I use various camera formats (film and digital), 35mm slide projections and multiple exposures to construct a fiction around the deliberate act of remembering.
Ursula Sokolowska was born in Krakow, Poland. She studied photography at Columbia College (1997-99), completing her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2001. Although her work is deeply personal, her images are also a reflection of separation of the body from consciousness and objectification. Her photographs can be found in many public and private collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Tanqueray.
Awards 2020
Center for Photographic Art, International Juried Exhibition, Merit Award
2015
Center for Fine Art Photography, Regarding Beauty, Director’s Honorable Mention
2011
Roger Brown Residency, New Buffalo, MI
Illinois Arts Council, IAS Artist Project grant in Photography
2010
Roger Brown Residency, New Buffalo, MI
2009
Magenta Publishing, Flash Forward – Emerging Photographers Finalist Myartspace /
Bridge Art Fair Miami
CAAP Grant (Community Arts Assistance Program)
2008
CAAP Grant (Community Arts Assistance Program)
Texas Woman’s University, Juror’s Award
2007
CAAP Grant (Community Arts Assistance Program)
PhotoMedia Center, Juror’s Award
2006
Featured Artist during Chicago Artists’ Month
Shortlist, Saatchi Gallery and the Guardian UK, ‘Your Gallery’ (Mar 2006)
2005
CAAP Grant (Community Arts Assistance Program)
2003
CAAP Grant (Community Arts Assistance Program)
2001
Art Association of Harrisburg, Juror’s Award
2000
Nippon Steel USA / School of the Art Institute of Chicago Presidential Award
