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RESUME
Ruthie Abel
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Born in Charlotte, NC
Solo Exhibitions (Let It Be The Dream It Used To Be)
2018 The Chapin School
2018 New York Law School
2017 Anastasia Photo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Undocumenta Documenta 15, Kassel, Germany
2022 The Patriot O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY
2020 Social Documentary VII, The Carriage Trade, New York, NY
2019 Social Documentary VI, The Carriage Trade, New York, NY
2018 Freedom From Fear, FDR Four Freedoms Park inaugural exhibition, New York, NY
2018 Inside Out, International Center for Photography in collaboration with the artist J.R.
2018 Capture Your Freedom, Gallery RIVAA, New York, NY
Grants and Awards
2022 NYSCA Grantee for Above The Fold
2020 United Photo Industries teaching artist award recipient
2018 Fuji Film Award Recipient for Freedom from Fear
2017 Peter Reed Foundation Grantee
2013 Eddie Adams Workshop merit-based photography seminar invitee
Selected Artist’s Lectures, Presentations & Teaching
2019, 2018 New York University’s McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research Step Up Photo Voice teaching artist in program for youth with environmental, academic and social challenges
2018 Bronx Documentary Center, artist talk, Art and Migration
2018 The Chapin School, artist talk, Let It Be The Dream It Used To Be
2017 Anastasia Photo, teaching artist providing interactive curriculum in conjunction with Let It Be The Dream for over 200 lower Manhattan middle school students
Selected Commissioned Photography
2018 Vulnerable But Not Broken: Psychosocial Challenges and Resilience Pathways Among Unaccompanied Children from Central America, (Immigration Working Group and Yale University School of Medicine) contributed cover and principal photography
2012 Transportation Pathways; Climate Resilience, The Rockefeller Foundation
2012 Ideas City, The New Museum
Selected Reviews
Sarah Cascone, “Show of the Day: This Photographer Offers a Window Into the Lives of Central American Youth Who Have Fought for a Home in the US,” Artnet News (February 2, 2018).
Joshua Colon, “Art Out: Ruthie Abel – Let It Be The Dream It Used To Be,” Musee Magazine (December 11, 2017).
Education
2009 Documentary and printmaking coursework, International Center for Photography, New York
2002 Juris Doctorate, Columbia Law School, New York
2002 Masters in International Affairs, Columbia School of International Affairs, New York
1996 Bachelor of Arts, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill