LESLIE STAROBIN

Address: P.O. Box 658 Needham Heights, MA 02494-1809 U.S.A.

Telephone: (Home phone) 781-444-864l (Answering Machine at #)

(Home e-mail) leslie@starobinartworks.com

Web Site: www.starobinartworks.com

Fellowships/Awards:

First Prize/Digital Imaging, Richard Nagler Photography Competition, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA 1999

Artist’s Fellowship, New England Foundation for the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts 1995

Fellowships, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture NY, NY 1994 and 1993

Honorarium, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC 1990

Kinnicutt Grant, awarded by the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA 1988

Visual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts 1984

Teaching Fellowship in Photography, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1978

Collections:

Artwork included in the permanent/public collection of these museums/institutions:

Congregation B’nai Torah, Sudbury, MA

Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Jewish Museum, NY, NY

Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY

National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC

Rashi School, Newton, MA

Robert Kahn Gallery, Congregation Emanu-El, Houston, TX

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

Summary of Exhibitions – One and Two Person Shows:

“Shadows Across the Promised Land”

Robert Kahn Gallery, Congregation Emanu-El, Houston, TX 2005

Oregon Jewish Museum, Portland, OR September 2002 – January 2003

“Shop Windows From History” Digital Montages/Iris Works-on-Paper

Hampshire College Photo Gallery, Amherst, MA, March 2003

Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA, February 2003

“From Moscow to Jerusalem: An Artist’s Search for Roots”

The Gallery at Fort Point Framers, Boston, MA 2002

“Aliases: Computer generated photographic imagery by Lind Leslie Brown and Leslie Starobin” (Exhibit part of the Boston CyberArts Festival)

Little White Box Gallery of the Revolving Museum, Boston, MA 1999

“Photographs by Leslie Starobin.”

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA 1998

“Between Illusion and Reality: Israel at 50”

Hand Painted Photographs by Gadi Rones and Digital Photo-Montages by Leslie Starobin

Starr Gallery, Newton, MA 1998

“Leslie Starobin: Visual Montages – Of Past and Future”

B’nai Brith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC 1997

“Dancers’ Feet: Photographs by Leslie Starobin”

Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC 1990

“Outsider’s Eyes: Photographs from Israel by Leslie Starobin”

School of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA 1989

Photographs (Swimmers’ Series) by Leslie Starobin

Fogg Art Museum (Print Room Series), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1988

Erika Adams and Leslie Starobin, Photographs

Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA 1987

“Figures at an Exhibition”

Earthenware Vessels by Gretchen Ewert and Photographs by Leslie Starobin

Modestino Gallery, Cambridge, MA 1987

“Childhood: Notes and Photographs by Leslie Starobin”

University of Massachusetts Medical School Gallery, Worcester, MA 1984

Summary of Exhibitions – Three Person and Group Shows:

“Photographers’ Network”, Thomas Kellner’s Studio, Siegen, Germany 2005

“New Faces, New Visions”

Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA 2004

Group Exhibit

Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA 2001

“Works on Paper: Digital Printmaking at Singer Editions”

Davis Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 2001

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA 1998

Hampshire College Art Gallery, Amherst, MA 2000, 1990

Group Exhibit

(Awarded First Prize/Digital Imaging, Richard Nagler Photography Competition) Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA 1999

“Exploring New Technologies”

Juried Members’ Exhibition in conjunction with the Boston CyberArts Festival

Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA 1999

“PostMark International”

Artspace, New Haven, CT 1998

“Journey to Freedom”

Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 1998

“Digital Trio: Sachiko Beck, Naomi Ribner, and Leslie Starobin”

Endicott College, Beverly, MA 1998

“Teacher as Artist”

Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA 1997-8

World Photo Art Exhibition and Auction

Center of Photography, Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics,Tokyo, Japan 1996

“Fusion” New Work by Art and Communication Arts Faculty

Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA 1996

“Facing the Lens: Portraits from the Danforth Collection”

Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA 1995

“Body Language”

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1990

“Selections from the Permanent Collection”

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1988

“The Art of Free Expression”

Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA 1987

“Fresh”

Children’s Museum, Boston, MA 1986-7

“For Kids’ Sake, Photographs of Today’s Youth”

Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA 1985

Hampshire College 15^th Anniversary Alumni/ae Exhibit

Works In Various Media by Hampshire Graduates

Hampshire College Library Gallery, Amherst, MA 1985

Photographs by Hampshire Alumni and Alumnae

Film and Photography Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 1983

“Between Twelve and Twenty”

Barnes Gallery, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT and accompanying traveling exhibits to three American colleges 1982-3

M.F.A. Thesis Show

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1982

Bibliography - Listing of articles, publications or reviews mentioning and/or publishing my work:

Gerwers, Thomas. “Photographer’s Network from Thomas Kellner Studio. Profifoto, Germany, 2005

Davis, Heather. “Connecting cultural and artistic identity (Photomontage artist celebrates her heritage with work from Belarus and Jerusalem.),” The Needham Times, January 24, 2002.

