Education

 

2007     Bachelor of Music, Jazz Performance, Minnesota State University Moorhead

 

2006     Bachelor of Science, Graphic Communications, Minnesota State University Moorhead

 

 

Solo Exhibits

 

2019     ​Driving Through Flyover Country, Kaddatz Galleries, Fergus Falls, MN, March 2 - 30

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2009     North Dakota,  Unison Bank, Jamestown, ND

 

Group Exhibits

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2022     Everything is Narrative  Subjectively Objective,  Rochester Hills, MI, June

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2022     Investigations in Infrastructure  Subjectively Objective,  Rochester Hills, MI, May

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2020     Observations in the Ordinary  Subjectively Objective,  Rochester Hills, MI, February

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2019     After Promontory  Carnegie Arts Center, Alliance, NE, September 24 - January 4, 2020

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2019     After Promontory  Durham Museum, Omaha, NE, March 30 - July 28

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2019     After Promontory  Brigham Young University Art Museum, Provo, UT, March 29 - October 5

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2018     The Vernacular of Landscape  Usagi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, September 14 - October 19

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2018     The Vernacular of Landscape  Subjectively Objective, Rochester Hills, MI, July

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2017     North Dakota Museum of Art Autumn Auction  ND Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, October 28

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2017     Topographies  Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS, September 29 - October 13

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2017     Exposure 2.0  The Hotel Donaldson, Fargo, ND, September 14 - September 23

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2017     Negative Feedback  theprintspace, London, United Kingdom, September 1 - September 14

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2017     Pylot Magazine Open Call  theprintspace, London, United Kingdom, July 27 - August 2

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2017     Juried Exhibition Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS, January 27 - February 10

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2016     WE:AMEricans  Station Independent Projects, New York City, July 7 - August 7

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2016     Night  Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, June 17 - July 23

 

2015     Icons of the West  Dana Gallery, Missoula, MT, May 15 - June 30

 

2014     Icons of the West  Dana Gallery, Missoula, MT, May 16 - June 30

 

2013     Wisconsin Railroads Today  East Troy Electric Railroad Museum, East Troy, WI

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Monograph

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Abode of Iron Desolation, Self-published, 2022

Pay Phones, Subjectively Objective Mini Monograph Vol. 61

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Selected Published Photographs

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Continuity & Change: The Lure of North American Railroads, The Center for Railroad Photography and Art, 2022

Everything is Narrative, Curated by Noah Waldeck, Subjectively Objective, 2021

Investigations in Infrastructure, Curated by Noah Waldeck, Subjectively Objective, 2021

The Railroad of Art and Place: An Anthology, The Center for Railroad Photography and Art, 2021

Observations in the Ordinary, Curated by Noah Waldeck, Subjectively Objective, 2019

After Promontory, Edited by the Center for Railroad Photography and Art, Indiana University Press, 2019

The Vernacular of Landscape, Curated by Noah Waldeck, Subjectively Objective, 2018

Stop Magazine, Issue Two, Winter 2017

Railroad Heritage, Winter 2017

Trains, May 2010

Regional Railroads of the Midwest, 2007 - Steve Glischinski, Voyageur Press

CTC Board, October 2004

North Dakota 24/7, 2004 - Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen, DK Publishing

America 24/7, 2003 - Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen, DK Publishing

 

Selected Published Articles

 

Trains Online, June 2010

CTC Board, October 2004

 

Bibliography

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"Driving Through Flyover Country" Booooooom, September 1, 2022

"A North Dakota City Attracted a Corn Mill. Then Came Questions About Its Chinese Owners" New York Times, July 17, 2022

"Life in a Minnesota ‘Fishbowl: Water Everywhere, Except Inside Town" New York Times, May 6, 2022

"Taking his Time: Driving Through Flyover Country" High Plains Reader, February 27, 2019

"Driving Through Flyover Country" Lenscratch, the States Project, December 11, 2018

"Driving Through Flyover Country" FotoFilmic18 Shortlist I, February 2018

"Flyover Country" Dodho Magazine Online, December 27, 2017

"Driving Through Flyover Country" Aint-Bad Online, November 23, 2017

"A Town You Haven't Heard Of - Kensal, ND" Edge of Humanity Magazine, August 28, 2017

"Pylot Magazine Open Call - The Finalists," Pylot Magazine Online, July 27, 2017

"Earth Mirrors Sky: The Making of a Great Plains Photograph," Terra/Incognita, March 14, 2017

"The Photography of Lewis Ableidinger," Interview, PhotoArtMag, March 2016

Lester, David C. "Younger Generation Losing Interest in Railroad Photography? Not a chance." Railroad Heritage, Fall 2014.

 

Presentations

 

"Railroads and Landscape" Center for Railroad Photography and Art, April 16, 2011

 

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