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Collura graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1996.
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Most of her work is considered as abstract biomorphic sculptures and drawings that are rooted in figuration. Systems of connected characters are drawn together from mainstream popular culture, mythology, and folklore. Collura’s work has been seen in solo and group shows in New York, Germany, France, and Italy and is in national and international collections.
Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Sculpture Magazine, Bomb magazine, Beautiful/Decay, Time Out New New York
In 2010, she was the recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. She has been nominated for a United States Artists Fellowship and Rolex Protégé Award.
Collura’s project, entitled The Prince Project, is divided into four sections entitled Dust, Wicked, Seven, and White Light. In 2003- 2005, Collura taught undergraduate courses fulltime at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Since these early teaching years, Collura taught in the adjunct capacity at Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art, University of the Arts, Yale University, Columbia University, and Parsons School of Design.
In 2007, Collura joined the creative team at Penn State's University’s School of Visual Arts, where she currently holds a title as Associate Professor.
