
Alana Rios was born in Providence, RI and recieved a BA from Bennington College in Vermont where she studied photography and printmaking. In 2008 she moved to Oakland, CA where she sought out the darkest skies in the California wilderness to create images that document how we move through time and space.
Currently she is pursuing her MFA in Photography at San José State University where her long exposure photographs describe a symbiosis between the construction of gender and the landscape. She has two ongoing night photography series. Leave No Trace improvises fantastical discovery in uninhabited lands. Long Introductions are photographs taken at night in backyards around the Bay Area. These yards offer evidence of domestication of the landscape and the night is a metaphor for women’s hidden contributions to the land.
Education
2020
MFA (pending), San José State University, San José, California
2007
BA Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
Solo Exhibitions
2020
2019
2018
2007
Postpicturesque, Jo Farb Hernandez Gallery, San José, California
Long Introductions, Belcher Gallery, San José, California
Domestic Ground, Gallery 3, San José, California
Such Things, White Electric, Providence, RI
Group Exhibitions
2019
Cluster-Fun, Belcher Gallery, San José, CA
2018
Taking Temperature, Embark Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Joshua Tree National Park Council for the Arts Juried Art Exhibition, 29 Palms Art Gallery, Twentynine Palms, CA
Three Corners and Twenty-Three Cracks, Black Gallery, San José, CA
Countering Productivity, Gallery 5, San José, CA
2007
BFA Show, USDAN Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Publications
2019
Root Division (San Francisco, CA), MFA Now
2018
2007
REACH Magazine, San José State University, CA
Silo Magazine, Bennington College, VT