Ruth Adams
Education
1999 Master of Fine Arts, Photography and Digital Art
Thesis: Light Writings: Scanner as Camera
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
1994 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photojournalism
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
1988 Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Syracuse University, London, UK and Syracuse, New York
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2020 REGIONAL
Two person show – “Illuminating Memory: Recent Photographs by Ruth Adams and Deborah Orloff”, Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery, Cincinnati, Show in conjunction with the month long FotoFocus festival
2019 NATIONAL
“Per Noi: Conversations with the Ancestors”, Col. Eugene E. Myers Art Gallery, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota
2015 LOCAL
Mill & Max Contemplative Arts Gallery, “Meditating: Eyes Wide”, Lexington, Kentucky
2014 NATIONAL
“Organic Studies: Scanner as Camera”, Clement Gallery, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
LOCAL
Bodley-Bullick House, “Meditating: Eyes Wide”, Lexington, Kentucky
Source on Main, “Meditating: Eyes Wide”, Lexington, Kentucky
2013 REGIONAL
Two person show – “Works by Ruth Adams and Matthew Albritton”, Gallery M/Pigment Gallery, Louisville, KY Exhibition part of Louisville PHOTO Biennial
2012 NATIONAL
Two person show - “Transitional Moments: Recent Photographs by Ruth Adams and Marita Gootee”, Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery, Cincinnati, Show in conjunction with the month long FotoFocus festival
2008 NATIONAL
Main Gallery, unremarkable installation, The University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia
Vern Riffe Center for the Arts, Appleton Gallery, unremarkable installation, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio
unremarkable installation, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, Virginia
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, unremarkable installation, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2007 NATIONAL
2 person show - The Weeks Gallery, unremarkable installation, Community Cultural Center at Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, New York. Curator-James Colby, Director of Exhibitions and Galleries at the Weeks Gallery, Jamestown Community College
2006 NATIONAL
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, unremarkable installation, Durham, North Carolina. Curator-Courtney Reid-Eaton, Exhibitions Director
The Center for Photography at Woodstock, unremarkable installation, Woodstock, New York. Curator-Ariel Shanberg, Executive Director
Visual Arts of Georgia’s Arts for All Gallery, unremarkable installation, Atlanta, Georgia. Curator-Erica Mohar, Assistant Curator of Art, Columbus Museum of Art
Part of the Atlanta Celebrates Photography Festival
Light House Gallery, Organic Studies, Sevenoaks Center, Madison, Virginia. Curator-Cindy Haney, Painter
2004 LOCAL
Morlan Gallery, unremarkable, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky. Curator-Andrea Fisher, Director Morlan Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 LOCAL
Louisville Photo Biennial, Lexington New/Old Camera Club, Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky
2020 NATIONAL
Artist Books, unremarkable and That’s the Ohm purchased by the University of Colorado Boulder, Norlin Library Special Collections[MOU1]
2019 NATIONAL
The Photo Review Competition, Special Web Exhibition – Juror Lyle Rexer, independent curator, critic and columnist
REGIONAL
Slocumb Galleries, “POSITIVE/NEGATIVE 34th Annual National Juried Art Exhibition”, ETSU Art Galleries, Juror Ann Meisinger is an Independent Curator, and Assistant Educator, Public Programs & Creative Practice, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, Johnson City, Tennessee[MOU2]
Midwest Center for Photography, “Flat File Feature”, This feature provides the opportunity for photographers to showcase a portfolio of photographic work prominently in our front gallery flat files, Wichita, Kansas
LOCAL
Invited artist, Gloria Singletary Gallery at The Living Arts & Science Center, “Miniature Invitational”, Lexington
Invited artist, Cochenour Gallery at Georgetown college, “The State of Photography”, Georgetown, Kentucky
2018 NATIONAL
Woodstock Center for Photography, “Photography Now 2018”, Juror Elizabeth Ferrer is Vice President/Curator, Contemporary Art at BRIC, Brooklyn, New York
The Photo Review Competition, Special Web Exhibition – Juror Sarah Meister, Photography Curator, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
LOCAL
Cochenour Gallery, Georgetown college – Curated into “Welcome Home” exhibition, unable to participate
2017 NATIONAL
Soho Gallery, “SohoPhoto 13th Annual Alternative Processes Competition”, New York, New York
Contemporary Art Center, “Midwest SPE Members Juried Exhibition”, Peoria, Illinois
Fall Line Press's 50 best self-published photobooks
2 monographs selected, That's The Ohm and unremarkable
unremarkable was also a jurors blog top pick.
http://www.falllinepress.com/news/2017/7/18/fl-50-juror-pick-from-elliot
LOCAL
Lyric Theater Gallery, “Lexington Camera Club: New Work”, Lexington, Kentucky
Two person show – with Rae Goodwin, Bourbon on Main, Frankfort, Kentucky
2016 NATIONAL
Whitestone Gallery, “Considering Creation: Landscape Photography”, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Honorable Mention
REGIONAL
IDEASXLab Residency culminating in an exhibition at the Norton Cancer Institute, “unremarkable”, Louisville, Kentucky
2015 REGIONAL
Actors Theater Gallery, “Maps of the Imagination”, Louisville, Kentucky Exhibition part of Louisville PHOTO Biennial
Anne Wright Wilson Gallery, “New Alchemy”, Georgetown, Kentucky
LOCAL
Lexington Art League, “FEAST: Please + Hunger + Ritual”, Lexington, Kentucky, Curator – Becky Alley
Central Library Gallery, “Lexington New/Old Camera Club”, Lexington, Kentucky
Markey Cancer Center, “Expressions of Courage”, Lexington, Kentucky
2014 LOCAL
University of Kentucky Barnhart Gallery, “UK Faculty Works-In-Progress”, Lexington, Kentucky
3rd place in the 2014 UKCI "China in My Lens" Photo Contest
2013 NATIONAL
Invited to present “unremarkable” with Pulitzer Prize winning Photographer John Kaplan’s exhibition “Not as I Pictured” at the CDC in Atlanta.
