BIOGRAPHY

Eva Fazzari is a New Jersey-based artist and educator.  Past group exhibitions include Some Place Like Home at Daniel Cooney Fine Art, Pause at Foley Gallery and Photography Sampler, Ramapo at Ramapo College of New Jersey where she works as Photography Lab Supervisor & Adjunct Professor of Photography.  She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute in 2009 and participated in Pratt’s 29th Annual Graduate Symposium.  She was the recipient of the Pratt Circle Award for Distinction and Excellence in Academic Achievement.  In 2016, her series, Freeway, documenting canine freedom transport, received 1st Place in Editor’s Choice Awards at CENTER in New Mexico and Director’s Choice Award at Midwest Center for Photography in Kansas.  In 2017, a series documenting burnt New Jersey homes and people displaced by fire was exhibited at Foley Gallery.  Fazzari was awarded a grant to travel to California with a Ramapo College student during the Spring 2018 semester.  She began photographing the aftermath of recent wildfires, and returned three more times to continue this ongoing series, From Ashes.  A selection of this work was developed in the Exhibition Lab alongside the guidance of Michael Foley and Elinor Carucci.  Fazzari’s 2020 proposal, Southern California: Wildfires & The Abandoned, and her 2021 proposal, Fire in California were both awarded grants from the Ramapo College Foundation.