Education: BA, Agnes Scott College, ‘58, MFA, Georgia State University, ‘88
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS
2021
On Being: Maiden, Mother, Crone, Walnut Gallery, Gadsden, AL
2019
Blind Vision, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
*Infinite Grace, Hydra, Mexico City, Mexico
2018
Agents of Memory, Homestead Village, Fairhope, AL
Blind Vision, Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship, Fairhope, AL
Blind Vision, Berry College, Rome, GA
2017
*Imagined, Mobile Arts Council, Mobile, AL
2015
Corporeal Veil Unraveled, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
2014
Cellular Cosmos and *Mitos, Mobile Arts Council Gallery, Mobile, AL
Compendium, Georgia Southwestern, Americus, GA
*Recent Works, McNeese University, Lake Charles, LA
*Calaveras, Dreams and Dolls, Jax State University, Jacksonville, AL
2013
*Under the Binding, Walnut Gallery, Gadsden, AL
2011
Corporeal Veils Unraveled, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL
2010
Retrospective, UAB Visual Arts Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2009
Recent Work, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Studio Swan, Serenbe, GA
Body Notes, Wiregrass Museum, Dothan, AL
Perforated Corporal Perceptions, LA Tech, Ruston, LA
2008
*Pentagram of Loss, Halsey Gallery, Charleston, SC
Body Notes, Austin College, Sherman, TX
Body Notes: Photographic Instruments, MCAF, Birmingham, AL
2007
Lois Sundberg and Pinky Bass, Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, AL
Pinky Bass, Pensacola Jr. College, Pensacola, FL
2006
Body Work, Montevallo College, AL
2005
Marked by Connections, Eastern Shore Art Center, Fairhope, AL
2004
*Influences and Collaboration, University Arkansas, Monticello, AK
2003
Recent Work, BTW Magnet High School, Montgomery, AL
2002
Body Images, Art in the Edge, Shreveport, LA
2001
*Foreshadowed Faces, Savage Photo Gallery, Mobile, AL
*Clay Bodies, Digital Ceramics, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
1999
Alternative Visions, McDowell Tech College, Marion, NC
Macedonian Moments, Gallery 303, Georgia Southern, Statesboro, GA
Macedonian Moments, Michael’s Midtown, Mobile, AL
Body Nostalgia, Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1997
Holy Water: Learning to Float, Eastern Shore Art Center, Fairhope, AL
Pinhole Cameras and Images, Agnes, Birmingham, AL
1996
New Work, Woods Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Pinhole Works, Evans Memorial Library, Aberdeen, MS
Psychological Portraits, Southern Lights Coffee House, Fairhope, AL
1995
Limens and Sublimens, EJ Bellocq Gallery, LA Tech University, Ruston, LA
Cameras and Photographs, Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC
*Viva Muerte, Muerte Viva, Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL
Pinky’s Wonder Full Walk-in Pinhole Camera, SOE, Birmingham, AL
Pinhole Photography, Lovette School, Atlanta, GA
1993
*Marked by Collaboration: The California Experience, APG, Atlanta, GA
*Marked by Collaboration: The Fullness Thereof, Crista Faut, Davidson, NC
1992
Photographs, Michael’s Midtown, Mobile, AL
*Collaboration Emerging, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Pinhole Purses, Eastern Shore Art Center, Fairhope, AL
1991
*Erda: Birth of New Forms, Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
Through a Pinhole Darkly, Birmingham Arts Association, Birmingham, AL
1990
Through a Pinhole Darkly, Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
Dreams of Death, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, VA
The Big Box Camera, Site Sculpture, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
1988
*Three Generations: A Study in Relationships, ESAC, Fairhope, AL
1987
Dreams of Death/Sacraments of Life, Nexus, Atlanta, GA
Steal the Elixir and Run: a personal mythology, GSU, Atlanta, GA
1979
*We Two, Island Art Center, St. Simons Island
1977-1979
Parables of Life, Waycross Jr. College, GA; Rechenbach Gallery, Knoxville,
TN; Brunswick Jr. College, GA; Georgia Southwestern, Augusta, GA;
Center for Creative Arts, Jekyll Island, GA
1975
Paintings and Such, Bee Hive, Blackshear, GA
*Collaborative with Clara R. Couch, Marion S. McCall, Douglas P Baulos, Carolyn DeMeritt, Jo Patton and Renee Cheveallier
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Alabama Reckoner, Wiregrass Museum, Dothan, AL
2017
Contemporary Alabama Photography, Mobile Museum of Art, & Houston, TX
Intimate Lines, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2016
On Being a Blind Photographer, Gulf Art Space, ESAC, Fairhope, AL
2014
Self Processing: Instant Photography, Ogden Museum of SE Art, New Orleans, LA
The Embroidered Image, Robert Mann Gallery, NYC, NY
2010 Shootin’ Southern, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
2009 Contemporary Art in Alabama, Johnson Center for the Arts, Troy, AL
2008
MEND: love, life & loss, Halsey Gallery, Charleston, SC
Self Portraiture, Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
2007
Now and Then, Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL
2005
On/Of Paper, Space 301, Mobile, AL
For Donna, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2004
Orange Alert, Space 301, Mobile, AL
