Frank Lopez Workshop Series – Instruction in aspects of 19th – 21st century technologies. Established 2007. Sabattier, Chromoskedasic, Mordancage, Pinhole, Silver Gelatin, Manipulated Processes.
Represented by Maine Museum of Photographic Art, Portland, ME.
Represented by Photographique, Dallas, TX.
Interviews and Recognition:
2025: Lenscratch.com feature on Photography Educators – artwork, projects, and philosophy.
2020: CENTER Santa Fe Callanan Award for Excellence in Photography Teaching.
2020: Diffusion X Magazine – Annual published magazine celebrating current photographic trends.
2019/2020: The Hand Magazine: Published imagery in issue 23 & 27.
2017: Featured on KERA 90.1 Art&Seek Artist Series. www.artandseek.org/spotlight/frank-lopez/
2017: Featured in the Dallas Observer describing artist devoted to film technologies. www.dallasobserver.com/video/analog-people-in-a-digital-world-YD4XCDo4
2015: Featured interviews on The Art of Photography Podcast. Intentionally recognized podcast.
2011: Faculty Leader – Greenhill School. Recognized as a leader amongst faculty for outstanding achievements and contributions to the community.
2011: Mastermind Award – Dallas Observer. Recognized as a cultural contributor to the city of Dallas Art Community. Monetary award stipend.
Professional & University Instruction & Lectures:
2024: Brownie Hawkeye Workshop Series. History of and shooting with the Brownie Hawkeye medium format camera.
2020: Society Photographic Education South Central Portfolio Throwdown – reviewer and adjudicator.
2019: Association of Texas Photographic Instructors Seminar: YoungArts Competition Submission and Lecture. Greenhill School Photography Program has had unprecedented success in this NFAA contest. This lecture helps to describe the process of achievement.
2017: Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association National Convention. Lecture on the integration of 19th – 21st Century Technologies and the changing syntax of photography.
2017: Polacon 17, The Instant Film Society. Lecture on integration of Polaroid technologies as well as the instant image as a personal vehicle of interpretation.
2017: Association of Texas Photographic Instructors – trends and philosophies of the changing syntax of photography.
2016 & 2017: Texas A&M – Commerce: Lecture and discussion with graduate school students.
2016: Texas Photographic Society: Photography Speaker Series at the Dallas Center for Photography.
2014: Perot Museum of Science and Nature: Special event lecture and discussion about tintype imagery and the effects upon culture.
2013: White Rock Bath House Cultural Center: Curated, artist talk and lecture in association with the exhibit: Shadows and Ether: A Contemporary View of Tintypes and Ambrotypes.
2012: White Steel, Blue Skies. Latino Cultural Center, Dallas curated North Texas Latinx Artists.
2011: Pecha Kucha Dallas Volume 7 – Back to School Edition. A night of presentations utilizing the Pecha Kucha method of 20 images shown for 20 seconds each. Held at the Texas Theatre.
2011: Collin County College Lecture: Demonstration and lecture of the Tintype Process.
2010: Dallas Museum of Art: Tintype Workshops. A series of two-day workshops detailing and working with the 19th Century Tintype Collodion Techniques.
2010: Ursuline Academy of Dallas – Lecture: Cigarettes and Balloons – A Pinhole Journey in China and Vietnam. World Cultural Heritage Day lecture.
2010-2013: Association of Texas Photographic Instructors Seminar - Workshops for high school students and instructors specializing in Tintype Photography.
2010: Artist Talk and Demo: Dallas Museum of Art in association with the exhibit Lens of Impressionism.
2010: Association of Texas Photographic Instructors Seminar: Lecture: Cigarettes and Balloons – A Pinhole Journey in China and Vietnam.
2008-2019: Association of Texas Photographic Instructors Seminar – Tintype workshops for national high school students and instructors.
2004/’06/’09/’10: Texas A&M - Commerce: Adjunct Professor - Photography 369: Alternative Printmaking. Class specializing in non-silver 19th Century printing techniques and current digital negative techniques. Instructor for the Undergraduate and Graduate School.
1994 East Texas State University: Adjunct Instructor - Photography 209: Professional Tools and Techniques. Class specializing in Large Format, Zone System and Architecture techniques.
Selection of past Exhibitions:
2025 Solo Exhibition, Emanations. Landau Gallery, New York, NY and Dallas, TX.
2025 Solo Exhibition, Emanations. Photographique Bishop Arts, Dallas, TX.
2025 Group Exhibition: Trace. Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland, Maine. Curated by Denise Froehlich.
