Terri Warpinski
De Pere, Wisconsin
Terri Warpinski explores the complex relationship between personal, cultural and natural histories through her lens-based, mixed media creative practice. Her current work, Restless Earth, draws attention to her home ground in the Great Lakes Watershed and the urgent necessity for ecological recovery, restoration and re-wilding in response to our global environmental crisis. For over four decades her various projects have taken her throughout the American West and Mexico, Australia, Western and Central Europe, the Middle East and Iceland. She was distinguished as a Fulbright Senior Fellow to Israel in 2000-2001, as Professor Emerita of Art in 2016 after a 32-year career teaching at the University of Oregon, and was the Honored Educator of Society for Photographic Education in 2018. Most recently was awarded the Carol Crow Fellowship for Environmental Photography by the Houston Center for Photography in 2024, was a Top 50 finalist of Critical Mass, awarded a feature interview in Analog Forever, and was a finalist exhibited in the international BBA Photography Prize exhibition in Berlin, Germany in 2025.
Her extensive exhibition record includes the Pingyao International Festival of Photography in China; the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem; Houston International Fotofest; the Center for Photography in Woodstock, New York; the University of the Arts in Philadelphia; and Camerawork in San Francisco. She was awarded a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Fellowship to Berlin to begin her long-term project Death|s|trip. Her limited-edition artist books (Sagebrush, 1999 Surface Tension, 2016), and collaborative broadside portfolios (Liminal Matter: Fences, 2017 and Liminal Matter:Traces,2018) with Portland poet Laura Winter are in numerous public and special collections including Stanford University; The Bancroft at UC-Berkeley; Beinecke Library, Yale; Book Arts Collection, Baylor University; Amherst College; and the Getty Research Institute.
A native of Northeastern Wisconsin, she once again resides in that glacially carved landscape and ancestral home of the Ho-Chunk (Hoocąk) and Menominee (Kāēyās maceqtawak) Nations along the Fox River in De Pere with her husband, photographer David Graham. Together they created newARTSpace, a non-commercial exhibition and event space.
