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Edward Coppola (...-)is a New York sculptor, collage artist, photographer, and art curator. He was born in (date) in (city), New Jersey. Edward Coppola lives and works in Staten Island, New York. He is the senior college laboratory technician in photography at Brooklyn College / City University of New York. He received his MFA in photography from Brooklyn College in 1998. Works by Mr. Coppola have been included in exhibitions across the U.S., including the Rotunda Gallery and the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, both in Brooklyn; the CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY; the Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York, Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle; and St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery, NYC. Look for more info in old resume:

Education and teaching
Coppola earned his M.F.A. in 1987 from Brooklyn College, and his MFA Thesis Exhibition was shown at 55 Mercer Gallery, in Manhattan, New York. His 1981 B.S. in Fine Arts was from City University of New York, and in 1978 he earned an A.S. degree in Fine Arts from Kingsborough Community College.

He has taught workshops and exhibited his photography at Alice Austen House in Staten Island. He is a tenured member of the Brooklyn College photography faculty, with expertise in darkroom and digital photographic processes.

Exhibitions
1992 Coppola showed in The American Dream at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, and in Humphrey/Coppola/Humphrey at Artspace in Richmond, Virginia in that non-profit gallery's second location in historic Shockoe Bottom.

In 1980 he exhibited at the Brooklyn College Art Department Gallery "Truths Outside the Gates: Photographs by Edward Coppola."

"Truths Outside the Gates: Photographs by Edward Coppola." The Brooklyn College Art Gallery at the Brooklyn College Library, October 10 - November 2, 2007. in 2017 at the Wagner College Art Gallery, His solo exhibitions include in 2001 at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in Brooklyn, in 2004 at The Muddy Cup Coffeehouse at Staten Island, New York,

1997 "Creative Images 1997," Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN. Juror: Martin Krause

2004

Group exhibitions included Psychological Archaeology at Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, curated by James Pinney; in 2003 Brave Destiny, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, curators Yuko Nii and Terrence Lindall; Destinations, Rockaway Artists Alliance Studio 6 Gallery, Fort Tilden, Queens, New York; in 2002-03 Holiday Exhibition, Borough Hall, Brooklyn, NY. Juror: Yuko Nii; in 2002 World Peace Williamsburg Art & Historical Center and What Happened in Lime Mills? at Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, curated by Nelly Reifler; in 2001 Pier Show 9 by Brooklyn Working Artists Coalition, Red Hook, Brooklyn; Animal World, E3 Gallery, New York, juror Harvey Stein; in 2000 External Boundary, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, curated by Linda Gilbert-Schneider;7th Annual Phillips Mill Photographic Exhibition' Phillips Mill, New Hope, PA;25 Years of Photography, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY; By George!, Target Gallery at Torpedo Factory Art Center Alexandria, VA. Jurors: George Barringer, Jim Rees ~ "Salon Show," Feral Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2009 He exhibited at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

2017 - at the Wagner College Art Gallery in Staten Island.

Publications
1995 ~ Photography Auction Catalogue, Center for Photography at Woodstock 1992 ~ Woodstock Times, March 5, Page One 1991 ~ "It's All Relative: The Family of Man Revisited," photos selected by Larry Fink, Center Quarterly #50, Center for Photography at Woodstock

Curating
2000 ~ "The Alternative Process II," Lobby Showcase Gallery, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY 1999 ~ "Countdown to Eternity: Civil Rights Era Photographs by Benedict J. Fernandez," Atrium Gallery, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY ~ "The Alternative Process," Lobby Showcase Gallery, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY

Biography
In his early career Coppola was employed on the full-time staff of both Time magazine and the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a photographic printer. He traveled with the Met's chief Egyptologist on an expedition in which he photographed a previously undiscovered sarcophagus.

In the late 20th century, when they were living in Brooklyn, he and his wife, artist and writer Sheryl Humphrey, purchased a former Victorian parsonage in the Catskill Mountains, and restored it as a "painted lady" vacation retreat. In the early 21st century, after flooding in nearby Margaretville made the house less accessible for their planned retirement there, they sold the Catskill property to a New York restauranteur. At that time they had been residing in Staten Island for over a decade.