Most of these exhibitions include other photographs as well as those of Jake in Transition.

For information about the “Jake in Transition,” traveling exhibition organized by the Visual Studies Workshop (VSW), contact the director: Tate Shaw tateshaw@vsw.org

(for other exhibitions go to www.clarissasligh.com)

Solo Exhibitions (selected):
• Haverford College, Haverford, PA, 2008.
• Research Institute on Gender, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2007 (VSW)
• Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 2006 (VSW)
• Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, 2004
• Albin Kuhn Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2002 (VSW)
• Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 2001 (VSW)
• University of Wisconsin, Stevens Pt, WI, 2001
• Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI, 2001
• Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Rutgers Univ, New Brunswick, NJ, 2000

Group Exhibitions (selected):
• Corporeal: Book as Body, Body as Book, The John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, 2007.
• Second Woodmere Trienial of Contemporary Photography, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 2006.
• Found in Translation, An exhibition of Artist Books and Multi-media organized by the Booklyn Artists Alliance for the San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA, the New York Center for Book Arts, NYC, and Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 2006.
• Picturing Difference/Forming Consensus: Race, Gender & Representation in Contemporary Photography, Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, WA, 2005. (VSW)
• Anxiety & Desire, Denver Center of Visual Arts, CO, 2004.
• Triennal 9 Form and Contents: Corporal Identity-Body Language, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (with the Klingspor Museum, Offenbach) and the Museum of Arts and Design, NY, 2003.
• Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at Fifty, Burden Gallery, NY, NY, 2002.
• Time, Place, and Culture, Landmark Arts Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 2001.

Exhibition Reviews:

Bali, Priya. “A ‘Transition’ told gracefully with art.” Michigan Daily, March 12, 2007.

Cornell, Clare Charles. “Bodies Revealed.” Exposure, Vol 38:1, 2005. A publication of the Society for Photographic Education. A review of Wrongly Bodied Two.

Pierce, Laura. “In Search of Identity.” Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Pullman, WA, January 6, 2005.

Bell, Lauren. “Representing the Photograph of Life.” The Daily Evergreen, WSU, Pullman, WA, January 14, 2005.

Williams, Carla. “Jake in Transition from Female to Male” series, or, Through the Mirror and What Clarissa Found There. Contact Sheet, #112, 2001, pp. 11-15. A publication of Light Work, Syracuse, N.Y.

Giuliano, Mike. “Masculine-Feminine.” Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore, MD, April 24, 2002.

Low Stuart. “Free to be Himself.” Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY, Sept. 2, 2001, p.3C.

Kaimann, Frederick. “Gender Breaking.” Home News Tribune, New Brunswick, NJ, March 24, 2000.

Exhibition Catalogues:
Woodmere Art Museum. Second Woodmere Triennial of Contemporary Photography. Exhibition Catalogue, Philadelphia, PA, 2006, p. 24-27 (illus.)

Booklyn Artists Allia nce Production, Found in Translation: An Exhibition of Artist Books and Multi-Media, Traveling exhibition, Catalogue, Brooklyn, NY, 2006.

Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, Museum of Arts & Design New York mit dem Klingspor Museum Offenbach, Corporal Identity-Körpersprache 9. Triennale für Form und Inhalte USA und Deutschland. Exhibition Catalogue (Deutsch-English), 2003, pp 286-287.