Gina Genis has exhibited her work in museums and galleries across the U.S. She is included in the permanent collections of the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, the Otto G. Richter Library Special Collections Division of the University of Miami, Hard Rock Casino, Orange County Transit District, the Sarah and Adam Markman Collection, and IBM among others.
Her Window Peeping series was included in OsCene 2010 at the Laguna Art Museum, and solo shows at Gallery 825, Cypress College, and Biola University. The June Gloom series was exhibited in a solo show at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The Kala series has been exhibited at MPLS Photo Center, Cypress College, and Gallery 825. Economy Portraits was created as an Artist In Residence project at the Huntington Beach Art Center, and was awarded “Best Art Show of 2011” by OC Weekly. Economy Portraits was turned into a book. She recently curated Wide Angle View, an exhibit of 16 international, award-winning photo and multi-media journalists at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art to much critical acclaim.
Recent reviews of her work have appeared in OC Weekly, Orange County Register, New University, American Contemporary Art Magazine, Riviera Magazine, Coast Magazine, Art Scene, Huntington Beach Independent, and more. She had done numerous radio interviews.
She leads the Gina Genis Photo Workshops where she teaches beginning and intermediate photographers how to jump to the next level with their work. She also teaches online courses through The Compelling Image.
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