Sage Sohier | American, 1954 -
Sage Sohier has been photographing people in their environments for more than 30 years, after receiving her B.A. from Harvard University.
She has received fellowships from the No Strings Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation.
Her work has been included in group shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center for Photography, and the Art Institute of Chicago and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum.
Sohier’s work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Davis Museum, Wellesley College, and the Brooklyn Museum.
Books on her work included: Perfectible Worlds (Photolucida, 2007), About Face (Columbia College Chicago Press, 2012), and At Home With Themselves: Same-Sex Couples in 1980's America (Spotted Books, 2014), Witness to Beauty, Kehrer Verlag, 2016), Americans Seen, (Nazraeli Press, 2017), Animals (Stanley/Barker, 2019), and Peaceable Kingdom (Kehrer Verlag, 2021).
Sohier has taught photography at Harvard University, Wellesley College, and the Massachusetts College of Art.