tamara@tamarareynoldsphotography.com
615 419 7203
Education
Master of Fine Arts in Photography, University of Hartford/Hartford Art School, 2017.
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography), Middle Tennessee State University, 1983.
Publications
XX, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2024 (forthcoming).
The Drake. Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2022.
Reckonings and Reconstruction: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund, ed. Jeffrey Richmond-Moll. Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia and the University of Georgia Press, 2022.
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, eds. Mark Sloan & Mark Long. Charleston, SC: Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, 2018. 2019 Alice Award winner.
Aint–Bad Magazine, Issue No. 13, eds. Carson Sanders and Taylor Curry, 2018.
Awards
2025 Provost’s Faculty Grant for Immersion Vanderbilt
2025 Curb Center Inquiry Grant, “Sun Writing”
2024 The Puffin Grant, “XX”
2022 Aesthetica Art Prize – Longlist, “The Drake”
2022 Middle Tennessee State University Wall of Fame
2021 BarTur Photo: Faces of Humanity Award, “The Drake”
2021 The Guggenheim Fellowship
2020 Urbanautica Institute Award, Special Mention, “The Drake”
2020 The Puffin Grant, “The Drake”
2019 PHMuseum Women Photographers Grant, Shortlist, “The Drake”
2019 Tennessee Individual Artist Fellowship Grant
2018 Santa Fe Center Project Launch Grant, 1st Place, “The Drake,” Juror: Sarah Hermanson Meister, Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art
2017 American Photography 33, “The Drake”
2016 Merit Scholarship, University of Hartford /Hartford Art School
2015 Merit Scholarship, University of Hartford/Hartford Art School
2014 Communication Arts Photography Annual #55, Award of Excellence, “Last Game”
2014 American Photography 30
2013 American Photography 29
2013 Photo Lucida, Finalist, “Southern Route”
2012 Photo Lucida, Finalist, “Southern Route”
Exhibitions
2024 “The Drake: Photographs by Tamara Reynolds,” The Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN.
2024 “Now And Now And Now”, El Nido by VC Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Curator: Stephanie Kincheloe and Victoria Chapman
2024 “The Visitation,” Chroma Fine Art Gallery, Katonah, NY. Curator: Rita Baunok.
2023 “The Drake: Photographs by Tamara Reynolds,” The Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Nashville, TN.
2022 “Reckoning and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund,” Georgia Museum of Art, Athen, GA. Curator: Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, PhD.
2022 “The Nature of the Future: Artists Confront the Anthropocene,” Leu Art Gallery, Nashville, TN. Curators: Christine Rogers, Robin Paris and Tom Williams.
2022 “Collective Rage,” Strange Paradise Gallery, Portland, OR. Curator: Small Talk Collective.
2020 “A Yellow Rose Project,” Online and traveling exhibition. Curators: Meg Griffiths and Frances Jakubek.
2020 “Picture in a Picture,” Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC. Curator: Frank Konhaus.
2019 “Center Annual: Profound Movement,” Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX. Juror: Shane Lavalette.
2019 “The Big Reveal: Telling Truth in an Age of Fiction,” El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM. Curator: Angie Rizzo.
2019 “Stories We Tell Ourselves,” Earl & Virginia Green Gallery, La Mirada, CA. Curator: Seth Johnson.
2018 “Selections from the Southern Route Series,” Dane Carder Studio Gallery, Nashville, TN.
2018 “Full Circle: 2018 CENTER Award Winners,” Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC. Curator: Mary Anne Redding.
2018 “Southbound,” Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC. Curators: Mark Sloan and Mark Long.
2018 “Stories We Tell Ourselves,” Wrong Gallery, Marfa, TX. Curator: Ashlyn Davis.
2018 “Photography Comes First, Language Follows,” Curry Gallery, Nashville, TN. Curator: Robin Paris.
2018 “Views of the South,” Photographs from The Do Good Fund, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL.
2018 “Thinly Veiled,” Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC. Curator: Frank Konhaus.
2018 “Southern Sampler,” SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY. Curator: Timothy Massey.
2017 “13,” Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, CT. Curator: Robert Lyons.
2017 “Southern Routes,” Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA. Curator: Heather Hakimzadeh.
2017 “The Bond of the South,” Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, Madisonville, GA.
2016 “The Female Lens: Photography from the Do Good Fund,” Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA.
2016 “A Common Ground,” The Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Murfreesboro, TN.
2016 “Should Birds Attack,” Kominek Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Curator: Robert Lyons.
2015 “Behind the Lens: Women Photographers on Appalachia and the South,” Tipton Street Gallery, Johnson City, TN.
2014 “Southern Exposures: The Do Good Fund Exhibit,” Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA.
2014 “Currents: NOPA Showcase,” Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA.
2014 “Brought to Light,” Slow Exposures, Molena, GA.
2014 “Lilts and Drawls,” Art Beat, Columbus, GA.
2014 “Sixth Annual Women’s History Month Exhibit,” Customs House, Clarksville, TN.
2011 “Holy Road: A Photographic Essay on Transience and Journey,” Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN.
2011 “Recording Our History: Faces Behind the Camera,” U.S. Senate Rotunda, Washington, DC.
2010 “(Por)trait Revealed / A Juried Exhibition of Portrait Photography,” RayKo Photo Center Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curator: Ann Jastrab.
2009 “Nashville’s Soul: Images of the Sacred,” Parthenon East Gallery, Nashville, TN.
Collections
Jason Reitman Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA
Cassilhaus Collection, Chapel Hill, NC
Baldwin Photographic Archive & Collection, Murfreesboro, TN
The Do Good Fund, Columbus, GA
Vanderbilt Divinity College, Nashville, TN
Cheekwood Art Museum, Nashville, TN
Press: Print & Media
Burns, Ashlyn Davis. “Tamara Reynolds and Zach Callahan in Conversation with Ashlyn Davis Burns”, Lenscratch, 5 October, 2024.
Alterwitz, Linda. “Tamara Reynolds: XX”, Lenscratch, 11 October, 2023.
Hall, Stephanie. “MTSU alumna Tamara Reynolds discusses her recent work ‘The Drake’ with MTSU students,” Middle Tennessee State University Sidelines, 22 February, 2023.
“The Lie You Tell Yourself: Photographs by Tamara Reynolds,” Blind Magazine, 5 February 2023.
Shapiro, Bill. “Meet This Photographer: Tamara Reynolds,” Instagram, 20 January 2023.
Templeton, Ed. “Photobooks of Note 2022: The Drake,” Deadbeat Club, December 2022.
Potter, Kristine + Eric Ryan Anderson. “Nashville Photographers on Music City Today,” Nashville Seen, Vol. 1, Sunnyside Projects + Green Ray Books, November 2022.
Dugan, Jess T. “The Drake: Book Review,” Strange Fire Collective, May 2022.
Wolgast, Stephen. “’The Drake’ captures humanity of Nashville motel’s citizens,” News Photographer, National Press Photographer Association, May 2022.
“Tamara Reynolds: The Drake,” Juxtapoz, April 2022.
“The Drake: life on the edge in Nashville – in pictures,” The Guardian, 10 March 2022.
“Dewi Lewis Publishing: Tamara Reynolds: The Drake,” The Eye of Photography, L’Oeil de la Photographie, February 2022.
Feuerhelm, Brad. “Episode 259: Tamara Reynolds Photographer,” The Nearest Truth, 24 January 2022.
Schneider, Anna. “‘Southern Route’ by Photographer Tamara Reynolds,” BOOOOOOM, March 2021.
Hunter, Laura Hutson. “Girls on Film: How a Group of Photographers Is Bringing Accolades to Nashville,” Nashville Scene, 27 May 2021.
Hory, Julien. ‘The Drake’: le motel de la dépendence,” Fisheye Magazine, May 2021.
Rich, Jeff. “Eyes on the South/Tamara Reynolds: On the Margins,” Oxford American, 18 December 2019.
“Photo Journal Mondays: Tamara Reynolds,” MUSÉE, October 2019.
“Project Spotlight: The Drake,” Photo-Emphasis, August 2019.
Dugan, Jess T. “Q&A: Tamara Reynolds,” Strange Fire Collective, January 2019.
Elkins, Amy. Ain’t Bad, Issue 13, Interview, December 2018.
