Smith College Department of Art

Paola Ferrario was born in Rho (Milan) Italy in 1963. She received a
MFA from Yale University in 1988. Since then, she has completed large
narrative and documentary photographic projects in Italy, Guatemala,
and the United States. She has received several awards and
fellowships, including the Friends of Photography/Calumet Emerging
Photographer award in 2000 and the Paul Taylor/Dorothea Lange Prize
from Duke University in 2001, a Puffin Foundation Grant in 2003 and a
Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography in 2004. Her work has been
collected by several museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New
York, and the Smithsonian Museum of American History.

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