Brief bio

Nancy Breslin is a fine art photographer in Newark, Delaware. After spending her first career as an academic psychiatrist, she decided in 1997 to leave medicine to pursue a second career as an artist. She completed an MFA at the University of Delaware in 2000. She has received Individual Artist Fellowships from the Delaware Division of the Arts, in 2003 and 2008. She teaches photography part-time at the University of Delaware and is an invited blogger at alternativephotography.com and f295.org. Her alternative photography class at UD was featured in an article in The News Journal in January, 2012

She has had solo shows at the Mezzanine Gallery, Agilent Technologies Corporate Headquarters, Colourworks and the Grand Opera House (Wilmington, Delaware), the Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, Virginia) , and the Saint Joseph's University Gallery (Philadelphia). She has also had two-person exhibitions at the Biggs Museum of American Art (Dover, Delaware), the Elkton Station Gallery (Elkton, Maryland) and San Antonio College. She and her husband, Peter Caws, curated an exhibit at the Luther Brady Gallery at the George Washington University, entitled Arresting Images, which opened in November, 2003

 

Her work has been published in fotolog.book (Thames & Hudson, 2006, page 326), and in The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes by Christopher James (second edition, page 115). You can read about her pinhole photography in the summer 2007 issue of the Delmarva Quarterly, in an article titled Nancy Breslin: Life Through a Pinhole, by Janel Atlas, and read an interview with her by Erin Malone in Issue #3 of the online journal Without Lenses. The UD Review also has a story about the show of Nancy Breslin and Casey Orr's work at San Antonio College. Three images and a short bio are also published in Volume 5 of the Tusculum Review (2009). Eleven images are "showcased" in issue 15 of Light Leaks (a print journal of "low fidelity photography" - gotta love that), pages 46 - 49 (fall, 2009). The fall/winter issue of Newark Life Magazine has a story about Nancy Breslin's pinhole work. She was also interviewed in April 2010 at The Pinhole Camera Blog. Ten images from her Amenities series are published in the summer 2011 Square Magazine and three are in the book Play: Toy Camera Photographers for Tots, published in December, 2011. She is also a contributor to Anthotypes: Explore the Darkroom in your Garden , by Malin Fabbri, 2012.

Nancy Breslin's work has been seen in over 60 group shows, including exhibits at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, the Delaware Art Museum, the NJ Center for Visual Arts, the Maryland Federation of Art, Nexus Gallery and Viridian Artists Gallery (NYC), Historic Yellow Springs (PA) and Gallery Imperato (Baltimore). See exhibitions for more information on where her work has been on view.