Adrianna Ault (b.1972) is an American photographer raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Adrianna studied photography from a very early age. She lived and worked in New York City for seventeen years and has spent her life working in the realm of photography, whether commercial or artistically driven.
In 2017, she collaborated with Tim Carpenter, Raymond Meeks, and Brad Zellar on Township, a photobook centered around the auction of her family farm in central Ohio. In 2018, Township was nominated for the distinguished Kassel Fotobook Award.
Adrianna Ault holds an MFA from Hartford International Limited-Residency Photography School. She works in her studio in the Hudson Valley of New York. In addition to making work for publication, she has taught at colleges and workshops.
Levee, Adrianna’s most recent monograph, was published by VOID in November 2023. Registration is open for August 2024 ‘Book-Making: The Personal and The Universal’, a workshop with Adrianna and Aaron Schumann at LaBabuch in Mérigny, France.
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Portrait by Sunday Ault-Nolan, Adrianna’s daughter.
Selected News
February 28, 2024 — 10 Exhibitions to See in Upstate New York This March, Levee: Photographs by Adrianna Ault at CPW (Kingston, NY), Hyperallergic
February 28, 2024 — Adrianna Ault, Woman Crush Wednesday feature, Musée Magazine
January 4th, 2024 — Levee: Photographs by Adrianna Ault, All About Photo
October 29, 2023 — 'Levee' by Adrianna Ault to be published by VOID, ArtDaily
May 10, 2022 — Photography’s Impossible Attempt at Freezing Time, Review of Considered Interactions at Casemore Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Hyperallergic
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Work Experience
2021 - present Photographer & owner, Ault Studio and Portrait Gallery, Rhinecliff, NY
2003 - present Freelance photographer, New York City and Hudson Valley, NY
2019 - 2021 Facilitator & participant, 30th St Critique Group, NYC, NY and remote — Co-organized and oversaw a critique group of New York City based photographers with Sara J.
Winston, beginning in November 2019. In March 2020, the group of 25 to 30 artists was expanded to an online zoom platform of 35 to 70 photographers worldwide until
June 2021.
Education
2019 MFA Photography, University of Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT
1996 BA Art, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC
Fellowships and Awards
2021 New York Foundation for the Arts, Joy of Giving Fellowship for Photography
2018 Hartford Art School Merit Award
2018 Kassel Fotobook Award
2017 Hartford Art School Merit Award
1997 Elenor Von Canon Art Award
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Levee: Photographs by Adrianna Ault, CPW, Kingston, NY. Curated by Adam Giles Ryan.
2022 The impeded stream is the one that sings, Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff, NY
1997 Urthona Gallery, Asheville, NC
1996 Holden Art Gallery, Swannanoa, NC
1996 F-32 Photography Gallery, Asheville, NC
Group Exhibitions
2022 Paris Photo Exhibitions, Casemore Gallery, Paris, France
2022 Considered Interactions, Casemore Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021 Autumn and other poems, NYCSPC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Try Hide the Sun, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, CT
2019 Sonder, Casemore Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 No Dust on the Mirror, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2011 Fotorelief, Milk Gallery, New York, NY
Print Publications
Oct 2023 Water~Stone Review, Volume 26, Wreckage of Once Was
July 2022 Port Magazine, Lexie Smyth
July 2021 Zeit Wissen Magazine, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Jan 2017 London Financial Times, Shelter, co-authored with Raymond Meeks
Book Publications
2023 Levee. VOID Publishing. Text by George Weld
2022 A Geography of Abandonment, collaboration with Raymond Meeks. Origini Edizioni
2018 Really Good Dog Photography, co-authored with various artists. Penguin Books
2017 Township, co-authored with Raymond Meeks, Tim Carpenter, and Brad Zellar. TIS Books
Teaching Experience
Aug 2024 LaBabuch Workshop, Book-making: The Personal and The Universal, Poitier, France (forthcoming)
Mar 2024 University of Vermont, Guest Artist Lecture and Teaching
Nov 2023 LaBabuch Workshop, Repurposing the Photobook, Poitier, France
Sept 2023 Nearest Truth Mentoring Program, online guest lecture
Mar 2022 Amherst College, Guest Artist Lecture - Introduction to Darkroom
Nov 2021 Nearest Truth Workshop, Photobook, Athens, Greece
Spring 2021 Bard College, The View Camera, co-taught with Raymond Meeks
Nov 2020 Parsons School of Design - The New School, The Landscape of Image and Text Joint lecture with George Weld
Nov 2018 Marist College, Photo Book