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Katrina del Mar
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PO BOX 1203 Cooper Station New York, NY 10276

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Creative Director
Katrina del Mar Photography, New York, 1990-Present
Freelance Photography: Portrait, Fashion, Entertainment, Art and Stock photography.
Worldwide Syndication, Portfolio is available for review
Clients include: Sony Music, Island Records, Polygram, V2 Records, London Records, Time Out New York, People Magazine, Mademoiselle, Bust magazine, and the NYPost. Photonica/Getty, Globe Photo/IPOL & Liaison Agencies

Editor, Freelance
Number Six Editorial / Sapient Nitro 2010
Conde Nast "Deeper Connection" Producer, Laura Kirby
FootLocker "Sneaker Enthusiast" Producer, Jim Frame

Producer/Director
"Hell on Wheels; Gang Girls Forever" 2010 Short Film. Created, co-wrote, developed screenplay, produced, directed, and edited upcoming independent film. Grant writing, online marketing, still photography and package design.
"Brooklyn Girls" 2009 Music Video for Hooray for Goodbye, aired on Click List Top Ten, NewNowNext on Logo MTV Networks and HereTV!
"Bringin' Me Down" 2009 Music Video for GSX, featured Top Ten Click List 5 consecutive weeks aired on NewNowNext on Logo MTV Networks and programmed on Pay Cable HereTV!
"I Got What I Came For" 2008 Music Video for GSX, Programmed multiple times on NewNowNext with feature interview / Click List Top Ten 3 consecutive weeks on Logo MTV Networks
"Do You Have a Lover" 2007 Music Video for Sandra Grace, Click List Top Ten on Logo MTV Networks /Top linked video on You Tube
"A Beautiful Death" 2006 Screened at the Pioneer Theater, Frameline Film Festival, Mix Film Festival NYC, Torino GLBT Film Fest, Turin Italy
"SURF GANG", "Nothin' Pretty," GANG GIRLS 2000. 1999-2006 Developed screenplays, produced, directed, and edited acclaimed/award winning independent films. Grant writing, worldwide film festival distribution, online marketing, still photography and package design.

Studio Manager
Nan Goldin Studio, New York. Oct 2006-Dec 2008
Worked closely with the artist to manage and administrate all functions of the studio.
-Coordinated first ever digital conversion "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" slide show for the Tate Modern Museum in London; coordinated conversion to hi definition digital files from over 900 analog slide sources.
-Coordinated and assisted artist on creating new versions of "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" slide show for the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
-Facilitated the production of a major retrospective black and white show at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York City.
-Assisted in the editing of "The Beautiful Smile, " a book published by Steidl in conjunction with the Hasselblad Award 2007 in Goteborg, Sweden. Coordinated meetings with publisher, artist, editors and Hasselblad Center staff, researched archives in concert with editors and artist, prepared prints for book edit from both analog & digital files.
-Produced and assisted on commercial photo shoots for New York Times Magazine, GQ & Kid's Wear Magazine.
-Responsible for all aspects of inventory management including sales, reproduction requests from publishers and museums, gallery and commercial relations, commissions, and special projects.
-Studio responsibilities include interfacing with curators, gallerists and museum directors, managing an extensive archive and ordering editioned prints for galleries; handling correspondence; scheduling appointments and overseeing all travel arrangements; creating invoices, budgets; managing studio personnel.

Stock Photographer
Liaison, Photonica / Getty, IPOL and PhotoShelter Agencies. Worldwide Syndication.
Special assignments and stock.

Freelance Darkroom Printer 2001 - 2006
Primary Photographic, Igloo Colour, The Small DarkRoom, Bond Street Print Lab and Fleshtone Miami.
Master printer in both color and black & white processes. Custom prints, contacts, exhibition prints.
Custom hand and digital retouching.

Scenic Painter / Art Department Assistant / Production Assistant 1997-2006
Assisted Production Designers with props, scenic painting, set building, driving and set dressing for music videos, industrials and television shows for production companies including Woo Art International, Remote Productions (Viacom), Damage Studios, Ohayo and Comedy Central.

Web Producer / Designer
PAPERMAG September 00-December 00
Daily lifestyle magazine. Created Graphics, maintained site.

Producer / Director
MinxTV and Minx Daily Pseudo Programs Internet Television. 1999-2000
Produced weekly half-hour talk and variety show.
Booked guests, wrote scripts, developed show themes, created graphics, blocked and directed.
Led meetings with 20+ participants: production staff, talent and technical crew.
Produced field segments: story outline, shoot coordination, interviewing, directing talent and crews.

