Ann Rhoney is a native of Niagara Falls. She received a B.S. from Cornell University. Her photographs are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The George Eastman Museum, The Harry Ransom Center, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and in the foremost private photography collections. Reviews of her exhibited work have been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, GRAPHIS and L´Oeil de la Photographie–among other prominent publications. She is not yet represented in the collection and is producing new work specifically for the Burchfield Penney Art Center. She manipulates vintage gelatin silver prints by applying thin layers of oil pigment on top, thus producing a unique image in the tradition of the Photo-Pictorialists during the early 20th century. Niagara Falls has been one of her favorite subjects, beginning with work included in The Taking of Niagara: A History of The Falls in Photography (1982) at Niagara University and Media Study-Buffalo. She, like her colleagues, were at the forefront of redefining photography by manipulating images in the darkroom and through other compositional means. Another important traveling exhibition, Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, was presented in 2013 at the National Gallery of Art – Washington D.C., Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her work has been shown in cities from Paris to San Francisco.