Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81 at CPW

Name: Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81 at CPW
Start: 2025-01-18
End: 2025-05-04
Location: The Center for Photography at Woodstock - CPW

Jan 18, 2025 – May 4, 2025

The Center for Photography at Woodstock - CPW

25 Dederick Street
Kingston, NY 12401

In 1976, photographer MEM embarked on an arduous, self-assigned project with sociologist Dr. Karen Folger Jacobs to document the lives of women living in the high-security, all-female wing of the Oregon State Hospital in the city of Salem. The year before, Mark had photographed there on the set of the Milǒs Forman’s film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and she had met several women who lived on Ward 81 of the hospital. Hoping to better understand and represent their life experiences, Mark and Jacobs arranged to spend a month living alongside the women in Ward 81. The duration of their stay, and their extraordinary access to patients and staff, enabled the collaborators to produce a nuanced and compelling record of female psychiatric treatment in the United States during the mid-1970s. In 1978, Mark and Jacobs published the seminal book Ward 81, which revealed the often-porous line between sanity and mental illness for women relegated to the margins of society. In the words of Jacobs, “They are the women we might have been or one day become.”

Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81 greatly amplifies that earlier study. Most exciting are the newly discovered audio narratives that the women recorded with Jacobs, which have been integrated into a short film, Moonlight Heaven Black, made for the exhibition by Martin Bell, Mark’s husband. As well, the exhibition brings together never-before-seen prints, contact sheets, and rare archival materials.

The original exhibition was organized by curators Gaëlle Morel and Kaitlin Booher for the Image Centre, Toronto, in collaboration with the Mary Ellen Mark Foundation, New York. It is accompanied by the publication Ward 81: Voices by Mary Ellen Mark and Karen Folger Jacobs, edited by Martin Bell, Julia Bezgin, and Meredith Lue (Steidl, 2023).

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Investigations into the Metaphysical at MMPA brings together a group of photographers and image-makers who treat the medium less as a record of the visible than as a way of probing what lies beneath it. On view from August 7 to October 3, 2026, the exhibition gathers work by Andrew O’Brien, Gary Green, Marianne Bernstein, Keily Anderson Staley, Brendan Bullock, John Gintoff, Joyce Ellen Weinstein, Sarah Salomon, Brenton Hamilton, Fern Nesson, Peter Shellenberger, Elizabeth Opalenik, Luc Demers a

Helen Maurene Cooper: Blue Angels

Oct 16, 2025 – Oct 04, 2026

Arcadia Exhibitions
Glenside, PA, United States

Helen Maurene Cooper: Blue Angels, on view at Arcadia Exhibitions at Rosedale Gallery from October 16, 2025 through October 4, 2026, presents a striking body of photographic portraits that bridge centuries of image-making and identity. Created in 2017 in collaboration with drag queens and kings from Chicago, Philadelphia, and Miami, the series revisits early photographic processes to explore how LGBTQ+ lives might have appeared—and been understood—within the visual culture of the 19th century. T

Jeron Joseph: Sacred Ground

Mar 06, 2026 – Oct 04, 2026

The Anchorage Museum of Art
Anchorage, AK, United States

Sacred Ground, on view from March 6 through October 4, 2026 at the Anchorage Museum, presents a contemplative body of photographs by Yup’ik artist Jeron Joseph. Installed in the museum’s First Floor Family Galleries South Hallway, the exhibition reflects years of attentive observation along the coastal landscapes of Western Alaska. Joseph’s images explore the quiet rhythms of the land—its shifting light, seasonal cycles, and fragile ecosystems—while also conveying a deeper cultural understanding

Promise and Peril: Recent Acquisitions in American Landscape Photography

May 08, 2026 – Oct 04, 2026

VMFA - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, VA, United States

Promise and Peril: Recent Acquisitions in American Landscape Photography, on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts from May 8 through October 4, 2026, examines the evolving relationship between image-making and the American land. Drawing from works acquired since 2022, the exhibition spans more than a century and a half of photographic practice, offering a timely reflection aligned with the 250th anniversary of the United States. From its earliest days, landscape photography has played a cent

Keisha Scarville: Where Salt Meets Black Water

May 08, 2026 – Oct 04, 2026

Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, NY, United States

Keisha Scarville: Where Salt Meets Black Water transforms the outdoor plaza of the Brooklyn Museum into a contemplative space where photography, memory, and mourning converge. Presented as part of the museum’s UOVO Prize series, the exhibition centers on Scarville’s ongoing exploration of family history, migration, and the emotional residue carried through objects and images. Born in Brooklyn to Guyanese parents, the artist has built a practice rooted in portraiture and assemblage, often using p

Roadside Attractions

Mar 07, 2026 – Oct 04, 2026

New Mexico Museum of Art
Santa Fe, NM, United States

Roadside Attractions opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art on March 7, 2026 and runs through October 4, 2026, using the centennial of Route 66 as the frame for a look at the American road trip. The exhibition gathers photographs that follow the highway’s long pull across the country and its lasting hold on the national imagination. Route 66, established in 1926, cut through New Mexico on its way from Chicago to Santa Monica, passing through towns such as Tucumcari, Santa Rosa, Albuquerque and Ga

Timeline: A Record of The Moment

Aug 28, 2026 – Oct 10, 2026

LACP - Los Angeles Center of Photography
Los Angeles, CA, United States

A group of photographers turns their attention to everyday life in Timeline: A Record of The Moment, an exhibition built around the idea of documenting change as it unfolds. Presented from August 28 to October 10, 2026, the project brings together eight artists working in San Francisco and Los Angeles, each contributing images drawn from their immediate surroundings. The result forms part of a larger, ongoing archive that tracks contemporary life across the United States. The exhibition coincide

Private Collections Salon and Sale

Jul 25, 2026 – Oct 10, 2026

Jackson Fine Art
Atlanta, GA, United States

Jackson Fine Art’s Private Collections Salon and Sale returns for its 12th edition on July 25 and runs through October 10, 2026, bringing more than 100 photographs to its Buckhead gallery in Atlanta, with the selection also presented online. The annual event has become a fixture for collectors looking beyond the auction circuit, pairing market knowledge with a carefully edited group of works from private hands. The sale spans a wide field of photography, moving from established names to more rec

Lua Kobayashi: The Persistence of Memory

Sep 11, 2026 – Oct 25, 2026

Griffin Museum of Photography
Winchester, MA, United States

Lua Kobayashi: The Persistence of Memory at the Griffin Museum turns family stories into a quiet, moving installation. On view from September 11 through October 25, 2026, the exhibition is the result of Kobayashi’s 2025/2026 Cummings Residency Prize, during which the artist spent time in the greater Boston area listening to Japanese American individuals and families share objects, photographs and memories that have traveled with them across generations. In living rooms, kitchens and other everyd

settle for a good fantasy

Sep 11, 2026 – Oct 24, 2026

Luhring Augustine Chelsea
New York, NY, United States

settle for a good fantasy at Luhring Augustine brings together four photographers—Janice Guy, Joe Mama-Nitzberg, Shaun Pierson and David Seidner—who share an approach to portraiture that rejects idealization in favor of patchwork, slippage and unresolved form. On view from September 11 through October 24, 2026, in the gallery’s Chelsea space, the exhibition presents work that fractures and reintegrates its subjects, allowing questions to dominate over answers. Guy, who began making photographic

Ron Tarver: The Long Ride Home

Sep 11, 2026 – Nov 14, 2026

The Print Center
Philadelphia, PA, United States

Ron Tarver: The Long Ride Home, Black Cowboys in America, on view at The Print Center from September 11 to November 14, 2026, features color photographs made by the Philadelphia artist that challenge the whitewashed myth of the all-American cowboy and deconstruct ideas of Black identity. Taken in the 1990s, Tarver's images offer testimony to the lived experiences of a thriving community, offering insightful glimpses into the lives of Black people embodying their Western cultural heritage. The ex

Storytelling: Photographers Making Meaning, from the Wellin Museum’s Collection

Sep 12, 2026 – Jun 12, 2027

Wellin Museum of Art
Clinton, NY, United States

Storytelling: Photographers Making Meaning explores the power of narrative in photography and how artists construct meaning through the careful sequencing of images and, at times, the interplay between pictures and text. Drawing from the collection of the Wellin Museum of Art, the exhibition reflects on how photographers use visual storytelling to reveal complex ideas, emotions, and perspectives on the human experience. While a single photograph can suggest a moment or a mood, a series of images

Dispatches: The Photography of Douglas McCulloh, 1990–2025

Sep 12, 2026 – Jan 03, 2027

UCR - California Museum of Photography
Riverside, CA, United States

Dispatches: The Photography of Douglas McCulloh, 1990–2025 marks the first comprehensive survey of an artist whose work consistently expanded the conceptual and cultural reach of photography. Presented at the California Museum of Photography from September 12, 2026 to January 3, 2027, the exhibition brings together the full scope of McCulloh’s major projects, offering a rare opportunity to encounter his practice as a sustained, evolving inquiry. Across thirty-five years, his photographs, texts,

