Anne Turyn

Turyn graduated from Antioch College in 1976 with a BFA in art. She moved to Buffalo, New York and from there established Top Stories, a prose periodical, while participating in Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and enrolled at the University at Buffalo.[5] Her first publication of Top Stories, was printed by Hard Press, and sold for one dollar.[6] Top Stories published art and writings by photographers and artists such as Kathy Acker, Laurie Anderson, Constance DeJong, Jenny Holzer, Cookie Mueller, Richard Prince.[7] In 1991 City Lights Books published 'Top Top Stories' edited by Turyn.[8] Turyn's book of photographs, 'Missives,' was published in 1986 by Alfred van der Marck editions, with an essay by Andy Grundberg.[9]

In 1982 Turyn's photographs were featured in the window of the New Museum, New York, curated by Robin Dodds.[10] In 1986, Turyn had a one-person exhibition at Art City (Leslie Tonkonow) in New York, as well as at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (curated by Linda Cathcart)[11] as well as participated in a group exhibition, titled Remembrances of Things Past, at the Long Beach Museum of Art curated by Connie Fitzsimons.[12] In 1989 Turyn was included in Vanishing Presence, curated by Adam Weinberg at The Walker Art Center, which also traveled.[13] She was included in the seminal exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, curated by Peter Galassi in 1991.[14]

In 1995, Turyn collaborated with Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center to present a group exhibition at the Burchfield Penney Art Center titled Alternatives: 20 Years Of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.[15] The following year, Turyn was one of 23 alumni whose work was selected to be displayed at the University at Buffalo Art Gallery.[16]

In 2010 Turyn was included in Pictures by Women at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Roxana Marcoci, Sarah Meister and Eva Respini.[17] In 2010 her work was also included in Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography curated by Douglas Eklund at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.[18]

In 2017, she had a solo exhibit at Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, titled Anne Turyn: Top Stories Archive & Selected Flashbulb Memories, 1978-1991 which presented her photographs alongside selections from the Top Stories archive.[19]

Her work is included in the collections of:

• the Whitney Museum of American Art,[1]
• the Metropolitan Museum of Art[2]
• the Museum of Modern Art, New York,[3]
• the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[20]
• the Denver Art Museum,[21]
• the Center for Creative Photography,[22]
• the George Eastman Museum[23]
• the Portland Art Museum,[24] and
• the Birmingham Museum of Art.[25]