Ruth Dusseault is Artist-in-Residence and at Georgia Tech's College of Architecture. In her research, she has photographically explored utopian expressions in architecture.

Since earning her MFA at Florida State University, she has taught at the Atlanta College of Art, Georgia State University and the University of Maryland. She has exhibited her work internationally, and she has received over a dozen artist grants and awards; including a 2006 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was nominated for the 2006 Louis Comfort Tiffany award and was awarded the 2003 Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award.

From 1999 - 2005, she photographed changes occurring at a former steel mill site (the largest in-town redevelopment attempted in the United States). She photographed the mill before and during its demolition, and continued to document the transformation of the site from an historic steel mill to a new urbanism city within a city. The Atlantic Steel Project was part of the New Photography exhibition at the High Museum in 2006.

She is has written several features for Art Papers magazine. And she has curated touring exhibitions that combine ideas from art and architecture, including Terrain Vague: Photography and Architecture in the Post-Industrial Landscape at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and the Carnegie Museum of Art.

She is represented by the Fay Gold Gallery in Atlanta and is included in several museum collections, including the High Museum, the Greenville Museum, the Southeast Contemporary Art Museum, and the Images Photography Collection.