Mercedes Jelinek

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Mercedes Jelinek
Born
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
NationalityAmerican
EducationPurchase College, State University of New York, Louisiana State University.
Website www.mercedesjelinek.com

Mercedes Jelinek (born 1985) is an American photographer working in New York and Italy. [1] She specializes in black and white portraiture, and her work has been published and exhibited internationally.

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Life and work

Jelinek was born in 1985 and graduated high school in Madison, Connecticut. [2] She attended Purchase College, State University of New York, where she earned a BFA in Visual Arts [3] and Louisiana State University, where she received her MFA. [4] From 2014 to 2017, Jelinek was a resident artist at the Penland School of Crafts. [5]

Jelinek's book These Americans, [6] published by Kris Graves Projects, NYC (2017), is a series of photographs depicting individuals who attended the Women’s March (January 21, 2017) on Washington DC and has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art. [7]

Jelinek is among the co-founders of the Better Than A Bandana Mask Project. [8] Her book LOST, Spruce Pine, [9] published by Kris Graves Projects, NYC (2019), is part of LOST II; a set containing twenty photography monographs by twenty artists that have been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Syracuse University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Arcadia University, Texas State University, University of Iowa, Ryerson University and George Washington University; amongst others. [10] [11]

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