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EDUCATION
2010 Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2002 Bachelor of Arts in Government, Connecticut College, New London, CT
2001 Peace & Conflict Studies, School for International Training, Ireland/Northern Ireland
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SOLO + SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 yes is the only living thing, Maine College of Art – Portland, ME (publication)
2016 All the Ways In, BlackRock Center for the Arts – Germantown, MD
2005 Alumni Artist Series, St. Mark’s School – Southborough, MA (two-person)
2015 in absentia, National Institutes of Health – Bethesda, MD
2011 Alexandra Silverthorne, harmon art lab – Washington, DC (publication)
2011 Silverthorne | Young | Antognoli, BlackRock Center for the Arts – Germantown, MD (three-person)
2009 Open Space, Heineman Myers Contemporary Art – Bethesda, MD
2005 From Hiroshima, Leslie University – Cambridge, MA
2005 Silverthorne:Photographs, St. Mark’s School – Southborough, MA
2005 WDC: 8×10 (SOLO3), Warehouse Gallery – Washington, DC
2004 Exhibiting Activism, Connecticut College – New London, CT
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Photo Genesis 2, McLean Project for the Arts – McLean, VA
2025 Women Artists of the DMV: A Survey Show, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center – Washington, DC (catalogue)
2025 New Orleans de Nuit, New Orleans Photo Alliance / Second Story Gallery – New Orleans, LA
2025 Whispering Shadows, Float Magazine – Online
2024 Traces, Field Projects Gallery – New York, NY
2022 The County Collects III: Mother Nature, Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County – Silver Spring, MD
2022 Fragile Beauty, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities – Washington, DC
2021 Emergence, Studio Gallery – Washington, DC
2021 DC Art Now 2021, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities – Washington, DC (online)
2021 Our City, Ourselves: Women Photograph Washington, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities – Washington, DC (online)
2020 States of Being, DC Arts Center – Washington, DC (catalogue)
2019 Lost/Found, Katzen Arts Center, American University – Washington, DC
2019 Captured Light: Current Photographic Processes, BlackRock Center for the Arts – Germantown, MD
2019 Lost/Found, Studio Gallery – Washington, DC
2019 radius 250, artspace – Richmond, VA
2019 Light Liminal, DC Arts Center – Washington, DC (catalogue)
2018 Faculty + Staff Exhibition, King Street Gallery at Montgomery College – Silver Spring, MD
2018 NARRATIVE, Studio Gallery – Washington, DC
2017 Abstraction/Representation, Studio Gallery – Washington, DC
2016 Photography/Praxis, Studio Gallery – Washington, DC
2016 Cheap Thrills 2, Anacostia Arts Center – Washington, DC
2016 Sip and Paint, DC Arts Center – Washington, DC
2016 The Critiqued, Otis Street Art Project – Mount Rainier, MD
2015 Faculty + Staff Exhibition, King Street Gallery at Montgomery College – Silver Spring, MD
2015 Photographers@Work, Studio Gallery – Washington, DC
2015 Faculty Exhibition, Gallery 42 at University of the District of Columbia – Washington, DC
2015 drift, College of Southern Maryland – La Plata, MD
2014 Cheap Thrills, Anacostia Arts Center – Washington, DC
2014 Faculty + Staff Exhibition, King Street Gallery at Montgomery College – Takoma Park, MD
2014 And Then: varied approaches to narrative, Marlboro Gallery at Prince George’s Community College – Largo, MD
2013 Living & Working, Civilian Art Projects – Washington, DC
2013 Exposure, Catalyst Projects – Washington, DC
2013 Portraiture, Studio Gallery – Washington, DC
2013 Art Romp, Anacostia Arts Center – Washington, DC
2012 Indie Photobook Library with Blond Art Books, Furthermore – Washington, DC
