Russell's family are from Southern California and she lived in Tucson, Arizona for six years as a teenager.
[3] She has also shown her work at DiverseWorks, and the Academy of Fine Art & Design in Wroclaw, Poland,[4] and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
[2] Her photographic series, Nine Fake Cakes & Nine Bodies of Water was described as "heartrendingly gorgeous" in Art21 Magazine.
[1][8] Russell received a Photographic Arts Council-Los Angeles (PAC-LA) fellowship from the Center for Creative Photography[9] (2017) to research the work of the American photographer, Robert Heinecken,[10] resulting in her art piece, Robert Heinecken: Myth and Loss Reimagined, 2017 - 2019.
[11] In 2019, Russell received a DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award through the Arts Council of Indianapolis.