John Rosenthal's work has been exhibited throughout North Carolina and the Southeast. His one-person shows include exhibits at Chapel Hill, Duke, Wake Forest, Salem College, Hollins College, the Asheville Museum of Art, the School of Design at North Carolina State University, the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, the National Humanities Center in the Research Triangle, the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art and the Somerhill Gallery; additionally, Mr. Rosenthal's work has been displayed in numerous group shows, including those at SECCA, the Gilliam & Peden Art Gallery in Raleigh, the Wolfe Street Gallery of Alexandria, Va. and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C.

As a guest-lecturer Mr. Rosenthal has spoken a number of times at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and served as a visiting lecturer for five years at Duke University’s Institute of the Arts. Mr. Rosenthal has written photography criticism for the Spectator magazine of Raleigh, The Independent, the Arts Journal as well as many essays published in the The Sun and Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art. His play, Stories, Sermons, and the Grace of Women was produced by WUNC-radio and presented at the Playmaker's Theater of Chapel Hill in 1988.

Mr. Rosenthal's commentary on photography and related matters can be heard on WUNC-radio, an affiliate of National Public Radio, and since March 1990 he has been a commentator on NPR's All Things Considered. In 1998 a collection of Mr. Rosenthal’s photographs, Regarding Manhattan, was published by Safe Harbor Books.

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