About The Artist

Ellie Brown is a native of Boston, MA where she attended Massachusetts College of Art. She received her B.F.A. in Media Arts in 1997 and her M.F.A. in Pictorial Arts from San Jose State University in 2002. Ellie has received numerous awards including: a 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, a Leeway Foundation grant, first prize from the Fraser Gallery's International photo competition, a featured artist from women in photography international, the Calumet Award from the Print Center’s 2006 and 2008 International Photography Competition. In addition, Ellie has attended artist in residencies in Iceland 2011 at the NES Artist Residency, at the Santa Fe Art Institute in 2006, Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL with acclaimed photographer Graciela Iturbide in 2002 and a 2007 residency in Costa Rica at the David and Julia White Artist Colony. Both her bookwork and photographs are exhibited extensively nationally and internationally including Mexico, England, Switzerland, Romania, Greece, with a solo exhibition at the Galeria Nacional in Costa Rica. The Center for the Book Arts in NYC exhibited a solo show entitled A Chronicle of Lovers in 2009. From 2000- to the present, Ellie has taught as a part-time and full-time lecturer in photography, digital media and 2D at many Colleges and Universities. Ellie served as a Visiting Professor position of Digital Information at the University of Ulsan, South Korea in 2008. Ellie has been photographing girls’ issues since 1996 and making altered bookwork since 2002. She has self-published three books of her photographic work. Currently she is the President of POP!sicle Artist Marketing. In 2009 Ellie curated a show entitled Family Ties as Exhibitions Chair for Women’s Caucus for the Art at UPenn and is co-curated an exhibition “Body, Soul and Hair” in 2010 at Rowan University. The BAG project is currently being funded through USA Projects, an initiative of United States Artists, with numerous solo exhibitions of the work. She is the founder and president of POP!sicle Artist Marketing.