TERRY BRAUNSTEIN

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BIO

Multi-media photomontage artist, TERRY BRAUNSTEIN, resides in Long Beach, California. She was born in Washington, D.C. and received her BFA from the University of Michigan and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has exhibited her work in museums and galleries nationally and internationally, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Gallery Miyazaki in Japan the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Sala Arcs gallery in Barcelona, Spain. She is currently represented by the Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, where she had one-person exhibitions in 1992, 1994, and 1997. She has also had one-person exhibitions at the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Fendrick Gallery and Washington Project for the Arts in Washington D.C.; Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery and Franklin Furnace in New York, and many others around the world.

Her work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Getty Center for the Arts and Humanities, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, Bibliothèque Nationale, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Long Beach Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in N.Y. Her photomontage book, Windows, was published in 1982 by the Visual Studies Workshop. She was the recipient of the National Book Award of the Library Fellows of the National Museum of Women in the Arts for 1994. The resulting work, A Tale from the Fire, was published in April 1995.

Braunstein was invited to Andalucia, Spain as part of "Imagina"--a series of one-person exhibitions of photographers from around the world--and commissioned to create a photographic response to this area of Spain for the Universal Exposition in Seville in 1992. This exhibition continues to tour the Mediterranean countries and was brought together for two person exhibitions at ARCO '97 in Madrid and in Salamanca in 1998. In 1996, Braunstein was invited to produce a serigraph at the Moscow Studio in Russia and to lecture at the Moscow Contemporary Art Center. That summer, she created a temporary public art installation for a Berlin, Germany metro station.

Terry Braunstein was the recipient of an Open Channels video grant from the Long Beach Museum of Art in 1992. She was awarded a commission to produce public art for one of the Metro-Rail Blue Line stations (installed in October of 1994). In 1985, Braunstein was awarded a Visual Artist Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. In October 1999 she was awarded a fellowship by the City of Long Beach. She was invited to Saratoga Springs, New York, for an artist's residency at Yaddo in May 1997, April 1999, April 2003, and April 2005. Terry Braunstein was commissioned to create two photo-installations for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's "Windows on Wilshire" series, curated by Howard Fox. In September 1999, Braunstein was awarded a commission to create a memorial to the Navy presence in Long Beach, which was dedicated in July 2004. She just completed work on a 50th Anniversary sculpture for the City of Cerritos (dedicated in November 2006), and is currently working on the Conceptual Design with Craig Cree Stone for the 54-block bluff, beach and bike path of Long Beach, California.