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Donna Bassin
Photography and Film
84 Haller Drive, Cedar Grove, NJ 07009
(c) 201.306.5550
dibassin@gmail.com
Professional Affiliations
Frontline Arts, New Jersey: co-founder and member of the Board
Assistant Clinical Professor, New York University, Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Solo Exhibitions
2004
Playing Around, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
Memories: Ascending/Descending, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2003
The Afterlife of Dolls, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Group Exhibitions
2021
Privilege, Power and Everyday Life, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2020
Prayers for the Pandemic; Prayers for Progress; Prayers for the Planet; Prayers for the Presidency!, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
For Which It Stands, Ford Foundation Gallery and Assembly Room, New York, NY
Exploring Humanity, Los Angeles Center of Photography 5th Annual Fine Art Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Artists for Social Justice, Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College, New York, NY
Artists for Social Justice, Arc Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
Portrait 2020, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
Bound Up Together: On the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness, SaveArtSpace/Art4Equality; The Untitled Space, New York, NY
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness, SaveArtSpace/Art4Equality; Billboard at McGuinness Blvd and Calyer St, Brooklyn, NY
Art Off-Screen, Neumeraki, D*FIT Studio, Montclair, NJ
Her Flag, Old Barracks Museum, Trenton, NJ
2019
Little by Little, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ
State of the Art 2019, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
Contemporary Portraiture: To See Each Other, Passaic County Arts Center, Hawthorne, NJ
ViewPoints 2019, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2018
Armistice Day 2018, Puffin Cultural Forum – Frontline Arts, Teaneck, NJ
Call & Response: The Art of Listening, 1978 Maplewood Arts Center, Maplewood, NJ
Natural Encounters, N.Y. Photo Curator – Global Photography Awards
Viewpoints 2018, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2017
Art Connections 13, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Street Photography, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
2016
Cherry Blossoms in Winter, Rutgers-Newark, Branch Brook Park, Newark, NJ
Trois Poissons in a Big See, Sterling Sound, New York, NY
Viewpoints 2016, Aljira: a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
Art Connections 12, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
2015
Mirrors of the Mind 4: The Psychotherapist as Artist, Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA
2008
The Spontaneous Gesture Realized, The Rubelle and Norman Shafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007
Shame, Redsaw Gallery, Newark, NJ
2006
Oh You Beautiful Doll, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Exposed, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
Truth, Gallery 214, Montclair, New Jersey
Almost Human: Dolls and Robots in Contemporary Art, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2003
Three Twins, The Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, NJ
Time, Light, Space, New Century Artist, New York, NY
ArtSpace, Montclair, NJ
Stebbins Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2002
Into the Light, Photo District Gallery, New York, NY
Film and Video
2016 - 2015
The Mourning After, Documentary, PEP Video
2014
Leave No Soldier (edited), Documentary. Director and Producer. (R.T 53 minutes)
2008
Leave No Soldier, Documentary. Director and Producer. ShrinkWrap Productions. (R.T 83 minutes)
Screenings include: Film Festivals (See awards), The International Federation For Psychoanalytic Education, The Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Psychoanalysis in conjunction with the Creative Arts Therapy Graduate Program at Pratt Institute, The American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work National Conference, The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, The American Psychological Association Division 39 Spring Conference, IARPP International Conference in Tel Aviv and The Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology
2004
Dollhouse, Recipient of Experimental Television Center Finishing Fund Grant
2003
Dollumentary: The Origins of Dolls, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
1978
Buddy and the Monster: A Children’s Orientation to Psychiatric Hospitalization
Awards and Grants
2020
First Place - Los Angeles Center of Photography's 5th annual juried exhibition: Exploring Humanity
Curator's Choice - ProArts Jersey City
2018
Honorable Mention for Segregation and Human Rights in the 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Photography Gala Awards
2017
NAAP Gradiva Award for "The Mourning After”
2014
Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, Video Grant for “The Mourning After”
2008
Leave No Soldier, Director/Producer. Documentary. Official Selection of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, The Big Muddy, New Filmmakers Festival, Best Director at the First Glance Film Festival and Merit award at the Accolade Film Festival
2007
The American Psychological Association, Division 39 Section IX Achievement Award
2005
The National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, Gradiva Award for Artwork Contributions to Psychoanalysis
2004
New Jersey Council of the Arts Featured Artist of the Month: January
Pratt Institute, Development Grant
Roy W. Dean Film & Video Grant: Finalist, “The Mourning After”
Experimental Television Center Ltd., Finishing Funds for “Dollhouse”
2003
Mental Health Association in New Jersey, Gold Bell Leadership Award for Contributions to Mental Health Through the Arts Catalogues and Publications
Selected Lectures
2015
The Emerging Veterans Art Movement, NYU, New York, NY
2007
Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Images of Memorial Activity, Memory, Memorials and Collective Working Through Conference New York Freudian Society, New York, NY
2003
The Art of Traumatic Mourning. Third Annual Conference Five New York Societies of the International Psychoanalytic Association
2000
Pratt Institute, Development Grant
Book and Magazine Reproductions
2020
"Bhutan.Prayer Flags.9" Cover photograph for Prayers for the Pandemic. Volume Two. Curated by Anne Trauben for Drawing Rooms, August 2020.
“My Own Witness.” Series of photographs for Human Rights. Issue #69. Lens Magazine. June 2020.
“Bhutan.Prayer Flags.2” Cover photograph for Prayers for the Pandemic. Volume One. Curated by Anne Trauben for Drawing Rooms, May 2020.
2019
“Landscape.New Zealand.1” Cover photograph for Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes (Relational Perspectives Book Series), 1st Edition. L. Layton, ed. M. Leavy-Sperounis, Routledge Press
2018
“We the People: Portraits of Resistance and America Reconstructed.” Featured photographs by Donna Bassin from series Here I Am: Portraits of Resistance, Psychoanalytic Review, 105(6), December 2018. Ed. Douglas F. Maxwell.
“Gorillas.8” Featured photograph for ‘So Zoo Me, a photo narrative’ by Mark Blickley in Event Horizon, Issue 5, 2018
“Reflection.5” Cover photograph for Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique (Relational Perspectives Book Series), eds. L. Aron, S. Grand and J. Slochower, Routledge Press
“Reflection.4” Cover photograph for De-Idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique from Within (Relational Perspectives Book Series), eds. L. Aron, S. Grand and J. Slochower, Routledge Press
2014
“Hand” Cover photograph for Holding and Psychoanalysis second edition, J. Slochower, Routledge Press
2013
“Waves” Cover photograph for Psychoanalytic Collisions, second edition, J. Slochower, Routledge Press
2005
“Inside Dolly: A Still Live Revisited.” Almost Human: Dolls and Robots in Contemporary Art. Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2004
“The Afterlife of Dolls.” Catalogue by Mary Birmingham. The Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ
2002
“Listening to Laurie”, Cover photograph for Being and Doing: Essays on Gender, ed. D. Franco, Ph.D., Mental Health Resources
Selected Interviews
2015
Fog of War, State of the Arts, NJN TV
2005
“Childhood”, State of the Arts. NJN Public Television. Featured Artist
2003
“Therapist’s Imagery: Psychoanalyst Uses Dolls to Explore Relationships.” The Star Ledger, December 5, 2003
2002
“Review of Donna Bassin’s Work.” The Montclair Times. Montclair, NJ
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