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About

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Michael Chovan-Dalton is the creator of the podcast Real Photo Show and the producer of PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf. He is a professor and coordinator of Photography at Mercer County Community College in New Jersey and the former Director of the JKC Gallery in Trenton NJ. He is also a photographer, an occasional juror, and he collaborates on many photographic projects and shows with other artists and curators. Chovan-Dalton received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts and his MFA from Columbia University.

EVENTS

  • Hosted featured artist prize winner of Homecoming Biennial | 2024
  • Hosted featured artist prize winner of Homecoming Biennial | 2022
  • Hosted featured artist prize winner of the Orange Art Exhibition: What is Your Reality in the Pandemic Era? | 2020
  • Hosted featured artist prize winner of Rust Belt Biennial on Real Photo Show | 2019

JUROR

  • Selection Committee of Homecoming Biennial – RIT Downton Gallery | 2024
  • Selection Committee of Homecoming Biennial – JKC Gallery | 2022
  • Mercer County Photography Exhibition | 2019
  • NYC Open Call Exhibitions – ApexArt | 2018
  • Noyes Arts Garage – RAW | 2018

ARTICLES

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

  • We Are the River | 2024 -Stockton University Art Gallery, Galloway, NJ
  • Pop Up Pepper | 2019 – Roger Williams Gallery at NHIA, Manchester, NH
  • Backyard Biennial | 2017 – Marble Hill Camera Club – Curated by Patrice Helmar
  • The Gallery at Mercer County Community College | 2016 – Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit
  • The Gallery at Mercer County Community College | 2015 – Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit
  • The Gallery at Mercer County Community College | 2014 – Pannaroma, Panoramic Photographs
  • LeRoy Nieman Center, Columbia University | 2013 – Pannaroma, Panoramic Photographs
  • Lipani Gallery, Fordham University Lincoln Center | 2012 – The Unexplained Spaces Marked Off
  • Miami Dade College Kendall Campus Gallery | 2011 – Pannaroma, Panoramic Photographs
  • Uno St. Claude Gallery, New Orleans LA | 2010 – Pannaroma, Panoramic Photographs, 5th Annual PhotoNOLA festival

RECENT LECTURES

  • Homecoming Workshop Lectures and Portfolio Reviews | 2024 Rochester Institute of Technology
    • Founding member of MFA Portfolio Review Biennial Show and Workshops
  • Presentation of Staten Island work | 2016
 Marble Hill Camera and Supper Club – Patrice Helmar
  • Princeton Public Library | 2014
 Screening and discussion of Documentary Film: Finding Vivian Maier
  • College Media Associates | 2014
 Workshop Co-Presenter “How to Report a Murder”
  • College Media Associates | 2013
 Photography Panel Moderator “From the Worlds Largest Picture Desk – A look at Getty Images”

COLLECTIONS

  • The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art – University of Oklahoma
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

EDUCATION

  • MFA Columbia University, NYC
  • BFA School of Visual Arts, NYC