Geoff Winningham
Geoff Winningham earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Rice University and a master's degree in photography from the Institute of Design at IIT. He joined the art department at Rice University in 1969, where he continues to teach today, holding the Lynette S. Autrey Chair in the Humanities.
Winningham has received two fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and numerous commissions. He has published books and directed documentary films on a wide variety of subjects, primarily related to Texas and Mexican culture. His book Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea: The Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico (2010) won both the Ron Tyler Prize from the Texas State Historical Association and the J. B. Jackson Award from the Foundation for Landscape Studies.
Winningham’s photographs are included in major collections across the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Wittliff Collections, San Marcos. His work has been published in numerous anthologies, including 20th Century Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, Courthouse, Faces: A History of the Portrait in Photography, and Masters of the Camera.