2003
Arts and Letters, Gulf ArtSpace & Over the Transom, Fairhope, AL
2002
Pure Light: Southern Pinhole Photography, SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC
Lightstruck, Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC
2001
Alternative Photographic Processes, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
Points of Light, Adirondack Community College, Queensbury, NY
Voices Rising, Birmingham Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art, AL
2000
Making Pictures, Contemporary American Photography, Ashville Art Museum, Ashville, NC
Journal of Influences: friends and mentors, Eastern Shore Art Center, Fairhope
Voices Rising: Alabama Women at the Millennium, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
1999
Out of Obscura: Historical and Contemporary Women Photographers,
Int. Photography Hall of Fame & Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
Celebrating Alabama Women Artists, YWCA, Birmingham, AL
1998
Individuals: Unique & in Community, Unitarian Universalist Church,
Rochester, NY
Drawn from Nature: a contemporary response to the natural world, Dalton
Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1997
Signs of Age: Representing the Older Body, SBCAF, Santa Barbara, CA
Tangle of Complexes: Photographing in Mexico, Space One Eleven,
Birmingham, AL; Nexus, Atlanta, GA; Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
1996
River Corridors Initiative, Sautee Community Center, Sautee, GA
Altered Perceptions: The Mexico Project, BAA, Birmingham, AL (organizer)
100 Women/100 Works, Center at High Falls, Rochester, NY
1995
SAF/NEA Photography Fellowship Exhibition, MS Museum, Jackson, MS
Alabama Family, Alabama State Council on the Arts, Montgomery, AL
1994
Points and Perspectives: Contemporary Pinhole Photography, Chastain Art, Center, Atlanta, GA (curator)
Pinhole View, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Bi-Locacion, Escuela de Bellas Artes, Oaxaca, Mexico (organizer)
Printed Light: Two Decades of Collecting Photography, High Museum, GA
1993
Reflections: Women Looking at Women, Furman University, Greenville, SC
McNeese National Works on Paper, McNeese State College, Lake Charles, LA
1992
Marked by California, Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Emerging Southern Photography, Memphis School of Art, Memphis, TN
1991
Impulse 1991, Astral Gallery, Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Fotografia aus USA, Fabrik-Foto-Forum, Hamburg, Germany
Four Decades/Four Artists, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
1990
Photomodern: Issues in Photography, Arts Festival of Atlanta, GA
Art and the Alabama Woman 1990, Mobile, AL (Best of Show)
1989
Pinhole Photography, Saidye Bronfman Center, Montreal, Canada
New Southern Photography: Between Myth and Reality, Burden Gallery, NY, NY
1988
Contemporary Artists in Georgia: Selections from the Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
International Pinhole Photography Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM (traveling)
Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL (award)
1986
Mostra, Palazio Casali, Cortona, Italy
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Birmingham Art Museum, Birmingham, AL
Davidson College, Davidson, NC
NationsBank Corporate Collection (now Bank of America), Charlotte, NC
McNeese State University Collection, Lake Charles, LA
Lucinda Bunnen Collection, Atlanta, GA
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS, AND RESIDENCIES
2019
Visual Artist Arty Award, Mobile, AL
2005
Best of Show, People’s Show, Space 301, Mobile, AL
2004
Residency, Oregon School of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
2000
Residency, Western Carolina University, Cullowee, NC
1999
Support Grant, Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment
for the Arts, Montgomery, AL
1998
Exhibition Awards, Tennessee Valley Art Association, Tuscumbia, AL
1997
Resen Ceramic Colony Residency (Catalog Photographer), Republic of Macedonia
Georgia Women in the Visual Arts Award, Atlanta, GA
1995
Jamison-Carnegie Foundation Award, Talladega, AL
SAF/NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, Photography
1992
Artist Residency, Collaboration with Clara R. Couch, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
1991
Artist Fellowship Grant, Alabama State Council on the Arts
1990
Best of Show, Art and the Alabama Woman 1990, Mobile, AL
Artist Residency, Appalachian Environmental Art Center, Highlands, NC
International Print Exhibition Award, Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
Big Box Camera, Site Sculpture Grant, Arts Festival of Atlanta, GA
1989
Interdisciplinary Grant (Regional Artist Project) for The Itinerant Photographer
Grant, City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs, GA
Visiting Artist, Penland School, Penland, NC
1988
Alabama Artist Award, Red Clay Survey, Huntsville, AL
Artist Residency, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1986
Studies Abroad Grant, Cortona, Italy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
Monograph: Pinky/MM Bass, Alabama Public Television, 2019
Exploring Fiber Arts: Wall Art, Schiffer Publishing, 2017.