REGIONAL
Spot 5 Art Center, “Process:Effect:Reconsider”, Louisville, KY Exhibition part of Louisville PHOTO Biennial
2012 NATIONAL
Pajaro Vallery Arts Council Gallery, “Photo Alchemy: Alternative Processes in Photographic Media”, Watsonville, California, Jurors: Ted Orland, Brian Taylor, Janet Fine, Catalog Printed
“unremarkable” as part of an Easter Exhibition at Christ Methodist Church, Plano, Texas
REGIONAL
The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center, “Society for Photographic Education Members Exhibition”, Cincinnati, OH, Show in conjunction with the month long FotoFocus festival, Juror, Catherine Evans, Curator of Photography at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio
LOCAL
University of Kentucky Art Museum, “METTLE: UK ART FACULTY EXHIBITION”, Lexington, Kentucky Curated by Lisa Dent, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Columbus Museum of Art
“unremarkable”, prints shown at the UK Chandler Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky
2011 REGIONAL
The Rudyard Kipling, Motherlodge Arts Festival, Louisville, Kentucky[MOU4]
LOCAL
“Artist Books/Book Artists” an exploration of handmade artist books by six regional artists, M. S. Rezny Studio/Gallery, Lexington, KY – Two books purchased by UK’s Lucille Little Libraries for permanent collection.
"Gummed-Up!" Rene M. Hales and more Gummists, M. S. Rezny Studio/Gallery, Lexington, KY
Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, Recent Works by the UK Faculty, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
2010 NATIONAL
Work Commissioned by The Lexington Philharmonic, Horse Tails 2010, Lexington, Kentucky
Premiere Exhibition at L.V. Harkness, Lexington, Kentucky
The Center for Fine Art Photography, CONSUMPTION, Fort Collins, Colorado, Juror Brian Paul Clamp, Director ClampArt Gallery, Chelsea, NY, 48 images selected of 1129 images submitted
Morpho Gallery, 5th Annual Photo Competition, Chicago, Illinois
CAS Gallery, RE-U-NI-FY: The 2010 Alumni Exhibition, one of 10 invited alumni, Department of Art and Art History, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
REGIONAL
Traveling Show Where we Are: From Dreams to Reality, made possible in part through a grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women
Janice Mason Art Museum, Cadiz, Kentucky
M.S. Rezny Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky
Mass Media and Technology Hall Gallery, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
The Rudyard Kipling, Motherlodge Arts Festival, PopUP Gallery at the RUD!, Louisville, Kentucky
LOCAL
Original Performance Art Collaboration, [MOU5] 80 Digits, Tense and Tickle, held at the Downtown Arts Center, Lexington, Kentucky.
Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, Recent Works by the UK Faculty, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
2009 INTERNATIONAL
Images from unremarkable featured in the award winning film Not as I Pictured by Pulitzer Prize winner John Kaplan
Best of Competition, Documentary Short, Festival of Media Arts, Las Vegas, NV. 2010, Winner, Most Inspirational Film, Orlando Film Festival, 2010, Winner, M.I.L.K International Competition. 2009, Best Documentary Award, Human Spirit, Chagrin Falls Film Festival, 2010, Best Documentary, 2nd Place, Lake Michigan Film Competition, 2010, Honoree, Central Florida Film Festival, 2010, Best Documentary Nominee, Orlando Film Festival, 2010, Athens International Film + Video Festival, 2010
Images from unremarkable and interview featured in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Light the Night Video
REGIONAL
Mellwood Arts Center, Listening to the 70s: Then & Now, part of the First Louisville Visual Arts Festival, Louisville, KY
LOCAL
Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, Here & Now: Recent Works by the UK Faculty, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, Naked Words - The Body-Love Project, Featured Artist, Lexington, Kentucky
2008 LOCAL
Mary Craik Gallery, Women of Wisdom 2008, Louisville, Kentucky, curator – Mary Craik
Gallery on Main, Women of Whimsy, Richmond, Kentucky[MOU6]
Art Depository, Third Time Around: A Group Show of University of Kentucky Artists and Professors, Nicholasville, Kentucky, curator – Mary Custer, Gallery Director
Singletary Center President’s Room, Kentucky Women’s Photography Network, Lexington, Kentucky
Berea Arts Council, What Women See, Berea, Kentucky
Shambahala Center of Lexington, Selections from Organic Studies, Lexington, Kentucky, curator – Adele Prager, Painter
Berea Arts Council, Mask Exhibit, Berea, Kentucky[MOU7]
Heritage Antiques Building, Goddess Reunion Tour, Lexington, Kentucky
Learning Resource Center-BCTC Cooper Campus, A Closer Look, Lexington, Kentucky
2007 NATIONAL
Light House Gallery, Art in Pathwork; Pathwork in Art, Sevenoaks Center, Madison, Virginia. Selections from Organic Studies, Curator-Cindy Haney, Painter
Loudoun House, Photography What NOW, Lexington, Kentucky, Juror-Anita Douthait[MOU8]
REGIONAL
Manifest Gallery, unremarkable triptych, It's In Your Head: Approaches to Likeness, Cincinnati, Ohio
About Art Gallery, The Infinite Fineness of the Feminine, Louisville, Kentucky
LOCAL
University of Kentucky Art Museum, unremarkable installation, University of Kentucky Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Lexington, Kentucky, curator-Carl Soloway, Cincinnati,Ohio
Hillbilly Chic Studio, Pieces of Piece, Lexington, Kentucky, curator – Theo Edmonds
Lexington Mayor’s Office, Visual Dialogue II, Lexington, Kentucky, curator – Helene Steene, Painter
Shambahala Center of Lexington, Selections from Organic Studies, Lexington, Kentucky, curator – Adele Prager, Painter
Art Depository, 2nd Annual Student / Teacher Exhibit, Nicholasville, Kentucky, curator – Mary Custer, Gallery Director
University of Kentucky Vice Presidents Office, two pieces from Organic Studies on loan
Singletary Center for the Arts President’s Room, Kentucky Women’s Photography Network, Lexington, Kentucky
2006 INTERNATIONAL
M.I.A.D VENADO TUERTO, Muestra the International of Art, 2006 Digital Art Internacional Exhibition, Venado Tuerto, Argentina, Juried; Moulin Rouge
Featured Artist
NATIONAL
Loudoun House, Photography NOW, Lexington, Kentucky, Juror-Sam Abell, National Geographic Society Photographer-in-Residence
Juror’s Award
Herron School of Art and Design, Technology of Meaning, unremarkable installation, Indianapolis, Indiana. Curator-David Russick, Gallery Director
Center for Living Arts-Space 301, Transformation-Photography of the 21st Century, Mobile, Alabama. Curator-Margarita Skiadas, Assistant Professor of Photography, University of South Alabama
REGIONAL
unremarkable triptychs displayed at Central Baptist Hospital’s 4th Annual Oncology Symposium: Art, Science, Health, Lexington, Kentucky
unremarkable, World's Highest Resolution Seamless Display @ The Idea Festival, Louisville, Kentucky
Organic Studies, Artemisia Restaurant and Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, Curated by Ann Drury, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft Corporate Sales Manger
2005 INTERNATIONAL
The Contemporary Art Museum of ZULIA, MACZUL, SALÓN DE ARTE DIGITAL / IV Edición – 2005, Maracaibo, Venezuela, Invitational; Seed Pods, Leap of Faith, Moulin Rouge
Mention of Honor
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, VII SALON INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba, Invitational; Kirksville
NATIONAL
Stepping Stone Gallery, 5th National Juried Photography Exhibition, Huntington, New York. Juror-Stella Johnson, photographer; May 30th Chemo #12 Last One!, May 31st, June 1st, and Jan 1st, Jan 4th, June 5th
Best In Show
ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc., Bodies in Crisis, Featured Artist, unremarkable installation, Athens, Georgia. Curators-Lizzie Zucker Saltz, Director and Caroline Cason, Board Member
Art League of Long Island’s Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, SHOOT: Unorthodox Photographic Imagery and Applications, Dix Hills, New York, Group Show, Curator-Carole Jay, Painter, Eight triptychs from unremarkable
Upstream People Gallery, 7th Annual All Media, Omaha, Nebraska. Juror-Larry Bradshaw, Professor of Art, University of Nebraska, 660 pieces submitted, 230 pieces accepted; Magnolia
Loudoun House, Social Scan: The Authentic Image, Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky, Juror-Russell Joslin, Owner, Editor and Publisher, Shots Magazine; Jan 1st, Jan 4th, June 5th, and Jan 19th, Jan 29th, May 3rd
REGIONAL
University Museum Gallery, The Art of Illness: Examining the biomedical Paradigm, unremarkable installation, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. Curator-Steven Brown, Assistant Professor and Area Head of Photography/Digital Imaging, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
LOCAL
Icehouse Gallery, Work, Exhibition & Panel Discussion, Women Writer’s Conference, Lexington, Kentucky
Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, Faculty Show, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Fauntleroy's Cafe, Solo Show, Organic Studies, Lexington, Kentucky
Guest artist for Cumberland Gallery Spring Art Show, London, Kentucky
Alfalfa Restaurant, unremarkable, Lexington, Kentucky, Fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
2004 INTERNATIONAL
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, VI SALON INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba. Invitational; Moulin Rouge
NATIONAL
Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery, Two person show, Two Points of View, College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, OH. Curators-Jerry Bellas, Professor/Art Department Chair and Director, Studio San Guiseppe Gallery and John A. Griffith, Assistant Professor of art; selections from Organic Studies
Silvermine Guild Galleries, Spectra ’04: National Photography Triennial, New Canaan, Connecticut. Juror-Barbara Hitchcock, Curator and Cultural Affairs Director, Polaroid Corporation, over 1,100 pieces submitted, 117 pieces accepted; Jan 1, 2003, Jan 4th, June 5th
Texas Artists Museum, 10th Annual Juried Photography Competition, Port Arthur, Texas; Japanese Hats
Circle Gallery, Go Figure, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, Maryland. Juror-Dr. Wilford E. Scott, Department Head of Adult Programs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, ~1000 pieces submitted, 70 pieces selected; untitled (Feet)
Kimball Hill Galleries, Self-Portrait 2004 Exhibition, Northwest Cultural Council, Barrington, Illinois. Juror-William Thomas Chambers, nationally renowned portrait artist; Jan 1, Jan 4, June 5th
Midwest Photography Invitational XII, National Touring Exhibition. Juror-Jerry Dell, Professor of Photography, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wisconsin; Moulin Rouge, New Harmony, Kirksville
Charles H. MacNider Art Museum, Mason City, Iowa, January 2004
DreamBox Foto & Gallery, Women Photographers Competition, Chicago, Illinois. Juror-Nancy Fewkes, Photographer, 100 artists submitted work, 23 artists accepted; untitled (Feet)
Gallery West, 7th Annual Juried Show, Alexandria, Virginia. Juror-Trudi C. Van Dyke, Director and Curator, Ellipse Gallery, Arlington, Virginia, 275 pieces submitted, 62 pieces accepted; Moulin Rouge
Jacksonville State University’s Hammond Hall Gallery, Collection of David Cummings, Jacksonville, Alabama. Curator, David Cummings, art collector; Moulin Rouge
LOCAL
Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, University of Kentucky Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Lexington, Kentucky
Guest artist for Cumberland Gallery Spring Art Show, London, Kentucky
2003 INTERNATIONAL
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, V SALON INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba. Juried; New Harmony
NATIONAL
Midwest Photography Invitational XII, National Touring Exhibition. Juror- Jerry Dell, Professor of Photography, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wisconsin; Moulin Rouge, New Harmony, Kirksville
Gogebie Community College, Ironwood, Michigan – January 2003
Center for the Arts & Nohr Gallery University of Wisconsin – Plattville – February 2003
University of Wisconsin – Fox Valley, Menasha, Wisconsin – April 2003
Margaret Mear Gallery, St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, Winona – October 2003
The New Gallery, University of Miami Alumnae Show (for Art Basil), 5 person Exhibition, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, Invited by Fine Art Faculty and Tracey McSwiney-Kallaher, Gallery Director and Coordinator of Special Events Department of Art and Art History; Images from Privacy vs. Voyeurism
Robert Canaga Gallery, Look at me! Look at me!: An Exploration of the Self Portrait, http://www.RobertCanagaGallery,com, Juror-Robert Canaga, Gallery Owner; Green Belly, Maryland, Feet
Permanent Installation, Memorial Hall, Organic Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies Programs, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
LOCAL
Barney Miller’s Gallery, Organic Studies, Gallery Hop, Lexington, Kentucky, Invited: 4 person show
2002 NATIONAL
Midwest Photography Invitational XII, National Touring Exhibition. Juror- Jerry Dell, Professor of Photography, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wisconsin; Moulin Rouge, New Harmony, Kirksville
Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wisconsin
Woman Made Gallery, Photo-Based Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois. Juror-Barbara Crane, Professor Emeritae, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Interview
Union Street Gallery, Reactions, Living in the New America, Chicago Heights, Illinois. Juror-Ardell Arthur, Professor of Art History, Robert Morris College Institute of Art and Design, Chicago, Illinois; Anguish
Period Gallery, 2002 Spring International Invitational Exhibition, Invitational Exhibition, Omaha, Nebraska. Juror- Gary Day, Professor/Chair, Department of Art, University of Nebraska; Monstera, Shaving Brush
Special Recognition
Art Institute & Gallery, 11th Annual National Exhibition - Open Media Competition, Salisbury, Maryland. Juror-Michiel Plomp, Associate Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, ~1000 pieces submitted, 48 pieces accepted; Moulin Rouge, Magnolia, New Harmony
West Gallery, Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition: "Regarding Beauty", Texas Woman's University Denton, Texas. Juror-Deborah Willis, Professor of Photography, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University; New Harmony
Jasper Arts Center: Krempp Gallery, 9th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Jasper, Indiana. Juror-Claudia Hammer, painter; Moulin Rouge
Puna Contemporary Art Center, 2002 Independents' Show, Pahoa, Hawaii; New Harmony
Anacortes Arts, 2002 Art at the Port Juried Art Exhibition, Anacortes, Washington. Jurors-Tom Livesay, Director, Whatcom Museum Bellingham, Washington, Alden Mason, Painter, Mary Randlett, Photographer, 402 pieces submitted, 102 pieces accepted; New Harmony
Featured in both newsprint and glossy brochures
Upstream People Gallery, 2002 Spring International Invitational Internet Exhibition, Omaha, Nebraska. Curator-Larry Bradshaw, Professor of Art, University of Nebraska and Director of Period Gallery; White Flower, Monstera
Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Deus ex machina, Digital Photography Exhibition, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. Juror-John Paul Caponigro, internationally renowned artist, 450 pieces submitted, 100 pieces accepted; Magnolia
http://gcc.bradley.edu/exhibit/
University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts, Toledo Friends of Photography 6th Biannual National Juried Photography Exhibition, Toledo, Ohio. Juror-Olivia Parker, internationally renowned artist, ~1000 pieces submitted, 73 pieces accepted; Moulin Rouge
LOCAL
University of Kentucky Art Museum, University of Kentucky Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Lexington, Kentucky, curator-Julien Robson Curator of Contemporary Art of the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; selections from Organic Studies and Privacy vs. Voyeurism
Morlan Gallery, Secrets Revealed, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, curator-Andrea Fisher, Curator Morlan Gallery; Selections from Privacy vs. Voyeurism: Green Belly, Feet, Maryland, Portfolio
Earth, Body, Spirit Gallery, Organic Studies, Solo Exhibition, Lexington, Kentucky
Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, University of Kentucky Art Faculty Show, Lexington, Kentucky
Singletary Center for the Arts President’s Room, Selections by Faculty of the Art Department, College of Fine Arts, Lexington, Kentucky
2001 NATIONAL
Visual Arts Center, Organic Studies, Invitational Exhibition, Pixels: Contemporary Photography and the Computer, Portsmouth, Virginia. Jurors-Ed Gibbs, Professor of Photography and Director of the Visual Arts Center
Featured on Website – http://www.tc.cc.va.us/visarts/SHOWS/pixels/index.htm
Viridian Artists Incorporated, 12th National Juried Exhibition, New York, New York. Juror-Anne Lampe, Curator at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York City, 26 artists accepted out of ~679; New Harmony
