Mary Ann Lynch

Photography Exhibitions/Collections    

soon to updated, with listings 1970 to 2011/ or, lists available upon request

Since 1970, Lynch's photographs have appeared in well over 100 exhibits nationally and internationally, from the Hawaiian Islands to the Czech Republic and Japan. They are in public and private collections including the International Center for Photography; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts;the Hawaii State Art Museum; the Honolulu Academy of Art; the Leon Constantiner Collection; The Marilyn Monroe Room, Exotic World Museum of Burlesque, Helendale, California; the Queens Museum of Art, the Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) Research Center; Mariah Carey, Lucien Clergue, Andre Naggar and more. 

Recent one-person shows 

2008-2009   Marilyn Monroe: More Than You Know, TCC Photo Gallery, Longview, Tx.
2005  Forever Marilyn: The Enduring Legacy of Marilyn Monroe, John Stevenson Gallery, NYC
2004  Kalapana/A Hawaiian Place, Na Mea Books (Native Books), Honolulu, Hawaii
2003  Kalapana /A Hawaiian Place, Lyman Museum, Hilo, Hawaii
2003  Legendary Waters, Open Space Center, Saratoga Springs, NY (two-person show)
2003  Legendary Waters, Brookside Museum, Ballston Spa, NY (two-person show)
2001  Marilyn Monroe, E-3 Gallery, NYC
2000 The Marilyn Monroe Wall of Fame, Bellevue Bar, NYC

©1974 Jack Lynch

Hawaii While resident in Hawaii from 1967 to 1976, Lynch taught at the University of Hawaii as a fulltime Instructor in English and introduced the course "Language and the Visual Media," one of the first to address the formal language of film and photography. As a Media Specialist for the General Assistance Center for the Pacific, she produced innovative materials on Hawaii's many ethnic communities. To create a children's reader, (Talofa Means Aloha)she moved in with a Samoan family, photographing their daily life as a participant and developing the story line working closely with the entire family. Life in Camp Seven was created in similar fashion, working with a Filipino family in Waimanalo, Hawaii.
     Within the Hawaii fine-arts community, Lynch was a founding member of the Image Foundation for Photography, the Hawaii Literary Arts Council, and the Greenfield Film Society; Executive Director of the Hawaii Film Board, the country's first Regional Film Center; a member of Thirteen Women; an advisor in film, photography, and media to the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts; and Director of the statewide Artists-in-the-Schools program in film and media.
     During this time she began her involvement in the emerging national photography scene, arranging or assisting in the Hawaii visits of such photographers as Robert Heinecken, Cheri Hiser, Paul Caponigro, and Margaretta Mitchell, and filmmakers Haskell Wexler, Conrad Hall, Jill Godmilow, Jimmy Murakami, and many others. She also co-organized visits of writers Robert Bly, W.S.Merwin, and Gary Snyder.
New York State Soon after her return to New York State in 1976, in 1977 Lynch founded Combinations, a Journal of Photography (Combinations Press), one of the first independent photography journals. Lynch also served as Executive Director of Art Resources Open to Women (AROW) in Schenectady, NY. In her hometown, Saratoga Springs, she was a founding member of the first Saratoga Arts Council; a consultant to the Frank Sullivan Collection at the Saratoga Historical Society Museum; and the organizer of Friends of the Spa, dedicated to preserving Saratoga's healing waters.
     As the Democratic candidate for the 108th Asembly District (Saratoga County) in 1978, Lynch placed the need to restore the baths and maintain the waters at the center of her campaign. Activities and publicity surrounding the Friends of the Spa and her campaign helped spur the State of New York to restore the baths within the historic Saratoga Spa
    While Director of Communications for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority in Albany (1980-1982), Lynch conceived statewide programs and events to promote alternative energy and edited a report on the subject that was adopted in secondary schools throughout the state. Her photographs also appear in numerous state publications.
New York City  During the 1990s, as full-time Senior Editor at Macmillan Books (Simon & Schuster) and Senior Editor for Dorling Kindersley Publishing (DK Inc), Lynch specialized in illustrated and non-fiction books. For DK she also directed complex photography shoots, including those for the Eyewitness Travel Guide to New York, and dinosaur and dog books.
    While on the Board and as President of Soho Photo Gallery (NYC) during the 1990's, she produced and curated visiting artist exhibitions and appearances by Eric Renner, Paul Berger, Jindrich Streit (in cooperation with the Czech Center NY), Kathleen Campbell, Annu Matthew, and others. In 1998, she and Sandra Carrion of Soho Photo Gallery initiated the first Krappy Kamera Competition, now a popular annual national competition.
    In 1998 Lynch founded the Not for Profit Photography Network (NFPN). This showcases through exhibition, lecture, and publication, self-assigned projects by photographers seeking social change, who work hand in hand with the communities they want to help. Two exhibits featuring photographers from throughout the country were held at Soho Photo Gallery. www.sohophotogallery.com