Bio
Glenn Ruga is a fine art photographer focusing on portraiture and documentary. His main bodies of documentary work are “The Holyoke Project (1990)”, “Zones of Separation: The Struggle for a Multiethnic Bosnia (1996)”, and “Reconstructing Kosovo (2000).”
In 2008, Ruga founded SocialDocumentary,net, a website and organization for a global community of documentary photographers which today has had more than 1500 exhibits from all corners of the world posted to the website.
His documentary projects have been exhibited at dozens of galleries, college campuses, libraries, and art centers across the US including Rutgers University, Newark, NJ; Hampshire College, Amherst, MA; Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA; Brown University Library, Providence, RI; Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Washington, DC; LIPA Gallery, Washington, DC; Ministry of Culture, Pristina, Kosovo; Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA; Georgetown University Medical School, Washington, DC; Tufts University, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, MA; Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, CA; and Brandeis University, Usdan Student Center, Waltham, MA.
Ruga is a consulting curator with 555 Gallery in Boston, MA. From 2010-2013, he was the Executive Director of the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University and in 2012 he was a curator of the New York Photo Festival. Ruga has a BA from the University of Massachusetts and an MFA from Syracuse University. He lives and works in Concord, Massachusetts.
