BIO

Bonnie Collura received her B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1994 and her Masters of Fine Art, concentrating in Sculpture, from Yale University in 1996. Upon graduating with her M.F.A. she has been in numerous solo and group shows in New York, Germany, France, India, and Italy. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art Forum, Art in America, Art News, Sculpture Magazine, BOMB magazine, Beautiful Decay, Time Out New York, and several other publications. She was honored with The Emerging Artist Award in 1997 from the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut,  a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, for Sculpture, in 2005, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship in 2010, and she is a nominee for a 2010 USA Fellowship in the Visual Arts Category (recipients to be announced in December 2010). Some of the schools she has taught at include Yale University, Columbia University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art, University of the Arts, and Parsons School of Design. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Sculpture Area at Penn State University School of Visual Arts.

 

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