“When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.”
— Roland Barthes
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Upcoming: Hear, There, Everywhere, Harvestworks at Governor’s Island
2023 Selected: The Photo Review Competition, online, Langhorne, PA
2022 46 Artist Books from Franklin Furnace Archive, 1976 - 2022, Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, NY
Group Exhibition, Londonderry Historical Society, Londonderry, VT
2020 Longing For David (solo exhibition), Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
2019 Women in Art as Artists & Subject (group exhibition), The Raphael & Bolognese Studio/Gallery, Manchester, VT
2017 Looking at Nature (group exhibition), Village Green Gallery, Weston, VT
2013 between (group exhibition), Village Green Gallery, Weston, VT
2002 Small Works (group exhibition), A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA
2001 The Real and The Ideal: Fine Art Photography (group exhibition), Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY
2000 Gisela Gamper Featured Artist (web exhibition), Women In Photography International
1999 Urban Dresses (curated solo exhibition), CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Multimedia Art Installation (curated group exhibition), Vanguard Visions at Ericsson’s CyberLab East, New York, NY — Curated by Lauren Amazeen
1998 Fabric.ations (solo exhibition), University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, — Curated by Carolyn Eyler
Photography at Galerie Callu Merité (group exhibition), Galerie Callu Merité, Paris, France
1997 Gisela Gamper’s Urban Dresses (solo exhibition), Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
Gisela Gamper Retrospective (solo exhibition), Bassetti Fine Art Photographs, New Orleans, LA
Mohawk Hudson Regional Exhibition (juried group exhibition), University Art Museum, State University of New York, Albany, NY — Juried by Dan Cameron
1996 Dressing Up (solo exhibition), Third Eye Photowork Collection, an internet gallery
1995 Inside/Out, Psychological Self-Portraiture (invitational group exhibition), The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT — Curated by Marc J. Strauss and Douglas F. Maxwell
The Body Photographic (invitational group exhibition), Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1994 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region (juried group exhibition), University Art Museum, State University of New York, Albany, NY — Juried by Nina Felshin
1993 Erotic Works (juried group exhibition), Maruerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
1992 Impact of Photographs (juried group exhibition), Society of Photographic Educators, Pennsylvania School of Art & Design, Millersville, PA
Wearable Art (group exhibition), T.W. Wood Art Gallery at Vermont College Art Center, Montpelier, VT
1991 Gisela Gamper (solo exhibition), Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Gisela Gamper (solo exhibition), The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
1990-91 Women in Photography (international exhibition)
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden;
Accademia Di Belle Arti, Catania, Italy;
The Portland School of Art, Portland, Me;
The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK
1989 Photography (juried group exhibition), Chaffee Arts Center, Rutland, VT
1988 Vermont Visual Artists (juried group exhibition), Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT
That’s What It’s All About! (juried group exhibition), Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
1987 From Vermont: An Exhibition of Seven Vermont Artists (curated group exhibition), Arts Center, Putney, VT— Curated by Alison Devine
1986 Gisela Gamper Photographs (solo exhibition), Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, VT
Art/Vermont 1985-86 (juried group exhibition), Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
1985 Women Photographers in America 1985 (juried group exhibition), L.A. Photography Center, Los Angeles, CA
Gisela Gamper Photography (solo exhibition) Governor’s Institute on the Arts at Castleton State College, Castleton, VT
1984 Regional Selections 1984 (group exhibition), The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
The Palladium Print Today: A National Survey (group exhibition), Laura Klein Gallery, Brookfield, CT
1983 Gisela Gamper (solo exhibition), The Art Center, Battle Creek, MI
The Handmade Photograph (traveling group exhibition), AVA Gallery, Hanover, NH
Gisela Gamper Photographs (solo exhibition), Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT
1982 Platinum/Palladium (juried group exhibition), Camera Vision, Los Angeles, CA
1979 American Vision (juried group exhibition), New York University, New York, NY
1978 Palladium (solo exhibition), Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
1974-98 Stratton Arts Festival (juried group exhibition), Stratton, VT
1973 Class Exhibition (group exhibition), UCSD Extension, Dept. of Photography, La Jolla, CA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2020 Leonardo Music Journal, vol. 30, MIT Press
2017 Linda Mary Montano: 14 Years of Living Art, C.X. Silver Gallery Press, Brattleboro, VT
2016. Pauline Oliveros: Deep Listening Is My Life Practice, Portrait of Pauline, Improvised Life A treasury of Inspiring Ideas.
2005. Letters From Linda M. Montano, (cover photo - uncredited) Routledge Press, UK, Canada and NY, US
2000 The Photo Review, vol. 23, no. 3
1998 *surface: a Magazine for Culture, Art, Fashion, issue no. 13, March
1997 New Orleans Art Review, May/June
1996 Urban Dresses on Urban Desires: an interactive web magazine of metropolitan passions, April/May with accompanying music by David and Chris Gamper and words by Suzanne Axtel
1995 TeleRadio, Schweizer Radio, issue no. 18
1993 The Photo Review, vol. 16, issue no. 3
1992 Pulse: Tower Record magazine, April
1991 Down Beat Magazine, Nov.
1990 ZOOM: The International Image Magazine, issue no. 42
1988 Vermont Council On The Arts, Annual Report 1988-89 (cover)
1985 Vermont Council On The Arts, Handbook/Annual Report 1985-86
LECTURES
1998 “Fabric.ations”, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME
1990 “Gisela Gamper Photographer”, Woman in Photography International at The Portland School of Art, Portland, ME and The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK
1988 “Photographs of Clara Sipprell (1885-1975)”, lecture and guest curator for Vermont Women’s History Month, Vermont Historical Society, Montpelier, VT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1997 “Gisela Gamper Fabrications,” text by Rachel Pollack, Contemporary Artists Collection, Station Hill Arts Ltd., Barrytown, NY
1995 “Inside/Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture”, The Body Photographic, essays for exhibition catalog by Douglas F. Maxwell & Lew Thomas
1985 “Her Own Way of Seeing”, Vermont Woman: Magazine for Vermont Women of Achievement, vol. no. 1
1984 “Two Vermont Photographers”, Helicon Nine: The Journal of Women’s Arts and Letter, issue no. 11
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
1994 Purchase Award, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
1991 Hasselblad Cover Award, Victor Hasselblad Inc., USA
1986 Fellowship Grant, Vermont Council on the Arts
1986/89 Jurors’ Award, Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton Mountain, VT
1985 Fellowship Grant, Vermont Council on the Arts
1985 Honorable Mention, The Maine Photographic Workshops