BIO
Maureen Drennan is a photographer born and based in New York City. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, the Tacoma Art Museum Seattle, Washington, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Aperture, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Centotto Gallery, Transmitter Gallery, Mrs. Gallery and the Newspace Center for Photography, amongst others. Her images have been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, California Sunday Magazine, The Atlantic, Huffington Post, Photograph Magazine, Photo District News, American Photo, UK Telegraph, Refinery 29, and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
She currently teaches at LaGuardia Community College in New York City.
PRESS
The New York Times, “Long Island We Need to Talk (About Housing)” Feb 24, 2022
Atlantic Magazine, “What Will Become of America’s Veterans’ Halls?” Nov 2021
Booooooom!, “Meet Me in the Green Glen”, June 2021
Ignant Magazine, “Maureen Drennan’s Atmospheric Photography”, June 2021
Booooooom!, “Rust Belt of New York”, Oct 2019
New York Times, "Touring the Rust Belt of New York", April 22, 2018
Prohbtd Magazine, "Maureen Drennan: A Compelling and Intimate Glimpse into Removed Communities", July 10, 2018
Newest York, "Seaside Dispatch", July 2018
Newest York, "In Between", June 2018
All About Photo, "Maureen Drennan: Meet Me in the Green Glen, Island Kingdom, and the sea that surrounds us", Oct 2017
Newest York, "Rust Belt New York", Oct, 2017
Art 21 Magazine, “Highway to the Sun: Truth and Fiction in Maureen Drennan’s Photography”, Aug 15, 2017
Refinery 29, “Broad Channel, Queens”, Jan 2017
Economic Hardship Reporting Project, “Broad Channel, Queens”, Jan 2017
The New Yorker Photo Booth, “The Year in New Yorker Instagrams”, December, 2016
Huffington Post, “27 Powerful Photo Stories That Captured Our Attention This Year”, Dec 2016
Huffington Post, “What it Means to be an Artist in the Time of Trump”, November, 2016
Aint Bad, "Maureen Drennan", May, 2016
Huffington Post, "Photos of Women and Children Survivors Tell A Different Story About Colombia's Struggles" Oct 7, 2016
American Photo Instagram Feed week of Sep 26, 2016.
Huffington Post, "Photographer Chronicles her Husband's Depression Through Intimate Portraits" Sep 1, 2016
Feature Shoot, "Photographer Copes With Her Husband's Depression Through Self Portraits", Aug 30, 2016
The New Yorker Instagram Feed week of Feb, 15 2016.
Narratively, "Oy, The Things She Hears in Court", Dec 2015.
All the best, Alice, “A Sense of Place”, May 2015.
American Photo, “Where Words Failed Us, The Pictures Filled in the Blanks”, April 2015.
California Sunday Magazine, “The Harvesters”, p.9, December 2014.
UK Telegraph, November, 2014.
The New York Times, “Bouncing Back”, p.8, October 26, 2014.
Creative Time Reports, 13 Ways of Looking at Cannabis,” April 2014.
The New Yorker, “Buzzkill,” p.40, November 2013.
The New York Times - Lensblog, “On a California Farm Where Marijuana Grows,” August 15, 2011.
SELECT CRITICS’ REVIEWS
The L Magazine, “Business Is an Art: Bay Ridge SAW 2014” Paul D’Agostino, May 2014.
Photograph Magazine, “In the Studio”, Adam Ryder, May/June 2014.
New York Photo Review, “The Mellow Farmer”, Ed Barnas, December 2011.
Pittsburgh City Paper, “Program Notes: Sliver Eye Fellowship Award Show,” Bill O’Driscoll, March 17, 2010.
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