EDUCATION:

2001 MFA Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

1999 BFA Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2010 Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (forthcoming January-February)

2005 Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue available with essay by Tim Davis)

2004 Museum of Contemporary Art (12x12), Chicago, IL (curated by Dominic Molon)

2001 MFA Thesis Exhibition in Photography, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

1999 BFA Thesis Exhibition,The Whole Gallery, Baltimore, MD

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS:

2007 Loaded Landscapes, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL 

2006 The Lie of the Land, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY

2006 Adventura: Photography of Unexpected Places, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY

2006 New Trends in Chicago Photography, Version Fest, Chicago, IL

2005 Into the Woods, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL

2004 Frozen in Ligh, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL      

         Art Basel Miami Beach,  Jacob Karpio Gallery, Miami, FL

         Museum of Contemporary Photography:  work on loan as part of the Midwest

         Photographers Project, Chicago, IL

2003 Rough Typography, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, IL

         Dig Two,  video screening, Artist’s Space, New York, NY

2002 Holiday Shopping Wallspace  Gallery, New York, NY

         Staged/Unstaged,  Reva Gallery, New York, NY

         Friends and Family, Lombard Fried Fine Arts, New York, NY

1998 Superfantastic,Alternative Space Gallery, Baltimore, MD

         Annual Photography Exhibition,  Main Gallery, Baltimore, MD

         Juried show of digital photography,  Main Gallery, Baltimore, MD

         Annual Juried Exhibition,  H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1996 Documentary: Interpreting Evidence, Fox Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1995 IV International Exhibition “Women in Photography,” Smolenk, Russia

PUBLICATIONS/ REVIEWS:

2009 Brian Kain (blog) "Taking in the Rain," April 7

2006 Joshua Mack, The Lie of the Land, Modern Painters, September

2005 Carl Gunhouse, Anna Shteynshleyger, Skuawk.com, June 6

         William Meyer, Where the Gulags Were, New York Sun, May 19

2004 Margaret Hawkins, Diverse Photographs Unite in Harmonious Vision, Chicago Sun-Times, September 24

2004 Photography District News (PDN) May 2004

2004 Alan Artner, Shteynshleyger’s Cutting-Edge Work Elusive, Chicago Tribune, March 19

2003 Fred Kemper, Ah, Wilderness, Chicago Reader, August 8

2001 Yale University Photography catalogue

COLLECTIONS:

The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

Schwartz Contemporary Art Collection at Harvard Business School, Boston, MA

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL 

LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, Chicago, IL

Yale University Library, New Haven, CT

Private Collections in the United States

SELECTED GRANTS/ AWARDS:

2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

2008 Illinois Art Council Finalist Award

2006 Illinois Arts Council Finalist Award

2001 Blair Dickinson Memorial Award

         John Ferguson Weir Award

1998 Chesapeake Bay Antiquarian Scholarship

         Seymour Mandelbaum Merit Scholarship
1995 Fanny Thalheimer Scholar Award

         Scholastic Art Award

1994 Distinguished Maryland Scholar Award

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Currently teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College, Chicago.