Artist Bio & CV
Joni Lohr is a freelance photographer and documentarian whose major interests are street, abandonment, architectural, and performance photography. Originally from Detroit, she lives with her husband in Boston, Massachusetts and Francestown, New Hampshire. Ms. Lohr is active in the Boston Camera Club, the Jamaica Plain Artists Association, the Hyde Park Artists Association, the Cambridge Art Association, and the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Photographic Resource Center. She has photographed numerous bands, dance and theater groups throughout the Boston area, and her photographs are featured on their websites, Facebook pages and in promotional materials. She has also documented events for local charitable organizations.
In the last six years, Ms. Lohr’s award-winning photography has been exhibited in galleries throughout the greater Boston metropolitan area including the Charles Fine Arts Gallery, Menino Art Center, TIL Wave Gallery, Gallery 160, UForge Gallery, Fusco & Four Modern, the South Shore Art Center, Beacon Gallery, Galatea Fine Art Gallery, Bromfield Gallery, Hopkinton Center for the Arts, Plymouth Center for the Arts, Attleboro Art Museum, Photographic Resource Center and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
Exhibitions
Solo Shows
Unfinished Stories, UForge Gallery at Boston Public Library, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2018
Through Broken Windows, Sotheby’s International Realty, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2017
Abandoned & On the Street, Sotheby’s International Realty, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2016
Featured Shows
Nature Rules, Gallery at Grosvenor Park, 2019
Boston International Fine Arts Show, Fusco & Four Modern, 2017-2019
JP PorchFest Close-up, Neighborhood Gallery @ Boston City Hall, 2017
Into the Light, the Healing Power of Photography, Betty Meyers Gallery, Newton, MA, 2017
Group Shows
Flora and Fauna of Massachusetts, Boston Camera Club at Boston Nature Center, Mattapan, Massachusetts, 2023
Member Exhibition, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2023
Local Visions, Boston Camera Club, Allston, Massachusetts, 2023
Member Show, Awakenings, Plymouth Center for the Arts, 2023
Mary Schein Fall Salon, Cambridge Art Association, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Member Show, Elements, Plymouth Center for the Arts, 2022
Scollay Square Gallery Exhibition, Hyde Square Art Association, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 - First Prize Photography (2022)
The Focused Eye: Our Unique View, Boston Camera Club banner exhibit at the Public Green on Fan Pier in Boston’s Seaport District, 2021
Annual Members Exhibit, Hyde Square Art Association, 2020, 2021- First Prize Photography
Motion Still, Boston Camera Club @ the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 2021
The Focused Eye: Our Unique Views, Boston Camera Club @ the Griffin Museum of Photography, 2021
Your Work (is) Here, Photographic Resource Center Member Exhibit, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Small Art, Cambridge Art Association, 2019
Winter Solstice, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
Member Show, Jamaica Plain Artists Association, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
Juried Member Shows, Boston Camera Club, 2015 – 2022
Juried Shows
2023
Empty Spaces: Abandoned Places, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Landscapes, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Juror: Douglas Beasley
2023 Members Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Through Your Lens, TILL Wave Gallery, Watertown, MA
Ninth International Open Call, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI, Juror: Paula Tognarell
2022
The Fine Art of Photography, Plymouth Center for the Arts, First Prize black & white photography
Vantage Point, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Winter Works, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
Exposure 2022, 26th annual Photographic Resource Center Members Juried Exhibition, Juror: Catherine Edleman. PRC Choice Award
55th Annual Juried Art Show, Plymouth Center for the Arts
Art Sale, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University
Winter 2022 Exhibition, Artists’ Group of Charlestown
2021
Once Upon a Time, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, Jurors’ Award
