​Torrance York, artist and educator, lives in Connecticut. She published her monograph Semaphore (Kehrer Verlag) in 2022 and has exhibited the series at Rick Wester Fine Art, NYC, the Danforth Art Museum at Framingham University, MA, the United Nations Albano Building, and the Lightburn Gallery, New Canaan Library, CT. Last fall, fifty images from the series were shown at St. Lawrence University in On Parkinson's: Three Artists' Journeys. And this past spring, Rick Wester Fine Art debuted her new series, Interstices.

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Awards for Semaphore include selection for Portfolio 2022 at Atlanta Photography Group, 2021 Critical Mass finalist, Lenscratch’s 2021 Art & Science Award, and semi-finalist and Olcott award winner from The Print Center's 95th ANNUAL International competition (2020). The book – awarded a first place by the Lucie Foundation’s International Photography Awards 2022 and named a 2022 favorite book by online magazine What Will You Remember? – includes an essay by Rebecca Senf, PhD, Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ.

 

Semaphore has been featured in Parkinson’s focused media, such as the Michael J Fox Foundation Updates newsletter, and Parkinson's Life (Europe) and photography publications including LensCulture Magazine’s Spotlight (3/12/26), “Women Shaping Photography Today,” and, All About Photo, L’Oeil de la Photographie, and Feature Shoot. York has presented at a wide range of venues from the Griffin Museum of Photography to the 2023 World Parkinson’s Congress in Barcelona, and the Medical School Neurology Department’s Grand Rounds at the University of Virginia, UCLA and Wake Forest.

 

Private and public collections with York’s photographs include the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Fine Art Collection at Montefiore Einstein, NY; AllianceBernstein, New York, NY; John & Sue Wieland Collection at the Warehouse, Atlanta, GA; and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI. York has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Fotonostrum, Barcelona, Spain; Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY; Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA; TILT, Philadelphia, PA; Schelfhaudt Gallery, University of Bridgeport, CT; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; and Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.

 

York earned a BA from Yale and an MFA in photography from RISD. She was a resident artist at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO, and received a Connecticut Artist Fellowship grant in 2010. She is a member of the Silvermine Guild of Artists, and her work is represented by Rick Wester Fine Art, NYC. Since 2001, York has served on the Board of the Educational Video Center in NYC, where she formerly taught documentary video.