Commissions
About
Adali Schell (b. 2001) is a photographer from Los Angeles, California. He explores themes of community and memory through his upbringing in Southern California and family roots in rural Ohio. He has exhibited internationally at les Rencontres d’Arles, the Museum of Warsaw and Leica Gallery Los Angeles, and has been published in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Guardian and The New York Times. He received his BFA from UCLA School of Arts and Architecture.
EDUCATION
University of California Los Angeles, BFA 2024
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Days Go By, with Sara Messinger, Leica Gallery, Boston, MA 2026
Car Pictures, Leica Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2025
Heaven or Los Angeles, Contact Gallery, New York, NY 2021
Los Angeles Cityscapes, UCLA Little Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2021
Early Los Angeles, Eastern Starr Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2019
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Leica Emerging, Leica Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2026
The Relentless Image, KidSuper Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2026
Frontier Redux, Little Big Man Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2025
A Physical Memory, Open Gallery, Long Beach, CA 2025
Breezewood 129, Zepster Gallery, New York, NY 2025
Fotofilmic Open, Fotofilmic, Vancouver, BC 2025
Current Affairs, Book and Job Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2024
Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2023
Night of Photography, Museum of Warsaw, 2023
Night of the Year, Les Rencontres d’Arles, 2023
YoungArts Finalist Exhibition, Miami, FL 2020
AWARDS
Cultured Young Photographers 2025
Aperture Portfolio Prize Longlist 2024
Sony World Photography Awards 2024
Emerging Artist Award, Los Angeles Center of Photography 2022
New York Portfolio Review 2022
YoungArts 2020
CONTACT
adalischell@gmail.com
New Yorker, New Paris 2024
Guardian, Car Pictures 2024
Creative Review, Exposure 2024
Cultured Young Photographers List 2025
Matte Magazine, Exciting Photography Now 2023
The Creative Independent, On Feeling Attached to Your Work 2025
World Photography Organization, In Conversation 2024
The New York Times, The Magic of Your First Car 2023
Leica Fotografie International June Issue 2025
Yogurt Magazine, New Paris 2025
Booooooom, Angst & Ill 2023
Der Grief, Adali Schell 2025
Framelines 09 Issue 2025
SELECTED CLIENTS
The Atlantic
Calvin Klein
Coach
Cultured
Dior
GQ
The Guardian
J. Crew
LIFE
Los Angeles Times
Madhappy
Marni
New York Magazine
Nike
Obey
Off White
Rimowa
Rolling Stone
Stuart Weitzman
The New Yorker
The New York Times
Tom Ford
Vanity Fair
Wall Street Journal
W Magazine