FAVA’s Juried Biennial Photography Show 2025

Exhibition Dates: May 24 - August 10, 2025

Entry Deadline: Friday, March 7, 2025 (11:59, MDT) 

Firelands Association for the Visual Arts invites photographers nationwide to submit their best work for entry into FAVA’s 2025 Juried Biennial Photography Show, opening Saturday, May 24 - August 10, 2025. All photographic processes are considered including but not limited to: digital prints, film photographs, photograms, alternative processes, etc., however we do not accept video submissions for this exhibition. 

FAVA’s Juried Biennial Photography Show is a biennial juried exhibition held in odd-numbered years. The exhibition alternates with a curated invitational photography exhibition held in even-numbered years, in order to present in greater depth the work of individual artists creating in the photographic medium. This year our exhibition will be juried by Gina Osterloh. Learn more about Osterloh below.

Timeline:

Entry Deadline: Friday, March 7, 2025 (11:59, MDT) 
Notice of Acceptance: Friday, April 4, 2025
Work must be received at gallery by: Friday, May 2, 2025
Exhibition Dates: May 24 - August 10, 2025
Reception: Saturday, June 21st 1 PM - 3PM EST

About the Juror: Gina Osterloh

Associate Professor of Art at The Ohio State University, Guggenheim Fellow 2024

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Gina Osterloh (b.1973) is an artist, Associate Professor of Art at The Ohio State University, and a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Photography is the conceptual ground of Osterloh’s work– a place to refute assumed notions of identity and activate questions of perception and desire. She is known for photo tableaux of paper rooms with camouflaged figures. Osterloh also works with collage, performance, text, and sculpture. Solo exhibitions and performances include “Gina Osterloh: Mirror Shadow Shape” at the Columbus Museum of Art, her first museum survey with accompanying book featuring work from 2005-2020. Her “Demilitarized Zone / Image Without Weapon” at MOCA Detroit; “Gina Osterloh” at Higher Pictures Generation (NY); “ZONES” at Silverlens (Manila, Philippines); “Shadow Woman” as part of the performance series En Cuatro Patas at The Broad (Los Angeles); and Anonymous Front at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco). Group exhibitions include “Multiply Identify Her” at the International Center of Photography Museum (NY); “Not Visual Noise” at Ateneo University (Quezon City, Philippines); and “Energy Charge: Connecting with Ana Mendieta” at Arizona State University Art Museum. Gina Osterloh has an MFA in Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine (2007). Her work is represented by Silverlens Galleries and Higher Pictures Generation.