Cig Harvey
Cig Harvey is a British-born artist and writer known for her vibrant color photography and lyrical creative non-fiction. She is the author of several acclaimed monographs, including You Look At Me Like An Emergency (Schilt Publishing, 2012), Gardening At Night (Schilt Publishing, 2015), You An Orchestra You A Bomb (Schilt Publishing, 2017), and Blue Violet (Monacelli, 2021), which was featured in The New York Times Book Review. Her forthcoming book, Emerald Drifters (Monacelli, 2025), is set to be released in spring 2025.
Her photographs have been widely featured in publications such as The Times and Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Vogue, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, and The Independent on Sunday. She is also a regular contributor to The New York Times.
Harvey’s work is part of numerous permanent and private collections around the world, including the Library of Congress; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Farnsworth Art Museum; the International Museum of Photography and Film at the George Eastman House; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection. Her first solo museum exhibition was held at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway (2012), and a midcareer retrospective followed at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine (2019).
In 2023, a documentary film about her life and work, Eat Flowers, directed by River Finlay, premiered at major international film festivals, earning numerous awards including the Audience Award at Indy Shorts and being shortlisted by the International Documentary Association for Best Short Documentary.
Harvey has received multiple honors, including the Prix Virginia Laureate (2018), the Maine in America Award from the Farnsworth Art Museum (2021), and recognition as the JPMorgan Highlighted Artist at Paris Photo (2022).
She lives in Midcoast Maine with her husband, Doug, and daughter, Scout. The rhythms of rural life and the passage of time deeply inform her work, making her attuned to finding the extraordinary within the everyday.