1998

Master of Fine Arts in Photography San Jose State University, California

1980

Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language San Francisco State University, California, USA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016

Marginalia, Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center, Brattleboro

2015

In The World, Bennington Museum, Bennington

2014

Domestic Scenes from Iceland, Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Iceland
Edwards, Plovdiv Photography Festival, Bulgaria

2013

Suburban Dreams, The Oakland Museum of California
Somewhere and Nowhere, Colburn Gallery of Art, UVM, Burlington,

 

2012

Everyday Indexes, Galerie f56, Munich, Germany

2011

Suburban Dreams, KievFotoCom festival, Kiev, Ukraine
Suburban Dreams, Petra Rietz Salon and Gallery, Berlin
Suburban Dreams, Galerie f5,6, Munich
Escenas Domésticas, Fotoencuentros Festival, Murcia

2007

Beth Yarnelle Edwards, Wiilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen

2006

Lianzhou International Photography Festival, China
ZoneZero.com—Internet Exhibition, Mexico, D.F., Mexico

2005

7th Internationale Fototage , Mannheim, Germany
Suburban Dreams, Galerie 5,6, Munich, Germany
Suburban Dreams and New French Series, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
French Photographs from Toulouse , Château d'Eau, Toulouse, France

2004

Rêves de Banlieu, Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi, Belgium

2003

Rêves de Banlieu, Chateau d'Eau, Toulouse, France
Suburban Dreams, California State University at Chico, Main Gallery

2002

Exposure 2002, Hereford Photography Festival, UK
Suburban Dreams, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2001

Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, The Netherlands
14e Rencontres Photographiques, Lorient, France
Rencontres Photographiques en Sud Gironde, Langon, France
Suburban Dreams, City of Las Vegas Cultural Affairs, Nevada

1999

Suburban Dreams, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington
Beth Yarnelle Edwards, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh
Volver a Ver, Centro Colombo Americano, Medellín, Colombia
The Fringe Festival, (outdoor slide projection) Arles, France

1998

Suburban Dreams, CEPA Gallery Satellite, Buffalo, New York
Beth Yarnelle Edwards, Davis Art Center, Davis, California
Suburban Dreams, SRO Gallery, Texas Tech. University, Lubbock, Texas

1997

Where the Mundane meets the Mythic, Univ. of California at Berkeley Extension, San Francisco
Art About Town, grant funded, eight locations in San Carlos, California
Suburban Portfolio, Exit Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015

Bibliothecaphilia, MASS MoCA, North Adams
Landscape As Fetish, Gallery Kayafas, Boston
The People’s Museum of Revisionist Natural History, Spaces, Cleveland
Flash Forward Festival, Gallery Kayafas, Boston 


2014

Constellation, Galerie f5.6, Munich
Seeing the Sky, Wassaic, New York
Performing for Cyclops, Pitch Projects, Milwaukee
Edition Art Fair, Pitch Projects Booth, Chicago
Paraprosdokians and Rubber Chickens, The Art Gym and Belluschi Pavilion, Marylhurst


2013

Three Ways To Draw the Landscape, Ditch Projects, Springfield

2012

Indie Photo Book Library Exhibition, Flash Forward Festival, Boston
2012 Biennial, deCordova Museum of Art, Lincoln
Expanding The Frame, Chicago Photography Center, Chicago
P.O.C Exhibition, Format 13 International Photography Festival, Derby

2011

artists tell stories, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale
Indie Photobook Library Exhibition, ACP Book Fair, Atlanta,
Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston
Progress? Drury Gallery, Marlboro
Flash Forward Festival Boston, Fairmont Battery Wharf, Boston

2010

Identity, Oakland Museum of California
Twenty, Hereford Photography Festival, United Kingdom
Thoughts of Home, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New York
If These Walls Could Talk, Polyester Gallery, Nebraska
DOMESTIC, Espai Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona
Biennale: Photographie et Archiitecture, Brussels

2009

Collection Rotation, SFMOMA Open Space, online
Contemporary Art Exhibition Wuhan, China
Truth, Tampere, Finland

2008

In My Bedroom, Galerie f5,6, Munich

2007

Wall House #2: Thought Provoking, Sense Provoking Noorderlicht, Holland
Gallery Artists, Galerie f5,6, Munich, Germany
Trace Gallery Editions Program , United Kingdom

2006

Project for Holland's Noorderlicht Festival "Thought Provoking, Sense Provoking", October 13 to 28 2006
Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2006, China
In the Shadow of the Shadow, Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
Traces Biennale #1, Espace Architecture La Cambre, Brussels

2005

BildForum e.V. Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum Mannheim: 7. Internationale Fototage Mannheim/Ludwigshafen – Contemporary American Photography
Masquerade: Women's Contemporary Portrait Photography, Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham, UK
Center for Photographic Art Awards Exhibition, CPA, Carmel, California

2004

Paris Photo and AIPAD– Robert Klein Gallery, Paris and New York
Masquerade: Women's Contemporary Portrait Photography, Photofusion Gallery, London
Dislocation, James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco
Permanent Collection and New Acquisitions, The Oakland Museum of California

2003

Here and There, Gallery Sink, Denver, Colorado

2002

Encontros da Imagem, (14 images in theme exhibition) Braga, Portugal
London Photographic Awards 5, London, UK
Center for Photographic Art Awards Exhibition, Carmel, California

2001

True Story, Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York (four artists)
Hall of Mirrors: Variants, Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
Hall of Mirrors: Photographs, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre, Denmark
Social Landscape, Gallery Sink, Denver, Colorado
Current Works 2001, Soc. for Contemp. Photo, Kansas City, MO

2000

Salon International de la Recherche Photographique de Royan, France
London Photographic Awards 3, traveling exhibition and book, United Kingdom
Permanent Collection, Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi, Belgium
Photo Americas, Portland, Oregon
Photography Invitational. Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview,Texas
By and About Women, Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska

1999

Suburban Dreams, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco

Grants and Awards

2002

The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Visual Arts Award
London Photographic Awards

2001

Ruttenberg Arts Foundation Award
Current Works 2001, Society for Contemporary Photography
Friends of Photography Emerging Photographer Award

2000

Salon International de la Recherche Photographique Royan, France

1999

Santa Fe Center for Visual Studies 1999 Project Competition

1998

Current Works 1998 Society for Contemporary Photography
Ernst Haas Awards Competition
Friends of Photography Emerging Photographer Award
Ruttenberg Arts Foundation Award
72nd Annual International Photography Comp., The Print Center, Philadelphia
Anna Ballarian and Violet Speddy Scholarships, San Jose State University, CA

1997

Illuminance 1997, Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas
Friends of Photography Emerging Photographer Award
Individual Artist Grant, San Mateo County Arts Council, California

1996

Sixth Annual Center for Photographic Art Awards, Carmel, California
Community Arts Program Grant, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, CA
The Photo Review's 12th Photography Competition
Photography, Print and Drawing Show, Artworks Gallery, Hartford

1995

Light Impression's Biennial Juried Show, Rochester, New York
Current Works 1995, Society for Contemporary Photography

Collections

Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi (Belgium), Museet for Fotokunst, Odense (Denmark), Biblioteque National de France, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe (New Mexico), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Texas), The Oakland Museum of California, Château d'Eau, Toulouse (France), Museu da Imagem, Braga Portugal, The Harry Ransom Collection, Austin (Texas), The Ruttenberg Foundation Collection (Chicago), The Noorderlicht Collection (The Netherlands), Galerie Le Lieu, Lorient (France), Salon International de la Recherche Photographique de Royan (France), The City of Seattle, Washington