In the Eyes and Mind of the Feral Child: The Art of Tom McNease

Sep 12, 2026 – Mar 14, 2027

Ogden Museum of Southern Art
New Orleans, LA, United States

In the Eyes and Mind of the Feral Child: The Art of Tom McNease brings overdue attention to a Southern artist whose work remained largely outside the commercial art world during his lifetime. On view from September 12, 2026 to March 14, 2027, the exhibition follows McNease from his early photographic experiments in the 1970s to the abstract paintings and sculptural surfaces he developed after leaving the gallery circuit behind. Born in Meridian, Mississippi, and later based for decades in the ma

Karimah Ashadu: Tendered

Sep 12, 2026 – Nov 01, 2026

The Renaissance Society
Chicago, IL, United States

Karimah Ashadu: Tendered opens at the Renaissance Society from September 12 to November 1, 2026, with the U.S. debut of MUSCLE, a new moving-image installation centered on bodybuilders training in Lagos. The exhibition brings together film and sculpture to look at labor, discipline and self-fashioning through close attention to everyday conditions in West Africa. Ashadu’s work focuses on people working inside informal economies, where physical effort, ambition and survival are closely linked. In

Fabiola Menchelli: our sharp line of sight

Sep 12, 2026 – Nov 07, 2026

Marshall Gallery
Santa Monica, CA, United States

Fabiola Menchelli: our sharp line of sight at Marshall Gallery presents photography as a physical encounter with light, color and uncertainty. On view from September 12 through November 7, 2026, the exhibition gathers two dozen unique chromogenic prints made between 2024 and 2026, marking Menchelli’s third solo presentation with the gallery and her first devoted entirely to this recent camera-less work. Menchelli’s images begin in complete darkness. She folds photosensitive paper, exposes it to

Andrea Modica: Italian Story

Sep 12, 2026 – Feb 20, 2027

Alice Austen House
Staten Island, NY, United States

Andrea Modica: Italian Story brings two bodies of work to two New York venues, linking questions of womanhood, identity and cultural inheritance. On view from September 12, 2026, through February 13, 2027, the exhibition at Alice Austen House in Staten Island presents 39 platinum prints made during Modica’s travels across Italy, while a related presentation at AMR Art DUMBO focuses on her earlier series Catholic Girl. Modica’s relationship with Italy began in the mid-1980s and grew from her Ital

TLC

Sep 12, 2026 – Oct 25, 2026

Griffin Museum of Photography
Winchester, MA, United States

TLC at the Griffin Museum turns a familiar acronym into a method for making photographs. On view from September 12 through October 25, 2026, the exhibition brings together Alanna Airitam, Harlan Bozeman, Charles H. Lee and Star Montana, each of whom has spent years building relationships with the people they photograph. Curated by Dr. Delphine Sims, the show is part of State of Our Union, a four-part series that examines the United States in its 250th year through landscape, labor and, here, com

Graciela Iturbide: White Fence, Los Cholos

Sep 12, 2026 – Dec 05, 2026

ROSEGALLERY
Santa Monica, CA, United States

Graciela Iturbide: White Fence, Los Cholos at ROSEGALLERY presents photographs made in East Los Angeles in 1986, when an assignment for the documentary project A Day in the Life of America brought the Mexican photographer to an apartment in Boyle Heights. On view from September 12 through December 5, 2026, the exhibition focuses on a single encounter that grew into a relationship spanning more than three decades, following a community connected to the historic White Fence gang. Iturbide arrived

Group f64 & Their Contemporaries

Sep 12, 2026 – Nov 07, 2026

Scott Nichols Gallery
San Rafael, CA, United States

Group f/64 & Their Contemporaries, on view at Scott Nichols Gallery from September 12 to November 7, 2026, presents a significant collection of rare photographs from the community of artists who revolutionized American photography in the 1920s and 30s. The exhibition, marking the gallery's first presentation of Group f/64 work, opens with an afternoon reception on September 12 from 1 to 5 pm at 1310 4th Street in San Rafael's Arts District. Featured works include a very rare vintage photograph b

Paolo Ventura | Robert Doisneau: A Human Pace

Sep 12, 2026 – Jan 09, 2027

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Paolo Ventura | Robert Doisneau: A Human Pace, on view at Peter Fetterman Gallery from September 12, 2026, to January 9, 2027, brings together two artists separated by generations but united by their fascination with Paris and the lives, stories, and mysteries found within its streets. The exhibition, presented in collaboration with Galerie XII, pairs Doisneau's humanist street photography with Ventura's constructed tableaux, offering distinct visions of the same city: one discovered through the

Henry Horenstein: Miles and Miles of Texas

Sep 12, 2026 – Oct 03, 2026

Catherine Couturier Gallery
Houston, TX, United States

Henry Horenstein: Miles and Miles of Texas, on view at Catherine Couturier Gallery from September 12 to October 3, 2026, presents a Bostonian's affectionate portrait of the Lone Star State through nearly 100 photographs taken mostly between 2021 and 2024. The series, published as an eponymous book in 2025 by Honky Tonk Editions, explores the people and culture of Texas through the eyes of Horenstein, who has been fascinated with the state since childhood, influenced by everything from the TV ser

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Unnatural Habitat

Sep 15, 2026 – Oct 24, 2026

Lisson Gallery New York
New York, NY, United States

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Unnatural Habitat, on view at Lisson Gallery from September 15 to October 24, 2026, marks the artist's third solo exhibition at the gallery and a resonant return to New York, tracing a fifty-year dialogue between the artist and the city that helped shape his vision. The exhibition features photographs from Sugimoto's Diorama series, some created this past year through access to dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History, recently rediscovered negatives enlarged for the

Allie Tsubota: Milk Teeth

Sep 16, 2026 – Nov 11, 2026

BAXTER ST at the Camera Club of New York
New York, NY, United States

Allie Tsubota: Milk Teeth at BAXTER ST at the Camera Club of New York takes a single 1870 photograph as its point of departure and follows the threads it pulls loose. The image shows 75 Chinese boys and young men who were trafficked from California to North Adams, Massachusetts, to work as strikebreakers against French Canadian laborers. Confined to the factory site under carceral conditions, they remained in North Adams in the decade before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Tsubota treats the

Azikiwe Mohammed: Where To, From Here

Sep 16, 2026 – Nov 11, 2026

BAXTER ST at the Camera Club of New York
New York, NY, United States

Azikiwe Mohammed: Where To, From Here at BAXTER ST at the Camera Club of New York gathers 140 Polaroid photographs drawn from an ongoing series begun in 2023. On view from September 16 through November 11, 2026, the exhibition traces Mohammed’s travels across the United States, documenting people, places and sites of gathering as he asks what kinds of spaces can hold people when established structures collapse, exclude or fail the communities they were meant to support. The title’s question is b

Baldwin Lee: New York (1975–1979)

Sep 17, 2026 – Oct 31, 2026

Howard Greenberg Gallery
New York, NY, United States

Baldwin Lee: New York (1975–1979) at Howard Greenberg Gallery presents a previously unseen chapter in the photographer’s career. On view from September 17 through October 31, 2026, the exhibition brings together large-scale black-and-white photographs made after Lee completed his MFA at Yale, when he returned repeatedly to the city where he grew up and began defining his own way of looking. Raised in Manhattan’s Chinatown, Lee studied with Minor White at MIT and Walker Evans at Yale. Those influ

Sarah Sense: Land, Line, Blood, Memory

Sep 17, 2026 – Nov 07, 2026

Bruce Silverstein Gallery
New York, NY, United States

Sarah Sense: Land, Line, Blood, Memory at Bruce Silverstein Gallery brings photography, basketry and archival research into close contact. On view from September 17 through November 7, 2026, the exhibition presents more than 20 new photo-weavings by the Chitimacha/Choctaw artist, whose work challenges the systems that have separated Indigenous people from ancestral land, cultural knowledge and historical record. Sense builds each piece from contemporary landscape photographs, archival documents,

Sophie Delaporte: The Thread Between

Sep 17, 2026 – Oct 31, 2026

Sous Les Etoiles Gallery
New York, NY, United States

Sophie Delaporte: The Thread Between, on view at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery from September 17 to October 31, 2026, brings together the artist's Needleworks series and a selection of her early fashion photographs, spanning nearly three decades of artistic practice. The exhibition reveals a continuous exploration of femininity, desire, intimacy, and the representation of the female body. The Thread Between evokes Delaporte's way of challenging established visual codes from inside the image itself. R

