Artist Bio
Marianne Bernstein, a photographer and filmmaker, has been living and working in Philadelphia for the past eight years. She spent a large part of her career in New York City and New Haven doing commercial work as a photographer for the Muppets, Sesame Street, Maysles Brothers, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Yale Repertory Theater, as well as doing commissioned portraits. Her work has been published in Esquire, the Atlantic Monthly, Tatler, and the book New York at Night (Stewart, Tabori, and Chang).
Her personal work has been exhibited in Boston at the Photographic Resource Center, in New York City, at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, and extensively in galleries across Connecticut including Artspace, Erector Square Gallery, Artworks Gallery, and Real Art Ways.
She has received multiple awards including grants from the Honickman Foundation in 2005, the Leeway Foundation in 2003, “Best Arts Visionary” award from the New Haven Advocate, and the “Opening Doors, Opening Minds” award from the New Haven Arts Council, both in 1998.
Most recently, she co-directed and produced, "From Philadelphia to the Front," an award winning documentary which has traveled to over 15 festivals worldwide. For more information visit: www.fromphiladelphiatothefront.com.
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