EDUCATION
MFA, 2005, Photography, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
BFA, 2000, Studio Art, College for Creative Studies (with honors),
Detroit, MI
AA, 1996, Photographic Technology, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, MI

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007
-Each Uncertain Touch, eye lounge contemporary art space, Phoenix, AZ (solo)
-Word and Image, Shemer Art Center and Museum, Phoenix, AZ
-Annual Art Detour Group Exhibition, eye lounge contemporary art space,
Phoenix, AZ
-Resident Artist Show, Phoenix Center for the Arts, Phoenix, AZ
-Artlink Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Phoenix City Hall Atrium, Phoenix, AZ

2006
-Between Us, @Central Gallery, Burton Barr Library, Phoenix, AZ (solo)
-Cropped, The Kitchenette, Phoenix, AZ (solo)
-Queer ID National Juried Exhibition, Boise State University Visual Arts
Center, Boise,ID
-Texture, ALL Gallery, New Haven, CT
-Past is Present, The Laboratorium, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
-Dirty Pictures, The Kitchenette, Phoenix, AZ
-Alternative Processes Exhibition, Soho Photo, New York, NY
-Resident Artist Show, Phoenix Center for the Arts Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
-Made by Hand: Handmade Books and Ephemera, Hoole Special Collections,
University of Alabama, AL
-Click Art: Photography by Women, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

2005
-Selective Memory, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe,
AZ, MFA Thesis Exhibition (solo)
Out of Context, The Kitchenette, Phoenix, AZ (solo)
-Alternative Borders, White Raven Studios, Las Cruces, NM
-Food is Good, The Kitchenette, Phoenix, AZ
-New Photography: 1st Annual National Juried Exhibition, Newspace Center
for Photography, Portland, OR
-New Editions Books: Old, New, Digital, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill
Valley, CA
-Alternative Photographic Processes Show, Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
-Visual Text, Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
-6x6 Exhibition, Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ

2004
-Codex Liberatus, Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
-Artists Books & Portfolios, The Larsen Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
-Handmade Books, Corner Gallery, North Idaho College, Coeur d’Alene, ID
-The Liberated Page, Central Gallery, Burton Barr Central Library,
Phoenix, AZ

2003
-ABBA Book Arts Exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ
-Printed Matter V, Photo Sessions, Phoenix, AZ

2002
-Desert Transplants, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA -SPE
Regional Exhibition, Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
-A Room of Your Own, Michigan Guild Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI

RECOGNITION
2006 Audience Choice Award, Queer ID National Juried Exhibition, Boise
State University Visual Arts Center, Boise, ID
2005 Juror’s Choice Award, Outside the Dog, Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona
State University
2005 Third Place Award, Annual MFA Summer Exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery,
Arizona State University
2003 Brooks Fellowship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

REVIEWS AND REPRODUCTIONS
-eye lounge – a contemporary art space inaugural member artists catalog, 2006
-Echo Magazine, Photographer Kris Sanford Refuses to Play it Straight with
Images, by Ted Rybka, August 11, 2005, 46.
-Marginalia, The Visual Text Project, by Laura Cruser & Kris Sanford,
Spring 2005, 30-31.

COLLECTIONS
Texas Woman’s University Library, Book Art Collection

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

Resident Artist in Photography, Phoenix Center for the Arts, Phoenix, AZ
Adjunct Faculty, Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