EDUCATION
University of California, Irvine, MFA, Department of Art
New York University, BA, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2024
AI-AP Award
2023
Center for Visual Documentation Fellowship
2022
Paris Photo - Aperture First Photobook Award (Shortlisted)
Duke Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award
The Puffin Foundation Grant
Field Projects Residency
2021
National Geographic Society Grant
Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Grant
2020
Guggenheim Fellowship
Southern Documentary Fund Research and Development Grant
We Women Grant
Magnum Foundation Fund Award
2019
Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Artist in Residency
Louis Roederer Discover Award (Shortlisted)
Crosstown Arts Residency
2017
Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography
Columbus State University, Artist in Residence
2015
Time Magazine Instagram Photographer of the Year
The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, Residency
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
As it Was Give(n) To Me, CC Projects, New York, NY
2023
As it Was Give(n) To Me, Tennessee Triennial, ICA Chattanooga
2022
As it Was Give(n) To Me, Cortona on the Move, Cortona, Italy
2019
As it Was Give(n) To Me, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville,NC
As it Was Give(n) To Me, Les Rencontres de la Photografie, Arles, France
2017
Fulcrum of Malice, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC
2015
As it Was Give(n) to Me, Diffusion, Cardiff International Festival of Photography, Wales, UK
From the Study on Post Pubescent Manhood, Little Big Man Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Once Entangled With it, No Other Place Seems Possible, Gallery Protocol, Gainesville, FL
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
Borderlines, KMAC Contemporary Art MUseum, Louisville, Kentucky
2021
Earthbound Riches, Rowe Gallery at UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
2017
The Great Divide by Stacy Kranitz and Zoe Strauss, Lightfield Festival, Hudson, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
A Long Arc, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Beyond the Horizon, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC
2022
Reckonings and Reconstructions, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
America in Crisis, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
The Nature of the Future, Leu Art Gallery, Nashville, TN
Tender is Our Skin, Alabama Contemporary, Mobile, AL
2021
Devour the Land, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Looking Male, LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, AL
The Power of We, Empire Fulton Lawn in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Trump Revolution, Climate Crisis, Bronx Documentary Center, New York, NY
2018
Southbound, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
Record/Off Record, Northern Kentucky University, Fotofocus Biennial, Highland Heights, KY
Photography Comes First and Language Follows, Currey Gallery, Watkins College of Art, Nashville, TN
2017
Fake, Galerie Bohai, Hannover, Germany
2016
You, Me, Us and Them, W.C. Bradley Co. Museum, Columbus, GA
Familiar Difference, curated by Inocents, These Days Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Dirt, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Role Play, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, Colorado
2014
In Your Face, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
Louisiana, The Multi-Media Museum Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
2013
Recent Perspectives on Portraiture, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Harvard Art Museums
Museum of Fine Art, Houston
The Do Good Fund
Duke University, Archive of Documentary Arts
MONOGRAPHS
As It Was Give(n) to Me, Twin Palms, 2022
ARTIST LECTURES
2023
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN
The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN
2022
MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN
2021
Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
Royal Photographic Society, London, UK
Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Medium Photography Festival, San Diego, CA
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
2020
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2019
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2018
Sewanee, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville, TN
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2017
Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA
New Orleans Photographers Alliance, New Orleans, LA
2016
National Press Photographers Association of Canada, Toronto, Canada
2015
Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
Eastern Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Cardiff International Festival of Photography, Wales, UK
2014
Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Marshall University, Huntington, WV
Chapman University, Orange, CA