Cozette Russell
Cozette Russell

Born 1978, Exeter, NH, lives in New Hampshire 

I treat the photograph as a site of revision, extending a feminist tradition that understands images as spaces of construction and intervention. My self‑portraits begin as single exposures and then move through processes of cutting, layering, projecting, and re‑photographing. I figure the body as future‑building, moving across spaces, screens, and surfaces, accumulating traces and refusing capture. 

My films and photographs have shown at various galleries and museums including SFMOMA, the Wexner Center for the Arts, NADA Curated, Harvard University, the University of New England, the University of New Hampshire, Antioch College, and A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, where I’m a member. 

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Untitled (sequence 01), 2025, 70 x 94 in. Archival photographs
Documentation from Upstate Art Weekend 2025, The Post Office, Port Ewen, NY Photo credit: Charles Purvis

Twenty-four photographs, paneled in a grid, show a meadow and a hand moving a rope—or sometimes just the rope itself. In this landscape, the rope acts as an extension of the body. The vegetation is dense and unruly.

The hand pulls, throws, drags the rope, or lets it fall slack. The camera captures the rope always mid-gesture. There is no resolution, only a restless ongoingness, freeing oneself through the rhythm of the task.



Quiet Architecture, 2026, 27 x 25 in. Archival photograph