Much Here is Beautiful: Photography Surveys of the U.S. Bicentennial

Sep 18, 2026 – Apr 18, 2027

Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, DC, United States

Much Here is Beautiful: Photography Surveys of the U.S. Bicentennial presents a sweeping visual chronicle of America in transition, capturing the spirit, contradictions, and quiet beauty of the nation during the 1970s and early 1980s. From the windswept shores of California to the farmlands of Kansas and the crowded avenues of New York City, these photographs reveal a country redefining itself two centuries after its founding. In 1976, to commemorate the U.S. Bicentennial, the National Endowment

Taryn Simon

Sep 18, 2026 – Mar 14, 2027

Guggenheim New York
New York, NY, United States

Taryn Simon, presented at the Guggenheim New York from September 18, 2026 through March 14, 2027, marks a major moment in the artist’s career with the debut of an ambitious new body of work. Occupying the museum’s iconic Rotunda in its entirety, the exhibition unfolds as an immersive environment that combines photography, text, video, and sculptural elements into a single, continuously evolving installation. Rather than offering a fixed sequence, the project invites visitors to navigate the spac

Tacita Dean: FILM

Sep 18, 2026 – Jan 02, 2027

Marciano Art Foundation
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Tacita Dean: FILM brings one of the most important works in recent moving-image art to the Marciano Art Foundation in its first U.S. presentation. On view from September 18, 2026 to January 2, 2027, the installation centers on Dean’s 2011 35mm work FILM, a large-scale tribute to photochemical cinema and a clear statement of her commitment to analog film. Dean has spent more than three decades working across film, drawing, photography and printmaking, but film remains central to her practice. In

Gordon Parks: Voices in the Mirror

Sep 18, 2026 – Nov 07, 2026

Jack Shainman Gallery Lafayette Street
New York, NY, United States

Gordon Parks: Voices in the Mirror at Jack Shainman Gallery returns to images that have long defined American photojournalism, but it does so through a different register: the voices of the people and families who lived inside them. On view from September 18 to November 7, 2026, the exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundation and reopens Parks’s photographs as sites of memory, testimony and historical afterlife. The premise is unusually direct. Families and subjects conn

David Lynch: LA

Sep 18, 2026 – Oct 24, 2026

Pace Gallery Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States

David Lynch: LA at Pace Gallery places the artist’s photographs back in the city that shaped much of his imagination. On view from September 18 through October 24, 2026, the exhibition marks the first presentation of Lynch’s work in Los Angeles since his death in 2025, and it does so with an unusually clear focus: five photographic series shown together for the first time, each one extending the atmosphere that runs through his films, paintings and sound work. Lynch lived in Los Angeles for more

BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration

Sep 18, 2026 – Dec 27, 2026

OMCA - Oakland Museum of California
Oakland, CA, United States

BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration at the Oakland Museum of California asks whether looking more closely at photographs can change what we see, know and feel about a painful chapter of U.S. history. On view from September 18 through December 27, 2026, in the OMCA Great Hall, the exhibition is built around the work of Japanese artist Masaki Fujihata, who returns to archival images made in 1942 by Dorothea Lange and Russell Lee to examine the moments just before Japan

Justine Kurland: A Retrospective

Sep 18, 2026 – Nov 21, 2026

OSMOS
New York, NY, United States

Justine Kurland: A Retrospective at OSMOS in New York City presents the first survey of an artist whose work has reflected an idyllic yet wild America through a queer feminist lens for three decades. On view from September 18 through November 21, 2026, the exhibition brings together photographs and collages from disparate series, arranging them as a constellation of enduring themes rather than a strict chronology. It is Kurland’s first retrospective and her first solo show with OSMOS in New York

Aperture Loves New York

Sep 18, 2026 – Nov 01, 2026

Aperture
New York, NY, United States

Aperture Loves New York, on view from September 18 to November 1 at Aperture's new permanent home at 380 Columbus Avenue, marks the opening of a long-awaited space for photography on the Upper West Side. Curated by executive director Sarah Meister, the inaugural installation brings together photographs by more than twenty artists with the Aperture books that advanced their work, tracing seven decades of publishing history through the lens of a city that has shaped—and been shaped by—its photogra

Roy DeCarava: the sound i saw

Sep 19, 2026 – Oct 31, 2026

David Zwirner Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Roy DeCarava: the sound i saw brings together photographs made during the period when the artist developed his most sustained meditation on the relationship between seeing and listening. Curated by Ebony L. Haynes, the exhibition opens at David Zwirner’s Los Angeles gallery on September 19 and focuses on work created from the late 1940s through the 1960s, a period when DeCarava looked closely at both New York street life and the world of jazz. The photographs move between ordinary city scenes an

Thomas Demand

Sep 19, 2026 – Nov 07, 2026

Matthew Marks Gallery Los Angeles North Orange Grove
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Thomas Demand at Matthew Marks brings 15 new photographs to two Los Angeles galleries, at 1062 North Orange Grove and 7818 Santa Monica Boulevard. Opening September 19 and running through November 7, 2026, the exhibition focuses on Demand’s ongoing interest in the unstable boundary between an object, its representation and the photograph that finally replaces both. Demand is known for rebuilding scenes from media images and everyday life in paper and cardboard, then photographing the models befo

Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives

Sep 20, 2026 – May 02, 2027

MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY, United States

Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives returns to MoMA this fall, centering on Marianne Wex’s landmark feminist study of gendered body language while placing it in conversation with a group of contemporary artists working from Black, queer and 21st-century feminist perspectives. On view from September 20, 2026 to May 2, 2027 on Floor 2 in the Paul J. Sachs Galleries, the exhibition treats space as something that is both physical and symbolic, shaped by power, habit and the ability to r

Laura Aguilar: Day of the Dead

Sep 20, 2026 – Mar 01, 2027

The Huntington
San Marino, CA, United States

Laura Aguilar: Day of the Dead, on view at The Huntington from September 20, 2026, through March 1, 2027, presents photographs from a lesser-known series created during the 1980s and 1990s by the pioneering Los Angeles artist Laura Aguilar (1959–2018). The exhibition documents Día de los Muertos celebrations in homes and at public events throughout Los Angeles, drawing from The Huntington's acquisition of 21 photographs from the Laura Aguilar Trust—the largest collection of works from the series

Bay Area Photography Open Exhibition – 2026

Sep 21, 2026 – Jan 08, 2027

The Image Flow
San Anselmo, CA, United States

Bay Area Photography Open Exhibition – 2026 at The Image Flow gathers work by photographic artists from across the extended Bay Area in a juried, open-theme presentation. On view from September 21 through January 8, 2027, the exhibition marks the gallery’s second annual call for entry and brings together a wide range of approaches, from digital images to alternative processes and hybrid practices. The show is juried by Ann Jastrab, executive director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel;

The Long Lives We Carry

Sep 25, 2026 – Oct 23, 2026

CCAC - Clifton Cultural Arts Center
Cincinnati, OH, United States

The Long Lives We Carry at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center brings together the work of Gordon Baer and Jano Rečo in a compact but pointed exhibition about aging, care and the quiet realities of institutional life. On view from September 25 to October 23, 2026, the show is curated by Saad Ghosn, founder and president of SOS Art. Baer, a Cincinnati-based photojournalist active for decades, focused much of his work on people often left outside the frame. His photographs of his Aunt Beck in her fin

Wind and Other Dangers: Sasha Arutyunova

Sep 25, 2026 – Nov 21, 2026

Filter Photo
Chicago, IL, United States

Wind and Other Dangers brings Sasha Arutyunova’s long-running family project into a focused exhibition at Filter Photo, on view from September 25 to November 21, 2026. The show uses photography to track migration, separation and the fragile ways families stay connected across distance, language and changing national contexts. Arutyunova began working with the camera in 2008, after her family’s history of movement between Moscow, Florida and the United States had already shaped much of her life.

