About Terry Towery

Photographer and artist Terry Towery (AKA Timothy Eugene O’Tower) has been exhibiting since 1985. His work is in the permanent collection of The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Harn Museum of Art as well as numerous private collections. He has exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions at such institutions as The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The Alaska Museum of Art, The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Visual Studies Workshop,  Michael Mazzeo gallery, Peer Gallery, Lyons Wier Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Sotheby's NY, DUMBO Arts Center, SUNY Brockport, The Quay School of Art in Wanganui New Zealand, the Silicon Gallery in Philadelphia, Central Fine Arts SoHo, the Florida Museum of Fine Arts, the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (CEPA), The Campos Photography Center, Mississippi State University, University of Nebraska, The Appleton Art Center, The Instituto Guatemalteco Americano in Guatemala, The University of Gothenberg Sweden and many others.

Recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at the May Gallery at Webster University and the Art Department Gallery at the University of Northern Iowa. Recent group shows include: Making it Up: Photographic Fictions at the Victoria Albert Museum in London, Still Life Alternative Exposures at Loosen Art Gallery  Rome Italy, Still at A. Smith Gallery in Austin Texas, Light Sensitive at Art Intersection gallery in Gilbert Arizona, The Recently Uncovered Photographs of Timothy Eugene O’Tower at Michael Mazzeo gallery, Old Media New Visions at the Delaware Center for Contemporary art with Adam Fuss and Sally Mann, and Past is Present at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester.

His work has appeared in numerous publications including: Making it Up: Photographic Fictions by Marta Weiss published by the Victoria Albert Museum in London, Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques, The Hand magazine, P magazine and Exploring Color Photography: From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio by Robert Hirsch. Additionally, he is working on his fifth (of ten) book in the book of 100 series

He is currently an Associate Professor of Art and chair at Lehman College CUNY and a part time Associate Professor of Photography and Art and Design Studies at Parsons, The New School for Design. Prior teaching appointments have been at the College of Art, Media & Technology and the College of Art and Design Theory and History at Parsons School of Design, and the graduate program in Media Studies in The New School for Public Engagement in New York City, an adjunct Assistant Professor of Photography at FIT SUNY, a member of the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research's Media Studies Program, an Instructor of Art at at the Brooklyn College CUNY Department of Art, an adjunct Assistant Professor at the County College of Morris, and he held the graduate research teaching assistantship at The University of Florida.