Marie Triller Photographer

Marie Triller received her MFA in Photography from the State University of New York at New Paltz and a BS in Art Education from the College of St. Rose in Albany, NY. She has taught photography and art for over twenty-five years at several area institutions including Union College, Albany College of Pharmacy and Voorheesville High School.

Triller’s photographs have been widely exhibited locally, regionally and nationally for over twenty-five years in both solo and group exhibitions. Her work was included in 2003 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region at the University Art Museum, University at Albany and most recently in the 28th Annual Photography Regional, Opalka Gallery at the Sage Colleges, Albany, 2006.

Triller‘s Secrets of Belize photo project began in 1999 and includes works created over several years of returning to Belize. Solo exhibitions of the work have been held at the Gulisi Garifuna Museum in Dangriga, Belize, 2005, Siena College, Loudonville, NY, 2004 and Chashama Gallery, New York City, 2003. In 2008, Triller photographed the Belize Eye Mission Project as well as clients of BCVI (Belize Council for the Visually Impaired). The Image Factory gallery in Belize City, Belize will host this work in May, 2009.

On assignment for Labor-Religion Coalition of New York State, Triller has twice photographed the working poor of Mexico’s border region. The book Border Witness/Youth Confront Nafta by Maureen Casey was published in 2001 and features Triller’s photographs exclusively. The project was honored at Bread and Roses Gallery, New York City and is currently available as a traveling exhbition through NYSLRC. In 2008, Triller returned to the U.S./Mexico border of Nogales to pursue an independent project about returned migrants. A traveling exhibition of the project is available through Project Puente, El Paso, Texas.

Triller participated in Soho’s landmark Here Is New York exhibition which chronicled the attacks on the World Trade Center and it’s aftermath. She also participated in The September 11 Photo Project, also in Soho following the attacks, and now a permanent collection at the New York Public Library in Manhattan.

Remembrance, Triller’s documentation of the yearly 9.11 memorial service at Ground Zero, has been exhibited at several institutions including University of California at San Diego, University of Nebraska at Kearney and University of Wyoming at Laramie. The project was featured on Professional Photographer magazine's website in Ootober, 2006.

Triller has been awarded two New York State Foundation For The Arts Special Oppurtunity Stipends in 1995 and 2000. Her work was featured in Popular Photography magazine in November, 2002.

Marie Triller Photographer

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