Geanna Merola is a photography based artist whose use of photography spans a period of over forty years. She has exhibited her work in numerous group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. She has received multiple fellowship grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and an NEA/Mid-Atlantic Regional Fellowship. She was awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship at Princeton University 1999-2000, where she studied with Emmet Gowin and Peter C. Bunnell.
Merola’s work is included in private, public, and major corporate collections and has also appeared on CD covers for Deutsche Grammophon records as well as book covers for works of fiction and poetry.
Merola retired in 2020 from teaching photography and the history of photography at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, New Jersey.