The Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Photography Portfolio 2010

The Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art organized its 2010 Photography Portfolio Competition in recognition of photography's broad significance as a contemporary art form, and to increase awareness of the museum's photography collection. The competition was designed to foster the discovery of new talent internationally.

The competition jurors were Tina Barney, photographer; Melissa Harris, editor-in-chief, Aperture magazine; and Peter Barberie, the museum's Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center. They selected six works from submissions by seven hundred eighty-three artists and Mr. Barberie chose an additional "curator's choice" photograph, all of which will enter the museum's permanent collection.

The winning artists are Martine Fougeron (French, born 1954), Jinyoung Koh (Korean, born 1981), Rory Mulligan (American, born 1984), Jason Reblando (American, born 1973), Elaine Stocki (Canadian, born 1979), Mónika Sziládi (Hungarian, born 1974), and Janet Pritchard (Curator's Choice, American, born 1956).

Biographies

Elaine Stocki Elaine Stocki was born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada. She graduated from the MFA program at Yale in 2009 and has been living and working in Brooklyn New York. Her work has been included in exhibitions in Berlin, Los Angeles and New York.

Jinyoung Koh Jinyoung Koh was born in South Korea. He is studying for his MFA with a concentration in Photo & Media at the California Institute of the Arts. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he was a 2008 Artist in Residence at the Burren College of Art in Newtown Castle, Ireland. His work has been exhibited in Pennsylvania, Chicago, Illinois, Washington, Paris, Ireland, and South Korea. He currently lives and works in Valencia and Los Angeles, California.

Martine Fougeron Martine Fougeron was born in France and now works and lives in New York. Fougeron's work is represented in major public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. She is the recipient of numerous awards including American Photo's 13 Emerging Artists in 2008. She is a contributing photographer to The New Yorker, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and New York Magazine.

Rory Mulligan Rory Mulligan was born and raised in the suburbs of New York City. He began photographing his junior year at Fordham University and graduated with a BA in Visual Arts in 2006. He went on to work as a printer until pursuing his MFA at Yale University, graduating in 2010.

Mónika Sziládi Mónika Sziládi was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary and lives in New York. She is a 2010 Yale MFA graduate in Photography. In 2008 she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been exhibited at Godot Galéria, Budapest, the DUMBO Arts Center, New York, the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, and the Flash Forward Festival, Toronto, among other venues.

Jason Reblando Jason Reblando was born in Flushing, New York. He received his MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago and a BA in Sociology from Boston College. He is a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award, a City of Chicago CAAP Grant, and a Columbia College Follett Fellowship. His work has been exhibited at the Minnesota Center for Photography, the Light Factory in Charlotte, the Houston Center for Photography, and the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Center for Civil and Human Rights, and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Janet L. PritchardCurator's Choice Janet L. Pritchard holds an MFA from the University of New Mexico and teaches in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Connecticut. She previously held positions at Tyler School of Art at Temple University and the University of Colorado. Her honors and awards include a University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Fellowship 2009–2010, and The American Antiquarian Society's Jay & Deborah Last Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited at the International Center for Photography, New York and the Photographic Resource Center, Boston, among other venues.