Drew Waters
drewwaters@gmail.com
+1.347.930.7393
born: Melbourne, Australia
currently lives and works in Asheville, North Carolina.
Education
MFA in Photography, Hartford Art School, 2022
BA (Honors) in Cinema & Cultural Studies, La Trobe University
Awards
IMA Next Japan Shortlist - Plant Life, Judge: Stephen Gill - 2024
UrbanAutica Awards Shortlist 2022, 2023
Hannes Wanderer Book Award, Hartford Art School, 2022
Svensk Bokkonst, Swedish Book Art Award for SHELF LIFE, 2021
Merit Award 2021, 2022, Hartford Art School
Selected Exhibits
With No End In Mind
Group Show
These Days, Los Angeles, CA
The Curated Fridge
Spring, 2023
curated by Debra Klomp Ching and Darren Ching
Notes From a Detour
2022 Hartford Photography MFA Graduate Show
Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, CT
Unknown Outcome, Outcome Unknown
Photographic Center Northwest
Seattle, Washington
Unknown Outcome, Outcome Unknown
Strange Paradise, Oregon Contemporary
Portland, Oregon
”The Future’s So Bright…”!
Analog Forever Group Show
curated by Bree Lamb
What We No Longer See
Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
curated by Bertrand Meunier
It’s a Thin Line between Love and Hate
United Photo Industries
DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
Provocation
Powerhouse Arena
New York Photo Festival
DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
Wide Open 2
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
Juried by Nathan Trotman, Guggenheim Museum
Brooklyn NY
Static
Madley (ex WW2 Radio Control Field Station)
Hereford Photography Festival
Midlands, UK
SCOPE NEW YORK
Perpetual Art Machine [PAM}
Lincoln Center, New York
SCOPE MIAMI
GenArt Culture on the Verge
curated by Lee Wells
PANORAMICA
Museo Rufino Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo
Mexico City, Mexico
video_dumbo
d.u.m.b.o. art under the bridge festival
Brooklyn, New York
curated by Caspar Stracke & Gabriela Monroy
CinemaSlam
BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn, NY
curated by Matthew Buchholz
What is Freedom? Group Show
Gallery of Social and Political Art
Boston, MA
Snap to Grid, Group Show
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
War and Peace
Juried Show
Prallsville Mills, Stockton, NJ
Water/Fall, 6 channel video installation,
La Trobe University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne Fringe Festival Group Show
Ufitzi Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne Super 8 Film Festival
Publications
Remnants of Dominion
Hartford Art School Photography MFA, Final Thesis Maquette
2022
Unknown Outcome, Outcome Unknown
Collaborative publication with Hartford Photography MFA cohort
edition of 500
2021
Shelf Life
Winner Svensk Bokkonst, Swedish Book Art Award 2021
Self published, edition of 500
2021
Profiles, Reviews
Gardens as Metaphors of Human Culture, Steve Bisson,
UrbanAutica - Journal of Visual Anthropology and Cultural Landscapes
https://urbanautica.com/review/betraying-the-history-chasing-dates/3911
Contra Costa, featured project - Booooooom
https://www.booooooom.com/2023/10/06/contra-costa-by-drew-waters/
With No End in Mind - These Days, Los Angeles 2023
https://www.thesedaysla.com/pages/with-no-end-in-mind-hartford-mfa
Notes From a Detour - Nowhere Diary
Hartford Photography MFA Thesis Show Review with text by Drew Waters
https://nowherediary.co/news/notes-from-a-detour-hartford-mfa-photo-thesis-show-2022