ZoE Photo

Category: Exhibitions

  • Milan! And a thank you to Mexico.

    I am here to jump up and down that I am headed back to Milan, Italy for MIA Photo Fair! I do attempt to be cool about such things but showing work in Italy is always a dream, and I can’t wait for proper espresso. I’ll be there for a bit roaming around Florence before the exhibition, then to Milan with quite a bit of work from over the years. Here is a sampling of what I will be showing on the Fabrik walls.

    But first! Thank you to Gabriela Galindo for writing such a beautiful description of my work in El Rizo Robado magazine in Mexico. I had so much appreciation being at Zona Maco and exhibiting my work there and when Gabriela approached me she said she already knew my work. I can’t thank her more for such empathetic and thoughtful writing.

    Please click to enlarge and have fun clicking though my Italy gallery, which was also shown in Mexico this February and will head to London for Photo London in May.

    Nautilus
    Kat
    © Zoe Wiseman
    © Zoe Wiseman
    Rei #6 © 2004 Zoe Wiseman
    Kat #37 © 2006 Zoe Wiseman
    © 2024 Zoe Wiseman – AIM 93
    © 2024 Zoe Wiseman – Missch 2
    © 2024 Zoe Wiseman – E 72
    © 2008 Zoe Wiseman – Flame 14
    © 2023 Zoe Wiseman – HSD 44
    © 2016 Zoe Wiseman – Melux 39
    © 2012 Zoe Wiseman – SaraLiz97
    © 2013 Zoe Wiseman – Soph 68
    © 2010 Zoe Wiseman – Zinn 70
  • LA Art Show

    LA Art Show

    LA ART SHOW January 7 – 11, 2026
    LA CONVENTION CENTER 
    West Hall

    I’ll be showing again at the LA Art Show with Fabrik. I hope you’ll come see some color from me. 

    Not really what I do. I have only these 5 pieces.

    I’m of the opinion that color looks too busy and causes your eyes not to flow from space to space in the frame the way it’s meant to be seen like black and white can convey so pragmatically. But California Poppies and Australian Poppies demand color. Egg yolks and Picasso shaped reflections in the water scream for it too. Dogs wearing sunglasses? Do we need color to appreciate the humor? The sunglasses are the plot not the laundry, and not even Fanny, the model. Although it is her perfect doggie. For some reason she has sunglasses for him, of course she does. Unplanned fun.

    © 2024 Zoe Wiseman

    I will only be showing these works in LA this year, they are QUITE LARGE and I don’t trust a certain someone’s tariffs. Might cost more than airfare. And I felt like keeping my 1 of 1 color pieces at home in LA.

    I have shows coming up with Fabrik in Mexico City, Milan and London with work more in line with what I normally do. I’ll post some of those works soon.

    my year… my life… and my grief

    I don’t ask anyone to read further, but I have been missing this year. Both my father and my mother passed away and two weeks after my mom went my 19 year old friend (kitty), Niles, passed too. I have been on constant emergency notice since the Palisades Fire started in January. In September, I finally got some sleep. Not having any family member’s to help was really hard. Tell yours to form a Trust so that it makes it easier on everyone.

    It feels weird that I feel like I need to explain an absence from everything. I’ve also grown way less interested in social media drab. Especially with AI aggregating my work during all this and finding it used in some sicko’s portfolio like he actually made the image. So I have been “away.” I know it’s ok to just disappear for a while, I’ve just not been able to respond to a lot of people due to zero energy to do so, time differences, parental emergencies, pet emergencies, and trying to keep myself above water and my work afloat.

    So…

    I can’t wait to be back in Italy… Can’t wait to see Mexico City for the first time… and London is always London where else can anyone get a proper crumpet?

  • Exhibition Schedule for 2024

    Exhibition Schedule for 2024

    I have a few shows coming up where my work may be seen. These are some of the pieces I will start off exhibiting at Art Miami + Context December 3-8, 2024 the last show of 2024 for me.

    *(click to enlarge the image thumbnail, use keyboard arrows or screen to scroll)*

    I will also have a few copies of Sunkissed 85, my book focused on over 20 years of Solarizing Polaroid Type 85 negatives.

    I have several 2025 Shows upcoming starting in February. I’ll post about those as they head over the horizon.

    I hope you all have a lovely Thanksgiving.

  • Sunkissed 85 News

    Sunkissed 85 News

    Photography is about capturing moments that exist in the shadows of reality. Solarization allows me to dance in those shadows, creating images that are haunting and mesmerizing.” Zoe Wiseman

    Hello! I have quite a bit of news, friends. Things are moving fast around here and I carved out some time to stop and write about it. As some of you may know, and some of you may not know, I released my first monograph, Sunkissed 85, with an absolutely amazing forward by the legendary Glen Wexler. It is 20 years of my solarized work with Polaroid Type 85 film. I solarize the negatives on the spot at the moment right after exposure. No photoshop, all analog. Whimsically dancing in shadows and illuminating them to create an industrial metallic feeling in some instances. The technique was perfected by Man Ray and Lee Miller, and I’ve expanded upon that vision with my own imagination. It’s a surreal blast from the past that I love. This is a body of work spanning over 20 years that I have presented inside this book, published by Vedere Press. << This link will zoom you over to purchase a signed copy.

