Sage Sohier is an American photographer and educator.

Biography

Sohier teaches photography for years in different educational institutions, serving as assistant professor in

Massachusetts College of Art Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a public college of visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1873, it is one of the nation’s oldest art schools, the only publicly funded independent art school ...

. She was lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies in

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

from 1991 till 2003, Assistant Professor of Art in Wellesley College from 1997 till 1999. She was also teaching in

Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase the ...

and School of the

Boston Museum of Fine Arts The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works ...

. Sage Sohier works are part of many public collections, including

Addison Gallery of American Art The Addison Gallery of American Art is an academic museum dedicated to collecting American art, organized as a department of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. History Directors of the gallery include Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. (1940– ...

Brooklyn Museum of Art The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Cro ...

Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, located in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on the city's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian ...

, DeCordova Museum,

Fogg Art Museum The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985), and four research ...

MIT List Visual Arts Center Established in 1950, the List Visual Arts Center (LVAC) is the contemporary art museum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is known for temporary exhibitions in its galleries located in the MIT Media Lab building, as well as its admini ...

Houston Museum of Fine Arts The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Build ...

New York Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of th ...

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its encyclopedic collection of art from nearly every continent and culture, and especially for its extensive collection of Asian art. In 2007, ''Time'' magaz ...

Portland Art Museum The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in 1892, making it one of the oldest art museums on the West Coast and seventh oldest in the US. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, the Portland Art Museum beca ...

Princeton University Art Museum The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) is the Princeton University gallery of art, located in Princeton, New Jersey. With a collecting history that began in 1755, the museum was formally established in 1882, and now houses over 113,000 works o ...

Rose Art Museum The Rose Art Museum, founded in 1961, is a part of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, US. Named after benefactors Edward and Bertha Rose, it offers temporary exhibitions, and it displays and houses works of art from the permanent col ...

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and wa ...

. Sage Sohier received a lot of publicity for her series of gay couples in home environment. She started to work on this project in 1980 at the time of AIDS crisis.

Awards

* ''Massachusetts Artists Foundation'' photography fellowship, 1979 * ''

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...

'' photography fellowship, 1980-1981 * '' John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation'' fellowship, 1984-1985 * ''Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities'' “Massproductions“ grant, 1987-1989 * ''Massachusetts Artists Foundation'' photography fellowship, 1989 * ''No Strings Foundation'' grant, 2008-2009

Exhibitions

Solo

* Gallery "Arte Contemporaneo," Mexico City, 1986 * The Tartt Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1986 * Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 1988, "At Home with Themselves" * San Francisco Camerawork, 1988, "At Home with Themselves" * Vision Gallery, Boston, MA, 1988, "At Home with Themselves" *

, Andover, MA, 1990, "At Home with Themselves" *

Museum of Contemporary Photography The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) was founded in 1976 by Columbia College Chicago as the successor to the Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography. The museum houses a permanent collection as well as the Midwest Photographers Projec ...

, Columbia College, Chicago IL, 1990, "At Home with Themselves" * The Houston Center for Photography, 1990, "At Home with Themselves" * Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 1994, "Peaceable Kingdom" * Retrospective,

University of Akron The University of Akron is a public research university in Akron, Ohio. It is part of the University System of Ohio. As a STEM-focused institution, it focuses on industries such as polymers, advanced materials, and engineering. It is classifie ...

, OH, 1997 *

Hampshire College Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mo ...

, Amherst, MA, 1998 * Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA, 2004, "Perfectible Worlds" * The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, 2006, "Perfectible Worlds" * Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 2007, "Perfectible Worlds" *

Foley Gallery Foley Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Manhattan, New York City, owned by Michael Foley. Since opening in 2004, Foley Gallery has moved from the Chelsea neighborhood to the Lower East Side in 2014. Among the artists Foley represents are J ...

, New York, NY, 2008, "Perfectible Worlds" *

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Center for Photography, 2008, "Perfectible Worlds" *

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Museum, 2009, "Perfectible Worlds" * Jerome Liebling Center,

, November 2013, "About Face" * Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, August, 2013, "About Face" * Foley Gallery, New York, NY, April, 2013, "About Face." * Carroll and Sons gallery, Boston, MA, January 2013, "About Face" * Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, October, 2014, "At Home With Themselves: Same-Sex Couples in 1980s America" * Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, MA, February–March 2015, "At Home With Themselves: Same-Sex Couples in 1980s America" *

, New York, NY, November - January 2018, "Witness to Beauty" *

, New York, NY, April - May 2019, "Immersed and Submerged"

Group

, Andover, MA, 1982, "New England Perambulations" * Light Gallery, NY, 1982, "New Women/New Work" * Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1984, Photographs from the Collection/Opening of the new galleries * Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1985, "Boston Now Photography" * Aperture traveling exhibition, 1987, "Mothers and Daughters" * Art Institute of Chicago, 1989, "American Stories", three-person show. * Berlin Art Institute, Berlin, Germany, 1988, "AIDS" exhibition * The Tartt Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1991, four-person show * Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1991, "Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort" * Basel Art Fair 1994 * The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, 1996, "Secrets" * Davis Museum, Wellesley College, 1996, "Rules of the Game" * Wooster Gardens (Brent Sikkema) Gallery, New York, 1996, three-person show * Bernard Toale Gallery, 1999, "Boston Women in Photography" * The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 2000–2001, "Photography in Boston, 1955-85" * Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, 2001, "In the Street: Photography from the Collection" *

International Center of Photography The International Center of Photography (ICP), at 79 Essex Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, consists of a museum for photography and visual culture and a school offering an array of educational courses and programming. ...

, New York, NY,2003, "How Human: Life in the Post-Genome Era" * Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C, 2004, "Dog Days Dog Show" * The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 2004, "Self-Evidence: Identity in Contemporary Art" * Clifford Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 2005, "Suddenly Older" * Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, 2005–2006, "Group Portrait" * Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA, 2010, "Familiar Bodies" *

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...

, New York, NY, 2010–2011, "Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography" * Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY, 2011, "Living History" *

Nelson-Atkins Museum The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its encyclopedic collection of art from nearly every continent and culture, and especially for its extensive collection of Asian art. In 2007, ''Time'' magaz ...

, Kansas City, MO, August, 2013, "About Face: Contemporary Portraiture" *

, Portland, OR, October 2014-January 2015, "Blue Sky: The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts at 40"

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sohier, Sage American photographers Artists from Boston Harvard University alumni Living people People from Washington, D.C. Year of birth missing (living people)