Education
2009
MFA with Distinction in Photography, University of Georgia
1988
BA Public Policy Studies, Duke University
1987
Coursework in Modern British Literature, New College, Oxford University
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Drawing My Way Home, ChaShaMa Exhibition Space, New York, NY
2021
Crawling Backwards, Slow Exposure Festival, Zebulon, GA
2018
A Sum of Parts, University of North Georgia Gallery, Watkinsville, GA
2016
Paper, Puritan Mills, Atlanta, GA
2013
Seeing Beyond the Ordinary: Smoke Break, Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA
Withdrawn, Arnall, Golden, Gregory, Atlanta, GA
2011
Subject Matters, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2009
Stranger, Oxford College at Emory University, Oxford, GA
2007
Fiction, Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery, Coker College, Hartsville, SC
2006
Fiction, Gallery 1401, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2005
Fiction, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Art on Paper, The J x Hudgens, The J Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
A.i.R. Exhibition, Kleinart James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
Guest Room: Joanna Zylinska & Yanai Toister, Der Greif, February
2024
Return to the Sea, Sea Front Gallery, Worthington, England
Context, Filter Photo, Chicago, IL
2023
Past and Present, Der Grief 15 Anniversary, Pinakothek der Moderne, Zirka Space, Munich, Germany
tl;dr, Midwest Nice Collective, online exhibition
2022
Laid Bare, Gormley Gallery, University of Notre Dame at Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Postcards From Here, Atlanta Photography Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Under the Sun and Moon, Humble Arts Foundation, NY
2021
Atlanta Celebrates Photography, dk Contemporary Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Light, Athica, Athens, GA
Street Encounters, The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Houston, TX
2020
Guest Room: Diana Poole, Who is Unwilling to Think is Dismissed, Der Greif’, May
We Are All Contagious, University of Mass, Dartmouth, MA
Street Encounters, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
Newark, Ohio, 3 AM, Click Photography Festival, Durham, NC
No Happy Accidents, LA Photo Curator, CA
Togethering, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Images as Gateway, Six Feet Photography project, Durham, NC
Instant Imagery, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
2019
Transcendence, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Reverie, Atlanta Photography Group Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2018
Will Tomorrow Never Come and Locked, Lost, installation, Far From Home: Stories of Refugee Girls, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA
Southern Landscapes, South X Southeast Gallery, Molina, GA
2017
The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn Expo Center, Brooklyn, NY
Deception, Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL
Space, Littlefield, Brooklyn, NY
The Empathy Experiment, installation, ArtFields, Lake City, SC
Between the Medium, RedLine Contemporary Arts Center, Denver, CO
2016
American Road Trip, Site: Brooklyn, NY
Tribe, Lightbox Gallery, Portland, OR
LaGrange Southeast Regional, LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA
Edge to Edge, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA
Contemporary Art Survey 2016, Lincoln Center Gallery, Fort Collins, CO
2015
Space Jamz, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY (online)
Baxter Street at CCNY Annual Exhibition, New York, NY
The National: Best Contemporary Photography, 2015, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Smoke Break, The Portfolio Show, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA
2014
The Enigmatic Object, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL
Cross-Reference, Emory Visual Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Filter Photo Book Exhibition, Harrington College of Design, Chicago, IL
In Focus Book Exhibition, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2013
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, United Photo Industries, Brooklyn, NY
DIY: Photographers and Books, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Traces of Myth, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2012
DIY: Photographers and Books, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Looking at the Land – 21st Century American Views, RISDI Museum, Providence, RI
Withdrawn, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
Center Forward, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2011
Home, Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT
Brett Abbott Selects, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA
2010
New Visions, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
The American Dream, New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA
Southern Women Photographers, Past & Present, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
2009
Breaking Boundaries II, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
The Color of Light: Wynn Bulloch, Al Weber and Laura Noel, Lumière, Atlanta, GA
2008
LaGrange National XXV Exhibition, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA
Selections from The Studio Program, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
Rooms for Tourists, Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Selective Sun: Works Regarding Latin America, Cinè, Athens, GA
Emerging Photographer Auction, Dan Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY
2007
Southeastern Photography Triennial Exhibition, Gregg Museum, Raleigh, NC
Annual Exhibition, Anne Wilkes Tucker curator, HCP, Houston, TX
Photo Review 2007, Gallery 1401, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Young Movers and Shakers of the Atlanta Art Scene, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA
2006
TransAtlantic 2006, Gallery 24, Berlin, Germany
2005
Contemporary American Photography, Internationale Fototage, Mannheim, Germany
As They See It: Georgia Photographers, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA
Selected Awards, Public Art Grants and Residencies
2024
Alumni Solo Show Award, ChaShaMa, New York, NY
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Residency, Woodstock, NY
2023
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts residency, Nebraska City, NE
2022
ChaNorth Artist Residency, Pine Plains, NY
Ellis-Beaureguard Foundation Residency, Rockland, ME
2021
Finalist, Artadia Grant, Atlanta, GA
The Phoenix Photo Mural, participant, Atlanta Celebrates Photography public art
2020
The Hambidge Center Residency Program, Rabun Gap, GA
2019
Honorable mention, Geometry of Ginkos, 2017, N.Y. Photo Curator
2017
The Arctic Circle Residency, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
2016
Idea Capital Grant
Finalist, Working Artist Project grant, MOCA GA
Lincoln Center Annual Contemporary Art Survey Grand Prize Award for the Smoke Break series, Fort Collins, CO
The Hambidge Center Residency Program, Rabun Gap, GA
Walthall Fellows, Ossabaw Island, GA
2015
High Museum Purchase Award for Smoke Break, Atlanta, GA
Atlanta Celebrates Photography grant for Art on Track: Kaleidoscope,
Metro Atlanta Transit Authority public art installation
Walthall Fellowship, 2015-16, WonderRoot Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
Honorable Mention, Baxter Street at CCNY Annual Exhibition, New York, NY
2014
Both Sides Now, CSA (Community Supported Art) Season 05 Artist, WonderRoot, Atlanta, GA
2013
Give/Swap/Receive, Emory University Center for Creativity and the Arts grant, Atlanta, GA
2012
The Enchanted Forest of Books, Art on the BeltLine Grant, Atlanta, GA
2011
Best Books of 2011, Law & Order Gets Me Through the Night, The Indie Photobook Library
Finalist, Art Takes Miami, Miami, FL2010: Our City, Emory Office of University-Community Partnerships and Grants, Atlanta, GA
2009
Coca Cola Foundation Artist in Residence, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2003–08
Nexus Studio Artist, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Studio Program
Books
Smoke Break/Red Clay, Fall Line Press, 2024
Withdrawn, Aglu Books of Scotland, 2013
Return to the Sea, Shutter Hub Press, 2025, multiple artists
Road Trip, Shutter Hub Press, 2022, multiple artists
Inspired Georgia: Pen and Lens, University of Georgia Press, 2015, multiple artists
Fading Light, Open to Interpretation, Saint Paul, MN, 2013, multiple artists
Collections
Prints
The George Eastman Museum
High Museum of Art
The Ogden Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia
Greenberg Traurig Collection
Gregg Museum of Art and Design, Raleigh, NC
Paul R. Jones Collection, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
Books
International Center for Photography Library, NY, NY
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, Hartford, CT
Cleveland Institute of Art Library, Cleveland, OH
Museum of Fine Art Houston Library, Houston, TX
Oberlin College Library, Oberlin, OH