Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography
Contact Information
- Office: 909 Thayer Hall
- Phone: 412-392-4312
- Email: sgrebinski@pointpark.edu
Education
- M.F.A., Photography, University of Pennsylvania
- B.A., Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Background
Stephen Grebinski is a photographer coming to Point Park University from Philadelphia, where he obtained his M.F.A. in photography from The University of Pennsylvania's School of Design. Interested in the narrative potential of photography, his work in drawing, photography and collage explore issues of history, memory and loss. Inspired both by Soviet cinema and an upbringing in the industrial Midwest, the work creates a stagnating but beautiful world, a way perhaps of both redeeming and of asserting the power of the lost — a sublime wrought by introspection.
Grebinski did an artist residency at Frank Mohr Instituut in the Netherlands in 2010, and was Speigel Fund Teaching Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia from 2009-11.
His photography, drawings and book work have been shown at Printed Matter (NYC), Booklet Press (Tokyo), The Atlanta Center of Photography, Future Tenant (Pittsburgh), Project Space Church Street (Philadelphia), DCCC Gallery (Philadelphia), Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, N.Y.), as well as many other group shows nationally and internationally.
Grebinski will be teaching several traditional darkroom courses, such as Alternative Processes, Experimental Black and White Photography, and the History of Photography.
Selected Awards and Honors
- Penn Design Travel Grant, 2010
- Penn Design Grant, 2010, 2009
- ICA Speigel Fellowship, 2010
- Pennsylvania Commonwealth Arts Grant, 2009
- University of Pittsburgh Provost’s Grant, 2009