Ann Kaplan makes and writes about photography. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Münster, Munster, Germany; Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University; Mendoncino College, Ukiah, CA; Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill + Click! Photography Festival, Durham, NC; Venice International University, Venice, Italy; Department of Digital Arts, University of Malta; Tahoe CoLab, Granlibakken Tahoe, Tahoe City, California; Carrack Modern, Durham, NC; Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL; tête gallery, Berlin, Germany; Hillyer Art Space and Fotoweek DC, Washington, DC; School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech University; California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA; De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines; FORMAT Gallery, Washington, DC; among others.
Kaplan's work is held in the collections of CHROMA, The Arts and CIIS, San Francisco, California; En Foco, Bronx, New York; and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York. It has been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, SouthArts, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Ford Foundation, and others. She has been invited to present her work at the F/Stop Festival für Fotografie in Leipzig, Germany; Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria, Canada; Philippines Arts Congress in Baguio City, Philippines; and the College Art Association's THAT Camp in New York, New York. She is currently completing her first book project on the photographic portrait and its impact on the rights of humans and other beings in the contemporary era.
In addition to being invited to speak at the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Society of Photographic Education in Chicago, Illinois, in early 2017 the combined LGBTQ+, Multicultural, and Women's Caucuses requested that Kaplan give an all-caucus talk on the relationship of photography to the current cultural climate. She is also a nationally-elected member of the SPE Executive Board and on the editorial committee of peer-reviewed Exposure Journal.
Kaplan is an associate professor at Appalachian State University, which is in the University of North Carolina System of Higher Education and located on the Eastern Continental Divide of mountainous western North Carolina. Previously, she served as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Elon University and Visiting Assistant Professor of Graduate Studies in the School of Fine Arts at Philippines Women's University in Manila, Philippines. She has been awarded two artist residencies with fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center.
Ann Pegelow Kaplan, Appalachian State University website
Education
PhD candidate (ABD), European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland
MFA, Clemson University
MA, University of North Carolina
BA, University of Mary Washington
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