Education:

Columbia College Chicago Chicago, IL
Masters of Fine Art, Photography 2005

University of Arizona Tucson, AZ Bachelor of Arts 1997
Major in Womens Studies; minor in Sociology

Awards:

Nominee for the NY Photo Awards, 2009.
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award in Photography 2007.
Honorable Mention, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2007.
Award of Excellence, Cook County Treasurer, March 2007.
Award of Excellence and Honorable Mention, Photographers Forum
Magazine, 2002.

Solo Exhibitions:

Formation, Up Gallery, Chicago, IL May-June 2005.
Photographs by Christy Karpinski, Chicago Public Libraries Celebrating
Womens History Month, Chicago, IL March 2005.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2009 Faculty Exhibition, Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, IL Summer, 2009.
Third Annual Juried Photography Show, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL 2008
Onward: Journey For Emerging Photographers, Juried by Andrea
Modica,Project Basho, Philadelphia, PA 2008.
A Field Guide to North America: The Exhibition, Curated by the Humble
Arts Foundation, Gallery Bar, New York, NY2007.
Exposure 2007, Mistlin Gallery, Modesto, CA Fall 2007.
1st Annual CoPA Juried Exhibit, Brian Ulrich-juror, Walkers Point
Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI July 27-August 31, 2007.
Boys and Girls, City Gallery of Photography at the Historic Water
Tower, Chicago, IL May 17-August 4 2007.
Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas Honors Womens History Month,
County Building, Chicago, IL March-April 2007.
12th Juried Exhibition, Bonni Benrubi-juror, Griffin Museum of
Photography, Winchester, MA 2006.
New Trends in Chicago Photography, Version Kuntshalle, Chicago, IL
April 2006.
Annual Women Photographers Competition, Dreambox Gallery,
Chicago, IL March 2006.
MFA Thesis Show, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL May-June 2005.
Manifest Club Showcase, The Hothouse, Chicago, IL June 2, 2005.
11th Juried Exhibition, Andy Grundberg-Juror, Griffin Museum of
Photography, Winchester, MA 2005.
Chicago Art Open, Chicago IL 2004.
Westmoreland Art Nationals, Westmoreland County Community
College, Latrobe PA 2004.
Muliebral, Group exhibit. Hokin Gallery, Chicago, IL March-April 2003.
National Juried Exhibition, The Salon Studio, Loveland, CO 2002.
Group exhibit, The Maine Photographic Workshops Gallery, Rockland,
ME July 2001.

Publications:

Wondertime magazine, various issues, Massachusetts, 2006-2009.
C.O.P.A. Exhibition Catalog 2007, Coalition of Photographic Arts,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2007.
A Field Guide to the North American Family by Garth Risk Hallberg,
Mark Batty Publisher, August 2007.
Home Life, 6x6 book series, Columbia College Chicago, 2004.
Altar Magazine, issue #3, New York, 2004.
Foto Pozytyw magazine, issue #12, Lodz, Poland, 2003.
StoryQuarterly, vol.39, literary journal. Portfolio of photographs, 2003.
Shots magazine, issue #78 and #80, Minnesota.
Feline magazine, issue #1, featured artist, New York, 2002.
2002 Best of Photography Annual, Photographers Forum.
Invisible, artists book, Free Milk Press, 2001.
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