Artist Lecture by Penelope Umbrico TODAY

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is our pleasure to invite you and your students to join us for an Artist Lecture by Penelope Umbrico on Monday, March 25 at 3pm at the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design.

Penelope Umbrico

University of North Texas
College of Visual Arts and Design
March 25, at 3pm
Art Building Room 223, (on the corner of Mulberry and Welch Streets in Denton, TX)

Penelope Umbrico attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto Canada, and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, including in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; MassMoCA, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; the Daegu Photography Biennale, Korea; the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; Rencontres d’Arles, France; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia; Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Cambridge; Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY; International Center of Photography, NY, among many others.

Her work is in permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tampa Museum of Art, FL.; International Center of Photography NY.

Umbrico is the recipient of a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship; a John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award, a Deutsche Bank Fellow - New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, a Peter S Reed Grant; an Anonymous Was A Woman Award; a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; and an Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship.

Her first monograph, “Penelope Umbrico (photographs)”, was published by Aperture in the spring of 2011.