Barbara Bosworth (b. 1953)  is a photographer whose large-format images explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the rest of the natural world. Whether chronicling the efforts of hunters or bird banders or evoking the seasonal changes that transform mountains and meadows, Bosworth’s caring attention to the world around her results in images that similarly inspire viewers to look closely. 

Bosworth grew up in Novelty, Ohio. She currently lives in Massachusetts, where she is professor emeritus of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Bosworth’s work has been widely exhibited, notably in 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 previous publications include, The Heavens (Radius Books, 2018), The Meadow (Radius Books, 2015), Natural Histories (Radius Books, 2013), From Where the Sun Now Stands (Dust Collective, 2019), Behold (Datz Press, 2014),  Trees: National Champions (MIT Press; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2005).

SELECT Exhibitions

• Ansel Adams to Edward Weston: Celebrating the Legacy of David H. McAlpin, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, 2016

• Darkness, Datz Museum, South Korea, 2016

• Face It, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 2016

•  Overgrowth, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, 2016

• Quiet Wonder, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, 2015

• The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, 2014

• Natural Histories, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, 2013

• Earth and Sky, Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., 2008

• Human Nature, Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, 2008

SELECT COLLECTIONS

• Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA

• Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

• Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

• Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

• Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

• Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.