Photographers

Ahndraya Parlato is an American artist and photographer whose work blends conceptual practice with personal narrative, often exploring themes of motherhood, memory, identity, and the psychological complexities of lived experience. She holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA from California College of the Arts and has developed a body of work that moves fluidly between photography, writing, and installation. Parlato has exhibited internationally, including presentations at Spazio Labo in Bologna, Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, the Aperture Foundation in New York, and the Swiss Institute in Milan.

She is the author of several acclaimed books, including *Who Is Changed and Who Is Dead* (MACK, 2021), *A Spectacle and Nothing Strange* (Kehrer Verlag, 2016), and *East of the Sun, West of the Moon* (Études Books, 2014), created in collaboration with Gregory Halpern. Her writing has appeared in *Photo No-Nos* (Aperture, 2021), *The Photographer’s Playbook* (Aperture, 2014), and other publications. Parlato’s work frequently straddles the line between objective and subjective reality, invoking dream logic, psychological tension, and fractured storytelling to question how images shape understanding.

Parlato has received major grants and residencies from Light Work, the Visual Studies Workshop, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has also been nominated for the ICP Infinity Award, the Paul Huf Award at FOAM, and SECCA Award at SFMOMA. In 2024 she was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Her newest project, *TIME TO KILL*, will be published by MACK in 2026 and forms the basis for a 2026 exhibition at the George Eastman Museum, where she examines gendered aging through photographs, text, and sculpture.

Parlato has taught at Bard College and in the Cornell Image Text MFA program. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she continues to develop an interdisciplinary practice rooted in fine art photography, writing, and experimental narrative forms.