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Patty Carroll
USA Nominee Fine Art Professional "Park Ridge Statue with Shadows" Series: Dark Suburban Lawns, places of perfection and terror Patty Carroll has her BFA from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in Graphic Design, and her Master of Science (MS) in Photography from the Institute of Design at IIT, Chicago. Since leaving graduate school, in 1972, she has taught photography continuously at the University level, both full and part-time. Currently she resides in Chicago and Indiana with her husband of 25 years, Tony Jones, CBE. She is active with her own professional fine-art photography practice, and her studio is in Chicago, and has had a long teaching career. She participates in group and one-person exhibitions, and her work is represented by Schneider Gallery in Chicago. Carroll is currently Adjunct Full Professor at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and previously taught at Columbia College in Chicago, The Institute of Design at IIT and the Royal College of Art in London, as well as other universities. Carroll is an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop, and teaches for Ascend Training in Chicago. She has participated in numerous group and one-person exhibitions, and has work in several museums internationally. She is the photographic author of 4 books; Spirited Visions a book and exhibit of portraits of Chicago artists in 1992 with James Yood, Culture is Everywhere, published by Prestel in 2002 with Victor Margolin, and Living the Life: The World of Elvis Tribute Artists, 2005, and Man Bites Dog: The Culture of Hot Dogs in America, with Bruce Kraig 2012. Her work is also included in various Photography anthologies. Selected one-person exhibits include “Are You Lonesome Tonight” at Royal Photographic Society in Bath, England in 1996, “Elvis?” at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago in 1999, and “Dark and Deadly: Photographs and Digital Movie Posters”, at The Art Institute of Chicago in 2004. Since 2010, her Anonymous Women: Draped series was shown at White Box Museum in Beijing, at Shanghai University Gallery, several University galleries and museums, and at the Cultural Center in Chicago in 2012. She was the recipient of an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Illinois Arts Council in 2003, and has had various International artist residencies. http://www.pattycarroll.com |
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