Pleiades Gallery of Contemporary Art, 19th Annual Juried Exhibition, New York, New York. Juror-Lisa Dennison, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City; Kirksville
Visual Arts Alliance of Nashville, Art by the Book Exhibition, Nashville, Tennessee. Juror-JoEl Levy Logiudice, Fiber Artist, Artists Book, Hana: A Document of Life
Best in Show
Period Gallery, Photographic Processes III International Juried Art Exhibition, Omaha, Nebraska. Juror-Larry Bradshaw, Professor of Art, University of Nebraska; African Tulip, New Harmony
Special Recognition
Period Gallery, Photographic Processes III Internet Exhibition, Omaha, Nebraska. Juror-Larry Bradshaw, Professor of Art, University of Nebraska; African Tulip, New Harmony
REGIONAL
Clara M. Eagle Art Gallery Murray State University, Organic Studies, Solo Exhibition, Murray Kentucky. Curators-Jim Bryant, Assistant Professor/Gallery Director, Nicole Hand Associate Professor, Murray State University
LOCAL
Lexington Opera House Gallery, The Faculties: A Night at the Arts, Lexington, Kentucky
2000 NATIONAL
Main Gallery, Bit By Bit, All Digital Show, Business of Art Center, Manitou Springs, Colorado. Jurors-Graham Nash & Mac Holbert-Nash Editions, Ken Musgrave-CEO/CTO, Pandromeda, Inc., Mel Strawn, Jerry Carter, Sandee Cohen; African Tulip, White Flower, Devil’s Backbone
Jurors’ Top Five Award
Honorable Mention
The Historical Museum of South Florida, University of Miami/Florida International University Alumni Invitational Exhibition, Invitational, Miami, Florida, Images from Organic Studies
Robert Hittel Book Co., Books, Boxes, Etc., Invitational, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Hana: A Document of Life
Permanent Installation, Science Hall, Organic Studies, Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri
Thomson Photo Imaging Gallery, Organic Studies, Solo Exhibition, Curated-Kit Cowan, Coral Gables, Florida
Art Gallery, Going Postal: A Mail Art Exhibition, St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, St. Louis, Missouri; Kirksville
LOCAL
Robert C. May Gallery, Organic Studies, Solo Exhibition, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
The President’s Room, Faculty Show, Singletary Center for the Arts, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, Faculty and Graduate Student Art Exhibition, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
1999 NATIONAL
Gallery West, Organic Studies, Five person invitational, Alexandria, Virginia. Curated-Manon Cleary; Shaving Brush, Monstera, Bottle Brush, Hibiscus, African Tulip, Air Plant, Crown of Thorns
Gallery West, Second Annual Juried Invitational Competition 1999, Alexandria, Virginia. Juror-Manon Cleary, Professor of Art, University of the District of Columbia, 187 pieces submitted, 63 pieces accepted; Shaving Brush, Monstera
First Place
Beaumont Art League, Tri-State Plus ‘99, Beaumont, Texas. Juror-Geri Hooks, Director/Owner Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, Texas, over 200 pieces submitted, 42 pieces accepted; Onions
Second Place
Period Gallery, Digital & Experimental ‘99, Omaha, Nebraska. Juror-Gary Day, Professor/Chair, Department of Art, University of Nebraska; Monstera, Shaving Brush
Special Recognition
Robert A. Peck Arts Center, Exhibition ‘99, Riverton, Wyoming. Juror-Laura Guinan; Shaving Brush, Monstera, Onions
Purchase Award
The University Gallery, Contemporary Visions ‘99, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Juror-Philip Pearlstein, internationally renowned painter; Onions
United Arts Council of Collier County, Womanscape ‘99, Naples, Florida. Juror-Bonnie Clearwater, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami. 652 pieces submitted; 41 pieces accepted. Artists Book, Hana: A Document of Life.
Federal Reserve Gallery, Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, Boston, Massachusetts. Jurors-Peter Rathbone, Senior VP and Director of Sotheby’s New York; Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator at the Phillips Collections, Washington, DC; Belinda Rathbone, photo historian, over 1400 pieces submitted; Shaving Brush
Impact Artists Gallery, Total Woman, Buffalo, New York. Juror-Kay Barlow, Executive Director of the Adams Art Gallery of Dunkirk, New York; Shaving Brush, Monstera, Hana: A Document of Life.
Fine Arts Gallery, TRAP, All-Media National Exhibition, Davie, Florida. Juror-Marianne Lamonaca, Curator of The Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach, Florida; Institution
Dishman Art Gallery, Dishman National All-Media Competition 1999, Beaumont, Texas. Juror-Michael Ray Charles, Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, ~600 pieces submitted; 60 works accepted; Monstera
LOCAL
The University Gallery, Faculty Show, Truman State University, Kirksville. Missouri
Lowe Art Museum, Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Coral Gables, Florida
1998 NATIONAL
The Gallery at One Bausch & Lomb Place, Women’s Art Works 7, Rochester, New York. Juror-Karen McCready, Director Karen McCready Fine Art, 1200 pieces submitted; 49 pieces accepted; untitled.
LOCAL
Lowe Art Museum, Annual Student Exhibition, Coral Gables, Florida
Ed Gannam Digital Imaging Award
Traveling Light II, Invitational, Seminole Community College, Sanford, Florida
Publications
2018 Focal Plane: A Journal for Photography Educators and Students, Focal Plane, No. 5: Women on Women, Summer 2018. 1 of 5 featured artist educators. 2 Articles, one on Conversations with the Ancestors, which includes 6 pages and 7 images, and one on pedagogy, 2 pages. Plus a featured article about my student Ali Deane, 2 pages and 2 images.
