Adelaide Ryder CV

​​education

MFA, Photography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
BA, Art and Communication, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT 

exhibitions

2021

• Faculty Art Show, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT

2020

• Faculty Art Show, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT

2019

• Collaboration, a publication with Halophyte Collective

• Faculty Art Show, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT

2018

• Protect, Urban Arts Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

• Faculty Art Show, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT

2017

• Community, Draw inc., Salt Lake City, UT

• Conjure, Downtown Artist Collective, Salt Lake City, UT 

• Opposition Gallery Series, Utah Arts Alliance officiated show, Salt Lake City, UT

• Faculty Art Show, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT

2016 

• Faculty Art Show, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT

• Adjunct Faculty Art Exhibition, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

2015

• Material of Memory, group curated show of 6 artists, Urban Arts Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

• Faculty Art Show, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT

• Adjunct Faculty Art Exhibition, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 

2013

•  Artists of Utah 35x35, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

Juried show by Artists of Utah Board of Directors. People’s Choice Award Recipient.

• Faculty Art Show, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT

2012

• Craft & Photography State-Wide Competition, Utah Arts and Museums, Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT 

2011

• 1687, Alvin Gittins Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT MFA Thesis Exhibition, Solo show

• Tension, Alvin Gittins Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT, Group show

• Annual State-Wide Art Competition, Bountiful/Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT

• Inbetweens, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT 

2010

• Commissioned photo installation, University of Utah College of Nursing, Salt Lake City, UT

Selected by the College of Nursing Alumni Board to design a photo installation honoring alumni

• Awaiting, Utah State Capitol, Salt Lake City, UT

Collaborative time-based public performance art exhibition by Ernesto Pujol

• Mind the Gap, GARFO Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT

• Who Do They Think They Are, Alvin Gittins Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

• Booking a Brouhaha, Special Collections Gallery, J. Willard Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, UT 

2009

• Westminster College Alumni Art Exhibit, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT

2008

• Narrative, Women’s Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT

2007

• Group Photo Exhibition, Capitol Hill Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

• 2006

• Utah Women Artists Exhibition, American Association of University Women, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City, UT 

• Senior Show, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT 

• Annual Student Art Exhibition, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT

employment 

May 2019-Present

Lead Photographer and Digital Projects Manager, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT

October 2014-2019

Collections Photographer and Digital Assets Manager, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT

November 2013- October 2014

Lead Photographer and Graphic Designer, Medical Graphics & Photography School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

October 2008-November 2013

Project Coordinator, Second Language Teaching & Research Center and Department of Languages & Literature, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

March 2008-February 2009

Outreach Director and Curator, volunteer position, The Women’s Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT

June 2007- August 2008

Art Director, Graphic Designer, and Photographer, Wasatch Journal Media, Salt Lake City, UT

June 2006-Present

Freelance Photographer, Self Employed, Salt Lake City, UT

September 2004- January 2007

Advertising production and Sales Representative, Catalyst Magazine, Salt Lake City, UT

teaching experience

January 2013- Present:

Adjunct Instructor, College of Arts and Science, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT

• History of Photography

• Traditional Color Photography

• Digital Media Survey

• Beginning Photography (traditional black and white and digital photography methods)

August 2011-2017

Instructor/Lecturer, College of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

•  ART 2060 Beginning Digital Photography