Tina Schula is a portrait photographer and filmmaker, born in Vienna. She has lived in New York since 1999. Her imagery is strongly informed by her love of cinema and blends the lines between fact and fiction, documentary, portraiture and staged photography.
In her personal work Tina constructs complex narrative tableaux which explore human behavior in moments of crisis. Her series ‘Ratline’ was shown at Scope Basel and included in The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Volume 2, by Humble Arts Foundation, New York. Her series ‘Radical Camp’ , a fictional period piece about a group of amateur extremists was released into a book and presented at the Moma PS1 Art Book Fair in New York.
Tina’s work has been published internationally including The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Daily Beast, Vice, Nylon, OjodePez, PDN and Whitewall Magazine, among others. Her shorts and music videos for Cheap Records (Vienna) and A Touch of Class Records (NY) have been aired on MTV, VIVA Germany, Sonar Music Festival and Portobello Filmfestival.
Selected group exhibitions and awards include The New York Times Portfolio Review, LensCulture Exposure Awards, London, Photo Lucida Critical Mass, The Fence Photoville NY, Scope Basel, The Chelsea Art Museum, Klompching Gallery, NY and others.
Tina currently lives between New York and Vienna.
Selected Exhibitions
LensCulture Exposure Awards Exhibition, London, UK
The Fence at Photoville, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York
The Collector's Guide to New Art Photography Volume Two, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
New Photography from the Residents Program, The Camera Club New York, NY
Fresh 2011, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
CCNY Photo Benefit Auction, 25 CPW, New York
Scope Basel, Humble Arts Foundation NY, Basel, Switzerland
The Sixth Annual BaMart Silent Auction, Bergdorf Goodman, New York
The Visitors Must Be Amused, AVA Gallery, New York
Face Time, SVA Gallery, New York
Unseen Realities, SVA Gallery, New York
Arena Summer Film Festival, Vienna
Schikaneder Kino, Vienna
Sonar Music Festival, Barcelona
MTV and VIVA, Germany
Portobello Film Festival, London
Omsk, Film and Performance festival, London
Awards
Finalist at LensCulture Exposure Awards
Finalist at The Fence, Photoville, Brooklyn Bridge Park, NY
Finalist at The 86th International Photo Competition, The Print Center, Pa
Winner of Fresh 2011, Photography Contest, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Recipient of The Camera Club New York, Dark Room Residency
Recipient of Film Fund from Film Board Vienna and Film Board of Lower Austria, for narrative short ‘Ground Cut’
Press
Picture Dept, Newsweek/ Daily Beast
Humble Arts Foundation, Tina Schula Radical Camp Book Review
Graphic Intersections, The Exposure Project
Whitewall Magazine
Humble Arts Limited Edition Series
Education
MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2009
BA Film and Video, The London College of Communication, London, UK, 1999