Visiting Artist Talk-Naomi Unman!!!

Naomi Uman is a visual artist working in various media. Her work is intimate and curious, exploring worlds of others. Her films focus on the material, the handmade, the work of women and ways of life on the brink of disappearing. Through her love of tactile and manual work, she documents and uses materials and technologies that are also being left behind. 

Naomi Uman grew up in suburban New York. She currently lives and works in Mexico City after returning from living for 10 years in a village in Ukraine. She studied cooking in New York and worked as a professional chef. Later, Naomi Uman studied filmmaking at Cal Arts, receiving a masters degree in 1998.