CHRISTINE OSINSKI
Professor

"East Nonations," gelatin silver print, 16" x 20", 2002
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Christine Osinski is an artist who works primarily in photography. For the past six years she has been researching and photographing New York City's archipelago by boat and foot. Simultaneously, she is completing a long-term, book-length project, "Drawn to Water," about a women's swimming group.

Osinski's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Alice Austen House Museum, the Dallas Women's Museum, the Katonah Museum, the Bronx Council of the Arts, P.S.1, and Light Gallery, among other national venues. It has also been seen in China, Russia, New Zealand, and in other countries around the world.

Permanent public collections holding her photographs include, among others, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of the City of New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Smithsonian Institute and the New York Public Library. Osinski's work has been reviewed and published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Art New England, The Village Voice, DoubleTake and many other journals and books.

Professor Osinski has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and others.

She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA from Yale University and has taught at numerous institutions, including Pratt, Parsons School of Design, and the Bedford Hills Maximum Security Facility for Women. Osinski joined the faculty at Cooper Union in 1984.

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