American, b. 1949
Solo Exhibitions
2016 AMERICOLOR, Marco Island Center for the Arts, Marco Island, FL
2014 AMERICOLOR at Kaori Gallery, Canberra, Australia, September 2014
2013 Florida Moments, Sidney and Berne Davis Art Center, Fort Myers, FL
1986 Photographs by Dennis Church, Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Sciences, Madison, WI
1984 Our Land-Our Lives, Gonstead Clinic, Community Room Gallery, Mt. Horeb, WI
1981 Downtown Madison, The State Historical Society of Wisconsin Museum, Madison, WI
1981 Downtown Madison, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1981 A Photographic Survey of the Physical and Social Environment of Downtown Madison, Wisconsin, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Selected Juried and Invitational Group Exhibitions
2018 Camera USA, National juried photography competition, Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL
2017 City of Palms: Four Visions, One Icon. Sidney and Berne Davis Art Center, Fort Myers, Florida
2017 Camera USA, National juried photography competition, Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL
2017 Where are We? What does the South look like today? Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA. Juror Alan Rothschild, founder and Director, The Do Good Fund
2016 All Florida Juried Competition, Lee County Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers, FL
2016 RED, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City TX
2015 Stand Before US, compositional relationships between contemporary photography and contemporary painting. Invitational exhibition
Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida. Veron Ennis, Curator
2015 Broadsides: Poetry off the Shelf, Lee County Alliance of the Arts,
Fort Myers, Florida: Invitational exhibit
2014 Portfolio Exhibition, Atlanta Photography Group (APG): Portfolio Exhibition, APG Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Juror: Richard McCabe, Curator of Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern
Art, New Orleans, LA
2014 All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition: Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
2014 Downtown, A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2014 Abstraction, Marco Island Art Center, Marco Island, FL
2014 All Florida Juried Competition, Lee County Alliance for the Arts, Ft. Myers, FL
2014 Layers, Fabric, and Assemblage: Lee County Alliance for the Arts, Ft. Myers, FL
2014 Camera USA, National Juried Exhibition, Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL
2013 Invitational Anniversary Exhibition: Sidney and Berne Davis Art Center, Fort Myers, FL
2013 All Florida Juried Show: Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers, FL
2013 Annual Group Photography Exhibition, Sweet Art Gallery, Naples, FL
2013 How We Play, Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Fort Myers, FL
2013 CAMERA USA, National Juried Exhibition, Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL
2012 Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York, May 2012 (Juried)
2012 Juried Group Show, In One Instant Gallery, Fort Myers, FL
2011 ART?, Altered Aesthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2010 Works from the Collection, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2010 All About Color, Center for the Arts, Bonita Springs, FL
2009 Center for the Arts, Bonita Springs, Florida, three photographs, (Juried)
2009 The Center for Photography at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, (Juried)
1984 State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Old World Wisconsin, Eagle, Wisconsin
1983 Works from the Permanent Collection, Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
Awards, Honors, Grants
2014 Portfolio chosen by Lens Culture as one of their favorite portfolios for 2013
2012 One of 11 finalists for the Michael P. Smith fund for Documentary Photography Grant,
New Orleans Photo Alliance
2009 Juror’s Honorable Mention Award, Center for the ARTS, Bonita Springs, Florida
1984 Project Art Grant: Dane County, Wisconsin, Cultural Affairs Commission
1982 Project Art Grant: Dane County, Wisconsin, Cultural Affairs Commission
1980 Art Grant: City of Madison, Wisconsin Cultural Affairs Commission
Public Collections
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin
The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Articles, Press, and Publicity
2018 Bystander, A History of Street Photography, Lawrence King Publishing 2017. Authors Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz. Two photographs and authors' commentary. http://amzn.to/2AbIW3Q
2018 Il Post, Milan, Italy: Il caos che vediamo ogni giorno, fotografato http://www.ilpost.it/2017/12/27/caos-vediamo-giorn...
2017 It's Nice That, E-Zine, London, England. "Dennis Church's 12 year project sees him capture the visual noise of America's streets" http://bit.ly/2Bc2gep
2017 LenScratch, "Dennis Church: Americolor" http://lenscratch.com/2017/11/denis-church/
2015 An art critic's review article, "Alone Together", Naples Daily News, Naples, Florida. 6/4/15 by Donald Miller reviewing the exhibition "Stand Before US, Compositional Aspects of Photography and Painting, at Florida Gulf Coast University Art Gallery
2014 The Southern Photographer blog. Published portfolio and artist profile. http://bit.ly/2Ag0ZDX
2014 Wonderzine Magazine, Moscow, Russia 2014. http://bit.ly/2Fjyo5B
2014 Eyes on the South, Oxford American, the Southern Magazine of Good Writing. October 27, 2014. Portfolio of 20 photographs. Editor Jeff Rich http://bit.ly/2ztAXvJ
2014 Natural Subjects Win the Day", Naples Daily News, Donald Miller, critic, August.
2014 Art Photography Magazine, Prague, Czech Republic, portfolio of 15 images, March.
2014 Image in Progress, print magazine, Rome, Italy. Portfolio and Bio, February.
2014 LensCulture: Portfolio featured on this on-line magazine, January. Dennis Lens Culture Best Portfolios 2013
2013 Best of Photography 2013: Photograph included in book by Photographer’s Forum Magazine
2012 Street Photography, Two photographs included in book, 2013, World Photography Gala Awards
Lenscratch: Large portfolio featured on this Blog-zine, January, 2013. http://bit.ly/2tfhEYz
Art Opportunities Monthly: Cover photograph
Wisconsin Academy Review, Quarterly publication of The Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fall 1984, published portfolio of seven photographs
“Our Land, Our Lives”, Review of my one person exhibition at Gonstead Community Clinic in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, The Wisconsin State Journal, 1982
Paul Vanderbilt, “Evaluating Historical Photographs: A Personal Perspective,” American Association for State and Local History Technical Leaflet, 1979, featuring one of my photographs in a guide to evaluating the aesthetic vs. historical usage of photographs.
Lectures, Interviews. Talks
2016, Gallery Talk, Marco Island Center for the Arts
2015, Gallery talk, for invitational exhibition at Florida Gulf Coast University.
2013, Gallery talk, in conjunction with my one person exhibition at Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Fort Myers, FL
2013, Featured speaker, Pelican Landing Photography Club, Bonita Springs, FL
2012, Featured presenter, Fort Myers, SW Florida Photo Salon
2012, Interview, “The Arts in Southwest Florida”, WGCU-FM Radio, Fort Myers, FL