2012 Revisit, Studio Gallery – Washington, DC
2012 RSVP, New Wilmington Art Association – Wilmington, DE
2012 Indie Photobook Library, PPAC Book Fair – Philadelphia, PA
2012 Inaugural Exhibition, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities – Washington, DC
2012 Something and Nothing: Activating the Void, McLean Project for the Arts – McLean, VA
2011 Frontiers of Photography, VisArts – Rockville, MD
2011 HiFi vs. LoFi, Lala Gallery – Lafayette, IN
2010 Synergy: DC Artist Fellows, Gallery 31 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art – Washington, DC
2010 MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA – Portland, ME
2009 Summer Celerity, Maine College of Art – Portland, ME
2009 Luck of the Draw, Ten Miles Square – Washington, DC
2008 Cumulus, Maine College of Art – Portland, ME
2008 Peace Now, Warehouse Gallery – Washington, DC
2008 Black and White and… All Over, H&F Fine Arts – Mount Rainier, MD
2007 Unlimited, redmondbennettgallery – Dublin, NH
2007 One Word Project Exhibit, Arts Club of Washington – Washington, DC (catalogue)
2006 Summer Seen, Wohlfarth Galleries – Washington, DC
2006 14th Annual Phillips’ Mill Photographic Exhibition, Philips’ Mill – New Hope, PA
2006 Cupidity, Gallery Neptune – Bethesda, MD
2006 Paper Politics Brooklyn, 5+5 Gallery – New York, NY (catalogue)
2005 Where Is The Peace?, Warehouse Gallery – Washington, DC
2005 Annual Exhibition of Fine Art, Jo Ann Rose Gallery – Reston, VA
2005 Paper Politics West, Phinney Center Gallery – Seattle, WA (catalogue)
2005 The Door Project, Eubie Blake National Museum & Cultural Center – Baltimore, MD
2004 WAR or PEACE, Warehouse Gallery – Washington, DC
2004 Knock, Knock. Who’s There?, Maryland Art Place – Baltimore, MD
1997 5th Annual Phillips’ Mill Photographic Exhibition, Philips’ Mill – New Hope, PA
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ART FAIRS + BENEFITS
Collectors’ Night, Washington Project for the Arts – Washington, DC, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025
Hickok Cole Art Night, Washington Project for the Arts – Washington, DC, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025
By The People x Monochrome, Halcyon – Washington, DC, 2020
Annual Silent Auction, Transformer – Washington, DC, 2019
Collect, The Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA – Portland, ME, 2019
(e)merge art fair, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities – Washington, DC, 2013
Civilians for Obama, Civilian Art Projects – Washington, DC, 2008
MONOGRAPHS
2019 yes is the only living thing, self-published artist book
2011 MidNights: photographs + writings, self-published artist book
2010 Mind the Gap: MFA Thesis, Maine College of Art
BOOKS, ZINES, AND CATALOGUES
2025 How can we gather now?, Washington Project for the Arts
2025 Studio Visit 2024, self-published artist zine
2025 Women Artists of the DMV, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
2021 Goldenrod Issue 02, Goldenrod Editions
2021 Hazey, Fifth Wheel Press
2020 Where We Gather, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Sister Cities Program
2020 Goldenrod Issue 01, Goldenrod Editions
2020 Soft Lightning Volume 1, Soft Lightning
2020 I Can Hear the Road Call, Sad Bird Press
2007 One Word Project Exhibit, Thinking About Art
2006 Paper Politics, Just Seeds
2004 Susan Sontag’s Literature & Freedom, DesignInquiry
RESIDENCIES
District of Columbia Arts Center, Sparkplug Collective, Washington, DC, 2019 – 2020
Maine College of Art Alumni Residency, Portland, ME, 2010 – 2012
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AWARDS + GRANTS
DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Artist Fellowship Program, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2026
DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Art Bank Program, 2006, 2017, 2022, 2026
DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Young Artist Program, 2006, 2008, 2010
Maine College of Art, MFA Dean’s Scholarship, 2008, 2009
Puffin Foundation, Individual Artist Grant, 2008
DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Small Projects Program, 2006
World Conference Against A&H Bombs, Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee Fellowship, 2004
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 In the galleries: Illustrating our broken relationship with Earth by Mark Jenkins | The Washington Post – Washington, DC
2021 City Lights: In Our City, Ourselves, Women Photograph Washington by Louis Jacobson | Washington City Paper – Washington, DC
2021 In the galleries: A towering exhibit offers a new definition of domestic life by Mark Jenkins | The Washington Post – Washington, DC
2019 In the galleries: With two group exhibits, maximum exposure for photographers by Mark Jenkins | The Washington Post – Washington, DC
2019 In the galleries: Hanging garments symbolize violence against indigenous women by Mark Jenkins | The Washington Post – Washington, DC
2018 The Best Photo Exhibits of 2018 by Louis Jacobson | The City Paper – Washington, DC
2017 In the galleries: A surrealist painter inspires a photographer by Mark Jenkins | The Washington Post – Washington, DC
2016 In the galleries: Lines are clearly drawn in ‘Art as Politics’ by Mark Jenkins | The Washington Post – Washington, DC
2015 Art lessons teach D.C. young adults creative methods and financial skills by LaVendrick Smith | The Washington Post – Washington, DC
2015 Guest Contributor | Gather Made Artist Collective – Brooklyn, NY + Longmont, CO
2015 Student Photographers Capture AU, Create Art by Patrick Bradley | AU Student Life – Washington, DC
2015 Alexandra Silverthorne by Willson Cummer | New Landscape Photography – Syracuse, NY
2014 Alexandra Silverthorne – Washington, DC | 365 Artists 365 Days – Milwaukee/Sheboygan, WI
2013 Ten Questions with Alexandra Silverthorne | Hungry Ghost Collective – Chicago, IL
2011 The Tuesday Conversation: Alexandra Silverthorne by Jordan Edwards | The Gazette – Bethesda, MD
2010 Thesis Defense: MECA’s MFA Students Strut Their Stuff by Nicholas Schroeder | Portland Phoenix – Portland, ME
2009 Interview with Photographer, Alexandra Silverthorne by Sharon Burton | Examiner.com – Washington, DC
2009 Artists “Review” Artists: Alexandra Silverthorne by Susan Constanse | Thinking About Art – Washington, DC
2006 City Hall Art Collection Walkthrough by F. Lennox Campello | Mid Atlantic Art News – Washington, DC
2006 Art with a Conscience by Mary Howard, editor | CC: Connecticut College Magazine – New London, CT
2006 You Captioned My Heart by Rachel Beckman | Washington City Paper – Washington, DC
2005 Featured Artist: What’s Happening at Local Colleges by Sarah Tomlinson | Boston Globe – Boston, MA
2005 Solo3 @ Warehouse Gallery by J.T. Kirkland | Thinking About Art – Washington, DC
2005 Artists Interview Artists: Alexandra Silverthorne by Ami Lahoff | Thinking About Art – Washington, DC
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COLLECTIONS
Art Book Collection, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH (books)
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT (books)
DC Art Bank, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Washington, DC (prints)
The People’s Archive, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, DC (zines)
Joanne Waxman Library Special Collections, Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME (books)
John A Wilson Building City Hall Art Collection, Washington, DC (prints)
Montgomery County Public Art Trust, Silver Spring, MD (prints)
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LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, EVENTS, ETC.