    If you would like to purchase through Amazon… mark up pricing on Amazon reflects their shipping charges and percentage Vedere has to pay them. International (outside the USA) shipments should go through me at Sunkissed85.com

    I will also be signing copies of my book January 29, 2024 at Book Soup on Sunset BLVD in West Hollywood. I’m absolutely honored to be among some of the legends who do events at this brilliant independent book store. I hope you can come show your support of my art.

    And on December 21st I’ll be talking with the former mayor of Augusta, GA on his podcast about my book of nudes. hmm. Should be interesting. I’ll do my best. Link coming soon.

  • A Little Interview + More…

    A Little Interview + More…

    Authority Magazine Interview

    Can you share a story about the funniest mistake you made when you were first starting? Can you tell us what lesson you learned from that?

    I don’t believe there are ever mistakes, only lessons. This wasn’t a “first starting” moment, it was years into being a photographer. Two models and I were at this absolutely gorgeous location, and by the end of the shoot, I went to wind the film in my camera, and oops! no film was in the camera. Luckily for me, they were sympathetic. We went through each photograph I made in my head again, and things probably worked out better. That first run was just a practice session. We did have a few laughs about it, though.

    Have a little CLICK to read it all…

    10th Anniversary of the LA Nude exhibition and book.

    I also made a new “Press” page to list with photo documentation some of the rewarding things I’ve been up to throughout the years. Listing the LeNU X here to pinch myself for being in a show with the likes of these masters. Don Weinstein really knew how to put a show together and I’ll always be thrilled I was part of it. William Claxton, Julius Shulman, Herman Leonard… come on! How did I rate? This was my 7th year as a photographer after transitioning from modeling. I remember someone asking me if I worked at the gallery and explaining to them that I had work on the wall and I was there for the exhibition and to sign books. Yes, girls make fine art too.

    Sunkissed 85 by Zoe Wiseman Forward by Glen Wexler

    I am still waiting for my book to be launched. Hopefully the new publisher who bought out Vedere Press recently (yeah waiting on all that stuff) can make it all happen before the holidays so I can present my book to all of you by then. They are all signed, waiting on the go button. It will happen! If I need to have all the books shipped to me and do it myself, I will. I’m practicing patience. It takes a lot of practice.

    St. Merrique and I went out into the wilds recently and here is the first image I looked at to apply post to. It was a long hike up to the location for 10 minutes of photo making, but worth it.

    I also had this amazing shoot with my favorite LA Drag Queen, Mizz Tiffany Vogue. This shoot felt righteous due to the absurd political climate. I love drag queens!

    I have so many images to add to the site soon too. So, this is just a little peek at what I’ve been up to.

    Thanks for your enthusiasm!

  • Sunkissed 85, and my year in life.

    Sunkissed 85, and my year in life.

    In April 2022, I signed a book deal and the exciting process of editing, designing and prepping for a launch (that still hasn’t come yet), commenced.

    During the designing process in August, after a yearly eye exam and a retinal scan, my eye doctor sent me to the emergency room for an MRI and I was diagnosed with a brain tumor and had a craniotomy within a week after that appointment. This set me back quite a bit with the book, as anyone would expect, but the good news is as of my last MRI this August 2023, my doctor says that I AM CURED! Thank you to the Cedars Sinai Neurology Department, Dr. Jenny Parks (my eye doc), and my neurosurgeon, Dr. John Yu… and every single beautiful person I came in contact with at Cedars, especially Desiree, my nurse. Also, whoever shaved my head so that I could cover the incision and not scare the children. Bride of Frankenstein, maybe? I took this as I was recovering and had a very swollen face.

    Not only did I have to have brain surgery, but my yearly fine art retreat was already scheduled. I made it there, 2 1/2 weeks after surgery (I must be mad). We laughed, and celebrated and it was such a joyous occasion. A bit after that I went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame celebration for the 2020 Nine Inch Nails induction that my husband and I were unable to attend due to Covid, once things started opening up again the RRHF scheduled the Nine Inch Nails event, and he got back on stage with them and all the former bandmates in Cleveland. A week after that there was a wedding! So right after surgery it was just go go go go go and I didn’t stop. Normally people sit down and have some rest. It was good for me. September and October totally occupied with activity.

