Ellie Brown

Ellie Brown is a native of Boston, MA where she attended Massachusetts College of Art. She received her B.F.A. in photography in 1997 and her M.F.A. in Photography from San Jose State University in 2002. Ellie has received numerous awards including: a 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, a Leeway Foundation grant, first prize from the Fraser Gallery's International photo competition, a featured artist from women in photography international, the Calumet Award from the Print Center’s 2006 and 2008 International Photography Competition. In addition, Ellie has attended artist in residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute in 2006, Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL with acclaimed photographer Graciela Iturbide in 2002 a 2007 residency in Costa Rica at the David and Julia White Artist Colony. Both her bookwork and photographs are exhibited extensively nationally and internationally including Mexico, Romania, Greece, a solo exhibition at the International Museum of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, AK. She had 2008 solo exhibition at the Galeria Nacional in Costa Rica. Ellie debuted her Lover’s Books in Philadelphia and spoke about it at the regional Society for Photographic Education conference in November 2006. Ellie has been photographing girls’ issues since 1996 and making altered bookwork since 2002. From 2005-2007 Ellie has taught in NJ, NY, CA, PA and as a full-time lecturer in photography and 2D foundations at Tyler School of Art from 2005-2007. She has just published the work about her sisters called Identity Quest: About My Sisters 1996-2006. Ellie was a visiting professor position of Digital Information at the University of Ulsan, South Korea in December 2008.