Alana Perino was born in 1988 and grew up in New York City, the North Fork of Long Island, and the stretch of highway between the two. They studied European Intellectual History and Photography at Wesleyan University, where their questions concerning the nature of belonging were only further problematized. After working as a photojournalist in the Israeli-Palestinian territories, skeptical of the privileged nature of their stay, Alana returned to the United States. They lived in California for eight years, crisscrossing the country to photograph "American" heritage sites. In the summer of 2021 they returned to the East Coast to photograph the people and places that raised them and to complete the MFA Photography program at RISD. Alana resides on the unceded land of the Pokanoket, Wampanoag and Narragansett in Providence, Rhode Island where they are currently an Assistant Professor at Johnson & Wales University. 

They are still searching for home.

A W A R D S & G R A N T S :

•2023 - Winner - “Silver List 2023” - Silver Eye Center - Pittsburgh, PA
•2022 - Third Place - “Lenscratch Student Prize” - Lenscratch
•2022 - Winner - “Graduate Commons Grant” - Rhode Island School of Design
•2022 - Winner - “Henry Wolf Scholarship” - Rhode Island School of Design
•2022 - Finalist - “Palm* Photo Prize 2022” - Palm Studios
•2021 - Winner - “Creator Labs Photo Fund” - Aperture Foundation
•2021 - Honorable Mention - “Exposed 2021” - Marin Society of Artists - San Rafael, CA
•2018 - Finalist - "2018 AFAR Travel Photography Awards" - AFAR
•2018 - Finalist - "The Face of the Earth" - Life Framer
•2018 - Honorable Mention : Fine Art - Monochrome Award
•2016 - Second Place - "Visions of the South : Photography" - Brush with Burden Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
•2014 - Editor's Pick - "Documentary Photography" - Lens Culture Magazine
•2012 - MASA Scholarship : Israeli State-Sponsored Scholarship in Photojournalism
•2011 - Honorable Mention - Method Art Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

E X H I B I T I O N S :

• 2024 - “Reflections” - New Bedford Whaling Museum - New Bedford, MA
• 2023 - “Too Close” - Microscope Gallery - New York, NY
• 2023 - “Traversing Terrain” - Gilman Gallery - Providence, RI
• 2023 - “Grad Show 23” - Rhode Island Convention Center - Providence, RI
• 2023 - “Field Work” - Red Eye Gallery - Providence, RI
• 2022 - “Reverberation” - Photography Center Northwest - Seattle, WA
• 2022 - “Residual Hauntings” - Gelman Gallery - Providence, RI
• 2022 - “Judaica” - Brown RISD HIllel - Providence, RI
• 2021 - “Arrival” - Sol Koffler Gallery - Providence, RI
• 2021 - “Exposed 2021” - Marin Society of Artists - San Rafael, CA
• 2021 - “Photography A Sense of Place” - Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• 2020 - "The Contemporary Landscape" - SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
• 2020 - "New Photography II" - Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
• 2020 - "Distinction" - Photography Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
• 2019 - "Pop-Up Garage Show" - No Parking Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2019 - "Life Framer Edition V London” - Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
• 2019 - "Life Framer Edition V Milan” - Officine Fotografiche Milano, Milan, Spain
• 2018 - “Our Dramatic Landscape” - LA Photo Photo Curator, Los Angeles, CA
• 2018 - "2018 APA SF Something Personal Exhibition" - SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
• 2018 - "2018 SF Camerawork Juried Exhibition" - SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
• 2016 - "All About Photo Awards 2016" - Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2016 - Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, LA
• 2016 - "Visions of the South" - Burden Museum and Gardens, Baton Rouge, LA
• 2016 - "3rd Annual Juried Art Show" Piedmont Center for the Arts, Piedmont, CA
• 2015 - "Terrarium" - Arbor Cafe, Oakland, CA
• 2014 - "Open Seas" - Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
• 2014 - "Light and Memory" - A/NT Gallery, Seattle, WA
• 2014 - "Home" - Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
• 2011 - "30 under 30" - Gallery 264, Cambridge, MA
• 2011 - "Southold Township" - Zelnick Pavilion, Middletown, CT
• 2010 - SVA Open Studios and Exhibit, New York, NY
• 2009/2010 - College of Letters Lounge, Middletown, CT
• 2009 - Studio Vermes, Paris, France
• 2008 - Eclectic Society, Middletown, CT


P U B L I C A T I O N S A S A U T H O R :

• Go To The Land And I Will Show You, Valley Books, 7/23
• ”Pictures of Birds” Collected Tales - The Journal of Grievances VOL IV, Antics Publications, 1/22
• Southold Township, Blurb Books, 7/11

P U B L I C A T I O N S : 

• The New York Times, ”A Broken System is No Excuse,” Travis N. Reider, 12/24
• The New York Times, ”Gettysburg’s Lost Cause Problem,” Simon Barnicle, 7/24
• Safelight Paper, ”In a Condition of No Light,” Ecaterina Rusu, 5/24
• Lenscratch, ”Go To The Land And I Will Show You,” Jonathan Mark Jackson, 8/23
• Lenscratch ”The 2022 Lenscratch Student Prize Third Place Winner: Alana Perino,” Allie Tsubota , 7/22
• frozenwaste.land , ”Go to the Land and I Will Show You: Alana Perino”, Andrew D McClees, 7/22
• Booooooom Magazine, "‘Pictures of Birds’ by Photographer Alana Perino" Anna Schneider, 6/21
• The Stringer, 7/21
• Photographic Center Northwest, ”An Interview with Alana Perino” 6/20
• "Quarantine Journal” The Racket Reading Series, 4/20, 8/20
• Nonbinary Gender Identities: History, Culture, Resources, Charlie McNabb, Rowman & Littlefield, 12/17
• Edge of Humanity Magazine, "The Great American Myth", 11/17
• IsraPresse, 5/15
• Bay Area Reporter, 10/14, 11/14, 1/15, 2/15, 5/15, 6/15
• Feature Shoot, "Intimacy," 7/14
• Israel 21C, 4/14
• The Times of Israel, 5/12, 6/12, 9/12, 11/12, 11/13 1/13, 3/13, 6/13, 5/14, 10/14
• Jerusalem World News 6/12
• The Jewish Press, 5/12, 5/14
• Hermes Magazine, 2/11
• Ostranenie Magazine, 12/08, 12/09
• Exposure Magazine, 12/08

C O L L E C T I O N S :

RISD Library
Brown Library

P R O F E S S I O N A L   P R A C T I C E :

• 2024 - Visiting Artist, Introduction to Darkroom Practices
Brown University, Providence RI
• 2023 - Speaker, “RISD Graduate Exchange with Graduate Commons Awardees”
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
• 2022 - Visiting Artist, “An Evening with Lenscratch Student Prize Winners
LACP, Los Angeles, CA
• 2015 - Panelist, “Journalism and Activism: Younger Journalists Balancing Coverage”
11th Annual LGBT Media Summit, San Francisco, CA