Edwin Gendron

Ed Gendron is an independent artist, photographer, and filmmaker who currently resides in New Haven, CT. His photographic work has been selected for juried exhibits at University of North Florida, Eastern Carolina University, Artspace New Haven, the Solaris Film Festival (Vienna, Austria), the Arts at Yale Health, and many more. He’s been invited to speak many times on his photography work and on his filmmaking/animation work.

I think that I create, in order to express-the absurdities of being alive, the good and the bad. I grew up in southwestern Virginia, far away from art museums and at that time there was no internet. Nevertheless, I loved drawing people I knew, and things that would catch my eye. In college, I entered as a psychology major, but began taking classes and ultimately majored in Art. I developed a broad skill set. I draw, paint, do photography, animation, and graphic design.

While still a student of Psychology, I interned in the local psychiatric institution and had constant direct experiences with the patients. I like to joke that, at the end of my internship, I was “cured” of my desire to become a psychologist. The experiences remained with me, though. Some were scary, some were touching, even funny in an unex...

Teaching Experience
Radford University (Radford, VA)
• Adjunct Instructor, 3-D Art Foundations (Spring 2008)
• Graduate Teaching Fellow and Instructor of Record, Art Appreciation (2005-2007)
• Invited Guest Lecturer, Computer Animation (spring/fall 2006)


Education
MFA, Radford University (2007)
BFA, Radford University (1992)

• Small Works Juried Exhibition, 5 Points Gallery, Torrington, Ct, (Oct-Nov 2023)

• Block and Bridges: Worldbuilding in New Haven, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Ct, (Oct-Nov 2023)

• The Arts at Yale Health, New Haven, CT, (Summer 2023)

• Some Body: Examples of the Human Form, West Hartford, CT, (February 2022)

Juried and Invited Exhibitions - Photography
• Reenactor Moments, Solaris Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, (September 2020)

• Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography (Laura Wexler, Susan Meiselas, Ariella Azoulay, Wendy Ewald , Leigh Raiford, and Sarah Fritchey, Curators), Artspace Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, (July 26 - Sept 14, 2019)

• State of the Union (Jim Richardson, Juror), Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury Vermont, (January 3 - January 27, 2018)

• Regarding Leisure (Alexander Diaz and Christopher W. Luhar-Trice, Jurors), University of North Florida Gallery, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida (March 5 - May 5, 2015)

• 9th Photographic Image Biennial Exhibition (Burk Uzzle, juror), Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (January 22 - February 15, 2015)

• Pixel and Grain Regional Photography Exhibit (Jeff Whetstone, juror), Durham Arts Guild, Durham,...