John Woodruff was born in West Hartford, CT, in 1954. In 1979, he received a B.S.in biology from University of Hartford and a minor in photography from the Hartford Art School.

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Upon graduation, he worked for several years at a commercial photography studio photographing products for advertising and industry using 8x10 and 4x5 large format cameras exclusively. In the mid '80s he formed an architectural photography studio in which he traveled around the country shooting projects for well-known architectural firms. Throughout his commercial career, he also actively created lens-based art showing extensively in Hartford, CT, New Haven, CT, Western, MA, NYC and Portland, ME. John currently resides in Blue Hill, ME, with wife Diane and Pharaoh Hound Lacey.

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SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

A Smith Gallery, Texas, December 2024

Blue Hill Public Library, Blue Hill, ME 2023

Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME 2021
The Maine Museum of Photographic Art – Antidote, 2021
Arno Maris Gallery at Westfield State, Westfield, MA 1993
The Promenade Gallery at the Bushnell, Hartford, CT 1992
New Space Gallery, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT 1988

 

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

Triangle Gallery, Rockland, ME - Fall Mix Up, August 30 - September 24, 2025

Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME, August 28 - October 28, 2025

Maine Museum of Photographic Art, Portland, ME - Energy In Flux, October 4 - December 7, 2024

Maine Museum of Photographic Art, Portland, ME, Figurative - The Body as Language, August 2 - September 28, 2024

Maine Museum of Photographic Art, Portland, ME, Traditional Painting Genres in Photography, December 8, 2023 - January 31, 2024

The Parsonage Gallery, Searsport, ME, Winter Exhibition, December 2023 - February 2024

Praxis, The Artist Intervenes, curated by Aline Smithson, February 18 - March 4, 2023
Maine Museum of Photographic Art, Portland, ME, Twelfth Night, December 5, 2022 - January 31, 2023
Maine Museum of Photographic Art, Portland, ME 
July1 - August 23, 2022
Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME - Abstract Nature
February 25 - April 24, 2021
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT 1994
The Pump House Gallery, Hartford, CT, curated by Linda Lindroth 1993
The Robin Rice Gallery, NYC 1992

 

OTHER

Your Daily Photograph - "Souvenir 1," October 29,2024

The Curated Fridge, Winter 2024

Big Wing Review | Literary Magazine, December 1, 2023

Your Daily Photograph - "Ornament 21," August 6, 2023

Photographic Resource Center - Zoom Presentation "Botanicals," January 18, 2023