MARGARET ALBAUGH b. 1982
509-859-7726 | margaret@margaretalbaugh.com | www.margaretalbaugh.com
Spokane, WA

ARTIST STATEMENT & BIO

Margaret is an Asian American photographer based in the Pacific Northwest. Her commissioned work is typically documentary family photography.
Her personal projects are meant to raise questions. Her personal projects examine identity and different aspects of identity such as race and gender. Her work is informed by her feelings of being an Asian American as well as her frustrations around gender.

AWARDS and Honors

2021 — Invited and Participated, Chico Portfolio Review, Charcoal Book Club, Chico Hot Springs, MT
            This is Reportage Family Awards, 1 Awarded Image
2020 – This is Reportage Family Awards, 3 Awarded Images
            This is Reportage Family Awards, Top 100 Photographers of 2020
            Finalist, Click Voice Competition, Color – Coy
            Honorable Mention, Click Voice Competition, No Place Like Home – Quarantine Playground
            Eighth Place, Documentary Family Awards, Nothing is Better Than Real Life
2019 – Fourth Place, Documentary Family Awards, 100 Days of Summer Category
           Fourth Place, Documentary Family Awards, Series Category
           Judge’s Choice, Documentary Family Awards, Series Category
2018 – Family Photojournalists Awards, Gold Medallion
2011 – Everyman Award

EXHIBITS

Solo

2021 – Terrain Art Gallery, Spokane, WA.; TOMGIRL

Group

2021 – Salmon Arm Arts Centre; “Breaking the Binary”, Salmon Arm, Canada – TOMGIRL
            Florida Museum of Photographic Art; “Picture [Im]Perfect” Tampa, FL. – Portrait of a Garage Artist
2020 – Lenscratch; “The 2020 Favorite Photograph Exhibition”, [Online Exhibit] – Severance
            PhotoPlace; “Finding Joy”, Middlebury, VT – Post-Painting Baths
            PhotoPlace; “Finding Joy” [Online Exhibit] – Hammock Joy
            International Center of Photography; “ICP Concerned”, New York NY – Portrait of a Hairstylist
2019 – Terrain; “Terrain 12”, Spokane, WA – Chest Hair, Fantasy Bath
2018 – Emerge; “Pop Up Show”, Coeur d’Alene, ID – TOMGIRL (7 pieces)

PUBLICATIONS

Print

2021 – Chico, Charcoal Book Club 2021, Catalogue
           Picture (Im)perfect
2020 – Click Magazine; The Shape of a Child (Feature)
           Portrait of Humanity Book, Volume 2, 2020
2019 – Click Magazine; Six Things I Love About the Google Pixel (Article)

Online

2019 – Confluence Magazine; Morph
           Documentary Family Photographers Worldwide
2018 – Fearless and Framed
2017 – Sham of the Perfect
2015 – Looks Like Film