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Comment: Reviewers will be looking for significant in-depth coverage of Tomanova in the sources, there is none here unfortunately so it seems that she does not pass WP:GNG or WP:NARTIST yet see WP:TOOSOON. Theroadislong (talk) 11:24, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
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Marie Tomanova | |
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| File:Marie Tomanova, Mom's Coat, 2018, from It Was Once My Universe | |
| Born | Valtice, Czech Republic |
| Occupation | Artist Photographer |
| Years active | 2018-present |
| Notable work | Young American (Paradigm Publishing, 2019)
New York New York (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2021) It Was Once My Universe (Super Labo, 2022) |
| Website | marietomanova.com |
Marie Tomanova is a Czech-born, New York City based artist. Her work focuses primarily on issues of identity and displacement. She first came to international attention with her first book, Young American,[1] which celebrates individuality and youth, particularly in regard to gender, sexuality, and self-expression.
Tomanova is the subject of a feature-length documentary film with HBO by director Marie Dvorkova, World Between Us, which premiered at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in 2024.[2] The film traces a five year arc of Tomanova's artistic and personal life since her first New York City solo art exhibition in 2018 through multiple international exhibitions and book projects, including Tomanova photographing herself for the cover of Vogue CS in June 2022.
Early life
[edit]Marie Tomanova was born in Valtice, a village in the South Moravian region of the Czech Republic, near the Austrian border. She came of age during the post-Velvet Revolution (1989), which ended over 40 years of communist rule of Czechoslovakia.
Education
[edit]Tomanova received a MFA in painting from Masaryk University, Faculty of Fine Arts, VUT Brno, Czech Republic.
Career
[edit]After receiving her MFA, Tomanova left the Czech Republic in 2011 to work as an au pair in the United States, first in North Carolina, and then in New York state, moving in 2012 to New York City where she found work babysitting, cleaning, and cooking for privileged families. After viewing an exhibition of the work of the young, female, photographer Francesa Woodman (1958–1981) at the Guggenheim Museum in 2012, she found a much-needed creative outlet in photography, took night classes in photography from Keren Moscovitch at SVA in New York City, and began to photograph herself against the backdrop of the American landscape in an attempt to see and understand herself as part of her new, unstable feeling environment. Focused on themes of identity, belonging, and Kinetic memory, this body of photographic self-portraiture work established her first series Displacements (2012–2016).[3][4][5][6]
Displacements gained the attention of curators working with the theme of feminism and beginning in 2015 Tomanova's work was soon included in numerous group exhibitions with a feminist focus,[7] most notably at A.I.R. Gallery, a feminist, artist-directed, nonprofit arts organization and exhibition space for women founded in 1972 in Brooklyn, New York to support the visibility of female and non-binary artists. In 2015, Tomanova was included in Catherine Morris' Who's Afraid of Feminism at A.I.R.,[8] and exhibition that rallied for gender equality.
Curation
Beginning in 2016, with her reputation as an artist becoming established, Tomanova embarked on co-curating a series of exhibitions at the Czech Center New York between 2016 and 2018 as part of a new arts-based initiative, New Bohemia, named after and established in part to the success of her 2016 co-curated exhibition Youth Explosion: The New Bohemia,[9] which in addition to her own work included a roster of emerging young, queer-identifying artists such as Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Michael Baily-Gates, and Ethan James Green.
In 2017, as a means of drawing attention to the largely overlooked work of young post-Eastern Bloc artists, she co-curated Baby, I Like It Raw: Post-Eastern Bloc Photography and Video,[10][11][12] an exhibition that featured the work Slava Mogutin, Sasha Kurmaz, Anya Schiller, Irina Yulieva, as well as Tomanova[13] herself.
In 2018, Tomanova co-curated her final exhibition for the Czech Center New York, Muse Muse,[14] for which she invited curators to present the work of artists. Included in this show were photographer Pixy Liao and painter Teresa Chromati.
Young American
In 2018, Tomanova had her first significant solo art exhibition at the Czech Center New York, Young American.[15][16][17][18][19][20] Whereas Tomanova’s Displacement series of work sought to allow her to view herself in the American landscape, in a series of a portraits of young people with whom she strongly identified, Young American sought to connect her with the social landscape.
