Ava Berkofsky

Ava Berkofskyis a photographer and cinematographer. Her work is informed by backgrounds in fine art, photography and documentary film. Across mediums, an exploration of personal and societal vulnerability emerges in her work, often through collaboration with her subjects as well as other artists. Of primary concerns in all of her work is making visible the invisible structures and forces of society that define, categorize and often erase us. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as at the School of Visual Arts in New York where she earned her B.F.A. as a Silias H. Rhodes Merit Scholar. She has also been awarded grants from the Brian Weil Memorial Society, the Puffin Foundation and the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, among others. Past works have included documentary projects in video, photography, and sound. These works have been seen and heard at such New York venues as the Walter Reade Gallery at Lincoln Center, the Marcus Ritter Gallery, PS 122, University Settlement, and has been featured on the cover of the New York weekly The Village Voice.