About | BreitfellerPhoto

Lynne Breitfeller is a visual artist based in New Jersey. She explores both the mundane and unexpected details of everyday life. Human relationships, memory, loss, and humor are recurrent themes in her work. She received her B.A. in English from William Paterson University. After a two-decade career in text book publishing, she returned to the visual arts.

Her work has been exhibited at The Griffin Museum (Massachusetts), Center for Fine Art Photography and Colorado Photography Center (Colorado), Soho Photo Gallery (New York),Vermont Center for Photography (Vermont), Los Angeles Center for Photography and the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art (California) and Montclair Art Museum (New Jersey). amongst others. She won first place in Soho Photo Gallery’s 2023 National Competition, and was a merit winner in All About Photo Womens Competition in 2023 and the Rfotofolio Open Call 2022, and a finalist in the Lucie Foundation’s Carte Blanche in 2022. Additionally, her work has been featured in Fotofilmic, All About Photo, SHOTS, and Float magazines.

Photo by Christine Anderson

Solo Exhibitions

•2023 After the Fire: Water Damaged, Lagstein Gallery, Nyack NY. (upcoming)

•2023 After the Fire: Water Damaged, Picker Gallery, Vermont Center for Photography.

Exhibitions 2023

•Strange, Weird, & Unique, South East Center for Photography. Juried by Michael Kirchoff.
•we like things small v.6, Filter Photo Festival, Juried by Anna Goldwater Alexander.
•Glitch in the Matrix, Analog Forever Magazine. Juried by Michael Kirchoff.
•Soho National Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, Juried by Elizabeth Ellenwood.
•CPAC 2023 Member Show, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO. Juried by Mia Dalglish and
Lisa Woodward.
•Passeparout Photo Prize, 6th Edition, Online Gallery.
•State of the Art, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ. Juried by Studio Montclair Exhibition Committee.
•After the Fire: Water Damaged, Picker Gallery, Vermont Center For Photography, Brattleboro, VT.
•Spring 2022 Show, Curated Fridge. Juried by Debra Klompching and Darren Ching.
•29th Annual Members Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA. Juried by Crista Dix.(online)
•Ninth International Call For Entry, Rhode Island Center For Photographic Arts, Providence, RI. Juried by
Paula Tognarelli.
•An Archive is an Archive is an Archive Der Greif Guestroom. Juried by Franziska Kunze and Marta
Binazzi. (online)
•Local Materiality, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ. Juried by Donna Kessinger.
•Big Picture, Month of Photography Denver, CO. Juried by Mark Sink.
•Night Lights Denver Celebrates Month of Photography, Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Juried by
Samantha Johnston.

•Art of Illusion, Analog Forever Magazine. Juried by Lisa Tobaz. (online)

•Poetics of Place, Praxis Photo Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.

•Feminine/Masculine, PH21 Photo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. Juried by Zsolt Bátori and and Borbála Jász.

•Intergalactic Show, Shockboxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

•Favorite Photo Exhibition, Lenscratch (online). Curated by Aline Smithson.

Exhibitions 2022

•Winter Solstice 2022, The Griffin Musuem of Photography, Winchester, MA.

• Rfotolio Open Call, Juror Crista Dix.

•Here Kitschy, Kitschy, Shockboxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

•Focus, National Juried Photo Exhibition, Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD. Juried by Hannah Altman.

•Comeback: LACP's 8th Annual Members' Exhibition, 2022, Los Angeles Center For Photography, Los Angeles, CA. Juried by Samantha Johnston.

•Jumping through Time 2022 Photo Annual Gwinnett County Public Library, Atlanta, GA. Juried by Coco Conroy.

•Parallax Women’s Photograpy Exhibition, Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, MD. Juried by Liz Faust.

•Analog, Decode Gallery, Tucson, Arizona. Juried by Holly Hart.

•Inspired by George Inness, Studio Montclair Inc/Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ.

•Gallery 40, Two Person Show, with Lisa Winika, Poughkeepsie, NY.

•Open Exhibition, LoosenArt, Rome, Italy. Curated by LoosenArt.

•Co-relations on Diptychs, LoosenArt, Rome, Italy. Curated by LoosenArt.

•Wabi-Sabi, Art Fluent, (online).

•28th Annual Members Juried Exbihition, Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA. Juried by Frances Jakubek and Iaritza Menjivar.

•5th Chania International Photo Festival, Blank Wall Gallery, Chania, Greece.

•Wide Open 12, Brooklyn Artist Waterfront Coalition, Brooklyn, NY. Juried by Sadaf Padder.

•Center Forward 2022, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. Juried by Alyssa Ortega Coppelman and Christy Havranek.

•Stories: Narrative Photography, PH21 Photo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. Juried by Zsolt Bátori and Borbála Jász.

•Forgotten, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC. Juried by Alexa Dilworth.

•Seeing Red, Float Magazine, (online). Juried by Dana Stirling.

•Regulated Garbage, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA.

