Nina Berman is a documentary photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape.

Ms. Berman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited and collected. She is the recipient of two World Press awards, a 2006 fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a 2005 grant from the Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Fund.

Her first monograph, “Purple Hearts – Back From Iraq”, a collection of portraits and interviews with U.S. soldiers wounded in the war, was published by Trolley in 2004 and received wide acclaim. The book was made into a feature length documentary film by the same name and screened worldwide.

Her work has been the subject of several solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., and throughout Europe.

She is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography in her hometown of New York City.

Education

University of Chicago, B.A. 1982

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, M.S. 1985

Teaching

2000 – 2007

Documentary department International Center of Photography (ICP), New York City.

Exhibitions

Solo Shows

2009 Side Gallery, New Castle, England

2009 Gage Gallery/Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois

2009 War Photo Ltd, Dubrovnik, Croatia

2009 ArteFoto 2009, Ancona, Italy

2008 Cicero Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2008 Jen Bekman Gallery, New York City

2008 Visa Pour L?Image, Perpignan, France

2008 Elon University, Elon, North Carolina

2007 Jen Bekman Gallery, New York City

2007 Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, New York

2007 Green Door Studio, Burlington, Vermont

2007 Columbia School of Social Work, New York City

2007 Suny Potsdam, Crumb Library, Potsdam, New York

2007 Galerie Cerami, Charleroi, Belgium

2006 University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland

2006 Trolley Gallery, London, England

2006 University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii

2005 National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois

2005 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon

2004 Gladstone Building, Oakland, California

2004 Redux Gallery, New York City

Selected Group Shows

2009 New Orleans Museum of Art, "The Art of Caring," New Orleans, Louisiana

2009 Houston Center for Photography, "Unite and Untie," Houston, Texas

2008 Wellcome Collection, "War and Medicine," London, England

2008 Stephen Cohen Gallery, "Images of War," Los Angeles, California

2008 Photokina, Visual Gallery, Cologne, Germany

2008 Pingyao International Photo Festival, Pingyao, China

2008 Bumbershoot, "Power of One," Seattle, Washington

2008 Benham Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington

2008 Fovea Editions, "Frontlines", Beacon, New York

2008 Portland Art Museum, "New on the Wall," Portland, Oregon

2008 Massachusetts College of Art, "War Stories," Boston, Massachusetts

2008 Jen Bekman, "Ne Plus Ultra", New York City

2007 Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2007 Musee de l?Art Wallon "Icare", Liege, Belgium

