About Me
Cathy Cone is a photographer, painter and printmaker. Her surrealist approach to photography began in the late 1970’s with the introduction of the "Diana" camera. This led to investigation of experimental techniques towards a multidisciplinary approach to her poetic image making. Cathy received her training at Ohio University, Vermont Studio Center. She received her MFA at the Maine Media College where she served as a mentor and guest faculty. Some of her exhibitions include Sewanee: University of the South, Weisman Art Museum, University of Alabama, DeCordova Museum, Griffin Museum of Photography, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center and the Vermont Center for Photography. Her works are in the collection of IBM, Hallmark Fine Art Collections, American Express, Beekman a Thompson Hotel, New York and many private collections. Cathy with her husband, master printer Jon Cone, founded Cone Editions Press in 1980 in Port Chester, NY as a collaborative printmaking workshop. Cone Editions Press is now located in East Topsham, Vermont where Cathy is director of the Workshops and Studio.
Artist Statement
I begin by discovering an image in the world. The image emerges and appears as a rather strange, unexpected surprise. This is the charge that I take back into my studio as “something" found to translate. I then go to work by responding more directly in order to rediscover through a new conscious intention. I want to connect and have my hand more it. The finding and constructing of what I understand and know, links up with what I don’t know or can’t see. If I’m lucky, they meld into a new image that lives on the threshold.
"In the moment where images transform and upgrade my consciousness, photography is a guide for me to a deeper understanding on the other side of the transformations."
CV
BORN: Middletown,Ohio
Education:
BFA Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 1980
Vermont Studio Center 1986-1992
Maine Media Workshops
MFA, Maine Media College 2014-2017
Work:
Maine Media College, MFA Program Mentor 2018-2019
Cone-editions Press, co-owner and workshop coordinator: 1980-Present
Vermont Photo Inkjet/Inkjetmall co-owner: 1999-Present
Shows:
2025 Manifest Images, Westbeth Gallery. New York, NY
2024 "Versions and Translations", Carlos Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
2024 "Portrait 2024", Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, Georgia
2024 Soho Photo Gallery’s International Alternative Process Photography Exhibition, Curated by Aline Smithson, New York, NY.
2024 "LOST & FOUND": An Analog Forever Magazine Exhibition, CURATED BY MICHAEL BEHLEN & MICHAEL KIRCHOFF, COLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER, DENVER, COLORADO
2024 The Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, THE PAULA TOGNARELLI COLLECTION
2024 Highland Art Center, Greensboro, Vt., " Visions of Totality", 32 VERMONT ARTISTS INTERPRET THE SOLAR ECLIPSE
2024 Ava Gallery, Lebanon, NH. "Alternative Processes in Contemporary Photography"
2023 Critical Mass Top 50
2023 Dennos Museum Center, "A Separate Shining"
2023 The Griffin Museum of Photography, "Nine Conversations"
2023 Vermont Center for Photography, The Art of Handmade Photography, juried by artist Dale Rio, Brattleboro, Vermont
2023 "Portraits and Portals", Brattleboro Museum and Art Center,
2022, Context 2022, Filter Photo, curated by Frances Jakubek, Director of Bruce Silverstein Gallery
2022 Other Ways of Seeing, Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery, Queens NY, 2022, curated by Orestes Gonzalez, Pierre-Yves Linot
2021 Soho Photo Gallery, NYC
2021 Alternative Processes Exhibition, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, curated by Paula Tognarelli
2021 Minėmå Gallery, Johnson Vermont, "There was Once", Solo Exhibition, Johnson, Vt.
2021 Griffin Museum of Photography, Digits: A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
2020 Highland Center for the Arts, Solo Exhibition, Greensboro,VT.
2020 The Front,”View from the Window”
2020 Griffin Museum of Photography, 26th Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
2020 Filter Photo Context 2020
2019 BigTown Gallery, Main Gallery, "Grasp the Sparrow's Tail", Rochester, Vermont
2018 Towle Hill Studio, Corinth, Vermont
2017 Pasqal Hall, Rockport Maine, MFA Thesis Exhibition
2017 SEABA Gallery, In the Details, Burlington, Vermont
2016 Brattleboro Museum, Open Call NNE (North-Northeast), Brattleboro, Vermont
2015 Visiting Artist, Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York
2014 Installation:Dartmouth /Hitchcock Faulkner: Photography installation
2013 Brattleboro Center for Photography: Unclothed
2012 San Francisco International Photography exhibition
2011 Ava Gallery
2010 Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2009 Ava Gallery, Lebanon, N.H.
