Dona Schwartz is an American photographer living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She earned her PhD at the Annenberg School for Communication and is professionally engaged with photography as an artist, scholar, and educator. Among her many academic publications are two photographic ethnographies, Waucoma Twilight: Generations of the Farm (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992) and Contesting the Super Bowl (Routledge, 1997). Her photographic monograph, In the Kitchen, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2009. On the Nest was released by Kehrer in December 2015.
Her work has been internationally published and exhibited at venues including the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Portrait Gallery, London, Blue Sky Gallery, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Stephen Bulger Gallery, the Pingyao International Photography Festival, and in numerous juried exhibitions. Her work is included in the collections of the Unites States Library of Congress, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the George Eastman Museum, The Center for Creative Photography, the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, the Harry Ransom Center, the Portland Art Museum, and the Kinsey Institute. She is Professor, Department of Art, University of Calgary, and President and Chair of the Exposure Photography Festival in Alberta.