Indian Circus by Mary Ellen Mark

Sep 25, 2026 – Nov 14, 2026

CPAC - Colorado Photographic Art Center
Denver, CO, United States

Indian Circus by Mary Ellen Mark at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center returns to one of the photographer’s most sustained and intimate projects. On view from September 25 through November 14, 2026, the exhibition follows the traveling circuses Mark encountered across India, not from the audience seats but from inside the daily lives of performers, workers, children and animals. Mark first traveled to India in 1969 and returned repeatedly over the next two decades. In 1989, with support from

Stacy Kranitz: Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down

Sep 25, 2026 – Jan 23, 2027

The Contemporary Dayton
Dayton, OH, United States

Stacy Kranitz: Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down at The Contemporary Dayton presents the culmination of a landmark multi-year project that challenges long-held stereotypes of Appalachia. On view from September 25, 2026, through January 23, 2027, the exhibition brings together more than 40 photographs drawn from historical archives, Kranitz’s own images, historical texts, installations and an accompanying film. Born in Kentucky and based in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee, Kra

Ella Kraimer: Appearances

Sep 25, 2026 – Jan 23, 2027

The Contemporary Dayton
Dayton, OH, United States

Ella Kraimer: Appearances at The Contemporary Dayton presents a world-premiere exhibition of large-scale photographs in which the artist transforms herself into a cast of fictional personas through striking self-portraits. On view from September 25, 2026, through January 23, 2027, the exhibition brings together work that was previously viewed only as a digital project, now realized at a scale that emphasizes the physicality of costume, collage and assemblage. Kraimer uses secondhand garments gat

Natural Fictions

Sep 30, 2026 – Mar 06, 2027

The Carnegie
Covington, KY, United States

Natural Fictions at The Carnegie brings together artists who treat photography less as evidence than as a way of testing how the natural world is seen, framed and imagined. On view from September 30, 2026 to March 6, 2027, the exhibition is curated by Lindsay Albert of KADIST and Sso-Rha Kang of The Carnegie. Rather than presenting landscape as a fixed subject, the show approaches it as something unstable and open to invention. The works included in Natural Fictions move between observation and

Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai

Oct 01, 2026 – Mar 21, 2027

MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL, United States

Cara Romero’s Panûpünüwügai at MOCA Jacksonville presents a decade of photographs that place Indigenous life at the center of the frame. The exhibition gathers images in which Romero combines staged portraiture, documentary references, and commercial-style polish to build scenes that are direct, detailed, and closely tied to Chemehuevi and broader Native histories. The title means “living light” in the Chemehuevi language, and light functions as more than a visual tool throughout the show. It sh

Trevor Paglen: the most merciful thing in the world

Oct 01, 2026 – Jan 23, 2027

FotoFocus Center
Cincinnati, OH, United States

Trevor Paglen: the most merciful thing in the world opens at FotoFocus Center on October 1, 2026 and runs through January 23, 2027, bringing together photography, video and sculpture from across two decades of Paglen’s practice. Curated by Kevin Moore, the exhibition focuses on the way images are made, processed and used within systems of surveillance, military power and digital control. Paglen has built a career at the meeting point of art, technology and politics. His work often turns toward t

Nancy Rexroth: Secrets of My Power

Oct 01, 2026 – Jan 03, 2027

Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, OH, United States

Nancy Rexroth: Secrets of My Power at the Cincinnati Art Museum offers the first major look at an American photographer whose work has long circulated as something of a quiet touchstone. Opening October 1, 2026 and running through January 3, 2027, the exhibition traces Rexroth’s career from her student years at Ohio University to later experiments with platinum, Polaroid transfer and early digital tools. At the center of the show is IOWA, the 1977 book made with a simple plastic camera that gave

Frank Meadow Sutcliffe: The Village People

Oct 01, 2026 – Dec 01, 2026

Keith de Lellis Gallery
New York, NY, United States

Frank Meadow Sutcliffe: The Village People, on view at Keith de Lellis Gallery from October 1 to December 1, 2026, presents an exhibition of original nineteenth-century photographs by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1853–1941), one of the most accomplished photographers of Victorian England. Drawn from the 1880s, the exhibition brings together rare original albumen prints depicting Whitby and the Yorkshire coast—its harbor, fishing boats, working men, children, and the distinctive maritime life of the p

GAG

Oct 02, 2026 – Apr 11, 2027

George Eastman Museum
Rochester, NY, United States

GAG, on view from October 2, 2026 to April 11, 2027 in the Main Galleries at the George Eastman Museum, takes a single word and turns it into a framework for looking at contemporary photography and video. The exhibition treats gag as comic interruption, bodily reaction, social restraint and cultural shorthand, bringing those meanings together in work that moves between humor, discomfort and critique. Curated by Phil Taylor, the show includes work by Peggy Ahwesh, Lucas Blalock, Patty Chang, Tali

Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Compressed Tenses

Oct 02, 2026 – Dec 20, 2026

Weston Art Gallery
Cincinnati, OH, United States

Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Compressed Tenses brings together a body of work that turns portraiture into something layered, unstable and deliberately open-ended. On view from October 2 to December 20, 2026 at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, the exhibition focuses on Sepuya’s studio practice, where friends, artists, collaborators and the artist himself appear through mirrors, fragments and partial views. Sepuya’s photographs do not treat the studio as a neutral background. It becomes an act

In the Interest of Time

Oct 02, 2026 – Feb 07, 2027

Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH, United States

In the Interest of Time brings seven regional artists together at the Contemporary Arts Center in a group exhibition that treats time not as a backdrop, but as the subject itself. Opening October 2, 2026 and on view through February 7, 2027, the show was selected through a FotoFocus juried open call curated by Theresa Bembnister. The exhibition gathers artists whose work stretches across years, generations and shifting forms of memory. Joseph Vitone has photographed relatives near Akron since 19

Widline Cadet: Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance)

Oct 02, 2026 – Feb 07, 2027

Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH, United States

Widline Cadet: Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance) arrives at the Contemporary Arts Center as the second presentation of the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, on view from October 2, 2026 to February 7, 2027. Curated by Kristen Gaylord, the exhibition brings together photographs, installation and video from across a series that has made Cadet one of the most closely watched voices in contemporary photography. The work begins with family history and the disrupt

Rania Matar: Where do I go?

Oct 02, 2026 – Nov 21, 2026

Obscura Gallery
Santa Fe, NM, United States

Where do I go?, on view at Obscura Gallery from October 2 to November 21, 2026, presents Rania Matar's photographic collaboration with young women in Lebanon, seeking collectively to commemorate and reimagine the future of a country defined by half a century of conflict and catastrophe. The year 2025 marked fifty years since the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War, and half a century later, Lebanon continues to endure the aftermath, compounded by economic collapse, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Beir

A Solid Sense of Who You Are: Selections from the Museum Collection

Oct 03, 2026 – Jun 12, 2027

UCR - California Museum of Photography
Riverside, CA, United States

A Solid Sense of Who You Are: Selections from the Museum Collection brings together a thoughtful group of works that reflect the values, relationships, and artistic integrity championed by Douglas McCulloh throughout his career. On view at the California Museum of Photography from October 3, 2026 to June 12, 2027, the exhibition takes its title from McCulloh’s own writing, foregrounding a belief in self-knowledge as the foundation of meaningful artistic practice. Rather than a stylistic survey,

Flash: Heather Cleary

Oct 03, 2026 – Feb 21, 2027

UCR - California Museum of Photography
Riverside, CA, United States

Flash: Heather Cleary at the California Museum of Photography centers on Thresholds (2025), a single photograph that turns a familiar documentary image into something stranger and more personal. On view from October 3, 2026, through February 21, 2027, the work reimagines the aerial “migration of the herd” sequence often used in nature films, replacing animals with small clay figures of early humans moving across an expansive landscape. The idea emerged during a period of insomnia, when Cleary wa

Tanya Marcuse: Woven

Oct 03, 2026 – Jan 17, 2027

CPW - Center for Photography at Woodstock
Kingston, NY, United States

Tanya Marcuse: Woven at the Center for Photography at Woodstock brings together two bodies of work that treat the natural world as both subject and warning. On view from October 3, 2026, through January 17, 2027, the exhibition presents eight key images from Woven: An Ecological Tapestry (2015–2020) alongside Marcuse’s newest series, Deer, which functions as a coda to the earlier project. The show also includes an eleven-minute film made in partnership with Ben Stechshulte, exhibited for the fir

Pixy Liao: Relationship Material

Oct 03, 2026 – Jan 17, 2027

CPW - Center for Photography at Woodstock
Kingston, NY, United States

Pixy Liao: Relationship Material at the Center for Photography at Woodstock brings together nearly two decades of work in which the artist and her partner, Takahiro Morooka (known as Moro), turn their relationship into artistic material. On view from October 3, 2026, through January 17, 2027, the exhibition presents approximately 45 works from Liao’s ongoing series Experimental Relationship, including color photographs, soft sculptures, music videos and elements of PIMO, the offbeat music duo th

Flashback: Two Centuries of Baltimore Photography

Oct 04, 2026 – Feb 21, 2027

The Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore, MD, United States

Flashback: Two Centuries of Baltimore Photography places Baltimore at the center of its own visual history, gathering more than 200 photographs made over roughly 185 years. Opening October 4, 2026 and running through February 21, 2027, the exhibition presents the city not simply as a backdrop, but as a force that has shaped how photographers have worked, what they have recorded, and how Baltimore has been seen over time. The show brings together a wide range of images, from early photographs to

Stage Craft: Pictorialist Photography and Performance

Oct 11, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Stage Craft: Pictorialist Photography and Performance brings the theatrical side of early photography into focus at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art from October 11, 2026 to January 31, 2027. The exhibition looks at how Pictorialist photographers moved beyond straight documentary use and treated the camera as a tool for staged scenes, expressive printing and visual storytelling. At the center of the show is a period when photography was still fighting for recognition as an art form. Pictorialist

