Faculty Victoria Crayhon
BFA Photography, Tisch School of the Arts, New York
University, 1994
MFA Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, 1997
Victoria Crayhon is a photographic artist based in Providence and New York City. She is a full time professor of photography at Umass Dartmouth, where she teaches Studio/Large Format Photography, Digital Photo II, Photo III, Photo IV and Photo History. She also works as a primary advisor to photo and design graduate students in the Visual Design Graduate program.
Crayhon works in photography and video and has been exhibiting in solo and group exhibits since 1992. Her work engages the process of reconciling the private and public notions of self by creating and exposing transgressions by the individual into spaces that are public and/or corporately-owned. To achieve this she often uses guerrilla tactics to gain access to such spaces. Her projects include forays into superstores and hotels, and interferences with various forms of outdoor advertising, such as highway billboards and movie marquees. Her work formally exists as temporary public art, large format color prints of public installation, artist's books and video installations.
Solo Exhibition highlights include Canal Street Snake Show in New York City, Maryland Art Place in Baltimore, The Carpenter Center at Harvard University, and the Houston Center of Photography. She has received numerous awards, including two Rhode Island State Council Artist Fellowships: in Photography (2006) and New Genres (2007). Her work appears in private and public collections nationally, notably the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Carpenter Center in Boston.
Ms. Crayhon has lectured and given workshops at TPI National Graduate Seminar in New York City, Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, The Museum School in Boston, George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and at Fordham University in New York. She has been actively teaching digital and analog photography since 1997 at such institutions as Rhode Island School of Design, Fordham University, Stonehill College, and Marlboro College. She has been a full-time professor of Photography at Umass Dartmouth since 2000.
