Artistic Curriculum Vitae
"Monozygotic Subtractions," In conjunction with the International Congress of Twin Studies, University of Gent,
Belgium, June 2007.
"Intimate Decade: A diverse exploration of human contact from birth to death,"
Diane Tanios Gallery, Chicago, IL 29 February - 8 June 2008.
Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN, scheduled 26 September - 31 October 2009.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
"George Tooker: Working Drawings," Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT, 1987.
“The Artist as Subject: Paul Cadmus,” Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY,
"Images from Science 2008," international juried exhibition, Rochester Institute of Technology,
Rochester, NY, October 2008, with a world exhibition tour to follow.
SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHIC REVIEWS
"Song and Surgery," with host Sheri Caswell Dost, on "Hello Beautiful," WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio,
9 March 2008.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (Including articles, photographic essays, book features, and exhibition catalog essays)
“Science as Art,” by Michael R. Peres and David Malin, in The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography,
Michael Peres, ed., Focal Press, Elsevier Inc., Burlington, MA, 2007, page 492.
“Figurative Fugues: The Artistry of David Teplica,” by Lisa Wainwright, Interim Dean of Faculty
and Dean of Graduate Studies, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; in “Intimate Decade,”
exhibition catalog, the Diane Tanios Gallery, Chicago, IL, 22 May 2008.
BOOK COVERS
TELEVISION & RADIO FEATURES
“Three to See,” with host Matt Cunningham, featuring the top three art experiences for Chicagoland
for the week, WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio, 7 March 2008.
SELECTED MEDIA REPRODUCTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS (Not already included elsewhere)
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection (originally the First Chicago Collection), New York, NY
Elmer Belt Library, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Ben May Laboratories, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Center for Study of Multiple Birth, Chicago, IL
Bank of America LaSalle Collection of Photography, Chicago, IL
Polaroid Corporate Collection, Boston, MA
School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Office of Development and the Department of Interior Architecture, Chicago, IL
The University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL
“Experiments in Black,” Pattee Library, Penn State University, University Park, PA, 1982.
“Humanform #1”, Carpenter Street Restaurant, Norwich, VT, and Peter Christian's Restaurant, Hanover, NH,
1984.
“Humanform #2”, Collis Student Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 1984.
“Another Self,” Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, March-April 1990.
“The Twinsburg Archive,” at the Twins Days Festival, Twinsburg, OH, August 1990.
“DOUBLE FOCUS: David Teplica, MD,” Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, 8 February - 9 March 1991.
“DOUBLE FOCUS,” S.P.A.S. Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 3-18 December 1992.
“Archeography in Eden,” Gallery Fotographie, Prague, Czech Republic, 1993.
“Rapture: At the Interface between Love and Disease,” with sound installation by Bryan Shuler:
S.P.A.S. Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Fayerweather Gallery, the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 29 September – 27 October 1995.
Palmer Museum, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 30 November 1995-10 March 1996.
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1 October – 2 December 1998.
“Twins: a Ten-Year Photographic Exploration of Identical Twins,” Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL,
September 1998.
“Take Two: Identical Twins in Focus,” Two10 Gallery, The Wellcome Trust, London, England, 22 July - 24
September 1999.
“Gemelli: In Honor of Luigi Gedda,” in conjunction with the annual meeting of the International Society for Twin
Studies, Great Hall, Imperial College, London, 4 July 2001.
"Monozygotic Subtractions," In conjunction with the International Congress of Twin Studies, University of Gent,
Belgium, June 2007.
"Intimate Decade: A diverse exploration of human contact from birth to death,"
Diane Tanios Gallery, Chicago, IL 29 February - 8 June 2008.
Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN, scheduled 26 September - 31 October 2009.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
“Eleventh Annual Regional Art Exhibition,” sponsored by the Friends of the Hopkins Center, Hood Museum of
Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 1983.
“Paul Cadmus 80th Birthday Celebration,” Midtown Galleries, New York, NY, 1985.
“Photography 21: A Juried Exhibition,” Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, University Park, PA, Ray
Metzker, Juror, 1987.
"George Tooker: Working Drawings," Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT, 1987.