    In December, I received notice that the publisher I signed my book deal with sold the company. So then I realized what all the hold up was with my book. More on this later…

    Skip forward to February, no books in hand, but my work exhibited in the LA ART Show (I actually posted about it <<), which was an eye popping glory of color and pop art, and me with my photography wall. Strange and wonderful all at once. I loved being part of that with Photo Independent. The Virtual show is still online there if you would like to see my two features, scroll down that page, it’s alphabetical so I’m last. Then immediately after LA ART Show I started preparing for the MIA Photo Fair in Milan, Italy. Scroll through the slide show below.

    Italy was one of the most amazing things I did all year. Milan was special. Meeting people who understood my work and knew what solarization was without the need to explain my process was so incredible. Exhibiting my work there was a dream come true. It is where I decided my life goals when I was 16 years old. To come full circle back to the place where the spark began, well, I’m just happy that brain tumor didn’t do me in. I left 5 of my pieces in Italy, so part of me is there now. I also got to spend a couple of days in Venice and hit the Lee Miller/Man Ray exhibition.

    April to today has been a busy bundle of taking care of aging parents and trying to get this book launch happening, some brilliant shooting with models who stopped in to participate and a tragic death of my friend, Jillian Ann. So I am here trying to process the day (a year ago) I was told I wasn’t going to die with all of the non-stop that has been going on, and the never ending phone calls about our friend, Jillian who was supposed to be at my home right now staying with me. Plans sometimes cannot be kept.

    Jillian and I in one of many taxis we shared. This one in Australia. I will miss her.

    Before the strange ending of a non-stop year I did a soft launch of my book. I have 5 limited edition prints with a book left available. Until I hear from Vedere Press, that’s what we have. I bent over and bought all my books and 1/2 of them are at a distribution warehouse, waiting. I’m so very impatient about things now and I’m doing my best to breathe and let the process unfold. If it doesn’t, I’ll just do it all myself. At least I can count on me.

    I am waiting to launch. Until then, Sunkissed85.com is where you can snag the last 5 limited edition prints with my book. This is the print, and this is the book.

    I should probably use this blog more often instead of attempting to cram an entire year into one post.

    One year, hair is growing back and no more swollen face. It all worked out.

  • LA Art Show

    A LOT has been happening and I have been completely overwhelmed with busyness that I haven’t been able to tell you all about it. There was a bit of a drought and now its a monsoon. Just like California weather. What month is it? March?

    February was a hit and 1/2 when out of the blue I was invited to participate in the LA Art Show (you can go on a virtual tour here) with Photo Independent. WHAT A SHOW! It’s huge. And to be exhibiting my work there was really wonderful. I met so many interesting and amazing artists and photographers, collectors; and listening to people talk about my work when they didn’t know I was the photographer was fun. It isn’t apparent in some of my work how exactly I do what I do and listening to them examining, out loud, their best guess on how an image was made really threw me off a few times. I let them get it out then went over to tell them how I make my images. The most beautiful thing I saw was a mother TEACHING her child about my work. There is hope for the future. Here are a few photo highlights:

    Me. My Wall.
    Mother teaching
    LA Art Show 2023 LA Convention Center

    I have much more to discuss in the coming days. I just approved the proof for the release of my first monograph titled, Sunkissed 85 and I’m headed to Milan to exhibit my work with Photo Independent at the MIA Photo Fair. You can catch me on Instagram for brief updates.

  • Naked Terrain – BG Gallery exhibition – Silvergrain Classics Magazine portfolio and interview

    Happy New Year everyone. It’s been quite a long time since I’ve blogged anything here. So I believe a new years post is in order.

    I didn’t do much shooting this year or last because of the times we live in. Go away Covid! But, I was exhibited and published so I feel like there were some positive accomplishments that can bring a bit of cheer.

    The first: bG Gallery is located at Bergamont Station in Santa Monica. The Naked Terrain exhibit may be seen by clicking HERE>

    Naked Terrain Online exhibition – bG Gallery

    This is the video from the April 2021 online exhibition, Naked Terrain. I don’t like speaking on video. It’s scary. So, cut me some slack please. LOL

    Silvergrain Classics Magazine

    They reached out this year to ask me to have a portfolio in their amazing magazine devoted to everything analog. Just about every accomplished photographer still using film graces their pages. National Geographic photographers, world wide published and exhibited photographers, masters and somehow me. (self deprecating humor aside…) It was a really nice end to a really sort of blah year because of Covid.

    You may purchase the issue I’m included in HERE>

    A very lovely written interview by Karin Majoka is included. It was great speaking with her about my work. She really listened and took what I said and depicted it correctly in what she wrote about me in the magazine. Such an honor to have someone see me and translate that into print.

    Silvergrain Classics feature
    Silvergrain Classics Cover

    So this year wasn’t bad at all.

    Happy New Year everyone. Thank you for the bright spots and here’s to many more in 2022!

  • Polaroid Exhibit – Instantaneous: The Polaroid Legacy

    Polaroid Exhibit – Instantaneous: The Polaroid Legacy

    Hi all! 

    It’s been awhile. I’ve been busy trying to redesign this site and organize my artist retreat. Learning new things and making new photographs – 

    On October 6 the opening reception for Instantaneous: The Polaroid Legacy will be from 6-9PM in Raleigh, NC 

    Anchorlight  – 1401 S. Blookworth AVE, Raleigh, NC

    Instantaneous: The Polaroid Legacy
    Instantaneous: The Polaroid Legacy

    The show runs from October 6-31, 2017. 

    I’ll have 4 prints in the show along with fellow Polaroid artists, Bill McAllister, Bryce Lankard, Harlan Campbell, Lisa McCarty, Polly Chandler, Richard McCabe and Tanner Messer. 

    Then at the Mythical Beast Lounge October 27-29 the 20×24 Giant Polaroid Camera will be strutting its stuff.. I’ll be in Australia for that and I’m crushed, but you should go! It will be incredible! 

    This is one of the images that I will be showing and selling in the show. Polaroid Type 85 POS/NEG. 

    © 2012 Zoe Wiseman - Model: Ella Rose
    © 2012 Zoe Wiseman – Model: Ella Rose

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • The Kona Gallery Auction to Benefit Japan

    I’ve donated this print to benefit Sendai, Japan. It will be available at The Kona Gallery in San Clemente, California this Saturday April 16, 2011. I have extended family just outside of Tokyo, so it’s also a personal uplifting thing for me to do.

    412 N. El Camino Real, San Clemente, CA 92672


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    NEWS RELEASE
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    CONTACT INFORMATION:

    Rebekah Colby, Corporate Communications

    Office: +1.949.481.3747
    Fax:     +1.949.481.3941

    Email: [email protected]

     

    9.0 JAPAN QUAKE BENEFIT: IMC, ZUMA + SAN CLEMENTE MERCHANTS TEAM UP

    Silent Auction and Raffle at Free Event
    SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.–– The KONA Gallery invites you to a silent auction and raffle to raise money for the victims of the Sendai area earthquake and tsunami. Join us at The KONA Gallery and Photojournalism Center at 412 North El Camino Real, San Clemente, U.S., on Saturday April 16th from 6p.m. until 9p.m. to participate in this cause and to be apart of a silent auction/raffle and general event to remember and benefit the victims.

    It has been a month since the devastating 9.0 earthquake and ensuring deadly tsunami hit Japan. The fallout is still being felt worldwide. International Medical Corps, ZUMA Press, DOUBLEtruck Magazine, plus over two dozen merchants in San Clemente area have teamed up with the KONA Gallery and Photojournalism Workshop Center to throw a benefit for the victims. The benefit will auction and raffle off over $100,000 worth of goods and services.

     

    Scott Mc Kiernan, owner of The KONA Gallery and Photojournalism Center, has generously donated all of the Limited Edition DOUBLEtruck Magazine prints in the current exhibition of 29 Seeing Double Exhibition, the 20×30 prints are framed in museum frames, valued at $1,500 each, to be auctioned off, totaling over $ 43,000 worth. A great way to support the cause and get a beautiful photograph that tells a story that people should know.

    The night is one you are not going to want to miss. The following is a list of the San Clemente companies who have contributed to the silent auction: Del Mar Beauty Supply/ Salon Bamboo, Chin’s Acupuncture, 5 Elements Spa, Sonny’s Pizza, The Cellar, Peligroso, Pizza Port, Bliss Boutique, San Clemente Wine Co, Beachfire, Skullcandy, Rainbow, Casa Tropicana, Nick’s, Hobie, Asana Fit, First Team Real Estate, Runmore, OltreMare, OC Tykes, Beach City Florist and St. Roy at Vine.

    If you cannot attend in person, feel free to send a check to the gallery, put in memo: Quake Benefit.

    100% of the proceeds will go to Japan, through International Medical Corps and ZUMA Press’s Tokyo Bureau. For more information about the silent auction and The KONA Gallery, please contact Rebekah Colby at +1.949. 481.3747 or email [email protected].

    INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ––Established in 1984, International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs.

     

    THE KONA GALLERYAND PHOTOJOURNALISM CENTER––Unveiled on October 7, 2009 by photojournalist and entrepreneur, Scott Mc Kiernan, The KONA Gallery is a space dedicated to the presentation and discourse of photojournalism. The vision of The KONA Gallery has been to expose a broad audience to moving historical moments through the lens of acclaimed photographers. The center will be holding exhibits in its’ two galleries and a monthly lecture series will be held in the BIG WEDNESDAY Gallery, along with workshops thru out the year and other educational presentations.