Galina Kurlat
Biography
Biography
Galina Kurlat was born in Moscow, Russia in 1981 and emigrated to the United States in 1989. She received her Bachelor of Media Arts Degree from Pratt Institute in 2005 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
In Kurlat’s work, she explores the intimate relationship between photographer and sitter through large format photography using expired Polaroid film, and the wet collodion process. These photographs are as much about the collaboration with the sitter as they are the resulting images. The slow practice of creating large format photographs, using a medium which allows for almost immediate viewing, invites the sitter to participate in orchestrating the final image.
Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in a number of public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX and the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Photo Jinju in South Korea, Baxter Street/Camera Club Auction in New York, Self-Processing- Instant Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Sputnik 2, Boyd Satellite Gallery in New Orleans, Analog, Mike Wright Gallery in Denver, Imaging Now: Collected Visions in Memphis, Unbound5! Candela Gallery in Richmond, Oceanside Museum of Art in San Jose, Inherent Traits, PEVETO Gallery in Houston, Safe Distance, Lawndale Art Center in Houston, 12th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant, West Gallery at Texas Woman’s University, #19, Emergency Room Gallery, Rice University, Onward Compé ’12 in Philadelphia, Urban Decay, Ravi Gallery in India, Artist Dialogue, Houston Center for Photography, The Big Show 2011 and The Big Show 2012 at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Annual Print Auction, Houston Center for Photography, Landscape, Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR; Reclamation/Inherent Traits, College of the Mainland Art Gallery in Texas City, Narratives, PG Contemporary in Houston.
Kurlat's work has been featured in the following selected publications: Photo Jinju Catalog, Photogrvphy, Diffusion IX, Oxford American, Blur Magazine, Fraction Magazine, Main Street Projects, Glasstire, Artist's Secret: Archaic Photo Process, Fraction of a Second from Radius Books, Houston Chronicle, Houston Press, Houston Center for Photography’s Spot Magazine from Houston Center for Photography, Unless You Will, Yellow Magazine, FotoFest 2010 Biennial Catalogue, Light Leaked; Exhibition Catalog, The Art of Photography Show 2008; Exhibition Catalog, Resurrection: A New Look at Old Photographic Processes, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2007, Traces and Avenues.
EDUCATION
Pratt Institute, BFA Media Arts, Brooklyn, NY 2005
Art Students League, New York, NY 1996-1999
AWARDS
Artist Dialogue, Houston Center for Photography, Spot Magazine Publication Award 2011
Photo Lucida, Critical Mass Finalist 2008
Photo Media Center Open Juried Exhibition, Juror Award 2007
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Honorable Mention 2007
Pratt Institute Survey Award, Faculty Selection, 2005
PUBLICATIONS
Photo Jinju, Jinju South Korea, 2017
PHOTOGRVPHY, Online Publication, 2017
Oxford American, Arkansas, 2016
Blur Magazine, Croatia, 2015
Fraction of a Second, Radius Books Santa Fe, NM 2015
Fraction Magazine, Albuquerque, NM 2013
Light Leaked, Denton, TX 2012
Players Magazine, Italy 2012
Urban Decay, Hydrabad, India 2011
100 Creatives, Houston Press: Art Attack, 2011
Artist Dialogue, Spot Magazine, Houston Center for Photography, Publication Award 2011
23 Sandy Gallery, Promotional Image, Photo Alchemy, Juried Exhibition 2011
The Center for Fine Art Photography, Promotional Image, Low-Tech Juried Exhibition 2010
FotoFest 2010 Biennial Catalogue, Contemporary U.S. Photography, Exhibition Catalog 2010
The Art of Photography Show, Exhibition Catalog, 2008
Resurrection: A New Look at Old Photopraphic Processes, Exhibition Catalog, 2008
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Exhibition Catalogue 2007
Moment: une revue de photo, 2007
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Safe Distance, Lone Star Gallery, Houston, TX 2016
Safe Distance, Lawndale Art Center: Houston, TX 2015
Inherent Traits, College of the Mainland Texas City, TX 2012
Inherent Traits, PEVETO Gallery, Houston, TX 2012
Reclamation, FotoFest 2010 Biannual Participating Spaces: Boheme Houston, TX 2010
Remnants, Laila Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2006
Remnants, STAY Gallery, New York NY 2005
Remnants, Steuben Gallery Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY 2005
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Touch me Touch you, Jinju International Photo Festival, South Korea
2016
Unbound!, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
Baxter Street/Camera Club Benefit Auction, New York, NY
2015
Inherent Traits, PEVETO Gallery, Houston, TX
Safe Distance, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
Contemporary Landscape Photography, Oceanside Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Imaging Now: Collected Visions, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Analog, Mike Wright Gallery; Denver, CO
Entre Nous; Denver, Colorado, Les Templiers, Expolaroid; Montélimar, France
Fraction of a Second, 516 Arts; Albuquerque, NM
Safe Distance, Aker Imaging Gallery, Houston, TX.
2014
Self-Processing- Instant Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Sputnik 2, Boyd Satellite Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2013
Joyce Elaine Grant, West Gallery, Texas Woman's University, Denton TX 2013
#19, Emergency Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX 2013
Ratio, El Ricon, Houston, TX 2013
Artopia, Winter Street, Houston, TX 2013
2012
Onward Compé '12, Basho Projects, Philadelphia, PA
Urban Decay, Ravi Gallery, Hyderabad, India
The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX 2012
Landscape, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
Founder of Main Street Projects; a site specific installation space.