Pecchio received her MFA in photography from Yale in 2001, where she was awarded the Richard Dixon Welling Prize. Her work is included in collections at the Yale University Art Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, among others, along with many private collections. Pecchio’s photographs of inhabited spaces will be exhibited in Dwelling at the North Carolina Museum of Art February-July, 2013.
Pecchio has exhibited her work across the United States and internationally. The New Yorker and the Village Voice are among the publications that have reviewed Pecchio’s exhibitions. Details, Camera Arts, ArtNews and V magazines and many other online and print publications have featured her work. She is the author of two books: eight, an artist’s book published by Nexus Press; and 509, a limited edition monograph published by Daniel 13 Press. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Virginia.
Education
2001 MFA Photography, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1998 BFA Photography, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Solo Exhibitions (all solo exhibitions are invitational)
2012 509, Res Ipsa Gallery, Oakland, CA
2011 On Longing, Distance and Heavy Metal, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY
2011 On Longing, Distance and Heavy Metal, Women In Photography Online, New York
2011 Habitat, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
2008 Habitation, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY, curated by Lauren Ryan
2008 Habitation, University of Virginia, McIntire School of Art, Charlottesville, VA
2007 Landscape, UpFront Gallery, Bull City Arts Collaborative, Durham, NC
2006 Photographs, Textillery Gallery, Bloomington, IN
2006 Photographs, Gallery 229, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
2005 Recent Photographs, Office of the Dean, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
2004 Safe, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
2004 Phase Transition, John and June Allcott Gallery, UNC Chapel Hill
2004 Photographs, The Republik, Durham, NC
2003 Cycle of Clemency, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Yale University Thesis Exhibition, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Group Exhibitions (invitational unless marked otherwise)
2013 Dwelling: Interiors by Page Laughlin and Pamela Pecchio, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2012 Summer Salon, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY
2011 Presence/Absence, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2011 Nine Visions, Danville Museum of Art, Danville, VA
2011 Southern Views, University of Virginia Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA
2011 En Route, Woodberry Forest School, Orange, VA with Stacey Evans, curated by Leah Stoddard
2011 Alive, Softspot Online Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta
2010 New Waves 2010, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, juried by Steven Matijcio, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)
2010 Open Season, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2010 Blackbird whistling / Or just after, Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC
2010 Appalachia! Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH, (Juried)
2010 Femme Photography, Daily Candy, Online Group Exhibition, Curated by Women in Photography NYC
2010 Pulsoptional Performance, featuring projections of my photographs, North Carolina School of Science and Math, Durham, NC
2010 The Art of the Artist’s Book, Let’s Talk about Love collaboration with Chido Johnson, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI
2009 Telling Our Stories, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources Traveling Exhibition
2009 MUSA: Made in the USA, William-‐Cozart, Raleigh NC
2008 Women in Photography, Colby-‐Sawyer College, New Hampshire
2008 Mostra, Lamar Dodd School of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2008 Photographs, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, Asheville, NC with Mike Smith and Jeff Whetstone
2007 MEBIKE, The Dream Bike Festival, Amsterdam Westerpark, Amsterdam, Holland
2007 Mostra, Piazza Della Repubblica, Cortona, Italy
2007 Faculty Exhibit, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, UNC Asheville, Asheville, NC
2007 Ladylike, Madison Morgan Cultural Center, Madison, GA
2007 Wall/Space, Elon University, Elon, NC with Terri Bright
2006 Forest Primeval, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, with Ori Gersht and Jeff Whetstone, curated by Lisa Kurzner
2006 The Art of Photography: Daguerreotype to Digital, Denver International Airport
2006 Anywhere But Here, Durham Arts Guild, Durham, NC (Juried)
2006 PositiveNegative, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO (Juried)
2006 Copilandia, Sevilla Entre Culturas Festival, Centro de Arte Sevilla, Spain, curated by Robin Kahn
2005 Beijing International Art Camp, Beijing, China curated by Zheng Xuewu
2005 Eponymous, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN, curated by Lain York
2005 Faculty Biennial, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2005 Daylight Magazine and Branch Gallery Anniversary Exhibit, Carrboro, NC
2004 LOOM 3: Labeler, Pittsboro, NC
2005 5th Anniversary Exhibit, The Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, TN
2004 Holiday Shopping, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
2003 NADA Art Fair, Miami Basel, with Wallspace Gallery, Miami, FL
2003 The Bill Clinton Show, Locus Media Gallery, NY, NY (Juried)
2003 Faculty Biennial, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2003 Home is in Your Head, Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, TN with Erin Weckerle
2002 Holiday Shopping, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Home Work, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
2001 I See You 2, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Group Exhibition, Mercury Art Works, Athens, GA
2000 A Decade of Flagpole Covers, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
1999 Body as Commodity, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, curated by Candice Bennett
1999 Seven, Clayton Street Gallery, Athens, GA
1998 Clayton Street Gallery Juried Exhibition, Athens, GA
1997 Athens Underground, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1997 Threshold, Atlanta Photography Group Gallery, Atlanta, GA with Jason Thrasher