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EDUCATION:
MFA Photography, Rhode Island School of Design 1991

REPRESENTED BY:
Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Cohen Amador Gallery, New York, NY.
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Az

IN THE COLLECTION OF:
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Haverford College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida
Harvard University Fine Arts Library
Brooklyn Museum of Art/Artist Book Collection
Museum of Modern Art, NY/Artist Book Collection
Sprint Art Collections, Overland Park, Kansas
Beck Hansen, Glendale, California

BOOKS:
Beach Boxes, by Judy Gelles, One Picture Book Number 24, Nazraeli Press, 2004.
Florida, Family, Portrait by Judy Gelles, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 2002.
When We Were Ten  by Judy Gelles, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 1997.

GRANTS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES:

2007	2007-2008 Fleisher Challenge Artist, Philadelphia, PA.
2005	Atlantic Center for the Arts, Artist Residency, New Smyrna Beach, FL.
2003	WYBE Public Television, Philadelphia Stories 4 New Program Grant
2001	Visual Studies Workshop, Artist in Residence, Rochester, NY,
	Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Grant, Artist As Catalyst 2001, Baltimore, MD,
2000	Independence Foundation Fellowship In The Arts, Philadelphia, PA,
1999	Leeway Foundation, Window of Opportunity Award, Philadelphia, PA,
1998	MacDowell Colony Fellow, Artist Residency, Peterborough, NH,
1997	Individual Artist Grant, Rhode Island State Council On The Arts

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2008	Fleisher Challenge Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, “Word Portraits”.
	ArtSPACE, New Haven, CT. “Thoughts of You.”
	The Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia, PA. “Encapsulated Time.”
2007	Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California, “Family Ties:Three Generations”.
2006	Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, “Maternal Metaphors.”
2005	Cohen Amador Gallery, New York, New York, “Inaugural Exhibition.”
	Florida State University, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahasee, FLA, “Heartfelt”.
2004	Lyonswiergallery, New York City, “Beach Boxes.”
	Ruhrlandmuseum Essen, Germany, “Really True! Photography and the Promise of Reality”
	Philadelphia International Airport, Terminal F, “A Family Portrait.”
	Brevard Museum of Art & Science, Melbourne, Florida, “Trailer Park.”
	PS 122 Gallery, New York City, New York, “Trailer Park.”
2002	Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "New Acquisitions."
	Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, “Are You Alone.”
2001	Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FLA. “Florida Fragments.”
	National Museum of Jewish American History, Philadelphia, PA.
	“A Soldier’s story: Intimate Artifacts of WWII.”
	Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, “Frontyard/Backyard.”
2000	Tatar Alexander Gallery, Toronto, Canada, "After Dark."
	San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, "Timekeepers."
1999	SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, “Images and Words: Women’s Voices.”
1998	NYC International Fringe Festival, “Projected Narratives.”
	Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY. “The Female Gaze:Women Look at Men.”

FILM FESTIVALS: Screening “From Philadelphia to the Front”: