Sage Sohier has been photographing people in their environments since she graduated from Harvard University in 1976. Her monograph, “Perfectible Worlds” was published in 2007. Other series have included, “Mother,” “Peaceable Kingdom” (people and their animals), “At Home with Themselves: Gay and Lesbian Couples,” and “About Face” (people with facial paralysis). She has been awarded a No Strings Foundation grant (2008-2009), and John Simon Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Her work on assignment has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, LIFE, Newsweek, Outside, and Oprah Magazine, and she has taught photography at a number of schools in the Boston area, most recently Harvard University and Massachusetts College of Art. She has exhibited widely, and is represented by Foley Gallery in NY. Her website is: www.sagesohier.com.

Education:

1976	Harvard-Radcliffe College B.A., Cambridge, Mass.

Selected Awards and Fellowships:

2008-2009	No Strings Foundation grant
2005	Critical Mass (Photolucida) book award 2005: monograph, "Perfectible Worlds."
2003	First Place, Magazine Division/ Feature Picture (New York Times Magazine) Sixtieth Annual "Pictures of the Year International" Competition 2002
1989	Massachusetts Artists Foundation photography fellowship
1987-1989	Mass. Council on the Arts & Humanities "Massproductions" grant
1984-1985	John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship
1981-1982	Photographic Resource Center (Boston) "New Works" Commission
1980-1981	National Endowment for the Arts photography fellowship
1979	Massachusetts Artists Foundation photography fellowship

Employment:

2008	George Gund Foundation Annual Report
2006	Massachusettes College of Art (Assistant Professor)
1991-2003	Harvard University (Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies)

Selected Teaching Positions:

1997-1999	Wellesley College (Assistant Professor of Art)
1996	Rhode Island School of Design
1986, 1982-1983	Mass. College of Art, Boston
1986	School of the Museum of Fine Arts

Selected Exhibitions:

2009, June - Aug.	One-person show at San Francisco Airport Museum
2008, June - Aug.	One-person show at Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2008, Sept. - Oct.	One-person show at Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2007	One-person show at Blue Sky Gallery, Portland. OR
2006	One-person show at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
2004, Feb-May	"Self-Evidence: Identity in Contemporary Art," The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2003	"How Human: Life in the Post-Genome Era," International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Sept. 2000 - Jan. 2001	"Photography in Boston, 1955-1985," The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2001	"In the Street: Photography from the Collection," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
1999	"Boston Women in Photography," Bernard Toale Gallery
1998	One-person show at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
1997	Retrospective, University of Akron, Ohio
1996	"Rules of the Game," Davis Museum, Wellesley College
1996	"Secrets," The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA (30 photographs included)
1996	One-person show at the Wooster Gardens (Brent Sikkema) Gallery, New York, NY
1994	One-person show at Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1994	Basel (Switzerland) Art Fair
1991	"The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1991	Four-person show at The Tartt Gallery, Washington D.C.
1990	One-person show at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
1990	One-person show at The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
1990	One-person show at the Houston Center of Photography
1989	"American Stories," three-person show at the Art Institute of Chicago (with Joel Sternfeld and Leon Borensztein)
1988	"AIDS" exhibition at the Berlin Art Institute, Berlin, Germany
1988	Two-person show at the San Francisco Camerawork
1988	One-person show at Vision Gallery, Boston, MA
1988	One-person show at Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1987	"Mothers and Daughters," Aperture traveling exhibition
1986	Two-person show athe The Tartt Gallery, Washington D.C.
1986	One-person show at Gallery "Art Contemporaneo," Mexico City, Mexico
1985	"Boston Now Photography," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1984	Photographs from the Collection/Opening of the new galleries, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1982	"New Women/New Work," Light Gallery, New York, NY
1982	"New England Perambulations," The Addison Gallery, Andover, MA

Selected Publications:

"Perfectible Worlds," monograph, (Photolucida/Critical Mass), 2007.

Public Collections:

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
MIT List Visual Arts Center
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Princeton University Art Museum
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Represented by Foley Gallery, NY

Selected Bibliography:

2002-2003	New York Times Magazine, photographs in "What They Were Thinking:" Oct. 12, 2003; Jan. 5, 2003; Aug. 11, 2002; Jan. 13, 2002.
2002	"The Spirit of Family," Al and Tipper Gore, edited by Gail Buckland and published by Henry Holt.
2002-2003	BOOK Magazine, May-June 2002 (portrait of author Zadie Smith); March-April 2002 (portraits of author Richard Ford); and July-Aug. 2002 (portrait of author Atul Gawande).
2001	"Photography in Boston, 1955-1985," Lafo and Nagler
2001	"Double Take" Magazine, spring 2001issue.
2000	"A Thousand Hounds," Merritt/Barth, Taschen.
1996	"See" Magazine, (a publication of the Friends of Photography), Issue 2:3.
1995	"Animal Attractions," (Abrams).
1991	"Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort," catalogue for show at MOMA.
1990	"At Home with Themselves," catalogue for one-person show at The Addison Gallery.
1990	"The Cat in Photography," Eauclaire (Bulfinch).
1988	Portfolio of photographs in "Views," (a publication of the Photographic Resource Center, Boston), spring.
1987	"Mothers and Daughters," Olsen/Jussim (Aperture).
1987	"Athletes," Ruth Silverman (Knopf).
1984	Portfolio of photographs in "Popular Photography Annual."
1981	Catalogue from survey project, "The Leather District and the Fort Point Channel.