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Born in New York City, 1944. Lives in San Anselmo, California. Connor has taught at San Francisco Art Institute since 1969. She has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (1976 and 1981) and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979. Widely exhibited, her publications include Solos (1979), and, most recently, Spiral Journey: Photographs 1967–1990, published in conjunction with the 1990 retrospective exhibition of her photographs. --from Smithsonian American Art Museum database From Getty ULAN: Connor studied photography with Harry Callahan at Rhode Island Institute of Technology. In 1966, she worked as a freelance photographer in San Francisco, and from 1967 to 1969 she studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology with Aaron Siskind. Connor began to teach photography at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1969. From 1973 to 1975, she was co-president of the photography department, and since 1975 has been president. Connor photographed in India and Nepal in 1979-1980 and from 1978 to the present, she has been documenting North American petroglyphs, or rock art.