2017 That’s The Ohm, self-published, featured in Fall Line Press's 50 best self-published photobooks 2012 unremarkable, catalog printed by the Arts in Healthcare division of UK Healthcare
2006 Contributing writer for The Joy of Digital Close-Up Photography, Chapter: Scanner as Camera, Lark/Sterling books, Text on concept and process with procedural images plus 20 image portfolio.
2003 Camera Arts Magazine, The Art and Craft of Photography in the 21st Century, Organic Studies: Scanner as Camera, June/July 2003, pages 20 – 25, cover and table of contents. Juror: Steve Simmons, Publisher/Editorial Director. Cover Art plus 6 page, 7 image spread featuring article where I describe concept and process behind creating work.
Selected Reviews, Interviews and Published Images
2020 Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques, 2nd Edition, Na2 Platinum image page 149
2019 aPhotoEditor.com, The Best Work I Saw at Filter Photo Festival, Jonathan Blaustein, writer for NYT, NewYorker, VICE and Hyperallergic. December 13, 2019 https://aphotoeditor.com/2019/12/13/the-best-work-i-saw-at-the-filter-photo-festival-part-3-2/
2017 The Hand Magazine, Issue #18, October 2017, 2 images, page 34 2014 UTNews, University of Toledo, February 3, 2014, Quotes and image promoting exhibition
http://www.utoledo.edu/offices/marketing/utnews/pdfs/UTnewspdfs/2014.02.03.UTNews.pdf
2013 Lexington Art League, LAL Artist Archive, Interview and images posted as part of a database of visual artists living and working in Central Kentucky
http://www.lexingtonartleague.org/ruth-adams/ruth-adams
2012 The Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, Mount St. Joe Gallery has photo exhibits, September 29, 2012, Review and Image.
2011 Skirt Magazine, Amazing Issue, Featured Artist, January, 2011
2010 Horse Tails 2010: Celebrating the Unique Relationship between the Horse, Classical Music & Visual Art, pgs. 52-53, Commissioned work and Moulin Rouge, Welch Printing Co.
2008 The West Georgian, Carrolton, Georgia, The remarkable physical and spiritual journey of Ruth Adams, January 30, 2008, Review and Image.
The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia, Art using a regular scanner, Jay Conley, January 22, 2008, Photo and Interview
Triathlon Made Easy, Interview and photographs about running triathlons as a cancer survivor, Lisa Buckingham, Collins & Brown, 2008
Interviewed for BA (Hons) Dissertation by Rachael Allen at Fine Art at University of Cumbria, United Kingdom, Title: How ‘Artwork on illness’ functions in the Post-Modern era in relation to the portrayal of pain and suffering via art.
2007 CR – a magazine about people and progress in cancer, unremarkable Photo spread and artist statement, selected by editor in chief, Gwen Darien
Artdaily.org, The First Art Newspaper on the Net, UK Artist-Faculty make Mark on Life, Photo & caption http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=21566
Three interviews about unremarkable, cancer and triathlon running at www.capessa.com
A Picture of Health: Photographs of an Illness - Cancer & Chemotherapy on Yahoo! Health http://health.yahoo.com/cancer-inspirational-stories/a-picture-of-health-photographs-of-an-illness/capessa--73-1_rutha.html
From Hodgkin's to Healthy - Lymphoma on Yahoo! Health
http://health.yahoo.com/lymphoma-inspirational-stories/from-hodgkin-s-to-healthy/capessa--73-3_rutha.html
Running for Her Life: a Cancer Comeback - Fitness on Yahoo! Health
http://health.yahoo.com/lymphoma-inspirational-stories/running-for-her-life-a-cancer-comeback/capessa--73-2_rutha.html
CityBeat, Best of Cincinnati, Head Shop, Jane Durrell, March 28, 2007, Review
WUKY – Focus on UK interview, interview regarding unremarkable installation at UK Art Museum
Moulin Rouge, used for Mulberry and Lime Winter Gallery Advertisement
Kentucky Kernel, Overcoming Tragedy, Picture with caption and article
2006 INDYSTAR, Indianapolis, Indiana, Picture it otherwise: Show takes photography back to basics, S.L. Berry, October 27, 2006, Review and Image
NUVO Newsweekly, Indianapolis, Indiana, Technology’s thoughtful side, Julianna Thibodeaux, November 22, 2006, Review
ajc AccessAtlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, September 7-17, 2006, P39, Published Image
ajc AccessAtlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, May 18, 2006, P26, Published Image
INDY The Independent Weekly, Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Visual Health: Ruth Adams' photo diary of cancer treatment tells an unexpected story, Michele Natale, August 9, 2006, Interview/Review/Image
Chronogram: Arts.Culture.Spirit, Woodstock, New York, Sparrow, May 2006, Interview and Image
Pulse: Visual Art Magazine, Woodstock, New York, Picture shows, Cara Patterson, April 6, 2006, Review
2005 New York Times, Art Review, ‘Shoot!’, Helen A. Harrison, Friday, October 2, 2005, Section 14, page 9, Review
Art Papers Magazine, Reviews|Southeast, Athens, Georgia, Melissa Link, July/August 2005, page 38, Review
Bellville New-Democrat, Bellville, Illinois, The Art of Illness: Prognosis is good for SIUE exhibit, Teri Maddox, January 22, 2005, page C1, Review and three images
Athens Banner-Herald, Athens, Georgia, Illness as Art: ATHICA exhibit focuses on illness and recovery, Melissa Link, February 17, 2005, Marquee pages 8 - 9, Review and three images
Flagpole, Athens, Georgia, Art Notes: “Crisis” at AthICA, Beth Sale, February 16, 2005, page 17, Review
Limestone 2005, A Journal of Art and Literature: Silences, English Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, Magnolia
Kentucky Kernel, Finding peace in (self) portraits, Ellie Fairbanks, August 25, 2005, page 1, Interview, portrait and one image.