“College of Art & Architecture Alumni Art Exhibition, Selected Works,” at the Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State
University, University Park, PA, October 1988.
“Peculiar Faces: A Juried Exhibition,” Struve Gallery, Chicago, August-September 1990.
“Personal / Political,” Gallery 2, Chicago, September-October 1990.
“Cross Sections II: Recent Acquisitions,” David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago,
January-March 1991.
“Imaging the Body: From Fragment to Total Display,” Art Institute of Chicago, 30 January - 28 April 1992.
- “scars of childhood,” David Teplica (photographs), Greg Boozell (video) and Ellin Brown (text),
National/International exhibition tour:
Gallery I, Chicago Athenaeum, the AMA Building, Chicago, IL, 2 November - 5 December 1992.
Cleveland Health Education Museum, Cleveland, OH,
11 February - 31 March 1993.
Empire State Building, New York, NY,
13 July - 30 September 1993.
S.P.A.S. Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY,
15-28 October 1993.
U.S. Army Medical Museum, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX,
12 November - 30 December 1993.
El Palacio de la Antigua Escuela de Medicina, Mexico City, Mexico, sponsored by the Minister of Health,
18 January - 17 March 1994.
“The Artist as Subject: Paul Cadmus,” Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY,
- 4 February - 6 March 1993.
“I'll meet you at my house between...,” not-for-profit group performance/installation to promote public awareness
of HIV/AIDS, Dance Forum Taipei, Taiwan, 6 June 1993.
“Focus on the Symbolic: Photographs to Contemplate and See,” David Teplica with Timma Gerlovina and
Valeriy Gerlovin, among others, Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO, 14 June - 27 July 1996.
“Illinois Photographers in the 90’s: The Midwest Photographers Project,” The Museum of Contemporary
Photography, Chicago, IL, 16 November 1996 - 11 January 1997.
“New Faces: New Acquisitions,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, August – October 1997.
“The Poetics of Vision: Photographs from the Collection of Harry M. Drake,” curated by Christian A. Peterson,
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 20 September 1997 – 4 January 1998.
“New Acquisitions,” Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, University Park, PA, 1999.
“Capturing Sunlight: The Art of Tree Studios,” the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, June, 1999.
“Chicago in the Year 2000,” a millennial photographic time capsule for the city of Chicago, Chicago Cultural
Center, IL, 1 January – 4 March 2001.
“eMotion Pictures,” national tour:
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, 22 September – 25 November 2001
United Nations Headquarters, General Assembly Visitors Lobby, New York, NY, 22 January – 26
February 2002
National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC, 15 March – 15 August 2002
Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 26 August – 20 October 2002
Minnesota Government Center, Minneapolis, MN, 17-31 October 2002
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 3 January – 28 February 2003
- “Tweelingen in Kunst & Wetenschap,” Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands, 28 July – 25 November 2001.
“Tweelingen,” Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium, 19 October 2002 – 30 March 2003.
“Face Off: Works by Chicago Photographers in the Smart Museum Collection,” Smart Museum of Art, Chicago,
22 June - 8 September 2002.
“Group Portrait,” Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 5 April – 15 June 2003
“Art at War: The Artist’s Voice,” Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, IL, scheduled 10 September – 16 October 2004.
“birds & b(ees),” Gescheidle Gallery, 118 N. Peoria, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL, 10 December 2004 – 8 January
2005.
“Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Prints and Photographs”, including Chuck Close, Martin Puryear, David
Teplica, Bill Jacobson, Lothar Osterberg, and Sari Goodfriend, American Works on Paper Gallery, Palmer
Museum of Art, Penn State University, University Park, PA, 30 May – 13 October 2006.
"Images from Science 2008," international juried exhibition, Rochester Institute of Technology,
Rochester, NY, October 2008, with a world exhibition tour to follow.
SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHIC REVIEWS
“Photo Show Takes Second Look at Twins,” Margaret Hawkins, Chicago Sun-Times, Friday, 22 February 1991,
p. 21.
“Doctor Blends Science and Art in Pictures of Identical Twins,” Larry Thal, Chicago Tribune, 22 February 1991,
Friday Section, pp. 64-65.
Review of DOUBLE FOCUS: David Teplica M.D, Victoria Lautman, Channel 5 Evening News, Chicago, 15
February 1991.
