M. M. Tomanová Nude

Also known as Marie Tomanová, this accomplished artist was born in the South Moravian region of the Czech Republic and right after earning her MFA in painting from Faculty of Fine Arts at Brno University of Technology, she would leave the country and travel to the North Carolina in the United States to work as an au pair. From there, she’d make her way up to upstate New York and then eventually to The Big Apple itself. It was in the city that Marie discovered photography and started taking night classes to learn all about the art form. By 2016, she was already starting to establish herself in the art scene and by 2018, Marie’s first solo art exhibition, Young American, was on display at the Czech Center New York. That was also around the same time she began living with her partner, art historian and curator Thomas Beachdel, and also marks the start of filming for the documentary about Marie, The World Between Us by director Marie Dvorakova. The film contains a number of nude photographs of Tomanová, hanging around (literally) outside and in either by herself or with Beachdal. When a doc claims to be an “intimate look” at a subject, this is what we expect from now on, people showing their M & Ms just like Marie!