| Tony Mendoza was trained as an engineer (Yale University) and as an architect (Harvard Graduate School of Design) before he turned full time to photography. He is the author of, Cuba: Going Back, an account of his first trip back to his native land after 36 years of exile, stories, a photography book which combines photographs with short autobiographical stories, and Ernie, A Photographer's Memoir, a book about his relationship to Ernie, a cat. His photographs have been exhibited extensively, nationally and internationally, and are included in the collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowships, A Guggenheim Photography Fellowship. He is also the recipient of five Ohio Arts Council Fellowships in photography, creative writing, and video. |
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