“Roger That (no. 10),” 2015

from the series Data

Solo Exhibits

2016      Data, Clay Street Press, Cincinnati, Sept-October

2012      Franz Jantzen: Ostinato, Hemphill, January-March 

2009      Disambiguation: New Works By Franz Jantzen, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA, April-June

2008      Manifest Order: Assemblages by Franz Jantzen, Hemphill Fine Arts, March-May

2006     Cartographic Assemblages by Franz Jantzen, at The Artist As Social Conscience, Mennonite Arts Weekend,

              Cincinnati, Ohio, February

2000     Nature Bent Culture Melting: Photographs of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, at Hemphill Fine Arts,

              Washington, D.C.  July-August

1986     Personal Landscapes and Tools:  College Still Lives, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio (Senior Thesis exhibit)

1985    Culture and Nature:  25 Photographs of Peaceful Entropy, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio

             Silent Spaces:  Photographs of the Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati Union Terminal

             Silent Spaces:  Photographs of the Cincinnati Union Terminal, Dionysus Restaurant, Cincinnati

Selected Group Exhibits

2013    Represent, Hemphill Fine Arts, Sept-Nov

            Artist-Citizen, Washington D.C., Hemphill Fine Arts, June-July

2012     DC Fine Art Photography Fair, October

            Select: WPA 2012 Art Auction, March

2011     Photo Forum 2011, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Oct. 2011-Jan. 2012

             (e)merge art fair, Washington, DC, September

2010      WPA Art Auction, Kazen Center/American University, March

              AIPAD Photo Fair, Hemphill Booth, 5th Ave Armory, New York, March

2009      Synthesis: Contemporary Collage, Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, April-June

              Economy of Scale, Hemphill Fine Arts, November-December

2008       AIPAD Photo Fair, Hemphill Booth, 5th Ave Armory, New York, April

2007      Site Project DC (public installation), 14th Street corridor, Washington, D.C., June - July

               ArtDC, art fair, Washington Convention Center, April

               Dig It Al!, Clay Street Press Gallery, Cincinnati, November - December

2006      PhotoGenesis, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA, Nov – Jan 2007

               Permanent Exhibit at City Hall (John A. Wilson Building Public Art Program), Washington, opened October

2005      Re-Fresh, Hemphill Fine Arts, July-September

2004      Hemphill Fine Arts, November-December

              War Or Peace, Warehouse Theater, Washington, D.C., October-November

2003      The Art of Butler County: The First 200 Years, Butler County (Ohio) Courthouse, October-November

2001      Recent Work by Mennonite Artists, Mennonite USA General Assembly, Nashville, Tennessee, July

2000      Maryland In Focus: A Photographic History, 1839-2000, at the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland,

               December 14, 2000 - April 15, 2001

              En Photographiant des Anges (Photographing Angels), Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris,  March

1999      Black White Beautiful, Hemphill Fine Arts,  Washington, D. C.,  July – August

               Our Good Earth: Landscape at the End of the Century, at Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.,  May – June

1998      Art In the Everyday, Mennonite Arts Weekend, Cincinnati, Ohio, February

1996      Sensuality, at the Rock Creek Gallery, Washington, D. C., September - October

               Washington Center for Photography, July - August

1994      Eighth Annual National Juried Exhibition, The Eye Gallery, San Francisco, California

1993      12th Annual Washington Area Photography Exhibition, Ellipse Art Center, Fairfax, Virginia

1992      Washington Invitational  III, The Arts Club of Washington

               Mennonite Experience:  Present Day Expression, at Carnegie Arts Center, Covington, Kentucky

1991     The Washington Center for Photography, Washington, D.C.

              The Tartt Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1989      District of Columbia Arts Center, May-June

1988      Perceptions and Processes in Photography, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Public Library, Washington D.C.

               The Dead Animal Show: A Provocative Exhibition of Dead Animal Imagery, C.A.G.E. Gallery, Cincinnati

1987      Bicentennial Cincinnati:  The City In Photographs, at Images Gallery, Cincinnati

               Adams-Morgan Day Exhibit, Washington

Selected Collections

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Ogden Museum of Southern Art; The Folger Shakespeare Library; D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities; The Washington Post; Fannie Mae; Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, LLP; Hogan & Hartson, LLP; Crowell & Moring, LLP; Ruesch International; numerous private collectors

Gallery Representation

Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco

Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York (1996-2002)

Selected Articles & Essays

“At Hemphill Fine Arts, A Retrospective That’s Bigger Than the Gallery”, Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, 11/15/2013

