MARJORIE SALVATERRA

Named one of LensCultures top 50 Emerging Artist, Marjorie Salvaterra’s images reveal “a fine line between sanity and insanity,” according to Virginia Heckart, Associate Curator of Photography at The Getty Center.  Salvaterra’s exhibitions include: The California Museum of Art; Making Pictures Of People: The Nelson-Atkins Museum / Flak Photo; Nuit de Images: Musee d’Elysee; Solo exhibits at The Griffin Museum of Photography; Ralph Pucci Los Angeles, NYC & Miami; JDC Fine Art; Clark-Oshin Gallery; Month of Photography Los Angeles.  Other exhibits include Magdalena International – New Orleans; Verge Photographers – Duncan Miller Gallery;  Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France; "Fuck Pretty" - Robert Berman Gallery;  Rayko Photo Center;  Julia Dean Gallery; and the “Human + Being” show at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado.  Her work was included in the George Eastman House Museum auction at Sotheby’s, New York, PDN’s Emerging Photographers, Black and White Magazine and she was runner-up for the Berenice Abbott Prize for Emerging Photographers and a finalist for Critical Mass.  Her book “HER: Meditations On Being Female” was published in May 2016 by Glitterati Incorporated.

 

Marjorie's great achievement is as a wife and a mother of two.  She makes her home in Los Angeles, California.