2007 Mark Di Suvero Peace Tower, Chicago, Illinois

2007 Visa Pour L?Image, Perpignan, France

2007 Boca Raton Museum of Art, "Thy Brother?s Keeper" Boca Raton, Florida

2007 Nathan Cummings Foundation, "The Big Picture," New York City

2006 Spool Mfg - Overload: Photographing the Iraq War, Johnson City, New York

2006 Flint Institute of Arts, "The Human Condition", Flint, Michigan

2006 Chicago Cultural Center, "Humans Being: Disability in Contemporary Art"

2006 Open Society Institute, "Moving Walls," Washington D.C.

2005 Deutsche American Institute, Heidelberg, Germany

2005 World Press Photo Foundation, Amsterdam, 2005

2005 Smack Mellon Gallery, "War," Brooklyn, New York

2005 Provisions Library, "War", Washington D.C

2005 Open Society Institute, "Moving Walls," New York City

2005 Foto&Photo, Cesano Maderno, Italy

2004 Visa Pour L?Image, Perpignan, France

2002 Musee de L?Elysee "New York after New York", Lausanne, Switzerland

2001 Palazzo Isimbardi, "9-11", Milan, Italy

2000 Museum of the City of New York, "New York Now 2000"

1997 Visa Pour L?Image, Perpignan, France, 1997

1993 United Nations, "Faces of Sorrow", New York City

1991 Henry Street Settlement, "On the Edge." New York City

Grants, fellowships, honors

2009 Hasselbald Masters Finalist

2009 PDN Photo Annual Book Award

2007 World Press Photo Foundation

2007 Pictures of the Year Award

2006 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship

2005 World Press Photo Foundation

2005 Open Society Institute Documentary Grant

2005 American Photo ? 100 most important people in photography issue

2005 Days Japan International Photo Award

2003 American Photography Annual

2002 American Photography Annual

2000 Communication Arts

1999 Pictures of the Year

1999 Communication Arts

1998 Emma Award

1998 Pictures of the Year

1998 Communication Arts

1997 Pictures of the Year Award

1993 Pictures of the Year Award

1987 Finalist Livingston Award

Selected Reviews and Features

WNYC, Leonard Lopate, Interview, November 26, 2007

Le Monde, Sylvain Cypel, Review, September 14, 2007

Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Mary Thomas, Preview, September 7, 2007

St. Petersburg Times, Jim Verhulst, Perspective, September 2, 2007

DerSpiegel Online, Marc Pitzke, Review, August 30, 2007

Agence France Press, James Hossack, Feature, August 26, 2007

International Herald Tribune, Holland Cotter, Review, August 24, 2007

Time Magazine, Richard Lacayo, Arts Blog, August 22, 2007

New York Times, Holland Cotter, Review, August 22, 2007

Ojo de Pez, Volume 10

PBS, Bill Moyers Journal, May 11, 2007

Staten Island Advance, Michelle Maskaly, Feature, March 19, 2007

Baltimore Sun, Glenn McNatt – Review, December 10, 2006

Honolulu Weekly, - Peter Serafin, Feature, February 8, 2006

Honolulu Star Bulletin –Rod Thompson, Feature, February – 2, 2006,

C-SPAN – Book TV – December 24, 2005

Newark Star Ledger –Dylan Foley, Feature, December 4, 2005

Chicago Sun Times –Misha Davenport, Review, November 11, 2005

Monthly Review –William Ayers, Feature, November 1, 2005

NPPA Magazine – Stephen Wolgast, Review, September 2005

Rangefinder Magazine – A.K. Crump, Review August 2005

The Oregonian – July 22, 2005, Review

University of Chicago Magazine - Amber Lee Mason, Review June 2005

American Photo – 100 in Photography, May-June 2005

CBS TV Evening News – May 28, 2005

PBS TV NOW – Feature – May 13, 2005

PBS TV Lehrer News Hour – May 4, 2005

New York Times, Douglas Heingartner, May 3, 2005

NOS TV – Holland – April 23, 2005

Cleveland Free Times –Joshua Green, Review, April 6, 2005

TV Asahi – Japan – March 17, 2005

Brooklyn Rail Yard _ Nick Stillman, Review, March 2005

Open democracy - Feature, March 2005

Seattle Times – J. Patrick Coolican, Review, February 13, 2005

CBC TV – Canada “The Hour” – February 2, 2005

National Catholic Reporter - Demetria Martinez, Review, December 10, 2004

Digital Journalist, Peter Howe, Feature December 2004

Crosswinds Weekly --– Cover story, November 112004

Antiwar.com - Michael Austin, Review November 2, 2004

Days Japan – Japan – November 2004 issue

Photo District News – Review, November 2004

MotherJones.Com - Tucker Foehl, Interview, October 28, 2004

Newsweek.com- Karen Fragala, Interview, October 21, 2004

Peacereporter.org - Alessandro Ursic, Review October 18, 2004

Telegraph/ England – Feature, October 17, 2004

Volkskrant/Holland – Feature, October 9, 2004

KGO TV Evening News – October 6, 2005

Los Angeles Times - John Needham, review, October 5, 2004,

Alternet.org - Evan Derkacz, "The Grief of Baghdad”, October 5, 2004

VPRO/Holland – Cover, October 2, 2004 Cover,

Amsterdam News - Jimmie Briggs, review September 16, 2004

ABC TV - "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos - September 12, 2004

Frankfurt Rundschau/Germany - Cover Story, September 11, 2004,

NY Press - Alexander Zaitchik review, September 8, 2004

The Record, New Jersey, Jeffrey Page review, August 24,2004

American Photo – Feature, September/October 2004

Harvard Nieman Report – Feature, Summer 2004

TIME.Com- Flash Movie Feature, July 19, 2004

Mother Jones/ USA – Feature, March/April 2004

CBS Sunday Morning/ USA -- March 14, 2004