Lori Kella was born in St. Joseph Michigan in 1974.  She received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and her MFA from Cornell University.  Kella’s photography explores the complexity of the 21st century landscape by crafting elaborate fictions meant only for the camera’s lens. Her newest collections examine climate change along the Great Lakes and the dramatic coastal erosion that has intensified as storms increase and protections for the shoreline vanish. Photographs from this series were featured in State of the Art 2020 at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Sarasota Art Museum, and the Akron Art Museum.  Lori Kella has exhibited in other venues such as The Cleveland Museum of Art, the McDonough Museum of Art, Galerie Drei in Dresden Germany, The Print Center in Philadelphia, Site: Brooklyn in NY, MOCA Cleveland, Filter Photo in Chicago, IL, and William Busta Gallery in Cleveland, OH. She has received five OAC Individual Fellowships Awards, a full fellowship to attend Vermont Studio Center, a Creative Workforce Fellowship, and funding from ArtPlace America and the Andy Warhol Foundation.  Lori Kella lives on the shore of Lake Erie in Cleveland, OH and is a faculty member at Laurel School in Shaker Heights, OH.