Margot Herster

Page 1 | Biography

Lives: Brooklyn, NY

Education
MFA Photography and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2006
BA Psychology, BFA Art History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1999





Solo Exhibitions
The Colors of Love: Photographs, Scalo, New York, NY, 2004



Group Exhibitions
POSTPARTUM, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, 2006

The Early Work, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, 2006

Being and Self, curated by Liz Afif, Afif Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2005

Margot Herster, Sophia Peer, Sarah Schorr and Xiao Hui Wang, Scalo Gallery at Photo New York, New York, NY, 2004

Curator�s Choice Exhibition, curated by Olga Stefan, ATC Space, Chicago, IL, 2003

Around the Coyote Winter Arts Festival, Chicago, IL, 2003

Contuscan Art, curated by Walter Bellini, Contemporary Tuscan Art at the U.S. Consulate, Florence, Italy, 2001

Phantasomageries, curated by Dejan Atanackovic, SPAZIOTEMPO, Florence, Italy, 2001

Bibliography
Vince Aletti, �Voice Choices,� Village Voice, October 6-12, 2004 and November 17-23, 2004.
Lisa Lenior, �Raising the Art of Politics,� Chicago Sun-Times, February 9, 2003.


Grants/Awards
Emerging Photographers Showcase Finalist, Nerve.com, 2005

Projects
Founder and Director of Through the Walls, a photo-based initiative that portrays Guantanamo Bay prisoners and their families through images and stories by the detainees' attorneys.

For more information on this project, please visit www.throughthewalls.org.

Publications
"Domestic Bliss," with text by Ada Calhoun, Nerve.com, October 2005