Justyna Badach
Justyna Badach received her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. She is an artist, educator, and museum professional whose work is shaped by her experience as a refugee and person with stateless status. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Solo exhibitions include Light Work Syracuse, White Columns New York, Gallery 339 Philadelphia, Blue Sky Gallery in Portland and Contemporary Art Center in Las Vegas. Badach’s images have been included in over 30 group exhibitions, most notably at the Michener Museum, Rick Wester Fine Art, Catherine Edelman Gallery and the Australian Center for Photography. Her work has been reviewed extensively, and images have been featured in Wired Magazine, Contact Sheet, F-Stop Magazine, Dummy Magazine, and several exhibition catalogs. Badach’s work is the permanent collections of Portland Art Museum, Museet for Fotokunst Brandts, Odense, Denmark, Center for Photography Woodstock, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Rice University Library, Houston, TX, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and Haverford College. She has been awarded an artist residency from Light Work, and grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Leeway Foundation and The Independence Foundation.
Awarded Grants
2019
Window of Opportunity Grant (WOO)
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Justyna Badach (WOO ’04) will be using the grant to frame photographs critical to the realization of a site-specific, photographic installation Land of Epic Battles that she has been asked to exhibit at the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr. This work utilizes appropriated images from the internet to expose the codified visual language employed by violent extremist groups used to recruit and indoctrinate new members. In September, Justyna will be creating and installing this work, as well as delivering an accompanying lecture. The exhibition acts as an extension of her ongoing art practice and pipeline for her work to reach new audiences, particularly teenagers, who represent a critical age for recruitment by online extremist groups.
2004
Window of Opportunity Grant (WOO)
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Overview
Presentation of digital landscape photographs to curators at national Fotofest convention in Houston, TX. Support towards production costs and travel expenses.