Catherine Vanaria is a photographer, master darkroom technician, and educator. Her work is included in the Polaroid Collection, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame collection, as well as many private collections, and has been included in numerous group shows throughout the northeast United States including the Aldrich Museum (Ridgefield, CT).
Her personal work has been published in XTC: Song Stories (Hyperion, 1998), Exposure: Special Edition, extended booklet accompanying Robert Fripp's re-release of Exposure, 2006 and box set 2023, Smithsonian Rock and Roll: Live and Unseen (Smithsonian Books, 2017) and This is Pop, a documentary on the band XTC (2017).
She graduated from Hartford Art School with a BFA in Photography, from Savannah College of Art and Design with a MA in Digital photography and from the Lesley University (Art Institute of Boston) with MFA in Visual Arts (Photography).
Catherine teaches Photography at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT.