About

Kristine Potter (1977) is an artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, whose work explores masculine archetypes, the American landscape, and cultural tendencies toward mythologizing the past. Her first monograph Manifest was published by TBW Books in 2018. Her second monograph Dark Waters is being published by Aperture in the summer of 2023. Potter was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018 and was awarded the Grand Prix Image Vevey for 2019-2020. Potter’s work is in numerous public and private collections including that of The High Museum of Art, The Georgia Museum of Art, the Swiss Camera Museum, and Foundation Vevey.
Potter is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at Middle Tennessee State University.

Solo Exhibitions

2022, “Manifest” MiCamera, Milan, Italy

2022, “Dark Waters” Institute of Contemporary Art, Chattanooga, TN

2020, “Dark Waters” Festival Images Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland

2019, “Manifest” The Do Good Collection, Columbus GA

2018, “Manifest” Vanderbilt Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN

2017, “The Gray Line XL” Light Work Gallery, Syracuse, NY

2014, “Manifest” Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY

2012, “Camouflage” Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2010, “The Gray Line” Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY

2007, “The Hunters” Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2005, "The Laws of Nature" Gigantic Art Space, New York, NY

2005, "The Laws of Nature" Rocket Projects, Miami, Florida

2002, “Goddess Nomadic” L’Eclat du Verre, Paris, France

2001, “Ascension” Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA


Group Exhibitions

2023, “A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845”, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

2022, “OUTS” Filter Space Gallery, Chicago, IL

2022, “But Still, It Turns” MUSÉE DÉPARTEMENTAL ARLES ANTIQUE, Arles, France

2022, “America in Crisis” Saatchi Gallery, London

2021, “Object Lesson” TILT Institute, Philadelphia, PA

2021, “But Still, It Turns” International Center of Photography, New York, NY

2020, “Keeper of the Hearth” Houston Center of Photography, Houston, TX

2018, “Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul” Light Work Gallery, Syracuse, NY

2018, “Paper Journal” Webber Gallery, London, UK

2018, “Elevate” 21C Hotel, Nashville, TN

2018, “Photography Comes First, Language Follows” Currey Gallery, Nashville, TN

2018, “Intersection of Gazes” Equinom Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2018, "Complimentary Voices" Leu Art Gallery, Nashville, TN

2017, “Post Election” SEPTEMBER Gallery, Hudson, NY

2016, “MTN” Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2015, “12x12” Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2015, “After 1965” curated by Steven Lam, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

2014, “E6” curated by Lynn Boland, The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA

2012, “Summer Salon” Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY

2012, “Open::Closed” (Curated by David Howe) 601 Artspace, New York, NY

2011, “Re-Framing the Feminine” (Curated from the collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horovitz) Girls’ Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL

2010, “Open Season” Curated by Allen Thomas Jr. Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC

2010, “31Women” Curated by Charlotte Cotton, Affirmation Arts, NY, NY

2009, “Faculty Exhibition” Mass Gallery, Purchase, NY

2006, “Pulse” Rocket Projects, Miami, FL

2005, “Monstrously Tranquil” Chris Ingalls Gallery, Miami, Florida

2004, “Face” Lenox Square Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

2004, “Fall” Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

2003, “First Years” Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

2002, “Eyes on Portraiture” Lenox Square Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

2000, “Obscura 10” Lamar Dodd Gallery, Athens, GA


Publications

2023, A Long Arc: Photography and the American South, Aperture

2022, Object Lesson: On the Influence of Richard Benson, Aperture

2021, Dark Mirrors, Mack

2021, But Still, It Turns, Mack

2021, Humans, Abrams Books

2020, Keeper of the Hearth, Schilt

2020, The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art), Thames and Hudson

2019, PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, Aperture

2018, Manifest, TBW Books

2017, Contact Sheet, Issue 190

2016, Oasis, Roman Nvmerials Vol. 22

2015, Contact Sheet, Issue 182

Podcasts

Modern Art Notes - Ep. 620

PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf - Ep. 62

A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers

PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf - Ep. 14

Biography

2005 Yale University, MFA Photography

2001 University of Georgia, BA Art History

2001 University of Georgia, BFA Photography

Articles/Interviews

2023, “Stacy Kranitz and Kristine Potter”, Modern Art Notes Podcast

2023, Kristine Potter, Dark Waters, Collector’s Daily

2023, Book of the Week Selection and Review (of Dark Waters),” Photo-Eye Blog

2023, “Dead Girl Walking”, Oprah Daily

2023, “Southern Gothic Time Warp”, Chapter 16

2023, “Kristine Potter Reflects on the Southern Gothic Landscape”, Nashville Scene

2023, “‘I see them as cautionary tales’: Kristine Potter’s darkly imagined American south”, The Guardian

