Colette Copeland is a multi-media visual artist whose work examines issues surrounding gender and contemporary culture. Sourcing personal narratives and popular media, she utilizes video, photography, performance and sculptural installation to question societal roles and the pervasive influence of media, and technology on our communal enculturation.

She teaches visual studies, art writing and photography at University of Pennsylvania and critical theory/contemporary practices at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute in New York and her MFA from Syracuse University. She is the recipient of a LeewayFoundation Award for Art & Change. Her photographic and video installations have been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. In 2005-2007, her work was shown at the Arad Biennale in Romania, the Museum of Fine Arts in Venado Tuerto , Argentina, the National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, Novosibirsk State Art Museum in Russia, City Nord in Hamburg, Germany, Ars Latina in Macerata, Italy, Mexicali, Baja and Castellon, Spain,  Cultural Communication Center in Klapeda, Lithuania, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Scope Hamptons in New York, Kratkofil Film Festival in Bosnia/Herzgovina, and a traveling exhibition throughout India and Bangladesh, including Calcutta, Bombay and Dhaka.

Ms. Copeland writes for ‘Exposure Journal’, and ‘Afterimage Magazine’. For  seven years, she wrote a quarterly column for 'Fotophile Magazine' and  contributed to  ‘The Photo Review’. In addition to her other activities, Ms. Copeland is the Chairperson of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Society for Photographic Education. She lives in Media, PA with her husband Ian, and children Camille, age 15 and Cole, age 10.