Bio:
Terése Conway, a Rogers-based photographer, fell in love with photography while growing up in Sweden. After getting her father's old film camera, she took her first darkroom and photography class at Mullsjö Folkhögskola, where she also studied drawing, textiles, and ceramics. Later, she received an art scholarship to Missouri Southern State College in Joplin, Missouri, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design.
Two decades of product design expertise in Northwest Arkansas sharpened her ability to create visual balance and harmony through tone, texture, and composition.
In 2020, a temporary move to Carmel, California, motivated a renewed focus on her art. The historic contemporary gallery of Center for Photographic Art, provided her with inspiration and encouragement to pursue her vision.
Terése Conway is an award-winning artist and was selected for the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts 2023-2025 Artist Registry. She has appeared in a number of publications, most notably in All About Photography's 'Black and White Competition,' where she was named a Rising Photographer.
Her work has been showcased in several judged exhibitions, such as the 2023 and 2024 showcase 'Our Art, Our Region, Our Time' at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and the PhotoSpiva 2023 competition in Joplin, Missouri.
By blurring the past and present, dream and reality, I wish to create a space for reflection and imagination.
Curriculum Vitae
Awards / Publications
2023
Juried Artist Registry - Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts 2023-2025 Artist Registry
Honorable Mention - Monochrome Photography Awards - Nature category, ‘Nocturn/A Portrait of a Tree’
Honorable Mention - ND International Photography Awards - Fine Art Landscape category, ‘Faded Grove’
Honorable Mention - MonoVisions Photography Awards - Nature & Wildlife category, ‘Mist over Lake Atalanta’
Published - F-Stop Magazine, Black & White Issue, ‘Shrouded’
2022
Honorable Mention - ND International Photography Awards - Fine Art Landscape category, ‘Into the Silence’
Honorable Mention - Monochrome Photography Awards - Landscape category, ‘Into the Silence’
2021
Published - AAP Magazine, #18 Black & White Competition, series ‘Exposed’
Honorable Mention - ND International Photography Awards - Fine Art Landscape category, ‘Holding the Line’
2019
Honorable Mention - MonoVisions Photography Awards - Nature & Wildlife category, ‘Through the Mist’ and ‘the Patagonian Fox’
2018
Winner - Poetic Picture Contest, Interior Design Philosophy, ‘Laughing Angel’
1997
Winner - ADDY Award, American Advertising Federation, Joplin, MO
Published - Best of College Photography Annual
Published - Graphis Amateur Photography 1, Graphics USA
Exhibitions
2024
Our Art, Our Region, Our Time, Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR- Juried Art Exhibition, ‘Tulip Pair’
2023
Our Art, Our Region, Our Time, Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR- Juried Art Exhibition, ‘Shrouded’ and ‘Into the Silence’
PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO - Juried Photography Exhibition, ‘Holding the Line’ and ‘Passage’
2022
Through a Mind’s Eye, McCoy Gallery, Community Creative Center, Fayetteville, AR- Solo Exhibition
Our Art, Our Region, Our Time, Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR- Juried Art Exhibition, ‘Mist over Lake Atalanta’
Natural State Rock & Republic, Springdale, AR- Curated Art Exhibition
Elements, Art Fluent - Juried Online Art Exhibition, ‘Spirits of the Deep’
2021
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA- Member’s Juried Online Exhibition, ‘Adrift’
Education
July 29, 2024 - August 2, 2024
Intro to Photopolymer Gravure Workshop, instructor Jeanne Wells, Main Media College, Rockport, ME
1994 - 1998
Bachelor of Arts & Science, major in Graphic Design, MSSC, Joplin, MO
1993 - 1994
Associates of Fine Arts, Photography / Drawing / Ceramics / Textile, Mullsjö Folhögskola, Sweden
“Conway’s images are of timeless natural beauty, and without eliciting nostalgia, they encourage the viewer to look more deeply for the mysterious in their own surroundings”