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MARGARET MORTON
Professor
"Mac's first house, East River," gelatin silver print, 14" x 14", 1992 Margaret Morton © OmbraLuce LLC (from Fragile Dwelling, Aperture, 2000)
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Margaret Morton's photographs of the dwellings that homeless individuals assemble in public parks, vacant lots, along the waterfronts and beneath the streets of New York City are combined with oral histories in Fragile Dwelling (Aperture, 2000); The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale University Press, 1995; Schirmer/Mosel, Germany, 1996); and Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives (co-authored with Diana Balmori, Yale University Press, 1993). Her most recent book, Glass House, documents thirty-five young squatters who set up a highly structured community in an abandoned glass factory (Penn State Press, 2004).
Morton's project has received numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Grant in Photography, New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Catalog Project, Graham Foundation Grant for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and Harry Chapin Media Judges' Award from World Hunger Year. Morton has been awarded both the Menschel Faculty Grant and the Durbin Faculty Grant from The Cooper Union.
Morton's photographs have been exhibited in New York City at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, Museum of the City of New York, New-York Historical Society, The Urban Center, Aperture Foundation's Burden Gallery, Lowinsky Gallery, and Bodell Gallery; throughout the United States, including the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Cranbrook Art Museum; as well as museums and galleries in Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, Korea, and Switzerland.
Professor Morton received a BFA from Kent State University and an MFA from Yale University. Morton joined the faculty at Cooper Union in 1980, where she teaches Advanced Photography and Art of the Book.
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