Streetwise, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
Under the Same Flag, Atac, Framingham, MA
2021 National Prize Show, Cambridge Artists Association, Juror: Alice Gray Stites.
Puzzle Me This, TIL’s Wav Gallery, Watertown, MA
Personal Space: Self Portraits, Menino Art Center, Hyde Park, MA, Juror: Catherine Caddigan
Infinite Dimensions, Menino Art Center, Hyde Park, MA, Juror: Chris Fitch
New England Collective XI, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, Juror: Grace Ryder O’Malley, Provincetown Art Association & Museum
Step into Summer, 2021 Open Juried Photography Exhibit, Plymouth Center for the Arts, Plymouth, MA
Art Sale, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University
2020
The Architecture of Time, BSA Space Photo Exhibition, Boston, Jurors: Meghan Melvin, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Curator of Design in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Christine O’Donnell, Owner and Gallery Manager of Beacon Gallery, Boston
Broken Beauty, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, Juror: Cathleen Daley
Liminal Spaces, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
The Body Landscape, Menino Art Center, Hyde Park, MA, Juror: Robert Siegleman
Beyond the Window, Plymouth Center for Arts, Plymouth, MA, Juror: David Lee Black
Art Dash, Beacon Gallery, Boston, MA
2019
New England Collective X, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, Juror: Katherine French, Director of Catamount Arts
Abstraction, Griffin Museum of Photography @ Lafayette Center, Boston, Juror: Paula Tognarelli
Primary Source, Griffin Museum of Photography @ Lafayette Center, Boston, Juror: Paula Tognarelli
Stranger Than Fiction: Street Photography, New England School of Photography, Waltham, MA, Juror: Hank Hauptmann, Director, Robert Klein Gallery
Opposites, A National Juried Exhibition, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, Juror: Caitee Hoglund, Gallery Director of 13FOREST Gallery
The 2019 Emerging Artists Exhibition, sponsored by the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture Boston
Simple Pleasures: A National Show, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, Juror: Jen Mergel
Art Dash, Beacon Gallery, Boston, MA
Art Associations Invitational, exhibition of area artists, Menino Arts Center, Hyde Park, MA
Our Animal Friends, Boston Neighborhood Network, Boston
Unapologetic {Sorry}, Gallery 160, Framingham, MA
Art, Grief and the Land, Cambridge Art Association University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
You: Artists Depict Themselves, Hopkinton Center for the Arts, Hopkinton, MA, Juror: Arthur Dion, Director, Gallery NAGA, Boston
Art Larger Than Life, Projections3, Jamaica Plain Arts Council, Jamaica Plain, MA
2018
Boston Strong, Boston Neighborhood Network, Boston
Black & White Photography, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, Juror Arlette Kayafas, Gallery Kayafas, Boston
Annual Open Arts Juried Show, Gallery 160, Framingham, MA
Waves of Time, TILL Wave Gallery, Watertown, MA
Winter Showcase, TILL Wave Gallery, Watertown, MA
2017
Random Act of Art, TILL Wave Gallery, Watertown, MA
Abandoned, Lost, Forgotten, Morini Gallery, Mansfield, MA
Annual Open Arts Juried Show, Gallery 160, Framingham, MA
Industry and the Machine, Charles Fine Art, Gloucester, MA
Art Larger Than Life, Projections2, Jamaica Plain Arts Council, Jamaica Plain, MA
Portraits, A Juried Exhibition, Menino Arts Center, Hyde Park, MA
Honors & Awards
PRC Choice Award, Exposure 2022, Photographic Resource Center, 2022
First Prize, Black & White Photography, Fine Art of Photography, Plymouth Center for the Arts, 2022
First Prize, Photography, 33nd Annual Members Exhibit, Hyde Square Art Association, 2022
Jurors’ Award, Once Upon a Time, Griffin Museum of Photography, 2021
First Prize, Photography, 32nd Annual Members Exhibit, Hyde Square Art Association, 2021
Honorable Mention, Under the Same Flag, Atac, 2021
Honorable Mention, Projection III, Jamaica Plain Arts Council, 2019
Second Prize, Black & White Photography, South Shore Art Center, 2018
Jurors’ Choice Award, Art Larger Than Life, Jamaica Plain Arts Council, 2017
Bibliography/Catalogues
Landscapes, Praxis Gallery, 02-23
Empty Place: Abandoned Spaces, Praxis Gallery, 01/23
Vantage Point: The View from Here, Griffin Museum of Photography, 06/02/22 – 09/12/22
Once Upon a Time, Griffin Museum of Photography, 11/23/21 – 02/19/22
The Focused Eye: Our Unique Views, Boston Camera Club 05 – 10/21
Abstraction Attraction, Griffin Museum of Photography, 11/29/18 – 05/05/19
Art, Grief and the Land, 01/08/19 – 02/02/19
Michigan Focus, 1974-1975
Classes/Workhops
New England School of Photography
Essdras Suarez, EMS Photo Adventures
David Lee Black, Creating Your Vision
Matthew Christopher, Abandoned America
Matt Lambros, After the Final Curtain
David Manch, Silver Crescent Photography
Education
Ms. Lohr has a degree from the University of Michigan.
