James R. Hugunin
Oak Park, IL 60304
 

Born: 1947, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
M.F.A. in Visual Art, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA (1975)
B.A. in Fine Art, California State University, Northridge, CA, USA (1973)
Photo Illustration major, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA (1971)

• ADJUNCT FULL PROFESSOR., Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, The School, The Art Institute of Chicago, teaching "The History of Photography" and "Contemporary Theory" (1985 - present).
• SENIOR LECTURER, Art/Liberal Studies Department, Roosevelt University, teaching core course on Art, Architecture and Social Issues (1988 - 2010). Awarded The Willett Award for "Most Valuable Adjunct Faculty, 1999 - 2000" at the University's Albert A. Robin Campus, Schaumburg, IL..
• VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS: California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA (1976 - 83); California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (1985); Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL (1986 - 88); University of Illinois at Chicago (1993 - 94); Columbia College, Chicago, IL (1994).
• FOUNDER, EDITOR, AND PUBLISHER of the art periodicals: The Dumb Ox and U-Turn.
• MIDWEST EDITOR: The New Art Examiner (1989 - 90)
• FREELANCE WRITER/CRITIC with over 150 essays in print in various art periodicals (1976 - present).
• WINNER of the Reva and David Logan Award for Distinguished New Writing in Photography (1983) for "Meditations on an Ukrainian Easter Egg," sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts and The Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA.
• CURATOR: recently curated the exhibition "Discipline and Photograph: The Prison Experience" at The Peace Museum, 314 W. Institute Place, Chicago, IL 60610 (1996) based upon my book published in 1999 by The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY: A Survery of the Representation of Prisoners in the United States: Discipline and Photographs, The Prison Experience.
• GRAPHIC CAMERA OPERATOR/PHOTOLAB MANAGER: at Litton Industries, Woodland Hills, CA (1973 - 78); and at Robert Abel and Associates, Hollywood, CA (under Paramount Pictures production "Star Trek: The Movie" (1978 - 79); and at Capitol Records (1979); and Mid-Ocean Motion PIctures, Hollywood, CA (1980 - 83).

• LECTURES:
  2005 "Cutting Up: Art and Humor," Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL (lecture on Helene Smith-Romer's Retrospective Exhibition).
  

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2001 "The Photographic Book Revisited," Columbia College, Chicago, IL (visiting speaker in Barbara Metz's Book Arts Graduate Seminar).

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1999 "The Photographic Book," Columbia College, Chicago, IL (visiting speaker in Barbara Metz's Book Arts Graduate Seminar).

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1998 "The 'Family of Man' Exhibition Reconsidered," Purdue University, Art Department, Lafayette, IN (visiting speaker).


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1997 "The Photographic Book," Columbia College, Chicago, in Barbara Metz's Artists' Books course.


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1996 "Discipline and Photograph," in conjuction with exhibition I curated, "Discipline and Photograph: The Prison Experience" at The Peace Museum, Chicago, IL.
"Co-operative Education: A Faculty Perspective," at the "Creating Solutions" seminar for Art School Staff, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.


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1995 "Art in the Age of Simulation," Columbia Collge, Computer Dept. "Visiting Artists" lecture series.
"Fingering Photography: Index and Digit," University of Illinois at Chicago, photo dept., lecture series, Chicago, IL.


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1994 "Fingering Photography: Index and Digit," 4th lecture in series "Ethics in Art and Design" at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
"La Pinta: An Incredible Topology," paper delivered at "The End(s) of Postmodernism" Conference, Northeastern Missouri State University, MO.


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1993 "From Pop to Now: A Critical Reading," Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.


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1992 "Discipline and Photograph III," Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; in conjunction with a week-long seminar in critical theory.
"What is an Artist Book?" panelist, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL.


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1991 "Discipline and Photograph II," Art and Design Dept., University of Illinois at Chicago.


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1990  "Discipline and Photograph," Society for Photographic Education, Green Bay, WI.
"Art of the Eighties," panelist on public television show "American Art Forum" hosted by Richard Love, aired on WYCC-TV Ch. 20 in Chicago, distributed nationally by Central Educational Network.
"Discipline and Photograph," University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN.
"What is Criticism?" Purdue University, Lafayette, IN.
"Current Trends in Photography" (panelist) Countryside Art Center, Arlington Heights,  IL.


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1989 "150 Years of Photography," panelist on public television show "American Art Forum" #308 hosted by Richard Love, aired on WYCC-TV Ch. 20 in Chicago, distributed nationally by Central Educational Network.
"The Poetic Document," keynote speaker/panelist, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.
"New Voices in Chicago Criticism," panelist, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL.


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1988 "Post-Criticism," Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (1988), in conjunction with a week-long seminar in critical theory.
"Post-Criticism," Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; in conjunction with a week-long critical studies seminar co-taught with Deborah Bright.
"What is Criticism," University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.


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1987 "Subjective Photography and the Existentialist Ethic," Regional Society for Photographic Education meeting, Chicago, IL.
"How Is Literature Relevant? A Cross Disciplinary Approach," panelist, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.
"Two Essays, Two Approaches," University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.
"On Criticism," Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.


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1986 "The Glib and the Glob: Missing the Message in Photographs," University of Virginia, Art Department, Charlottesville, VA.
"The History of Photography: Three Master Narratives," University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Art, Chicago, IL.
"The History of Photography: Three Master Narratives," The Center for Creative Photography, University of Tucson, Tucson, AZ.
"The History of Photography: Three Master Narratives," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.


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1984 "California Photography Considered," panelist discussing California Photography, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.
"The Map is not the Territory," "New Documentary" track at the 1984 Society for Photographic Education (formal present./panel discussion), Riverside, CA.


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1982 "Approaches to Criticism,' panelist at the Regional Society for Photographic Education's meeting at the San Francisco Art Institute.


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1979 "The Photograph as Mentioned," School of the  Art Institute, Chicago, IL.
"Evidence," California State University, Fullerton, CA.


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1978 "The Dumb Ox," Society for Photographic Ed.'s National meeting, Asilomar, CA.
"An Evening with James Hugunin," Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies.


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1977 "Self-Publishing," panelist at the first meeting of the Assoc. Art Publishers Conference, San Jose, CA.
"Artists' Books," panelist, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art.
"The Photograph as Mentioned," Soho Cameraworks Gallery, Los Angeles.