Statement:
My art is influenced by the women in my life, my grandmother was a painter and my mother often did brightly colored tissue collages. Art has taken me through a variety of endeavors such as painting, sculpting, collages and more. What draws me to photography is the diversity I am given in this practice. It includes several of the art practices that I have done and puts them all in one place. Inspired by my heritage of of growing up in small southern towns, I developed deep-seated southern roots that richly inform my photography practice with visual storytelling. I am attracted to the diverseness of the human spirit, appreciating those qualities that make us delightfully unique, yet connected in many ways.
Bio
Dale Niles is a Georgia based artist born in Norfolk, Virginia. She is known for her diverse photographic interpretations from her black/white and color photographs to her montage storytelling collage photographs. She received her BA in sociology from Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory, NC.
She has exhibited across the United States, Canada, Paris and Venice, Italy. Niles has had solo exhibits at Horace Williams House in Chapel Hill, NC; Brickworks Gallery in Atlanta, GA; and Cochran Gallery in LaGrange, GA. Several of her works are part of the permanent collections at MOCA GA and the Ogden Museum in New Orleans.
Niles has been featured in publications including Light and Shadow Magazine, SXSE Magazine, Shots, Lenscratch, The Hand Magazine and Oxford America.
She has a selection of work exhibited at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL; she was selected for Critical Mass Top 200, 2018 ACP Ones To Watch, the Fence, Atlanta International Airport and the Virginia Twainam Smith Purchase award.
Recognition for her book, What Lies With: the Eclectic Collections of Andrea Noel
-Selected by Elizabeth Avedon’s for her Best Photography Book 2021
-Bronze Winner Budapest International Foot Awards 2022
-First Place and Gold Winner in Tokyo International Foto Awards 2022
-Gold Winner PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris 2023
-Inclusion in the 13th Annual Self-Published Photobook Show presented by the
Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson NY and the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA.
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