Adam Gedney Fine Art
Two bodies of work. An exploration of mortality, shadow, and the sacred.
"I continue the 400-year-old Dutch vanitas tradition of communicating this truth in symbols — and I hold intimate access to document the silent character transformation of the monks who live it."
- 2026 Best in Show, Tri-State Arts Association biennial juried exhibition, Huntington Museum of Art — two works currently on view
- 2024 Juried Acceptance, Tri-State Arts Association biennial juried exhibition, Huntington Museum of Art
- 2022 Two works juried into the Tri-State Arts Association biennial exhibition, Huntington Museum of Art — Honorable Mention
- 2022 Honourable Mention, European Photography Awards international competition
- 2022 Top 7% of entries, Top 10% of photographers, 35Awards: Still Life with Flowers — 14,261 entries from 104 countries
Adam Gedney
Adam Gedney is a fine art photographer based in Huntington, West Virginia. His work spans two bodies of photography: vanitas still life in the Dutch Golden Age tradition — a 400-year-old genre meditating on mortality, transience, and the remembrance of death — and documentary photographs of monastic life at Holy Cross Monastery.
The vanitas series, We Are Dust and Shadow, places symbolic objects — skulls, hourglasses, extinguished candles — within the visual language of 17th-century Dutch masters. In the Shadow of the Cross documents the interior life of an Orthodox Christian monastery, photographed over three years in close proximity to the community.
Gedney received Best in Show at the Huntington Museum of Art in 2026 and has four consecutive juried acceptances at the Tri-State Arts Association biennial exhibition. All prints are limited edition archival pigment print. Inquiry only.
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