Ward Long

ward@wardlong.com
+1.310.849.3958

Education

MFA University of Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT
BA cum laude, Political Science, Davidson College, Davidson, NC

Teaching

2025 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
2023 California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 2022 California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA.
2018-2021 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2016 University of Hartford Photo MFA. Hartford, CT

Selected Exhibitions

Summer Sublet, The Reef, Los Angeles, CA
All that fits, The Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles, CA
The end of all art, Memphis, TN
"You can call it love," Biennial Festival Photolux 2022, Lucca, Italy
Summer Sublet, Fondazione Banca dei Risparmi di Forlì, Forlì, Italy
Summer Sublet, commune gallery, Tokyo, Japan
All This Peaceful Living, Deadbeat Club, Oakland, CA
Center Annual Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

In the North, Film Fotographic, Pas Normal Studios, San Francisco, CA

Center Annual Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

Home, SFO Museum, San Francisco, CA
Fake Newsroom, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Center Annual Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX 2016 6, All Visual Triangle, Durham, NC
In Our Time, Baxter Street Camera Club, New York, NY
In Our Time, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT 2014

Even the Edges, Kominek Gallery, Berlin, DE

Awards & Honors

Flash Forward 2019, The Magenta Foundation
Beth Block Award, Houston Center of Photography
Book-Artist-in-Residence, Maine Media Workshop, finalist x 2
CENTER Santa Fe Portfolio Reviews
OneWorld Photo Alliance Portfolio Reviews
MACK First Book Award, nominee x 2
Rayko Artist-In-Residence, finalist
Burn Magazine, Emerging Photographer Fund, finalist
CDS/ Honickman First Book Prize, finalist
Perfect Book Dummy Award, University of Hartford
Merit Award, University of Hartford
Presidential Scholarship, University of Hartford
Department Award, University of Hartford
Baker Scholarship, Davidson College

Group Exhibitions & Book Fairs

Summer Sublet, Deadbeat Club at the Reef, Los Angeles, CA

All That's Fit, Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles, CA

All This Peaceful Living, Oakland, CA

Summer Sublet, Commune, Tokyo, Japan

In The North by Film Photographic, Pas Normal Studios, San Francisco, CA

Annual Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Home, SFO Museum, San Francisco, CA
SF Camerawork Annual Auction, San Francisco, CA
Fake Newsroom, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Summer Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Annual Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Philadelphia Art Book Fair, Philadelphia, PA
A New Nothing, www.anewnothing.com
6, All Visual Triangle, Durham, NC
NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS 1, New York, NY
In Our Time, Baxter Street Camera Club, New York, NY
Self-Published Photo Book Fair, Baxter Street CCNY, New York, NY
Philadelphia Art Book Fair, Philadelphia, PA
LA Art Book Fair, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
In Our Time, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT
Even the Edges, Kominek Gallery, Berlin, DE
One Night Stand at the Ole Miss Motel, Amelia Presents, Oxford, MS
Cats Purring, Powerplant Gallery, Oxford, MS

Selected Artist Lectures

2025 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
2023 California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2021 California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2021 Professional Practice. University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
2020 Investigations 3. Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, Washington, D.C. 2020 Studio Practice. Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, Washington, D.C. 2020 Documentary Strategy. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Collections

The Museum of Fine Arts,

Houston Getty Research Institute
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Harvard University

Pier 24 Photography
University of Hartford
University of Virginia
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive

Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Macalester College

George Washington University

Centre Canadien d’Architecture