•Carte Blanche, Lucie Foundation, Finalist, Portrait Category. Juried by Jon Feinstein, Rachel Barker, Polly Irungu, Roula Seikaly, Ashly Stohl, and David Carol.

•Revival: Post-Pandemic Visions, Maplewood Arts Center, Maplewood, NJ.

•Phillips’ Mill Photographic Exhibition, Phillips Mill, New Hope, PA. Juried by Bob Krist.

•35th Annual Juried Show, Art Alliance of Monmouth County, Monmouth, NJ. Juror Frank May.

•Crafted Kup/Womenswork.Art, two-person show, Poughkeepsie, NY.

•No Man’s Land, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA.

•Female Sight, Praxis Photo Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Juried by Ellen Carey.

•Personality: Contemporary Portraiture, PH21 Photo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. Juried by Zsolt Bátori and Borbála Jász.

•2/22/22 Exhibition: Pairs and Diptychs, Lenscratch (online). Curated by Aline Smithson

•Annual Praxis Member Showcase, Praxis Photo Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. installed by Jonathon Pavlica

•Just Photography, Medford Arts Center, Medford, NJ (online)

•Feminine/Masculine, PH21 Photo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. Juried by Zsolt Bátori and and Borbála Jász.

•Winter 2022 Show, Curated Fridge (online). Juror Julie Grahame.

•Narrative: Figments or Fragments, Praxis Photo Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Juried by Emma Powell.

•Favorite Photo Exhibition, Lenscratch (online). Curated by Aline Smithson.

Exhibitions 2021

•Don’t Make Me Laugh, Praxis Photo Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Juried by Laura Valenti.

•Show of Heads, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY.

•Happenstance, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA. Juried by Zoë Taleporos.

•Hi Ho Silver, Ashton Gallery/Arts on 30th, San Diego, CA.

•Out of the Frame, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow Scotland.

•Landscapes, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece.

•Portrait: A Picture Show, Queens City 15, Poughkeepsie, NY.

•Landscapes, Arts Illiana Gallery, Terre Haute, Indiana. Juried by Vivien Scheihing and Camila Mora.

•Portrait, Queen City 15, Poughkeepsie, NY.

•Real or Imagined, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Juried by Clare Bell.

•4th Chania International Photo Festival, Blank Wall Gallery, Chania, Greece.

•Art Cafe, Nyack, NY (solo).

•Just Faces, Medford Arts Center, Medford, NJ (online). Juried by Syndei Smith Jordan.

•Photo21 Exhibition, Berkeley Arts Council, Martinsburg, WV. Juried by Robert M. Hein.

•Wild Things, Medford Arts Center, Medford, NJ (online). Juried by Terri Amig.

•Orange Reclaimed, i19 Gallery (online). Juried by Gale Modica.

•Through the Eye: Women in Photography, Womenswork.Art, Poughkeepsie, NY

•34th Annual Juried Show, Art Alliance of Monmouth County, Monmouth, NJ. Juried by Alison Van Denend.

•Masks, Arts Illiana Gallery, Terre Haute, Indiana. Juried by David Erickson.

•Moments of Color, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece.

•Favorite Photo Exhibition, Lenscratch (online).

Exhibitions 2020

•Color Photography 2020, Group Exhibition, Blackbox Gallery, Portland OR, Juried by Todd Johnson.

•Portrait: A Picture Show, Blackbox Gallery, Portland OR, Juried by Todd Johnson.

•Portrait Show, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow Scotland.

•Hang up and Shoot, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow Scotland.

•Print Swap/Feature Shoot, Foley Gallery, Manhattan, NY.

Recognition

•2023 Finalist, Photolucida.
•2023 First Place, Soho Photo Gallery 2023 National Competition. Juried by Elizabeth Ellenwood.
•2023 Work of Merit, All About Photo Women Competition. Juried by Sandrine Hermand-Grisel.

•2022 Work of Merit, 2022 Rfotofolio Call. Juried by Crista Dix.

•2022 Honorable Mention, Los Angeles Center of Photography Member Show. Juried by Samantha Johnston.

•2022 Finalist, Portrait Category, Lucie Foundation, Carte Blanche, Open Call. Juried by Jon Feinstein, Rachel Barker,
Polly Irungu, Roula Seikaly, Ashly Stohl, and David Carol.

•2022 Honorable Mention, Just Photography, Medford Arts Center.

•2022 Honorable Mention, Feminine/Masculine, PH21 Photo Gallery. Juried by Zsolt Bátori and and Borbála Jász.

•2021 Honorable Mention, Happenstance, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art. Juried by Zoë Taleporos.

•2021 Honorable Mention, Portrait, Queen City 15, Poughkeepsie, NY.

•2021 Merit Award, Photo21 Exhibition, Berkeley Arts Council, Juried by Robert M. Hein.

•2021 Second Place Award, Wild Things. Medford Arts Center. Juried by Terri Amig, 2021.