John Guider
A view from a small boat
Sailing my tiny, fragile craft down the Mississippi and into the profoundly mysterious abyss that surrounds our continent has hardened my body, softened my heart and opened my eyes to a world beyond my imagining. The images presented are meant as much to be poetic responses to the emotions I felt as I raised my camera in celebration of the wonders that appeared before me. My journey was uniquely an authentic American Experience.
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Education
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
Studies with Ernst Haas and Jay Maisel, Maine Photographic Workshop
Solo Exhibitions
Platinum Reflections, Vanderbilt, March, 2010
The River Inside, A traveling museum exhibition of platinum prints, co-sponsored
by the Tennessee State Museum and the Mississippi River Museum and
Aquarium, Dubuque, Iowa
The Nashville Metropolitan Airport, Nashville, TN, 2011-2012
The River Discovery Center Museum, Paducah, KY, 2011
The Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN, 2010
The Delta Heritage Museum, Helena, AR, 2010
The Mud Island Museum, Memphis, TN 2009
The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Museum.
Saint Louis, Missouri 2009
The Mississippi River Museum, Dubuque, Iowa, 2008,
The Tennessee State Museum, 2008
River, TAFH gallery, L.A., CA 2007
Noble Elements, The Arts Company, Nashville, TN 2007
Entry, with Paul McLean, Gallery Lombardi, Austin, TX 2004
Fire, Bohan Art Gallery, Nashville 2002
John Guider, Marnie Sheridan Gallery, Harpeth Hall School, Nashville 2001
Seam, with Paul McLean, Attic Gallery, Nashville 2001
“Arts in the Atrium,” with Paul Harmon, Brentwood 1999
Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville
Italy, The Arts Company, Nashville 1998
Paris, Musée de Maillie, Nashville 1996
“Flying Solo,” Nashville International Airport 1997
Un Été du Vin, American Cancer Society 1994
Flo ra li a, Cheekwood Botanic Hall, Nashville 1990
Reflections, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville 1986
John Guider: A Collection, Annie S. Kemmerer Museum, Bethlehem, PA 1984
Group Exhibitions
The River, Gallery One, Nashville, TN, 2010, recipient of the juror’s choice
award
Water Planet, The State capitol of New Mexico, Santa Fe 2008
Southeaster College Art Conference, Invitational gallery
Exhibit, 2006
Ingram Gallery, Premier opening, Vanderbilt University
2006
Artists for Oasis: Ten Year Anniversary Show, The Arts Company 2004
Faculty Art Exhibition, Watkins College of Art,
Nashville, TN 2001
A Celebration of Fine Photography, The Arts Company,
2003
Finer Things Gallery, Nashville, TN 2000
Studio 209, Fort Worth, TX 1999
Warner Brothers/Reprise Records, Nashville 1998
Central South Exhibition, The Parthenon, Nashville 1985
Southern Arts Federation, Atlanta, GA 1983
Southern Photographers (George Tice, Juror) Red Mountain Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL 1982
Southeastern Photography Biennial, Asheville, NC 1981
Collections
The Tennessee State Museum, Nashville
Broadcast Music Incorporated, Nashville
Broadcast Music Incorporated, London
Dollar General Corporation, Nashville
Opryland Hotel, Nashville
Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Metropolitan Nashville Airport
Public Art Project
Nashville Public Library (one of five photographers commissioned to create
inaugural documentary project for a new building designed by Robert A.M. Stern, 2000-2001)
Publications
The River Inside, narrative and photographs by John Guider, FRP Press, 2008
Cover photograph for Taft, a novel by Ann Patchett
Cover photograph for Praying for Sheetrock, a novel by Melissa Fay Greene
Nashville Arts Magazine, numerous articles, 2009 -20011
Awards
Beautiful Minds Finalist, national Council on Ageing 2010
Award of Excellence —Communication Arts, Photography Annual 2005
Graphis Poster Annual 2004
Addy Awards (Nashville, District) — American Advertising Federation 2003-1978
Certificate of Design Excellence — Print Regional Design Annual 1997
National Citation of Merit — American Advertising Federation 1995
Excalibur Award — American Cancer Society 1994
(Infrared images of Sonoma Valley wineries for Un Été du Vin)
Award of Excellence — Communication Arts Photography Annual 1990
(Polaroid transfer images of Amy Grant’s farm, American Cancer Society)
Best of Show — Nashville Art Directors 1977
Bibliography (selected)
Earth Day Nashville, Featured Speaker, May 17, 2010
Ertelt, Bonnie Arant, “River Run” Vanderbilt Magazine, Spring, 2010
Colette, Sophie, “John Guider, Visions in Platinum” Nashville Arts Magazine,
April, 2010
John Seigenthaler’s Word on Words, NPT, Featured Author, 2009
Southern Festival of Books, Featured Author, 2008
The River Inside, bio-doc by Ruckus Films, 2008
Santa Fe Photo Arts Festival, Featured Speaker, 2007
Bolger, Terry, Five Feature Stories, Channel Four News, Nashville, TN (August 2003, December 2003, March 2oo7 , November, 2008, and May, 2009
Ross,Alan, “Braving the mighty Mississippi” American Profile Magazine, Franklin, TN, October, 2006
Bostick, Alan, “Photographer Changes Focus, Sets Sights on River Journey,” The Tennessean, Nashville, TN, August 2003
Bostick, Alan, “Guider Surely Has Tales to Tell After 3-Month Canoe Journey,” The Tennessean, Nashville, TN, November 2003.
Creamer, Colleen, “Rolling On the River,” The City Paper, Nashville, TN, October 20, 2003.
Rose, Meryl, Feature Story, Talk of the Town, News Channel 5, Nashville, TN February 2004
Tate, Mindy, “Franklin Man Begins Canoe Trek to Gulf,” The Review Appeal, Franklin, TN, August 10, 2003.
Tate, Mindy, “100 Days Alone on the Mississippi,” The Review Appeal, Franklin, TN, November 27, 2003.
Tate, Mindy, “Rollin’ on the River : A Franklin Photographer Spends 100 Days On River in an Epic Journey from His Back Yard to New Orleans,” The Jackson Sun, December 7, 2003.