Starobin, Paul. “Letter From Belarus: Seeking Roots in Chernobyl’s Shadow,” Business Week Magazine, (Photographs by Leslie Starobin), October 16, 2000.

Yehoshua, Abraham B. The Terrible Power of A Minor Guilt. (Cover photograph by Leslie Starobin) Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY 2000

PIX Digital Annual. NY, NY. December/January 2000.

Digital Fine Art Magazine, Manalapan, NJ Summer 1999.

Sullivan, Terri, “But Is It Art? Digital Works Infiltrate The Museum and Gallery Scene,” PDN Magazine, NY, NY June 1999.

Carlock, Marty, “Drawing from an autobiography,” The Boston Globe, Boston, MA January 25, 1998.

Josslin, Victoria, “BAM’s exhibit ‘Journey to Freedom’ diverse, generous full of compromise,” Seattle Post – Intelligencer, Seattle, WA May 1998.

Horn, Bernard, Conversations with A.B.Yehoshua, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY 1997.

Digital Imaging, Update: Iris Prints Displayed in Washington Museum’s Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit, Micro Publishing Press, Inc., Torrance, CA July/August, 1997.

Gentry, Lorna, Gallery Section on Digital Artists, PEI Magazine, Atlanta, GA December 1997.

Golding, Stephen, Photomontage: An Artist’s Guide to Building Pictures, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, MA 1997.

King, Steri, “Does Traditional Art Belong in Traditional Museums?” The Big Picture, October 1997.

Soltes, Ori, Landscapes in Time and Space. Photography and Photo Montages by Leslie Starobin. Paintings by Burt Hasen, B’nai B’rith Kluznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC 1997.

Kobe Aid Fund, World Photo Art Exhibition and Auction, Center of Photography, Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics, Japan 1996.

Starobin, Leslie, The Boston Globe Travel Magazine, “The Ancient Healer,” (Text and photographs by Starobin), Boston, MA March 1994.

Dance Magazine, NY, NY 1990.

DUMA Calendar, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC 1990.

Litt, Steven, “Seconding the motion. Shutters prove quicker than dancers’ fleet feet,” The News and Observer, Raleigh, NC June 8, 1990.

Commonwealth Magazine, MA 1988.

Roth, Evelyn, “The Bostonians,” American Photographer, NY, NY 1988.

Malick, Deborah, “Water and Women. Swimming through a sea of images at Framingham State College,” Middlesex News, Framingham, MA November 28, 1987.

For Kids’ Sake. Photographs of Today’s Youth, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University and WBZ TV 4, Boston, MA 1985.

French, George, “Portraits of Inner Turmoil. Leslie Starobin’s photographs capture teens’ anguish,” The Evening Gazette, Worcester, MA June l5, 1984.

Between Twelve and Twenty. A Photographic Exploration of Young People Today,

The Loomis Institute, Windsor, CT 1982.

Master of Fine Arts Exhibition Catalogue, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1982.

Photo Art Magazine, Hong Kong 1982.

Current Academic Position:

Professor of Communication Arts, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA

Education:

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA M.F.A., Photography, May 1982

Hampshire College, Amherst, MA B.A., Literature and Photography, May 1977

Sussex University, Brighton, England Visiting Student in Literature 1975

Relevant Public Lectures:

Plenary Panelist at the tribute for Professor Emeritus Jerome Liebling at the inauguration of the Jerome Liebling Media Center, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 2004

“From Moscow to Jerusalem: An Artist’s Search for Roots”

Nicholson Lecture Series, Pink Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA 2003

Artist’s Talk, Oregon Jewish Museum, Portland OR 2002

Guest Lecturer, Wellesley College Photography Courses, 2002, 2001, 2000

Keynote Lecturer, Conference on “Photography with a Digital Spin” sponsored by the New England Woman in Photography, Simmons College, Boston, MA 2000

“Robert Capa: Visual Communicator,” Public Gallery Talk in Conjunction with Robert Capa: Photographs, Exhibition, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA 2000

Coordinator and Speaker, Digital Art Panel, Hampshire College 30^th Anniversary Program, Amherst, MA 2000

Guest Lecturer, Smith College Museum of Art, in conjunction with Smith College course “Jerusalem in History, Literature and Art,” Northampton, MA 1999, 1998

Panelist and one of two Featured Speakers, “The Dead Sea Scrolls in History and Art,” National Jewish Museum and the Embassy of Israel, Washington, DC 1997