SELECTED AWARDS | FELLOWSHIPS | GRANTS | RECOGNITION
2023 New Jersey State Museum, NJ Arts Annual Artists Talk Series: Reemergence
2022-23 New Jersey Arts Annual Exhibition - Reemergence
2020 New Jersey Arts Annual Exhibition - Dissonance
2018 Individual Fellowship in Art, New Jersey State Council on the Arts / Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation
2018 Monmouth University Creativity and Research Grant
2016 Puffin Foundation Grant for Photography
2016 Urban Coast Institute Research Grant
2014 Monmouth University Creativity and Research Grant
2007 New Jersey Arts Annual Exhibition
1987 Keystone Press Award for Excellence in Journalism
EXHIBITIONS
2022-23 Reemergence, 2022 New Jersey Arts Annual Exhibition, New Jersey State Museum, Margaret M. O’Reilly, Director, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
2020 Fortunes in Apples, Atlantic Highlands Arts Council, Atlantic Highlands, NJ (solo)
2020 Dissonance: Art | Craft | Design | Performance | New Media. 2020 New Jersey Arts Annual Exhibition, Morris Museum, Lowery Stokes Sims, Ph.D., Juror. Morristown, NJ (group)
2019 Nomad, Irene Carlson Gallery of Photography-University of La Verne, La Verne, CA (solo)
2018 NJSCA Visual Arts Fellowship Showcase, Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, Millville, NJ (catalog)
2018 Uncertain Times, Hamilton and Arronson Galleries, University of the Arts, Deborah Willis, Ph.D., Juror. Philadelphia, PA (group)
2018 Transition: Vietnam, Arts Council of Princeton | Princeton Public Library, Princeton, NJ
2017 Transition: Vietnam, Mark Ludak and Andrew Cohen, Pollak Gallery, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ (two person)
2016 Watersides: Mark Ludak and Ira Wagner, Rotary Ice House Gallery, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ (two person)
2016 Faculty Exhibition, DiMattio Gallery, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ (group)
2015 Evidence + Advocacy, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Juror.Boston, MA
2014 Men in Their Habitats, The Photo Review Competition, Juror- Stephen Perloff (group)
2013 Raw, The Noyes Museum of Art-Kramer Hall, Hammonton, NJ (group)
2013 Faculty and Friends: Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall Inaugural Exhibition, DiMattio Gallery, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ (catalog)
2009 Digital Capture: Mark Ludak and Anne Leighton Massoni, Rotary Ice House Gallery, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ (two person)
2009 Faculty Exhibition, Rotary Ice House Gallery, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ (group)
2009 Everchanging, Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD (group)
2008 26th Ellarslie Open, The Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ (group)
2007 New Jersey State Arts Council Annual Exhibition, The Noyes Museum of Art, Jeffrey Weschler, Juror. Oceanville, NJ (catalog)
2007 Recent Work 2005-2007, Riverrun Gallery, Lambertville, NJ (solo)
2006 Solebury Land Preservation Project, Riverrun Gallery, Lambertville, NJ (solo)
2004 Requiem for Heavyweights, Riverrun Gallery, Lambertville, NJ (solo)
2004 George Tice, Mark Ludak, Vincent Serbin, ArtForms Gallery, Red Bank, NJ (group)
2004 Roebling Was, Locus Solus Rare Books, New York, NY (solo)
2002 Summer Gallery Show, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Gore Wins-DFN Gallery, New York, NY
1992 MFA Graduate Program X, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY (Catalog)
1989 Selected Photographers, Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curator-Tom Ferentz, Juror.
1984 MFA Alumni Selection (1), The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY. Curator- Maurice Berger
1984 MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY
EDUCATION
MFA in Photography, Hunter College-City University of New York
BA in Philosophy, Monmouth University
Foundation Program, Parsons School of Design
AA in Liberal Arts-Philosophy, Villanova University
TEACHING
Monmouth University, Specialist Professor of Photography
New Hampshire Institute of Art, Low-Residency MFA-Photography Mentor
San Francisco State University, Adjunct Professor of Photojournalism
Hunter College-City University of New York, Adjunct Lecturer in Photography
RELATED PROFESSIONAL
Documentary, Editorial and Corporate photography. Selected commissions from Apple, Environmental Defense Fund, Johnson & Johnson, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Daily News, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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