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I have been working on two approaches to the nude reflected: reflected in water often with the camera underwater, and reflected in scratched, broken and partially de-silvered mirrors.

Over thirty-five years of photographing this same subject may sound limiting, but I have found it to be immensely rewarding and rich. While my interest in photographing the nude reflected in mirrors and water has not changed, my life experiences continue to shape the forms and reflections I see through the lens so the images continue to evolve.

I am not fundamentally opposed to altering the image through darkroom or computer manipulation, but it is the act of exploring with my eyes that brings the intuitive process to its full potential for me. Intuition is an integral part of the creative process for me. When I make an image that becomes a “keeper,” it is because I have made a leap from what I know to an unfamiliar place full of intrigue that my conscious mind could not have taken me. The intuitive process takes me to the edge of what I know and, more interestingly, to the edge of what I don’t know.

Ultimately, my goal has always been to explore the body, not to alter it. I want to find the camera angle from which the forms can be the most interesting they can be–whatever that is. It leads me to explore angles, space, reflections, and light. I strive to make the forms make sense visually and then trust the poetry or metaphor will follow. Sometimes it does.

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2016 – Y: ART Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2015 – Infocus Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2014 – Almlof Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
JRB Art at The Elms, Oklahoma City, OK

2013 - Nordic Light International Festival of Photography, Kristiansund, Norway

2011 - Saul Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2010 - Hargate Gallery, Concord, MA

2009 - Maine Art Museum, Bangor, ME
See+ Art Gallery, Bejing, China
Heineman Myers Contemporary Art, Bethesda, MD
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE

2008 - Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Valdivia, Chile
Universidad de Chilie, Santiago, Chile
Centro de la Photographie, Lima, Peru

2007 - Museo Metropolitano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidad Mayor, Temeco, Chile
James Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2006 – Heineman Meyers, Bethesda, MD

2005 – Esther Woerdehoff Galerie, Paris, France
Infocus Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2004 – Volakis Gallery, Nappa, CA

2003 – Packard Reath Gallery, Lewes, DE
Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
McDaniel College, Westminster, MD

2002 – Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2001 – Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
JJ Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Waldburger, Berlin, Germany
Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Edward Carter Gallery, Lewes, DE

2000 – Centro de la Fotographia, Lima, Peru
Infocus Gallery, Cologne, Germany
JJ Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bassetti Fine Art Photographs, New Orleans, LA
Emma Molina Galerie, Monterey, Mexico

1999 – Gomez Gallery Baltimore, MD
Esther Woerdehoff Galerie, Paris, France
Alan Klotz PhotoCollect, New York, NY
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

1998 – Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1997 – Museo de Arte Comtemporaneo de Panama
Museo de las Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Infocus Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Museo de Barquisimento, Venezuela
Museo de Arte Costarricense, San Jose, Costa Rica
Galeria del Ateneo de Valencia, Venezuela

1996 – Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Witkin Gallery, New York, NY

1994 – Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Gallery Finfoto, Helinski, Finland
Galleria 13, Espace Van Gogh, Arles, France
Braggiotti Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Galleria e Libreria dell’Immagine, Milan, Italy
The University of Notre Dame, Indiana

1993 – Galerie du Chaeau d’eau, Toulouse, France
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
Washington Center for Photography, Washington D.C.
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA

1992 – Witkin Gallery, New York, NY
Suzel Berna Gallery, Paris, France
Grauwert Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

1991 – Momediano Gallerie de Arte, Madrid, Spain
New Works Gallery, University of Illinois at Chicago
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Nye Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Blatant Image/ Silver Eye, Pittsburg, PA

1990 – Photo West Gallery, San Diego, CA
Iris Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

1989 – Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

1988 – The Rosenberg Gallery, Baltimore, MD
The Booktrader’s Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2018 – Plethora Magazine, "Issue #7: Automation", Copenhagen, Denmark

2017 – Baltimore Magazine, "The Puppet Master" by Gabriella Souza, February
– The OD Review, "v2.18 / Connie Imboden’s Infirm Delight"

2016 – BmoreArt, "Conversations" Episode #15: Connie Imboden, Interview with Liz Donadio
– The Baltimore Sun, October 14, Interview with Tim Smith

2015 – >>Love is…<< inFocus galerie catalogue
– Little Patuxent Review, COVER Feature, Issue 17-Winter 2015
– The Stone Mag: unveiling the secrets of transmutation, 2015 n. 0

