DVAA Member since 2022
Lily Colman
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About:
Lily Madeleine Colman is a film-based photographer born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. She works in (mainly film) photography, video, installation and the creation of photo-objects (through embroidery and alternative processes, primarily using the Cyanotype process). She has taught film and digital photography at Union County College, and currently teaches History of Photography at Mercer County Community college, both located in New Jersey.
She received her BA from Hampshire College, and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Before starting her Master’s program at RISD (completed May, 2020), she worked as a Photography Assistant at David Zwirner Gallery in New York.
Most recently, Lily had a solo exhibition at The Center for Contemporary Art Bedminster (NJ) of her work “The Knots on the Underside of the Carpet” in Spring 2022. She also received second place in the First Annual Foto Forum Santa Fe Photography Award, and had a virtual solo exhibition on Foto Forum Santa Fe’s Website, which launched June 2021. She has been included in group exhibitions at Soho Photo Gallery, ClampArt, Gallery 263, and the RISD Museum, among others.
Lily is happy to be living back in Philadelphia after 11 years living in other parts of the Northeast.
Artist Statement:
“I create art often as an emotional response to what has happened in my life, as a form of therapy to understand the knot of emotions that we become. My most recent projects center on surviving abuse, understanding our cultural ideals of femininity and trying to subvert them, and placing importance on finding the matrilineal threads we so often lose.”
