Biography

Greg Mac Gregor has been professor of Photography at California State University, Hayward since 1980. He received a Master of Arts in Photography from San Francisco State University in 1970 and a Master of Science in Physics from The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 1964. He taught physics at the university level and worked as an astrophysicist from 1966-1970 at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore , California before returning to art school in 1972. He lives between Oakland California and Santa Fe New Mexico , with his wife, fine Art Photographer Jo Whaley.

He has served on many boards and faculties including Coordinator of the Photography Program at California State Univ. Hayward 1979-2002, co-chairman of the Photography Department at Lone Mountain College , San Francisco (1970-1978), Chairman of the Western region of the Society for Photographic Education 1974-1978), and Chairman of the Art Department at California State University, Hayward (1990-1993). He was a contributing editor to Darkroom Dynamics (Van Nostrond Reinhold, 1979) , and has work published in many publications including Popular Photography Annual 1986, Fantastic Photography (Pantheon, 1979) , California Photography, 1945-1980 (Hudson Hills Press 1984), and Photography A Facet of Modernism (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1986).

For the past 28 years his work has been shown widely throughout the United States and abroad including exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Oakland Museum, The O.K. Harris and Photo Galleries in New York, the Focus Gallery in San Francisco and the Munich Kunstervein , Germany. His work is in the permanent collection of over twenty major public institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Art Museum, George Eastman House, the Bibiotheque National, Paris and the US Library of Congress.
He has been actively photographing the Great Basin desert area between Colorado and California for the past twenty years . Projects there include "The American Tractor Series" , "New Woman of the American West", "Oddities in the Western Landscape", "The Mormon Trail", "The Oregon Trail" and "Explosions". The Overland Trail projects grew out of his appreciation for the topography and terrain of that region. Publication of Overland, The California Emigrant Trail of 1841-1870 was by the University of New Mexico Press in 1997. The Exhibit of this project has been on national tour since 1991 and is managed by the California Humanities Council. Publication of Lewis and Clark Revisited was a joint effort by the Center for Documentary studies at Duke Univ. and The University of Washington Press, Seattle, in 2003. The exhibit "Lewis and Clark" will be on national tour at various museums between the years 2002 and 2006.