Edward West

EDUCATION
1973 MFA, Photography/Printmaking, Rochester Institute of Technology
1972 Intern, Int. Museum of Photography at George Eastman House
1971 BA, Art History, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL

APPOINTMENTS. POSITIONS
1990 -- Professor, Director of International Programs,
. . . . . . School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1981-89 Associate Professor, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
1973-1980 Assist. Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
2000 Johnson Controls, in support of the project Casting Shadows
1992 King, Chavez, Parks Award of Recognition,
1990 National Teaching Fellow
1980 National Endowment for the Arts, Services to the Field

EXHIBITIONS (SOLO AND GROUP)
2001 Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Group
2001 Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, Group
2000 University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Solo
2000 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Group
1999 Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa, Solo

COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, SA
Minneapolis Institute of Art. Minneapolis, MN
Polaroid Corporation, Boston, MA
Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA

PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS
2001 Casting Shadows: Images from a New South Africa. Photographs,.by Edward West, University of Washington Press
2000 Committed to the Image, Brooklyn Museum of Art
2000 100XC, Cape Town, SA (part of Cape Town’s Month of Photography)
1997 Photographers Encyclopedia International, CD Rom, Switzerland