I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now

Oct 15, 2026 – Jan 11, 2027

ICP - International Center of Photography
New York, NY, United States

I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now at the International Center of Photography redraws the history of Japanese photography through the work of more than twenty-five women across seven decades. On view from October 15, 2026, to January 11, 2027, the exhibition gathers photography, photobooks, installation and printed matter into a single account of artistic practice that has often been left at the margins of the canon. The range of artists is one of the s

Carlotta Corpron: Light Is a Plastic Medium

Oct 16, 2026 – Mar 14, 2027

Hirshhorn Museum
Washington, DC, United States

Carlotta Corpron: Light Is a Plastic Medium, presented at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden from February 27, 2026 to January 31, 2027, offers a long-overdue survey of a pioneering figure in American abstract photography. Spanning work produced primarily in Texas between the late 1930s and early 1950s, the exhibition traces Corpron’s sustained inquiry into light as both subject and material. Through six major bodies of work, the show reveals an artist who treated photograph

Queer Constellations: Photographs from the Aronowitz Family Collection

Oct 16, 2026 – Mar 21, 2027

CMOA - Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus, OH, United States

Spanning more than a century of image-making, Queer Constellations: Photographs from the Aronowitz Family Collection unfolds at the Columbus Museum of Art as a dense and layered exploration of queer identity through photography. Installed in the Lower Level Walter Wing, the exhibition brings together 150 works drawn largely from a major donation by the Columbus-based Aronowitz Family, expanding into a broader reflection on how queer lives have been represented, coded and reimagined across time.

We Cover New York: The Photo League

Oct 16, 2026 – Mar 21, 2027

CMOA - Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus, OH, United States

We Cover New York: The Photo League at the Columbus Museum of Art revisits one of the most influential photography collectives of the 20th century. On view in Gallery 5 through June 21, 2026, the rotating installation draws from CMA’s Photo League Collection and focuses on a group that shaped both the social and artistic role of photography in New York City. Founded in 1936 and active until 1951, the Photo League brought together photographers who shared darkroom access, lectures, classes and ex

Natural Order, Lucien Liu and Rachel Phillips

Oct 17, 2026 – Nov 29, 2026

CFPA - Center for Photographic Art
Carmel, CA, United States

Natural Order, Lucien Liu and Rachel Phillips brings two distinct photographic practices into the same frame, with spiderwebs acting as both image and idea. On view from October 17 to November 29, 2026, the exhibition moves through coastal Northern California, where the natural world and the built environment remain tightly intertwined, often in ways that feel uneasy rather than harmonious. Liu’s work draws on long walks through Golden Gate Park and nearby landscapes, where he records leaves, wa

Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder

Oct 18, 2026 – Apr 04, 2027

Sarasota Art Museum
Sarasota, FL, United States

Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder, on view from October 18, 2026 through April 4, 2027 at the Sarasota Art Museum, brings together a remarkable selection of twentieth-century photography drawn from a deeply personal collection. Assembled over decades by photographer and humanitarian Judy Glickman Lauder, the exhibition gathers nearly one hundred works that reflect the breadth of human experience, while emphasizing photography’s enduring role as a witness to existence.

Stepping into Style: Fashion and the Art of Elegance

May 09, 2026 – Sep 08, 2026

Holden Luntz Gallery
Palm Beach, FL, United States

Stepping into Style: Fashion and the Art of Elegance collects images that treat clothing as conversation, showing how posture, gesture, and presence shape the meaning of a dress. At Holden Luntz Gallery, the exhibition moves from the sculptural control of Horst P. Horst and George Hoyningen‑Huene to the kinetic ease of Arthur Elgort and William Klein, tracing a history in which fashion images shift from formal portraiture to lively social choreography. Each photograph stages not only a garment b

The Linda McCartney Retrospective: From the Light

May 23, 2026 – Sep 07, 2026

Fenimore Art Museum
Cooperstown, NY, United States

The Linda McCartney Retrospective: From the Light, on view at Fenimore Art Museum from May 23 to September 7, offers a wide look at a photographer whose work moved easily between music, family life and public advocacy. The exhibition places McCartney’s images of musicians, nature and private moments in one frame, showing how she built a career on instinct, access and close observation. Born Linda Louise Eastman in Scarsdale, New York, McCartney studied art history and took some photography class

Laura Aguilar: Body and Landscape

Mar 22, 2026 – Sep 07, 2026

The Huntington
San Marino, CA, United States

Laura Aguilar: Body and Landscape, presented at The Huntington from March 22 to September 7, 2026, offers a compelling look at an artist who reshaped the relationship between self-portraiture and the natural world. Drawing from works created between the late 1980s and the early 2000s, the exhibition highlights Aguilar’s deeply personal approach to photography, where the body becomes both subject and site of meaning. Aguilar’s images place her own figure within the arid terrains of Southern Calif

Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan

Apr 18, 2026 – Sep 07, 2026

Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton, NJ, United States

Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan, on view from April 18 through September 7, 2026, offers a thoughtful examination of three figures who reshaped American photography in the mid-twentieth century. More than a historical survey, the exhibition considers photography as a lifelong discipline—an intellectual, spiritual, and creative pursuit that informed how these artists lived, taught, and understood the world around them. Working during a period dominated

Tamary Kudita: African Victorian and Birds of Paradise

May 03, 2026 – Sep 06, 2026

Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, OH, United States

Tamary Kudita: African Victorian and Birds of Paradise at the Cincinnati Art Museum places identity, costume and colonial inheritance under a sharply focused lens. On view in Gallery 104 from May 3, 2025, to September 6, 2026, the presentation brings together two connected bodies of work by the Zimbabwean photographer, whose portraits mix historical references with contemporary African life. Kudita, born in 1994 and based in Zimbabwe, works from a personal history marked by cultural mixture. Her

Give Me One Good Reason for Leaving the House

Aug 15, 2026 – Sep 06, 2026

CPW - Center for Photography at Woodstock
Kingston, NY, United States

Give Me One Good Reason for Leaving the House at CPW treats the domestic sphere as a site of pressure rather than shelter. On view in the Community Gallery from August 15 to September 6, 2026, the exhibition brings together twelve artists working through photography to examine how home, memory and public life have been unsettled by the pandemic years, political instability and the constant churn of digital misinformation. The premise is plain but uneasy: is home still a safe place? The work gath

Nepantla: The Land is The Beloved

May 18, 2026 – Sep 06, 2026

TAM - Tacoma Art Museum
Tacoma, WA, United States

Nepantla: The Land is The Beloved, on view from May 18, 2024 through September 6, 2026, examines questions of migration, identity, and belonging through the perspectives of artists connected to the Arab diaspora in the American Southwest and West Coast. Drawing inspiration from the writings of cultural theorist Gloria Anzaldúa, the exhibition adopts the Nahuatl concept of “nepantla,” a state of being between worlds, to explore how borderlands become spaces of tension, memory, and creative resist

2026 Handmade Photobook Exhibition

Jun 12, 2026 – Sep 06, 2026

Griffin Museum of Photography
Winchester, MA, United States

2026 Handmade Photobook Exhibition celebrates the tactile intelligence of books where photography and craft meet to form intimate narratives. At the Griffin Museum of Photography, the show gathers handmade volumes that refuse the instant swipe of the screen and insist on slow looking: turn a page, feel a paper’s tooth, register a binding’s rhythm, and the work reveals itself not only as image but as object. These books operate on two planes at once—the formal sequence of photographs and the mate

Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch

Jul 31, 2026 – Sep 06, 2026

Griffin Museum of Photography
Winchester, MA, United States

The Griffin Museum of Photography opens its doors to a profound exploration of the American South with the exhibition Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch. Running through September 6, 2026, the showcase features the evocative work of the 31st Juried Members Exhibition prize winner. McCord, a documentary photographer with deep roots in the Arkansas Delta, presents a visual narrative that spans over four decades of life on her family’s cotton farm. The title refers to the defunct railroad switch in Rotan, A

Preston Gannaway: Remember Me

Jul 31, 2026 – Sep 06, 2026

Griffin Museum of Photography
Winchester, MA, United States

At the Griffin Museum of Photography, Preston Gannaway: Remember Me offers a deeply personal reflection on grief, memory, and the passage of time. On view from July 31 to September 6, 2026, the exhibition presents the work of Preston Gannaway, recipient of the Director’s Prize in the museum’s 2025 Juried Members Exhibition. The project centers on a relationship that has unfolded over more than two decades, tracing the life of a young boy in New Hampshire after the death of his mother when he was

