EDUCATION
2014 Master of Fine Arts, Photography, San José State University, San José, CA
2010 Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
2007 Associate of Arts, General Studies, College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020- Temporary Full-time Job Share, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
Present Art141: Introduction to Photography
Art 140A: Digital Photography
2018- Adjunct Instructor, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
2020 Art 141: Introduction to Photography
2019 Adjunct Instructor, Clackamas Community, College, Oregon City, OR
Art 161: Photography I, Beginning Darkroom
Art 162: Photography II, Intermediate Darkroom
2017 Adjunct Instructor, San José City College, San José, CA
Photography 079: Beginning Digital Photography
Photography 022: Beginning Photography, Darkroom
2016 Part-time Lecturer, San José State University, San José, CA
Photography 110: Intermediate Photography, Darkroom
Photography 40: Beginning Photography, Digital
2015/17 Gallery Teacher, San José Museum of Art, San José, CA
Tour Guide for K-12, activity facilitator for community days, youth summer art camps
2013 Part-time Lecturer, San José State University, San José, CA
Photography 110: Intermediate Photography, Darkroom
Photography 40: Beginning Photography, Digital
2011/15 Photography Curriculum Writer/Instructor/Assistant Director, Camp Edventure More, SF, CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2017/24 Exhibitions Committee, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland Oregon
2017 Freelance Consultant, LensCulture, San Francisco, CA
2017 Guest Services, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Portland, OR
RESIDENCIES
2021 Artist-in-Residence, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Lincoln City, OR (December)
2017 Artist-in-Residence, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY, (June)
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2023 Threshold: Recontextualizing Self-Portraiture, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, FL
2022 Afterword, Small Talk Collective, Strange Paradise Gallery, Portland, OR
2021/2024 Work on Loan for Carolyn Moore Residency, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
2021 One Person Exhibition, OPENS Gallery, Portland, OR
2021 Light Conversations Vol. 2, Small Talk Collective, Strange Paradise Gallery, Portland, OR
2020 FORECAST, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2019 International Juried Award, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2019 Art Faculty Exhibition, Helzer Gallery, Portland Community College, Rock Creek, Portland, OR
2019 >7 (Fat Positive Exhibition), 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida
2019 Two Person Exhibition, An Inward Gaze, Curated by Jon Feinstein and Roula Seikaly of Humble Arts Foundation, Blue Sky Curatorial Prize, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2019 Woodstock AIR: Housed, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
2018 Viva Las Fotos: A Day of the Dead Memorial for Laura Aguilar, Avenue 50 Studios, LA, CA
2017 Black & White, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2017 Woodstock Summer of Love, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
2017 Strength & Beauty: The Women’s Show, South x Southeast, Molena, GA
2017 Triton Statewide 2D Salon Exhibition, Santa Clara, CA
2017 Body/Image, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, VT
2017 Nasty Women Oakland, Omi Gallery, Oakland, CA
2017 SPE Multi-Caucus Exhibition, Orlando, FL
2015 (Dis)Comfort: A National Exhibition, Piante, Eureka, CA
2015 Making a Scene: 50 Years of Alternative Bay Area Spaces, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2015 Through a Curious Lens, A National Art Exhibit, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
2015 Photo Alchemy: Alternative Processes in Photographic Media, PVAC, Watsonville, CA
2015 The Photographic Nude 2015, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR
2015 2015 Juried Exhibition Web Gallery, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2014 Silhouettes Online Exhibition, Linus Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Photography Now?, Cal Poly University Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
2014 Lift Off, Art Ark, San José, CA
2014 MFA Exhibition, Emergence, San José State University, San José, CA
2014 18th Annual New Generations Student Showcase, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2014 Emerging Artist Exhibition, California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA
2014 2014 MFA Student Showcase, San José State University, San José, CA
2013 Emerging Photographers Show, Swanlund’s Gallery Eureka, CA
2013 Me, Myself and I, curated by David Hilliard, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2013 Powerful Images/ Alluring Objects, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 17th Annual New Generations Student Showcase, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2013 SKIN, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, VT
2013 MFA Now 2013, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2012 Tango and the Modern Nude, Art Ark, San José, CA
2012 Photo Alchemy, Pajaro Valley Arts Council, Watsonville, CA
2012 Stark, San José State University, San José, CA
2011 BA Exhibition, The Burden of Mine, Venatore Gallery, Arcata, CA, 2011
PUBLICATIONS
2020 “The Body Issue,” FemalePhotographers.Org (Femxphotographers.org), Vol. 1, Hatje Cantz, 2020
AWARDS
2021 Light Conversation Vol. 2 Exhibition Awardee, Small Talk Collective, Portland, OR
2019 Critical Mass, Top 200
2019 International Juried Exhibition, Second Place, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2019 Blue Sky Curatorial Prize, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 Nomination, The Royal Photographic Society, 100 Heroines, Bath, United Kingdom
2017 Director’s Honorable Mention, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2016 San José ICA Portfolio Review Scholarship Recipient, San José, CA
2007 Best in Photography, College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
2005 Bill & Melinda Gates Millennium Scholarship
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 Female Photographers.Org, Feature in Vogue Italia, Online,
https://www.vogue.it/fotografia/article/femalephotographersorg-independent-collective-first-book
2019 Female Photographers.Org, Feature in Vogue Italia, Online,
https://www.vogue.it/fotografia/article/femalephotographersorg-independent-collective-first-book
2019 “Using the Female Gaze to Look Inside the Self,” Feature Shoot, Miss Rosen,
https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/06/using-the-female-gaze-to-look-inside-the-self/
2019 “Self-Perception in Color, Pose and the Nude Self-Portrait, PDN Online,
https://potd.pdnonline.com/2019/05/56066/
2019 “An Inward Gaze @ Blue Sky Gallery,” Don’t Take Pictures, Frances Jakubek,
https://www.donttakepictures.com/dtp-blog/2019/5/30/an-inward-gaze-blue-sky-gallery
2019 “An Inward Gaze,” Exhibition catalog, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2019 PDN Online, “Self-Perception in Color, Pose and the Nude Self-Portrait,” https://potd.pdnonline.com/2019/05/56066/
2019 “An Inward Gaze,” Artist Talk, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=hcj7jmhSdt0
2018 Lenscratch, Photographers on Photographer: Samantha Geballe on Brittney Cathey-Adams, TBA
2018 Artifats Collection (@artifats_collection), Featured Photographer,
https://www.instagram.com/p/Blx-vq8BAlk/?hl=en&taken-by=artifats_collection
2017 Center for Photography at Woodstock, Vimeo, “Brittney Cathey-Adams 2017 Artist-In-Residence,”
https://vimeo.com/259755242
2017 SPE Multi-Caucus Exhibition, show catalogue, Society for Photographic Education, Orlando, FL
2016 Roula Seikaly, “Q&A: Brittney Cathey-Adams”, Strange Fire Collective,
http://www.strangefirecollective.com/qa-brittney-cathey-adams/
2015 Blur Magazine, Issue 42, Sesvete, Croatia
2015 Seities, “Theme: Nude”, Spring 14/15, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2015 Photo Alchemy 2015, catalogue, Watsonville, CA
2014 MFA Now 2014, catalogue, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2014 Aimee Santos, “Brittney Cathey-Adams: Body Positive Photographer,” Los Retratos,
http://studiovisit.la/artists/brittneycatheyadams
2013 SKIN, catalogue The Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, VT
2013 MFA Now 2013, catalogue, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2012 Photo Alchemy, catalogue, Pajaro Valley Arts Council, Watsonville, CA
2010 Don Anton, “Intercambio”, photograph, Nueva Luz Photographic Journal, Volume 14, No. 2, NY
LECTURES
2021 Guest Photographer lecturer, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
2021 Show & Tell, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Lincoln City, OR
2020 SF Camerawork: In Conversation: Brittney Cathey-Adams, Rachel Fein-Smolinsky and Jaclyn Wright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDgKH2Oj40Y
2019 “An Inward Gaze” Lecture, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2017 Guest photography lecturer, West Valley College, Saratoga, CA
2016 Guest photography lecturer & wet lab demonstration, San José State University, San José, CA
2015 “Pop Up Pix: Brittney Cathey-Adams,” speaker, Joshua Tree 2015 Society for Photographic Education Southwest &
West Retreat, Joshua Tree, CA, November 13-15
2015 Guest lecturer and laser-trans demonstration, San José State University, San José, CA
2014 “Pecha Kucha”, speaker, Stritch, San José, CA
2014 “Transition”, video guest speaker, Humboldt State University Alumni Association, Arcata, CA
2014 Guest photographer, speaker, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
2014 Guest photographer, lecture and demonstration, San José State University, San José, CA
2013 “Slide Slam 2013”, speaker, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2012 Guest photographer, speaker, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
COLLECTIONS
2017 The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022 Exhibition Committee, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2022 Selection Committee, 2022 Artist in Residence for Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Lincoln City, OR
2020 Selection Committee, 2020 Artist in Residence for the Center for Photography at Woodstock
2017 Blue Sky Gallery Volunteer, Portland, OR
2015/17 Volunteer Darkroom Assistant, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
2015/16 Juror, Annual New Generations Student Showcase, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2012 Graduate Assistant, designed program brochures, San José State University, San José, CA
2012/14 Instructional Assistant, Professors Robin Lasser, Valerie Mendoza, and Robert Dawson, San José State University, San José, CA
2009/10 Instructional Assistant, Professor Don Gregorio Antón, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
MEMBERSHIPS
2017/24 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2011 The Society for Photographic Education, Cleveland, OH
2017 The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2012 Pajaro Valley Arts Council, Watsonville, CA