Image courtesy of Wassaic Project

b. Connecticut, USA

r. Brooklyn, New York, USA

Current Roles

Engaging Artist Fellowship Facilitator, More Art

Expanding the Walls Coordinator, Studio Museum in Harlem

Relevant Former Roles

Alliance Member, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (2019-2025)

Director of Public Engagement, The Photographer’s Green Book (PGB)

Research Assistant, Archives and Publication, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture

Education Manager, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image

Education Collaborators (Events, Youth Programs, Workshops)

Baxter St Camera Club

Hill Art Foundation

Magnum Foundation

New York Restoration Project

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture

The Photographer’s Green Book

Wassaic Project


Guest Lectures, Artist Talks, Residencies

2026

Portrait Workshop, Youth Design Center, Brooklyn, NY ($150)

2025

Art+Design Alumni Panel, SUNY Purchase College (+$300)

Artist-in-Residence, Art for Artists Fellow, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (+500)

2024

Artist Talk, Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW), Kingston, NY

Artist-in-Residence, Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW), Kingston, NY (+2000)

Visiting Artist, Bard College

Visiting Artist, The New School, Parsons School of Design (+150)

Participating Artist, Lavendra/Recovery Project by E. Jane, Recess

2023

Guest Lecturer, Museum Education Practicum, Studio Museum Institute

Guest Artist, Teen Fridays, Metropolitan Museum of Art

2022

Visiting Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University (+$150)

Guest Critic, Steinhardt, New York University (+$200)

Visiting Artist, University of Connecticut (+$1000)

Visiting Artist, University of Illinois at Chicago (+$150)

Visiting Artist, The New School, Parsons School of Design (+$150)

Visiting Artist and Guest Critic, Bard College (+$550)

2021

Visiting Artist, University of Arkansas (+$150)

Artist Talk, Black Lunch Table (+350)

Artist-in-Residence, Fellowship Award, ChaNorth, Pine Plains, NY (postponed due to covid-19)

2020

Artist Talk, University of Arkansas (+$150)

Artist Talk, California State University, Long Beach (+$200)

Artist-in-Residence, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (postponed due to covid-19)

2019

Artist Talk, Marble Hill Camera Club

Art+Design Alumni Panel, SUNY Purchase College (+$200)

2018

Guest Keynote, "On the Perils and Possibilities of Being Diverse: a Conversation" with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Cristina Velásquez, + Giancarlo Montes Santangelo. Society for Photographic Education (SPE) Annual Conference, Uncertain Times: Borders, Refuge, Community, Nationhood, Philadelphia, PA (+$500)

Select Highlights

2024

A Tapestry of Aliveness, exhibition curated by Magnum Foundation, New York, NY

Artwork acquisition, Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW), Kingston, NY

2022

Points of Departure, curatorial collaboration by the Photographer’s Green Book, Visible Records, Charlottesville, Virginia

Spring Fellow, Magnum Foundation

Primary Sources, exhibition curated by Sarah Smith, Study Hall Gallery, Utica, New York

Silver List Artist

2021

The Photographer’s Green Book Vol. 1, second printing, edited by Jay Simple and Sydney Ellison, published by PGB

The Photographer’s Green Book Vol. 1, first printing, edited by Jay Simple and Sydney Ellison, published by PGB (SOLD OUT)

Primal Sight, published by Gnomic Book

2020

Backtalk, exhibition curated by Aaron Turner, PHOTO-EMPHASIS x The Center for Photographers of Color

Group exhibition curated by Essex Flowers, Drawer.nyc

Soft Lightning Vol. 1, publication by Soft Lightning Studio (SOLD OUT)

2019

Incandescent, Issue Fifteen, publication by Pine Island Press

Winter 2019, curated by Sarah Kennel, The Curated Fridge, Somerville, Massachusetts

2018

Nothing Wrong With Money Honey, art auction benefiting The Florence Project, Brooklyn, New York

Selection from The Body Unlearning Its Weight, feature on New Poetics of Labor

Selection from The Body Unlearning Its Weight, interview with PHOTO-EMPHASIS

Al camello camello y al amor amor, edited by Cristina Velásquez, publication by New Poetics of Labor

Al camello camello y al amor amor, exhibition curated by New Poetics of Labor, Medellín, Colombia

2017  

Riley at 10, inkjet print on wood panel, 4ft x 4ft, permanently installed, Purchase College, New York

WaCo Art Expo, exhibition curated by Devin Dugan, Washington Commons, Brooklyn, New York

The Body Unlearning Its Weight, solo thesis exhibition, SUNY Purchase, New York

Submissions Magazine, Spring Issue, Purchase, New York

2016  

Saudade, exhibition curated by Devin Dugan, World Money Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

Submissions Magazine, Fall Issue, Purchase, New York

2015  

Queries, group exhibition, Forum Art Space at SUNY Purchase, New York

Glimpse, solo exhibition curated for the Dance Theatre Lab, SUNY Purchase, New York

Beer + Visors, peer advisor group exhibition, SUNY Purchase, New York

Education History

Museum Education Practicum, Studio Museum Institute, New York

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine

BFA in Photography, SUNY Purchase College, New York

BA in Arts Management, SUNY Purchase College, New York

© 2026 Ally Caple