New Acquisitions: Photography

Jun 12, 2026 – Sep 06, 2026

The High Museum of Art
Atlanta, GA, United States

The High Museum of Art presents New Acquisitions: Photography, on view from June 12 to September 6, 2026, offering a considered look at how a collection evolves over time. Drawing from decades of deliberate acquisitions, the exhibition reflects the institution’s sustained commitment to photography as both a historical record and a living, changing form. Since acquiring its first photograph in 1973 and establishing a dedicated department in 1993, the museum has shaped a collection that speaks to

Upstate Photography Biennial

May 30, 2026 – Sep 06, 2026

CPW - Center for Photography at Woodstock
Kingston, NY, United States

Upstate Photography Biennial, on view from May 30 through September 6, 2026 at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, marks the launch of a major new exhibition series dedicated to the flourishing photographic culture of upstate New York. Bringing together the work of thirty-nine artists, the inaugural edition reflects the remarkable diversity of creative practices that have taken root throughout the Hudson Valley and the broader region. Organized by curators Marina Chao and Adam Giles Ryan, t

Off the Coast of Paradise: Artists and Ossabaw Island, 1961–Now

Mar 13, 2026 – Sep 06, 2026

Telfair Museums
Savannah, GA, United States

Off the Coast of Paradise: Artists and Ossabaw Island, 1961–Now, presented at the Telfair Museums’s Jepson Center, examines the long artistic relationship with Ossabaw Island, a largely undeveloped barrier island situated south of Savannah. Spanning more than six decades of creative activity, the exhibition traces how the island’s remote geography, tidal marshes, maritime forests, and layered histories nurture a rare environment for reflection and experimentation. Artists encounter a landscape w

Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026

Feb 07, 2026 – Sep 06, 2026

The Cheech
Riverside, CA, United States

Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026, on view from February 7 through September 6, 2026 at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, offers the first sweeping survey of Chicana/o/x lens-based practices across six decades. Bringing together approximately 150 works by nearly 50 artists, the exhibition traces how photographers have documented, shaped, and reimagined their communities from the civil rights era to the present day. Curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, it unfol

Selections from the Photography Collection: Textiles on Film

Mar 14, 2026 – Sep 06, 2026

AAM - Allentown Art Museum
Allentown, PA, United States

Selections from the Photography Collection: Textiles on Film, on view at the Fuller Gallery at the Allentown Art Museum from March 14 through September 6, 2026, offers a richly textured exploration of photography’s long engagement with fabric, clothing, and adornment. Drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, this installation highlights how photographers have used textiles not only as visual subjects, but as expressive surfaces through which identity, labor, and daily life are revealed. The

Edward Steichen and the Garden

Mar 27, 2026 – Sep 06, 2026

George Eastman Museum
Rochester, NY, United States

Edward Steichen once remarked, “I claim that the flower is a work of art,” a declaration that reflected not only his mastery of photography but his lifelong devotion to the natural world. Across seven decades, Steichen shaped modern photography through innovation and vision, yet a quieter part of his life unfolded in the soil of his gardens. There, he cultivated plants with the same attentiveness he brought to the darkroom, finding in nature a source of renewal and an essential companion to his

Living Indigenously Featuring Photographs by Teko Alejo

Apr 11, 2026 – Sep 06, 2026

Delaware Art Museum
Wilmington, DE, United States

Living Indigenously celebrates the richness and resilience of contemporary Indigenous life, revealing how deeply rooted traditions continue to shape identities in a constantly changing world. The exhibition brings together a vibrant group of artists, including Yesenia Vanessa Ayala, Rogelio Zavala-Purepecha, and Lauren Siyowin Peters, whose works reflect personal experiences that together form a shared narrative of Indigenous presence and renewal. Through photography, painting, and mixed media,

Citizen Artist

Apr 11, 2026 – Sep 06, 2026

Delaware Art Museum
Wilmington, DE, United States

Coinciding with the Semiquincentennial in 2026, Citizen Artist will meet a moment of national reflection with a celebration of artist workers in America. Beginning in 1933, artists painted, photographed, wrote, acted, and taught for New Deal programs including the Public Works of Art Project, the Works Progress Administration, Farm Security Administration, and the Treasury Section on Fine Arts. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal initiated dedicated arts and cultural support at the nation

Don Thompson: Visions of Time and Transformation

Jul 18, 2026 – Sep 05, 2026

The Hulett Collection
Tulsa, OK, United States

Don Thompson: Visions of Time and Transformation at The Hulett Collection brings together nearly six decades of work by a photographer whose practice has remained closely tied to Tulsa while steadily expanding what documentary photography can do. On view from July 18 to September 5, 2026, the exhibition marks the first major survey of Thompson’s career at the gallery and places his long attention to place, community and change at the center of the presentation. Most of the photographs were made

Kinship & Community: Selections from the Texas African American Photography Archive

Apr 18, 2026 – Sep 05, 2026

CAAM - California African American Museum at Art + Practice
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Kinship & Community: Selections from the Texas African American Photography Archive brings forward a visual record of Black life in eastern Texas that extends from 1944 to 1984. On view at Art + Practice through September 5, 2026, the exhibition gathers photographs made in studios and communities across urban neighborhoods and rural towns, where local photographers documented the people, rituals and public occasions that shaped everyday life. The images carry the weight of a form of photography

Rahim Fortune: Between a Memory and Me

Apr 18, 2026 – Sep 05, 2026

CAAM - California African American Museum at Art + Practice
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Rahim Fortune: Between a Memory and Me presents the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles of a photographer whose work moves between family history, landscape and the shifting language of Black and Indigenous identity. On view from April 18 to September 5, 2026 at Art + Practice, the exhibition brings together black-and-white images from Fortune’s Hardtack project, new color photographs made in response to the Texas African American Photography Archive, and a short film that lingers over rural ro

Thirty Years: The Legacy of John Cleary Gallery

Jun 27, 2026 – Sep 05, 2026

Catherine Couturier Gallery
Houston, TX, United States

Thirty Years: The Legacy of John Cleary Gallery marks a milestone for one of Houston’s most enduring photography spaces, on view from June 27 to September 5, 2026 at Catherine Couturier Gallery. The exhibition looks back to 1996, when John Cleary opened the gallery on Gallery Row and helped establish what became Houston’s longest-running fine art photography gallery. Rather than treating the anniversary as a simple celebration, the show returns to the gallery’s beginnings. It draws on the French

Daido Moriyama: The Hunter

Jun 06, 2026 – Sep 05, 2026

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Daido Moriyama: The Hunter gathers images that read like footsteps through a city at fever pitch, a body of work that treats street photography as a practice of collision rather than calm observation. Moriyama’s pictures operate by impulse: a flicker of light, a passing shoulder, a neon sign shorn of context—moments seized in grain and blur that refuse the tidy clarity of documentary realism. What remains is a residue of encounter, a texture of presence that feels more like memory than reportage

Marilyn Monroe: A Silent Life

May 30, 2026 – Sep 05, 2026

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Marilyn Monroe: A Silent Life gathers the many gazes that made Marilyn Monroe into a cultural figure, showing how performance and intimacy coexisted in her image. At Peter Fetterman Gallery, photographs by Eve Arnold, Henri Cartier‑Bresson, Philippe Halsman, Bert Stern, Douglas Kirkland, and others form a chorus of perspectives—studio compositions, candid frames, publicity stills—that together trace the work of self‑making and the moments when that work slipped into vulnerability. These pictures

Inside / Outside: Photographs by Clarissa Bonet and Lynne Cohen

Jun 26, 2026 – Sep 04, 2026

Stephen Daiter Gallery
Chicago, IL, United States

Inside / Outside: Photographs by Clarissa Bonet and Lynne Cohen brings together two artists separated by generation but linked by a clear interest in how built spaces shape behavior. On view from June 26 to September 4, the exhibition at Stephen Daiter Gallery places Bonet’s urban scenes in conversation with Cohen’s institutional interiors, creating a focused study of how architecture directs the body and the eye. Bonet works with the contemporary city as both subject and stage. Her photographs

Memphis College of Art, 1936-2020: An Enduring Legacy

Feb 25, 2026 – Sep 01, 2026

Memphis Brooks Museum Of Art
Memphis, TN, United States

Memphis College of Art, 1936–2020: An Enduring Legacy opens at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art on February 25 and remains on view through September 2026, marking a poignant tribute to a school that shaped the cultural life of Memphis for eighty-four years. When the Memphis College of Art graduated its final class in May 2020, it closed a chapter that had begun in 1936—one defined by experimentation, mentorship, and deep civic engagement. This exhibition, mounted as the museum prepares to leave

