Virginia Beahan’s photographs are included in an exhibition entitled “A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now” at the Getty Center from May 17 through October 2, 2011. A selection of her work is available for viewing by appointment at Rose Gallery in Santa Monica. From the Getty press release: “Virginia Beahan’s work concentrates on the landscape’s relationship to history and culture. In 2001, she began a multiyear project on Cuba, photographing its topography in search of remnants of the island’s diverse past. The work resulted in a publication in 2009 titled Cuba: Singing with Bright Tears. Beahan’s Cuba…

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Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla, CA, is exhibiting a selection of photographs from Virginia Beahan’s 2009 monograph, Cuba: Singing with Bright Tears. The exhibition will be on view through June 7, 2011.

Through July 24, 2011 Six photographs from Beahan’s series, “Photographs from Home,” are on exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. You can see the photographs in the Smithsonian collection. “Close to Home presents photographs made during the past three decades by both established and emerging artists. It features thirty-two color and black-and-white photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s permanent collection by nine contemporary photographers: Tina Barney, Virginia Beahan, Christopher Dawson, Muriel Hasbun, Martina Lopez, Elaine O’Neil, Larry Sultan, Margaret Strickland, and Carrie Will. The exhibition includes many new acquisitions, which will be on view at…

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Opening paragraph from a piece by Judith Hertog in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Dec. 2010: “‘There is something magical about the alchemy of photography and the tactility of handling the paper, mixing the chemistry and making prints by hand,’ says Virginia Beahan, a photographer who has taught in the studio arts department since 2001.” Read the article