TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS

2021 - 2026
Two Minutes to Midnight and the Architecture of Armageddon
Co-Exhibition with Adam Reynolds
Mid-America Arts Alliance

2017 - 2032
Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad
Solo Exhibition, Mid-America Arts Alliance

2020 - 2024
A Yellow Rose Project
Group Exhibition

2018 - 2021
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South
Group Exhibition, Halsey Institute

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
The Female Gaze
PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX (virtual)

2023
Deep in the Art of Texas
PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX

2022
Light in Four Acts: Between Science and Poetics
Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery, Durham, NC
Beyond the Frame: Celebrating 70 Years of Collecting
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

2021
FORGE: ACP Fundraising Exhibition
Atlanta Decorative Arts Center
Hear Me Roar: Women Photographers
Lehigh University Art Galleries
Shadow to Substance
Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
Back to the Garden
CADD Space, Dallas, TX
Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Celebrating Women Artists
PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX (virtual)
Black History: Past, Present and Future
Capital One Art Program (virtual)

2020
Exquisite Corpse
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
SUFFRAGENOW: A 19th Amendment Centennial Exhibition
Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, TX (virtual)
Juneteenth: Celebrating Freedom
Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Women We Have Known: Photographs by Women Artists
PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX
COVID-19 Relief Effort
Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, GA (virtual)
25 years/25 photographs
PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX (virtual)

2019
Echoes of History
Nebula Gallery, University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX
Toughened to Wind and Sun: Women Photographing the Landscape
Portland Art Museum, OR
SECOND LOOK: A Review of Two Art Fairs
PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX
Houses for Sale
PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX

2018
Critical Mass Top 50
PhotoSummer, CENTER
Santa Fe, NM
HIGHLIGHTS: New York and Dallas Art Fairs
PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX
Photographs Are Ideas: Selections from the Lehigh University Art Galleries Teaching Museum Collection
Bethlehem, PA

2016
Perspectives
Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX
Moving Walls 23: Journeys
Open Society Foundations, Washington D.C.

2015
Critical Mass Top 50
GuatePhoto International Photography Festival
Antigua, Guatemala
Moving Walls 23: Journeys
Open Society Foundations
New York, NY
Southern Exposure: Portraits of a Changing Landscape
MOCA | Jacksonville, FL
Through Darkness to Light
Denison Museum, Granville, OH 

2014
2014 Atomic STEaM Photography Show
The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Albuquerque, NM
Newspace Now: 2014 Members’ Salon
Newspace Center for Photography
Portland, OR        
The Curve CENTER Awards Traveling Show
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO        
32nd Annual Juried Membership Exhibition
Juror Malcolm Daniel
Houston Center for Photography
Houston, TX        
Photowork ‘14 Juror Karen Haas
The Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY        
The Curve CENTER Award Winners Show
Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
NOPA Member’s Exhibition
New Orleans Photo Alliance
New Orleans, LA

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University, Durham, NC
Capital One Corporate Collection  Richmond, VA
Everglades National Park Homestead, FL
Harn Museum of Art University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Hunter Museum of American Art Chattanooga, TN
Lehigh University Art Galleries  Bethlehem, PA
Library of Congress Washington DC
Louisiana State University Hill Memorial Library, Baton Rouge, LA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston  Houston, TX
Portland Art Museum Portland, OR
Princeton University Art Museum Princeton, NJ
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art  Kansas City, MO
The Phillips Collection Washington, DC
The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX
University of North Texas Denton, TX
Joan Morgenstern, Julia J. Norell and other Private Collections

MONOGRAPHS AND ART BOOKS

2022
Countdown: A Visual Exploration of the Cold War’s Opposing Nuclear Architecture
Co-Authored with Adam Reynolds
Trade Publication, Yoffy Press

2021
Standing Together: Inez Milholland’s Final Campaign for Women’s Suffrage
Trade Publication, MW Editions

2017
Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad
Trade Publication, Princeton Architectural Press