“Photographing Twins,” show review and interview with Victoria Lautman and Neil Tesser, Artistic License,
WBEZ Radio, Chicago, 1 March 1991.
“Hine, Teplica, and the Documentation of Childhood Tragedies,” Ames Hall,
P-form: Performance Art Magazine, No. 27, January 1993, pp. 8-9.
“On View: David Teplica, scars of childhood,” James Hugunin, New Art Examiner, February 1993, pp. 28-29.
“Burned kids' photos sear viewer's hearts,” Dan R. Goddard, San Antonio Express News, San Antonio; TX, 24
December 1993.
“Photographer Embraces Passion in the 1990s,” by Ruth Latter, Lifestyles Section, The Daily Progress,
Charlottesville, VA, Thursday, 12 October 1995.
“AIDS Exhibit Traps Victims inside Skin,” by Todd Ritter and Jessica Tetrault, The Daily Collegian, Penn State
University, University Park, PA, Friday, 1 December 1995, p. 17.
“Teplica and Shuler’s Rapture: Love and Dis - ease in the Modern World,” by Kay Picart, Arts & Entertainment,
Voices of Central Pennsylvania, March 1996, p. 16.
“Facing Reality,” by Steven Rosen, Arts and Entertainment, The Denver Post, Thursday, 25 July 1996.
“Dr. Teplica’s Painful Shots,” Chicago Reader, 5 July 1996.
“Rapture: At the Interface between Love and Disease,” Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune, November, 1998.
“Natural Clones in Focus,” BBC News, London, England, 22 July 1999.
“Outraged by War in Iraq, Artist’s Respond,” by Kevin Nance, Sun Times, Chicago, IL, 9 September 2004.
"Song and Surgery," with host Sheri Caswell Dost, on "Hello Beautiful," WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio,
9 March 2008.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (Including articles, photographic essays, book features, and exhibition catalog essays)
“Linking Art and Medicine,” Steve Adams, The Dartmouth Medical School Alumni Magazine, Hanover, NH, Spring
1985.
“Seeing Double: An artist-physician studies twins to explore the science of beauty,” Frank James, Tempo cover
story, Chicago Tribune, Wednesday, 11 April 1990.
“Twin Peeks: About Faces,” by Mary Ruth Yoe, The University of Chicago Magazine, Chicago, summer 1990,
cover image and pp. 22-25.
“Study of Twins,” John Stone, cover story, Kodak Tech Bits, No. 2, 1990.
“Science and Beauty,” The Jack Taylor Show, Channel 26, Chicago, November 1990.
“Duophotomonozygotic Illusion,” James Hugunin, Exhibition Catalog for DOUBLE FOCUS David Teplica, MD,
February 1991.
“In the Eye of the Beholder: A Double Vision of Beauty in Art and Medicine,” Lisa Roney, cover story, The Penn
Stater, University Park, PA, May-June 1991.
“The Twinsburg Photographic Archive: One Man's Fusion of Science and Beauty,” Greg Rice,
PHOTOMETHODS, October 1991, p. 38-41.
“The Body Reunified? The Body Reconstructed?,” Margaret W. Scheyer, in Barbara Maria Stafford (Ed.),
Imaging the Body: From Fragment to Total Display, a catalog for an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago,
January 1992, pp. 44-48 and 52.
“Hands of a Surgeon, Eye of an Artist,” by Kathleen Wagner, Gannett News Service, with national syndicated
release, New York, NY, 18 June 1992.
“Local Heroes: Doctor Teplica's Double Takes,” Kathryn Livingston, American PHOTO, November/December
1992, New York, NY.
“Black, white images record the trauma of young burn victims,” Allan Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 15 November
1992.
“‘Archeography in Eden’/Eden in Extremis?,” exhibition catalog essay by James Hugunin, Gallery Fotographie,
Prague, Czech Republic, 1993.
“Doktor a Fotograf: David Teplica,” a photographic essay of the X-Ray collages of David Teplica with text by L.
S. Pripravil, in ed. Daniela Mrazkova, Fotographie, Prague, Czech Republic, 1993, pp. 10-11.
“Childhood burn injury and the scars of childhood exhibition,” Dr. Frank Field, CBS News, New York, NY, 13 July
1993.