UK News Arts & Events, UK’s Adams raises money to run triathlon, fight cancer, August 15, 2005, page 12, Interview and one image
Shalom, Newspaper of the Central Kentucky Jewish Federation, Race to Benefit Lymphoma Society, pg 20, October 2005, Story written by Ruth Adams
2004 Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, ‘Two Points of View’ real, yet unreal, November 12, 2004, Review
Herald Leader, Lexington, Kentucky, 378 Days in the Life of Cancer, Rich Copley, March 14, 2004, Review and interview with my portrait and four images
Shalom, Newspaper of the Central Kentucky Jewish Federation, Surviving Cancer – An “unremarkable” Story, Lauren Cammack and Fran Morris Mandel, September 2004, Review and interview plus two images
2003 Photo Portfolio Success: A Guide to Submitting and Selling your Photographs, pages, 7, 12,134-7, 140, 142 and 153, F&W Publications, Cincinnati, Ohio, Written and Curated: John Kaplan, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, and Associate Professor, University of Florida, Interview and “New Harmony” pictured plus image on contents page
2001 Daily Press, Hampton-Newport News, Virginia, Photographer Crosses Digital Divide for Art, Mark St. John Erickson, October 7, 2001, page J5, Review and “Shaving Brush” pictured
2000 Shutterbug, Ethereal Flora: Ruth Adams’ Camera-Less Images, Rosalind Smith, June 2000, pages 4 and 86-90, Review & interview with seven images plus image on contents page
The Photography Yearbook 2000, pages 140-141, editor Chris Hinterobermaier, Fountain Press Ltd., Surrey, England, three image portfolio
1999 Exhibit: The Artist’s Information Source, Scott F. Rouse, October 1999, Review and interview
Naples News-Press, Women Take on the World, February 27, 1999, Image and jurors mention
Selected Public Lectures
2018 Eastern Kentucky University, Guest Scholar Lecture, Richmond, Kentucky
2015 Georgetown College, Panel Discussion: New/Old Lexington Camera Club, in conjunction with New Alchemy Exhibition at Anne Wright Wilson Gallery, Georgetown, Kentucky
2014 University of Toledo Visiting Artist Lecture in conjunction with solo exhibition
WRFL – OFFICE HOURS, Interview about my current and previous research
WUKY – CURTIANS @ EIGHT – Interview with Nick Lawrence about Meditating: Eyes Wide
2012 The Society for Photographic Education, Midwest Regional Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio
Co-Presenter: Art After Trauma: Beauty Without Guilt with Deborah Orloff, Photography Coordinator and Professor of Art, University of Toledo
College of Mt. St. Joseph’s, Gallery Talk: Meditating: Eyes Wide, Cincinnati, Ohio
University of Kentucky Hospital, Lecture on Art and Healing with Cellist Benjamin Karp, Lexington, KY
21 Nights, unremarkable, lecture in conjunction with ART21 preview at Parlay Social, Lexington, KY
2010 University of Texas San Antonio, Working From Experience: Photographers Address Women’s Health Issues Through Their Art, Presentation of work and Panel Discussion, as a part of Women’s History Month, The Women’s Studies Institute and the Department of Art and Art History, San Antonio, Texas
Invited to speak at the Lexington Creative Camera Club about my research, Lexington, Kentucky
2009 Vanderbilt University, Retrospective on my research, Nashville, Tennessee
2008 The Society for Photographic Education: Agents of Change: Art & Advocacy, National Conference, Denver, CO
Imagemaker presentation: unremarkable: Art and Healing, 111 proposals submitted, <50 accepted
Washington & Lee University, Gallery Talk: Scanner as Camera, Lexington, Virginia
University of West Georgia, Gallery Talk: unremarkable, Carrollton, Georgia
Shawnee State University, Gallery Talk: unremarkable, Portsmouth, Ohio
2007 University of Kentucky Art Museum, The Art of Healing, for the Medical School, Lexington, KY
Interviewed by Nick Lawrence for WUKY’s Curtains @ Eight, regarding unremarkable installation in UK Faculty Show, Lexington, Kentucky
Community Cultural Center at Jamestown Community College, Gallery Talk: unremarkable, Jamestown, NY
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Art at Noon Gallery Talk: unremarkable, Lexington, Kentucky
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lecture to the Docents: unremarkable, Lexington, Kentucky
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lecture given to Dr. Kregor’s Medical Students titled unremarkable: Art and Healing
2006 1st International Conference on the Arts in Society, Edinburgh, Scotland (cancelled due to illness)
Panelist: Teaching and Healing Through the Arts
The Society for Photographic Education, National Conference, Chicago, Illinois
Panelist: Scanner as Camera, 139 proposals submitted, 38 accepted
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Gallery Talk: unremarkable, Durham, North Carolina
The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Gallery Talk: unremarkable, Woodstock, New York
Herron School of Art and Design, Gallery Talk: unremarkable, Indianapolis, Indiana
Connections Guest Lecturer – unremarkable: Art And Healing, Christ Church Cathedral
2004 The Society for Photographic Education, Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois
Presenter: unremarkable, solo lecturer on work
2003 The Society for Photographic Education, Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois
Presenter: On Intimacy: Privacy vs. Voyeurism, solo lecturer on work
Curatorial
2011 Transfixed: artist's hand in photographic process, Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, Lexington, Kentucky, group show of 19th century photographic processes being used by contemporary photographers
2008 Scanner as Camera, Washington and Lee University Gallery, Lexington, Virginia, and Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, Lexington, Kentucky, group show with 8 national artists who use the scanner as a camera, Maggie Taylor, Christa Kreeger Bowden, Darryl Curran, J. Seeley, Valerie Mendoza, Rhona Shand, Stephen Althouse and Ruth Adams
Selected Public Collections
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia, Maczul, Maracaibo, Venezuela
University of Colorado Boulder, Norlin Library Special Collections
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
Project Women, Louisville, Kentucky
Jewish Hospital of Louisville, Kentucky
Robert A. Peck Arts Center, Riverton, Wyoming
Noel Studio for Academic Creativity, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky
St. Joseph’s Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky
Selected Awards
2017 2 monographs, That's The Ohm and unremarkable, selected for Fall Line Press's 50 best self-published photobooks for their Fall Line 50 juried competition
unremarkable was also a jurors blog top pick.
