About Farah Marie Velten

Originally from Sausalito CA, Farah Marie Velten is a New York City based interdisciplinary artist who primarily works with visual arts practicing fine art photography that focuses on analogue and alternative printmaking processes, including cyanotype, anthotype, chemigram, lumen, van dyke brown, platinum palladium, photogram, silver gelatin, color chromogenic, encaustic, tintype, pinhole, as well as creating natural plant developers, marbling and watercolor practices. Farah is invested in ecological studies with a fresh lens, one that works to deconstruct harmful narratives and aims to honor all living beings thriving symbiotically, always approaching planet as being and human as nature.

She is a teaching artist with Josephine Herrick Project, a member of the teaching artist collective for The Nature School in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, an assistant teacher at International Center for Photography (ICP), and has taught at ICP at the Point, The High School of Fashion Industries (HSFI), The International High School at LaGuardia College (IHS), Bronx Documentary Center (BDC), Grand Street Settlement at Rutgers, The Dream Center in Harlem, Lorge School in Chelsea, Shuang Wen School on LES, Grand Street Settlement at Transfiguration School, College and Community Fellowship in the Bronx with Arts for Justice, Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum, as well as in Patagonia Chile, Bretagne France, and Malmö Sweden. Farah teaches private and group printmaking workshops from her home studio in Brooklyn, NY, and teaches private and group travel & field based photography workshops, as well as foraging & nature sensorial immersive art walks around the world. She is a visiting teaching artist at Kinosaito Art Center in Verplanck, NY, an art preparator and imaging technician at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation in New York City, and has worked as an art preparator at Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Bronx Museum, and various galleries and institutions. Farah also works as a freelance photo editor, prop stylist, set designer for film production, and produces large scale installation based works for established artists.

Farah has exhibited work in New York, California, Mexico City, Sweden, Russia, Italy, was a participating artist in Kulturföreningen Triennal's Agrikultura as creator of Agriphoto-Culturagraph, has been a featured artist in multiple issues of SHOTS Magazine, featured in multiple issues of NEW OBSERVATIONS Magazine, is a contributing artist to Mushroom The Journal, is a participating artist on ARTMOBIA, is a founding member of the art collective ONE AND SEVEN, a founding member of a new collaboration Agitation Trails, attended Bioneers Conference 2024 at her alma mater UC Berkeley working to inspire a generation of leaders in sustainability, and has published her photography as cover art for academic journals and multiple music albums, both vinyl and digital. She has upcoming book and zine publications, exhibitions, workshops, recipe contributions to fungi cookbook series, and is working on hand making photo books of her personal archive. Farah holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from UC Berkeley and is self-represented.