Ilona Szwarc
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Ilona Szwarc (b. 1984, Warsaw, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) received an MFA in Photography from Yale University and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts. Szwarc’s recent solo exhibitions include Make Room (2019), AALA Gallery, Los Angeles (2018); Instytut Fotografii Fort (2017) and Leica Gallery, Warsaw (2016); Amerikahaus, Munich (2015); Foley Gallery, New York (2013); and Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris (2012). She has participated in group exhibitions at the Benaki Museum, Athens; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm; Shulamit Nazarian Gallery and Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Danziger Gallery, New York; among others. Among her awards and grants she has received the Richard Benson Prize for Excellence in Photography (2015), the Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture (2014), and the World Press Photo (2013). Her photographs have been featured in numerous publications worldwide.
2015 - Richard Benson Prize for Excellence in Photography, 2014 - Arnold Newman Prize, 2014 - Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship, 2014 - PDN's 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, 2013 - World Press Photo, Observed Portraits, 2013 - Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographer, 2012 - PDN Annual
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