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Ilona Szwarc (b. 1984, Warsaw) is a Polish photographer now residing in the United States. She attended School of Visual Arts and Yale University.[1][2] In 2013 she assembled her series American Girls[3] The series consists of 100 photographs created with a 4x5 large format camera.[4] In 2015 she created the magazine I am a Woman and I Feast on Memory.[5][3][6]
In 2013 she received a third place World Press Photo prize, in the Observed Portraits category.[7] In 2014 she received the Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture. In 2015 she was awarded the Richard Benson Prize for Excellence in Photography and in 2020 she was a finalist for a Hopper Prize[1] In 2017 she was included in the FOAM Talent London exhibition (for artists under the age of 35).[8]
Her work is in the Yale University Art Gallery,[5] and the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)[9]
- ^ a b "Ilona Szwarc". The Hopper Prize. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
- ^ "Visiting Artist Lecture: Ilona Szwarc - Department of Art and Art History - The University of Texas at Austin". Department of Art and Art History - University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
- ^ a b "Ilona Szwarc - I am a woman and I feast on memory - Photographs by Ilona Szwarc". LensCulture. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
- ^ "Ilona Szwarc". Culture.pl. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
- ^ a b "I (I am a Woman and I Feast on Memory)". Yale University Art Gallery. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
- ^ Zelony-Mindell, Efrem (27 May 2016). "Ilona Szwarc: I am Woman and I Feast On Memory". The Eye of Photography Magazine. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
- ^ "2013 Ilona Szwarc PO3 | World Press Photo". www.worldpressphoto.org. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
- ^ "Foam Talent exhibition at Beaconsfield in London | Past exhibition 2017". www.foam.org. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
- ^ "I am a woman and I feast on memory". NMWA Library & Research Center. Retrieved 19 March 2023.