2016
THREE PROJECTS: An Overview
Self-Published

EXHIBITION AND COLLECTION CATALOGS

2026
A Yellow Rose Project
Exhibition Catalog, Pioneering Women Book Series
by Texas Women’s University, Texas A&M Press
(forthcoming)

2022
The Joy of Looking: Great Photographs from the Library of Congress
Collection Catalog,
Library of Congress

2021
Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century
Exhibition Catalog

2018
Southbound: Photographs of and About the New South
Exhibition Catalog
2019 Alice Award Winner

LIMITED EDITION MONOGRAPHS AND PORTFOLIOS

2023
COUNTDOWN
Limited Edition Cardstock Case, Self-Published with Adam Reynolds
2022
Standing Together: Inez Milholland’s Final Campaign for Women’s Suffrage
Limited Edition Portfolio, Self-Published

2021
Standing Together: Inez Milholland’s Final Campaign for Women’s Suffrage
Limited Edition Monograph, MW Editions

2018
Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad
Limited Edition Portfolio, Self-Published

FILMS AND ADDITIONAL BOOKS

2023
Fashioning Politics and Protests: New Visual Cultures of Feminism in the United States
by Emily Newman, incorporates images from Standing Together, Palgrave MacMillan

2022
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
PBS documentary film, incorporates images from Through Darkness to Light

2018
Critical Distance in Documentary Media
Essays on Documentary Media, highlights Through Darkness to Light, Palgrave MacMillan

SELECTED AWARDS

2017
2017 Critical Mass Top 50
Photolucida, Portland, OR

2016
Through Darkness to Light
2016 Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award: Documentarians of The American South
Duke University

2015
2015 PhotoNOLA Review Prize First Place
New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA
Through Darkness to Light
2015 Lange-Taylor Prize Semifinalist
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University

2014
Through Darkness to Light
2014 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize Finalist
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
2014 Critical Mass Top 50
Photolucida, Portland, OR
Through Darkness to Light
2014 Lange-Taylor Prize Semifinalist
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University        
Beth Block Juried Membership Honoraria
Juror Malcolm Daniel
Houston Center for Photography
Review Santa Fe Scholarship Recipient  CENTER
Through Darkness to Light CENTER 2014 Choice Award Winner
First Place, Gallerist’s Choice
Juror Steffi Schulze

SELECTED PRINT

2021
Orlando Sentinel
From Darkness to Light
Nov. 14, 2021
Orlando Arts
Perilous Passage
Nov/Dec 2021
The Park Press
Mennello Museum of American Art Opens “Through Darkness to Light”, Nov. 2021 
Dallas Morning News
Bringing History to Light
Oct. 10, 2021
Paper City
Who Was Inez Milholland? The Gloria Steinhem of 1916 Gets Her Day in Dallas
September 2021

2020
The New York Times
In Memory of a Suffragist and a Martyr
Aug. 20
The Dallas Morning News
Bodies of Work, Aug. 16
Smithsonian Magazine
Recreating a Suffragist’s Campaign Through the American West
July/August 2020

2018
Zoom Magazine
Jeanine Michna-Bales: Through Darkness to Light
Issue 124, Mar 2018

2017
pdn Magazine
How to Publish Your Book: The Underground Railroad by Night
Photograph Magazine
Jeanine Michna-Bales: Through Darkness to Light at Arnika Dawkins Gallery
O, The Oprah Magazine
Through Darkness to Light in The Gratitude Meter
Volume 18 Issue 02, Feb 2017
Virginia Quarterly Review
Through Darkness to Light: Visions of the Underground Railroad
Winter 2017

2016
Wordt ver volgd
Amnesty International
Picture of the Month
Volume 49 Issue 03; Mar 2016

2015
Transition Magazine
Harvard University, Bras-Coupé
Issue 117, 2015
Spot Magazine
Houston Center for Photography
Spotlight, Spring 2015

