Artist and educator, Adina Segal, fell in love with photography in high school. Watching an image slowly emerge in the darkroom’s warm glow was mesmerizing, sometimes surprising.
After earning a BFA from Washington University and an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York, she moved to California where she started working with children in different settings, such as The Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley and a two-room schoolhouse in Davis, CA. Inspired by how collaborative and creative working with children could be, she went on to earn a MA in Education from UC Berkeley in 2008. While there, she produced an exhibition of her students' photographs and poems entitled, Here I Am which was shown at The Museum of Children's Art for the Youth Arts Festival and the Diamond District Library in Oakland, CA. Since then, she has designed and facilitated programs that use photography as a way to develop children’s literacy. For example, students take self-portraits and write poems to reflect upon their personal experiences. Visit MyLensMyStory.com to learn more.
After becoming a mother and witnessing her own sons draw, paint, and play, her desire to try an entirely new medium arose. In 2018, Adina started experimenting with watercolor. Although the medium is altogether different, she continues to seek a sense of wonder, the same kind of wonder that drew her to photography. Throughout her art, Adina explores realms outside of daily life, spaces where there is room for the imagination to wander and memories to come to the surface. Adina lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two sons.
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EDUCATION
2008 University of California, Berkeley, Master of Arts, Education
2003 School of Visual Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Photography and Related Media
1997 Washington University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography major,
Dean’s List, Eliot Scholar
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Otherworldly, Wellpoint, Philadelphia, PA
Spring Solo Series, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA
Art in the Park, The Dalian, Philadelphia, PA
2022 New Now V, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Idyll, InLiquid at The Yard, Philadelphia, PA
Works on Paper, LBIF Arts + Science, Long Beach Island, NJ
Juried by Esther Adler, Curator of Drawings and Prints at
The Museum of Modern Art
CFEVA exhibition at The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia,
Philadelphia, PA
True Blue, Art Fluent, Boston, MA (online)
2021 Abstracted, Art Fluent, Boston, MA (online)
Lumière, Art Fluent, Boston, MA (online)
Emergence, Media Arts Council, Media, PA (online)
2006 Joint Venture, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis
2003 Spaces, Worrell Photographs, New York, NY
Fresh Meat, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Water, Tulla Booth Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
Squint, Fish Tank Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Working Artists, Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA and Brooklyn, NY
1998 Summer Show, Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta, Georgia
Expo 17, b.j. spoke gallery, Huntington, New York, Curated by Jane Adlin,
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photography ’98, Stage Gallery, Merrick, New York
1997 PhotoSession, Allen’s Lane Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Television Series Installation, Center for Photography, St. Louis, MO
AWARDS
Jurors Award, PhotoSession, Philadelphia, PA
Herb Weitman Award for Photography, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Artist and Site Leader, ArtWell, Phildadelphia, PA
Visiting Professor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Visiting Professor, New York University, New York, NY