Sheldan Collins
Biographical Highlights
Born
Winter Solstice, Louisville, Ky
Residence
Weehawken, NJ
Education
Mechanical Engineering, English
Literature, Western History: University of Kentucky
Photographic Workshops: William Albert Allard, Bruce Bacon, Dennis Stock
Work Experience
1986 – present: Freelance photography
of fine art collections; editorial photography
1977- 1986: Metropolitan Museum of Art, staff photographer
pre-1977: Robert Huntizinger Studio (NYC), Carl Fischer Studio (NYC), Harvard
University/Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Al Clayton Studio (Nashville, TN),
Vanderbilt University
Foreign Work
Fine Art collections in USSR, India and
Spain
Awards
The American Association of Museums
1982, 1988, 1990
Printing Industry of America, 1986
The New York Art Directors Club 1980
Workshops Taught
Fashion Institute of Technology,
Graduate School, NYC
Columbia University School of Library Sciences, NYC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Textile Conservation Dept, NYC
Selected Clients
Whitney Museum of American Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Brooklyn Museum
The Jewish Museum
American Crafts Museum
Bayly Art Museum (U. Va)
The Burke Collection
The Ross Collection
The Polsky Collection
Leone Design Group
Philip Morris Cos.
AOL/Time-Warner
IBM