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Ginny Gregory is an emerging artist and photographer and recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Department of Photography. Gregory is originally from Midway, KY where they practice historic preservation alongside their family, aiming to help restore their ancestral estate, the Bell House, to its former glory. This ongoing project began in 2015, and now the Bell House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 

Gregory now resides in Chicago, making digital photographs, both commercial and fine art, and photographic sculptures. Gregory is interested in working with others that share her values of aiding other artists, especially musicians, through photography, video, social media, and other digital platforms. Gregory has had work exhibited at Mana Contemporary, photographed bands such as “No Candor”,  and has photographs published in Chicago Style Weddings magazine. She travels often for her practice and is available for freelance work.

A R T I S T S T A T E M E N T

I have always had an abundant and personal relationship with the past, especially as the daughter of two “crazy old-house people”. I’ve experienced hauntings and hoardings of plenty and discovered the comforts of connectedness and the art of keeping. I’ve learned to let the ghosts in through the front door and offer them my bed - to lie with them. Through photography I resurrect the buried sepia-toned bodies of my ancestors and give them new forms. 

My personal work straddles the realms of labor and care, an archive curated by the same ghosts in the photographs. I enjoy investigating spaces and their differences - rural versus urban, public versus private. What is a “home”? 

In my commercial work I most enjoy art experiences, especially live concerts and festivals. These are also intriguing spaces to me, as the behaviors of my portrait subjects are so primal and liberating. The combination of music and poetry makes us question what is essential. 

I believe that my goal as an artist is to help people - those both in the past and the present. Photography is a nonlinear art form, so consider me a time traveler.