Ed Healy

Image:Self-Portrait, Ed Healy 

Ed Healy is a fourth-generation Western New York native who was born in Buffalo and grew up in West Seneca, N.Y. He is a graduate of the University at Buffalo and the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. After studying photography at SUNY Purchase Healy began experimenting with night photography, infrared landscapes, and pinhole image making. His work has been exhibited at Soho Photo in Manhattan; Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, N.Y.; Alan Brown Gallery in Hartsdale, N.Y.; the Northern Westchester Center for the Arts in Goldens Bridge, N.Y.; and the Kenan Center in Lockport, N.y>. His first solo exhibition, Buffalo by Night, was held at CEPA Gallery in 2005. His series Only the Stones Remain: Kayaking the Buffalo River was exhibited at Buffalo’s Studio Hart in 2009.

Healy feels that the Buffalo River watershed has shaped his family's personal history and can still find pleasure and diversion on the river.