Los Angeles Visual Arts
Resume:
ILONA SZWARC
Los Angeles, CA **019
www.ilonaszwarc.com
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EDUCATION
**** *** ***********, **** **********, New Haven, CT 2013 BFA Photography, summa cum laude, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY EXPERIENCE AS A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER
2008-Present
Photographer and Visual Artist, self-employed
Have worked as a full time photographer and visual artist developing personal work and producing exhibitions, in addition to accepting editorial and commercial assignments (see “EXHIBITION HISTORY” and “CLIENTS”). Have served as a visiting artist at institutions including Pratt, SAIC and Yale, and offered master classes in photography around the world.
2011-2012
Studio Assistant, Joel Meyerowitz Photography
Coordinated the production of Meyerowitz’s two books: “Taking My Time: Joel Meyerowitz” by Phaidon and “Provence” by Barnes & Noble. I was responsible for pre-press preparation of all images: drum scanning, retouching, color correcting. I have also worked extensively on Meyerowitz’s archive, including printing large scale photographs for gallery shows and fine art sales. 2010-2011
Intern
Mary Ellen Mark Studio & Library
Worked with Mary Ellen Mark assisting her on shoots in the studio and on location. Developed her digital and print archive.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Mother Mould, Fahrenheit Madrid, Madrid
2021 Virgin Soap, Diane Rosenstein, Los Angeles
2020 I am a woman and I feast on memory, Ogrodowa 8, Lodz, Poland 2019 Unsex me here, Make Room, Los Angeles
I am a woman and I feast on memory, Panstwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot, Poland 2018 Some women can take their eyes out, AALA Gallery, Los Angeles 2017 You are now entering the human heart, Instytut Fotografii Fort, Warsaw, Poland 2016 I am a woman and I feast on memory, Leica Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2015 Rodeo Girls, Amerikahaus, Munich, Germany
2014 American Girls, Johnson Hall Rotunda Gallery, Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina 2013 American Girls, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
American Girls, Maison de la Photographie, Lille, France 2012 American Girls, Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, France GROUP EXHIBITIONS (select)
2023 Odalisque, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection (The Bunker), West Palm Beach House in Motion/ New Perspectives, de la Cruz Collection, Miami 2022 LA Dreams: Light Touch, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden 2021 There Is Always One Direction, de la Cruz Collection, Miami Mirror, Mirror, Nathalie Karg, New York
My Secret Garden, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
The Makeable Mind, Noorderlicht Photography Festival, Groningen, The Netherlands 2020 PAPA RAGAZZE, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
The Creator Has A Master Plan, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles Athens Photography Festival 2020, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece About Face, curated by Ali Subotnick, Gallery Platform, Los Angeles We Felt Such Strength That We Wanted to Be Gentle, Make Room on Gallery Platform, Los Angeles
2019 American Truth, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York 212 Photography Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
Criminalize this!, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn
2018 Engaged, Active, Aware: Women’s Perspectives Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Out of Character: Self-imaging through Narrative, USC Roski, IFT Gallery, Los Angeles By The Lights of Their Eyes, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles This Is Not Here, Re: Art Show, Brooklyn, New York A Body of Her Own, MAKE ROOM, Los Angeles
2017 The Industry Show, dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton, Canada POWER, Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
I know what your misfortune is, Panstwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot, Poland FOAM TALENT, Red Hook Labs, New York
FOAM TALENT, Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London 2016 FOAM TALENT, Unseen Photography Festival, Amsterdam Single Shot, Instytut Fotografii Fort, Warsaw, Poland I am a woman and I cast no shadow, 31st International Festival of Photography and Fashion, Hyeres, France
2015 Lovely Dark, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Lovely Dark, Danziger Gallery, New York
Emerging, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles Views, Landscapes in Polish Photography, Art_Inkubator, Lodz, Poland 2014 Identification, Warsaw Photo Days, Nowe Miejsce, Warsaw, Poland Masters of Polish Photography, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Yale MFA 2015, Yale School of Art, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven 2013 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, London Photography Now, Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York ICP Triennial, Self-Published section, New York
