Dana Fritz
Lincoln, Nebraska
Dana Fritz uses photography to investigate the ways we shape and know the natural world. She holds a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Arizona State University. Fritz is currently Professor of Art in the School of Art, Art History & Design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Her honors include an Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship, a Rotary Foundation Group Study Exchange to Japan, and a Society for Photographic Education Imagemaker Award. Fritz’s work has been exhibited in over 140 venues including the Phoenix Art Museum, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, the Griffin Museum of Photography, and the Great Plains Art Museum, and Sheldon Museum of Art in the U.S. International venues include Museum Belvédère in The Netherlands, Château de Villandry in France, Xi’an Jiaotong University Art Museum in China, and Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Place M, Monade Contemporary, and Nihonbashi Institute of Contemporary Arts in Japan.
Fritz's prints are held in collections including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art; and Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. Fritz’s artist books are held in collections including Yale University’s Beinecke Library; the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Hirsch Library; Rare and Distinctive Collections at Colorado University Boulder; and the LuEster Mertz Library at the New York Botanical Garden.
Her work has been published in numerous exhibition catalogs including IN VIVO: the nature of nature, Encounters: Photography from the Sheldon Museum of Art, Grasslands/Separating Species, and Reclamation: Artist Books about the Environment, and was featured in Harper’s, Orion, Border Crossings, Liberation, and The New York Times. University of New Mexico Press published her monograph, "Terraria Gigantica: The World under Glass," in 2017. University of Nebraska Press published "Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape" in 2023.