2014
Geo Histoire Magazine
La Grande Évasion
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015

SELECTED PRESS | ONLINE

2023
F-Stop Magazine
Book Review: COUNTDOWN by Jeanine Michna-Bales and Adam Reynolds
Outrider
‘COUNTDOWN’ a New Book and Photo Exhibit Offers a Look Inside Nuclear Command Centers and Bunkers
Lenscratch Magazine
Jeanine Michna-Bales and Adam Reynolds: COUNTDOWN

2022
C4Journal
Imagining a Road to Freedom – Jeanine Michna-Bales’s Through Darkness to Light
WUTC 88.1 Chattanooga’s NPR Station
Scenic Roots
Evanston Round Table
Inez Milholland, the celebrity suffragist who captured the nation’s attention

2021
Elizabeth Avedon Journal
Best Photography Books 2021 Round-Up Part II
Lenscratch Magazine
Publisher’s Spotlight: MW Editions
Glasstire TV YouTube
Five-Minute Tours: Jeanine Michna-Bales and Adam Reynolds at the Irving Archives and Museum
Dallas Morning News
At PDNB Gallery, artist Jeanine Michna-Bales follows in the footsteps of women’s suffragist
Lenscratch Magazine
ACP Week: FORGE Exhibition
Glasstire
Jeanine Michna-Bales Revisits the Final Campaign for Women’s Suffrage
Pasatiempo | Santa Fe New Mexican
‘Forward into light’: Inez Milholland’s last stand
New York Times
Art Created 100 Years Apart, Linked by Trauma, Offers Solace
L’oeil de la Photographie | The Eye of Photography 
MW Editions: Jeanine Michna-Bales: Standing Together
All About Photo
Jeanine Michna-Bales: Standing Together

2020
The New York Times
She Was More Than Just the ‘Most Beautiful Suffragist’
Lenscratch Magazine
A Yellow Rose Project
The Dallas Morning News
Artists mix and match for ‘Exquisite Corpse’ exhibition at Conduit Gallery
KERA Art and Seek
100 Years of Women Photographers
WLRN National Public Radio
Sundial: Everglades Black History
South Dade NewsLeader
New AIRIE Exhibition in Everglades National Park examines little-known historyof societies established by former slaves in the Florida Wilderness
Chattanooga Times Free Press
New Exhibit at Hunter Museum puts the new South on Display
The Pulse
Southbound Comes to Town

2019
WCPN-NPR
A Photographic Journey Along the Underground Railroad
DCist.com
At The Phillips Collection, Follow the Underground Railroad Through Photographs
Lenscratch Magazine
Southbound: Photographs of and About the New South, Day 6
Midland Daily News
Former Midlander Brings History to Life in Photos
BBC World News
Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad

2018
Nighthawknyc.com
What Walking Looks Like – Q&A With Jeanine Michna-Bales
Nighthawknyc.com
The Photography Show Discoveries: Jeanine Michna-Bales
In the In-Between
The Present is Female: Women Steal the Show at AIPAD 2018
ArtNet News
7 Breakthrough Artists to Discover at the 2018 AIPAD Photography Show
Collector Daily
Highlights from the 2018 AIPAD Photography Show Part 1 of 2

