Bonnie Collura is an artist born in Long Island who currently lives, works and teaches in central Pennsylvania.

Boonie makes sculptures from various materials that often approach the figure with an element of abstraction.

She received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1994 and her MFA from Yale University in 1996. She is the recipient of a 1997 Emerging Artist Award from the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, a 2003 Rolex Protégé nomination, a 2005 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a 2010 United States Artists Fellowship nomination, and a 2010 MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Bonnie’s sculptures, drawings, and outdoor works have been exhibited in domestic and international galleries and museums spanning the United States, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and India. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America, Art News, Flash Art, BOMB magazine, Beautiful Decay, Tema Celeste, Sculpture Magazine, Time Out New York, Up & Coming: The Emerging Art Scene in New York, and several other print and on-line publications.

Bonnie is currently an Associate Professor at Penn State University, teaching in the Sculpture Department. Brian met up with Bonnie to talk about her early childhood, her days in school, her time working as an assistant for Robert Gober and her recent work.