Cara Judea Alhadeff, born in Boulder, Colorado, has had numberous solo and group exhibitions in the US, Europe, and Asia; receiving awards in surrealist, erotic photography and interdisciplinary art. Her writing and photographs have been published in European art journals and television programs. Since 1991, when Cara Judea began working with her first color photography teacher, Joel Sternfeld, she has collaborated with dancers, poets, sculptors, musicians, clothing designers and architects. She recently exhibited her large-format color photographs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and continues to be part of their permanent collection. Cara Judea's work has been exhibited and reviewed with Cindy Sherman, Joel-Peter Witkin, Sally Mann, Alfredo Jarr, John Coplans, and Dieter Appelt. Because her images have been subject to censorship on both US coasts, Freedom of Speech organizations such as artsave/People for the American Way have publicly defended her photographs. "She confronts the deep-seeded cultural distinction between public and private, self and other. Ultimately, the subject Alhadeff explores is our undeniable connectedness." (from Terri Whitlock's article written for SFMoMA interview). She sees both her working process with her models and the resulting photographs as a performance. Her experiences as an Iyengar yoga teacher continue to enhance those relationships. Cara Judea thrives on a consciousness of organized excess-a tactile, visceral confrontation between hyperbole and precision. A disquieting sense of the absurd animates her dream-like, contradictory narratives. Currently, she is exhibiting in galleries, museums and international art fairs in Germany, Portugal, Zurich and Belgium.