2017
Oxford American Eyes on the South
The Long Road to Freedom
Smithsonian.com
Photographer Reconstructs 1,400-Mile Route Along the Underground Railroad
Miss Rosen Presents
Jeanine Michna-Bales: Through Darkness to Light
New Books Network
Through Darkness to Light Podcast Interview
Observer
This Is What Traveling the Underground Railroad 150 Years Ago May Have Looked Like
PasaTiempo | Santa Fe New Mexican
Dark Night of the Soul: Photographing the Underground Railroad
American Photography’s Pro Photo Daily
BOOKS: Visualizing the Dangers and Hopes of the Underground Railroad
Musée Magazine
Book Review: Through Darkness to Light
Hyperallergic
Photos Evoke the Terror and Hope of the Underground Railroad
UK Daily Mail
The Perilous Journey to Freedom: First pictures inside the ‘Underground Railroad’
New York Times Lens Blog
From Slavery to Freedom: Revealing the Underground Railroad
Dallas Morning News
Fear and Wonder Hold Equal Footing in Artist’s Photographs of the Underground Railroad
Los Angeles Times
A Powerful Symbol of Resistance, the Underground Railroad Inspires a Wave of Books,Plays TV and More
F-Stop
Book Review: Through Darkness to Light by Jeanine Michna-Bales
L’oeil de la Photographie | The Eye of Photography
Through Darkness to Light
WABE 90.1 Atlanta’s NPR Station
City Lights with Lois Reitzes
CityLab from The Atlantic
Capturing the View Along the Underground Railroad

2016
Lenscratch Magazine
Art + Science: Jeanine Michna-Bales
NBC4 Washington D.C.
Journey to Freedom: Commemorating Black History Month
Blink from Vantage
To Photograph People Not as Victims, But as Agents of Change
In Sight by The Washington Post
What It Was Like to Walk in the Shoes of America’s Slaves

2015
PDN Photo of the Day
Decision to Leave from Through Darkness to Light
WJCT Radio
American South Gets Portrait Taken in MOCA’s ‘Southern Exposure’ Photography Show

2014
Fstoppers
‘From Darkness to Light’ Documents Journey from Slavery to Freedom Along the Underground Railroad
Feature Shoot
Riveting Photos Trace the Historic Underground Railroad at Night
A Photo Editor
The Best Work I Saw at Review Santa Fe ‘14
Canada AM
Photographing the Underground Railroad
Wired Raw File
Haunting Underground Railroad Images Retrace the Steps of Fleeing Slaves
Wired Raw File
This is Where Americans Planned to Spend the Nuclear Holocaust
Lenscratch Magazine
The CENTER Awards: Gallerist’s Choice 1st Place Winner: Jeanine Michna-Bales

PODCASTS

2021
Go Atlanta, Atlanta Journal Constitution
Women’s suffrage movement focus of new photography show at Arnika Dawkins Gallery

2020
Phlogger.co.uk
The Importance of Projects: Jeanine Michna-Bales

2017
New Books Network
Through Darkness to Light Podcast Interview
Charlottesville Podcast Network–HomeGrown
Shipwrecked! and The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center

VISITING ARTIST | LECTURES | TALKS

2024
Artist Talk
Two Minutes to Midnight
National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Pooler, GA (virtual)

2023
Artist Talk
Women Talk in conjunction with Deep in the Art of Texas, PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX
Artist Talk
Through Darkness to Light, Dunn Museum, Libertyville, IL

2022
Artist Talk
Standing Together, DOROT New York, NY (virtual)
Artist Talk
Through Darkness to Light, DOROT New York, NY (virtual)
Artist Talk
Through Darkness to Light, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Visiting Artist
Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts, Chattanooga, TN
Artist Talk
Standing Together, Evanston History Center, Evanston, IL

2021
Opening, Artist Talk and Book Signing
Standing Together, Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Opening, Artist Talk and Book Signing
Standing Together, Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, TX
Artist Talk
Standing Together, League of Women Voters, Dallas TX Chapter (virtual)
Visiting Artist
Two Minutes to Midnight, Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX (virtual)
Artist Talk
Standing Together Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (virtual)
Panel Discussion
Black History: Past, Present and Future Capital One Art Program (virtual)
Panel Discussion
SUFFRAGENOW Elisbet New Museum, Austin, TX (virtual)

2020
Artist Talk
Sundays in the Park: Everglades as Sanctuary, Past and Present with Audrey Peterman
Homestead, FL
Visiting Artist
Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX

2019
Artist Talks | Open House
Dallas International School, Dallas, TX
The Underground Railroad Then and Now Panel Discussion
held in conjunction with Jeanine Michna-Bales: Photographs of the Underground Railroad
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Artist Talk
Alexandria Black History Museum, Alexandria, VA
Public Memory in the New South Symposium
held in conjunction with Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, SC