2008 D&C Building New York, NY
2008 SPE Gallery, Barre, Vermont
2007 The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts “In the Realm of Rumi”
2007 215 Gallery, Burlington, VT
2007 215 Gallery “Relationship”
2007 Marlboro College
2006 215 Gallery
2005 Barre,Vt. Spa Art Center ”Literal Abstraction”
2004 Oji,California AZU, Gallery
2003 Landmark Gallery, Tarrytown, New York
2001 Dolphin Gallery, Works on View
2000 Ava Gallery, Lebanon, N.H.
1999 Sterling College, Vermont
1999 University of Arizona,Tempe, SCG Invitational
1999 Virtual Visions, Library Art Center Newport,N.H.
1997 Real Gallery, New York City
1997 Ohio University Athens, Ohio, Ohio Print Invitational
1996 Springfield Museum, Springfield, Mass. Computer prints
1996 Ava Gallery, Lebanon, N.H.
1995 Digital Dialects Crieger-Dane Gallery, Boston, Ma.
1995 Digital Dialects Framingham College: Framingham, Ma.
1994 DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Ma. (The Computer in the Studio)
1993 Das Gallery, Lebanon, N.H.
1992 Chords, Coburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington
Awards:
Crtical Mass, Top 50, Photo Lucida 2023
Tusen Takk, Artist in Residency, 2022
Vermont Studio Center Artist Week Residency, 2019
Vermont Council of the Arts
Collections:
NNEMoCA 2024
The Beekman, A Thompson Hotel, New York,
IBM
Pepsico
American Express
Hallmark Fine Art Collections
HBOH&R BLOCK
Perry & Etty Farrell, "Jane's Addiction"
Teaching experience:
Guest Faculty, Maine Media College
Mentor, Maine Media College, 2019
Cone-editions Press workshops
Waits River School
Publications:
DEAR DAVE, Magazine, 38, 2025
BETA Developments in Photography, Issue 50 2024
ONE TWELVE: Poignant Portfolios no. 44, April 28, Michael Kirchoff
Lensculture Portrait Awards, Juror's pick: JEROME HUFFER,
Paris Match, France, April 2023
LENSCRATCH : By Aline Smithson: April 8, 2023, "APPARENT CLOSE-UP"
Analog Forever Magazine Edition 7 Winter 2022
Seven Days Magazine, Art Review by Pamela Polston, "There Was Once"
Solo Show, Minema Gallery, Johnson, Vermont Dec. 2021
Platinotype,( Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary- Printing Out Process)
Chico Springs Review 2021
Critical Mass 2021 Finalist
Juliet Margaret Cameron Awards, 2021, Alternative Processes Fine Art Series
Musée Magazine, Feature,"Milking Butterflies" May, 2021, Andy Dion
FotoNostrum Magazine issue no. Dec. 10 2020
Bonjour Paris/Anna de Noailles: Poetry in a Time of Dislocation, by Fern Nesson, July 2020
Edge of Humanity Magazine, October 21, 2020
Labyrinths Between Earth & Heaven
Hand Magazine 2020 issue 29
LENSCRATCH: Linda Alterwitz: June 13, 2020, Hand Painted Photographs
Shots Magazine,”Interview” Spring 2020
Lonely Planet 2019
Shots Magazine 2018
Photo of the Day, Don't Take Pictures, August 19, 2016
WWD.com Sachin & Babi 2016
"In the Details" Curatorial Project by Carleen Zimbalatti, 2017,Seba Art Center, Burlington, Vt.