BIO

Adair Freeman Rutledge is a photographer based in Seattle, WA. Originally from small town Alabama, her work often questions enduring traditions and underscores tensions between cultural practices and realities.

Adair’s photography has been commissioned by brands like Amazon, John Deere, Brooks Running, and Lands' End. Her personal projects have been featured on NPR, Fraction Magazine and Lenscratch, and also selected for numerous awards, most recently as a 2018 Finalist for the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize and as the 2018 1st Place winner of CENTER Santa Fe's Editor’s Choice award. Select pieces from her latest body of work, Azalea Trail Maids, will be exhibited at the Turchin Center for the Arts and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in 2018/19 and is part of the outdoor traveling exhibition “The Fence,” opening in Brooklyn in June 2018.

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Education

Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Photography, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Auburn University

Honors/Grants

2019

Photographic Center Northwest's "22nd Juried Exhibition" Honorable Mention

2018

International Photography Awards, 1st Place Winner, “Field Sports” Category

International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention, “Deeper Perspective” Category

CENTER’s Editor’s Choice Award, 1st Place

Critical Mass, Photo Lucida, Top 200 Finalist

CDS/Honickman First Book Prize Finalist, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke

The FENCE, National Winner

Review Santa Fe Scholarship Recipient, CENTER Santa Fe

American Photography 34, Selected award winner

2017

Critical Mass, Photo Lucida, Top 200 Finalist

American Photography 33, Selected award winner

Review Santa Fe, Top 100 Artists

2010

Arts at the Airport Honorarium

Exhibitions

2019

"Face First," Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge, WA

"Women's Stories, (Untold)," Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS

"22nd Juried Exhibition," Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA

"Picture Your Story," A collaboration between Central Arts Sanctuary & The Do Good Fund, Mobile, AL

2018/19

“Currents 2018,” Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA

"22nd Juried Exhibition," Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA

“The Fence: A Public Art Exhibit,” United Photo Industries, Traveling Exhibition:

Brooklyn, Boston, Atlanta, Santa Fe, Durham, Denver, Calgary, Houston, and Sarasota

“Full Circle: 2018 CENTER Award Winners,” Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC

2006-2010

“The Arcade Project,” Arts at the Airport - Flying Solo Exhibition, Nashville Internat'l Airport

“The Arcade Project,” Group show, The Rymer Gallery, Nashville, TN

“Tennessee Art League ASMP Photo Exhibition,” Nashville, TN

“Alabama Photo Book Project,” Traveling Exhibition

“Emerging Nashville Photographers,” The Arts Company Gallery, Nashville, TN

Selected Clients and Publications

ABC Networks, Amazon, American Songwriter Magazine, APhotoEditor, Brooks Running, Buzzfeed News, Country Weekly, Fraction Magazine, Hospital Corporation of America, John Deere, Lands’ End, Lenscratch, Oxford American, Sunset Magazine, UVA Children’s Hospital, Weight Watchers