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 in 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
"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, Sunset Magazine, UVA Children’s Hospital, Weight Watchers