Marisa Scheinfeld
American artist
Marisa Scheinfeld (born September 14, 1980) is an American artist, photographer and educator currently living in New York.
Marisa's projects have taken her from the United States to Israel, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and India. Her photographic projects and books are among the collections of Yeshiva University Museum, Lynn Kroll, The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, CA, The La Jolla Athenaeum in La Jolla, CA, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (UC Berkeley) The Edmund and Nancy K. Dubois Library at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, CA and The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation in New York City.
Personal life
Scheinfeld was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1980. She lived in the Bronx before relocating with her family in 1986 to Kiamesha Lake, in the Catskill Mountains. She began her college studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, but dropped out after a year and a half, choosing to transfer to the State University at Albany where she received a B.A. in Studio Art in 2002. In 2003, Marisa moved to San Diego, CA and worked in the Education Department at the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) for four years. At MoPA, Marisa taught the museum's photography outreach programs, managed its Docent Program and curated educational exhibitions. In 2009, she was accepted into the graduate program at The School of Art, Art History and Design at San Diego State University. She completed a MFA in Studio Art in 2011 and shortly thereafter, relocated back to New York.
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