Adrienne Defendi

31st Annual Members Exhibition, curator Ann Jastrab, director of Center for Photographic Arts

July 3 - August 17, 2025

The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

from the series, Heart(h), seven unique multi-media photo bricks

CASP Open Studios - Saturday, May 10, 1 - 5 pm - 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA

Honored to be published in Art & Artists, edition 2, 2025, Alternative Photography

2025 CPA Members' Juried Exhibition, juried by Allie Haeusslein, Director, Pier 24 Photography

March 29 - May 4, 2025

Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA

Opening Reception, Saturday, March 29, 4 - 6 pm

Healiing Tree I (Laurel), 17 x 22" archival print on Kozo with encaustics and site-specific soil

Divergent Visions: Alternative Photo Practices, curated by Shelby Graham

April 4 - 27, 2025

M.K. Contemporary Art, Santa Cruz, CA

Opening Reception, Friday, April 4, 6 - 8 pm,

Closing Reception & Artist walk-through with chocolates and cocktails, Sunday, April 27, 3 - 4 pm

Canopy Contstellations, five 17 x 17" cyanotypes toned in redwood bark tannins

The 226th Anna Atkins Birthday Exhibition: Expanded Cyanotypes: New Directions in Cyanotype Making

March 16 - April 30, 2025

Griffin Museum of Photography virtual gallery

Healing Tree installation, unique paper imprints of tree cavities with cyanotype, variable 3 x 5 x 1'

Forest Unseen, a group exhibition curated by Stefan Thuliot

January 16 - February 22, 2025

Petaluma Art Center, 230 Lakeville Street, Petaluma, CA

Opening Reception, Thursday, January 16, 2025, 5:30-7:30

Artist Discussion, Saturday, February 15, 4:30-6:30 pm

Among other works, I am happy to include new work from the series, Healing Trees, 2024-ongoing

Unmoored, curated work of Annie Claflin & Oriana Poindexter

Chung 24 Gallery, 698 Pennsylvania Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94107

Janaury 15 - March 1, 2025

Opening Reception, Saturday, January 18, 2 - 5 pm

Artists talk with the curator, Saturday, March 1, 2025, 2 pm followed by a closing reception until 5 pm

Back to Square One, a collaborative exhibition conceived and curated by Pantea Karimi & Irene Carvajal

January 25 - February 16, 2025

Works/San José, 38 South Second Street, San José, CA 95113

Opening Reception, Saturday, January 15, 5 - 7 pm

Transformative Landscapes: A Contemporary Perspective

September 27 - November 9, 2024

Gallery 1337 Art Works Downtown Viewing hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 12-6 pm

Artists: Debra Achen, Adrienne Defendi, and Charlotta María Hauksdóttir Curator: Emmanuelle Namont

Receptions and Art walks: Fridays, October 11 and November 8, 2024, 5-8 pm

October 12, 12:30 pm: Cyanotype Workshop: Postcards for Climate Activism with Artists Debra Achen & Adrienne Defendi

October 17: Art Talk via Zoom with curator and artist

I am deligthed to have been granted a Lucid Art Foundation Residency, Inverness, Point Reyes, CA, summer 2024

Among the Trees

August 3 - 31, 2024

Gray Loft Gallery, 2889 Ford Stree #32, Oakland, CA 94601

Closing Reception: Saturday, August 31, 4:30- 7 pm

Mother Tree Reimagined, 2024 (installation image)

Eleven 8 x 8" cyanotype prints toned in redwood tannin

Vision(ary) | Portraits of Cultures, Communities, and Environments

June 7 – September 27, 2024

Vision(ary) is the Griffin Museum of Photography’s 5th Annual summer public art exhibition dedicated to the art of visual storytelling. Presented as a part of Winchester Waterfield Summer Arts Festival, the instillation will feature 18 individual installations with distinct photographic styles.

To learn more about this project, please see Adrienne's interview on the series, Canopy Constellations.

Art in the Park at Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Boulder Creek, California

June 15, 2024, 10 am - 2 pm

I will be displaying my commissioned artwork, "Canopy Constellations," in the park next to its installed replica panel of the work.

22nd Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Honorable Mention, 2024

Several of these works will be on exhibit in Barcelona at FotoNostrum Mediterranean House of Photography, December 2024 and April 2025.

Expand and Contract: Photography and Mixed Media, Honorable Mention

Juror: Dr. Rotem Rozental, Los Angeles Center of Photography Executive Director and Chief Curator

Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACH); see the online exhibit here

from the series, Skopia-philia: For the Love of Looking, unique cyanotype with pewter (left), unique pewter cast art slides

Krappy Kamera Competition 2024

Juror: Susan Burnstine

March 6 - 23, 2024

SOHO Photo Gallery, NYC

Opening Reception, Thursday, March 7, 6-8 pm

Riverchild Dreams

2023 International Juried Exhibition

Juror: Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel
"Death and Hope," 2023, from the series Skopia-philia: For the Love of Looking is featured in the online gallery exhibit.