Ruth Lauer Manenti
470 Stonybrook Road
Palenville, NY 12463
917-586-3225
Born in Philadelphia.
2026 Upstate Photography Biennial, CPW, Kingston, NY
2025 New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship awarded in photography
2025 4 Sides of The Table Published by RM Editorial
2024 I Imagined It Empty shortlisted at Les Rencontres d’Arles
2024 I Imagined It Empty Published by: Phree, Ediciones Posibles, RM Editorial
2023 1st Prize Star Photobook Dummy Award – Fundación Photographic Social Vision
Education
2024 MFA, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
1995 MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT.
1990 BFA, School of Visual Arts, NYC.
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Remnants, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY.
2016 The Ramirez Miler Gallery, Bern, Switzerland.
2014 Recent Still Lifes, John Davis Art Gallery, Hudson, NY.
2011 Paper Blankets, Glasses and Bandages, John Davis Art Gallery, Hudson, NY.
2007 Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, NH.
2003 Bill Maynes Art Gallery, NYC.
1999 Genovese/Sullivan Art Gallery, Boston, MA.
1996 Bob Blackburn Printshop, NYC.
Group Exhibitions
2026 A Rip in Her Sleeve, Maiden Lane Gallery, Kingston, NY
2025 On the Shelf, Filter Space, Chicago, IL, juried by Tim Carpenter
2024 High Low Buffalo, Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York, New York, NY
2022 FRESH annual photography exhibition, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Juried selection show at the Center for Photographic Art,
juried by Darren Ching, Carmel, CA
2021 Online exhibition, Childhood: Past, Present & Future, curated by Laurie Freitag
2021 Athens, an exhibit spread through the town of Athens,
Georgia. Curated by Mark Steinmetz and Irina Rozovsky
2021 Online Photobook Show at the Griffin Museum of Photography
2020 Fractured, photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
2017 Small is Beautiful, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland.
2017 The Photobook, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA.
2006 Open Studio, Lower East Side Printshop, NYC.
2002 Insanity, Repetition and Meditation, curated by Phong Bui, The Painting Center, NYC.
2002 Science and Carnival, curated by Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC.
2000 Prints 2000, International Center for Printmaking, NYC.
2000 Obsessions in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1999 Prints and Works on Paper, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, NH.
1997 A Day of Silence, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
Employment
2025 Guest Lecturer: Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT.
2025 Guest Lecturer: Penumbra Foundation, NYC
2024 Guest Lecturer: Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
2007 Lecturer: painting and drawing, Dartmouth College, NH.
1997-99 Lecturer: painting and printmaking, Yale School of Art, CT.
Awards
4 Sides of the Table shortlisted in the 2026 Pick Award of the APhF:26 Book Program
2025 New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship awarded in photography
2024 CPW (Center for Photography in Woodstock) Portfolio Prize- 2nd place
2023 1st Prize Star Photobook Dummy Award - Fundación Photographic Social Vision, Barcelona
2023 Penumbra Foundation - judged by Samira Yamin -
photographs chosen to be made into photogravures
2022 University at Hartford MFA - merit scholarship recipient
2022 Photo Lucida - Critical Mass finalist
2022 LensCulture Art Photography Awards - 2nd place, series
2022 The Hopper Prize - finalist
2021 Urbanautica Institute Awards - shortlist recipient
2021 Julia Margaret Cameron Award - honorable mention
2016 New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship awarded in photography
1995 The Richard Dixon Welling Award for Excellence in Drawing
Books
2025 4 Sides of The Table, RM Editorial
2024 I Imagined It Empty, Star Photobook Dummy Award
Phree, Ediciones Posibles, RM Editorial
Press
2026 PhotoBook Journal, review of 4 Sides of The Table, by Brian Arnold
2025 ASX, review of 4 Sides of The Table, by Brad Feuerhelm
2025 Yogurt Magazine, spotlight article with pictures and interview
2024 Clavoardiendo Magazine, front page book release article
2022 LensCulture, spotlight article by Joanna Cresswell
2022 The Guardian, featured with the LensCulture award winners
2021 Urbanautica Journal of Photography
2021 All About Photo, spotlight article by Sandrine Hermand-Grisel
2021 APE, portfolio reviewed by Jonathan Blaustein
2020 APE, portfolio reviewed by Jonathan Blaustein
1999 On Paper, print reviewed by Faye Hirsh.
1999 The Boston Globe, review by Cate McQuaid
Collections
2025 David Campany, private collection
2018 photo-eye Featured Artist, Art Photo Index
1999 The New York Public Library, 1 set of 17 prints.