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ArtistPenelope Umbrico

Public Reading/Slide Talk Date: 02/09/2010

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.

NARI WARD

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist, August 2008

Nari Ward (b. Jamaica, 1963) received a BA from Hunter College in 1991 and an MFA from Brooklyn College 1992. Exhibitions include two Whitney Biennials, Venice Biennale, and Documenta XI. Ward has also received commissions from the United Nations, and the World Health Organization, and has collaborated with Ralph Lemon, Bill T. Jones and Toni Morrison. Grants include American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts,New York Foundation for the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim and Pollock Krasner Foundations. Ward currently lives in New York, and teaches at Hunter College.

MARY HAMBLETON

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist, May 2009

Mary Hambleton's solo exhibitions include Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, in NYC (where she is represented), Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, NYC, and Knoedler Gallery, London. Recent group exhibitions are numerous: The National Academy of Design, Brenda Taylor Gallery, The Painting Center, Robert Gilson Fine Arts, Robert Steele Gallery, and Max Protech. Articles and reviews of Hambleton’s paintings have been published in Art in America, Artforum, ARTnews, The Philadelphia Enquirer, and The Chicago Tribune.