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