2025 Panel Moderator – Leveraging Art to Re-imagine a More Just Community | Jackson Art Center – Washington, DC
2023 In Conversation with Asad Raza | American University – Washington, DC
2022 Panel Moderator – Film and Flood Resilience | DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities – Washington, DC
2020 Artist Talk – PhoCo at Home Photographer Series | American University – Washington, DC
2020 Artist Talk – yes is the only living thing | Jackson Art Center – Washington, DC
2019 Artist Talk – yes is the only living thing | Dublin Community Center – Dublin, NH
2019 Studio Visits – MFA Summer Intensive | Maine College of Art – Portland, ME
2019 Artist Talk – yes is the only living thing | Maine College of Art – Portland, ME
2019 Artist Talk – yes is the only living thing | Civilian Art Projects – Washington, DC
2019 Panelist – Contemporary Art Theory | American University – Washington, DC
2016 Panelist – In Lorton’s Darkroom | FotoDC – Washington, DC
2015 Participating Artist – Critique | Otis Street Art Project – Mount Rainier, MD
2015 Workshop Facilitator | Emerging Arts Leaders Symposium – Washington, DC
2014 Participating Artist – Photo Night @ SOC | American University – Washington, DC
2013 Participating Artist | Crusade for Collecting – Washington, DC
2011 Panelist – Through the Lens: Visions of Urban Renewal | The Center for Green Urbanism – Washington, DC
2010 Guest Lecturer – Professional Practices for Visual Artists | Corcoran College of Art & Design – Washington, DC
2009 Artist Talk – Street Photography | Cooper Union – New York, NY
2004 Guest Speaker | World Conference Against A & H Bombs – Nagasaki, Japan
2004 Artist Talk – Exhibiting Activism | Connecticut College – New London, CT
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CURATORIAL + PRODUCTION
2026 Co-Producer – Inside Out: Dignity and the Art of Seeing | DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities – Washington, DC (exhibition + publication)
2025 Co-Producer – How can we gather now? | Washington Project for the Arts – Washington, DC (publication)
2023 Editor – From Our Eyes | Street Sense Media – Washington, DC (publication)
2023 Co-Producer – How can we gather now? | Washington Project for the Arts – Washington, DC (symposium)
2022 Registrar – Ice Cold | Taschen – Cologne, Germany (publication)
2021 Editor – From Here to There | University of the District of Columbia – Washington, DC (publication)
2020 – 2021 Producer – PhoCo at Home Photographer Series | American University – Washington, DC (virtual lecture series)
2020 Curator – Materialist | King Street Gallery – Silver Spring, MD (exhibition)
2017 Exhibition Producer – Contact High | Photoville – Brooklyn, NY (exhibition)
2015 Curator – drift | College of Southern Maryland – La Plata, MD (exhibition)
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TEACHING
Adjunct Faculty, School of Communication + College of Arts & Sciences | American University – Washington, DC, 2011 – present
Adjunct Faculty, Corcoran School of the Arts & Design | George Washington University – Washington, DC, 2026 – present
Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of Mass Media, Visual & Performing Arts | University of the District of Columbia – Washington, DC, 2010 – 2023
Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of Visual & Performing Arts | Montgomery College – Takoma Park/Silver Spring, MD, 2014 – 2016, 2018 – 2019
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RELATED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Artist in Residence | Street Sense Media – Washington, DC, 2022 – 2023, 2025 – present
Faculty Advisor, Photo Collective | American University – Washington, DC, 2012 – 2025
Summer Mentor | Georgetown Day School – Washington, DC, 2019, 2024, 2025
Artist-Mentor, MFA in Visual Art | Vermont College of Fine Arts – Washington, DC, 2024
Visiting Artist | Laborintus – Rome, Italy, 2020 (virtual)
Artist in Residence, Phelps ACE High School | Washington Project for the Arts + DC Public Schools – Washington, DC, 2017
Founding Coordinator, MFA Alumni Residency | Maine College of Art – Portland, ME, 2010 – 2013
Instructor, Continuing Studies | Maine College of Art – Portland, ME, 2010
Youth Photography Instructor | BPSOS – Washington, DC, 2003
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STEERING COMMITTEES + ADVISORY BOARDS
Board of Directors | Jeffrey K. Silverthorne Art Foundation – Cranston, RI, 2024 – present
Friends of Jackson Committee | Jackson Art Center – Washington, DC, 2018 – 2021
Exhibitions Committee | Montgomery College – Takoma Park/Silver Spring, MD, 2018 – 2019
FotoBook Committee | FotoWeek DC – Washington, DC, 2010 – 2012
Artist Council | Washington Project for the Arts – Washington, DC, 2009 – 2011
Student Advisory Board | Maine College of Art, MFA – Portland, ME, 2009 – 2010
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Resident Historian | Washington Project for the Arts – Washington, DC, 2016 – 2025
Interim Director | Washington Project for the Arts – Washington, DC, 2022 – 2023