CARL SESTO

EDUCATION / M.F.A. 1973 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY. / B.F.A. 1968 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE / Currently teaching full time at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (since fall 1990). Courses include Beginning and Advanced Offset Lithography; all levels of photography, Beginning and Advanced Electronic Imaging, and Digital Printmaking for Photographers. / 1991 Kodak Center for Creative Imaging; workshop. / 1988-1990 Rhode Island School of Design; offset lithography. / 1972 VSW; Graduate teaching assistantship. / 1970-71 Art Institute of Boston; photography & history of photography. / 1968-69 Project, Cambridge, MA; beginning to advanced photography.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / 1991 Center for Creative Imaging, Artist invitational. / 1978-1981 Senior Designer & Production Coordinator, U.N.H. / 1974 Established and operated Pentacle Press and Pressroom Gallery (1982), printing companies specializing in fine reproduction of photographic originals. Books printed include: Barbara Blondeau, 1938-1974, VSW/PCA, 1976; Real Dreams, Duane Michaels, 1976; Places, Aaron Siskind, Light Gallery/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976; Criss Cross Applesauce, B.A. King & Toni De Paola, Addison House, 1978; Dorchester Days, Eugene Richards, 1978; Paper Negative, Danny Lyon, 1980; An Art and Gardening Journal, Peter Hutchinson, 1987; Merci Gonaives, Danny Lyon, 1988. / 1968-69 Assistant to Minor White. Worked as a teaching assistant and produced gelatin silver prints for reproduction in his book Mirrors, Messages, Manifestations. / 1965-66 Museum assistant, George Eastman House. Worked in exhibitions, publications, and reproduction departments under Beaumont Newhall and Nathan Lyons.

WEBSITE / 1996 Publication of a personal Website containing galleries of past and present works in photography and digital art. Also included are artist's books and an ongoing narrative of my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella, Spain in the summer of 1997. http://www.shore.net/~csesto

BOOKS & PORTFOLIOS /1999 Pictionary (A Paperless Portfolio). / 1996 Designer's Guide to Digital Imaging, Carl Sesto, John Wiley & Sons. / 1996 Boring Little Photographs, Carl Sesto, (ink jet). / 1994 Ordinary Events, Carl Sesto, offset lithography, SMFA Press. / 1987 Things Under Snow, Carl Sesto, edition of 50. / 1981 Fruit Portfolio, Carl Sesto, offset lithography, edition of 100. / 1973 12 Screenless Lithographs, Carl Sesto, edition of 40. Images Published / 1995 Designer Photoshop, 2nd edition, Rob Day Random House. / 1993 Designer Photoshop, Rob Day, Random House. / 1993 International Photography, Eastman Kodak, Number 1. / 1992 Computer Graphics World, May. / 1992 Course Catalog, Center for Creative Imaging. / 1990 PHOTO/DESIGN, May/June. / 1980 High Contrast, J. Seeley, Curtin & London. / 1974 Camera, October. / 1973 Saturday Review of Education, Vol. I, #3.

AWARDS / Faculty Enrichment Grant, SMFA, 1993, 2000 / Creative Club of Boston, Silver Award for Photography 1990 / Various C.A.S.E. awards for design and production 1981-84 / New England Book Show Award, 1978 / AIGA Annual Exhibition & Catalog 1976 / American Institute of Graphic Arts Award, fine books, 1976

COLLECTIONS / Addison Gallery of American Art / Art Institute of Chicago / Bankers Trust Company / Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris / Fogg Art Museum / George Eastman House / Houghton Library, Harvard University / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Museum of Modern Art / National Gallery of Canada / Naylor Collection, Boston / Polaroid Corporation / Rockford Art Museum / Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery / Visual Studies Workshop / Wesleyan University

GROUP EXHIBITIONS / 2000 “Some Boston Photographers,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / 2000 Chameleon Gallery, Newburyport / 1999 Firehouse Gallery, Newburyport / 1997 Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts / 1996 "Pet Paintings," Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston / 1995 "Is This Post Modernism?," Copley Society of Boston / 1994 Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA / 1993 "Self-aMused," Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA / 1992 Firehouse Gallery, Newburyport; Riems Center, School of the Museum of Fine Arts / 1991 "Pop Goes America!" Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Center for Creative Imaging, Camden, ME / 1990 Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts; Faculty Biennial, Museum of Fine Arts, Providence, RI; First Religious Society, Newburyport / 1986 Sargent Gallery, Newburyport / 1985 City Hall, Newburyport / 1984 Gallery 58, Newburyport / 1982 Imagine Gallery, Groton, MA / 1980 Addison Gallery of American Art / 1977 On the Offset Press, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse / 1976 Vision Gallery, Boston / 1975 Recent Acquisitions, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery / 1973 Le Galleries Photographie Centaur, Montreal; Visual Studies Workshop; Recent Acquisitions, GEH; Nelson Fostic Gallery, Alfred University / 1972 Contemporary Photographers II, GEH; Recent Acquisitions, Fogg Art Museum / 1970 Project Inc.; Innermost House, MIT; Carl Siembab Gallery / 1969 Riverside Gallery, Rochester, NY / 1968 Rochester Institute of Technology