Barbara Bosworth: The Heavens

Barbara Bosworth’s publications include The Meadow (Radius Books, 2015); Natural Histories (Radius Books, 2013); Trees: National Champions (M.I.T. Press, 2005); and Chasing the Light (Nightwood Press, 2002). In 2016, The Meadow was nominated for the Aperture-Paris Photo Book of the Year prize. Bosworth’s work has been exhibited in several one-person shows, including Quiet Wonder, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; the multi-venue exhibition To Be at the Farther Edge: Photographs Along the New England Trail, (Mead Art Museum, Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, and New Britain American Art Museum among others); Natural Histories, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; and Earth and Sky, Smithsonian American Art Museum. A recipient of multiple fellowships and grants, Bosworth’s awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and a Kittredge Foundation Grant. Her work is represented in major collections including Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Princeton Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Bosworth lives in Massachusetts. She is professor of photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.