Join us Tuesday, May 9, for our Annual Portfolio Competition – three images shown and judged as a group. Beatrix Reinhardt, judge. One of her own images is here, above.

Beatrix Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany. Since the completion of her undergraduate studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, an M.A. in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research and a M.F.A degree from Illinois State University, Reinhardt has been living, working, curating and teaching in different parts of the world.

Reinhardt’s work has been exhibited in Europe, North America, Africa, Australia and Asia. Awards received include individual artist fellowships and artist’s project grants from the CUNY Research Foundation, John Anson Kitteredge Foundation, Australian National University, and other non-for-profit arts organizations.

Her work has been featured in a variety of publications including Die Zeit, photoMagazine, Contact Sheet, Prefix Photo among others. Her work is included in a number of corporate, museum, private and university collections across the United States and abroad, including New York City Public Library, California Museum of Photography, Center of Photography at Woodstock, Light Work, Haggerty Museum of Art, and Old Parliament House in Canberra/Australia.

She has been invited as artist-in-residence to universities and galleries in Vietnam, Russia, Finland, India, Turkey, Australia, South Africa, China and the US, amongst others. Presently she lives and works in Queens, N.Y., and is a professor of photography at the City University of New York/CUNY.