ArtistPenelope Umbrico

Penelope Umbrico (b. Philadelphia, PA) attended Ontario College of Art, AOCA, Toronto and received an MFA from School of Visual Arts, NY. She has had solo and group exhibitions throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia including: P.S.1 Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; International Center of Photography, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Art in General, NY; Gallery 44, Toronto; Dazibao, Montreal; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Julie Saul Gallery, NY, and Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and International Center of Photography, among others. Recent awards include: Anonymous Was A Woman; Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship; New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; New York Foundation for the Arts Catalogue Project Grant. She has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Columbia University, New York University, Cooper Union, Parsons School of Design, and Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently core faculty at the School of Visual Arts, MFA Photography and Related Media program, NYC, and Chair of MFA Photography, Bard College.
Her website is http://www.penelopeumbrico.net.