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Zeva Oelbaum is represented by Hirschl & Adler Modern, NYC, and teaches at the International Center of Photography in New York. She has two published collections of her work. Flowers in Shadow: A Photographer Rediscovers a Victorian Botanical Journal and Blue Prints: The Natural World in Cyanotype Photographs were both published by Rizzoli International Publications
Education
Brandeis University, BA Anthropology, magna cum laude

Solo Exhibitions
2003
Efflorescence: Photographs by Zeva Oelbaum, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

Flowers in Shadow: A Photographer Rediscovers a Victorian Botanical Garden,
The Fairbanks Museum, St. Johnsbury, VT

Botanical Journals, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL

Flowers in Shadow: Photographs by Zeva Oelbaum, Cheekwood Botanic Hall,
Nashville, TN

2002
Flowers in Shadow: Photographs by Zeva Oelbaum,
Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ

Flowers in Shadow: Photographs by Zeva Oelbaum, Munder Skiles, New York, NY

1999
Zeva Oelbaum: Veiled Distinctions, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, NY

1997
Zeva Oelbaum: Painterly Photographs, Home & Garden Arts, Greenwich, CT

1995
Photographs by Zeva Oelbaum, Grey Advertising, New York, NY

1994
Photographs by Zeva Oelbaum, Mezzina/Brown Inc, New York, NY

1982
Zeva Oelbaum Photographs, The Federal Building, New York, NY

Zeva Oelbaum Photography, The Contemporary Gallery, Kansas City, MO

Selected Group Exhibitions 2006
Taken For Looks, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL

2005
Handmade Pictures: Historical Process in Contemporary Photography,
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

Summer Show, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

Holiday Selections, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

2004
Summer Show, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

Counter Clockwise: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection,
PureLight Gallery, Turner Falls, MA

2002
Counter Clockwise: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, Denmark

2001
Summer Salon IX: New Pictures, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY

Put Yourself in the Picture, selections by Tom Gitterman,
The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY

2000
Air-Conditioned: Interiors, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY

1998
Recent Acquisitions, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Curated by Nessia Pope, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1996
Immortalizing Eden: 13 Photographers Capture Gardens in Black & White,
Munder Skiles, New York, NY

1994
Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, UK

1991
Summertime: A Photo Show of Altered Processes, Robin Rice Gallery, New York, NY

1989
Preview: Presented by Malcolm Abrams, The Magazine Photographers Gallery,
New York, NY

1987
The Art Director's Club, New York, NY

1984
Rated X, Neikrug Gallery, New York, NY

1983
Rated X, Neikrug Gallery, New York, NY

Publications
Flowers in Shadow: A Photographer Rediscovers a Victorian Botanical Journal,
Rizzoli International Publications (2002)

Blue Prints: The Natural World in Cyanotype Photographs,
Rizzoli International Publications (2002)

Selected Bibliography
Vince Aletti, “ShortList”, The Village Voice (November 12, 2003)

Artnotes, “Forward into the Past”, The New Jersey Star Ledger (October 29, 2003)

Foto & Video, Moscow (2003)

"Victorian Flower Journal Rediscovered," The Caledonian Record (June 27, 2003).

"Books by Jay Gardner," Picture (January/February, 2003).

Jane Gottlieb, "Out of the Blue," Photo District News (February 2003).

John Mutter, "Book of the Day: Blue Prints by Zeva Oelbaum," Publisher's Weekly, on-line (November 6, 2002).

Hilarie M. Sheets, "Say It With Shadows," ARTnews (Summer 2002).

Valerie Sudol, "Rooted in a Victorian Past," The New Jersey Star Ledger (March 3, 2002).

Rebecca Sawyer-Fay, “Our Regular Roundup”, Gardener (May/June 2002).

Julie Cole, "A Garden of Reading," Southern Accents (January/February 2002).
Cynthia Clark, "The Book-Sideline Hybrid," Publisher's Weekly (February 25, 2002).

"100-year-old Flowers Bloom in New Book," The Herald of Randolph, Vermont, on-line
(March 7, 2002).

"Summer Salon," The New Yorker (August 13, 2001).

"Air Conditioned: Interiors," The New Yorker (August 21, 2000).

Vince Aletti, "Air Conditioned: Interiors," The Village Voice (August 22, 2000).

"Like Father, Like Daughter," Woodstock Times (March 29, 2000).

"Photography Annual," Communication Arts (August 1995).

"Contributors," Self Magazine (June 1992).

"Photography Annual," Communication Arts (August 1989)

International Photography, published by the Eastman Kodak Company (1989).

Public Collections
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

The Museum of the City of New York, NY

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

The Polaroid Collection, Waltham, MA

The Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY

National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY |