de la Misión

 

21st Century Portraits

 

International Photography Competition

 
 

Pretty in Pink

 
 
 
 

Uncanny Beauty

 
 
 


Landscape Perspectives

 
 
 

PhotoAlliance + S.F. Art Commission Galleries | San Francisco City Hall | Jan. - June, 2025
Curators: Lewis Watts, Beth Davila Waldman, Linda Connor
Images: Rose, Febe, and Maria (from Of the Mission)


Bay Area Photographers Collective | Transmission Gallery, Oakland, CA | Nov. 2024 - Jan. 2025
Curators: Cameron Brian and Ruth Santee, owners, Transmission Gallery
Image: Stand-In (a diptych from Night Work).


ArtSpan | Solo exhibition of environmental portraits | Mission Bowling Club | November 2024 - April 2025
Curator: Shrey Purohit, ArtSpan Exhibitions
Images: Lisa, Alejandro, Varun, Ingrid, Karla, Jonathan, Rose, and Jamila (from Of the Mission)


L.A. Photo Curator | Honorable Mention in online exhibition | August 2024
Curators: Michael Rababy, Gallerist, Hive Gallery in Los Angeles and James Payne, photographer
Image: Lisa (from Of the Mission)


The Photo Review | Portrait in “We the People” online gallery. | July 2024
Curator: Joel Smith, the Richard L. Menschel Curator and Department Head in Photography at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York.
Image: Ingrid (from Of the Mission)


Bay Area Photographers Collective | Marin Art and Garden Center, Ross, CA | March-April 2024
Curator: Trisha Lagaso Goldberg
Images: Valley/Building and Rock/Vehicle (from the Unnatural World).


Gray Loft Gallery | Oakland, CA | December-January, 2024
Curator: Ann Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art
Image: Hills/Graffiti (from the Unnatural World)


Center for Photographic Art | Carmel, CA | Online gallery | December-January, 2024
Juror: Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Image: Valley/Burn (from the Unnatural World)


Galerie XII | Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA | November, 2023
Finalist, FOCUS Photo l.a.’s Summer 2023 exhibition
Jurors: Valérie-Anne Giscard d’Estaing, owner of Galerie XII; Eve Schillo, Associate Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); and Scarlet Cheng, Arts Writer and Educator
Image: Island/Tunnel (from the Unnatural World)


de Young Museum | San Francisco, CA | September-January, 2024
Multiple Jurors for The de Young Open call
Image: Valley/Burn (from the Unnatural World)


Harvey Milk Photo Center | Bay Area Photographers Collective | San Francisco, CA | Sept.-Oct., 2023
Curator: Emmanuelle Namont
Images: Valley/Burn and Lake/Window (from the Unnatural World)


Woodmere Art Museum | Philadelphia, PA | August-October, 2023
Curator: Deborah Willis, Ph.D. on behalf of The Photo Review 2023 International Photography Competition
Image: Blaze (from Re-envisioning), awarded a fourth prize in the competition


Glasgow Gallery of Photography | Glasgow, Scotland | July, 2023
Curated by the Glasgow Gallery of Photography Directors and Curators
Image: Valley/Building (from the Unnatural World)


Art Works Downtown: Gallery 1137 | San Rafael, CA | June-July 2023
Curator: Kim Eagles-Smith
Image: Valley/Burn (from the Unnatural World)


O’Hanlon Center for the Arts | Mill Valley, CA | May 2023
Curator: Shana Lopes
Image: Valley/Burn (from the Unnatural World)


Praxis Gallery | Minneapolis, MN | Feb-Mar 2023
Curator: Aline Smithson
Image: Valley/Burn (from the Unnatural World)

Valley/Burn, from the series Unnatural World, explores the clash of scenic beauty and man’s impact on the environment.


Santa Cruz Art League | Nov 2022-Jan 2023
Curator: Joe Ramos
Image: Overnight (from Re-envisioning)


Bay Area Photographers Collective | Minnesota Street Project | Oct-Nov 2022
Curator: Sandra Phillips
Images: The Mission, Blaze, With Intent, Overnight (from Re-envisioning).

A Q&A with Sandra Phillips, curator of the BAPC exhibition, at the opening reception on Oct. 22, 2022.
Video: Ari Salomon


Center for Fine Art Photography | Online | Oct-Nov 2022
Curator: Elizabeth Cheng Krist
Image: Hills/Graffiti (from the Unnatural World)


NYC4PA | Online | September 2022
Curator: Elizabeth Avedon
Image: Forethought (from Re-envisioning)


 

Roma Fotografia | Bresciani Visual Art Gallery (group), Piazza della Fotografia (solo) | July, August 2022
Curators: Maria Cristina Valeri, Alex Mezzenga and Gilberto Maltinti
Image: The Mission (from Re-envisioning) Awarded first prize

Images from Rusty Weston's "Re-envisioning" series on display in Roma's Piazza Santa Maria.

Blaze, from the series Re=emvisioning, on display in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere.


The Night is Young

 

East Bay Photo Collective | Oakland Photo Workshop | September 2022
Jurors: EBPCO
Images: Take Out (from Cerrado), Intake (from Night Work)


Yellow

 

Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA | Nov-Dec 2021
Curator: Ann Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art
Image: Take Out (from Cerrado)


Magnetic Pull

 

Bay Area Photographers Collective | Arc Gallery, S.F. | Jan-Feb 2021
Curators: Daniel Nevers, Jennifer Brandon
Images: Lean In, Gamer Focus, Goofballs (from Game Faces)


Thriving in Place

 

Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Berkeley, CA | September 2020
Curators: Gene Dominique, Becky Jaffe
Image: 2200 Mission Street (from Cerrado)


Summer 2020

 

Focus Photo L.A. | 3118 W. Sunset Blvd, Silverlake, L.A. | Postponed until September 2021
Curator: Elizabeth Houston
Image: Cocktail Hour (from Cerrado)


No Happy Accidents

 

L.A. Photo Curator | Online } January 2020
Curator: SameSource
Image: Hesitation (from Unrealized) Awarded first prize


Marking Time

 

Bay Area Photographers Collective | Harvey Milk Photography Center, S.F. | Sept-Oct 2019
Curator: Meg Shiffler
Images: Intent, Game Talk, Digital Friend (from Game Faces)


KG+

 

Kyotographie Satellite Event | Dohjidai Gallery of Art, Kyoto | April 2019
Images: Hesitation, Sublimation, Tilted, Expectations (from Unrealized)


The Photo Review

 

The Photo Review journal | Online, print | December 2018
Curator: Sarah Meister
Image: The Office (from Unrealized)


Advanced

 

State Senator Scott Weiner’s SF Office | December 2018
Curator: Joseph Abbati
Images: Patchwork, Industrious, Canned Heat (from Extensions)


Photo Shoot: 2018

 

Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR | September 2018
Image: Sublimation (from Unrealized)