Victoria Sambunaris

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Victoria Sambunaris
Born1964 (1964)
Education Mount Vernon College (BA)
Yale University (M.F.A.)
OccupationPhotographer
Known forPhotographic journey traversing the American landscape
Honors Anonymous Was A Woman Award
Website victoriasambunaris.com/about

Victoria Sambunaris (born 1964) is an American photographer. [1] Sambunaris was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. [2]

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Education

Sambunaris earned her Bachelor of Arts from Mount Vernon College in 1986 and her Masters of Fine Arts from Yale University [3] in 1999.

In 2010, she was awarded the Anonymous Was A Woman Award [4] and was later hired by Yale University in 2012 as a lecturer in photography. [5]

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, [1] the Museum of Modern Art, New York, [6] the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. [2]

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