BUILDING A BODY OF WORK IN THE REAL WORLD

Barbara Bosworth is a photographer whose large-format images explore the relationships between humans and the natural world. Whether chronicling hunters or bird banders or the seasonal changes that transform mountains and meadows, Bosworth’s attention to the world around her results in images that inspire viewers to look closely.

Bosworth is a professor emeritus of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her images display a generous attention to small facts, while her large-scale triptychs reveal a panoramic awareness that lets viewers glimpse relationships between frames. Bosworth reminds viewers that we shape the rest of nature and that it also shapes us.

Bosworth’s work is widely exhibited, notably in recent retrospectives at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado, Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona. Her publications include, The Sea (Radius Books, 2022), The Heavens (Radius Books, 2018), The Meadow (Radius Books, 2015), Natural Histories (Radius Books, 2013), Trees: National Champions (MIT Press; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2005).

Todd Hido (b. Kent, Ohio, 1968) wanders endlessly, taking lengthy road trips in search of imagery that connects with his own memories. Through his unique landscape process and signature color palette, Hido alludes to the quiet and mysterious side of suburban America—where uniform communities provide for a stable façade—implying the instability that often lies behind the walls.

His photographs are in the collections of the Getty, Whitney Museum of American Art & San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Pier 24 Photography holds the archive of his published works.

Hido has published many books, including the award-winning monographs House Hunting (2001) & Excerpts from Silver Meadows (2013). His Aperture titles include Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude (2014), Intimate Distance: Twen- ty-Five Years of Photographs (2016) and Bright Black World (2018). His upcoming publication, which was titled before the pandemic, The End Sends Advance Warning, will be published in 2023.

Hido is also a collector and has created one of the most notable photobook collec- tions, which was featured in Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books (2019).

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Catherine Opie (from Sandusky, OH; lives in Los Angeles, CA) is an artist working with photography, film, collage, and ceramics. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (1985), and an MFA from CalArts (1988).

Opie has exhibited throughout the United States, Europe & Japan. In 2008, a mid-career survey of her work was shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Solo exhibitions have been organized by the Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Aldrich Museum, Connecticut; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Saint Louis Art Museum; the Photographers’ Gallery, London; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Institute of Contempo- rary Art, Boston and the Long Beach Museum of Art, California.

Her work is in over 50 major collections worldwide. She received The Guggenheim Fellowship (2019), The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Medal (2016) and a United States Artists Fellowship (2006). Opie is the Lynda and Stewart Resnick endowed Chair in Art and Art Department Chair at UCLA.

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Kelli Connell is a 2022-2023 Guggenheim Fellow. Her work investigates sexuality, gender, identity and photographer / sitter relationships. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J Paul Getty Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others. Publications of her work include PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice (Aperture), Photo Art: The New World of Photography (Aperture), and the monograph Kelli Connell: Double Life (DECODE Books). Connell has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, and The Center for Creative Photography. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at PLAYA, Peaked Hill Trust, LATITUDE, and Light Work. Kelli Connell lives in Chicago where she teaches at Columbia College Chicago.

Rahim Fortune uses photography to ask fundamental questions about American identity. Focusing on the narratives of individual families and communities, he explores shifting geographies of migration and resettlement, and the way that these histories are written on the landscapes of Texas and the American South.