Books
Dwell, 44 pages, (Polyseme 2020)
The Long Way Home, 44 pages, First press of 100 (Static Age UK 2018)
Awards & Residencies
2024 AS International Film Photography Award: Fine Art Best New Talent/Gold Winner in Fine Art/Conceptual
2024 Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist
2024-25 Distillery Artist Residency, Pittsburgh, PA
2024 23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Awards: Self-Portrait Category Winner/Self-Portrait Honorable Mentions
Collections
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Special Collections and University Archives, Lisa Toboz oral history with Jerry Russo, January 17, 2022. Jerry Russo Oral History Collection of Artists During COVID-19 (MS 1185)
Polaroid Museum (Stefanie Schneider), Bombay Beach, CA
BALTIC Archive, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, The Long Way Home photo book, Gateshead, United Kingdom
Exhibitions
2024
Analog Sparks, AS International Awards, House of Lucie, Budapest, Hungary
Analog Sparks, AS International Awards, House of Lucie, Athens, Greece
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh New Member Exhibition, Ice House Studios, Pittsburgh, PA
JRNL, FotoFilmic Gallery, Bowen Island-Vancouver, BC
Integral Exposures, Inside Town Art Collective, Chicago, IL
Nostalgia, Millepiani Gallery, Rome, Italy
2023
Radial Survey Biennial, Vol 3: Presence, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
Light Conversation Vol. 4: Small Talk Collective, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
Life on Mars (Stefanie Schneider), Instantdreams Gallery, Morongo Valley, CA
Polaroid Spring, Baxton Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2022
Collective Rage, Strange Paradise Gallery, Portland, OR
The 12.12 Project, Kaleid Gallery, San Jose, CA
It’s Magic. A Beyond Experience, Millepiani Gallery, Rome, Italy
Where We Dwell, Ras Al-Khaimah Fine Arts Festival, Ras Al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
2021
Fantastic Film Show, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR
2020
Fantastic Film Show, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR
Home, Millepiani Gallery, Rome, Italy
Internal Dialogue (Fran Forman and Michael Kirchoff), One Twelve Publishing, Online Exhibition
Focus: Monochrome, Downtown Arts Collective Gallery, Orlando, FL
2019
The Art of Instant Photography, Analog Film Photography Association, Online Exhibition
Polaroid Festival: Wall of Fame, Atelier Guell, Barcelona, Spain
Black and White Lives (Instant Dreams-Online) Arles, France
The Other Art Fair (Saatchi Art - Instant Dreams Gallery), Los Angeles, CA
Bombay Beach Biennale 2019, Polaroid Museum, curated by Stefanie Schneider, Bombay Beach, CA
The Photographer in the Frame (Kat Kiernan), Don’t Take Pictures Magazine, Online Exhibition
Perceptions, Millepiani Gallery, Rome, Italy
2018
Constructs: Building Images with Instant film (Michael Kirchoff), Analog Forever Magazine, Online Exhibition
Dwell, Evangeline/Distrikt Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA
12.12 Project, Polaroid Festival,, Espace Beaurepaire, Paris, France
About Me, Millepiani Gallery, Rome, Italy
2017
The Photographic Portrait, Fazenda, London, United Kingdom
Shot on Film, Willow Tree Gallery, Johnson City, TN
Reclaiming Our Cultural Landscape, Reclaim Photography Festival, Black Country Living Museum, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Elsewhere (Fran Forman), A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas
2016
NSEW: Divided by Land, United by Film, Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, MO
Flawed, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas
2015
Instant Gratification, Love Gallery, Denver, CO
Fourth River, 937 Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2014
Mobile Magic (Jody Miller), LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR
2013
Miniature, CCAC Visual Arts Center, Pittsburgh, PA
8x8, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
2012
Herself in Time, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA
Ley Line, Assemble Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2010
‘Til Death Do Us Part, Rebellious Nature Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Grimm Fairy Tales, The Art Center, Butler, PA
Public Record (Justin Hopper), Bricolage Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Westmoreland County Art Nationals, Westmoreland County College, Youngwood, PA
2008
In the Making-Pittsburgh 250, FE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Curatorial
2023
Art of Illusion, Analog Forever Magazine Online Exhibition
2022
Reflections, Analog Forever Magazine Online Exhibition
2007-2016
Penn Avenue Arts Initiative Window Installation Series, Studio 5013, Pittsburgh, PA
2009
Dividing the Goose, Co-curator with Jeff Schreckengost, Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
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F-Stop Magazine: Issue 106 Self-Portraits
TABLE Magazine, Spring 2021 “In Bloom”
Shoot It With Film Magazine, Issue 2
Analog Forever Magazine: Interview
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The 12.12 Project (Les Petites Éditions 2019)
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The Hand Magazine Issue 21
SoundBite Magazine: Interview
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Education
MFA Writing University of Pittsburgh
BA English University of Pittsburgh