2022 Analog Forever Online Magazine: Tintype Exhibition curated by Joni Sternback.
2021 Analog Forever Magazine: Top Polaroid Week 2021. Curated by Michael Behlen.
2020 Fraction Magazine: Better Living Through Chemistry curated by Michael Kirchoff.
2019 Texas Photographic Society Members Only Show 32, curated by Catherine Couturier.
2019 Bath House Cultural Center. The Intentional Hand, Alt-process exhibition curated by Frank Lopez.
2019 Cabrillo Gallery, Cabrillo College. Out of the Dark. Alt-process exhibition curated by Beverly Rayner.
2017 JM Gallery, Dallas, TX. Alternative Photography Exhibition. Curated by Frank Lopez.
2016 OC3 Gallery - Latino Cultural Arts Center, Dallas, TX. COLLECTIVE. Curated by Emmanuel Gillespie.
2015 PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Alternative Process. Curated by Amy Holmes George.
2015 F295 Members Salon International Exhibition. University of Pittsburgh. Curated by Tom Persinger..
2014 Mighty Fine Arts, Dallas, TX. Make Mine Marvel: A Tintype View of Graffiti & Other Cultural Markers. Solo exhibition of Tintypes and Ambrotypes.
2014 The Goodrich Gallery, Dallas, TX. alt8: Alternative Photographic Work by Eight Artists. Group exhibition.
2014 Serenbe Photography Center, Chattahoochee Hills, GA. Antiquarian and the New Alchemy. Curated by S. Gayle Stevens. Group exhibition.
2013 The Kessler Theater, Dallas, TX. Wetplate Exhibition.
2013 The Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, TX. Shadows and Ether: A Contemporary View of Tintypes and Ambrotypes. Curated by Frank Lopez.
2013 The Latino Arts Center, Dallas, TX. Hecho en Dallas/Made in Dallas 2013 – 10th Anniversary Exhibition. Juried by a panel of prominent local artists and gallery owners.
2013 Packet Galleries, Brewster, Cape Cod, MA. Tintype Exhibition. In association with the Frank Lopez Wetplate Workshop.
2013 Kettle Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX. Past, Present, Future. Group exhibit.
2012 The Latino Arts Center, Dallas, TX. Hecho en Dallas/Made in Dallas 2012. Juried by a panel of prominent local artists and gallery owners.
2012 alt8 Group. Exhibition of professional group at Sun to Moon Gallery.
2012 alt8 Group. Exhibition of professional group as part of Society of Photographic Educators Meeting - Mississippi State University, Visual Arts Center Gallery
2011 Photo Imaging Educators Association Int’l. Contest. Juried by a panel of prominent artists & gallery owners.
2011 The University Art Gallery at TCU. 29th Annual Art in the Metroplex. Juried by Mr. Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Menil Collection, Houston.
2011 The Latino Arts Center, Dallas, TX. Hecho en Dallas/Made in Dallas 2011. Juried by a panel of prominent local artists and gallery owners.
2010 SOHO PHOTO Gallery, NYC. 6th Annual Alt. Process Exhibition. Juried by France Scully Osterman & Mark Osterman.
2010 The Latino Arts Center, Dallas, TX. Hecho en Dallas/Made in Dallas 2010. Juried by a panel of prominent local artists and gallery owners.
2010 Texas National Exhibition, Stephen F. Austin Gallery. Juried by Judy Pfaff.
2009 Kettle Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX. Portfolio Review.
2009 The Latino Arts Center, Dallas, TX. Hecho en Dallas/Made in Dallas 2009. Juried by a panel of prominent local artists and gallery owners.
2009 The Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA. Southern Open 2009. Juried by Ms. Eleanor Heartney, independent cultural critic and author, NY, NY.
2009 The Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. Photowork ‘09. Juried by Mr. Malcom Daniel, Curator of Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY.
2008 The University Art Gallery at TCU. 26th Annual Art in the Metroplex. Juried by Ms. Eleanor Heartney, independent cultural critic and author, NY, NY.
2008 From Art Deco to Art Song: Collaborative exhibition with Voces Intimae. Exhibition of Fair Park Architecture imagery at Grace United Methodist Church, Dallas, TX.
2006 The University Art Gallery at TCU. 24th Annual Art in the Metroplex. Juried by Ms. Janet Bishop, Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
2006 Kettle Art Gallery, Lens One, group photographic exhibition.
2004 The University Art Gallery at TCU. 22nd Annual Art in the Metroplex. Juried by Mr. Larry Rinder, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
2004 The Bosque County Conservatory - Viewpoint 2004. Juried by Mr. Roy Flukinger, Director of the Harry S. Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, TX.