- “ ‘Tis the season to be wary,” John Swinton, State College Magazine, State College, PA, December 1993, pp. 28-
33.
“Double Mystery,” by Larry Wright with photographic essay by David Teplica, New Yorker, 7 August 1995.
“Secrets Twins Tell Us,” by Larry Wright with photographic essay by David Teplica, London Guardian (Weekend
Magazine), 14 October 1995.
“Zwillinge: Das Doppelte Geheimnis,” essay of photographs by David Teplica, with text by Lawrence Wright in
Psychologie Heute, January 1996, pp. 30-41.
“Surgeon/Photographer Has Singular Focus: Twins,” Associated Press, 14 January 1996.
“When Love Kills: Grieving over AIDS with Song and Sculpture [sic],” by Larry Keough, Florida State Times,
Vol. 1, No. 5, February/March 1996, p. 3.
“Rapture: A Photographer Focuses his Camera on Love in the Era of AIDS,” by Marsha Ducey, The Daily
Messenger, Canandaigua, NY, 28 March 1996, cover image and pp. 8-9.
“Teplica: When Art Meets Science,” by David Lamborn, The BPC Bulletin, The Rochester Institute of
Technology, Rochester, NY, Spring 1996, p. 5.
“An Essential Duality: The Twin Passions of David Teplica,” by Lee McDavid, Dartmouth Medicine, Fall 1996,
cover image and pp. 40-44.
“Doppia Identita,” photographic essay by David Teplica, Glamour (Italian), Milan, November 1996, pp. 156-159.
“Nature’s Clones,” by Roderick Angle and Jill Neimark, Psychology Today, New York, NY, 1 July 1997.
“Monozygotic Fusion, David Teplica,” by Christian Peterson, exhibition catalog from “The Poetics of Vision:
Photographs from the Collection of Harry M. Drake,” The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN,
September 1997.
“Twins,” by Larry Wright, with illustrations by David Teplica, Orion Publishers, London, England, November 1997.
“Identical Twins: Double Takes by David Teplica MD, MFA” photographic essay, Medical and Health Annual,
Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago, IL, 1997, pp. 140-151.
“Birth of Man: With Homage to Michelangelo,” by Bettyann Kevles in “Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in
the Twentieth Century,” Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, April 1998.
“A Raiz Da Diferenca: Estudo dos gemeos tenta explicar o papel da genetica na formacao da personalidade,”
photographic essay by David Teplica, with text by Mauricio Cardoso, in Veja, Sao Paolo, Brazil, April, 1999, pp.
94-97.
“Wonder in Tweevoud,” photographic essay by David Teplica, with text by Marcel Roele, Algemeen Dagblad
Magazine, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29 January 2000, pp. 16-23.
“David Teplica, MD,” exhibition catalog for ‘eMotion Pictures: an Exhibition of Orthopaedics in Art,’ printed by
the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Rosemont, IL, September 2001.
“Surgeon, Photographer: Dr. David Teplica,” in FUTURES: Stories of Life After SAIC, Career Development and
the office of Student Affairs, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Volume I, January 2002.
“On the Big Screen: Renovated historic home catches attention of ‘Dragonfly’ director,” by Deborah Donovan,
Daily Herald, Sunday, 10 February 2002.
“David Teplica MD, MFA,” in eds. Revilla, R., and Turano, M., BPC Bulletin, Rochester Institute of Technology,
Rochester, NY, Spring 2002, pp. 2-5.
“HIV Patients Try to Remedy Gaunt Appearance,” by David Tuller, New York Times, Tuesday, 21 May 2002.
“‘eMotion’al exhibition,” by Rich Kerstetter, cover story Health & Science section, Centre Daily Times, 27
January 2003.
“Science as Art,” by Michael R. Peres and David Malin, in The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography,
Michael Peres, ed., Focal Press, Elsevier Inc., Burlington, MA, 2007, page 492.
“Figurative Fugues: The Artistry of David Teplica,” by Lisa Wainwright, Interim Dean of Faculty
and Dean of Graduate Studies, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; in “Intimate Decade,”
exhibition catalog, the Diane Tanios Gallery, Chicago, IL, 22 May 2008.
