BiographyGregory Spaid is an artist and teacher of studio art at Kenyon College. Recently he spent a year in New York City photographing the movement of people on the street for a series titled "The Light Fantastic." His photography on the changing landscape of rural America was included in a major group exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles titled "Where We Live." As well as the Getty Museum, Spaid's work is in other major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the George Eastman House, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the Santa Barbara Museum, the Chase Manhattan Bank, and the Dayton Art Institute. He received a Fulbright Research Fellowship to complete a photography project in Italy and received six grants from the Ohio Art Council to support his work. Spaid has published two monographs of his photography: Grace: Photographs of Rural America (2000) and On Nantucket (2002).
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