Isabel Marie Tomanová

About the work

5 East Broadway

Tomanova’s latest series 5 East Broadway creates a portrait of youth as a part of her larger body of work that attests to her ongoing consideration of what it means to depict individuality and identity, her own and that of others. 

As photographer Ryan McGinley writes in his introduction to the book Young American, “This is a future free of gender binaries and stale old definitions of beauty. In Marie’s world people can just simply be. I wish all of America’s youth culture looked like Marie’s photos of Downtown, diverse and inclusive.”

Bio

Czech-born Marie Tomanova currently lives and works in New York. After receiving a painting MFA she left for the United States and focused on photography. She has had solo shows worldwide: New York City, Prague, Tokyo, and Paris; her work has been exhibited in Berlin for the European Month of Photography 2020 Biennial, and at the Rencontres d’Arles in France as part of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2021 and where it was selected to the Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival in Xiamen, China in 2021. 

Tomanová is continuously publishing author's books as Young American (Paradigm Publishing, 2019), New York New York (Hatje Cantz, 2021) and It Was Once My Universe (SuperLabo, 2022). A feature length HBO documentary about her artistic career, World Between Us, is currently in development for release in 2024.