'Cuba es Vida' by David Saxe

Aug 01, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026

All About Photo Showroom
Los Angeles, CA, United States

“Cuba es Vida” by David Saxe arrives as an online solo exhibition on All About Photo with the clear advantage of distance: it keeps the eye on people, not postcard shorthand. Winner of the platform’s August 2026 Solo Exhibition, the series gathers images from three trips to Cuba and turns them into a portrait shaped by streets, faces, labor and music rather than tourist landmarks. David Saxe works in black and white, and that choice gives the pictures a directness that suits the subject. In his

Stephen Wilkes: Day to Night

Jul 31, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026

Gilman Contemporary
Ketchum, ID, United States

Stephen Wilkes: Day to Night, presented at Gilman Contemporary from July 31 through August 31, 2026, brings together works from the celebrated photographer’s landmark series examining the passage of time through a single image. Known for merging documentary observation with technical experimentation, Wilkes has spent more than a decade redefining the possibilities of landscape and cityscape photography. His monumental compositions compress entire days into one seamless frame, allowing sunrise, d

Melody Melamed: Shangri-la

Feb 01, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026

East Window
Boulder, CO, United States

Melody Melamed: Shangri-la opens as a space of affirmation, where portraiture becomes a site of presence rather than performance. Presented from February 1st to August 31st, 2026, the exhibition gathers works from Melamed’s ongoing project The Book of Skin, inviting viewers into a visual landscape shaped by intimacy, embodiment, and self-recognition. Rooted in her experience as a Brooklyn-based Iranian-American artist, Melamed’s images move between stillness and intensity, offering a quiet yet i

Jeffrie Chirchirillo and Jane Feely: ar•ti•facts

Jul 30, 2026 – Aug 30, 2026

Perspective Gallery
Evanston, IL, United States

ar- ti- facts at Perspective Gallery pairs two bodies of work that turn attention toward the traces light and memory leave behind. On view from July 30 through August 30, 2026, the exhibition brings together Jeffrie Chirchirillo and Jane Feely, whose photographs approach the everyday as a record of change rather than a fixed scene. Chirchirillo’s images begin in a greenhouse, where the roof functions like a vast light box and fallen leaves become filters for color. Hackberry leaves and grapevine

Jamie Johnson: Growing Up Traveling

Jul 16, 2026 – Aug 30, 2026

Leica Store New York Meatpacking
New York, NY, United States

Jamie Johnson: Growing Up Traveling follows a decade-long encounter with Irish Traveller families, bringing together photographs of children whose lives unfold along roadsides, in open fields and within a community that has long lived under pressure from exclusion and prejudice. On view from 16 July to 30 August 2026, the exhibition reflects Johnson’s sustained return to the same families in Ireland, where trust was built slowly and over repeated visits. Johnson’s pictures are rooted in continui

Teen Portrait Competition, 2025

Jan 24, 2026 – Aug 30, 2026

National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC, United States

Teen Portrait Competition, 2025 celebrates the power of young voices to redefine contemporary portraiture. Presented by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, this exhibition brings together the winning works and finalists of a nationwide competition that invites teenagers to look closely at themselves and their world. Displayed as a video presentation, the selected photographs offer a compelling snapshot of how a new generation understands identity, presence, and representation at a forma

I Am the Face

Mar 28, 2026 – Aug 30, 2026

Ogden Museum of Southern Art
New Orleans, LA, United States

From the earliest civilizations, portraiture has stood as one of art’s most enduring traditions. Originating in painting and sculpture, it sought to render the human form with realism and dignity, preserving individuals across time. For centuries, portraits were symbols of power and privilege, their creation limited to the wealthy who commissioned likenesses as affirmations of prestige, lineage, and influence. The invention of photography transformed this tradition, giving rise to a new, democra

The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today

Oct 18, 2025 – Aug 30, 2026

National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC, United States

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery unveils The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today, an exhibition that captures the pulse of contemporary portraiture through 35 extraordinary works by 36 artists. Selected from over 3,300 submissions to the museum’s seventh triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, these portraits reflect the diversity, depth, and complexity of American identity in the twenty-first century. Artists from across 14 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico bring

Mark Maio: Against The Grain

Aug 06, 2026 – Aug 29, 2026

Blue Sky Gallery
Portland, OR, United States

Mark Maio: Against The Grain at Blue Sky brings an unusually patient body of documentary work back into view. On view from August 6 to 29, 2026, the exhibition revisits Maio’s long-term photographs of Buffalo’s grain scoopers, men who worked inside the city’s historic elevators and along the river loading docks before automation erased the job almost completely. Maio began the project in the late 1980s and stayed with it for years, working as an outsider who earned access to a closed labor world

Dawn Surratt: Real But Not True

Aug 06, 2026 – Aug 29, 2026

Blue Sky Gallery
Portland, OR, United States

Real But Not True at Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, traces Dawn Surratt’s search for a way through the distortions of the pandemic years. On view from August 6 to 29, 2026, the exhibition gathers photographs, found images, objects and layered paper constructions that turn memory into something unstable, tactile and open to revision. Surratt’s work begins with a question that has only become harder to answer: what remains reliable when experience itself feels fractured? Her im

Evan Trine: Ketchup & Mustard

Jul 11, 2026 – Aug 29, 2026

Vielmetter Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Evan Trine: Ketchup & Mustard brings a sharp, materially complex body of new work to Vielmetter Los Angeles, where floral still lifes become a laboratory for image-making. On view from July 11 through August 29, 2026, the Spotlight presentation draws from a series that sits between painting and photography, using the familiar language of flowers to test how pictures are built, broken apart and reassembled. Trine, who lives and works in Long Beach and holds an MFA from Claremont, treats the print

Joni Sternbach: Surfboard

Jun 26, 2026 – Aug 29, 2026

Joseph Bellows Gallery
La Jolla, CA, United States

Joni Sternbach: Surfboard at Joseph Bellows Gallery turns the surfboard into a subject with weight, memory and presence. On view from June 27 to August 29, 2026, the exhibition presents twenty 14 x 11-inch gelatin silver contact prints made from glass-plate collodion negatives, bringing a 19th-century process to an object firmly rooted in contemporary surf culture. Sternbach is best known for her tintype portraits of surfers, and here she applies the same historical method to the boards themselv

Once More, With Feeling

Aug 07, 2026 – Aug 28, 2026

Yancey Richardson Gallery
New York, NY, United States

Once More, With Feeling at Yancey Richardson gathers the work of nine 2026 Yale MFA graduates in photography, placing emerging practices in a setting that favors range over uniformity. On view from August 12 to 28, 2026, the group exhibition includes Christian Badach, Chen Xiangyun, Jasmine Clarke, Faith Couch, Christopher Postlewaite, Olivia Reavey, John Shen, Em Wall and Andrew Warner, each working from a distinct visual and conceptual register. The Yale MFA Photography program has long encour

On the Road

Jul 16, 2026 – Aug 28, 2026

Sundaram Tagore Gallery New York
New York, NV, United States

On the Road brings Jack Kerouac’s title back into a visual register, using photography to map the ordinary textures of American life rather than the myth of restless escape. Opening July 16 and running through August 28, 2026, the group exhibition gathers work by Edward Burtynsky, Karen Knorr and Anna Fox, Steve McCurry, Sebastião Salgado and Toby Huss, each tracing a different stretch of the country through roadways, small towns and overlooked roadside scenes. Burtynsky’s Breezewood, Pennsylvan

Lindsay Perryman | Tops

Jul 09, 2026 – Aug 28, 2026

ClampArt
New York, NY, United States

Lindsay Perryman | Tops at CLAMP presents a first U.S. solo exhibition for an artist whose work centers Black transmasculine experience with unusual clarity and care. On view from July 9 to August 28, 2026, the show brings together photographs and film made around Perryman’s 2024 project Tops, a work shaped by the physical and emotional reality of top surgery. Perryman, born and raised in New York, uses portraiture to push back against narrow ideas of transgender identity. The images in Tops do

Pauline Kruger Hamilton: The End of an Era

Jun 20, 2026 – Aug 28, 2026

Praxis Gallery Photo Arts Center
Minneapolis, MN, United States

Pauline Kruger Hamilton: The End of an Era looks back at a photographer whose name slipped out of the record despite an accomplished career in early portrait photography. On view from June 20 through August 28, 2026 at Praxis Gallery, the exhibition brings together a selection of Hamilton’s photographs and restores attention to an artist who moved between painting and the camera at a formative moment in photographic history. Hamilton began her career in Minneapolis as a portrait painter before l

Jane Olin: Some Trees

May 07, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026

Monterey Museum of Art
Monterey, CA, United States

Jane Olin: Some Trees at the Monterey Museum of Art turns a small group of photographs into a sustained study of scale, attention and relation. On view from May 7 through August 23, 2026, the exhibition takes its title from John Ashbery and presents 15 works from Olin’s series Intimate Conversation, bringing her pinhole practice and alternative silver gelatin methods into focus. Olin has built a reputation for slowing photography down. Her pinhole images trade sharp edges for atmosphere, letting

