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• Melt-Down, Portland Public Library, Portland, ME
• Index, Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME
• Melt-Down, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME
• Man-Made: A State of Nature, Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME
• Material Lamentations:Art, Grief And The Land, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art           Association, Cambridge, MA

2018

• Faculty Exhibition, Leonard R. Craig Gallery, Unity College Center for the Arts, Unity, ME
• America Now, Lewis Gallery, Portland Public Library, Portland, ME
• Tidal Zone, Waterfall Arts Center, Belfast, ME
• Found, Maine Media Gallery, Rockport, ME
• Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland, ME; curated by Nat May
  

2017

• America Now, The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine, Michael Klahr Center, University of Maine, Augusta, ME
• Maine Media MFA Alumni Exhibition, Maine Media Gallery, Rockport, ME
• Visual Metric, Griffin Museum, Lafayette City Center, Boston, MA
• To Climb A Tree At Least, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, University of Southern Maine, Portland
• The Door Between, Book Arts & Historic Process Photography, Maine Media Gallery, Rockport, ME

2016 

• Hot Topic - A Photographic Response to Climate Change, Gallery 1/1, Seattle, WA   
• STUMP, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
• Constructed Realities, SPE Combined Caucus Exhibition, Living Arts Center, Tulsa, OK
• Branching Out, Curated by Bruce Brown, CMCA curator emeritus, UMVA Gallery, Portland, ME
• dis/exists, PhotoLA, Downtown Photoroom, Los Angeles, CA
• How to Flatten A Mountain, Rathfarnham Castle, PhotoIreland, IR
• Landscapes, Center for Fine Art Photography, Colorado   
• Constructed Realities, SPE Combined Caucus Exhibition, Las Vegas, NV                 

2015 

• Evidence + Advocacy, SPE NE Member Juried Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center, Boston
• Group Show, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
• Salt, Silver & Sun, PhoPa Gallery, Portland, ME
• Obscura, School of Arts & Crafts, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

2014 

• Going Lensless: Recent Work by Six Pinhole Photographers, Forward Thinking Museum
• Dream Within A Dream, HEIST gallery, London, UK
• New Prints via IPCNY, Christies’s Rockefeller Center Gallery, NYC
• Summer Group Show, Asymmetrick Arts, Rockland, ME
• Don’t Take Pictures Magazine, Pinhole Photography Exhibition
• 2014 Art Meets Science Exhibition, MDI Biological Laboratory,  Maine
• OBSCURA 121 Views, Pfluger68, Berlin, Germany
• New Prints 2014/Winter, International Print Center New York, NYC

2013 

• Winter Solstice, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
• Lenzless, Plates to Pixels
• Focus on Faculty, MMW+C, PhoPa Gallery, Portland, ME
• American Art Today : Figures, The Bascom, Highlands, NC
• Gallery Artists: A Group Exhibition, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
• Ballarat Foto Festival, Projection Program, Ballarat Victoria, Australia
• Mentor, 40 Photographers/40Years Maine Media Workshops + College, Center for Maine
• Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
• Posteriori: An Alternative Photographic Process Group Exhibition, Aviary Gallery, JP, MA
• 4th Biennial Pinhole Show, RayKo Photo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Mysterious Visions: Dreams, Fantasies, and Mirages, PhotoPlace Gallery, Vermont
• Biennial 2013 Exhibition, Rochester Museum of Fine Art, Rochester, NH
• The Things That Seem and Those That Are: Reshaping Photography through Alternative Process, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA

2012 

• Enchantment, Plates to Pixels 6th Annual Juried Exhibition
• Art From the Heart 2012 (AFTH2012), Gowanus Loft, Brooklyn
• Strong Water, Oforta Gilde, Riga, Latvia
• Art In An Instant, New Visions Gallery, Scranton, PA

2011 

• Maine Media College Alumni Showcase, Camden Library, Camden, ME
• Art In An Instant, SPLOT, Nowy Sacz, Poland

2010 

• Art In An Instant, Thomas Jefferson School, St. Lois, MO
• Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA
• Art In An Instant, Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA
• ONWARD ’10, Project Basho, Philadelphia, PA

2009 

• NEXT: Emerging Philadelphia Photographers, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA.  Juror:  Ariel Shanberg.
• Just Look at Yourself, Center for Maine Contemporary Art,   Rockport, ME.
• MFA Graduates Thesis Exhibition, Maine Media College, Rockport, ME.

