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