Monica Haller
{{Short description|American photographer}}
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Monica Moses Haller{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-20|title=Faculty & Staff Directory|url=https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/hall0586|website=College of Liberal Arts}} (born 1980) is an American photographer.{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-19|title=Monica Haller. The Veterans Book Project|url=https://nomasfoundation.com/en/reading-room/monica-haller-the-veterans-book-project-tavola-rotonda/|website=nomasfoundation.com}} She produced the book Riley and His Story with Riley Sharbonno and Matt Rezac,{{Cite web|url=https://mcad.edu/alumni-profile/monica-haller|title=Monica Haller|website=mcad.edu|language=en|access-date=3 November 2019}} part of the Veterans' Book Project which she co-runs,{{Cite web|url=http://www.veteransbookproject.com/the-people/|title=Veterans Book Project » The People|language=en-US|access-date=3 November 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.icp.org/events/the-veterans-book-project|title=The Veterans Book Project|date=1 March 2016|website=International Center of Photography|language=en|access-date=3 November 2019}} both of which are about the U.S led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.{{Cite web|url=https://anthropocene-curriculum.org/contributors/monica-haller|title=Anthropocene Curriculum|website=anthropocene-curriculum.org|access-date=3 November 2019}} Haller is an assistant professor in the University of Minnesota's Art Department and a 2010 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Life and work
Haller was born in Minneapolis. She has an undergraduate degree in Peace and Conflict Studies and an M.F.A. in Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and a BA studying Philosophy of Violence and Non-Violence from the College of St. Benedict.{{Cite web|url=https://humanities.wisc.edu/events/entry/monica-haller|title=Monica Haller {{!}} UW-Madison Center for the Humanities|website=humanities.wisc.edu|access-date=7 November 2019}}{{cite web |title=Monica Haller |url=https://walkerart.org/magazine/authors/monica-haller-206 |website=Walker Art Center |accessdate=5 December 2019}}
Martin Parr and Gerry Badger include Riley and His Story in the third volume of their photobook history, in which they describe it as "more about what the Iraq War did to those involved in it than about the justice of the cause, although its futility — and that of all war — is clearly implied."{{cite book | author1 = Martin Parr | author2 = Gerry Badger | author-link1 = Martin Parr | author-link2 = Gerry Badger | title = The Photobook: A History, Volume III | place = London | publisher = Phaidon | year = 2014 | page = 209 | isbn = 978-0-7148-6677-2}}
Riley and His Story is the first volume in a project by Haller, Matthew Rezac and Mark Fox called the Veterans' Book Project. The project involves veterans of and those affect by the Iraq and Afghanistan wars publishing their stories and photographs, made while on duty, as a form of catharsis.{{cite news|accessdate=2021-04-19|title=Veterans' Photo Scrapbooking Offers New Therapy, Window Into Experiences|url=https://www.wired.com/2012/07/monica-haller-veterans-book-project/|newspaper=Wired|issn=1059-1028}}
Grants and awards
- 2016: McKnight Foundation's Visual Artist Fellowship {{cite web | url=https://www.mcad.edu/why-mcad/partnerships/mcknight-visual-artist-fellowships/past-recipients/2016 | title=2016 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship Recipients | Minneapolis College of Art and Design }}
- 2011: MacDowell Colony Artist Residency, Peterborough, New Hampshire{{cite web | url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/monica-haller | title=Monica Haller - Artist }}
- 2010: Guggenheim Fellowship{{Cite web|url=https://humanities.wisc.edu/events/entry/monica-haller|title=Monica Haller {{!}} UW-Madison Center for the Humanities|website=humanities.wisc.edu|access-date=3 November 2019}}
- 2010: 50 Books / 50 Covers, American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Design Award
- 2009–2010: McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Photographers{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-20|title=Catching Up with the 2009 McKnight Photography Fellows|url=https://mnartists.walkerart.org/catching-up-with-the-2009-mcknight-photography-fellows|date=16 June 2010}}
- 2009: Award of Excellence, London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel
- 2007–2009: Bush Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artistshttps://www.bushfoundation.org/sites/default/files/Foundation/Files/gssummer2008_0.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}
- 2007: Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists
- 2007: Postgraduate research resident, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 2005: University of Minnesota Law School{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-20|title=University of Minnesota Human Rights Center|url=http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/center/uppermidwest/allfellowships.html|website=hrlibrary.umn.edu}}
Publications
- Riley and His Story. Me and my outrage. You and us. Paris: Onestar; Värnamo, Sweden: Fälth & Hässler, 2009. Photos and text by Riley Sharbonno; edit, concept and cover text by Haller; and design by Matthew Rezac and Haller. {{ISBN|9782915359381}}. Edition of 1000 copies.{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-19|title=Riley Sharbonno / Monica Haller - Riley and His Story. Me and my outrage. You and us, onestar press/Fälth & Hässler, 2009/10, Paris/Värnamo – josef chladek|url=https://josefchladek.com/book/riley_sharbonno_monica_haller_-_riley_and_his_story_me_and_my_outrage_you_and_us|website=josefchladek.com}}
- Second printing, 2010. Edition of 1000 copies.
Exhibitions
= Solo exhibitions =
- Veterans Book Project, f/stop - Festival für Fotografie, Leipzig, Germany
- Beneath the Ground, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2014{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-19|title=Beneath the Ground|url=https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/america-beneath-the-soil/|website=new.artsmia.org}}{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-19|title=Connecting art and earth—literally—with Monica Haller, new artist-in-residence at the MIA –– Minneapolis Institute of Art|url=https://new.artsmia.org/stories/connecting-art-and-earth-literally-with-monica-haller-new-artist-in-residence-at-the-mia/|website=new.artsmia.org}}
- The Veterans Book Project, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy, 2011/12. Curated by Stefano Chiodi.{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-19|title=Monica Haller. The Veterans Book Project|url=https://nomasfoundation.com/en/mostre/monica-haller-the-veterans-book-project/|website=nomasfoundation.com}}
= Group exhibitions =
- The War From Here, group show with Lisa Barnard, Nina Berman, Haller, Sophie Ristelhueber, and Martha Rosler at Krakow Photmonth, Krakow, Poland, 2017. Curated by Gordon MacDonald.{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-19|title=Krakow Photmonth 2017|url=https://gupmagazine.com/articles/krakow-photomonth-2017/|date=29 May 2017|website=GUP Magazine}}{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-19|title=Festival: Krakow Photomonth|url=https://www.1854.photography/2017/05/festival-krakow-photomonth/|website=British Journal of Photography}}
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Category:American women photographers
Category:Artists from Minneapolis
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