bio

Catherine Panebianco, who was born in Canada, currently lives in Jamestown, NY. She is a memory excavator using photographs and text to delve deeply into her life and her family’s life to come to terms with who she was, who she is, and who she wants to be. Her monograph, Holding Time, was published by Yoffy Press in March 2021, and is included in the collections of the George Eastman Museum and the Museum of Modern Art libraries.

Panebianco received the 2020 LensCulture Critics Choice Top Ten Award, 2020 CENTER’s Project Launch Award and was a 2019 Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 50, and 2020, 2016, 2022 and 2023 Critical Mass Finalist. She was also a semi-finalist for the 2021 National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Her work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally including Cortona on the Move in Italy, BBA Photographic Prize in Germany and Imago Lisboa Photo Festival in Portugal. She has been featured in numerous publications including: Oxford American, la Repubblica, The Guardian, Lenscratch and B + W Magazine.