COLLABORATIONS

• 2019   A Guide to Grieving in the Anthropocene, with Dr. William Hafford
• 2016   How To Flatten A Mountain, PhotoIreland, IR
• 2015   Paper Parts: 20 Artists Working with Cameraless Photographic Techniques, UK
• 2013   the POSTCARD collective, Summer 2013

PRESS / INTERVIEWS

• Ray MarkRinaldi, “The photo exhibit ‘Culture of Hair’ shows how hair helps usdiscover ourselves”, The Denver Post, June 28, 2022
• Lexi Riga,"The Colorado Photographic Arts Center Showcases the ManyMeanings Behind Hair in New Exhibition", 303 Magazine, June 6,2022
• "The photo exhibition ‘Hair Culture’ shows how hair helps us findourselves”, World Nation, June 6, 2022
• Cate McQuaid,"Anthotypesand the art of letting go", The Boston Globe, March 30, 2022
• Coming Down to Earth, Catalog, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2022
• Julien Bolle, “Deanna Witman L’erosion dechoses”, Responses Photo, Dec. 2020
• Lidija Haas, New Books section review forSilences So Deep, a memoir by John Luther Adams, Harper’sMagazine, Sept. 2020
• Gaia Vince, “Earth Dayat 50: The best ways to change the world”, BBC Culture Apr 22, 2020
• Gaia Vince, “How scientists are coping with‘ecological grief’”, The Guardian, Jan 12, 2020
• Christopher Volpe, “Landscape and Climate Change”, Art New England,  Nov/Dec, 2019
• Dan Kany, Art Review: “Water churns and melts in CMCA’s 2 major exhibitions”, Portland Press Herald, April 7, 2019
• Cate McQuaid, “Old and new meet at Portland Museum of Art Biennial”, Boston Globe, April 19, 2018
• Mary Pols, “Deanna Witman went from field biologist to artist and Unity College professor”, Portland Press Herald, February, 4, 2018.
• Kenny Cole, “Checking In”, Maine Arts Journal, Winter 2016.
  
• Carl Little, Review: “DM Witman, Kiki Gaffney, David Caras”, Art New England, Nov/Dec 2015.
• Marina Schauffler, “Artists in Maine make climate change personal”, Portland Press Herald, Nov 1, 2015
• Kathryn Skelton, “Weird, Wicked Weird: High-end slug art”, Maine Sun Journal, April 3, 2015.
• Brown Bruce & Susan Grisanti, “The New Masters”, Maine Home & Design, April 2015.
• Matt Dodge, “A fleeting look at climate change”, Portland Phoenix, Interview, January 15, 2015
• Mark Cheeo, “A Quick Chat With Proud Pinhole Shooter, Deanna Witman”, Lomography Magazine, Interview, April 2014.http://www.lomography.com/magazine/lifestyle/2014/04/21/a-quick-chat-with-proud-pinhole-shooter-deanna-witman  
• 365 Days/ 365 Artists, Frank Juarez Gallery and Greymatter Gallery Collaborative Project, Interview, Feb 2014. http://365artists365days.com/2014/02/02/deanna-witman-rockland-me/

PUBLICATION AS AUTHOR

• Interview: MagdaBiernat, Film Foto Award,2022 https://www.filmphotoaward.com/fpa/interview-magda-biernat
  
• A Guide to Grieving in the Anthropocene, Fall 2019
• Catalog, Dr. Alan Lightman Introduction, Supercluster Arion andOther Phenomena, 2013

PUBLICATIONS

• Dangerous New World, Littoral Press, Fall 2019
• What Will You Remember?, Best Photo Picks April, 2019: https://whatwillyouremember.com/best-photo-picks-april-2019/
• Anderson, Christina Z, Featured Artist in Salted Paper Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artist, 2017 
• Chris Snow, Aesthetics of Disaster, Climate Change Art in New England,  March/April, 2017
• Process, A Journal of Slow Photographic Process Methods, November, 2016
• Don’t Take Pictures Magazine, April, 2016 Feature
  
• Aline Smithson, “DM Witman: Melt”, Lenscratch, November 12, 2015 http://lenscratch.com/2015/11/dm-witman-melt/
• Obscura, 121 Views; Germany, 2013.
• Dr. Alan Lightman, Catalog Introduction, Supercluster Arion and Other Phenomena, 2013.
• Le Journal del la Photographie, Portfolio Selection, April 11, 2013.
• Aline Smithson, “DM Witman: Genesis”, Lenscratch, March 29, 2013. http://lenscratch.com/2013/03/dm-witman/
• BETA, developments in photography, Issue 03, February 2013. (cover)
• Russel Joslin. Portfolio Issue. SHOTS Magazine. December 2012.
• “Plates to Pixels” 6th Annual Juried Exhibition Catalog “Enchantment”, December 2012 http://platestopixels.com/blog/exhibitions/enchantment/
• “Minimal Exposition”, May 9, 2012. http://minimalexposition.blogspot.com/2012/05/deanna-witman-manifestations.html