Still Photographer
Hell on Wheels Gang Girls Forever 2010 Directed & Produced by Katrina del Mar
Surf Gang, 2002-2006; Directed & Produced by Katrina del Mar
Gang Girls 2000, 1999-2000; Directed & Produced by Katrina del Mar
More Life in a Tramp's Vest, 1996; Stereophonics Music video for V2 Records
ABC Manhattan, 1994; Directed by Amir Naderi screened at Cannes Film Festival
War is Menstrual Envy, 1990; directed by Nick Zedd

EDUCATION:
New York University. New York, New York.
International Center of Photography. New York, New York.
Palm Beach Photo Workshops. Delray Beach, Florida.

AWARDS, GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS:
Change Inc. / The Rauschenberg Grant 2006
Concordia Foundation Grant 2006
Winner, Best Experimental Film, Planet Out Short Movie Awards 2006
Elephant Rock Foundation Grant 2005
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Video 2004

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2010 "Gangs of New York" Wrong Weather Gallery Porto, Portugal
2009 "Hell on Wheels" Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
2009 "Katrina del Mar Retrospective" Red Rattler, Sydney Australia
2009 "Movie Mayhem" Cherry Bomb Comics, Auckland, NZ
2009 "Movie Mayhem" Gene Frankel Theatre, New York, NY
2007 "Movie Mayhem" Pioneer Theater, New York, NY
2003 "Ruff Trade" Miami Light Project, Miami, FL.
2001 "American Toughie" Intermedia Arts , Minneapolis, MN.
2000 "American Toughie and Gang Girls 2000" Photo /Film Installation. Spa, New York NY.
1999 "American Toughie" Photo and Film Installation. Clit Club, New York, NY.
1999 "American Toughie" Photo and Film Installation. Lust for Life, New York, NY.
1998 "Pseudo Kin" P.S. 122, New York, NY.
1998 "Chicks Trash and Rock & Roll" Photo Installation. Squeezebox, New York, NY.
1997 "Sweating Gasoline and Looking for a Match" Photo Installation, Clit Club, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2007 "If Everyone Had an Ocean/Nouvelles Vagues" film series, CAPC Museum, Bordeaux, France
2007 "Womanizer" film series Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2006 "The Process IV" BINZ 39, Zurich, Switzerland
2004 "Mermaids" Barthelemy Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003 "Gen Art Miami" PT Studios, Soho Lounge & Oxygen, Miami, FL
2002 "A Star is Born - Kembra Pfahler" American Fine Arts Co. New York, NY
2001 "Stimulata" University of Cardiff, Wales
1999 "Illusion Delusion Denial" 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
1998 "Night of 100 Girls" Untitled warehouse space, New York, NY
1996 "Tattoo" Studio Museum of Staten Island, New York, NY
1996 "Picture This" CB's 313 Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Untitled Group Show. Underground, West Palm Beach, FL
1991 "Censorship in the Arts" University of Wisconsin, Madison
1989 "Avantgarde-Arama" Performance Space 122, New York, NY
1989 Untitled Program. State University of New York at Purchase

PUBLICATIONS:
2008 Nerve: The First Ten Years. Published by Chronicle Books
2006 Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents. By Nicholas Ganz Published by Harry Abrams, Inc
2000 The New Nude. edited by Genevieve Field of Nerve. published by Chronicle Books
1997 Who Touched my Monkey? by Ducky DooLittle. Plushtoy/Night & Day
1997 Totem of the Depraved. by Nick Zedd. 2.13.61 Publications
1989-2000 Plushtoy Picture Book. Self Published series

SELECTED PRESS PROFILES:
2010 Curve Magazine "Ladies, Start Your Engines" sidebar feature profile April 2010
2009 Time Out New York "Movie Spars" full page Feature Article Oct 1-7 2009 Issue 731
2009 Cherrie "Gang Girl" Sydney, Australia Cover Story Feature Interview/Article Apr 2009 Issue 019
2008 Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_del_Mar
2006 The San Diego Weekly Reader "Riding the Big Apple's Little Waves" Cover Story vol. 35 no. 7
2006 LOTL "The Eyes of Katrina del Mar" Sydney, Australia full page Feature article issue 201 vol. 17 no. 9
1998 Time Out New York "Girls on the Side" full page Feature Article Feb 26-Mar 5 1998 Issue 127

SELECTED FILM FESTIVALS:
Feminale International Womens Film Festival, Cologne, Germany
Frameline San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
NewFest New York, New York
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
MIX NYC Experimental Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Image and Nation Film Festival, Montreal, Quebec
Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney Australia

SPECIAL SKILLS:
Budget Management, Production.
Photo and Video Editing, Digital Retouching and Compositing, Graphic Design.
Master color and black & white darkroom printer.
Final Cut Pro 7, Avid Xpress DV, Photoshop CS4, Adobe Bridge.
HTML, FilemakerPro, Microsoft Word, Excel
35mm still cameras, medium format cameras and 4x5. Lighting: strobe and tungsten.
Super8mm movie cameras: Canon and Elmo.
Video cameras: Canon XHA1, Canon GL2, and Panasonic DVX 100.
Basic German and French.
Excellent driver, passionate surfer.