B.S. Dept of Education, Kutztown
University of Penn., 1980

International Center of Photography,
New York City, 1977

Professional Experience
1988- Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

current: Reinberger Galleries Coordinator/Designer

1993 Visiting Artist
Academy of Visual Arts, Photography Dept.

Academic St.Joost, The Netherlands

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Photography Dept, Michigan.

Kosciuszko Foundation, New York City. 1991 Visiting Artist

Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut
Podstawowych Problemow Techniki,
Academy of Science,(Institute of Mechanical Problem Solving) Warsaw, Poland.

Cleveland State U. Dept of Photography,
Cleveland, Oh.

Grants/Awards

1993 Murphy Foundation Grant, Ohio

1991 Foundation For Contemporary Performance Arts, New York City.

1991 Murphy Foundation Grant, Ohio

1990 Ohio Arts Council.
Cleveland Photographic Workshops, Ohio

1988 Art Matters, New York City.

1987 Detroit Council on the Arts, Michigan
Michigan Council on the Arts

Solo Exhibitions 1995 - 2006
Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio
Shaheen Modern & Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
National Centre of Photography, St. Petersburg, Russia
Beverly Arts Center of Chicago, Chicago
Shaheen Modern & Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Galerie Tolgyfa, Budapest, Hungary
Shaheen Modern & Contemporary Art
Academie de Arte, Bucharest, Romania
Kunsverein,Pforzheim, Germany
Budapest Academy of Art, Budapest, Hungary
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
The John J. McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Museum of York County, South Carolina
Het Apollohuis, Netherlands
Galerie Litera, Prague, Czech Republic
Kastrich Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
showings continuing-
(Selected)

1994
Strategies of Staging, Kastrich Galerie, Frankfurt, German (solo)

The Spiritual in Photography: Recent Abstractions, Puchong Gallery, NYC(group)

Bruce Checefsky: Photograms, Municipal
Museum, Iwano Frankowsk, Ukraine (solo)

1993
Fotografische Werke, Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (solo)

Bruce Checefsky: Photograms, Galerie Litera, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)

Strategies of Staging, Gallery ll, Washington State University, Pullman, WA (solo)

Bruce Checefsky: Photography, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio (solo)

Young Artist, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, NYC (group)

20/20 Vision, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (group)

ATC, The Workhouse, Chicago (group)

1992
International Fotofest, Houston, Texas (group) Heat, Ukraine Museum, Cleveland, Ohio (solo)

Cleveland: A Portrait Of A Place B y Nine Photographers, William Busta Gallery (invitational)

Enlightened Papers, Afa Gallery, Scranton, PA, (solo)

Collections
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
The Getty Research Center
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
The National Centre of Photography, St. Petersburg, Russia
British Film and Video Collection, London
Museum of Art, Lodz, Poland
Netherlands Foto Institute, Rotterdam
Hungarian Photomuseum
Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
Carnage Mellon University
Yale University Library
Stanford University
University of Chicago
Cranbrook Academy of Art
Oberlin College
Duke University
Cornell University
The University of Iowa
Cleveland Public Library

Publications
The Films of Bruce Checefsky, book published in conjunction with film release 'in ni' (others) with essays by Lukasz Ronduda, Director of Polish Film Archives and Curator of Film, Center of Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Marcin Gyzicki, Professor of Film Studies, Rhode Island School of Art; and Saul Ostrow, Dean Visual Arts and Technologies Environment, Chair Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art. Published by Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Al. Ujazdowskie 6, 00-461 Warsaw, Poland, March 2005.
2001 Bruce Checefsky & Kiril Prashkov: Bugs/Eating & Reading, Artist Book. Limited Ed. 150/signed, Institute
of Contemporary Art -Sofia, Bulgaria
1996 Bruce Checefsky: Other People's Money, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1995 The Language of Place, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan