Judy Gelles
American, born 1944
Person TypeIndividual
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- female
BiographyGelles received a MFA degree in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1991. Her work is in major collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Artist Residencies include the MacDowell Colony, the Visual Studies Workshop, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She has published three books: When We Were Ten and Florida Family Portrait with the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, and Beach Boxes with Nazraeli Press. Awards include an Individual Artist Grant from the Rhode Island State Council On The Arts, an Independence Foundation Fellowship in The Arts grant, Philadelphia, a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Artist As catalyst Grant, and a grant from WYBE Public Television, Philadelphia Stories New Program Grant. She is represented by the Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles, and the Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. and Etherton Gallery in Tucson, AZ.