BIOGRAPHY
Working within the documentary tradition, Stacy Kranitz makes photographs that acknowledge the limits of photographic representation. Her images do not tell the “truth” but are honest about their inherent shortcomings, and thus reclaim these failures (exoticism, ambiguity, fetishization) as sympathetic equivalents in order to more forcefully convey the complexity and instability of the lives, places, and moments they depict.
Kranitz was born in Kentucky and currently lives in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee. She is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. Additional awards include the Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography (2017), a Southern Documentary Fund Research and Development grant (2020), a Puffin Foundation grant (2022), and a Center for Documentation Fellowship (2023). Her work was shortlisted for the Louis Roederer Discovery Award (2019). She has presented solo exhibitions of her photographs at the Diffusion Festival of Photography in Cardiff, Wales (2015), the Rencontres d’Arles in Arles, France, the Cortona on the Move festival in Cortona, Italy (2022) and the Tennessee Triennial (2023) Her photographs are in several public collections including the Harvard Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and Duke Universities, Archive of Documentary Arts She works as an assignment photographer for publications including Time, National Geographic, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, the Atlantic and Mother Jones. Her first monograph, As it Was Give(n) to Me, was published by Twin Palms in 2022. It was shortlisted for a Paris Photo - Aperture First Photobook Award.
INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS
The Face - Stacy Kranitz is photographing life in rural Appalachia, 2024
Internazionale - Obligatory Choice, 2024
Nieman Storyboard - Following an unfinished story, 2024
Inside Appalachia - A Tennessee Photographer’s ‘Guttural’ Photos Of Appalachia, 2024
The Urbanaut Podcast - episode #31, 2024
Bomb - Stacy Kranitz by Robert Alan Grand, 2023
Document Journal - Stacy Kranitz Captures Appalachia As It IS, 2023
Modern Art Notes - Episode 620: Stacy Kranitz and Kristine Potter, 2023
A Small Voice: Interviews with Photographers, Stacy Kranitz, 2023
Blind - The Missionary and the Villan, 2023
National Press Photographers Association - An Interview with Stacy Kranitz, 2023
To Be - Stacy Kranitz on the Power of Becoming Undone, 2023
Atlantic - The Photographer Undoing the Myth of Appalachia, 2022
Fotografisk Tidskrift - Twelve years in One Place, 2022
Liberation - Stacy Kranitz, On Se Met Une Mine, 2022
Washington Post - Life in Appalachia in “As it Was Give(n) to Me, 2022
Collector Daily - Stacy Kranitz, As it was Give(n) to Me, 2022
Musee - Book Review: As It Was Give(n) to Me by Stacy Kranitz, 2022
PH Museum - Sunset Over Appalachia, 2022
Huck - Capturing a Different side to America’s Appalchia, 2022
Blind Magazine - The Ping Pong Effect, 2022
The Creative Independent - Photographer Stacy Kranitz on Remaining Curious, 2022
Columbia Journalism Review - Against ‘poor’ Reporting, 2022
It’s Nice That - Should Only Working Class Photographers take Pictures of Working-Class Places?, 2022
I-D - Intimate photos of working-class life In Appalachia, 2022
Sixteen Journal Vol.7, 2022
Nashville Scene - Girls on Film, 2021
Float Magazine - Life is Art, 2021
Devour the Land - Published by Harvard Art Museums, 2021
PH Museum - A Rural, Working Class Rebellion in Appalachia, 2020
Burnaway Reader: Laws of Salvage, 2020
It’s Nice That - Stacy Kranitz on the Flaws of Documentary Photography, 2019
Juxtapoz - Stacy Kranitz Explores the American Appalachia, 2019
Locate Arts - Interview: Stacy Kranitz, 2019
Liberation - Stacy Kranitz: La Photographie M’a Rendue a la Vie, 2019
British Journal of Photography - As it Was Give(n) To Me, 2019
The State Journal - Understanding Culture through the Lens, 2019
The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization - SPBH, 2019
Hot Shoe - Issue 203, Southern, 2019
The Reservoir - Deep Down Cancer Alley, 2018
Sewanee Review - Fall 2018, 2018
Photofile #101 - Australian Center for Photography, 2018
Anxy, The Masculinity Issue, 2018
Polka #44, 2018
PDN - Stacy Kranitz and Zoe Strauss on Their Collaborative Examination of American Economic Decay, 2017
Ain't Bad - The Inimitable Otherness of Stacy Kranitz, 2016
Photo District News - Appalachian Odyssey, 2016
Juxtapoz - Stacy Kranitz – it’s All Personal, 2016
Mossless - Public/Private/Portrait, International Center for Photography, 2016
Time - Stacy Kranitz is TIME’s pick for Instagram Photographer of the Year, 2016
Dazed and Confused - Rethinking the Face of 'poverty' in America Today, 2016
The Guardian - Can a Photographs on the Appalachians Shuck Stereotypes, 2016
American Suburb X - Interrogating the Notion of Documentary Truth, 2016
Paper Journal - Interview: Stacy Kranitz, New Humanism, 2016
