Justine Kurland was born in 1969 in Warsaw, New York.
She received her BFA from School of Visual Arts, NY in 1996, and her MFA from Yale University in 1998.
Her work has been exhibited extensively at museums and galleries in the U.S. and internationally. Museum exhibitions have included Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West at the Museum of Modern Art, NY (2009) and Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. (2009).
Kurland was also the focus of a solo exhibition at CEPA in Buffalo, NY (2009).
Her work is in the public collections of institutions including the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, and the ICP, New York; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
