2009 Recipient, Artadia Award, New York
2009 Nominee, Factor Prize, Gibbs Museum of Art
2009 Recipient, Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs, Individual Artist Grant
2008 Invitation, Wendover Artist Residency, Center for Land Use Interpretation (funding pending)
2007 Nominee, Gutmann Photography Fellowship, San Francisco
2006 Recipient, National Endowment for the Arts, Art Design Award
2006 Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
2003 Recipient, Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award
2003 Finalist, Baum Emerging Photog. Award, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive
2003 Recipient, Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Individual Artist Grant
2003 Recipient, Community Cultural Development, Georgia Humanities Council
2009 Featured Imagemaker, National Conference, Society for Photographic Education, Dallas, Mar. 27
2007 Panelist with Julian Cox (High Museum) and Jeff Rosenheim (Metropolitan Museum of Art), “Picturing Place: Perspectives on Photography South,"
ARLIS/NA Conference, Atlanta, April 27
2006 Featured Imagemaker, National Conf., Society for Photographic Education, Chicago, March 23
2004 Artist Lecture, Emory University, Michael C. Carlos Museum, October 14
2004 Curator and Lecturer, Carnegie Museum of Art, April 3
2002 Landscape of Change, Artist Lecture, High Museum of Art
1998 Panelist, “Global Metropolis: Re(de)signing the Non-Site,” Nat. Conf., College Art Assn., Toronto
“Play War: Homemade Recreational Battlefields,” Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, March 18 - April 23, 2010
“Play War: Homemade Recreational Battlefields,” Hagedorn Gallery, Atlanta, June 11 – July 12, 2009
“Changing Places: New Photography,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, July 15 – October 1, 2006
“Constructions / Reconstructions.” Southeastern Contemporary Art Gallery, Hammond, Louisiana September 1 – September 26, 2005
“Starting Vertical: Atlantic Steel Redevelopment Project,” Swan Coach House, Atlanta, GA June 19 -August 9, 2003
“Fast Food Dining Rooms,” Light Factory, Charlotte, NC. October 19 - November 30, 2002.
“Out There: The Atlantic Steel Redevelopment Project,” The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, April 5 - June 1, 2002.
“Convergence: Beijing Off-Biennial,” Curator Feng Boyi, Sept. 21 – October 7, 2005, Beijing, China
“Abstraction and Empathy,” Fay Gold Gallery, Guest Curator Christian Rattenmeyer, February 18 – March 26, 2005, Atlanta
“Gas, Food, Lodging,” Featured event of the College Art Association National Conference, Georgia State University, Rialto Center for the Performing Arts, February 17 – March 22, 2005, Atlanta.
“Toll-Takers,” Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, March 4 – April 15, 2004, Atlanta
Fay Gold Gallery, July 5 – August 30, 2004, Atlanta
Fay Gold Gallery, January 19 – February 4, 2003, Atlanta
Monique Goldstrom Gallery, November 16 – December 7, 2002 New York, NY
Monique Goldstrom Gallery, September 28 – October 12, 2002 New York, NY
"Exchanges & Experiences," Nexus Contemporary Art Center, February 4 – 26, 2000 Atlanta
"The Body Politic," University of Sellenbosch, Oct. 1998, South Africa
Tulane University, Dec. 1998, New Orleans
"New Orleans Triennial," New Orleans Museum of Art, 1995, Curator Dan Cameron
"Texas Art International," University of Texas at El Paso, 1994, Curator Donald Kuspit
S.E. Center for Photographic Studies, Daytona Beach, Florida, 1993, Curator Julie Saul
“New American Talent: The Ninth Exhibition,” Texas Fine Arts Association, Laguna Gloria Art Museum,
Austin, Texas, March 20 - April 25., 1993, Juror: Kerry Brougher
High Museum of Art
Greenville Museum of Art
Southeast Museum of Art
Citicorp
King & Spalding
Alston & Bird. LLC
Carson & Guest
Fay Gold
Lucinda Bunnen
Newcomb College, Tulane University
Images Photography Collection
Cathy Fox, "Play War Exhibit Puts 'Battlefields' in New Light," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 26, 2009
Kirsten Tagami, “Photos Document the World of Beltline,” Atlanta Journal-Constn., Jan., 7, 2008
Philip Gefter, "An Expanding Museum Capitalizes on Photography "New York Times, Museums Special Section, March 28, 2007
Lisa Kurzner, "On View: Ruth Dusseault," Photograph, New York, March / April, 2006
Cathy Byrd, "New Photography: High Museum," Art Papers, Jan/Feb 2007
Catherine Fox, “Time-Altered Places: A Passion for Photography,” Atlanta Journal-Constn., Aug 6, 2006
Jerry Cullum, “Divergent Styles Happily Exist Under One Roof,” Atlanta
Journal-Constn., Mar. 13, 2005
Lisa Kurzner, “Studio Visit: An Atget for Atlanta,” Art
Papers, July/August 2003
Felicia Feaster, “In the Name of Progress,” Creative
Loafing, July 31, 2003
Cathy Fox, “Atlantan’s Photos Track Conversion of Mill Site,” Atlanta
Journal-Constn., July 6, 03
Anya Martin, “Dusseault Catalogs Atlantic Station Evolution,” Atl.
Bus. Chronicle, Sept. 5-11, 03
Jerry Cullum, “Out There,” Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, April 19, 2002
Cathy Ho, “And Rust to Rust,” Architecture
Magazine, August 2001
Jerry Cullum, “The Future of Now,” Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, September 2000.
Steve Dollar, “Photos Honor a Steely Piece of City’s Past,” Atlanta
Journal-Constn., August 1999.
Jason Forrest, “Outside: Ruth Dusseault and Huckelberry Starnes,” Art
Papers, Nov1997.
C. Scoates & D. Wilbur, “Outside,” New
Art Examiner, October 1997.
Donald Locke, “Kinder, Gentler, Soft-focus Views of the City,” Creative
Loafing, Oct 10,1996.
Catherine Fox, “A Hard Look at Atlanta, “ Atlanta
Journal - Constitution, Sept 27, 1996.
Marcia E. Vetrocq, “Report from New Orleans,” Art
in America, September 1995
Ben Forgey, “Spreading the Word on Urban Sprawl,” Washington
Post, June 10, 1995.
Catherine Fox, “Loose-Knit Urban Sprawl,” Atl.
Journal- Constitution, Feb 3, 1995.
Dawn Dreyer, “Sprawl: The City as the Largest Man-Made Object,” Art
Papers, May 1994.
Jerry Cullum, “1994 Atlanta Biennial,” Art
Papers, January/February 1994.
Kim MacQueen, “Ruth Dusseault: Support Situation,” Art
Papers, January/February 1993.
Georgia Tech, College of Architecture, Artist-in-Residence, 2001 – present
Emory University, Visual Arts Program, Part time Instructor, 2008 - 09
Curator, “Terrain Vague: Photography, Architecture and the Post-Industrial Landscape,"
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center November 15 – January 3, 2004
Carnegie Museum of Art, March 20 – June 20, 2004.
Art Papers Magazine, Atlanta
Critic & Feature Writer 1992 - 2001
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Visiting Assistant Professor 1995 - 1996