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Marie Tomanová (born born 1984 in Valtice, Czech Republic) is a Czech-born, New York City based artist. Her work focuses primarily on issues of identity and displacement. She first came to international attention with her first book, Young American, which celebrates individuality and youth, particularly in regard to gender, sexuality, and self-expression. Tomanova is the subject of a feature-length documentary film with HBO Europe by director Marie Dvorakova, World Between Us, which premiered at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in 2024. omanova was born in Valtice, a village in the South Moravian region of the Czech Republic, near the Austrian border. She grew up in Czechoslovakia, coming of age during the post-Velvet Revolution (1989). Tomanova received a MFA in painting from Faculty of Fine Arts at Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic (2010). After receiving her MFA, Tomanova left the Czech Republic in 2011 to work as an au pair in the United States. First in North Carolina, later in New York state. After moving in 2012 to New York City where she found work babysitting, cleaning, and cooking for privileged families. After viewing an exhibition of the work of the photographer Francesa Woodman (1958–1981) at the Guggenheim Museum in 2012, she found her creative outlet in photography, took night classes in photography from Keren Moscovitch at SVA in New York City, and began to photograph herself against the backdrop of the American landscape in an attempt to see and understand herself. Focused on themes of identity and belonging this body of photographic self-portraiture work established her first series Displacements (2012–2016). Displacements gained the attention of curators working with the theme of feminism and beginning in 2015 Tomanova's work was soon included in numerous group exhibitions with a feminist focus, most notably at A.I.R. Gallery. Since 2016 she is organising group and solo exhibitions, creating her own photo collections, being a model for prestigious magazines and brands, such as Forbes, Balenciaga and many more.
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