Bonnie Collura


Bonnie Collura is an American artist. Most of her work is considered as abstract biomorphic sculptures and drawings that are rooted in figuration. Systems of connected characters are drawn together from mainstream popular culture, mythology, and folklore.

Career

Collura graduated with a MFA from Yale University in 1996.
Collura’s work has been seen in solo and group shows in New York, Germany, France, India, and Italy and is in national and international collections. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Sculpture Magazine, Bomb magazine, Beautiful/Decay, Time Out New York.
In 1997, Collura was awarded The Emerging Artist Award in from the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut and in 2005 she received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. In 2010, she was the recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. She has been nominated for a United States Artists Fellowship and Rolex Protégé Award.
Collura’s project, entitled The Prince Project, is divided into four sections entitled Dust, Wicked, Seven, and White Light.
The Prince Project was exhibited at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York, from January 12 to February 24, 2019.

Teaching

In 2003- 2005, Collura taught undergraduate courses full- time at Virginia Commonwealth University. Since these early teaching years, Collura taught in the adjunct capacity at Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art, University of the Arts, Yale University, Columbia University, and Parsons School of Design. In 2007, Collura joined the creative team at Penn State’s University’s School of Visual Arts, where she currently holds a title as Full Professor of Art, Sculpture.