Raven Sanchez: Así Sea / So Be It

Apr 04, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026

ICA LA - Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Raven Sanchez: Así Sea / So Be It unfolds within ICA LA’s Project Room as an intimate and immersive meditation on memory, inheritance, and the fragile permanence of home. Marking the artist’s first institutional exhibition, the installation centers on a house in East Los Angeles that once held decades of family life. Through an accumulation of material traces, Sanchez approaches the space not as architecture alone, but as a living repository of gestures, labor, and presence shaped across generat

Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography

May 23, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026

National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC, United States

Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography, on view at the National Gallery of Art from May 23 through August 23, 2026, examines nearly two centuries of images shaped by the industries that power modern life. Bringing together approximately 150 works, the exhibition considers how photography has both documented and been materially linked to the extraction of coal, metals, oil, and other resources embedded deep within the earth. From the chemical foundations of early photographic proces

France in the Time of Manet and Morisot

May 10, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026

Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH, United States

France in the Time of Manet and Morisot presents a vivid portrait of a nation undergoing profound transformation. The exhibition captures an era marked by conflict, innovation, and cultural rebirth, a period in which Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot forged their artistic identities. As France moved through political upheaval, industrial progress, and rapid urban expansion, Paris stood at the center of these changes, becoming both the capital of modernity and the birthplace of bold new artistic v

Matthew Porter: Flying Cars

Jul 25, 2026 – Aug 22, 2026

M+B
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Matthew Porter: Flying Cars at M+B gallery turns the American street into a stage for speed, nostalgia and controlled illusion. On view from July 25 to August 22, 2026, the exhibition continues Porter’s long-running “flying cars” series, in which vintage muscle cars appear to hover, leap or drift above highways, intersections and city blocks. The images look spontaneous at first glance, but they are built with patience. Porter begins with photography, adds drawing and planning, then layers multi

Floris Neusüss and Christiane Feser: Unique Works in Photography

Jul 25, 2026 – Aug 22, 2026

Von Lintel Gallery
Santa Monica, CA, United States

Floris Neusüss and Christiane Feser: Unique Works in Photography brings two generations of experimental practice into close view at Von Lintel Gallery, where photography appears less as a transparent medium than as an object shaped by touch, light and construction. On view from July 25 to August 22, 2026, the exhibition pairs Neusüss’s photograms with Feser’s photoobjects, linking direct impression and sculptural invention in a single frame. Neusüss, long recognized as a pioneer of camera-less p

Janet Delaney: Too Many Products

Jul 24, 2026 – Aug 22, 2026

EUQINOM Gallery
San Francisco, CA, United States

Janet Delaney: Too Many Products at EUQINOM Gallery returns to a series that turns a week of sales calls in Los Angeles into a sharp, humane study of labor, family and consumer culture. On view from July 24 to August 22, 2026, the exhibition centers on photographs made in 1980, when Delaney, then an MFA student at the San Francisco Art Institute, followed her father as he worked the route of a beauty supply salesman nearing retirement. The pictures carry the look of a document and the feel of a

Ken Graves: Lost in the Funhouse

Jun 22, 2026 – Aug 22, 2026

Leica Store San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, United States

Ken Graves: Lost in the Funhouse opens June 22 and runs through August 22, 2026 at the Gallery at Leica Store San Francisco, bringing back the work of a photographer who turned everyday American life into something uneasy, comic, and sharply observed. The exhibition gathers images marked by disorientation, irony and psychological tension. Graves did not treat confusion as a problem to be avoided. He used it as material. His photographs move through scenes of spectacle, performance and emotional

Radical Botany: The Politics of Flowers

Jun 06, 2026 – Aug 22, 2026

Alice Austen House
Staten Island, NY, United States

Radical Botany: The Politics of Flowers, presented from June 6 to August 22, 2026 at the Alice Austen House, examines the flower as a charged and complex subject within contemporary art. Curated by Susan Bright and Hedy van Erp, the exhibition brings together an international group of artists who use botanical imagery to address urgent social, political, and environmental concerns. What initially appears as a familiar and decorative motif quickly reveals deeper layers of meaning, linking flowers

Big Tent

May 29, 2026 – Aug 22, 2026

FotoFocus Center
Cincinnati, OH, United States

Big Tent, on view from May 29 through August 22, 2026, inaugurates the new FotoFocus Center in Cincinnati’s Mount Auburn neighborhood. Conceived as a 14,700 square foot hub dedicated to photography and year-round public programming, the Center opens its doors with an ambitious group exhibition that considers the condition of American democracy and the enduring role of the photographic image in shaping civic consciousness. Bringing together more than fifty artists, the exhibition unfolds as both

Prix Pictet Storm

May 29, 2026 – Aug 22, 2026

MoCP - Museum of Contemporary Photography
Chicago, IL, United States

Prix Pictet Storm, on view at the Museum of Contemporary Photography from May 29 to August 15, 2026, presents a compelling cross-section of contemporary photography responding to a world in flux. Established as one of the most influential photography awards of our time, the Prix Pictet has consistently foregrounded sustainability through visual culture. With Storm, its eleventh cycle, the exhibition confronts the accelerating volatility that defines the present moment, inviting viewers to consid

Becoming Marilyn

Jun 18, 2026 – Aug 21, 2026

Staley-Wise Gallery
New York, NY, United States

Becoming Marilyn, on view from June 18 to August 21, 2026, revisits one of the most photographed figures of the twentieth century through the images that helped build and preserve her public identity. The exhibition follows Marilyn Monroe from her early days as Norma Jeane Mortenson to the final months of her life, showing how photography turned her into a lasting cultural figure long before and long after her death at 36. The show traces that rise through photographs by André de Dienes, who cap

Untroubled Waters: Navigating Early Photographs

Jun 08, 2026 – Aug 20, 2026

Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs
New York, NY, United States

Untroubled Waters: Navigating Early Photographs gathers a focused group of 19th-century images that place water, transport and industrial change at the center of photography’s early history. On view through August 20, 2026 at Hans P. Kraus JR., the exhibition brings together British and French works by William Henry Fox Talbot, Gustave Le Gray, Charles Nègre, Paul-Marcellin Berthier, Robert Howlett, J. B. Greene and others. The pictures share a common subject but not a single mood. Talbot’s view

From Now: A Collection in Context

Nov 01, 2025 – Aug 16, 2026

Studio Museum in Harlem
New York, NY, United States

From Now: A Collection in Context at the Studio Museum in Harlem turns the museum’s collection into a living installation, with works placed in conversation across the building and updated through a shifting sequence of rotations. On view through August 16, 2026, the exhibition draws entirely from the museum’s holdings and uses that framework to trace recurring themes in art by artists of African descent across generations. The installation reaches across time without forcing a single narrative.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit

Jun 29, 2026 – Aug 16, 2026

Photographic Center Northwest
Seattle, WA, United States

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit at Photographic Center Northwest takes the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence as a starting point, but the exhibition does not treat the occasion as a simple celebration. On view from June 29 to August 16, 2026, the show uses photography to track how symbols, public events and everyday life have shaped the American story over time. The American flag appears throughout the exhibition, not as a fixed emblem but as an image loaded with changing meani

The 43rd Center Annual

Jun 04, 2026 – Aug 16, 2026

HCP - Houston Center for Photography
Houston, TX, United States

The 43rd Center Annual at Houston Center for Photography brings together 35 lens-based artists in an exhibition that connects family history, migration, grief, labor and place through contemporary photography and moving image. On view from June 4 to August 16, 2026, the group show reflects the breadth of the center’s global community while keeping a strong Texas presence at its core. Selected by curator and educator Asha Iman Veal, the exhibition gives particular weight to work that treats photo

Through the Lens: American Photographs from the Carter Collection

Apr 11, 2026 – Aug 16, 2026

Joslyn Art Museum
Omaha, NE, United States

Photography’s role in shaping the American story takes a wide historical sweep in Through the Lens: American Photographs from the Carter Collection, on view from April 11 to August 16, 2026. Drawing on more than fifty works from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the exhibition looks at how photographers have documented the country’s landscapes, people and turning points across the 20th century and beyond. The selection moves across several photographic traditions, from landscape and street

Main Street: The Lost Dream of Rt. 66, Photographs by Edward Keating

May 16, 2026 – Aug 16, 2026

AMoA - Amarillo Museum of Art
Amarillo, TX, United States

Main Street: The Lost Dream of Rt. 66, Photographs by Edward Keating traces the long, weathered heartbeat of an American highway whose glamour and promise have been quietly eroded by time. Keating’s eleven-year engagement with Route 66 yields images that read as both reportage and elegy: neon signs bowed by rust, motels with vacant porches, mechanics bent over tired engines, and faces that carry small, stubborn stories of endurance. The road appears here less as movement than as accumulation—of

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