AD 126 | Marie Tomanova
“Young American”
“Young American”

Since then her work has changed dramatically in approach, mediums, and themes. She has been dealing with issues of displacement, identity, inclusivity, gender, and sexuality through photography and video in her current two main projects: photo-based Self-portraits, in which she address the issue of displacement and finding place in the American landscape and Young American, which was released as a solo show at Czech Center New York (2018) and addresses issues of displacement, belonging and fitting into the American landscape in a social aspect.
Paradigm Publishing will publish her first monograph Young American, with introduction by Ryan McGinley, in Spring 2019. A documentary following Marie’s journey is in making by Academy Award (student) winning director Marie Dvořáková and will be released in 2020. Young American will be exhibited at Academia Film Olomouc in April 2019 (Czech) and Pragovka Gallery in Prague in October 2019 (Czech).




Show Notes:
- How Marie met and started working with, photographer, Ryan McGinley
- Her experiences living and growing up in Czechoslovakia
- Her first experiences in an American grocery store and eating corn dogs for the first time
- How Marie started studying painting in university before she found her love for photography years later
- Her book, “Young American”
- Photographer: Francesca Woodman
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