Ann Chwatsky is a photographer and an educator, currently teaching at New York University where she is Coordinator of the Art and Media program at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Department of Art and Art Professions.

In addition, from 1987-97 she was director of the Master Workshop in Art at Southampton College, Long Island University. She has been a visiting artist in colleges as diverse as the University of Oklahoma to the University of Patagonia, Argentina, from the New School in New York City to Universities in Moscow and Kiev and Beijing, China and Seoul, Korea. She co-leads the PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART/ China and Korea programs from New York University.

Photographs by Ann Chwatsky have been exhibited widely in galleries and museums in New York City, the Hamptons, Texas, California, and abroad in Argentina, London, Prague, Russia and China. In addition her commercial assignments have been published in Newsweek, Newsday, New York Times, Esquire, Glamour and many other publications. Recently she was appointed to the post of Honorary Vice President of the Association of Women Artists as well as the Northeast chairperson for the Society of Photography Education. Past awards include the Leica Award, the Kodak Photographers Award, as well as a Polaroid Grant that was given to her for the summer of 1984. In the late 1980's she received an annual Eastman Foundation Grant. And also in 1991 a Suffolk County Art grant to photograph the vanishing farm families on Eastern Long Island. She recently finished working on a grant from the Sag Harbor Historical Society to photograph the local heritage. This grant will be renewed in the near future.

Ann Chwatsky's work is in the collections of:
Bass Museum of Art
Greater Lafayette Museum of Art
The Humane Society
Susan Rothenberg Collection
and others

For further information about Ann's work, please contact Ann Chwatsky