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 began working
with children at The Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley. This experience inspired her to earn
an MA in Education from UC Berkeley. While there, she produced Here I Am, an
exhibition of her students'; photographs and poems shown at The Museum of Children's
Art in Oakland.
As a Teaching Artist and Site Leader for Philadelphia non-profit ArtWell, Adina has
designed programs using photography and poetry to develop children's literacy, with
student work exhibited at the Woodmere Museum and Moore College of Art.
In 2019, Adina resumed her personal art practice, quickly gaining recognition in
numerous exhibitions, including a solo show at Abington Art Center. Her work has also
been featured in commercial spaces like The Laurel in Rittenhouse Square and McKinsey
& Company's Philadelphia offices. 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
2025 Echoes of Elsewhere, Chimaera Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (three-person exhibition)
With or Without, Prism Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2024 Circadian, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA (three-person exhibition)
2024 Benefit Exhibition, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Art of Water, James May Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
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
