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Sheila Rock was born in the USA and educated at Boston University and the London Film School. She has lived and worked in London since 1970. She became an influential force shaping the look of creative magazines like The FACE magazine. Her successful career covers a wide spectrum; photographing for the entertainment and music industry, the West End theatre, the Royal Opera House, the Barbican and also advertising and design agencies and periodicals. Her editorial portrait and fashion work have appeared in numerous magazines, including : Time Magazine, Elle, Glamour, Rolling Stone, Architectural Digest, and the Sunday Times. Her book, Sera – the way of the Tibetan Monk – published in 2004, accompanied several exhibitions at The Photographers Gallery, London and the Palazzo Bricherasio Museum, Turin, Italy and The June Bateman Gallery, New York City. The Wereld Museum in Rotterdam exhibited the Sera Portraits in 2006. In 2010, the Tibetan photographs were exhibited in Berlin at the Johanna Breede Gallery and in Hamburg at Galerie von Kories. Images from the Sera series are in the permanent collections of the Polaroid Museum, USA and the William Benton Museum of Art in Connecticut, USA. A selection of seascapes are part of the AKA Central Park fine art collection, NYC. The Houston Fine Art Museum has acquired a Seascape portrait for their permanent collection. Her portrait work forms part of the public collection at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Ralph Lauren Polo have a number of her Horse Portraits. worldwide .

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PERMANENT COLLECTIONS National Portrait Gallery, London. England - Various Polaroid Collection, Boston, Mass, USA - Tibetan Portraits The William Benton Museum of Art, Connecticut, USA - Tibetan AKA Central Park fine art collection, NYC - Seascapes Museum of Fine Arts, Houston of Houston, Texas, USA - Canvey Girls PHOTO AWARDS Polaroid Award, 1996. Portrait of Sheila Chandra for Real World Records Documentary Prize in the Humanity Photo Awards, an international photographic contest sponsored by UNESCO and the China Folklore Photographic Association, 2007 PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT PRIZE National Portrait Gallery - Part of the judging panel. 8 November 2007 - 24 February 2008 GALLERY REPRESENTATION Hidde van Seggelen Fine Art, London The June Bateman Gallery, New York City, USA Kevin Longino Fine Art, Greenwich, Ct. USA Galerie Hilaneh von Kories, Hamburg, Germany Johanna Breede Photokunst, Berlin, Germany EXHIBITIONS Icons of Pop, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1999 The Photographer's Cut: 1960-2000, Rock'n'Roll Years, Proud Gallery, 2000 Special Photographers Gallery, London, 2001, Horse Portraits The June Bateman Gallery, New York City, 2002, Group Show - Horse Portraits Independent Photographers Gallery, East Sussex, England, November 2003, Spirit of the Horse

Tibet House Gallery, New York City, Winter 2003, Book Launch and Sera Tibetan Monks The June Bateman Gallery, New York City, 2004, Titled "Spiritual Beings" Horse Portraits and Sera Tibetan Monk series The Photographers Gallery, London 2004, Sera Tibetan Monk Blue Tulip Gallery, Windsor, England, 2004, Horse Portraits Museo Palazzo Bricherasio, Turino, Italy, 2004, Sera Tibetan Monk Ben Janssen / Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, London 2004, Sera Tibetan Monk Watermark Gallery, Houston, Texas, April 2005, Horse Portraits East Asian Art Museum, Bath, England, Sera Tibetan Monk, May - August 2006 Wereld Museum, Rotterdam, Holland, Sera Tibetan Monk, June - August 2006 Ben Janssen / Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, London, November 2006, Sera Tibetan Monk Obscura Gallery, Denver, Colorado, August 2008, Horse Portraits Benton Museum of Fine Art, Storrs, Ct. USA, September - December 2008, Sera Tibetan Monk Galerie Hilaneh von Kories, Hamburg, Germany, November 2008, Sera Tibetan Monk and Horse Portraits Quartler 206 Gallery, Berlin, Germany, February - April 2009, Sera Tibetan Monk Galerie Hilaneh von Kories, Hamburg, Germany , Group Show - 05-09 Review . June-August, 2009. Johanna Breede Photokunst, Berlin, Germany. July 2010. Galerie Brandt, Amsterdam. Spring 2010. Galerie Brandt Group Show, Amsterdam. Summer 2011 AOP Open Awards Exhibition, Dray Walk Gallery, London. October 2011 Getty Gallery, Hidden Gems Exhibition, London. November 2011 Christies Gallery, London. Spiritus/Hidden Gems, London. December 2011 The Shipley Art Gallery. Athethes and Olympians/National Portrait Gallery. Jan -April 2012. ART FAIRS European Fine Art Fair, Ben Janssen / Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, Maastricht, Netherlands, March 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 PHOTO FAIRS Focus Photographic Fair, Ilford Exhibition, Birmingham, England, March 2005 Photo NY, Watermark Gallery, 2006

Photo LA, Modern Book Gallery, 2007 Photo LA, Kevin Longino Fine Art, 2009 Photo LA. Kevin Longino Fine Art, 2010. Architectural Digest, Kevin Longino Fine Art, 2010 APAID, New York City, June Batman Fine Art, March 2011. Grisebach Auction. Sera. Berlin. November, 2011. BOOK Sera - The Way of the Tibetan Monk, published by Columbia University Press, 2003

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