Success stories
We love sharing the good that comes from individual artist and curator meetings at Medium’s annual Review. Below is a short list of successes that are a direct result of the connections made at Medium.
If you have a success story from attending the Medium Review we want to hear about it. Drop us a line and share what your portfolio review experience resulted in.
2024
James Michael Hillman’s work acquired by a private collection in Santa Monica from his meeting with Ashley Lumb in 2022.
Second Sight Award recipient Justyna Badach exhibits with Jennifer DeCarlo Fine Art at AIPAD 2024.
Harlan Bozeman presents the Second Sight Award lecture.
2023
Anh-Thuy Nguyen exhibition at Grossmont College’s Hyde Art Gallery.
Anh-Thuy Nguyen presents the Second Sight Award lecture.
Ari Salomon, Kristen Schnell, Iveta Lazdina, Nathan Rochefort and Elizabeth Smolarz featured on Lenscratch.
Nykelle DeVivo receives the 2023 Size Matters purchase award.
Harlan Bozeman, Chanell Stone, Robin North and Alayna N. Pernell exhibition featuring 2023 Black Artist Scholarship recipients.
2022
Amanda Marchand presents the Second Sight Award lecture.
Anna Garner, Brenda Biondo, Jessica Uhler, Ali Motamedi and Nancy Gonzalez featured in Lenscratch.
2021
John Singletary was highlighted in an interview in Photomonitor
Kathleen Robbins receives a solo show at Tyrvee Gallery in Greece
Justin Fiset’s work is published in collaboration with Andrew Fedynak through Zatara Press.
Fatemeh Baigmoradi presents the Second Sight Award lecture.
Alex Turner receives a solo exhibition at Rick Wester Fine Art in NYC, September 2021.
Eric Kunsman’s photographs are featured in Bloomberg’s CityLab.
Wen-Hang Lin is highlighted in an interview with Photomonitor UK.
Pamela Pecchio and Wen-Hang Lin’s work are included in an exhibition curated by Ashley Lumb, traveling to the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman, Jordan.
Bree Lamb interviews Stacy Arezou Mehrfar in Fraction Magazine #145.
Amanda Marchand and Stacy Arezou Mehrfar are featured in Fraction Magazine #144.
Alex Turner, Nahatan Navarro, and Stacy Arezou Mehrfar are featured in the inaugural Second Sight Conversation with Anne Kelly (Photo-Eye Gallery).
Krista Svalbonas and Anne Vetter are featured in a Second Sight Conversation with Lisa Hostetler.
2020
Leigh Gleason writes about Vikesh Kapoor for HCP’s SPOT magazine
2019
Mariel Miranda presents the 2019 Second Sight Award lecture, meets University of Arizona faculty and receives a full scholarship for the MFA program.
Ingrid Leyva’s work is selected for a 2020 exhibition “Make Yourself at Home” at the San Diego International Airport.
Molly Peter’s photos appear in the Washington Post’s In Sight.
Amanda Shilling, Kris Moore, Rachel Helden, Liliana Hueso, and Morgan DeLuna were featured in Art and Cake.
2018
Robert Calafiore presents the 2018 Second Sight lecture.
Todd Bradley, Katie Kalkstein, Mark Lipczynski, and Michele Zousmer had photographs published in Ain’t Bad Magazine.
Christina Angarola-Hsu, Janet Holmes, Daniel Kariko, Mark Lipcznski, Wayne Swanson, and Brian Van de Wetering were featured in review of Medium by Jonathan Blaustein in A Photo Editor.
Susan Ressler’s monograph Executive Order is published by Daylight Books.
Adriene Hughes photographs appear in the Oct. 2018 issue of Harpers Magazine.
2017
Justyna Badach presents the 2017 Second Sight lecture.
Josh Smith is getting his first monograph published by Dark Spring Press.
Brenda Biondo receives a solo exhibition Play at the San Diego Museum of Art.
Tom Kiefer’s work is included in the exhibition We Are Here / Estamos Aquí at the SDSU Downtown Gallery.
David Emitt Adams, Justyna Badach, Ellen Garvens, and Kurt Simonson’s work comprises the exhibition Second Sight, at the University Club in downtown San Diego.
2016
Leonard Suryajaya presents the 2016 Second Sight lecture.
Tami Bahat, Amanda Dahlgren, Abbey Hepner, and Adriene Hughes work was included in the San Diego Art Institute’s 2016 Southern California/Baja Biennial
A Photo Editor reviews the work of Tami Bahat, Sally Ann Field, Adam Frazier, Jim Graves, Adriene Hughes, Deb Stoner.
Abbey Hepner and Susan Ressler were included in Fraction Magazine Issue #93.
2015
Ellen Garvens presents the 2015 Second Sight lecture.
Claire Warden’s solo exhibition Mimesis opens at the Center for Fine Art Photography.
2014
Kurt Simonson presents the 2014 Second Sight lecture.
2013
David Emitt Adams presents the 2013 Second Sight lecture
David Emitt Adams solo exhibition Conversations with History opens at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art