http://www.falllinepress.com/news/2017/7/18/fl-50-juror-pick-from-elliot
2016 Honorable Mention Whitestone Gallery, “Considering Creation: Landscape Photography”, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2006 Al Smith Professional Assistance Award, Kentucky Arts Council, Frankfort Kentucky, $1,000
2006 Top 50 Photographers, Critical Mass/Photolucida, Portland, Oregon
Book Award Finalist (Top 20), Critical Mass/Photolucida, Portland, Oregon
Juror’s Award, Photography NOW, Loudoun House, Lexington, Kentucky, Juror-Sam Abell, National Geographic Society Photographer-in-Residence
2005 Best in Show, 5th National Juried Photography Exhibition, Stepping Stone Gallery, Huntington, New York
2002 Special Recognition, 2002 Spring International Invitational Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
2001 Best In Show, Art by the Book Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance of Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee
Special Recognition, Photographic Processes III International Juried Art Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
2000 Jurors’ Top Five Award and Honorable Mention, Bit By Bit, All Digital Show, Main Gallery, Business of Art Center, Manitou Springs, Colorado
1999 Purchase Award, Exhibition ‘99, Robert A. Peck Arts Center, Riverton, Wyoming
First Place, Second Annual Juried Invitational Competition 1999, Gallery West, Alexandria, Virginia
Second Place, Tri-State Plus ‘99, Beaumont Art League, Beaumont, Texas
Special Recognition, Digital & Experimental ‘99, Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
1998 Second Place - Fine Arts, Third Annual Graduate Student Research and Creativity Forum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida:
Ed Gannam Digital Imaging Award, Lowe Museum Annual Student Exhibition, Coral Gables, Florida
1992 Third place - Pictorial Category, 47th College Photographer of the Year, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Missouri
1991 Second place picture story, Dive Dive Dive, May, National Press Photographers Association, Monthly Clip Contest
Other Professional Activities
2015 – 2016 Vermont College of Fine Arts Low Residency MFA, Artist Teacher for Erica Meuser
2015 – 2016 Consultant to Anne Leader as a part of her Kentucky Foundation for Women Artist’s Enrichment Grant
2013 University of Toledo, Ohio, Lecture on my research and career to Alternative Process Photography class
2011 University of Kentucky, ENG 205, The Rhetoric(s) of Disease, Lecture on my research, Invited by Professor Katherine Carpenter
2011 Juror for the Lexington Creative Camera Club Annual Exhibition, Lexington, Kentucky
2010 University of Texas San Antonio, Lecture on my research and Critique with photography students
2009 Juror for the Vanderbilt University Art Department’s Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award in Studio Art, a $25,000 travel grant and a $10,000 merit award to graduating art majors, Nashville, Tennessee
2009 Invitation to speak to photography classes at Cincinnati Art Institute
2008 University of West Georgia, Lecture on my research, and Two class critiques, Carrollton, Georgia
Shawnee State University, One-on-one critiques with students
2008 Juror for Lexington Art League’s The Nude International, Lexington, Kentucky
2005 Juror for Cumberland Gallery Spring Art Show, London, Kentucky
2004 Invited to be a juror for Sights Unseen Photography Contest at Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, Kentucky
Teaching Experience
Fall 2000 – Present Associate Director and Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Art and Visual Studies, University of Kentucky, College of Fine Arts, Lexington, Kentucky
(Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor in 2006, Promotion to Associate Director in 2012)
Fall 1999 – 2000 Assistant Professor, Truman State University, Division of Fine Arts, Department of Art, Kirksville, Missouri
Summer 2002 Instructor – Photoshop Crash Course Beginning; weeklong workshop THE MAINE PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKSHOPS, Camden, Maine
Fall 1997 Instructor - Creative Photoshop for Photographers, intermediate, weeklong workshop SANTA FE PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKSHOPS, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Jan 1995 - July 96 Instructor - Introduction to the Macintosh and Photoshop; Creative Imaging/Beginners, weeklong workshops PALM BEACH PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTRE, Delray Beach, Florida . Teaching Assistant - All other digital imaging classes
June - Aug 1997 Consultant - Train digital technicians CAPE COD TIMES, Hyannis, Massachusetts
June - Dec 1994 Photography Intern - Train staff photographers on use of new Macintosh system, Leafscan45, and digital darkroom software CAPE COD TIMES, Hyannis, Massachusetts
June - Sept 1993 Photography Intern - Train staff photographers on use of new digital darkroom hardware and software THE HERALD-MAIL, Hagerstown, Maryland