Adrienne Pao is Visiting Faculty in the Photography Department at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Academy of Art in San Francisco, California. Her current projects, Hawaiian Cover-Ups and Dress Tents investigate notions of tourism in real and simulated fantasy landscapes, and involve a combination of performative and staged scenarios. Her work has been featured in the Portfolio issue 77 of Shots (2004), Exposure (2006), Flaunt (2006), Top (Brazil, 2006), Playboy (South America, 2006), Marie Claire (Italy, Greece 2007). It is also featured in writer and art critic Rebecca Solnit's book Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics (2007). She has shown her work nationally at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, California and also at Wave Hill Glyndor gallery in the Bronx, New York. Internationally, the Dress Tent exhibition is touring South America beginning with a solo exhibition at the Recoleta Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2006. it will travel through Patagonia and São Paulo, Brazil in 2007. The Dress Tents are being featured in the 2007 International Photography Festival in Pingyao, China. Adrienne was a 2005 Society for Photographic Education award winner, and received a 2005 Visual Artist Fellowship through the College Art Association. She received her MFA in Photography from San Jose State University in 2005. She can be contacted at info@adriennepao.com