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, and the only publicly funded independent art sch ...

. She was lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies in

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

from 1991 till 2003, Assistant Professor of Art in

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a Private university, private Women's colleges in the United States, historically women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henr ...

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 th ...

and School of the

Boston Museum of Fine Arts Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

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

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Brooklyn Museum of Art The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects. Located near the Prospect Heig ...

Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Located in the Wade Park District of University Circle, the museum is internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian art, Asian and Art of anc ...

DeCordova Museum The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is a sculpture park and contemporary art museum on the southern shore of Flint's Pond in Lincoln, Massachusetts, 20 miles northwest of Boston. It was established in 1950, and is the largest park of its k ...

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 admin ...

, Houston Museum of Fine Arts,

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. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of arc ...

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art gallery, art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, known for its encyclopedic collection of art from nearly every continent and culture, and especially for its extensive collection of A ...

Portland Art Museum The Portland Art Museum (PAM) is an art museum in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. The Portland Art Museum has 240,000 square feet (22,000 m2), with more than 112,000 square feet (10,400 m2) of gallery space. The museum’s permanent c ...

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 117,000 work ...

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 its permanent co ...

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art, modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art ...

. 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 the

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crisis.

Awards

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

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'' photography fellowship, 1980-1981 * ''

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation is a private foundation formed in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Gr ...

'' 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" *

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, 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 university, public research university in Akron, Ohio, United States. It is part of the University System of Ohio. As a STEM fields, STEM-focused institution, it focuses on industries such as polymers, advance ...

, OH, 1997 *

Hampshire College Hampshire College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges ...

, 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. It moved from the Chelsea neighborhood to the Lower East Side in 2014. Among the artists it represents are Joseph Desler Costa, Wyatt Gallery, Sage ...

, 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 The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The museum is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago's Grant Park (Chicago), Grant Park. Its collection, stewa ...

, 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) is a photography museum and school at 84 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. ICP's photographic collection, reading room, and archives are at Mana Contemporary in Jer ...

, 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 (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

, 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'' magazin ...

, 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 Photographers from Boston Harvard University alumni Living people People from Washington, D.C. Year of birth missing (living people) Burden family