2022, “‘Dark Waters’ Illuminates Beneath The Surface At ICA At UTC”, WUTC

2021, “Girls on Film: How a Group of Photographers Is Bringing Accolades to Nashville”, Nashville Scene

2021, “‘But Still, it Turns: Recent Photography From the World’ Review: Capturing Quotidian America”, Wall Street Journal

2021, “Photographing Life as It’s Seen, Not Staged”, New York Times

2021, “From A Mojave Counterculture To The Racial Divide Of St. Louis, See The Hidden America Exposed By Nine Contemporary Documentary Photographers”, Forbes

2021, “A reminder of what it means to photograph the tumult of everyday life”, 1854 Photography

2021, “But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography from the World at International Center of Photography”, Art Summary 

2021, “But Still, It Turns: Photography from the World”, Juxtapoz Magazine

2021, “The International Center of Photography Presents But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography from the World”, New York Said 

2021, “And the Clock Waits So Patiently”, The Paris Review

2021, “ICP Presents New Exhibit, ‘But Still, It Turns’”, The Lo-Down: News From the Lower East Side

2021, “Exhibition marks ICP's one-year anniversary at its new Essex Street location”, Art Daily

2021, “But Still, It Turns Photography from the World”, All About Photo

2020, “Festival Images Vevey”, Art Press

2020, “Festival Images Vevey Roundup 2020”, American SuburbX

2020, “The image in the era of the unexpected in the forest”, Gauchehebdo

2020, "We had to do Images Vevey 2020", 24 Heures

2020, La Chronique d’Amnesty International

2020, “They Cultivate the Genre”, Culture Vevey

2020, "Kristine Potter: The Landscape Echoes", Juxtapoz

2019, “To Enter This Place Alone Is to Take a Risk”, New York Times

2019, "Grand Prix Images Vevey Announcement" 

2019, “Three Women Photographers Reclaim the American Landscape”, Aperture

2019, “Kristine Potter: photographing Nashville’s country music scene”, Financial Times Magazine

2018, “Reframing the Masculinity and Mythology of the American West”, NPR

2018, “Kristine Potter’s Manifest Challenges Masculine Ideals and the Mythology of the American West”, Photo District News

2018, Interview, Strange Fire

2018, “Kristine Potter’s Portraits of Masculinity”, British Journal of Photography

2018, “Masculinity Manifests Strangely In Kristine Potter’s Exploration Of The American West”, Ignant

2018, “PHOTOBOOKS OF 2018: RON JUDE”, Photobookstore Magazine

2018, Mary Frey selects “Manifest”, Photo Eye

2018, Guggenheim 2018 Fellows Announcement, ARTFORUM

2018, Interview with Guggenheim Fellows, Humble Arts Foundation

2017, Video on “The Gray Line”, Light Work

2016, Review of MTN, Creators Project, VICE

2015, Essay for Contact Sheet 182, Light Work

2015, “What is She Doing There?”, Light Work

2015, Film Talks Interview #25, Foto Filmic

2014, “The Downside of Art Going Viral”, Hyperallergic

2014, Review of “Manifest”, Droste Effect Magazine

2014, “Uncertain Masculinities”, Humble Arts Foundation

2014, Review of “Manifest”, Searching for the Light

2012, "Kristine Potter, Jeremy Chandler Challenge Gender Roles in Camouflage" Rev. of Camouflage, Arts Critic ATL

2011, "The Woman and the Machine" Rev. of Re-Framing the Feminine, Art Lurker

2010, "Subtle Bodies / Corpi Sottili" Rev. of The Gray Line, Matilde Solingo

2010, "31 Women in Art Photography" Rev. of 31 Women in Art Photography, EYE to EYE

2010, "31 Women in Art Photography." Rev. of 31 Women in Art Photography, Whitewall Magazine


Awards

2019 Grand Prix Laureate Images Vevey

2018 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography

2016 Shortlisted to the Kassel Book Prize

2016 Nominated to the MACK First Book Award

2014 Light Work Artist in Residence

2010 Forward Thinking Museum Photography Award, Winter 2010

2004 Larry Kramer Initiative Grant


Artist Lectures / Panel Discussions

2023 Rowan University

2023 University of Vermont

2022 Rochester Institute of Technology

2022 SUNY New Paltz

2022 The Georgia Museum of Art

2022 MiCamera Milan

2022 Les Rencontres d’Arles

2022 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

2022 Amherst

2021 International Center of Photography

2021 Museum of Contemporary Photography X The Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago

2020 RISD

2020 The Humid

2019 Yale University

2019 Penumbra Foundation

2019 Mass Art

2019 George Mason University

2018 Vanderbilt University

2017 Light Work