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Zeke Berman
Zeke Berman is an American based singular, studio based photographer. Berman also has art works in fields such as sculpting and drawing. He began his work in photography in the late 1970s when he discovered his fascination to photography when photographing one of his sculptures. Berman's photography mainly consist of gelatins, ice, string, clay, and domestic objects in designs that showcase his interest in the idea of; visual cognition and its evolution, manipulating perception to create optical paradoxes, as well as finding intersection between the sculptures he creates and the camera.

Early Life
Zeke Berman was born on February 19th 1951 in New York City. He spent his early years studying at High School of Music & Art and received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Philadelphia University of the Arts in 1973.

Professional Activity
In 1985 he was part of the first New Photography show at the Museum of Modern Art that highlighted his work of "straight photography", along artist such as Michael Spano and Antonio Mendoza. Berman has also had a solo show at Art Institute of Chicago in 1986, The Julie Saul Gallery in New York on 1995 and 2015, as well as the Photography Until Now by John Szarkowski at the MoMA in 1990

Teaching Career
Starting in the early 1980s Berman had begun teaching at various undergraduate universities such as the School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union, Fordham University, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City College of New York, and New York University. Teaching at Yale University in the Graduate program as well. Over years of an artistic career, Zeke Berman has garnered awards and fellowships such as the Guggenheim Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo Colony residency Fellowship.