Ada Reso was born in Tirana, Albania and grew up in small cities and towns in Massachusetts, New York, Maine, and Virginia. She received her B.A. in Fine Arts-Art History from the University of Virginia and her Masters in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has worked as a health educator in Guatemala City and as a qualitative researcher in New York City. As an artist, she works in photography, performance and mixed media. Her work explores belonging, displacement, identity, femininity, queerness/sexuality, the body, and socio-political dynamics. She also practices performance, mixed media, and conceptual art. Ada currently lives in Brooklyn and is working on a project that exposes the legacy of slavery in New York City with her girlfriend Elsa Eli Waithe and co-conspirator Maria Robles called Slavers of NY.