Marky Kauffmann is a fine art photographer based in Somerville, MA. She has won many awards including a 2017 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Photography. In 2025, she won 1st Place in the Digital/Collage category of the 26th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. In 2024, she won a Silver Prize in the Analog Sparks Film Awards. In 2023, she was the winner of the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards Alternative Processes category and also won an Honorable Mention in the Tokyo International Foto Awards. In 2022, she was a Hot 100 YourDailyPhotograph.com photographer. Kauffmann has also been a Critical Mass Top 200 twice, in 2016 and 2017. She uses alternative processes, darkroom techniques and digital editing to create her unique images.
RESUME
EDUCATION
New England School of Photography, Full-Time Professional Program, School Honors
Boston University, BA in Sociology – Cum Laude
Consortium of Colleges Abroad, Paris, France
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:
Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Photography, 2017
Massachusetts Cultural Council Professional Development Grant, 1999
Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist in Photography, 1988
Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist in Photography, 1986
AWARDS AND HONORS
The Griffin Lens Award, 31st Annual Members Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, 2025
Winner, Digital Manipulation/Collage Series, 26th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2025
Honorable Mentions in “Women See Women” and “Alt. Processes” Categories, 25th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2025
Silver Prize, Analog Sparks International Film Awards, 2024
1st Place, Alternative Processes Category, 23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2024
Honorable Mention, Collage and Digital Manipulation Category, 23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2024
2nd Place, 10th Annual International Call, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, 2024
Honorable Mention, Tokyo International Photo Awards, 2023
Honorable Mention, Analog Sparks International Film Awards, 2023
Honorable Mentions in 4 categories, 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2023
The Photo Review Web Galleries Competition, 2023
Hot 100 Photographers, YourDailyPhotograph.com, Los Angles, CA, 2021, 2022
The Photo Review's Competition Web Galleries, 2023
Honorable Mention, Praxis Gallery’s "Femalia,” 2023
Analog Forever Magazine’s 20 Alt Photographers You Should Know, 2022
Director’s Honorable Mention, “open/unbound,” A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, 2021
Honorable Mention, Alternative Processes Show, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY, 2020
Second Place, Photography Without a Lens, RICPA, Providence, RI, 2020
Honorable Mention, The Best Medicine Show, Dickerman Prints Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2020
Honorable Mention, “the imperfect lens”, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, 2020
3rd Place Juror’s Award, The Heart Goes Nine, RICPA, Providence, RI, 2020
Honorable Mention, Krappy Kamera, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY, 2020
Semi-Finalist, Portfolio Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY, 2020
Fine Art Print Program Award, Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA, 2019
2nd Place, Krappy Kamera, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY, 2019
Semi-Finalist, Portfolio Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY, 2018
Honorable Mention, Krappy Kamera, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY, 2018
Editors’ Picks, The Independent Photographer, Landscape Photography, 2018
Photolucida Critical Mass Top 200, 2017
Honorable Mention, “she”, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, 2017
Honorable Mention, Plastic Camera Show, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA, 2017
Photolucida Critical Mass Top 200, 2016
Finalist/Portraits, WPGA 7th Edition Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2015
Finalist/Fine Art, WPGA 7th Edition Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2015
Finalist/Landscapes, WPGA 7th Edition Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2015
Director’s Honorable Mention, Regarding Beauty, Center for Fine Art Photography, 2015
Honorable Mention, Krappy Kamera, XV Soho Photo Gallery, 2015
2nd Place, People and Portraits, WPGA 6rd Edition Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2014
Honorable Mention, Professional Women Photographers’ 38th International Open, 2013
1st Place, Photography Now, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, 2013
Honorable Mention, International Krappy Kamera XV Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, 2013
Finalist/Portraits, WPGA 3rd Edition Julia Margaret Cameron Award, 2012
Director’s Award, Art in Nature, Center For Fine Art Photography, 2011
1st Place, Soho Photo National Alternative Processes Competition, 2010
Honorable Mention, National Krappy Kamera X Competition, Soho Photo, 2008
Photographic Resource Center Biennial Participant Award, 1993
Maine Photographic Workshop’s Top Ten New Photographers, 1987
1st Place, ASMP National Contest, Unpublished Category, 1984
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The Dressings Project, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY 2024
Landscapes and Prayers, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY 2022
Landscapes, Monroe Center for the Arts, Lexington, MA 2022
Landscapes and Prayer, Griffin Museum of Photography's Digital Silver Imaging Gallery, Belmont, MA 2016
Prayer Images, Center for Liberal Arts, New England College, Henniker, NH 2015
Prayer Images, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, NY 2012
Prayer Images, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA, 2010
Motherland, New England College Gallery, Henniker, NH 1997
Irises For My Mother, Landau Gallery, Belmont Hill School, Belmont, MA 1996
Irises For My Mother, Gallery One, NESOP, Boston, MA 1996
Self-Portraits, Gallery One, NESOP, Boston, MA 1989
Plates, Rose Gallery, Boston, MA 1987
Plates, Pine Manor College, Hess Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA 1986
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
31st Annual Members Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, 2025
Resist, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, 2025
Vision(ary), 6th Annual Summer Public Art Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 2025
Sincerely (Your Name Here), Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, 2025
Juried Members Exhibition, RICPA, Providence, RI, 2025
Choice 2025, Atlanta Photo Group, Atlanta, GA, 2025
“open/unmoored,” A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, 2024
Griffin Museum of Photography 14th Annual Photobook Exhibition, 2024
Danforth Museum of Art, Juried Exhibition, Framingham, MA, 2024
Small Works, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, 2023
Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Somerville, MA, 2023
Members’ Show, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, NY, 2023
Analog Forever Exhibition , Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, Oregon, 2023
Words Matter, RICPA, Providence, RI, 2023
Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, Cambridge, MA, 2023
A Cancer Journey, Ratio Therapeutics, Boston, MA, 2023
19th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Barcelona, Spain, 2023
Alternative Processes Exhibition, The Image Flow, St. Anselmo, CA, 2022
The Curated Fridge , Summer, Somerville, MA, 2022
Color Theory, Lafayette Gallery, Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, 2022
Soho Photo Alternative Processes Exhibition, NY, NY, 2022
The Hand at Fenix Arts, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2022
6th Annual Alternative Process Exhibition, The Image Flow, San Anselmo, CA, 2022
The Curated Fridge, Somerville, MA, Summer, 2022
“trees,” A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, 2022 Other Ways of Seeing, Praxall Gallery, Queens, NY, 2022
The World Laughs, Analog Forever Magazine Online Exhibit, 2021
Unique: Alternative Processes, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, 2021
5th Annual Alternative Process Photography Exhibition, The Image Flow Gallery, Mill Valley CA, 2021
Alternative Processes Show, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY, 2020
A Yellow Rose Project, CPAC, Denver, CO, 2020
Fantastic Film, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, Oregon, 2020
The Best Medicine Show, Dickerman Prints Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2020
Hybrid, Analog Forever Magazine Online Exhibit, 2020
Landscape, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, 2020
First Annual Members Spotlight Exhibit, RICPA, Providence, RI, 2020
Photography Without a Lens, RICPA, Providence, RI, 2020
Outspoken: Seven Women Photographers, Chester Gallery, New England College, Henniker, NH, 2020
The Imperfect Lens, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, 2020
The Heart Goes Nine, RICPA, Providence, RI, 2020
The Director’s Choice, RICPA, Providence, RI, 2020
SE Open, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, 2020
Alternative Processes Show, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY, 2019
Dressed, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, 2019
Presence of Being, Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA, 2019
Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA, 2019
Photoville’s The Fence, 7th Edition, New England Regional Showcase, Boston, MA, 2019
Abstraction Attraction, Griffin Museum Lafayette Center Gallery, Boston, MA, 2019
Outspoken Expanded: Nine Women Photographers, RICPA, Providence, RI, 2019
Krappy Kamera, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, NY, 2019
6th Annual Open Call, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI, 2019
“she”, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, 2019
Outspoken: Seven Women Photographers, Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT, 2018
“Quién? Qué? Dónde?”, Griffin Museum, Lafayette Center Gallery, Boston, MA, 2018
Silicon Valley Plastic Camera Show, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, 2018
Krappy Kamera, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, NY, 2018
3rd Annual Arts Collect, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT, 2018
Outspoken: Seven Women Photographers, Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2018
Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Somerville, MA 2017
The Visual Metric, Griffin Museum Lafayette Center Gallery, Boston, MA 2017
“she”, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX 2017
Behind The Lens, Women in Photography, Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI 2017
Space, Griffin Museum Lafayette Center Gallery, Boston, MA 2016
Memory with a Mirror, Peter Miller Gallery, Providence, RI 2016
Berlin Foto Biennale, Palazzo Italia, Berlin, Germany 2016
Rayko Photo Center Plastic Camera Show, San Francisco, CA 2016
Danforth Museum Juried Art Show, Framingham, MA 2016
Outspoken: Six Women Photographers at Middlesex School, Cornelius Ayer Wood Gallery, Middlesex School, Concord, MA 2016
Gendered Perspectives, Bradley University, Peoria, Ill 2015
Open Call, Peter Miller Gallery, Providence, RI 2015
21st Juried Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA 2015
Outspoken: Six Women Photographers, Nesto Gallery, Milton, MA 2014
Krappy Kamera XVI, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, NY 2014
Women’s Rights: An Artist’s Perspective, Pam Foss Gallery, St. Michaels, MD 2013
Photography Now, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, 2013
Krappy Kamera XV, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY 2013
White, Black & Shades of Gray, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA 2012
Krappy Kamera XIV, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY 2012
Art in Nature, Center For Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO 2011
International Juried Works On Paper, 1212 Gallery, Richmond, VA 2011
Center Forward, Center For Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO 2011
Soho Photo 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY 2011
Alternative Process National Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY 2010
Alternative Processes National Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY 2009
Krappy Kamera XI, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY 2009
Alternative Processes National Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY 2008
Krappy Kamera X, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY 2008
Photography Now, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA 2006
11th Juried Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA 2006
Secret Place, Sacred Space, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005
Krappy Kamera VI, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY 2004
10th Juried Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA 2003
New England Photographers, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA 2001
Photography Now, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA 2000
Hand of The Artist/Heart of The Teacher, Milton Art Museum, Milton, MA 1999
Focus on Photography, Pine Manor College, Hess Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA 1997
Gender Power, Salve Regina College, Newport, RI 1997
Plastic Fantastic, E3 Gallery, NY, NY 1997
Substrata, Newton Free Library, Newton, MA 1997
The Juried Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA 1996
Beyond Photography, Emerging Technologies, Spectrum Gallery, Boston, MA 1995
Room With Views, The New Art Center, Newton, MA 1994
New England Photographers, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA 1994
PRC Biennial, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA 1993
Beyond Mother and Children: New Feminist Photographers, Gallery One, NESOP, Boston, MA 1992
New England Photographers, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA 1992
Intimate Landscapes, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 1990
Conflict/Compromise, Nesto Gallery, Milton, MA 1989
Photography, Etc., Louis K. Meisel Gallery, NY, NY 1988
Selections ’88, Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988
New Photographics, E. Washington State University, WA 1987
MCC Finalists’ Show, Project Art Center, Cambridge, MA 1986
Five After Five, Gallery One, NESOP, Boston, MA 1985
Photo Show II, Photography Gallery, La Jolla, CA 1984
Camera Movements, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1983
Unrestricted Color, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca, NY 1983
CURATORIAL ENDEAVORS
Moved To Act! Demonstrations, Marches, Political Actions
Traveling Exhibition, co-curated with Ellen Feldman
-Chester Gallery, New England College, Henniker, NH, 2021
-Hess Gallery Online Exhibition, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2020
-Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI 2020
-Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2018
Griffin Museum Secondary School Photography Exhibit, Regis College, Weston, MA, 2018, 2019, 2024, 2025
Outspoken: Expanded: Nine Women Photographers, RICPA, Providence, RI, 2019
Outspoken: Seven Women Photographers
Traveling Exhibition
-Chester Gallery, New England College, Henniker, NH, 2020
-Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT, 2018
-Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI, 2018
-Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2017
-de Menil Gallery, Groton School, Groton, MA, 2017
-Cornelius Ayer Wood Gallery, Middlesex School, Concord, MA, 2016
-Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA, 2014
Veiled Rebellion, Lynsey Addario
Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, 2015
https://www.milton.edu/photojournalist-lynsey-addario-in-miltons-nesto-gallery/
Beyond Mothers and Children: New Feminist Photographers
Gallery One, New England School of Photography, 1992
COLLECTIONS
Ratio Therapeutics
Danforth Museum of Art
Cell Signaling Technologies, Danvers, MA
New England College, Henniker, NH
Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
The New England School of Photography, Boston, MA
Paula Tognarelli, Director, Griffin Museum of Photography
Dr. And Mrs. Gregory Ketchejian
Dr. Ned Kaufman and Elin Spring
Allen and Linda Stikeleather
Dan Muriel and Suzanne Siner
Debi Mulligan
Bill Simpson
Phillip and Nancy Mathews
Katharine Mathews
Frank Tadley
Ralph Mercer
Chris Fehl/Laura Taylor
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Shadow and Light Magazine, May/June, 2025
Frames Magazine, Girl Gaze, December 2024
The Hand Magazine, Issue 43, 2024
The Hand Magazine, Issue 41, 2023
What Will You Remember, 2023
Analog Forever Online Magazine, 2022 and 2023
The Hand Magazine, Issue 38, October 2022
One Twelve Poignant Pic No. 61
Analog Forever Magazine, Edition 4, 2021
The Boston Globe, 2021
A Yellow Rose Project, 2020, https://ayellowroseproject.com/marky-kauffmann
The Hand Magazine, Issue 30, November 2020
Analog Forever Magazine, Edition 2, Summer, 2020, December 2021
Fraction Magazine, Issue 134, Better Living Through Chemistry, 2020
The Hand Magazine, Issue 29, August 2020
Lenscratch, October 2020, Moved To Act: Demonstration, Marches, Political Actions
Artscope Magazine, December 2019
Lenscratch, The Ides of March 2019
Blur Magazine, February/March 2018
Lenscratch, January 12, 2018, Outspoken: Seven Women Photographers
Artscope, January/February, 2018
We Who March, 2017
Aspect Initiative, February, 2017
What You Will Remember, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Equilibrium, 2014
Women’s Rights: An Artist’s Perspective, 2013
Krappy Kamera XV, 2013
Center Forward, 2011
Camera Arts Magazine, 2008
Art New England, 1998
The Boston Globe, 1993
Views, 1992
The Boston Globe, 1989
The Patriot Ledger, 1987
The Boston Globe, 1986
Views, 1985
San Diego Magazine, 1984
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
College and Adult Education:
New England School of Photography Workshop Program, 1980–2000
Northeastern University, Summer Term, 1989
Primary and Secondary Schools:
Milton Academy Saturday Course, 1991 – present
Weston High School, 2000–2014
Milton Academy, 1998–1999 (full year Sabbatical substitute)
Buckingham Brown and Nichols School, 1997–1998 (full year Sabbatical substitute)
Dana Hall School, Spring, 1997 (Semester Maternity leave substitute)
Shady Hill School, Spring, 1996
Buckingham Brown and Nichols School, 1981–1990
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/GUEST ARTIST INVITATIONS
Soho Photo Gallery, All About Chemigrams, 2024
Soho Photo Gallery, Art Saves Lives: Creating Photographs That Shout, 2024
Mountain School, Artist in Residence, 2023
RICP, Round Table Discussion on Moved To Act, 2020
New England College, Panel Discussion on Outspoken: Seven Women Photographers, 2020
Milton Academy, Chemigram Workshop, 2020
Pine Manor College, Art Saves Lives, 2020
Danforth Museum, Chemigram Workshop, 2019
Guest Artist, Atelier, Griffin Museum of Photography, 2019
RICPA, Round Table Discussion on Outspoken: Expanded: Nine Women Photographers, 2019
The Hotchkiss School, Panel Discussion on Outspoken: 7 Women Photographers, 2019
Guest Artist, Atelier, Griffin Museum of Photography, 2018
Photographic Resource Center, Nights Program, 2018
Providence Center for Photographic Arts, March 2018
Pine Manor College, February 2018
Groton School, Groton, MA, 2017
Weston Council on Aging, 2016
Ikebana International, Boston Chapter, 2016
Endicott College, 2016
Guest Artist, Atelier, Griffin Museum of Photography, 2016
Photosynthesis Artist, Griffin Museum of Photography, 2015
Natinoal Women's Day Speaker, Weston High School, 2015, 2017
Cross Currents, New England School of Photography, 2015
Griffin Museum of Photography, 2003
Guest Artist, Noble and Greenough School, 2000
Guest Artist Lecture, New England School of Photography, 1996, 1997
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Soho Photo Gallery, 2023 – present
Griffin Museum of Photography, Corporator, Board of Trustees, 2016–2025
Photographic Resource Center, Volunteer, Fund-Raising Committee, 2014–2016