2014 – The Photographer’s Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas NORMAL Magazine, No. 4, Autumn 2014

2013 – FOTO, "Connie Imboden, Reflections of Man" October 2013

2010 – Georgia Review, “Danse Macabre” Front and back cover and inside portfolio

2008 – Focus Magazine, “Fire and Water” 1/8/08
– RS Magazine “Connie Imboden” June 2008

2007 - Foto Mundo, “La Oscuradad Divina” June 2007

2006 – Baltimore Sun, Wednesday April 12, Arts & Society

2005 – Inked Magazine, cover, Spring Premiere Issue

2003 – Baltimore Sun, Sunday November 2, Arts & Society
– Baltimore City Paper, December 3
– Towson Times, December 3, Life Times

2002 – Ag, Volume 29, November, “Running Deeper: The Metamorphesis of
Connie Imboden”, A.D. Coleman
– Photovision: Art & Technique
– Foto & Video, February

2001 – Zoom, July, “Connie Imboden”, David Crosby
–Photographic, July, “Connie Imboden: Troubled Waters”, Jay Jorgensen

2000 – B&W Magazine, June Issue #7

1999 – Baltimore Magazine, September
–Baltimore Sunday Sun, September, Arts and Society
–Photo Metro, Volume 17, Issue 155

1998 – The Photo Review, Fall, Volume 21, Issue #4
–Master Breasts, Aperture Publishing

1997 – Leg, Donna Karan Inc

1995 – Women Artists, The National Museum of Women in the Arts
–Zoom Magazine, Italy
–Photodom Magazine, January “Connie Imboden: Out of Darkness”
–La Matiere L’ombre La Fiction, Jean Claude Lemagny, Bibliotheque
Nationale, France

1994 – Valokuva Finnish Photography, November, Helinski, Finland
–Tradition and the Unpredictable, Catalog for show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
–Photographies Magazine, January, Milan, Italy

1993 – ViewCamera, September/October

1992 – Photovision, “Archeology of the Body”, #23, Sevilla, Spain
–La Foltgrafia, “Reflejos en el Agua”, Issue #23, Barcelona, Spain
–Vis a Vis, Issue #10, Paris, France
–Photonews, “Imboden: Ein Speiegel Nach Innen”, April, Hamburg,
Germany

1991 – Fotopractica, January, Milan, Italy
–Fotografisk Tidskrift, May, Stockholm, Sweden
–Photoblatter, “Connie Imboden: Korper im Wasser”, August,
Frankfurt, Germany
–Camera and Darkroom, August, Beverly Hills, CA
–Idea Magazine, “New Wave Nude Photos”, January, Tokyo, Japan

1990 – Popular Photography, “They Still Shoot Nudes, Don’t They?”,
October, New York, NY
–Insight Magazine, February, Bristol, RI

1989 – Photo Metro Magazine, January
–Photo Design Magazine, February

1988 – Swimmers, Aperture, June
–Exploring Black and White Photography, Brown Publishers
–Photo Review, Winter, “Deep Waters – The Photographs of Connie
Imboden”
–Photo Review, Spring, “The Delaware Portfolio”

1987 – Photo Review, Summer

2016 – Y: ART Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2015 – Infocus Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2014 – Almlof Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
JRB Art at The Elms, Oklahoma City, OK

2013 Nordic Light International Festival of Photography, Kristiansund, Norway

2013 DASAR National Academy of Science, Washington DC

2012 Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA

2010 Dali International Photography Festival, Dali, China
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2009 Maine Art Museum, Bangor ME
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington DE

2008 Centro de la Photographie, Lima Peru

2007 James Gallery Pittsburgh PA

2005 Esther Woerdehoff Galerie Paris France

Prior to 2004:
Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacsonville, FL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Museumof Photographic Arts, San Diego CA
George Mason Univrsity, VA
Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington DE
University of Finland, Helsinki Finland
Les Rencontres d'Arles Arles, France
Washington Center for Photography, Washington D.C.
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC

The Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland

Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela

The National Museum of American Art, Washington DC

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

The Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France

The Bibliotheque Lyonnaise, Lyon, France

The Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI

Galerie du Chateau d'eau, Toulouse, France

Galleria e libreria dell'immagine, Milan, Italy

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

L'oeil Quiperios, Quimper, France

Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany

Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

Peréz Art Museum Miami, FL