Blount Art Info - Lost Boys: Stacy Kranitz Exposes a Skate Park’s Dark Side, 2015
Time - Coming of Age in Skatopia, Ohio’s 88-Acre Skatepark, 2015
The Heavy Collective The Heavy Collective Volume One, 2015
Photographers Sketchbooks - Thames and Hudson DNCHT - #17, 2014
British Journal of Photography - Kicking Against the Pricks, 2013
Columbia Journalism Review - On the Job, The Outsider, 2013
Dear Dave - Issue 15, 2013
Granta - Issue 118, 2012
EDUCATION
University of California, Irvine, MFA, Department of Art
New York University, BA, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
GRANTS AND AWARDS
CECA Tennessee Artist Fellowship, 2024
Arnold Newman Photography Prize in Portraiture (Finalist), 2024
PH Museum Women Photographers Grant (Finalist), 2024
Center for Visual Documentation Fellowship, 2023
Paris Photo - Aperture First Photobook Award (Shortlisted), 2022
Duke Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award, 2022
The Puffin Foundation Grant, 2022
Field Projects Residency, 2022
National Geographic Society Grant, 2021
Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Grant, 2021
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2020
Southern Documentary Fund Research and Development Grant, 2020
We Women Grant, 2020
Magnum Foundation Fund Award, 2020
Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Artist in Residency, 2019
Louis Roederer Discover Award (Shortlisted), 2019
Crosstown Arts Residency, 2019
Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography, 2017
Columbus State University, Artist in Residence, 2017
Time Magazine Instagram Photographer of the Year, 2015
The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, Residency, 2015
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
A Year After A Denied Abortion, Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy, 2024
A Year After A Denied Abortion, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY, 2024
As it Was Give(n) To Me, CC Projects, New York, NY, 2024
As it Was Give(n) To Me, Tennessee Triennial, ICA Chattanooga, 2023
As it Was Give(n) To Me, Cortona on the Move, Cortona, Italy, 2022
As it Was Give(n) To Me, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville,NC, 2019
As it Was Give(n) To Me, Les Rencontres de la Photografie, Arles, France, 2019
Fulcrum of Malice, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC, 2017
As it Was Give(n) to Me, Diffusion, Cardiff Festival of Photography, Wales, UK, 2015
From the Study on Post Pubescent Manhood, Little Big Man Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2015
Once Entangled With It, No Other Place Seems Possible, Gallery Protocol, Gainesville, FL, 2014
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Borderlines, KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 2023
Earthbound Riches, Rowe Gallery at UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 2021
The Great Divide by Stacy Kranitz and Zoe Strauss, Lightfield Festival, Hudson, NY, 2017
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Creeps and Butterflies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, 2024
A Long Arc, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 2024
A Long Arc, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 2023
Beyond the Horizon, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC, 2023
Reckonings and Reconstructions, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, 2022
America in Crisis, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2022
The Nature of the Future, Leu Art Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2022
Tender is Our Skin, Alabama Contemporary, Mobile, AL, 2022
Devour the Land, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2021
Looking Male, LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, AL, 2021
The Power of We, Empire Fulton Lawn in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY, 2021
Trump Revolution, Climate Crisis, Bronx Documentary Center, New York, NY, 2020
Southbound, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC, 2018
Record/Off Record, Northern Kentucky University, Fotofocus Biennial, Highland Heights, KY, 2018
Photography Comes First and Language Follows, Currey Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2018
Fake, Galerie Bohai, Hannover, Germany, 2017
You, Me, Us and Them, W.C. Bradley Co. Museum, Columbus, GA, 2016
Familiar Difference, curated by Inocents, These Days Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
Dirt, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2015
Role Play, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, Colorado, 2015
In Your Face, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
Louisiana, The Multi-Media Museum Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia,2014
Recent Perspectives on Portraiture, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Harvard Art Museums
Museum of Fine Art, Houston
The Do Good Fund
Duke University, Archive of Documentary Arts
MONOGRAPHS
As It Was Give(n) to Me, Twin Palms, 2022