NAME: Bruce McKaig
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BIOGRAPHY
Bruce McKaig has been making photographs for over thirty years, living and traveling in Europe, North and South America, Siberia, and India. His photography involves meticulous processes that produce one-of-a-kind pieces, working with chance elements of surprise and exploring techniques as diverse as pinhole photography, ambient light images, stereo photography, handcolored images and digital animations. He has a Bachelor of Art from Austin College and a Master of Science in Foreign Service, with Distinction, from Georgetown University. His photographs are in museum collections in the USA, France, and Guatemala. He has been awarded private and public grants from the city of Paris and Washington DC and has participated in over thirty solo and two hundred group exhibitions since 1979. He is represented by The Kathleen Ewing Gallery (Washington DC). He recently served on the State Arts Council in Wyoming and received a 2007 Artist Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He regularly lectures and writes on photography and teaches at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Georgetown University, The Smithsonian Associates, and at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop in Southeast Washington DC where he currently lives.