BOOK COVERS
I Know This Much is True, by Wally Lamb, Regan Books of HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY, 1998,
Oprah’s Book Club and New York Times #1 Bestseller with over 1.4 million copies in print.
The Shattered Self: The End of Natural Evolution, by Pierre Baldi, a Bradford Book, the MIT Press, Cambridge,
MA, 2001.
Double Take: The Story of Twins, by Daniel Jussim, Viking Books, the Penguin Group, New York, NY, 2001.
Holiday, by Susan Hahn, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2001.
Tweelingen Jumeaux, Twins, by the Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium, 2002.
TELEVISION & RADIO FEATURES
“The Psychology of Identical Twins,” Jenny Jones Show, NBC Television, March 1992.
“The Unexplained,” the Twin Photographs of David Teplica, A & E, 11 September 1997.
“Twin Stories,” Turner Original Productions, Time-Warner Company, 19 October 1997.
“Skin Deep: Plastic Surgery Stories,” Turner Original Productions, Time-Warner Company, 12 August 1998.
“The Secret Life of Twins,” BBC1, London, 14, 21, and 28 July 1999.
“The Secret Life of Twins,” released in the United States by TLC, 1999-2000.
“Sociology of Plastic Surgery” with David Teplica and James Hugunin, hosted by Victoria Lautman, WBEZ
Chicago Public Radio, 9l.5 FM, www.wbez.org, 21 December 1999.
“We Two are One,” 20/20, ABC News, New York, 17 February 2000.
“Looking Good & Feeling Great”, with host Lisa Thornton, Walgreens Health Corner, WGN Superstation, 22
May 2004.
“Three to See,” with host Matt Cunningham, featuring the top three art experiences for Chicagoland
for the week, WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio, 7 March 2008.
SELECTED MEDIA REPRODUCTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS (Not already included elsewhere)
“The Best of College Photography 1985,” Photographer's Forum Magazine, Santa Barbara, CA, 1985.
“Anatomic Differences in Faces of Identical Twins,” Twins Days Festival Catalog and poster, the Center for
Study of Multiple Birth, Twinsburg, OH, 1989.
- “Monozygotic Fusion,” Appropriated by Soviet Television as logo for Moscow program Face to Face, July 1990.
“Charles Benton Huggins, 1987,” in ed. Shils, E., Remembering the University of Chicago, The University of
Chicago Press, 1991, p.171.
“Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome III,” 1990, photographic post card to benefit University of Chicago photographic
research and programs, © Fotofolio, New York, NY, May 1992.
“Untitled (the Dworkin chins), 1990,” photographic postcard to benefit University of Chicago photographic
research and programs, © Fotofolio, New York, NY, April 1993.“Jumeaux,” photographs of identical twins,
Science et Nature, Paris, France, No. 37, October 1993, pp. 56-69.
“Monozygotic Fusion,” chapter opener for Blueprint for Life, Time-Life Books, Alexandria, VA, November 1993.
“Homosexuell: Das Buch fur Homosexuell Leibende, ihre Angehorigen und ihre Gegner,” by Hans-Georg
Wiedema, Kreuz Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany, “Untitled (the Dworkin Twins), 1990,” cover image, 1995.
“Monozygotic Fusion, 1988,” in Conversation Piece: How the Other Half Lives, Civilization: The Magazine of the
Library of Congress, November/December 1995, p. 24.
“The Awakening, 1988,” in Elkins, James, The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing, Simon & Schuster,
New York, 1996, p. 175.
“Inborn (The Biermann Twins), 1997” in Unforgettable Faces: The Decade’s Best Portraits, Chicago Magazine,
Chicago, IL, December 1998, p. 117.
“Identity, 1991,” monozygotic twin fingerprints, Human Body, Time-Life Books, Richmond, VA, 1999, p. 113.
“Untitled (The Payto Twins), 1990” and “The Bossolt Twins, 1990,” with text by Scott Wilson, Double Vision in
Health, in Orgyn: Organon’s Magazine on Women & Health, No. 4, 2002, pp. 20-24.
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