Smithson, Aline. “Center’s Project Launch Grant Winner: Tamara Reynolds,” Lenscratch, 14 May 2018.
Smithson, Aline. “Thinly Veiled at Cassilhaus,” Lenscratch, 25 January 2018.
Coleman, Sarah. “Southern Stories,” Don’t Take Pictures, Issue 8, Spring 2017.
Ferri, Graziano. “FotoFirst: Photographer Portrays the Marginalized Gravitating Around an Old Motel,” FotoRoom, September 2017.
Tabor, Nick. “A Town Under Trial,” Oxford American, Issue 96, Spring 2017.
Fann, Gina E. “Alumna’s work is focus of new exhibit at Baldwin Photo Gallery,” Middle Tennessee State University MTSU NEWS, 22 February, 2016.
PBS News Hour, “Nashville photographer’s dreamy snaps expose hidden truths in the Deep South,” Interview by Laura Santhanam, 4 December 2014.
Curtis, Tanner. “Beyond the Stereotyped South,” The New York Times Lens, 19 November 2014.
“Southern Route: The South’s Dualities as Photographed by Nashville’s Tamara Reynolds, ”The Bitter Southerner, November 2014.
Reynolds, Tamara. “Last Game,” Communication Arts Photography Annual #55, July/August 2014.
Mackey, Dale. “Viewfinder: Taking the ‘Southern Route,” Daily Yonder, 3 March 2014.
Griffin, Emily. “Southern Route,” Resource Magazine, 16 January 2014.
Rich, Jeff. “Eyes on the South / Tamara Reynolds: Southern Route,” Oxford American, 3 August 2013.
Smithson, Aline. “Tamara Reynolds: Southern Route,” Lenscratch, 31 July 2013.
Also: American Photography 29 (2013), 30 (2014) and 33 (2017), New York, NY.
Artist Lectures
2024 “The Visitation: Artist Talk,” Belmont University, Nashville, TN.
2024 “The Visitation: Chroma Artist Talk,” Chroma Fine Art Gallery, Katonah, NY.
2023 “About Suffering: Art Now Artist Talk,” The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA.
2023 “The Drake,” Panel Discussion, Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN.
2022 “Printed Matter Matters: The Lost Art of Print,” Sunnyside Projects + The Green Ray Books, Green Ray Bookstore, Nashville, TN.
2021 “The Photographer’s Practice,” Knoxville Arts and Culture Alliance, Bailey Grant Lecture Series, Knoxville, TN.
2021 “The Photographer’s Practice,” Photography Society of Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN.
2021 “ArtTalk,” George Fox University Department of Art & Design and Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, OR.
2019 “The Drake,” Vanderbilt University Art Department, Nashville, TN.
2019 “Two Artists, Their Art, and Art of the Past,” in conjunction with “Views of the South: Photographs from The Do Good Fund,” Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL.
2018 “Thinly Veiled,” Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC.
2018 “Southbound,” Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC.
2015 “Behind the Lens: Women Photographers on Appalachia and the South,” Tipton Gallery, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN.
Teaching
2022 – present Lecturer, The Analog Moment, Digital Culture, and Research and Form, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
2023 – present Adjunct Professor, Intermediate, Studio Lighting and Applied Lighting, Belmont University, Nashville, TN.
2018 – 2019 Adjunct Professor, Analog Photography and Digital Photography, Belmont University, Nashville, TN.
Commissions (Partial Editorial List)
AARP
BITTER SOUTHERNER
BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WEEK
CHICAGO MAGAZINE
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY MAGAZINE
ESPN
FINANCIAL TIMES
FORBES MAGAZINE
GARDEN AND GUN MAGAZINE
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING MAGAZINE
INC. MAGAZINE
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR MAGAZINE
MOTHER JONES
MONEY MAGAZINE
NBC NEWS
NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
OXFORD AMERICAN
PEOPLE MAGAZINE
POLITICO
READER’S DIGEST
ROLLING STONE
SLAM
THE GUARDIAN
THE INTERCEPT
THE MARSHALL PROJECT
THE NEW YORK TIMES
USA WEEKEND
WALL STREET JOURNAL