“A Quartet of Summer Gallery Group Shows”, Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, 7/13/2013

“Two Questions for Franz Jantzen”, Archiviphotovist blog, 1/7/2013

“The Best Images of 2012”, Louis Jacobson, Washington City Paper, 12/27/2012

“The Top Ten Local Photography Exhibits of 2012”, Louis Jacobson, Washington City Paper, 12/27/2012

“A Disappearing Town in the Shadow of Big Coal”, Nichole Cohen, National Public Radio’s Picture Show, 4/4/2012

“Franz Jantzen’s ‘Ostinato’ at Hemphill Fine Arts”, Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, 3/2/2012

“Aerial Rites - Franz Jantzen: Ostinato”, Louis Jacobson, Washington City Paper, 2/3/2012

“Franz Jantzen’s Ostinato: Gallery Opening of the Week”, Michael O’Sullivan, The Washington Post, 1/13/2012

“Collect Call: DC’s Top Collectible Artists”, DC Magazine, 12/2011

“Negative Attitude: The Library of Congress Turns the Light Out on Darkrooms”, John Anderson, Washington City Paper, 10/26/2011

“Gaga At The Photo Fair”, Walter Robinson, Artnet Magazine, 3/23/2010

“The Year In Photography”, Louis Jacobson, Washington City Paper, 12/23/2009

“Distance Learning” (“Economy of Scale” review), Louis Jacobson, Washington City Paper, 12/16/2009

“Frozen In Time”, Folger Magazine, summer 2009

“Artist Embraces Creative Side of Digital Photography”, Brian Trompeter, The Sun Gazette, 5/22/2009

“Franz Jantzen: The Cosmographic Imagination” (catalogue essay), Charles Brock, spring 2009

“The Big Picture,” Laura James, Cincinnati City Beat, 10/24/2007

“’PhotoGenesis’: Fine Prints,” Michael O’Sullivan, The Washington Post, 1/5/2007

“Works of 16 Artists On View at MPA’s Latest Exhibition,” Brian Trompeter, The Sun Gazette, 12/7/2006

"Stream of Consciousness: In Franz Jantzen's C&O Photos, an Eerie Canal," Ferdinand Protzman, Washington Post, 8/3/2000

"Low Bridge, Everybody Down," Louis Jacobson, Washington City Paper, 8/11/2000

"Nature Triumphs in C&O Canal Series," Joanna Shaw-Eagle, The Washington Times, 8/12/2000

Washington Review, August/September 2000 issue (cover and centerfold)

Commissioned Work

2013    Building Portraits of Michael Graves’ Department of Transportation Building • JBG Properties

2012    “1307 L Street: A Building Portrait” Sigal Construction & New York University

2011    Portraits of Connection and Collaboration  •  Excella Consulting

2009    “1050 K Street: A Building Portrait”  •  The Lenkin Company

2006    “Score Center”  •  The Washington Post

2003    The C&O Canal  •  The River Inn

2000    “The Investment Building: A Building Portrait”  •  Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, LLP

Selected Publications

“NYU-DC: A Construction Portrait” (private publication, 2014

“1050 K Street” (private publication), 2010

“Disambiguation: New Works by Franz Jantzen” (exhibit catalogue), 2009

PhotoMetro Magazine (featured portfolio), Spring issue, 2001

Lectures & Teaching

“The Making of ‘Coal Creek Library’”, lecture at Fotoweek DC, November 2009

“Digital Stories of Capitol Hill,” Capitol Hill Arts Workshop classes (co-teacher), 2007-2008

“About Photoassemblages and the Creative Process”, Mennonite Arts Weekend, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1/2006

“About Photoassemblages and the Creative Process”, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 1/2006

“Ordinary Mirrors and Everyday Windows”, Mennonite Arts Weekend, Cincinnati, 2/1997

Other Activities

2000-present      Collections Manager, Curator’s Office, Supreme Court of the United States

2002-present      Owner, Franz Jantzen Custom B+W Silver Gelatin Printing and Digital Imaging

1992-2000          Photograph Collections Coordinator & Photographer, Supreme Court of the United States

Education

B.F.A., The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, 1986

Franz Jantzen is an artist-photographer living and working in Washington, D.C.  He is the last in the Washington area to offer black-and-white custom printing commercially, and is also the Collections Manager for Graphic Arts in the Curator's Office at the Supreme Court of the United States.  He moved to Washington, D.C. from his native Ohio in 1986, and lives in Sixteenth Street Heights with his wife and two children.