JUROR

• 2019 Advisory Juror, Illinois Arts Council Agency, Artist Fellowship Program

LECTURES/PANELS 

• 2023     FEMeeting, Eco-Grief & Eco-Anxiety: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Taos, NM
• 2023     ArtistTalk, Solastalgia in the Anthropocene, Maine Media College, Rockport,Maine
• 2023     ArtistTalk, Solastalgia Times, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
• 2023     Artist Talk, Hand-Makingwithin the Anthropocene, Georgia Southern University,                       Statesboro, GA
• 2022     Artist Panel, Documentsfor an Imagined Future, Storefront Art Projects via Photographic Resource  Center,                                      Watertown, Mass.
• 2022    ArtistPanel, Culture of Hair, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO
• 2021  Visiting ArtistLecture, KutztownUniversity, Kutztown, Penn.                  
• 2021    Artist Lecture, HairStories, Newport Art Museum, R.I. ArtistLecture, Colby College,Maine
• 2021    “The Archive and the Anthropocene” aspart of panel Frozen: The Anxiety of Ice in Art,  College Art Association
• 2020 “A Guide to Loss & Grieving in theAnthropocene”: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration in  Art, Psychology and      Community-Building,The Sixth International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at theIntersections between Art, Science and Culture,  Australia
• 2020 Artist Lecture, Wellesley College, Mass.
• 2019   “Grieving & Loss in the Anthropocene”, various locations, Maine
• 2019   Panel, Melt Down exhibition, "Capturing Ice"
• 2018 “Updating Traditional Media, Participatory Art Within and Beyond the Gallery Walls”, TransCultural      Exchange International Conference, Quebec City, CA, February 23.
• 2017 “To Climb A Tree, At Least”, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, November 16.
• 2017   Master Lecture Series, Maine Media Workshops, Rockport, ME, July 25.
  
• 2016   A Journey… from here to there, East Carolina University, NC, November 19.
• 2016   HTFAM Collaborative Artist Residency, FishBowl Series, Unity College, ME, October.
• 2016   Panel, Artists Wielding Words and Images conference, Portland, ME, April 24.
• 2015   Image-Maker Lecture,  Melt, SPE, NE Regional Conference, Boston University, MA, Nov. 6.
• 2015   Melt, Artist Talk, Maine Photo Symposium, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Oct. 15
• 2015   Artist Lecture, Work in Progress, Melt, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, May.
• 2014   The Lensless Document, Undergraduate Documentary Photography, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Nov. 18.
• 2014   From There to Here: Notes about Process, Masters Lecture Series,  Maine Media Workshops + College, July 22.
• 2013  Moderator, Panel Discussion, The State of the Print in Contemporary Photography, ONWARD Summit, Project           Basho, Philadelphia, PA, March 23.
• 2012  Pinhole Dreams & Documents, Pecha Kucha, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, February 10.
• 2012   DM Witman: Works in Progress, Night for Emerging Photographers, Project Basho, Philadelphia, PA, November 15.

COLLECTIONS

• Museum of Fine Arts Houston
• University of Southern Maine Glickman Library
  
• Numerous private collections

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES / EVENTS

• 2020,22    FotoFest,Houston, Tex.
• 2019           Photolucida,Portland, Ore.
• 2018           TransCultural Exchange Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, CA
• 2014-16     LOOK3 Festival, Charlottesville, VA
• 2013           ONWARD Summit, Project Basho
• 2012           PhotoNOLA, New Orleans
• 2009 -       SPE Regional and National Conferences
• 2009          Les Rencontres Photography, Arles, FR

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 2021- AssistantProfessor of Photography, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Texas
• 2020-20 Adjunct Faculty, Art and Art History Dept,. University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
• 2016-20 - Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities
• 2017-21- Visiting Artist, MFA Photography program,  Institute of Art & Design at New England College, Manchester, NH
• 2015 - 17- Mentor, ONWARD Global Mentorship Program
• 2014 - 16 Adjunct Faculty, Unity College, Unity, ME
• 2011 -  Instructor, Maine Media Workshops + College, Rockport, ME
• 2013-14  Instructor, Maine RSU3, Unity, ME
• 2011-14 Artist-Mentor, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
• 2011 Instructor, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
• 2010  Instructor, Project Basho, Philadelphia, PA
• 2010 Adjunct Visiting Assistant Professor, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
• 2008-09 Teaching Assistant, Maine Media College & Workshops, Rockport, ME
• 2001-07 Instructor/Teaching Assistant/Lab Manager, Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA.