Gretchen Grace is a photographer, an artist, and a designer. For the last 30 years she has been photographing on the street, mostly in New York City, but also on streets around the world. Gretchen's work is primarily lens-based, still and video, real and abstract. She also paints, collages, and experiments with typography. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Eyeshot, Aint Bad, Smithsonian Magazine, Noice, Broad, Women in Street, Strant, Daylight, Shots, and Japan Camera Hunter, among others. She has a children’s book–for adults too–called Messy Hair. You can find more of her work on Instagram @_gretchengrace_.
PUBLICATIONS
THE PHOBLOGRAPHER, March 30, 2023. "19 Incredible Female Photographers We Talked to in 2023", by Chris Gampat
THE PHOBLOGRAPHER, March 24, 2023. "Why Street Photographer Gretchen Grace loves Black and White", by Chris Gampat
TWO WAY STREET, published by Daylight Books, releasing on November 1, 2022. A collection of my NYC street photography that combines black and white film work from the 1990s/early 2000s, and more recent street abstractions captured digitally.
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, November 2020, 18TH ANNUAL SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE PHOTO CONTEST: CLOSE project (pandemic portraits)
LADDER & KEY, August 2, 2020, 10 Point Profile: Gretchen Grace, Street Abstractions
1MILLIONDIAMONDS, December 15, 2019, Feature, Gretchen Grace, Motion Pictures & Street Work
EDGE OF HUMANITY MAGAZINE, September 14, 2019, Feature, Gretchen Grace, Street Photography, New York City
AINT BAD MAGAZINE No. 14, 2019 Annual Issue, page 197
FAST FORWARD: WOMEN IN PHOTO, In conversation August 12-17, 2019
SURREAL ESTATE ZINE, July 2019, curated by Float Magazine and Casual Science
JAPAN CAMERA HUNTER: VISUAL INTERVIEW, May 13, 2019, curated by Jesse Freeman
HUMBLE ARTS FOUNDATION, March 11, 2019,
Winter Pictures, curated by Jon Feinstein and Andy Adams
NEW YORK TIMES ALBUM, March 10, 2019,
‘What Is That?’ Seeing the City as Abstract Art, photo editor Andrew Hinderaker, editor John Leland
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, March 9, 2019, Winter Pictures, curatorial takeover by Andy Adams,
HUMBLE ARTS FOUNDATION, December 2018,
Numerology, curated by Jon Feinstein and Roula Seikaly
EYESHOT, November 28, 2018
Street Xmas, curated by Marco Savarese
EYESHOT, June 14, 2018
Feature of the day: Black & white street work
NOICE, ISSUE 010, June 12, 2018
Images from Motion Pictures series
NOICE MAGAZINE, September 3, 2017
Feature – Axial Tilt
BROAD MAGAZINE, July 2017
Friday Feature – Axial Tilt
STRANT MAGAZINE, July 2017
Pictures Without Words – VOL 001, ISS 002
BLENDED, June 2017
INTERVIEW WITH GRETCHEN GRACE, Axial Tilt
MESSY HAIR, December 2015
Available at Printed Matter/NYC, and Sock Monkey Press
DEEPSLEEP MAGAZINE, August 2013
SHOTS MAGAZINE; Summer 2013
POSI+TIVE MAGAZINE; July 2011
PORTFOLIO REVIEW: GRETCHEN GRACE
FILE MAGAZINE, August 2007
JPG MAGAZINE, March 2007
GROUP SHOWS
“Friend of a Friend”
Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY
Humble Arts Foundation & Flak Photo,
Curated by Andy Adams and Jon Feintstein
“Numerology”
Humble Arts Foundation, December 2018
Curated by Roula Seikaly and Jon Feintstein
“Water”
PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT, May 30 – June 24, 2018. Curated by Ann Jastrab
“we like small things”
Filter Photo, Chicago IL, September 15 – October 21, 2017. Curated by Jennifer Keats
“#LightDarkMatters”, curated by Oliver Lang at the TATE, November 2015
(@localstops; minute 1:33-1:43, minute 1:58-2:18, minute 10:12-10:22)
“Mobile Magic XIII”
Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Astoria OR, October 2014. Curated by Sita Mae
“After Dark III”
Greg Moon Art, Taos NM, June 2014
“Streetwise”
Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland OR, April 2014
“24 Hour Project”
March 22, 2014, Worldwide, Instagram: @24hourproject
“Mobile Magic IV”
Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Astoria OR, March 2014, Curated by Jody Miller
“7th Annual Juried Plastic Camera Show”
RayKo Gallery, San Francisco CA, March 2014
“Birds, Real or Imagined”
PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT, January 2013, Curated by S. Gayle Stevens
“Chain Letters Show”
Samson Gallery, Boston MA, July 2011
“LOOK::SEE”
Brooklyn Artist Guild Gallery, Brooklyn NY, February 2007
EDUCATION
International Center of Photography
Workshops with Mary Ellen Mark, and Richard Sandler
Rhode Island School of Design, BFA