Catherine Colman graduated from Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in 2001, majoring in Photography and Imaging under the guidance of Lori Novak and Phillip Perkis and minoring in Anthropology. Durring her undergraduate studies, she became interested in the concept of using video and non-traditional photographic methods to allow people to document their daily life struggles and environment in new ways. She also became heavily involved in activism surrounding the issues of AIDS and woman's health rights and wrote her Anthropology thesis research paper on the correlation between aparteid and AIDS in South Africa, where her parents grew up. An avid writier, after graduation she became involved in the marketing and public relations fields primarily given the responsiblity of writing press releases and participating in marketing campaign design. She also directed and produced three short video pieces, Obscure Demise, Dislocation and Broken and was a member of the Blood Red Oranges, a Los Angeles based music and video performance group. Her photographic and video works have been exhibited in the Red Door Gallery in Tarrytown, NY, the Gulf and Western Gallery in Manhattan, the Greene Street Gallery in Manhattan, the Lipstick Gallery in Los Angeles and the Arten Gallery in Venice Beach.

Currently, Catherine is pursuing an MPS degree in Interactive Telecommunications at Tisch School of the Arts, where she is attempting to combine her interests in photography, video and social anthropology with new found knowledge in new media and technology. She is the co-founder and developer of FreeFormed.org, a website project created to enable the development of communities and conversation surrounding low-tech media produced and posted via mobile phones. She is also in the process of doing extensive research into how remote posting can enable activist groups to document and raise awarness of their cause. She lives in New York with her three year daughter Mya Ashleigh.