Elaine Ling - Biography

Elaine Ling Photography

Curriculum Vitae

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2008

    Reflections of Complexities - G+ Galleries, Toronto, Canada

  • 2008

    Photography of Tibet, Part II: 2007 - Zoellner Arts Center, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

  • 2008

    Photography of Tibet, Part I: 1987 - DuBois Gallery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

  • 2008

    Cuba Chronicles - Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA

  • 2007

    Cuba Chronicles - Kievfoto, Ukraine

  • 2007

    Cuba Chronicles - Maison Folie, Lille, France

  • 2006

    Abandoned, Namid Desert - Centro Portugues de Fotografia, Senhora da Hora, Portugal

  • 2006

    Mongolia: Beyond Chinggis Khan - Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

  • 2006

    Nomadic Mongolia - Daegu Photo Biennale 2006, Daegu, South Korea

  • 2006

    Mongolia: 800 Years of Nationhood - Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA

  • 2006

    Stone East + West - Ken Damy Fine Art, Biennale Brescia, Brescia, Italy

  • 2006

    Monolithic Guardians of the Earth - Houston, Texas, USA

  • 2006

    Nomadic Mongolia - Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts, USA

  • 2005

    Fototage: Contemporary American Photography - Mannheim, Germany

  • 2005

    Cuba Religiones Populares - Bratislava Photofest, Slovakia

  • 2005

    Cuba Chronicles - Foto Arte, Brasilia, Brazil

  • 2005

    Cuba Chronicles - Stockton College Art Gallery, Pomona, New Jersey, USA

  • 2005

    Nomadic Mongolia - FotoRio, Brazil

  • 2004

    Nomadic Deserts, The Namib and The Gobi - Mirafoto Festival, Lima, Peru

  • 2004

    Nomadic Deserts, The Namib and The Gobi - Encuentros Abiertos XIII, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • 2003

    Abandoned, Namib desert - Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colombia

  • 2003

    Written In Stone - Hereford Photo Festival, England

  • 2003

    One Hand Clapping - Arcturus Gallery, Toronto, Canada

  • 2003

    Persia, Petra, Chile: Portraits Ancient Deserts - David Mirvish Books, Toronto, Canada

  • 2003

    Cuba - G. de Arte Fotografico, San Miguel, Mexico

  • 2002

    Abandoned, Namib Desert - Houston Center of Photography, Texas, USA

  • 2002

    Havana Time - Premiere Dance Theatre, Toronto, Canada

  • 2002

    Bhutan Prayers - Fotobiennale, Moscow, Russia

  • 2001

    Sand and Stone - Lichtblick Gallery, Cologne, Germany

  • 2001

    Sand and Stone - Prague House of Photography, Prague, Czech Republic

  • 2001

    Surrealism and Photography - Musee de la Photo. a Charleroi, Belgium

  • 2001

    Written in Stone - Le Quai de la Batterie, Arras, France

  • 2000

    Angkor Stones - Udevelop, Portland, Oregon, USA

  • 2000

    Giant's Playground - Premier Dance Theatre, Toronto, Canada

  • 1999

    Petra Stones - Premier Dance Theatre, Toronto, Canada

  • 1999

    Portal Guardians - Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto, Canada

  • 1999

    Written In Stone - Gallerie Mistral, Montreal, Canada

  • 1998

    Hinter der grossen Mauer - Art Ntc, Koln, Germany

  • 1997

    Memoires Gravees - Le Quai de la Batterie, Arras, France

  • 1997

    Casa Roca - The Photo Passage, Toronto, Canada

  • 1995

    Keepers of the Spirit Road - Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto, Canada

  • 1995

    Stone to Stone - Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Canada

  • 1995

    Stone to Stone, China - Art Kiosk, Brussels, Belgium

  • 1995

    Stone to Stone - Espace Parallele, Brussels, Belgium

  • 1993

    Casa Desierta - Toronto Image Works, Toronto, Canada

  • 1993

    Sculpturally Yours, Toronto - CN Tower, Toronto, Canada

  • 1992

    Tribute to Bohemian Stones - Leah Posluns Theatre, Toronto, Canada
    (Holocaust Remembrance Committee)

  • 1991

    Please Send Me A Postcard - Irving Posluns Gallery, Toronto, Canada

  • 1991

    Pangaea - McGill Gallery, McGill Club, Toronto, Canada

  • 1990

    Cryptic Vision - McGill Gallery, McGill Club, Toronto, Canada

  • 1989

    Sandstone, Shale & Limestone - Idee Gallery, Toronto, Canada

  • 1989

    Ancient Symmetry - Toronto Image Works, Toronto, Canada

  • 1988

    Synthesis - Idee Gallery, Toronto, Canada

  • 1986

    Terrestrial - Idee Gallery, Toronto, Canada

  • 1985

    Sojourns - Idee Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Two-Person Exhibitions

  • 2002

    Stone And Water - Lee Ka-sing Gallery, Toronto, Canada

  • 2002

    The Sands to the Peaks Along The Silk Road - York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada

  • 2000

    Photo America - Pacific NW College of Art, Portland, Oregon, USA

  • 1996

    Stone to Stone - Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA

  • 1996

    Keepers of the Spirit Road - Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA

Group Exhibitions

  • 2006

    Cuba: Religiones Populares - Art in the Halls, 401 Richmond, Toronto, Canada

  • 2006

    Dynamics of Urban Culture - Habana Bienal, Havana, Cuba

  • 2005

    Fellowship Exhibition, Leslie Martin Juried - Silver Eye Center, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA

  • 2005

    Viajeros: North American Photographers in Cuba - Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

  • 2005

    2005 Andy Grundberg Juried Exhibition - Griffin Museum of Photography,
    Winchester, Massachusetts, USA

  • 2005

    10 Views of Time and Space - Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA

  • 2005

    Reflecting Buddha - San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, USA

  • 2004

    Cuba - Photo Arte 2004, Brazil

  • 2004

    Gobi Interiors - Juried Membership Exhibition - Houston Center for Photography, Texas, USA

  • 2004

    Discoveries of the Meeting Place: Cuba - FotoFest, Houston, Texas, USA

  • 2004

    Discoveries of the Meeting Place: Cuba - FotoFest, Houston, Texas, USA

  • 2003

    Buddhist Film Society - Pasadena Museum of California Arts, USA

  • 2003

    Havana, 5 Canadian Photographers in Cuba - You Me Gallery, Hamilton, Canada

  • 2003

    Faces - Sepia International, NY

  • 2003

    Cuba Now: Glimpses of Daily Life - Photo West, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

  • 2003

    Stone - Instit. Cultural de Mexico in Miami, Florida, USA

  • 2003

    Celebrate Cuba - Benham Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA

  • 2002

    Canadian Collection - Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

  • 2002

    Centennial Retrospective - Alliance Francaise, Toronto, Canada

  • 2002

    Canadian Photographers In Cuba - Rotunda, Old City Hall, Toronto, Canada

  • 2002

    Fotofest Finds - G. de Arte Fotografico, San Miguel, Mexico

  • 2002

    Whereabouts - Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada

  • 2002

    The Photo Review @ 25 - Owen Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

  • 2002

    Bringing to Order - CMCP, Ottawa, Canada

  • 2001

    There, Not Here - Fine Art Cernter, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island, USA

  • 2001

    Fantastic Landscape - Schneider Gallery, Chicago, USA

  • 2001

    5 Canadians - Fototeca, Havana, Cuba

  • 2001

    Millennium Project : Urban Sites - Market Gallery, Toronto, Canada

  • 2000

    Abandoned, Namib Desert - Photokina, Cologne, Germany

  • 2000

    Tidal Pulse - Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark

  • 2000

    Self Portraits - Galeria A. Fotografico, San Miguel, Mexico

  • 1999

    Beyond the Landscape - Martha Schneider, Chicago, USA

  • 1998

    Women Travellers - Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, New York, USA

