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| EDUCATION 2003 Master of Fine Arts, Creative Photography University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 2000 Electronic Photography Certificate Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland 1996 Bachelor of Science, Biology, cum laude Howard University, Washington, DC RESIDENCIES 2007 Light Work Artist’s Residency Light Work, Syracuse, New York 2004-2005 Maryland Art Place 19th Annual Critics’ Residency Critic in Residence: Franklin Sirmans 2004 The Sixth Annual Sydney Kahn Summer Institute at The Kitchen Site and Performance in the Digital Age, New York, New York Mentors: Marina Zurkow and Stephan Koplowitz 2002 National Graduate Seminar The Photography Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York Jurors: Sarah Hart, Robert Rindler, and Winston Kennedy SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2008 Creating Humanity (amidst the illusion of our separateness) Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Frederick, Maryland 2008 Finding Authenticity (does anyone remember?) GRACE – Greater Reston Center for the Arts, Reston, Virginia 2007 Searching for Beulah (limit of disturbance) Howard County Center of African American Culture's Research Library Columbia, Maryland Sponsored by The Pierians, Inc. 2006 Searching for Beulah (limit of disturbance) School 33 - Gallery II, Baltimore, Maryland 2006 (Eclectic + Funky) ÷ Melancholy= 1995 to 2005 Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania 2005 Bella Nonna: Girasole-Sempre Vivere The Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C. 2003 Southern Roots: Black Madonnas-Black Magnolias University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 2002 The Sweet Sixteen Suite Focus Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 2001 Sempre Vivere (Mia Nonna è Italiana) Focus Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2011 Three Person Exhibition with Jacqui Croquetta and Rachel Rotenberg Black Rock Arts Center, Germantown, Maryland 2010 MAS 10” x 10” The Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives, Washington, DC 2010 Boxed In/Outside the Box (Artscape 2010) The Galleries at CCBC, Baltimore, Maryland 2010 Artscape 2010 Exhibition Eubie Blake Cultural Center, Baltimore, Maryland 2009 Atlanta Celebrates Photography Portfolio Walk Grady High School, Atlanta, Georgia 2009 Three Sisters: The Art of Robin Holder, Sonya A. Lawyer and Tamara Natalie Madden Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, New York 2009 CONNECTIONS Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, New York and San Francisco, California 2009 Chromatic Aberrations (Art Institute of Washington Photo Faculty Show) 1820 Gallery, Art Institute of Washington, Arlington, Virginia 2008 artVIEW 2008 Presented by Umbrella Arts, New York, New York DAR Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. 2008 New Works Online Gallery www.silvereyecenter.org Presented by Silver Eye Center for Photography Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2008 As It Happens: Recent Light Work Artists in Residence Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery at the Schine Student Center Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 2008 La Femme Project 3: Empowered by Artistry Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, Washington, D.C. 2007 Variable Views: Identify Villa Julie College Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland Curator: Diane DiSalvo, Director, Villa Julie College Gallery 2007 Period Pieces Eubie Blake Cultural Center Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland 2007 Portfolio Viewing at Review Santa Fe El Museo De Cultural, Santa, Fe, New Mexico Jurors: Steve Fitch, College of Santa Fe; Michele Penhall, Curator of Prints and Photographs, University of New Mexico Art Museum; and Janet Russek, Scheinbaum & Russek 2007 Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware Juror: Alex Baker, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 2007 10th New Works Exhibition Presented by En Foco Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, New York Juror: Alison Nordstrom, George Eastman House 2007 Bi-Annual Faculty Exhibition Stephanie Roper Gallery, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland 2006 National Juried Photography Exhibition 1212 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia Juror: Stephen Perloff, The Photo Review 2006 ReFresh Print Biennial II: Global Networks and Intimate Exchanges Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Jurors: Sarah Detweiler and Christine Style 2006 Migrations of the African Diaspora (catalog) Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Juror: Lydia Thompson, Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University 2006 Smoke and Mirrors: Photography and Performance (catalog) Ohio University School of Art Gallery, Athens, Ohio Juror: Jeffrey Byrd 2006 AFRICA! Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, Virginia Juror: Martha Jackson-Jarvis 2005 SEVEN Warehouse Theatre and Gallery, Washington, D.C. Curator: F. Lennox Campello 2005 Just Looking 19th Annual Critics Residency Exhibition (catalog) Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland Curator: Franklin Sirmans 2005 Regional Juried Photography Exhibition Washington School of Photography, Bethesda, Maryland 2004 Foto Future Battle Creek Art Center, Battle Creek, Michigan 2004 Site and Performance in the Digital Age The Sixth Annual Sidney Kahn Summer Institute at The Kitchen Chelsea Waterside Park, New York, New York 2004 Visual Journey: Enslavement, Underground Railroad, Freedom (catalog) Northern Kentucky University and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Juror: Michael Ray Charles 2004 In2Words: Numbers and Words Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, Virginia Juror: Krystyna Wasserman, Curator of Book Arts at the National Museum of Women in the Arts 2004 2002 National Graduate Seminar Fellows Portfolio Exchange SRO Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 2004 Summer Light Members Group Show, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C. 2004 The Nine New Ones New Members Group Show, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C. 2004 Sketches: Allusions to Reality Members Group Show, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C. 2003 27th Anniversary Group Show Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C. 2003 Scene/Unseen ’03 (catalog) Runnels Gallery, Eastern New Mexico University Juror: Amei Wallach HONORS 2009 Individual Artist’s Award (Photography) from the Maryland State Art’s Council 2006 Honorable Mention in 10th Annual New Works Awards Presented by En Foco, Inc. and juried by Alison Nordstrom 2005 Semi-Finalist for The Trawick Prize 2004 Semi-Finalist for The Trawick Prize 2002 National Graduate Seminar Fellowship from The Photography Institute 2000-2003 Fellowship from the University of Florida 1994 Inducted into Golden Key National Honor Society 1994 Inducted into Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Honor Society 1992-1996 Recipient of Howard University Achievement Scholarship COLLECTIONS The Getty Institute (The Photography Institute Archive)The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech UniversityLight Work, Syracuse, New York BIBLIOGRAPHY Allen-Kattus, Kimberly. Visual Journey: Enslavement, Underground Railroad, Freedom. Highland Heights: Northern Kentucky University Press, 2004. Bowers, J. "Residents In? MAP's Critic Residency Program Produces A Curious Grab-Bag Show." Baltimore City Paper 27 April 2005: 38-39. Campello, F. Lennox. “A Seductive Lawyer” Old Town Crier February 2008: 11-12. CONTACT SHEET 148. Light Work, Syracuse, New York Exhibition Announcement with color picture, The Gainesville Sun.12 October 2001: 14-15. Gebhardt, Sara. “From Computers, a New Landscape of Images” The Washington Post 16 Sep 2004: T10. Hayes, Jeffreen. “Sonya Lawyer/Old Subject/Traditional Craft/New Technology “. The International Review of African American Art 22:2. Kosin, Leah K. “Focus Exhibits Open at GRACE”. The Fairfax County Observer 18 January 2008 McNatt, Glenn. "MAP show is a striking snapshot of regional art." The Baltimore Sun 5 May 2005: E21. Nordstrom, Allison Devine. “NW#10 Honorable Mention Artists: Sonya Lawyer, Emilo Banuelos, LaToya Frazier, and William Wilson.” Nueva Luz photographic journal 11:3. Mellama, Kevin. “Northern Virginia Art Beat: Focus Exhibition features the work of artists Anne Fine Foer and Sonya A. Lawyer”. Falls Church News-Press 16 January 2008. Rems, Janet. “GRACE ‘Focus’ Exhibition focuses on family, other connections” The Fairfax Times 6 February 2008. Thomas, Mary. “Art Review: Exhibition looks at Hurricane Katrina's Diaspora” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 25 July 2006. |