Tomanova developed the Young American exhibition into a book by the same name that garnered international recognition.[21][22][23][24] The Introduction was written by photographer Ryan McGinley, who powerfully states, “This is a future free of gender binaries and stale old definitions of beauty. In Marie’s world people can just simply be. I wish all of America’s youth culture looked like Marie’s photos of Downtown, diverse and inclusive."[25]
With its focus on an idea future or hope contained in youth culture, Tomanova’s Young American resonated widely, particularly at a point in time when immigration restrictions and political conservativism was on the rise.[26][27][28] As Lexi Manatakis writes, "Turning the visual perception of America away from the intensely political world of Trump, Young American gives viewers a break from the intense negativity of mainstream media."[29]
References
[edit]- ^ Beachdel, Thomas (2019). Young American (1st ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Paradigm Publishing. ISBN 978-1-7322746-9-3.
- ^ "World Between Us". ji-hlava.com.
- ^ "Interview with Photographer Marie Tomanova". Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ Press, Sarah (2016-11-25). "Positive Biology By Marie Tomanova". IGNANT. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ "Photographer Marie Tomanova Is Not Interested In Being Told How To Be Seen". HuffPost. 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ "Nahota je nejpřirozenější formou lidského těla, není nutně sexuální, říká fotografka Marie Tomanová". Radio Wave (in Czech). 2018-06-29. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ "20 Feminist Artists Are Challenging The Meaning Of The Male Gaze". HuffPost. 2016-05-02. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ "https://www.airgallery.org/exhibitions/whos-afraid-of-feminism". A.I.R. 2015-09-01. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
{{cite web}}: External link in|title= - ^ "Artalk – YOUTH EXPLOSION – The New Bohemia v Českém centru New York". artalk.info. 2023-03-30. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ "Baby, I Like It Raw". AINT—BAD. 2017-03-30. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ "Baby I like it raw | Bilingual". Metal Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ "Read Our Interview Of Artist And Curator Marie Tomanova On The Occasion Of Her Exhibition Exploring Post-Eastern Bloc Photography Autre Magazine". Autre Magazine. 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ Federova, Anastasiia (April, 2017). "Marie Tomanova-New East 100".
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Dazed (2018-03-12). "This exhibition flips traditional ideas of the muse". Dazed. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ Bojo, Šárka Kabátová, Ondřej (2018-06-30). "‚Není to Amerika Trumpa, ale skutečná Amerika'. Skrze mladé lidi jsem ji poznala, říká fotografka | Kultura | Lidovky.cz". iDNES.cz. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Exhibition Review: Marie Tomanova's "Young American"". Musée Magazine. 2018-07-17. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ sweden (2018-07-13). "Marie Tomanova's "Young American" Celebrates New York's Vibrant Youth Culture". Ravelin Magazine. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ Weisenstein, Kara (2018-08-15). "La jeunesse américaine dans le viseur d'une photographe immigrée". VICE. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ televize, Nová média České (2020-03-11). "Marie Tomanová: New York je zlatá bublina, to si uvědomuju". ČT art (in Czech). Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ "Soulful portraits of today's young New Yorkers". Huck. 2018-07-02. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ "Book Review: Young American". Musée Magazine. 2019-04-09. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ "Marie Tomanova | Bilingual". Metal Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ "Mladá Amerika v Olomouci: fotografka Marie Tomanová poprvé vystavuje v Česku". Radio Wave (in Czech). 2019-04-30. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ Binlot, Ann (2019-03-28). "Marie Tomanova captures the vulnerability of American youth". Document Journal. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ Beachdel, Thomas (2019). Marie Tomanova: Young American (1st ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Paradigm Publishing. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-7322746-9-3.
- ^ "Marie Tomanova | Bilingual". Metal Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ "The hope-filled photographs of New York City youth". www.sleek-mag.com. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ Fedorova, Anastasiia (July 16, 2018). "This is America: Celebrating Diversity, One Portrait at a Time".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Dazed (2018-06-27). "This exhibition pays homage to America's vital youth culture". Dazed. Retrieved 2024-10-27.