Emma Ressel

Emma Ressel is a visual artist from Bar Harbor, Maine who uses photography and collage to make images about decay, consuming, and the intermingling of beauty and the grotesque. In her current work, she makes still life compositions with animal specimens at the Museum of Southwestern Biology to visualize our attempts and failures to draw animals closer and “preserve” populations. Through her fictional and fragmented landscapes, she hopes to speak to the dissonance between how we imagine and how we actually experience encounters with nature. Ressel earned her BA in Photography at Bard College and is currently an MFA candidate in Photography at the University of New Mexico. She has exhibited across the Northeast and in New Mexico, and has completed residencies at Lugoland and at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. In 2022 she received the Film Photo Student Project Award and she is currently a 2023 fellow at the Center for Southwest Research at UNM. 

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