Exploitation, Glorification, Objectification, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago Hey, Hot Shot!, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York
2012 Getxo Photo, Bilbao, Spain
SELECTED CLIENTS
Netflix
The New York Times Magazine
TIME
The New Yorker
New York Magazine
The New York Times (Style and Business section)
T: The New York Times Style Magazine
OUT Magazine
Vogue
Financial Times Weekend Magazine
Marie Claire
Elle
GQ
The Telegraph Magazine
National Geographic
Surface
Nylon
Valentino Couture
Topic.com
Leica Camera
AWARDS
2015 Richard Benson Prize for Excellence in Photography, Yale University 2014 Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture, Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation
Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship, Yale University PDN's 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch
2013 World Press Photo, Third Prize: Observed Portraits BOOKS
2015 I am a woman and I feast on memory, edition of 500, self-published SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2018 NYLON, Ilona Szwarc, 10 page portfolio and interview by Wenjia Sheng, China 2017 VICE PHOTO ISSUE, Ilona Szwarc on Gillian Wearing, New York doc! photo magazine vol. 41, I know what your misfortune is, 12 page portfolio, Warsaw, Poland 2016 FOAM MAGAZINE #45: TALENT, 10 page portfolio and text by Max Houghton, Amsterdam Mossless 4: Public/Private/Portrait, published in collaboration with Charlotte Cotton and International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Dear Dave, Issue 22, edited by Stephen Frailey, New York, NY 2015 Lovely Dark, 2015 Yale MFA Photography Catalog, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2014 American Short Stories: An American in America, 30 page portfolio and interview by David Rosenberg, S Magazine, Germany
High Tails, Capricious, New York, NY
Mossless: Issue Three (2003-2013), Mossless, New York, NY 2013 Ilona Szwarc, BLINK, Issue 22, 10 page portfolio and interview by Kim Aram, South Korea 2011 MATTE Magazine: Ilona Szwarc, Issue 6, published by Matthew Leifheit, New York, NY SELECTED PRESS
Jillian Steinhauer, 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now, The New York Times Jacqui Palumbo, SIx Women Artists Furthering Cindy Sherman’s Vision, Artsy Alina Cohen, 8 Artists Using Silicone to Create Strange, Radical Artworks, Artsy Julie Schulte, Reclaiming the History of Breasts, Artillery Hilton Als, The Freedom of Young Photographers, The New Yorker Julie Wolfson, Artist Ilona Szwarc on Her Upcoming Show “Virgin Soap”, Cool Hunting Nate Rynaski, Ilona Szwarc “Virgin Soap at Diane Rosenstein Gallery”, Flaunt Hilton Als, The Freedom of Young Photographers, The New Yorker Ashley McNelis, The Horror of Flesh, The Reservoir Jon Feinstein, New Photobook: Photographer explores assimilation through grotesque beauty tutorials, Humble Arts Foundation Blog
Adrian Knowler, Ilona Szwarc: Woman Crush Wednesday, Musee Magazine Sharsten Plenge, Last Look: Lovely Dark, WOAH, Curate LA, Los Angeles, CA Ada Banaszak, Emancypacja Sobowtorow, Notes na 6 Tygodni, Warsaw, Poland Julie Bosman, The Cowgirl Way, The New York Times Magazine, USA Lucy Davies, Rhinestone Cowgirls: the girls getting into rodeo, The Telegraph Magazine, UK Ilona Szwarc: Lonesome Doves, National Geographic, Washington, DC Laura Millar, Rodeo Girls, MARIE CLAIRE, UK
Katarzyna Swiezak, Na obraz I podobienstwo, Wysokie Obcasy, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland Jacek Tomczuk, Opisane Swiatlem: Zapozuj Mi Swiecie, Twoj Styl, Poland Sophie de Rosee, Me and my girl, The Telegraph Magazine, London, UK Alicia Lee, Ilona Szwarc: Better Version of Her, SURFACE, China Out of the Box: Yale MFA Students, New York Magazine Maria Lokke, Ilona Szwarc's American Girls, The New Yorker Photo Booth Lily Rothman, The Camera as a Bridge: A Daughter-in-Law's Tale on Mother's Day, TIME LightBox Caroline Linton, American Girls: Photographs Offer Vision Into American Girlhood, Newsweek Hye Seong Tae, Ilona Szwarc, Photography Monthly, Seoul, South Korea Matthew Leifheit, MATTE Magazine: Ilona Szwarc for CCNY blog David Rosenberg, Looking at American Girls With Their American Girls, Slate Behold Lori Fredrickson, Girls & Dolls, Popular Photography Kerri MacDonald, A Mirror on Growing Up in America, The New York Times Lens Blog Seeing Double: Portraits of girls and their American Girl dolls, MSNBC Today.com Emma Gray, Ilona Szwarc's “American Girls” Explores The Meaning of Girlhood in the US, Huffington Post
COLLECTIONS
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
De La Cruz Collection, Miami
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection (The Bunker), West Palm Beach Museum of Modern Art (Library), New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Library), New York
Robert B. Hass Family Arts Library, Yale University Library, New Haven FOAM Museum, Amsterdam
Center for Photography at Woodstock
Joy of Giving Something Foundation, New York
Cathy Kaplan Collection, New York
Private Collections
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