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Amy Stein

Amy Stein (b. 1970) lives in New York City, where she teaches photography. Her work, which explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment, is featured in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Chicago and the Nevada Museum of Art. In 2006, she was a winner of the Saatchi Gallery/Guardian Prize for her Domesticated series. In 2007, the artist was named one of the top fifteen emerging photographers in the world by American Photo magazine and she won the Critical Mass Book Award. Her first book, Domesticated, was released in fall 2008 and won the best book award at the 2008 New York Photo Festival. Amy Stein is represented by Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco and Pool Gallery in Berlin. Domesticated is her first solo exhibition in Quebec.