  • 1998

    Still Life - Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy

  • 1998

    Group Exhibition - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canda

  • 1998

    Offerings from the Dharmakaya - Alliance Française, Toronto, Canda

  • 1997

    Stone to Stone, China - Fototage Herten, Germany

  • 1997

    Landscapes - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canda

  • 1997

    Toronto Street Photography - Toronto Image Works, Toronto, Canda

  • 1996

    Group Exhibition - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canda

  • 1996

    Juried, Harvey Stein - Inst. Bellas Artes, San Miguel, Mexico

  • 1995

    Group Exhibition - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canda

  • 1992

    Travel with Camera - China Blues, Toronto, Canda

  • 1990

    Juried, Duane Michaels - Abington Art Centre, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, USA

  • 1988

    Visions of the Land - Davis Art Centre, Davis, California, USA

  • 1987

    Integrity - Weller-Potovsky Gallery, Toronto, Canada

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Exhibitions Curated

  • 2003

    Toronto Grid Project - York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada

  • 2001

    Urban Sites, Millennium Project - Market Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Awards

  • 2005

    Foreign Affairs Grant to FotoArte - Brasilia, Brazil

  • 2005

    Photographer of the Year - Photo Lucida

  • 2004

    Golden Light Awards, Landscape - Maine Photographic Workshops

  • 2004

    Foreign Affairs Grant to Festival of Lights - Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • 2002

    TAC Project Grant

  • 2002

    OAC Project Grant

  • 2002

    CAC Travel Grant

  • 2002

    OAC Grant to Senior Visual Artist

  • 2001

    Foreign Affairs Grant to Prague

  • 2001

    CAC travel Grant to Prague, Czech Republic

  • 2001

    Foreign Affairs Group Grant to Cuba

  • 2001

    CAC Travel Grant to Belgium

  • 1999

    Millennium Arts Fund, Canada Council for the Arts

  • 1997

    Canada Arts Council

  • 1996

    Canada Arts Council

  • 1995

    Bank of Missions

  • 1994

    Canada Arts Council

  • 1994

    Ontario Arts Council

Collections

  • 2006

    Centro Internazionale di Fotografia Scavi Scaligeri - Verona, Italy

  • 2005

    Fotografie Forum International - Frankfurt, Germany

  • 2005

    Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Houston, Texas, USA

  • 2004

    Ogden Museum of Southern Art - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

  • 2003

    Art Gallery of Windsor - Windsor, Canada

  • 2001

    Ryerson School of Image Arts - Toronto, Canada

  • 2001

    Brooklyn Museum - Brooklyn, NY

  • 2001

    Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Paris, France

  • 2001

    Musée de la Photographie - Charleroi, Belgium

  • 2000

    Henry Buhl - New York, New York, USA

  • 2000

    Museet for Fotokunst - Odense, Denmark

  • 2000

    CMCP, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography - Ottawa, Canada

  • 1999

    Royal Ontario Museum - Toronto, Canada

  • 1998

    Houston Center of Photography - Houston, Texas, USA

  • 1998

    Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Houston, Texas, USA

  • 1998

    Musee de la Photographie - Charleroi, Belgium

  • 1997

    North York Gallery - North York, Canada

  • 1994

    Art Bank, The Canada Council - Ottawa, Canada

Residencies

  • 2002

    Atlantic Center for the Arts, Master - New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA

Publications

  • 2007

    Zoom magazine, Milan, Italy (May-June issue)

