Mara Bodis-Wollner

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Faculty
NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography & Imaging
ICP (The International Center of Photography)

EDUCATION
2007   Skowhegan School of painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2004   M.F.A., Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1996   B.F.A., NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
1991-1992   Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

AWARDS
2008   Nominee for the KLM Paul Huff Foam Award
2007   Wallace Reader's Digest Endowment Fellowship to attend Skowhegan
2007-2008   NYU, Tisch School of the Arts Adjunct Faculty Grant
1998-1999   Fulbright Scholar [Grant Extended]:
"The Visual Vestiges of Socialism", Created a body of photographic work documenting the changing physical environment in Hungary 10 years after the fall of Socialism. 1998-1999

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005   The All Girls School, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, New York
2000   Aita Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2000   I.S.E.S Institute for Social and European Studies, Köszég, Hungary

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007   Varia, Janos Gat Gallery, New York, NY
2007   International Center for Photography Faculty Exhibition
2007   Transformations: Photography and Imaging @ 25, Gulf and Western, New York, NY
2006   Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
2006   Meditations in an Emergency, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
2005   Five, Scalo Project Space, New York, NY
2004   Art + Commerce: Festival of Emerging Photographers, Brooklyn, NY
2004   The Warm Weather is Holding, UBS, Red Hook, NY
2004   The Pin-Up Show and the Pin-Up Show Redux, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
2004   Portrayal of Place, Re: Place Gallery, New York, NY
2003   Home (for the holidays) Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
2003   Inaugural Exhibition, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
2002   Warren Street Loft, New York, NY
2000   A Country Mirrored by Foreign Photographers, Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kesckemét, Hungary
1996   Gulf and Western Gallery, New York, NY

COLLECTIONS
Work in the collection of The Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kesckemét, Hungary
Video piece in the collaborative work of Praxis (Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey), "Snoop-Snoop Fate," presented at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artists in Residence Exhibition.

AUCTIONS
2006   Visual Aids: Postcards from the Edge, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
2003   GLAAD, OUTAuction, New York, NY
2002   Free Arts for Abused Children, Liz Hopfan, Executive Director, New York, NY

Guest Artist Lectures/Critique
2007   Photography 1 & 2, Jessica Ingram, The New School
2007   Senior Projects, Deborah Willis, NYU, Tisch School of the Arts
2007   Senior Focus: Business of Art, Patricia Snavely, NYU, Tisch School of the Arts
2006   Senior Thesis Abbey Robinson, Pratt Institute
2006   Sandra Jackson's class, NYU, Tisch School of the Arts
2005   Photography 1, Diane Meyer, NYU, Tisch School of the Arts
2004   Senior Focus, Ellen Brooks, NYU, Tisch School of the Arts

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007   Artworld Digest Magazine, David Cohen
2005   The New Yorker, December 12, Vince Alleti
2005   The Village Voice, December 13-17th, Jennifer Snow
2005   The Morning News, December 8th, Rosecrans Baldwin
2003   The New York Times, Arts & Leisure Section, May 25, Elizabeth Spiers
2003   The Village Voice, April 23-29, p.94, Vince Aletti