Pentagram of Loss, 2008:
http://halsey.cofc.edu/video/pentagram-of-loss-pinkymm-bass-renee-cheveallier/
Polaroid Book, Taschen, 2005
Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, C. James, 2001, 2008
Coat of Many Colors, Alabama Public Television, DVD, 2001
Sleep: Bedtime Reading, Rizzoli/Universe Publishing, l998
Aperture #141, Supplement: SAF/NEA Fellowships, 1995
Red Bluff Review, S. Brewer, ed., 1995
Pinhole Photography, E. Renner, 1995
Pinhole Journal, various volumns 1987-2003
Shots #27, 1991; #21, 1990; #50, 1995
Photonews, Zeitung Fur Photographie, No. 7, 1991
Aperture #115, Southern Photography: Between Myth and Reality, 1989
SELECTED WORKSHOPS, LECTURES and DEMONSTRATIONS
2019
Lecture/Workshop, JCCC, Overland Park, KS
2018
Bookarts with Doug Baulos, Wiregrass, Dothan AL
2014
Lecture, Georgia Southwestern, Americus, GA
2011
Imagemaker Presentation, Society for Photographic Education, Atlanta, GA
2010
Lecture, The Photo League: A Visual Voice, Unitarian Fellowship, Fairhope, AL
2009
Panel, Photographers & Women’s Health Issues, UTSA, San Antonio, TX
2008
Workshop/Lecture, Western Carolina, Cullowee, NC
Presentation, Austin College, Sherman, TX
Workshop, University of Texas, Lubbock, TX
2007
Imagemaker Presentation, Society for Photographic Education, Dallas, TX
Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2005
Magic City Art, Birmingham, AL
2004
Instructor, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
2002
Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2000
Instructor, Horn Island Experience, Biloxi, MS
1999
Lecture, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
1998
Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
1997
Imagemaker Presentation, National Conference, Society for Photographic Education, Dallas, TX
1996
Lecture, Women in the Arts, Judson College, Marion, AL
1995
Workshop, Emrys Foundation, Greenville, SC
Lecture, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
1994
Imagemaker Presentation, National Conference, Society for Photographic Education, Atlanta, GA
1993
Director, Mexico Project, Oaxaca, Mexico
Lecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Lecture, Friends of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
1992
Workshop, The Human Form in Nature, Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
Collaboration Panel, Society for Photographic Education, Beaufort, NC
Interview, WALA-TV News, Mobile, AL
1991
Pinhole Camera, Scitrek Atlanta Museum of Science and Tech., Atlanta, GA
Workshop, Appalachian Environmental Center, Summer Program, Highlands, NC
1990
Interview, WHYY Radio, Philadelphia, PA
Artist Presentation for Art Educators, SECAC, Atlanta, GA
1989
Imagemaker Presentation, Society for Photographic Education, Atlanta, GA
College and University Workshops
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX
Austin College, Sherman, TX
Pensacola Jr. College, Pensacola, FL
Meredith College, Raleigh, NC
Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL
Louisiana Tech, Ruston, LA
Virginia Intermont, Bristol, VA
Western Carolina, Cullowee, NC
Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX
Austin College, Denton, TX
University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
SELECTED EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE
1996-1998 Education Consultant, McKnight Project, Aberdeen, MS
1994 Part-time Professor, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
1988-1999 Artist in Education in over 50 schools, Alabama State Council on the Arts
1988-1999 Pinhole Camera Workshops for Colleges, Art Centers, Museums and Special Programs throughout the United States
1983-1987 Instructor / Lab Assistant, Educational Microcomputer Lab, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
1974-1976 Director and Education Coordinator, Okefenokee Heritage Center, Waycross, GA
1972-1978 Founder/Director/Instructor, Community Art Center, Blackshear, GA