2018
The Evidence of Things Seen and Unseen with Clarissa Sligh
in celebration of Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Photography Books Panel Discussion with Rachel Cox, Dornith Doherty, Sofia Bastidas
The Cedars Union Annex, Dallas, TX
Marketing Your Photographic Work to Galleries
with Missy Finger of PDNB Gallery, Dallas Center for Photography

2017
Artist Talk and Book Signing
St. Tammany Parish Public Library, Slidell, LA
Opening, Artist Talk and Family Workshop
Griot Museum of Black History, St. Louis, MO
Visiting Artist
Texas Women’s University Graduate Photography Class
Visiting Artist
University of North Texas Photography Classes
Opening, Artist Talk and Book Signing
Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Opening, Artist Talk and Book Signing
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, TX
Artist Talk
Sheldon Peck Homestead | Lombard Historical Society, Lombard, IL
Artist Talk and Book Signing
Evanston History Center, Evanston, IL
Artist Talk
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Artist Talk and Book Signing
Jefferson School African-American Heritage Center
Charlottesville, VA
Monuments and Memory Panel Discussion
with Colin Rafferty and Allison Wright
Virginia Festival of the Book
Artist Talk
Albemarle High School, Charlottesville, VA
Artist Talk
St. Anne's-Belfield School, Charlottesville, VA

2016
Artist Talk
New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2015
Press Panel Discussion and Artist Talk
Open Society Foundations, New York, NY
Artist Talk and Visiting Artist Guest Lecturer
Denison Museum and Denison University, Granville, OH

2014
Artist Talk
The Curve Group Exhibition; CENTER Awards Traveling Show
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO
Artist Talk
32nd Annual Juried Membership Exhibition
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Artist Talk
Review Santa Fe, CENTER, Santa Fe, NM

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2018
Artist in Residence in the Florida Everglades
AIRIE.org; Homestead, FL

TEACHING | INSTRUCTION

2023
Guest Lecturer
The Contemporary Landscape with Brad Temkin
Online Course, Los Angeles Center for Photography
2022
Lecturer
Self-Promotion and Leave Behinds with Jeanine Michna-Bales
Webinar, Los Angeles Center for Photography
Photography and Writing Workshop
Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts
Chattanooga, TN
Guest Lecturer
The Photo Project Toolkit created by Adair Rutledge
Online Course, Photographic Center Northwest
2021
Lecturer
Self-Promotion and Leave Behinds with Jeanine Michna-Bales
Webinar, Los Angeles Center for Photography

REVIEWS AND FESTIVALS

2024
AIPAD: The Photography Show  Arnika Dawkins Gallery and MW Editions

2022
AIPAD: The Photography Show  Arnika Dawkins Gallery

2019
PhotoNOLA Portfolio Review Participant
The Photography Show: AIPAD  PDNB Gallery and Arnika Dawkins Gallery
Dallas Art Fair  PDNB Gallery,
Photolucida Portfolio Review Participant 

2018
PhotoNOLA Portfolio Review Participant
Dallas Art Fair  PDNB Gallery
The Photography Show: AIPAD  Arnika Dawkins Gallery and PDNB Gallery
2018 ISAS (Independent School Association of the Southwest) Arts Festival

2017
PhotoNOLA Portfolio Review Participant
Filter Photo Portfolio Review Participant 
Through Darkness to Light
The Toronto North Star Festival, Toronto, Ontario
Dallas Art Fair
PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX
Through Darkness to Light
Virginia Festival of the Book Selected Author

2016
FotoFest Portfolio Review Participant

2015
PhotoNOLA Portfolio Review Participant

2014
PhotoNOLA Portfolio Review Participant
Review Santa Fe 100
FotoFest Portfolio Review Participant

2013
PhotoNOLA Portfolio Review Participant