  • 2006

    Nomadic Mongolia - Photo Review magazine, USA

  • 2006

    Nomadic Mongolia - View Camera magazine, USA

  • 2005

    Cuba Chronicles - Canada Review, Ottawa, Canada

  • 2005

    Photographers:network - PROFIFOTO, Dusseldorf Germany

  • 2005

    Nomadic Mongolia - 8 Photojournalism, London, England

  • 2005

    The Powerhouse Review - Powerhouse, New York

  • 2005

    The Polaroid Book - Taschen

  • 2005

    In Light - Woodstock Center of Photography, New York, USA

  • 2004

    Deer Stones of Mongolia - Medical Post, Canada

  • 2002

    Kubas Rhythmen - fotoMAGAZINE, Munich, Germany

  • 2001

    Abandoned, Namib Desert - APERTURE #165, New York, USA

  • 2001

    Polaroid International Photography #22 - POLAROID, England

  • 2001

    Buhl Collection Calendar - Buhl Collection, New York, USA

  • 2001

    Namib Desert & Angkor Stones - PROFIFOTO, Dusseldorf, Germany

  • 2001

    Abandoned, Namib desert - REFLEX FOTO, Mexico D.F., Mexico

  • 2001

    Written in Stone - ARRAZIN, Arras, France

  • 2000

    Tidal Pulse - KATALOG, Odense, Denmark

  • 1999

    Formen der Steine - PHOTO TECHNIK INT., München, Germany

  • 1999

    At the Intersection of Nature & Culture - PHOTO REVIEW, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, USA

  • 1999

    Cultural Formations in Distant Places - VIEW CAMERA, Sacramento, California, USA

  • 1999

    Abandoned, Namib Desert - PHOTONEWS, Hamburg, Germany

  • 1998

    Bouwvakfoto's: David Hockney & Elaine Ling - FOTO, Leusden, Netherlands

  • 1998

    Capturing the Spirit in a Shutter - THE MEDICAL POST, Toronto, Canada

  • 1997

    cover - ddo, Bruxelles, Belgium

  • 1993

    February - THE WOMEN'S DAYBOOK

  • 1991

    Focus On... - PHOTO LIFE, Toronto, Canada

Reviews

  • 2006

    MetroWest Daily News, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA

  • 2005

    Go Art, The Morning Call - Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA

  • 2004

    El Comercio - Lima, Peru

  • 2003

    Toronto Star, Christopher Hume - Toronto, Canada

  • 2003

    Spectator - Hamilton, Canada

  • 2002

    Globe and Mail - Toronto, Canada

  • 2001

    South County Independent - Rhode Island, USA

  • 2001

    New City - Chicago, USA

  • 2001

    DNES - Prague, Czech Republic

  • 2001

    Lidove Noviny - Prague, Czech Republic

  • 2001

    Kulturne - Prague, Czech Republic

  • 2001

    Now Magazine - Toronto, Canada

  • 2001

    Cuba-Foto - Havana, Cuba

  • 2001

    Le Soir - Brussels, Belgium

  • 2001

    La Derniere Heure - Brussels, Belgium

  • 2001

    La Libre Belgique - Brussels, Belgium

  • 2001

    La Voix du Nord - Arras, France

  • 2000

    Artweek - San Jose, California, USA

  • 1999

    Globe & Mail - Toronto, Canada

  • 1998

    The New York Times - New York, New York, USA

  • 1995

    La Libre Belgique - Brussels, Belgium

  • 1995

    The Bulletin - Brussels, Belgium

Exhibition Catalogues

  • 2006

    Fotofest EARTH - Houston, Texas, USA

  • 2005

    Viajeros: North American Photographers' Cuba - LeHigh University, Bethleham Pennsylvania, USA

  • 2005

    Photo Arte, Cuba Chronicles - Brasilia, Brazil

  • 2005

    Mesiac Fotografie - Bratislava, Slovakia

  • 2005

    7th International Fototage Mannheim/Ludwigshafen - Manheim, Germany

  • 2004

    Fotofest H2O - Houston, Texas, USA

  • 2003

    Gallery Arcturus - Toronto, Canada

  • 2002

    LEE, Ka-Sing Gallery - Toronto, Canada

  • 2001

    Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi - Charleroi, Belgium

  • 2001

    Le Quai de la Batterie - Arras, France

  • 1997

    International Fototage Herten - Herten, Germany

  • 1996

    Blue Sky Gallery - Portland, Oregon, USA