BORN

1994 Bar Harbor, Maine

EDUCATION

2025 MFA in Art Studio, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2016 Bachelor of Arts in Photography, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Extant Species, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque, NM
2024 Glass Eyes Stare Back, Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2019 Trouble in the Garden, Colorspace Labs, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Olives in the street, Woods Gallery, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2016 Insatiable Hunger and the Peacock’s Plume, Woods Gallery, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Dusk til Dawn, The Hermitage, Los Angeles, CA
            queer ecologies: to dream a world alive, The Holland Project, Reno, NV
2024 SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM 
            Swimming In It, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
            Land, Body & Archive, North Light Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2023 Developing Story, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC
            Land, Body & Archive, John Sommers Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
            Connective Tissue: Environment, Ecology, Body, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM
            Photographic Practices Today: MFA Perspectives, SRO Gallery, Texas Tech University, TX
            New Wave presented by SPE, New Mexico State University, NM
2022 At First Sight, 6th Street Studio, Albuquerque, NM
2021 Triple Take, Prattsville Art Center, Prattsville, NY
            Come Forth, Fireplace Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Lugo: Emma Ressel, Richard Max Gavrich, and Vanessa Kotovich, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT
           Family Reunion, Lucas Lucas Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
           Word of Mouth, Godine Gallery, Boston, MA
           The Salon at The Wing, The Wing Soho, New York, NY
           Recognize you when she sees you, Give you the things she has for you, September Gallery, Hudson, NY
2018 Four D Presents Issue 2: Devotional, The Church Troy, Troy, NY
           Contemporary Photography 2008-2018, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
           Art Bangall, Bangall, NY
           The Salon at the Wing, The Wing, Washington DC
           Labs New Artists, Red Hook labs, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Landscape Through the Lens, Artemis Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME
2015 Emerging Artists, Artemis Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME

SELECTED AWARDS

2025 Shortlist, Aperture Portfolio Prize, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
            Student Award for Innovations in Imaging, Society for Photographic Education, Reno, NV
            Top 40, Dear Dave Magazine Fellowship
2024 Student Prize 2024: Top 25 to Watch, Lenscratch
2022 Student Project Award, Film Photo Award
2019 Flash Forward 2019, The Magenta Foundation, Toronto, Canada
           Semifinalist, 92nd Annual International Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED RESIDENCIES + FELLOWSHIPS

2026 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Regional Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2023-2025 Fellowship, Center for Regional Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2023 Emerging Artist Fellowship, Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2022 Residency, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
2021 Triple Take Residency, Four D Projects, Prattsville Art Center, Prattsville, NY
2016 Residency, Bard Lugo Land Artist Residency, Lugo (RA), Italy

COLLECTIONS

The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Culver City, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Noa Lin, “A Transfixing Look at Nature at its Most Unnatural,” Aperture, May 13, 2025.
The Editors, “Announcing the 2025 Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist,” Aperture, April 15, 2025.
Kellye Eisworth, “Student Prize 2024: Top 25 to Watch,” Lenscratch, July 21, 2024.
Jim Stone and Barbara London, Photography, Thirteenth Edition, April 2024. 308.
Addison Key, “UNM graduate inspires new photographers,” The Daily Lobo, May 1, 2023.
Sarah Sniderman, “Emma Ressel,” Vulnerability in Life and Art Podcast, Montreal QC, December 12th, 2022.
Allan Weitz and John Harris, “Food Photography and Still Life with Emma Ressel,” B&H Photography Podcast, New York, NY, March 18, 2021.
Jim Vockler Whyte, “Emma Ressel,” Tsuki Journal, May 2020.
Bailey Dale, “Emma Ressel,” Aint-Bad, March 24, 2020.
Isabella Kazanecki, "Anti-Thanksgiving," Musée Magazine, November 26, 2019.
Aint Bad, Issue No. 14, September 2019. 128.
Anton Shebetko, “Under the glass: Portfolio of food photographer Emma Ressel,” Bird in Flight, September 16, 2019.
Jasmine Clarke, “Emma Ressel,” Aint-Bad, February 14, 2019.
Sarah Cascone, “Editors’ Picks, Print Week Edition: 21 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,” Artnet News, October 22, 2018.
Ashleigh Kane, "25 Photographers to know from across the globe," Dazed & Confused Magazine, July 21, 2017.
Dick Broome, “MDI Photographer Blends the Beautiful and Grotesque,” Mount Desert Islander, September 28, 2016.