Dale Rio

A photographic artist whose practice explores mortality and humanity’s relationship with the natural world through the use of film and historic photographic processes. Her work combines straight photography and conceptual approaches, and has been widely exhibited across the United States, as well as in England, Germany, New Zealand, and Spain. Her works are held in private collections and have been reproduced in numerous publications; she is the author of one book and co-author of a second. She holds a BA in Studio Art from Smith College (1993) and an MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute (1996). In 1997, she received a Fulbright Travel Grant and the Miguel Vinciguerra Grant to document rural life in Sicily. Her professional trajectory includes teaching, curating, editing, specialized work in darkroom techniques, and her current role as a forensic photographer, as well as residencies at Penland, MASS MoCA, Farmington Valley Arts Center, and Ars BioArctica. She has collaborated with numerous photo and art centers nationwide; in 2015, she co-founded the non-profit The Halide Project, in 2021, launched the print publication Point A to Point B: analog explorations, and in 2022, founded the women’s alternative process initiative Lux et Libera.